9-40-3.   Combining of systems and services into single utility system. Any combined system furnishing light, heat, power, water supply, and sewerage service, or any of such services may be hereafter acquired, established, equipped, maintained, operated, extended, or improved as a single utility under the provisions of this chapter, and any two or more systems owned and operated by a municipality may be combined for such purposes, or additional services of the types mentioned in § 9-40-1 may be added to those furnished by any utility system owned and operated by the municipality; provided, that the nature of such combined system shall be set forth and the necessity for such combination determined in and by the ordinance required by the provisions of § 9-40-5.

Source: SDC 1939, § 45.2401 as added by SL 1949, ch 191, § 1; SL 1957, ch 251.

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