<HTML> <HEAD> <HTML> <HEAD> <meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 0N-3-3 - Qualifications for legislative office--Officers ineligible. 0N-3-3 Qualifications for legislative office--Officers ineligible. </title> <META NAME="Keywords" Content="South Dakota Constitution 0N-3-3 Qualifications for legislative office--Officers ineligible. "> <META NAME="Description" Content="South Dakota Constitution 0N-3-3"> </HEAD> <BODY> <!-- File converted by Wp2Html Version 4.0 --> <!-- Email Andrew@brackenbeds.co.uk for more details --> <!-- WP Style Open: System_34 --><!-- WP Style End: System_34 --> <!-- WP Paired Style On: SENU -->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!-- WP Style End: SENU --> &#167;&nbsp;3. <!-- WP Paired Style Off: SENU -->&nbsp;<!-- WP Style End: SENU --> <!-- WP Paired Style On: CL --><!-- WP Style End: CL --> Qualifications for legislative office--Officers ineligible. <!-- WP Paired Style Off: CL --> <!-- WP Style End: CL --> No person is eligible for the office of senator who is not a qualified elector in the district from which such person is chosen, a citizen of the United States, and who has not attained the age of twenty-one years, and who has not been a resident of the state for two years next preceding election.<br> <!-- WP Style Open: P3-0 --><Div align="full">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!-- WP Style End: P3-0 --> No person is eligible for the office of representative who is not a qualified elector in the district from which such person is chosen, and a citizen of the United States, and who has not been a resident of the state for two years next preceding election, and who has not attained the age of twenty-one years.<br> <!-- WP Style Open: P3-0 --></Div><Div align="full">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!-- WP Style End: P3-0 --> No judge or clerk of any court, secretary of state, attorney general, state's attorney, recorder, sheriff or collector of public moneys, member of either house of Congress, or person holding any lucrative office under the United States, or this state, or any foreign government, shall be a member of the Legislature: provided, that appointments in the militia, the offices of notary public and justice of the peace shall not be considered lucrative; nor shall any person holding any office of honor or profit under any foreign government or under the government of the United States, except postmasters whose annual compensation does not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars, hold any office in either branch of the Legislature or become a member thereof.<br> <p> <!-- WP Paired Style On: SCL --><!-- WP Style End: SCL --> <b> History:</b> Amendment proposed by SL 1974, ch 1, rejected Nov. 5, 1974; amendment proposed by SL 1975, ch 2, as amended by SL 1976, ch 1, rejected Nov. 2, 1976; amendment proposed by SL 1994, ch 1, &#167;&#167;&nbsp;1 and 2, rejected Nov. 1994; amendment proposed by SL 1998, ch 1, &#167;&#167;&nbsp;1 and 2, accepted Nov. 3, 1998. <!-- WP Paired Style Off: SCL --><!-- WP Style End: SCL --> <p> </BODY> </HTML>