The acquiring, improving, and maintaining of public parks and the creation and maintaining of bodies of water by counties is declared to be a public purpose. The commissioners of the several counties may acquire for this purpose by gift, purchase, or condemnation, property within their respective counties, as provided in this chapter, and create bodies of water and borrow money to pay the expense for this purpose, subject to the limitation fixed in § 41-18-12, out of the general fund or to issue the bonds of the county as provided in § 41-18-6.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 41-18-1

  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

Source: SDC 1939, § 12.2401; SL 1984, ch 43, § 118.