46A-4-2. Elector defined. The term, elector, as used in this chapter and chapters 46A-5 to 46A-7, inclusive, means any person, the United States of America, the State of South Dakota or any political subdivision of the state, or any corporation authorized to do business in the state and owning not less than thirty-five acres of land within any district. If the elector is the owner or entryman of land in more than one division of the irrigation district and resides without the district, the elector is considered an elector in the division of the district in which the major portion of the elector's land is situated. If the qualifying thirty-five acres or more of land is sold under a contract for deed which is of record in the office of the register of deeds of the county, both the landowner and the individual purchaser of the land, as named in the contract for deed, shall be treated as an elector.
Source: SDC 1939, § 61.0801; SL 1947, ch 417, § 1; SL 1963, ch 455, § 1; SDCL § 46-12-2; SL 1979, ch 299, § 1; SL 1984, ch 294, § 2; SL 2011, ch 165, § 331.
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