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2012 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 38 AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
Chapter 08. Conservation Districts
§38-8-42 Terms of office of district supervisors.
SD Codified L § 38-8-42 (through 2012) What's This?
38-8-42. Terms of office of district supervisors. For the purpose of staggering terms, at the first general election, the at-large candidate receiving the largest number of votes shall be elected for a four-year term; the urban candidate receiving the largest number of votes shall be elected for a four-year term; the landowner or operator receiving the largest number of votes shall serve a four-year term and the two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for two-year terms. In succeeding elections all supervisors shall be elected for four-year terms commencing the following January first.
Source: SL 1937, ch 19, § 7; SDC 1939, § 4.1509; SL 1947, ch 12; SL 1953, ch 7, § 1; SL 1957, ch 4, § 3; SDC Supp 1960, § 4.1509 (1); SDCL, § 38-8-38; SL 1968, ch 1, § 6; SL 1994, ch 316, § 23.
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