11-7A-2. Municipal powers in implementation of certain public projects.
For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of any projects of commissions located within the limits of a municipality, that municipality or any other state public body may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine:
(1)Dedicate, sell, convey, or lease any of its interest in any property, or grant easements, licenses or any other rights or privileges therein to a commission;
(2)Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with such projects;
(3)Furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it is otherwise empowered to undertake;
(4)Approve redevelopment plans as defined in the municipal housing and redevelopment law, plan or replan, zone or rezone parts of such municipality; make exceptions from building regulations and ordinances; and make changes in its boundaries;
(5)Cause services to be furnished to the commission of the character which such municipality or any other state public body is otherwise empowered to furnish;
(6)Enter into agreements with respect to the exercise by such municipality or any other state public body of its powers relating to the repair, closing or demolition of unsafe, insanitary or unfit buildings;
(7)Enter into agreements (which may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary), with a commission respecting action to be taken by such municipality or any other state public body pursuant to any of the powers granted by this section;
(8)In the case of a housing development project, as defined in subdivision 11-7-1(7A), make loans or contributions to that project, including its financing and the costs associated therewith, or enter into agreements to do so in the future, provided that each such loan or contribution made from otherwise unappropriated, unbudgeted, and unexpended generally available funds and is contingent upon the express authorization and appropriation to the project by the governing body of the municipality or other state public body, in its discretion, in the year in which actually made.
Any sale, conveyance, lease or agreement provided for under this section may be made by a municipality or any other state public body without appraisal, public notice, advertisement, or public bidding, notwithstanding any other laws to the contrary.
Source: SL 1950 (SS), ch 14, §3; SDC Supp 1960, §45.3703; SDCL, §9-37-2; SL 1996, ch 93, §3.