CHAPTER 30

(SB 77)

Municipal runoff elections, time extended between first election
and when the office is filled.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  extend the time between a municipal candidate election and a secondary election.

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

     Section  1.  That § 9-13-27 be amended to read as follows:

     9-13-27.   In municipalities over twenty-five thousand in population, if If no candidate in a race involving three or more candidates receives a majority of the votes cast in a municipality with a population over twenty-five thousand , a secondary election shall be held two three weeks from the date of the first election. At the secondary election , the only persons voted for shall be the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes at the first election. The secondary election shall be held at the same polling places , and be conducted, returned , and canvassed and the . The result shall be declared and entered upon the journal of the municipality in the same manner as the first election. The person receiving the highest number of votes at the secondary election is elected.

     Signed February 15, 2006

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