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Code · South Dakota · Title 46 · Chapter 46-4

46A-4-3.1. Petition--Signing by electors--Form--Affidavit of circulator.

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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:
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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.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ________ day of ________, 20____.
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