10-25-12. Title and possessory right vested by tax deed.
Any deed issued pursuant to this chapter or chapter 10-26 vests in the grantee an absolute estate in fee simple in the real property. However, the real property is subject to any claim that the state may have in the real property for taxes, liens, or encumbrances. The real property is also subject to any lien for past-due installments of special assessments for the financing of municipal improvements levied pursuant to chapter 9-43, including principal and interest on the installments except as provided by §9-43-100. The holder of the deed or the holder's successor in interest is entitled to immediate exclusive possession of the real property described in the deed regardless of rights of any person to redeem or question exclusive possession thereafter.
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 1974, ch 78, §5; SL 2008, ch 37, §66; SL 2009, ch 45, §1; SL 2018, ch 63, §135.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Section 10-25-1 - Period within which tax deed may be procured.
Section 10-25-3 - Persons entitled to notice of intention to take tax deed.
Section 10-25-4 - Additional persons entitled to notice.
Section 10-25-6 - Service on decedent's representative, heirs, or beneficiaries.
Section 10-25-8 - Completion of service by filing of affidavit--Expiration of right of redemption.
Section 10-25-8.1 - Failure to redeem tax certificate.
Section 10-25-9 - Costs added to amount required for redemption.
Section 10-25-10 - Purchase of prior tax certificates required before issuance of deed.
Section 10-25-11 - Preparation and delivery of tax deed--Fee.
Section 10-25-12 - Title and possessory right vested by tax deed.
Section 10-25-13 - Contents of tax deed--Prima facie evidence of regularity of proceedings.
Section 10-25-14 - Tax deed based on private sale.
Section 10-25-19 - Acts constituting commencement and completion of proceedings to procure tax deed.
Section 10-25-20 - Tax deed on real property bid in by county.
Section 10-25-21 - Conveyance to county in lieu of tax deed--Maximum consideration.
Section 10-25-22 - Compromise or abatement of taxes on property conveyed to county.
Section 10-25-23 - Sale or rental of property conveyed in lieu of tax-deed proceedings.
Section 10-25-25 - Procedure in quiet-title action--Bond not required of county.
Section 10-25-27 - Rental of property acquired by county under tax deed--Apportionment of proceeds.