9-13-1. Date of annual municipal election--Hours of voting.

In each municipality an annual election for the election of officers shall be held on the second Tuesday of April of each year, at a place in each ward of the municipality as the governing body shall designate. If the governing body of the municipality chooses a different election day as provided in this chapter, the governing body shall establish such election day by January fourteenth of the election year. The polls at the election shall be kept open continuously from seven a.m. until seven p.m.

Source: SDC 1939, § 45.1301; SL 1941, ch 196; SL 1955, ch 203; SL 1961, ch 249; SL 1971, ch 56, § 1; SL 1977, ch 68, § 1; SL 1999, ch 39, § 1; SL 2002, ch 45, § 1; SL 2009, ch 69, § 8.