If there is a contest for such office, or if the person elected to such office is prevented or obstructed in any manner from entering upon the duties of such office, the time prescribed in which he shall qualify and enter upon the duties of his office shall not govern, and he shall be allowed twenty days after the day of such decision or the termination of such preventing or obstructing cause in which to qualify.
S.D. Codified Laws § 3-1-3
Time allowed for qualification after decision of contest or removal of obstruction
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Myears v. Charles Mix County (1997)
Most recently applied in Myears v. Charles Mix County (July 1997)
Source: SL 1874-5, ch 73, § 2; PolC 1877, ch 5, § 11; CL 1887, § 1381; RPolC 1903, § 1798; RC 1919, § 7034; SDC 1939, § 48.0313.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.