The electors at the annual meeting of an organized civil township may authorize the township board of supervisors to construct, or to have constructed, fireguards around all or a portion of the township or each way across the center of the township, as deemed necessary for fire protection.

Source: SL 1893, ch 91 , § 1; RPolC 1903, § 1131; SL 1905, ch 111 ; SL 1915, ch 193 ; RC 1919, § 6128; SDC 1939, § 58.1001; SL 2014, ch 48 , § 21.