2012 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 46A WATER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 14. Watershed Districts
§46A-14-44 Conservation practices within the scope of proposed project--Power of board of managers to effectuate.

46A-14-44. Conservation practices within the scope of proposed project--Power of board of managers to effectuate. In order to give effect to proper conservation practices within the scope of the proposed project and improvement the board of managers may:

(1) Make surveys or utilize other reliable surveys and data and develop projects to accomplish the purposes for which the district is organized;

(2) Cooperate or contract with any individual, state, or subdivision thereof or federal agency or private or public corporation as necessary;

(3) Construct, clean, repair, alter, abandon, consolidate, reclaim, or change, the course or terminees of any public ditch, drain sewer, river, watercourse, natural or artificial, within the district, in cooperation with other agencies having prior jurisdiction;

(4) Acquire, lease, operate, construct, and maintain dams, dikes, reservoirs, and pertinent works;

(5) Acquire by gift, lease, purchase, or eminent domain necessary real and personal property;

(6) Contract for purchase of insurance for protection of the district as necessary;

(7) Establish and maintain devices for acquiring and recording hydrological data;

(8) Enter into all contracts of construction authorized by this chapter.

Source: SL 1957, ch 492, § 15; SL 1959, ch 452, § 12; SDC Supp 1960, § 61.1515; SDCL, § 46-24-44.