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41-2-2. Political affiliations of commissioners--Farmer members--Residence and gross income requirements. Not more than four of the game, fish and parks commissioners may be members of the same political party, and, at the time of their appointment, at least four shall be farmers actually residing on a farm, engaged in agriculture, deriving at least two-thirds of their gross annual incomes from crop or livestock production or both, and interested in wildlife conservation. At the time of their appointment three commissioners shall reside west of the Missouri River and five shall reside east of the Missouri River.

Source: SDC 1939, § 25.0102; SL 1945, ch 91, § 1; SL 1947, ch 116; SL 1949, ch 101; SL 1955, ch 76; SL 1966, ch 67; SL 1969, ch 93; SL 1994, ch 321; SL 2009, ch 206, § 5.