9-6-3. Show cause order to municipality on petition for dissolution--Service.
Upon the filing of a petition as provided in §§9-6-1 and 9-6-2 the circuit court shall issue an order to the municipality, returnable in not less than ten nor more than thirty days, to show cause why the petition should not be granted. Such order shall be served in the same manner as summonses in civil action against municipalities not less than ten nor more than thirty days before the return date thereof.
Source: SL 1903, ch 91, §2; RC 1919, §6567; SDC 1939, §45.3003.