§ 9-39-4 Agreements with other public bodies and utilities--Purposes.

SD Codified L § 9-39-4 (2019) (N/A)

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9-39-4. Agreements with other public bodies and utilities--Purposes. Every municipality shall have power to enter into contracts or agreements with the United States of America, or any agency thereof, the State of South Dakota, or any agency thereof, the political subdivisions of South Dakota or any other state, and the cooperative and privately owned power companies for such purposes as are herein set forth. Such purposes shall be for the purchase of electrical energy service and for the resale of electrical energy; to discontinue the generation of energy by its existing producing plants and to maintain such plants in a serviceable condition for standby service and to sell such electrical energy; to acquire electrical generation equipment and to maintain and construct the necessary facilities for the generation or transmission of electrical energy from a point within or without the State of South Dakota.

Source: SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (77) as added by SL 1951, ch 237; SL 1965, ch 210; SL 1965, ch 254, § 11; SL 1970, ch 261, § 11; SL 1972, ch 50; SL 1975, ch 90, § 1; SL 1977, ch 78.

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