{"data":{"id":"us-sd/sdcl-7-16-31","jurisdiction":"us-sd","citation":"SDCL § 7-16-31","heading":"Residency requirements for state's attorney in counties with low population.","body":"In any county with a population of less than five thousand persons, no state's attorney is disqualified from holding office for failure to be a resident of that county if the state's attorney is a resident of a county which is contiguous to the county in which the state's attorney holds such office.","path":["TITLE 7. COUNTIES","CHAPTER 7-16. STATE'S ATTORNEY"],"source_url":"https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/7-16-31","current_through":"2026-08-31","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:18:56Z","sha256":"77c842f721bea923585813752fb15abf6508ec9b04f88f2854e61f491d51545e","source_id":"us-sd","stale":true,"prev":"us-sd/sdcl-7-16-30","next":"us-sd/sdcl-7-16a-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}