State of South Dakota
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EIGHTY-SECOND SESSION LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2007 |
707N0034 |
SENATE BILL
NO.
3
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Introduced by:
Senators Gray, Hunhoff, Koetzle, Olson (Ed), and Peterson (Jim) and
Representatives Dennert, Heineman, Pederson (Gordon), and Putnam at the
request of the Constitutional Revision Commission
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FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to
revise certain provisions relating to the circulation and
signing of initiative and referendum petitions and to provide a penalty for violation thereof.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That § 2-1-10 be amended to read as follows:
2-1-10. Each person , who circulates and secures signatures to a petition to initiate
or submit
a constitutional amendment or other measure or to refer legislation
to the electors
any law
pursuant to S.D. Const., Art. III, § 1
, shall sign a verification
of circulator
before filing the
petition with the officer in whose office it is by law required to be filed.
The verification shall
prescribe that, to the best of the circulator's knowledge, each person signing the petition is a
qualified voter of the state in the county indicated on the signature line and that no state statute
regarding the circulation of petitions was knowingly violated.
The State Board of Elections shall
prescribe the form for the verification
of circulator
. The verification
of circulator
shall be
witnessed by a notary public commissioned in South Dakota or other officer authorized to
administer oaths pursuant to § 18-3-1.
Any person who falsely swears to the verification
provided for in this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Section 2. That § 2-1-6 be amended to read as follows:
2-1-6. Every person who is a qualified voter may sign a petition to
propose a measure
initiate a constitutional amendment or other measure
or
submit
to refer
a law.
Whoever
If a
person, knowing he or she is not a qualified voter of the state,
signs a petition for initiation
or
referendum
of a constitutional amendment or other measure or for referral
of legislation
, when
he is not a qualified voter of the state,
or
if any person
signs a name other than his
or her
own,
that person
is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That § 2-1-10 be amended to read as follows:
2-1-10. Each person , who circulates and secures signatures to a petition to initiate
Section 2. That § 2-1-6 be amended to read as follows:
2-1-6. Every person who is a qualified voter may sign a petition to