FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act  to revise the municipal bid limits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That §   5-18-18 be amended to read as follows:
     5-18-18.   The provisions of § §  5-18-1 to 5-18-17, inclusive, may not be construed to regulate or apply to contracts entered into and purchases made by the Department of Transportation or by the Bureau of Administration or to the purchase of electric power, light, water , or gas; or any municipal corporation for the purchase of materials, supplies , or equipment for any utility owned or operated by such municipal corporation, provided that such purchase may not exceed the sum of eleven thousand dollars the limits established pursuant to §  5-18-3 ; or to contracts of any municipal corporation in time of war to acquire, establish, construct, own, control, lease, equip, improve, maintain, operate , or regulate an airport or landing field for the use of airplanes or other aircraft, of the United States armed forces or its members, students , and mechanics; or to contracts of any public corporation for the purchase of materials, supplies , or equipment from the United States or its agencies; or to equipment repair contracts; or to the purchase of surplus property from another public corporation; or to the purchase by one local government entity from the lowest responsible bidder of an item competitively bid in the previous twelve months

by itself or another local government entity or the state at the bid price or less; or to animals purchased by a municipality for a zoo.