Section 46A-14-16 - Referendum on petition unnecessary where signed by sixty percent or moreof the landowners.
46A-14-16. Referendum on petition unnecessary where signed by sixty percent or more of the landowners. If the initiating petition is signed by sixty percent or more of the landowners in a proposed district who are registered voters in the proposed district and who own at least sixty percent of the land in the proposed district, the petition may be accepted by the conservation district supervisors in lieu of the favorable vote at a referendum as specified in § 46A-14-26 and the referendum specified in § 46A-14-15 is not required.
Source: SL 1959, ch 452, § 3; SDC Supp 1960, § 61.1505 (1); SDCL, § 46-24-16; SL 1998, ch 36, § 62.