Every first or second class municipality shall have power to provide for the taking of the census of the municipality not oftener than once in three years.

Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, § 69; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 69; SL 1913, ch 119, § 53, subdiv 69; RC 1919, § 6170 (14); SDC 1939, § 45.0202 (6); SL 1992, ch 60, § 2.