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2006 South Dakota Code - 43-31-2 — Homestead limited to house or mobile home and appurtenant buildings--Businessplace--Minimum size of mobile home.
43-31-2. Homestead limited to house or mobile home and appurtenant buildings--Business place--Minimum size of mobile home. The homestead must embrace the house used as a home by the owner thereof, being either, real property or a mobile home as hereinafter defined, and if he or she has two or more houses or mobile homes thus used at different times and places, such owner may select which he or she will retain as a homestead. It must not
embrace more than one dwelling house or any other buildings except
such as are properly appurtenant to the homestead as such; but a
shop, store, or other building situated on real property and really
used or occupied by the owner in the prosecution of his own
ordinary business may be deemed appurtenant to such
homestead.
Mobile homes
shall include any vehicle without motive power which can provide
adequate, comfortable, all season quarters for the purpose of
making a residence thereof and which vehicle is larger than two
hundred forty square feet, measuring at the base thereof. Such
mobile home must be registered in South Dakota at least six months
prior to the claim of exemption.
Source: SL 1874-5, ch 37, §§ 6, 9; PolC 1877, ch 38, §§ 6, 9; CL 1887, §§ 2454, 2457; RPolC 1903, §§ 3222, 3225; RC 1919, §§ 456, 457; SDC 1939, § 51.1708; SL 1972, ch 233, § 6.
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