the same, subject to approval of State, Federal or interstate
agencies which may have primary jurisdiction over water
resources. Dams, wells and reservoirs acquired by purchase,
lease or otherwise, or constructed by the commissioners may be
for the sole purpose of water supply or in conjunction with any
other purposes, except the generation of electric energy.
(c) The board of commissioners may enter into contracts or
long-range cooperative programs with State, Federal, interstate
and local government agencies or public utilities for the
development and use of the county's water resources.
(d) It shall be lawful for any county to execute such
agreements and contracts as it may deem necessary or advisable
with an authority organized by such county to provide, design,
acquire, hold, construct, improve, own, lease, as lessor or
lessee, maintain and operate dams, reservoirs, wells and other
facilities for the utilization of surface, subsurface and ground
water resources and all related structures, appurtenances and
equipment necessary for the use of the same; also to grant,
convey, lease, transfer, encumber, mortgage and pledge to such
authority, its dams, reservoirs, wells and related facilities
and any improvements and additions thereto; to assign and pledge
to such authority rentals, rates and charges charged and
collected by it for the use thereof and to assign to such
authority its power to collect the same. No such agreement,
contract, grant, conveyance, lease, assignment, encumbrance,
mortgage or pledge shall be construed to prevent the affected
county from thereafter using its tax revenues for the purpose of
maintaining, repairing, altering, inspecting or improving such
dams, reservoirs, wells and related facilities.
[Every such agreement, contract, grant, conveyance, lease,
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