2021 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 11 - Planning, Zoning and Housing Programs
Chapter 03 - Platting Of Townsites, Additions And Subdivisions
Section 11-3-19 - Validation of prior vacations by instrument--Deadline for enforcing rights--Notice of pendency.

11-3-19. Validation of prior vacations by instrument--Deadline for enforcing rights--Notice of pendency.

Any proceedings conducted before January 1, 1993, for the vacation of any plat, or any portion or part thereof, which plat was laid out pursuant to this chapter, whether the land included in the plat, or any portion or part thereof, is or was, at the time of the proceedings for vacation of the plat, or any portion or part thereof, within or without the boundaries of a municipality or improvement district, and which plat, or any portion or part thereof has, before January 1, 1993, in the proceedings, been vacated in accordance with §11-3-16 or 11-3-17 is hereby declared to be, and to have been, a valid vacation of the plat, or any portion or part thereof, and the proprietors of the lots so vacated may inclose the streets, alleyways, common easements, and public grounds adjoining such vacated lots, and all public rights thereto divested.

If any person has any vested right in any property by reason of any plat vacation referred to in this section, if no action or proceeding to enforce such right was commenced prior to July 1, 1995, such right shall be forever barred. No action or proceeding so brought is of any force or effect, or maintainable in any court of this state, unless prior to July 1, 1995, there was 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 such action, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 15-10.

Source: SL 1964, ch 230, §1; SL 1980, ch 109; SL 1993, ch 106, §3.