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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 7 COUNTIES
Chapter 06. County Seats
§7-6-4 Petition and election on change of county seat--Publication of notice.
SD Codified L § 7-6-4 (through 2011) What's This?
7-6-4. Petition and election on change of county seat--Publication of notice. If fifteen percent of the registered voters, based upon the total number of registered voters at the last preceding general election, of any organized county petition the board of county commissioners to change the location of the county seat which has once been located by majority vote, specifying the place to which it is to be changed, the board shall submit the same to the people of the county at the next general election. Notice of the submission of the question shall be included in the notice published once by the county auditor giving notice of the time and place of holding the general election.
Source: SDC 1939, § 12.0502; SL 1982, ch 60, § 1; SL 1987, ch 67, § 3.
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