South Dakota § 9-40-4 - Utility facilities outside municipal limits.
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§ 9-40-4. Utility facilities outside municipal limits.
Every municipality may procure a supply of water, electricity, or gas and may dispose of sewage outside its corporate limits, and for such purposes may construct, operate, and maintain outside its corporate limits, as a part of any such system, dams, reservoirs, intakes, spillways, conduits, or other devices to gather and store surface, flood, or other waters, pipelines, poles, wires, and cables for the transmission of water, electric current, and gas, and sewer mains, outlets, and treatment and disposal plants.
Source: SDC 1939, § 45.2401 as added by SL 1957, ch 251.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 9-40-4 ("Utility facilities outside municipal limits.") is part of the South Dakota Codified Laws, the codified statutory law of South Dakota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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