If sixty percent or more of the votes cast at the referendum are in favor of the formation of the watershed district, then the conservation district supervisors shall proceed in its organization. If the proposition to form a watershed district is defeated at the referendum, the proposition may again be proposed in the same manner as the original proposal through initiating petition and subsequent procedure.

Source: SL 1957, ch 492, § 11; SL 1959, ch 452, § 9; SDC Supp 1960, § 61.1511; SDCL § 46-24-26; SL 2013, ch 228, § 21.