Persons making application for the organization of a proposed municipality shall first cause an accurate survey and map to be made of the territory intended to be embraced within the limits of the proposed municipality showing the boundaries and area thereof and the accuracy of which shall be verified by the affidavit of the surveyor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 9-3-2
Survey and map showing proposed municipal boundaries--Affidavit of surveyor
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Kraft v. Meade County Ex Rel. Board of County Commissioners (2006)
Most recently applied in State v. Buffalo Chip (November 2020)
Source: PolC 1877, ch 24, § 1; CL 1887, § 1022; RPolC 1903, § 1417; RC 1919, § 6171; SDC 1939, § 45.0301; SL 2016, ch 48, § 3.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.