13-8-3. Petition or school board resolution for election to increase size of district board, establish, or discontinue school board representation areas.
The voters of any school district may increase the number of board members to seven or to nine, or establish or discontinue school board representation areas, by a majority vote of all voters voting at an election called and held as hereinafter provided. If a petition signed by ten percent of the registered voters of any school district, based upon the total number of registered voters at the last preceding general election, is presented to the board requesting that an election be called for the purpose of voting upon the question of the change of number of board members, or the establishment or discontinuation of school board representation areas, the board shall call an election. The school board may, by resolution, call for an election for the purpose of voting upon the question of the change of number of board members, or the establishment or discontinuation of school board representation areas. The question shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held not less than forty-five nor more than sixty days from the date of the filing of such petition with the business manager. If such a petition is filed less than one hundred twenty days prior to the next annual election, the question shall be submitted at the annual election. Such election shall be held upon the same notice and conducted in the same manner as provided by chapter 13-7. Any increase or decrease in the number of board members shall be implemented at the next succeeding annual election.
Source: SDC Supp 1960, §15.2302 as added by SL 1965, ch 49, §1; SL 1968, ch 45, §1; SL 1975, ch 128, §44; SL 1983, ch 120, §1; SL 1987, ch 67, §10; SL 1993, ch 125; SL 2002, ch 82, §1; SL 2009, ch 73, §1.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 08 - School Boards And School District Officers
Section 13-8-1 - School board defined.
Section 13-8-2 - Composition and terms of office of school board members.
Section 13-8-5 - Waiting period after election on size of school board.
Section 13-8-10.1 - Associations of school boards--Majority vote for membership--Annual dues.
Section 13-8-14 - Assumption of office by newly elected or appointed members--Oath and bond.
Section 13-8-15 - Filing and administration of oaths.
Section 13-8-16 - Failure of member to qualify.
Section 13-8-18 - Amount of business manager's bond.
Section 13-8-19 - Approval and filing of bonds.
Section 13-8-20 - New or additional bond required.
Section 13-8-21 - Action on bond after default--Taxpayer's action.
Section 13-8-22 - Incumbent continued in office when successor not elected or qualified.
Section 13-8-23 - Events creating vacancy on school board.
Section 13-8-24 - Resignation not effective until successor appointed and qualified.
Section 13-8-25 - Appointment to fill vacancy on school board--Qualification and term of appointee.
Section 13-8-26 - Appointment of committees--Persons authorized to countersign checks and warrants.
Section 13-8-34 - Approval and signing of minutes of school board.
Section 13-8-36.1 - Publication rates paid by school boards.
Section 13-8-37 - Compensation of board members.
Section 13-8-38 - Travel allowance of school board members.
Section 13-8-39 - Management of schools by board--General powers.
Section 13-8-39.2 - Authority to provide day-care for children of enrolled students.
Section 13-8-43 - Records of business manager open to public inspection.
Section 13-8-44 - Destruction, falsification or failure to deliver records as misdemeanor.
Section 13-8-47 - Annual report to department--Contents, filing, and auditing--Past-due reports.
Section 13-8-48 - Forfeiture by officer or employee for failure to make report.
Section 13-8-50 - Before or after school programming for school children--Fee.
Section 13-8-50.1 - Fees deposited into school district's public enterprise fund.
Section 13-8-55 - Membership in associations to enhance state education quality permitted.