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.