South Dakota Statutes
§ 9-3-1 — Minimum population of municipalities.
South Dakota § 9-3-1
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Bluebook
S.D. Codified Laws § 9-3-1 (2026).
Text
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.
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Related
South Dakota v. Adams
506 F. Supp. 60 (D. South Dakota, 1980)
Lippold v. Meade Cty. Bd. of Comm'rs
2018 SD 7 (South Dakota Supreme Court, 2018)
State v. Buffalo Chip
951 N.W.2d 387 (South Dakota Supreme Court, 2020)
Legislative History
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.
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Bluebook (online)
South Dakota § 9-3-1, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/sd/9-3-1.