Powers of district

A watershed district created under the provisions of this chapter, to the extent necessary for lawful purposes as provided in this chapter, may: (1) Sue and be sued; (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. Source: 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.