2013 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 43 - PROPERTY
Chapter 31 - Homestead Exemption
§ 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.