South Dakota § 9-3-1 - Minimum population of municipalities.
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§ 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.
Source: 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.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 9-3-1 ("Minimum population of municipalities.") is part of the South Dakota Codified Laws, the codified statutory law of South Dakota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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