Section 35-3-8 - Petition for election on local option--Number of signers required--Filing. - South Dakota Statutes

35-3-8. Petition for election on local option--Number of signers required--Filing. As to any of the questions referred to in § 35-3-7, fifteen percent of the legal voters residing in a municipality may petition for a special election to determine such question. In the case of a municipality having a mayor, the number of legal voters shall be deemed the total number voting in the last preceding election of a mayor, and in other municipalities the number of legal voters shall be deemed the total number voting in the last preceding regular municipal or township election. The petition shall set forth the question which the petitioners desire submitted, and shall be filed with the city or town auditor or finance officer, or township clerk, as the case may be.

Source: SDC 1939, § 5.0233.