9-21-3. Appropriations limited to municipal powers.
No money belonging to any municipality shall be appropriated except for such objects and the defraying of such expenses as necessarily arise in the exercise of the powers granted to it.
Source: PolC 1877, ch 24, §24; CL 1887, §1045; RPolC 1903, §1443; RC 1919, §6345; SDC 1939, §45.1406.