46A-14-34. Powers of district.

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A watershed district created under the provisions of this chapter, to the extent necessary for lawful purposes as provided in this chapter, may:

(1)Sue and be sued;

(2)Incur debts, liabilities, and obligations;

(3)Exercise the power of eminent domain only if it is necessary to carry out an approved plan;

(4)Levy a tax not to exceed one dollar per thousand dollars of taxable valuation against the landowners' land and buildings as provided in this chapter;

(5)Provide for other taxes and assessments;

(6)Borrow money and issue certificates, warrants, and bonds;

(7)Make surveys or use other reliable surveys and data and develop projects to accomplish the purposes for which the district is organized;

(8)Cooperate or contract with any individual, person, state, state agency, political subdivision of a state, federal agency, or private or public corporation;

(9)Construct, clean, repair, alter, abandon, consolidate, reclaim, or change the course or terminus of any public ditch, drain sewer, river, watercourse, natural or artificial, within the district, in cooperation with other agencies having prior jurisdiction;

(10)Acquire, lease, operate, construct, and maintain dams, dikes, reservoirs, and pertinent works;

(11)Acquire by gift, lease, purchase, or eminent domain necessary real and personal property;

(12)Contract for purchase of insurance for protection of the district as necessary;

(13)Establish and maintain devices for acquiring and recording hydrological data;

(14)Enter into all contracts of construction authorized by this chapter; and

(15)Perform all acts expressly authorized in this chapter and all other acts necessary and proper for carrying out and exercising the powers expressly vested in the district.