§ 9-40-1 — Municipal power to acquire and operate utility systems--Types of services provided--Limits of service area.

Any municipality may purchase, construct, or otherwise acquire, establish, equip, maintain, operate, extend, or improve any system or part of system for the purpose of providing electric, gas, or other light, heat, and power for municipal, industrial, and domestic purposes; or any system or part of system of waterworks for the purpose of providing water and water supply for municipal, industrial, and domestic purposes; or any system or part of system for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage and other domestic, commercial, and industrial wastes; or any system for the control of floods and drainage; or any combination of such light, heat and power, waterworks, sewerage, or flood and drainage control systems, together with extensions, additions, and necessary appurtenances. The systems shall supply the municipality or any specified portion of the municipality or adjacent territory within ten miles of its corporate limits and the inhabitants thereof with electricity, gas, light, heat, power, water supply, sewerage, and flood and drainage control service. A drainage basin utility district established pursuant to chapter 46A-10B may operate within or without its boundaries.

Legislative History

SL 1931, ch 194, § 1; SDC 1939, § 45.2401; SL 1947, ch 211, § 1; SL 1949, ch 191, § 1; SL 1957, ch 251; SL 1989, ch 388, § 16.