South Dakota Codified Laws 46A-4-3.1. Petition–Signing by electors–Form–Affidavit of circulator
Each elector signing a petition shall add to the elector’s signature, in the elector’s own handwriting, the elector’s post office address, the legal description of sufficient land to qualify as an elector, and the date of signing. The petition may contain any number of pages, and each page shall have an identical heading. Any number of identical petition forms may be circulated as a part of the petition. Every page of a petition containing signatures shall have below the signatures an affidavit by the circulator in substantially the following form:
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 46A-4-3.1
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
- written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
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County of ______________ )
I, the undersigned, being first duly sworn, depose and say that I am the circulator of the foregoing petition containing __________ signatures; that each person whose name appears on the petition sheet personally signed the petition in the presence of the affiant; that the affiant believes that each of the signers is an owner or entryman of the land described opposite the signer’s signature, to be included within the proposed district, and residing at the address written opposite the signer’s name; and that affiant stated to every petitioner before the petitioner affixed his or her signature the legal effect and nature of the petition.
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Circulator
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ________ day of ________, 20____.
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Notary Public
Source: SL 1984, ch 294, § 4; SL 2011, ch 165, § 332.