Weed Board

**4-9-2019 The Hughes/Stanley County Weed & Pest Supper on April 11th has been rescheduled for April 22nd.**

NOTICE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS AND DECLARED PESTS

            NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN this 1st day of April, 2019, pursuant to SDCL 38-22 as amended to all owners, occupants, agents and public officials in charge of lands in Stanley County, South Dakota, that they are responsible for the suppression, control, and eradication of noxious weed and declared pest infestations that may exist on such lands.

            Chemical, biological, and / or cultural control methods used for the suppression, control and eradication of noxious weed and declared pest infestations shall be those approved for such purposes by the Stanley County Weed and Pest Supervisor, County Extension Educator or the South Dakota State University Experiment Station.

            Upon failure to observe this notice, the county weed and pest board is required to proceed pursuant to the law and have the noxious weeds or declared pests destroyed by such methods as they may find necessary, the expense of which shall constitute a lien and be entered as a tax against the land, and be collected as other real estate taxes are collected, or by other means as provided by law.

            Plants and animals designated as being noxious weeds and declared pests in the state of South Dakota are Leafy Spurge, Saltcedar, Perennial sow thistle, Russian knapweed, Hoary cress, Canada thistle, Purple loosestrife, and Gypsy moth.

            In addition, Field Bindweed, and Puncturevine,  have been approved by the South Dakota Weed and Pest Control Commission as locally noxious weeds and are subject to the same suppression, control and eradication requirements as the before mentioned plants and animals.