2024 South Dakota Legislature

House Bill 1127

ENROLLED

An Act

ENTITLED An Act to modify requirements for incorporating municipalities that are within three miles of another incorporated municipality.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That   9-3-1.1 be AMENDED:

9-3-1.1. A municipality may not be incorporated if any part of the proposed municipality lies within three miles of any point on the perimeter of the corporate limits of any incorporated municipality, unless:

(1) The incorporated municipality refuses or fails to annex a territory that is contiguous to the incorporated municipality, and the contiguous territory has properly petitioned the municipality to be annexed thereto, as provided by   9-4-1; or

(2) The territory to be incorporated has a post office and:

(a) Is in a different county than the incorporated municipality; or

(b) The incorporated municipality has a population of less than five thousand.

An Act to modify requirements for incorporating municipalities that are within three miles of another incorporated municipality.

I certify that the attached Act originated in the:

House as Bill No. 1127

Chief Clerk

Speaker of the House

Attest:

Chief Clerk

President of the Senate

Attest:

Secretary of the Senate

House Bill No. 1127

File No. ____

Chapter No. ______

Received at this Executive Office

this _____ day of _____________,

2024 at ____________M.

By

for the Governor

The attached Act is hereby

approved this ________ day of

______________, A.D., 2024

Governor

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

ss.

Office of the Secretary of State

Filed ____________, 2024

at _________ o'clock __M.

Secretary of State

By

Asst. Secretary of State

Statutes affected:
Introduced, 01/20/2024: 9-3-1.1
Enrolled, 02/13/2024: 9-3-1.1