CHAPTER 43
(HB 1126)
Municipal sewer services authority revised.
ENTITLED, An Act to
revise certain provisions concerning municipal sewer service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section
1.
That
§
9-48-2
be amended to read as follows:
9-48-2.
Every
Each
municipality may
establish and
:
(1) Establish,
construct
, and maintain
main, trunk,
sanitary, storm,
and service sewers, and
septic or sewage treatment plants, drains, and manholes either within its corporate limits
or within ten miles of its corporate limits;
may appropriate
(2) Appropriate
funds and levy taxes to accumulate funds for
such
the
purposes
identified
in this section
;
may establish
(3) Establish
sewer districts as provided by this title;
may acquire
(4) Acquire
any sewer, drain, or system of sewerage and drainage already established and
constructed; and
may acquire
(5) Acquire
land within or without the municipality for a septic or sewage treatment plant
or outlet to any main sewer
,
and may assess the cost
thereof with
of the land and the
cost of any necessary extension or connection of
such
the
main sewer to all the property
within the sewer district benefited as provided by this title.
The proceeds of any taxes levied for the accumulation of funds under this section shall be
placed in a separate fund which may not revert at the end of the fiscal year. The amount of the fund
may never exceed an amount equivalent to ten dollars per thousand dollars of taxable valuation
of all property within the municipality. The fund shall be established by a resolution adopted
pursuant to chapter 9-19.
Section
2.
That
§
9-48-33
be amended to read as follows:
9-48-33.
The governing body of any municipality
shall have power to
may
establish one or
more districts for the construction, improvement, and maintenance of main
, storm, sanitary,
service,
and trunk sewers, sewage treatment or septic plants and outlets, lift stations, and other
sewerage improvements
necessary for the service of such districts, to
. The governing body may
establish
or modify
the boundary
or boundaries thereof and to change the same when necessary,
and to construct systems or parts of systems of sewerage therefor, and to
of the district, construct
a sewerage system or part of a sewerage system, and
assess the cost
thereof
of the sewerage system
to the property within the district as
hereinafter
provided
in this chapter
.
Signed March 5, 2007