The petition may contain any number of separate instruments, and to each sheet for petitioners’ signatures shall be attached a full and correct copy of the petition. Every sheet of every such petition containing signatures shall have upon it and below the signatures an affidavit by the circulator in substantially the following form:

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 46A-9-10

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

State of South Dakota,

County of ________ ss.

________, being first duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is the circulator of the foregoing petition containing ________ signatures; that each person whose name appears on said petition sheet personally signed said petition in the presence of affiant; that he believes that each of said signers is an owner or entryman of the land described opposite his signature, to be included within the proposed water user district, and residing at the address written opposite his name, and that affiant stated to every petitioner before he affixed his signature the legal effect and nature of said petition.

________________________________

Circulator

Subscribed and sworn to before me this ________ day of ________, 19____.

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Notary Public

Source: SL 1939, ch 291, § 4; SL 1943, ch 310; SDC Supp 1960, § 61.1304 (1); SDCL, § 46-16-10.

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