Any municipality may construct, reconstruct, repair, and maintain bulkheads, wharves, levees, or breakwaters along or across any river or stream flowing within or through its boundaries. For that purpose the municipality may purchase or condemn private property and assess the cost against the property upon which the improvement is situated, and upon the lots abutting or adjoining such property upon that side of the river or stream on which the improvement is constructed, as provided in chapter 9-43.

Source: SL 1911, ch 94, § 1; RC 1919, § 6367; SDC 1939, § 45.2008; SL 2012, ch 57, § 68.