The district may, with respect to any project owned and operated by the district or a regulated public water utility:

(1) Establish and fix the rate or rates to be charged by the project owner for the furnishing or sale of all water from the project;

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(2) Establish and fix the charge or charges for water meters or other means necessary for determining the consumption of water from the project; and

(3) Require that water for such beneficial uses in this state as the district may determine be made available along the route of the project in this state, in such amounts as the district may determine, up to a maximum of twenty–five percent of the capacity of any privately owned project, to any residential user in this state, upon the payment by the residential user of all costs of tapping into and removing water from the project.

The district may promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 for the exercise of the powers enumerated in this section, including procedures for the establishment of rates and charges and for making available water from the project.

Source: SL 1981 (2d SS), ch 1, § 7; SDCL Supp, § 46-17A-2.1; SL 1993, ch 256, § 66; SL 1997, ch 208, § 3.