Every municipality shall have power to construct, operate, and maintain any system or part thereof to provide light, heat, and power; to purchase electric current from without the limits of the municipality; to sell electric current to be transmitted to any point without the municipality; and to maintain transmission lines for such purposes without the municipality.

Source: SL 1915, ch 112 , § 1; SL 1915, ch 118 ; RC 1919, § 6169 (17); SL 1925, ch 241 ; SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (77); SL 1951, ch 237 ; SL 1965, ch 210 ; SL 1965, ch 254 , § 11; SL 1970, ch 261 , § 11.