10-23-8. Offer of tax certificate and receipt of bids--Lowest interest rate as best bid--Maximum interest rate--Fee on redemption of tax certificate.
Before making a sale of a tax certificate, the treasurer shall offer a tax certificate for each separate parcel of real property for sale in the numerical order in which it appears on the tax list and receive bids for the tax certificate. If any person bids the full amount of the taxes, interest, and costs due, stating in the bid the lowest rate of interest per year at which the bidder will pay the taxes assessed and due against the property, the treasurer shall sell and issue to that bidder the tax certificate. In no case may the rate of interest exceed the rate named in the bid. The bid offered on the tax certificate at the lowest rate of interest per year is considered the best bid. No rate of interest higher than ten percent per year is a valid bid pursuant to this section. Upon redemption of a tax certificate that has been sold or assigned to a purchaser other than the county, a fee shall be deducted from the proceeds paid to the holder of the tax certificate. The county commission may, by resolution, establish a fee not to exceed fifty dollars. No property owner may be assessed this additional fee. The fee shall be deposited in the county general fund.
Source: SDC 1939, §57.1103; SL 1983, ch 28, §24; SL 1984, ch 75, §1; SL 1986, ch 95; SL 1988, ch 99; SL 1999, ch 53, §4; SL 2018, ch 63, §85.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 23 - Sale Of Real Property For Taxes And Assessments
Section 10-23-1.1 - Application of assessment procedures.
Section 10-23-2.3 - Publication of information about delinquent taxpayer authorized.
Section 10-23-2.4 - Notice to seller and buyer under contract for deed.
Section 10-23-3 - Contents of notice of sale.
Section 10-23-4 - Combined description of tracts assessed to same person.
Section 10-23-5 - Charge against property for publication--Payment of cost of publication.
Section 10-23-6 - Amounts paid to newspapers for publication of notice of sale.
Section 10-23-9 - New sale on bidder's failure to pay--Civil action against bidder.
Section 10-23-11 - Return of sale to be filed with county auditor--Contents.
Section 10-23-12 - Private sale of tax certificate not sold at public sale--Tax receipt.
Section 10-23-14 - Mistaken or wrongful sale of tax certificate--Refund to purchaser.
Section 10-23-16 - Tax liability after assessment for which property sold with refund to purchaser.
Section 10-23-17 - Apportionment to taxing districts of refunds to purchaser.
Section 10-23-19 - Treasurer's fees--Notation of deed in tax certificate records.
Section 10-23-20 - Tax receipt for property described in tax certificate.
Section 10-23-21 - Assignment of tax certificate--Presentation to and entry by treasurer.
Section 10-23-24 - Bidding off on behalf of county as purchaser at tax sale.
Section 10-23-25 - Tax certificate issued to county--Tax receipt not issued--Interest.
Section 10-23-26 - Readvertising and sale not permitted after acquisition by county.
Section 10-23-29 - Tax sales not invalidated by irregularities.
Section 10-23-32 - Chapter applicable to collection of taxes owed on unreported improvements.
Section 10-23-33 - Sale of tax certificate where electronically transmitted taxes delinquent.