If the question to relocate the county seat is approved by the voters as specified in § 7-6-5, the county officers whose offices are required by law to be kept at the county seat shall remove their respective offices, files, records, office fixtures, furniture, and all other property pertaining to their offices to the county seat designated by the voters within one year after the date of an election held under this chapter or the end of any recount, certiorari proceeding, or election contest, whichever is latest.

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Source: SL 1890, ch 64, § 3; RPolC 1903, § 793; RC 1919, § 5789; SDC 1939, § 12.0503; SL 2023, ch 21, § 2.