Whenever the question of bonding the county for the purpose of bonding the county for the purpose of building or renovating, improving, remodeling, altering, adding to, or repairing a courthouse, jail, memorial building, or other county buildings shall have been submitted to a vote of the voters and such bond issue shall have been carried by a vote of the voters, then in addition to the proceeds raised from the sale of such bonds the board may, whenever there remains in the treasury of such county an unexpended balance of any special fund and all claims against such fund have been fully paid, or when there remains an unexpended balance of the general fund and all claims against such fund have been fully paid, in its discretion, apply the whole or any part of such accumulated funds to the purposes specified in this section and it shall not be necessary to submit the question of such expenditure to the voters of the county.

Source: SL 1868-9, ch 4, § 27; SL 1874-5, ch 27, § 27; PolC 1877, ch 21, § 43; CL 1887, § 607; RPolC 1903, § 847; SL 1913, ch 153; RC 1919, § 5883; SL 1920 (SS), ch 42; SDC 1939, § 12.2302; SL 1959, ch 31, § 1.