Ballot Questions Tex and
Explanations - Amendment D
Title:
An amendment to section 3 of Article III of the Constitution of the state of
South Dakota, relating to the qualifications for legislative office.
Explanation:
The Constitution now requires a citizen to be 25 years old before (s)he can
become a state legislator.
- A vote "YES" will lower the minimum age to 18 for citizens to hold the
office of State Senator or State Representative.
- A vote "NO" will leave the minimum age for state legislators at 25
years.
Full Text of Constitutional Amendment D:
That Article III, section 3 of the Constitution of the state of South
Dakota be amended to read as follows:
3. No person is eligible to the office of senator who is not a qualified
elector in the district from which such person is chosen, a citizen of the
United States, and who has not been a resident of the state for two years next
preceding election.
No person is eligible to the office of representative who is not a qualified
elector in the district from which such person is chosen, a citizen of the
United States, and who has not been a resident of the state for two years next
preceding election.
No judge or clerk of any court, secretary of state, attorney general, state's
attorney, recorder, sheriff or collector of public moneys, member of either
house of Congress, or person holding any lucrative office under the United
States, or this state, or any foreign government, shall be a member of the
Legislature: provided, that appointments in the militia, the offices of notary
public and justice of the peace shall not be considered lucrative; nor shall any
person holding any office of honor or profit under any foreign government or
under the government of the United States, except postmasters whose annual
compensation does not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars, hold any office
in either branch of the Legislature or become a member thereof.
