7-2-7. Name and county seat of consolidated county.
Any new county formed pursuant to this chapter shall take the name of the senior county and the location receiving the highest number of votes, cast at such election in the two or more counties for the county seat of the consolidated county, shall be the county seat of such new county.
Source: SL 1893, ch 45, §7; RPolC 1903, §781; RC 1919, §5760; SDC 1939, §12.0304.