South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 14 - Watershed Districts
Section 46A-14-34 - Powers of district.

46A-14-34. Powers of district.
A watershed district created under the provisions of this chapter, to the extent necessary for lawful purposes as provided in this chapter, may:
(1)Sue and be sued;
(2)Incur debts, liabilities, and obligations;
(3)Exercise the power of eminent domain only if it is necessary to carry out an approved plan;
(4)Levy a tax not to exceed one dollar per thousand dollars of taxable valuation against the landowners' land and buildings as provided in this chapter;
(5)Provide for other taxes and assessments;
(6)Borrow money and issue certificates, warrants, and bonds;
(7)Make surveys or use other reliable surveys and data and develop projects to accomplish the purposes for which the district is organized;
(8)Cooperate or contract with any individual, person, state, state agency, political subdivision of a state, federal agency, or private or public corporation;
(9)Construct, clean, repair, alter, abandon, consolidate, reclaim, or change the course or terminus of any public ditch, drain sewer, river, watercourse, natural or artificial, within the district, in cooperation with other agencies having prior jurisdiction;
(10)Acquire, lease, operate, construct, and maintain dams, dikes, reservoirs, and pertinent works;
(11)Acquire by gift, lease, purchase, or eminent domain necessary real and personal property;
(12)Contract for purchase of insurance for protection of the district as necessary;
(13)Establish and maintain devices for acquiring and recording hydrological data;
(14)Enter into all contracts of construction authorized by this chapter; and
(15)Perform all acts expressly authorized in this chapter and all other acts necessary and proper for carrying out and exercising the powers expressly vested in the district.

Source: SL 1957, ch 492, §13; SL 1959, ch 452, §11; SDC Supp 1960, §61.1513 (1); SDCL §46-24-34; SL 1988, ch 367, §3; SL 2013, ch 228, §26.

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