2-1-10. Verification of petition circulator--Violation as misdemeanor.
Before filing a petition to initiate an amendment to the Constitution, initiated measure, or referred law with the officer in whose office the petition is required to be filed, each petition circulator shall sign a verification attesting that the circulator personally circulated the petition and is not attesting to any signature obtained by any other person, that the petition circulator is a resident of South Dakota, that the circulator made reasonable inquiry and, to the best of the circulator's knowledge, each person signing the petition is a qualified voter of the state in the county indicated on the signature line and that no state statute regarding the circulation of petitions was knowingly violated. The State Board of Elections shall prescribe the form for the verification. The circulator's signature on the verification shall be witnessed and notarized by a notary public commissioned in South Dakota or other officer authorized to administer oaths pursuant to §18-3-1. Any person who falsely attests to the verification under this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SDC 1939, §55.0405; SL 1957, ch 278, §4; SL 1974, ch 22; SL 1976, ch 105, §79; SL 1989, ch 23, §4; SL 2000, ch 19, §1; SL 2007, ch 15, §1; SL 2010, ch 74, §1; SL 2018, ch 22, §8.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 2 - Legislature and Statutes
Chapter 01 - Initiative And Referendum
Section 2-1-1 - Initiative petitions--Number of signatures required.
Section 2-1-1.1 - Initiated constitutional amendment--Petition--Contents--Signatures and filing.
Section 2-1-1.2 - Initiated measure--Petition--Contents--Signatures and filing.
Section 2-1-1.3 - Definitions.
Section 2-1-1.6 - Paid circulators--Directory.
Section 2-1-1.7 - Registration fees.
Section 2-1-1.8 - Identification number and badge.
Section 2-1-1.9 - Paid circulator badge--Requirement--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 2-1-2.2 - Withdrawal of initiated constitutional amendment.
Section 2-1-2.3 - Withdrawal of initiated measure.
Section 2-1-3 - Referendum--Laws subject to petition--Form.
Section 2-1-3.1 - Referred law--Petition--Contents--Signatures and filing.
Section 2-1-3.2 - Withdrawal of petition for referred law.
Section 2-1-5 - Total vote used to determine number of signers required in petitions.
Section 2-1-6 - Persons qualified to sign petitions--False or unqualified signing as misdemeanor.
Section 2-1-7 - Petitions to be signed in person.
Section 2-1-9 - Separate papers constituting single petition.
Section 2-1-10 - Verification of petition circulator--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 2-1-11 - Petitions liberally construed.
Section 2-1-11.1 - Initiated measure to embrace only one subject.
Section 2-1-12 - Effective date of measures approved by voters.
Section 2-1-14 - Signatures secured contrary to law not to be counted.
Section 2-1-16 - Signatures to be verified by random sampling--Methodology.
Section 2-1-17 - Certification of results of random sampling--Notification of petition sponsors.
Section 2-1-17.1 - Submission of affidavit challenging petition to secretary of state--Appeal.
Section 2-1-18 - Court challenge to petition.
Section 2-1-21 - Violations by petition sponsor or circulator--Four-year prohibition--Civil penalty.