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revise provisions regarding township contracts for snow removal.

South Dakota townships can now enter snow removal and road repair contracts without competitive bidding if the cost stays under $10,000 (up from the previous $3,500 limit). For projects exceeding $10,000, townships must advertise for bids as required by law, though they can still negotiate hourly or daily rates with contractors if needed. This change gives townships more flexibility to quickly hire snow removal services without the administrative burden of bidding on smaller contracts.

add a county as able to be assigned responsibility for secondary highways on municipal boundaries.

This bill clarifies that counties can now be assigned responsibility for maintaining secondary highways that run along municipal boundaries, not just civil townships and unorganized territory. Previously, the law only allowed municipalities and townships or unorganized areas to share this responsibility; the change explicitly adds counties as an eligible party for such assignments.

revise provisions regarding repair and maintenance of mail routes.

SB37 revises South Dakota's rules for repairing and maintaining mail routes by updating related provisions in state law and removing outdated regulations that are no longer needed. The bill makes changes to how mail route maintenance is handled while eliminating four sections of old law that dealt with related matters. The specific details of what new requirements or procedures are being put in place are not clear from the available bill information provided.