2011 South Dakota Code
Title 13 EDUCATION
Chapter 21. Disposal Of School District Property
§13-21-8 Validation of prior conveyances of school district real property--Assertion of vested rights.

13-21-8. Validation of prior conveyances of school district real property--Assertion of vested rights. All instruments of conveyance of real property made by any school district prior to January 1, 1992, are, notwithstanding any omission, irregularities, or defects in the proceedings and resolutions had and taken by the school district to sell and convey real property, hereby validated, legalized, and cured to the extent that the conveyance operates to convey to the person named as grantee in the instruments of conveyance, all of the right, title, and interest of the school district in the real property.

If any person had any vested right in any real property so conveyed and no action or proceeding to enforce the right was begun before July 1, 1993, the right is forever barred and no action or proceeding so brought is of any force or effect, or maintainable in any court of this state, unless, before July 1, 1993, there is recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the real property affected is situated, a notice of the pendency of the action, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 15-10.

Source: SL 1963, ch 472, §§ 1, 2; SL 1971, ch 113, § 1; SL 1977, ch 115, § 2; SL 1980, ch 131, § 2; SL 1983, ch 128, § 3; SL 1984, ch 117; SL 1985, ch 128; SL 1988, ch 139, § 2; SL 1992, ch 307, § 4.