{"data":{"id":"us-sd/sdcl-46a-14-34","jurisdiction":"us-sd","citation":"SDCL § 46A-14-34","heading":"Powers of district.","body":"A watershed district created under the provisions of this chapter, to the extent necessary for lawful purposes as provided in this chapter, may:\n(1) Sue and be sued;\n(2) Incur debts, liabilities, and obligations;\n(3) Exercise the power of eminent domain only if it is necessary to carry out an approved plan;\n(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;\n(5) Provide for other taxes and assessments;\n(6) Borrow money and issue certificates, warrants, and bonds;\n(7) Make surveys or use other reliable surveys and data and develop projects to accomplish the purposes for which the district is organized;\n(8) Cooperate or contract with any individual, person, state, state agency, political subdivision of a state, federal agency, or private or public corporation;\n(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;\n(10) Acquire, lease, operate, construct, and maintain dams, dikes, reservoirs, and pertinent works;\n(11) Acquire by gift, lease, purchase, or eminent domain necessary real and personal property;\n(12) Contract for purchase of insurance for protection of the district as necessary;\n(13) Establish and maintain devices for acquiring and recording hydrological data;\n(14) Enter into all contracts of construction authorized by this chapter; and\n(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.\nSource: 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.","path":["TITLE 46A. WATER MANAGEMENT","CHAPTER 46A-14. WATERSHED DISTRICTS"],"source_url":"https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/46A-14-34","current_through":"2026-08-31","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:18:57Z","sha256":"107fe133b9edbbd12d653a0a366c37bec70a4d0489cb02f4bb1eb1987b4ce174","source_id":"us-sd","stale":true,"prev":"us-sd/sdcl-46a-14-33","next":"us-sd/sdcl-46a-14-35"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}