Section 46A-14-34 - Powers of districtA watershed district created under the provisions of this chapter, to the extent necessary for lawful purposes as provided in this chapter, may:
(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.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.