The county commissioners may erect, maintain, repair, remodel, and otherwise improve upon any ground owned or acquired by purchase, including by contract for deed or lease with purchase option, lease, gift, bequest, or otherwise, any building to be used for the exhibition of stock, farm produce, school work, and domestic arts, or for the sale of livestock, or for farmers’ or other meetings or any other purpose which in the discretion of the county commissioners is to the benefit of the best interests of the county. The board may purchase, including by contract for deed or lease with purchase option, lease, or otherwise acquire by gift, bequest, or otherwise, any other real property in the county with or without buildings thereon, or lease space in any building within the county, for any of the above specified purposes. The county commissioners may levy a tax for any of the purposes not to exceed thirty cents per thousand dollars of taxable valuation of taxable property in the county. The levy authorized by this section is in addition to the levy authorized in § 10-12-21.

Source: SL 1921, ch 169; SDC 1939, § 12.2305; SL 1951, ch 30; SL 1963, ch 50; SL 1973, ch 47, § 1; SL 1975, ch 81, § 1; SL 1985, ch 15, § 25; SL 1985, ch 77, § 11; SL 1990, ch 55.