2017 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 10 - TAXATION
Chapter 25 - Tax Deeds
§ 10-25-1 Period within which tax deed may be procured.
10-25-1. Period within which tax deed may be procured. In the case of any real property sold for taxes and not yet redeemed, the owner or holder of the tax certificate may conduct, or cause to be conducted, proceedings to procure a tax deed on the real property, as provided by §§ 10-25-2 to 10-25-12, inclusive. The proceedings shall be initiated no sooner than three years from the date of the tax sale or at any time thereafter within six years from the date of the tax sale subject to the provisions of §§ 10-25-16 to 10-25-19, inclusive. The time period applies equally to the county or any other purchaser of the tax certificate. Any assignee of a tax certificate shall take the certificate subject to the time period of the first owner of the tax certificate.
Source: SL 1897, ch 28, § 132; RPolC 1903, § 2212; SL 1909, ch 194; SL 1911, ch 247; SL 1913, ch 353; SL 1915, ch 291; SL 1917, ch 135; RC 1919, § 6804; SL 1933, ch 198, § 3; SL 1935, ch 195; SL 1937, ch 248; SDC 1939, § 57.1119; SL 1979, ch 74, § 1; SL 1988, ch 100, § 1; SL 2008, ch 37, § 58; SL 2010, ch 53, § 1.
