§ 40-22-38 — Application of chapter to waterworks and water mains - Acquisition of waterworks, sewage treatment and disposal plants, and sewer systems

waterworks, sewage treatment and disposal plants, and sewer systems.
The provisions of this chapter relating to water mains and waterworks apply only to
municipalities that own or contemplate owning a system of waterworks and water mains. In case
of the purchase of a waterworks system or of a sewage treatment or disposal plant or of a
system of sewers, either by eminent domain proceedings subject to chapter 32-15, or otherwise,
a municipality may create improvement districts, direct the preparation of plans and
specifications, adopt a resolution declaring the purchase of such facilities necessary, and take

all other proceedings prescribed by this chapter which would be taken in case of the
construction of such facilities by the municipality itself for the purpose of defraying the cost
thereof by special assessment of the property benefited thereby. The property benefited may be
specially assessed for the purchase of such facilities, either separately or as a part of a new
system, the same as if said facilities were constructed entirely anew.