9-36-16. Powers of first or second class municipalities in implementing flood control projects. Every municipality of five hundred or more population as shown by the last federal census may enter into agreements with the United States, with the State of South Dakota and with any authorized agency, subdivision or unit of government, federal or state, to cooperate in preventing or controlling flooding within or without its corporate limits which endangers property within its corporate limits or its water supply. Every municipality of five hundred or more may acquire by lease, purchase, gift, grant-in-aid, condemnation, or other lawful means and hold in its corporate name or use and control as provided by law both real and personal property and easements and rights-of-way within or without its corporate limits for all purposes necessary to prevent or control flooding and may levy taxes and appropriate moneys and issue general obligation bonds pursuant to chapter 9-26, for the purposes described in this section.
Source: SL 1959, ch 275; SDC Supp 1960, § 45.0210; SL 1983, ch 65, § 1; SL 1984, ch 43, § 71; SL 1992, ch 60, § 2.
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