9-3-5. Voters' petition as application for incorporation--Number of signers required--Contents of petition--Presentation to county commissioners. The application for incorporation of a proposed municipality shall be by a petition verified by the circulator and signed by not less than twenty-five percent of the qualified voters who are either registered voters in the proposed municipality or landowners in the proposed municipality who are also registered voters of this state. The application shall identify the type of government to be formed, the number of trustees, commissioners, or wards in the proposed municipality, the boundaries and area according to the survey, and the legal resident population according to the census taken. The application shall be presented at the time indicated in the notice of the application or as soon thereafter as the board of county commissioners can receive and consider the application.
Source: SDC 1939, § 45.0304; SL 1987, ch 67, § 20; SL 1999, ch 37, § 2; SL 2016, ch 48, § 6.
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