Section 7-25-3 - County commissioners authorized to construct and improve buildings--Maximumexpenditure authorized without voters' approval.
7-25-3. County commissioners authorized to construct and improve buildings--Maximum expenditure authorized without voters' approval. The board of county commissioners shall have authority to provide for the erection, renovation, improvement, remodeling, alteration, addition to, and repairing of courthouses, jails, memorial buildings, which may contain an auditorium, and other necessary buildings within and for the county and to make contracts on behalf of the county for such purposes; but no expenditure for these purposes, greater than can be paid for out of the annual revenue of the county for the current year, including for courthouse, office, and jail buildings the revenue from the special levy provided by § 7-25-1, together with the amount of any debt service fund theretofore provided for such purpose, shall be made unless the question of such expenditure shall have first been submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of such county and shall have been approved by a majority of the votes so cast; and the board shall determine the amount and rate of taxes to be submitted to a vote for such purpose.
Source: SL 1868-9, ch 4, § 27; SL 1874-5, ch 27, § 27; PolC 1877, ch 21, § 43; CL 1887, § 607; RPolC 1903, § 847; SL 1913, ch 153; RC 1919, § 5883; SL 1920 (SS), ch 42; SDC 1939, § 12.2302; SL 1959, ch 31, § 1.