There is hereby created a body corporate and politic to be known as the Edgefield County Water and Sewer Authority, hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Authority." Its service area shall include all of Edgefield County, and the small area of Aiken County described in 6-13-960, excluding any area within an incorporated municipality which owns and operates a municipal waterworks system. It shall be the principal function of the Authority to acquire supplies of fresh water, capable of being used for industrial and domestic purposes, and to distribute such water, in the manner herein provided, for industrial and domestic use within its service area. To that end, it shall be empowered to construct such reservoirs, diversion dams, impounding dams or dikes, canals, conduits, aqueducts, tunnels, water distribution facilities, water mains and water lines, as in the opinion of the Authority may be deemed necessary, and to acquire such land, rights of way, easements, machinery, apparatus and equipment as shall be deemed useful therefor.

HISTORY: 1967 Act No. 571, Section 1, eff July 12, 1967; 1970 Act No. 1192, Section 1, eff May 1, 1970.

Code Commissioner's Note

This section was codified at the direction of the Code Commissioner in 2012.

Effect of Amendment

The 1970 amendment inserted after "County," "and the small area of Aiken County described in Section 6-13-960,"; inserted "which owns and operates a municipal waterworks system" after "municipality"; and inserted between the words "the" and "function" the word "principal".