CHAPTER 69

(SB 108)

County state's attorney residence requirement reformed.


         ENTITLED, An Act to  clarify certain provisions concerning the residency requirements for state's attorneys in certain small counties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That chapter 7-16 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:

     In any county with a population of less than five thousand persons, no state's attorney is disqualified from holding office for failure to be a resident of that county if the state's attorney is a resident of a county which is contiguous to the county in which the state's attorney holds such office.

     Signed March 3, 2004.
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