Section 43-24-1 - Townships covered by chapter--Assessed value of farmland--Petition for townshipelection to make chapter applicable--Form of ballot--Effect of majority vote. - South Dakota Statutes

43-24-1. Townships covered by chapter--Assessed value of farmland--Petition for township election to make chapter applicable--Form of ballot--Effect of majority vote. This chapter shall not take effect and be in force in any township in this state where the average assessed valuation of agricultural or farmlands is less than thirty dollars per acre, unless a petition signed by at least ten percent of the legal freeholders of said civil township on or before February first, in any year, shall be submitted to the township board of supervisors by filing the same in the office of the town clerk, requesting such supervisors to submit to the voters of such civil township at the next township election on a separate ballot, the question whether or not this chapter shall be of force and effect in such civil township. Such ballot shall be in the following form: "Yes ____ No ____ for division and partition fence law." If a majority of voters of such township voting on such proposition shall vote in favor of the division and partition fence law, then this chapter shall be in force and effect in such township.

Source: SL 1917, ch 237, § 5; RC 1919, § 10539; SL 1919, ch 205; SDC 1939, § 19.0201.