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.
S.D. Codified Laws § 7-16-31
Residency requirements for state's attorney in counties with low population
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Larson v. Krebs (2017)
Most recently applied in Larson v. Krebs (June 2017)
Source: SL 2004, ch 69, § 1.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.