South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 13 - Constitutional Amendments And Submitted Questions
Section 12-13-16 - Publication of false or erroneous information on constitutional amendment or submitted question as misdemeanor.

12-13-16. Publication of false or erroneous information on constitutional amendment or submitted question as misdemeanor.
Any person knowingly printing, publishing, or delivering to any voter of this state a document containing any purported constitutional amendment, question, law, or measure to be submitted to the voters at any election, in which such constitutional amendment, question, law, or measure is misstated, erroneously printed, or by which false or misleading information is given to the voters, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SL 1913, ch 107, §9; RC 1919, §7224; SDC 1939, §16.9923; SL 1982, ch 86, §83.

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South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 12 - Elections

Chapter 13 - Constitutional Amendments And Submitted Questions

Section 12-13-1 - Delivery of proposed questions to county auditors--Attorney general's explanation.

Section 12-13-1.1 - Requirements for elections beginning in 2018.

Section 12-13-2 - Measures and questions to be sent to official newspapers.

Section 12-13-3 - Newspaper publication of submitted questions--Compensation--Suspension of status on failure to publish--Election valid despite refusal to publish.

Section 12-13-4 - Lettering and numbering of submitted questions.

Section 12-13-9 - Attorney general's statement regarding constitutional amendment proposed by legislature or referred law.