If, in the judgment of the Water Management Board, the public interests require action adverse to any party thereto, it may call upon the attorney general to intervene in the action. The attorney general shall then appear on behalf of the state and take whatever steps are necessary to protect the interests of the public, of the state or of any of its institutions.

Source: SDC 1939, § 55.1811; SL 1983, ch 314, § 157.