The board of county commissioners may levy a tax not to exceed ninety cents per thousand dollars of taxable valuation to be used or paid into a fund for the purpose of acquiring a site, constructing, renovating, improving, remodeling, altering, adding to, repairing, erecting, or maintaining a courthouse, office, jail building, county exhibition buildings, 4-H and extension buildings, grandstands and bleachers, highway maintenance buildings, or public library. The county may cooperate in a joint undertaking for any of the foregoing purposes with any other county, municipality or school district. The levy authorized by this section is in addition to the levy authorized in § 10-12-21. The proceeds of the levy authorized by this section may be pledged by the county to payments under an agreement entered into pursuant to § 7-25-19 without regard to the limitations of § 7-25-3.

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Source: SL 1911, ch 123, § 1; SL 1915, ch 126; RC 1919, § 6953; SL 1931, ch 115, § 1; SDC 1939, § 12.2303; SL 1959, ch 31, § 2; SL 1959, ch 32; SL 1963, ch 49; SL 1968, ch 21; SL 1970, ch 50; SL 1985, ch 15, § 24; SL 1985, ch 77, § 8; SL 1987, ch 185, § 2; SL 1989, ch 87, § 15C.