Whenever not less than fifteen percent of the registered voters of any organized county in this state, based upon the total number of registered voters at the last preceding general election, shall on or before the first day of July in any general election year, file in the office of the county auditor a petition requesting that the organization of such county be dissolved and that it thereafter be and become an unorganized county, the county auditor shall at the next regular election, submit to the legal voters of said county on a separate printed ballot the following question:

Shall the county organization of ________ county be abolished?

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[] Yes

[] No

All voters in favor of abolishing such county organization shall place either a cross (x) or check mark () in the square before the word Yes on the ballot. All voters who do not favor the abolishment of such county organization shall place either a cross (x) or check mark () in the square before the word No on the ballot.

Source: SL 1943, ch 45, § 1; SDC Supp 1960, § 12.3301; SL 1987, ch 67, § 7.