The water user district may own, construct, reconstruct, improve, purchase, condemn, lease, receive by gift, or otherwise acquire, hold, extend, manage, use, or operate any works and any kind of property, personal or real, necessary, useful, or incident to such acquisition, extension, management, use, and operation. The district may sell, mortgage, alienate, or otherwise dispose of the works or any part of the works only under the terms and subject to the conditions provided in §§ 46A-9-69 to 46A-9-72, inclusive.
SDCL 46A-9-41