<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 12-7-1 - Certificate of nomination for nonjudicial public office--Exceptions--Requirements. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2040632Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2040632SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2040632CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2040632Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2040632DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2040632000001 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2040632SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2040632SCL-000002 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2040632Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=12-7-1"><span class="s2040632SENU">12-7-1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040632SENU">. </span><span class="s2040632CL">Certificate of nomination for nonjudicial public office--Exceptions--Requirements.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2040632Normal-000000"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040632DefaultParagraphFont">Any candidate for nonjudicial public office, except as provided in § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=12-7-7"><span class="s2040632DefaultParagraphFont">12-7-7</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040632DefaultParagraphFont">, who is not nominated by a primary election may be nominated by filing a certificate of nomination with the secretary of state or county auditor as prescribed by § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=12-6-4"><span class="s2040632DefaultParagraphFont">12-6-4</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040632DefaultParagraphFont">, after December thirty-first and by the last Tuesday of April at 5:00 p.m. local time before the election. A certificate of nomination shall be executed as provided in chapter </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=12-6"><span class="s2040632DefaultParagraphFont">12-6</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040632DefaultParagraphFont">. If the certificate of nomination is mailed by registered mail by the last Tuesday of April at 5:00 p.m. local time before the election, it is timely submitted. The certificate of nomination shall be signed by registered voters within the district or political subdivision in and for which the officers are to be elected. The number of signatures required may not be less than one percent of the total combined vote cast for Governor at the last certified gubernatorial election within the district or political subdivision. The State Board of Elections shall promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=1-26"><span class="s2040632DefaultParagraphFont">1-26</span></a><span class="s2040632DefaultParagraphFont">, prescribing the forms for the certificate of nomination.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2040632Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040632000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2040632Normal"><span class="s2040632SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040632SCL-000002"> SDC 1939, § 16.0501; SL 1973, ch 75, § 1; SL 1975, ch 119, § 17; SL 1975, ch 122, § 1; SL 1976, ch 105, § 20; SL 1977, ch 108, § 2; SL 1977, ch 109, § 1; SL 1982, ch 127; SL 1999, ch 73, § 1; SL 2001, ch 68, § 1; SL 2002, ch 74, § 1; SL 2005, ch 87, § 3; SL 2007, ch 76, § 1; SL 2012, ch 83, § 1; SL 2015, ch 77, § 8 rejected Nov. 8, 2016; SL 2017, ch 2, § 10; SL 2017, ch 69, § 7.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 12-7-1 - Certificate of nomination for nonjudicial public office--Exceptions--Requirements. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; 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font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2040633SCL-000002 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2040633Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=12-7-1.1"><span class="s2040633SENU">12-7-1.1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040633SENU">. </span><span class="s2040633CL">Earliest time for circulation of petitions or nominating certificates.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2040633Normal-000000"><span class="s2040633DefaultParagraphFont">No petition or certificate of nomination covered by this chapter may be circulated prior to the first day of January of the year in which the election will be held.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2040633Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040633000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2040633Normal"><span class="s2040633SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2040633SCL-000002"> SL 1977, ch 108, § 5.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 12-7-1 - Certificate of nomination for nonjudicial public office--Exceptions--Requirements. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML"><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; 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The candidate and the candidate's nominee for lieutenant governor shall sign the certification.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s6baad0cb802f47b99f945ae3caa8f80fStatute"><span class="s6baad0cb802f47b99f945ae3caa8f80fDefaultParagraphFont">An independent candidate for lieutenant governor may withdraw from the nomination by filing a request under oath with the secretary of state. If an independent candidate for lieutenant governor withdraws, the independent candidate for Governor must nominate a replacement candidate for lieutenant governor by certifying the nomination to the secretary of state no later than five p.m. central time on the second Tuesday in August in the year of the election. The independent candidate for Governor and the candidate's replacement nominee for lieutenant governor shall sign the certification.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s6baad0cb802f47b99f945ae3caa8f80fStatute"><span class="s6baad0cb802f47b99f945ae3caa8f80fDefaultParagraphFont">The secretary of state may not place the name of the candidate for Governor on the general election ballot until a candidate for lieutenant governor has been certified.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s6baad0cb802f47b99f945ae3caa8f80fNormal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6baad0cb802f47b99f945ae3caa8f80f000000"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s6baad0cb802f47b99f945ae3caa8f80fNoIndent"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6baad0cb802f47b99f945ae3caa8f80fDefaultParagraphFont-000001">Source: </span><span class="s6baad0cb802f47b99f945ae3caa8f80fSCL">SL 2017, ch 69, § 8; SL 2025, ch 62, § 3.</span></p></div></body></html>