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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 32 MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 03. Title Registration, Liens And Transfers
§32-3-6 Ownership passing by operation of law--Burden of proof.
SD Codified L § 32-3-6 (through 2011) What's This?
32-3-6. Ownership passing by operation of law--Burden of proof. If the ownership of any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer passes by operation of law, judicial sale, repossession, or proceedings or in any other manner not provided for in this chapter, the owner may, upon furnishing satisfactory proof to the department of such ownership, procure a certificate of title to the motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer regardless of whether a certificate of title has ever been issued. The burden of such satisfactory proof shall be on the applicant.
Source: SDC 1939, § 44.0203 (2) as added by SL 1951, ch 229, § 3; SL 1965, ch 186, § 3; SL 1989, ch 257, § 10.
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