9-10-5. Number, election, and terms of office of commissioners in commission-governed municipalities.
In all commission-governed municipalities employing a city manager the number of commissioners shall be nine, whose terms of office shall be three years. At the first election thereof there shall be elected nine commissioners, three to serve until the next annual election, three to serve until the second annual election thereafter, three to serve until the third annual election thereafter, and thereafter at each annual municipal election there shall be elected three commissioners for a term of three years each.
Source: SL 1918, ch 56, §1; RC 1919, §6233; SL 1935, ch 158, §12; SDC 1939, §45.0905; SL 1992, ch 60, §2.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 9 - Municipal Government
Section 9-10-1 - Petition for employment of city manager--Election.
Section 9-10-2 - Waiting period after rejection of city manager proposition by voters.
Section 9-10-3 - Employment of city manager after approval by voters.
Section 9-10-7 - Powers and duties of mayor.
Section 9-10-8 - Regular and special meetings of governing body.
Section 9-10-11 - Removal of city manager from office.
Section 9-10-12 - Absence, disability, or suspension of city manager.
Section 9-10-14 - Bond required of city manager and officers.
Section 9-10-15 - General powers of city manager.
Section 9-10-17 - Solicitation of votes by city manager or appointee as misdemeanor.