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SDcampowneroper's avatar
May 19, 2018

162 people claim a Rapid City SD Walmart as home address

Americas Mailbox in Box Elder reports 5042 'Residents' Under SDCL 12/1/4 law, these are proper legal residents.
Rapid City Walmarts do not allow overnight parking or camping. So if they never had overnighted or have a payment reciept for camping, how did they successfully claim residency?
Read the reports and article in the Rapid City Journal, in rvdailyreport.com
  • That isn’t the Secretary of State’s opinion of North Dakota law, Nutine. See https://sdsos.gov/elections-voting/voting/register-to-vote/residency-qualification.aspx
  • You have to stay in a local rv park, I belive for three nights, then use Americas Mailbox, or another local mail forwarding service to be a “ legal resident”. Not Walmart

    I cannot find the article you are referring to... can you please post the link. Thanks
  • Your Ms. Krebs quotes this: “For the purposes of this title (Title 12), the term, residence, means the place in which a person has fixed his or her habitation and to which the person, whenever absent, intends to return.”
  • It’s easy to claim anything. “Resdency” is more a state of mind...of declaration. In Florida, for instance: “Residency is the county jurisdiction to which a person mentally intends his or her permanent residency to be and that can be factually supported. Factual evidence that would be supportive of that intent includes but is not limited to, a driver’s license, tax receipts, bills of residency (light, water, garbage service), receipt of mail, homestead property, declaration of domicile, and other activities indicative or normally associated with home life.”

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