16-1-1. Supreme Court districts. The state is divided into five Supreme Court districts from each of which a justice shall be selected as follows:
First District. The counties of Custer, Pennington, Lawrence, and Meade constitute the first Supreme Court district.
Second District. The county of Minnehaha constitutes the second Supreme Court district.
Third District. The counties of Brookings, Kingsbury, Moody, Miner, Sanborn, Beadle, Jerauld, Hand, Hyde, Hughes, Sully, Stanley, Brule, Buffalo, Jones, Jackson, Lyman, Mellette, Todd, Tripp, Bennett, Oglala Lakota, Fall River, Lake, and Haakon constitute the third Supreme Court district.
Fourth District. The counties of Union, Clay, Yankton, Hutchinson, Hanson, Davison, Bon Homme, Douglas, Aurora, Charles Mix, Gregory, McCook, Turner and Lincoln constitute the fourth Supreme Court district.
Fifth District. The counties of Grant, Roberts, Day, Marshall, Clark, Brown, McPherson, Edmunds, Faulk, Potter, Walworth, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Ziebach, Perkins, Butte, Codington, Spink, Deuel, Hamlin, and Harding constitute the fifth Supreme Court district.
Source: SD Const, art 5, § 11; SL 1909, ch 109, §§ 1 to 5; RC 1919, § 5127; SL 1927, ch 209; SL 1935, ch 87; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 32.0101; SL 1974, ch 154, § 1; SL 1977, ch 174; SL 1982, ch 168; SL 1992, ch 151; SL 2001, ch 101, § 1; SL 2011 (SS), ch 2, § 1, eff. Jan. 23, 2012; SL 2015, ch 56 (HJR 1005), eff. May 1, 2015.
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