S.D. Codified Laws § 1-16A-21
The authority is authorized and empowered directly or by or through a participating health institution or participating educational institution, as the case may be, as its agent, to acquire by purchase, lease, gift, devise or otherwise such lands, structures, property, real or personal, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and other interests in lands, within or without the state, including lands lying under water and riparian rights which are located within or without the state as it may deem necessary or convenient for the construction or acquisition or operation of facilities but upon such terms as may be considered by the authority to be reasonable, and to take title thereto in the name of the authority or in the name of such participating health institution or participating educational institution, as the case may be, as its agent.
SDCL 1-16A-21