2014 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 46A - WATER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 03A - Water Development Districts--Establishment
§ 46A-3A-8 Petition for election on establishment of district--Number of signers--Land sold oncontract.
46A-3A-8. Petition for election on establishment of district--Number of signers--Land sold on contract. Fifteen percent of the owners of real property in a geographical area, as shown by the records in the offices of the register of deeds of the county wherein the real property is situated, may petition the Board of Water and Natural Resources to submit to an election the question of whether the geographical area shall become a water development district. If land is sold under a contract for deed, which is of record in the office of the register of deeds in the county wherein the land is situated, both the landowner and the landowner's individual purchaser of the land, as named in the contract for deed, shall be treated as owners of real property.
Source: SL 1984 (SS), ch 1, § 13A; SL 2011, ch 165, § 324.
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