9-22-12. Investment of debt service funds, surplus, utility revenues and bond proceeds--Special assessment bonds and certificates--Interest on investments.
Every municipality maintaining a debt service fund for the payment of outstanding bonds, and every municipality having outstanding revenue bonds and having accumulated "surplus funds" as contemplated by §§9-40-30 and 9-40-32, and every municipality owning a public utility or public utilities and having an accumulation of earned reserve or earned surplus funds therefrom, and every municipality having sold its bonds, the proceeds from the sale of which, in the opinion of the governing body, are temporarily not required to carry out the purpose for which the bonds were issued shall keep the accumulations in said funds deposited with the lawful depositories, or invested in registered warrants or bonds of any municipal or public corporation, including those of the municipality issuing such bonds, of the State of South Dakota, or bonds of the United States, or bonds or securities of any kind issued by the State of South Dakota. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be deemed to prevent the transfer, when authorized by law, of special assessment bonds and certificates issued on account of any local improvement to the debt service fund for general obligation bonds, the proceeds of which have been used to finance such improvement. The interest accruing on such investment shall be credited to such fund from which the investment was made.
Source: SL 1915, ch 277; RC 1919, §6999; SL 1923, ch 264; SL 1927, ch 189; SL 1933, ch 164; SDC 1939, §45.2310; SL 1941, ch 200; SL 1949, ch 190, §5.