South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 13 - Constitutional Amendments And Submitted Questions
Section 12-13-2 - Measures and questions to be sent to official newspapers.

12-13-2. Measures and questions to be sent to official newspapers.
The county auditor shall, on or before the first day of October of each year in which there is a general election, send by electronic transmission or mail to each official newspaper of the county a copy of all measures and questions as certified pursuant to §12-13-1.

Source: SL 1913, ch 107, §4; RC 1919, §7219; SDC 1939, §16.1305; SL 1957, ch 86; SL 1963, ch 114; SL 1974, ch 118, §52; SL 1979, ch 100, §2; SL 1982, ch 28, §44; SL 2012, ch 18, §8.

Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

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.

Section 12-13-9.1 - Availability of attorney general's explanation of proposed questions.

Section 12-13-9.2 - Action to challenge adequacy of attorney general's statement--Appeal--Time limits.

Section 12-13-11 - Materials printed on ballot in lieu of full text--Separate ballot.

Section 12-13-16 - Publication of false or erroneous information on constitutional amendment or submitted question as misdemeanor.

Section 12-13-23 - Distribution of public information.

Section 12-13-24 - Style, form, and wording of initiative or initiated amendment.

Section 12-13-25 - Review and comment--Legislative Research Council--Opinion.

Section 12-13-25.1 - Attorney general's statement--Initiated measure--Initiated amendment.

Section 12-13-25.2 - Exception to time for director's comments.

Section 12-13-26 - Unreviewed initiatives or initiated amendments unacceptable--Uncertified initiated amendments unacceptable.

Section 12-13-26.1 - Initiated amendment--Written certification by secretary of state--Resubmission.

Section 12-13-26.2 - Action to challenge the secretary of state's decision--Time limits--Promulgation of rules.

Section 12-13-27 - Special elections for constitutional amendments--Procedural changes--Reimbursement of costs.

Section 12-13-28 - Employment and compensation of petition circulators.