S.D. Codified Laws § 9-3-1

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 9-3-1 - Minimum population of municipalities

A municipality may not be incorporated unless it contains at least one hundred legal residents and at least forty-five registered voters. For the purposes of this section, a person is a legal resident in the proposed municipality if the person actually lives in the proposed municipality for at least ninety days of the three hundred sixty-five days immediately preceding the filing of the petition or is an active duty member of the armed forces whose home of record is within the proposed municipality.

SDCL 9-3-1

PolC 1877, ch 24, § 2; CL 1887, § 1023; RPolC 1903, § 1418; SL 1909, ch 73; RC 1919, § 6172; SDC 1939, § 45.0302; SL 2016, ch 48, §1.

Amended by S.L. 2016, ch. 48,s. 1, eff. 7/1/2016.