10-25-44. Limitation of proceedings to contest tax deed--Defenses in action by tax-deed grantee.
No action may be commenced by the former owner or by any person claiming under him or her, to recover possession of any real property which has been sold and conveyed by deed for nonpayment of taxes or to avoid the deed, unless action is commenced within one hundred eighty days after the recording of the deed. No defense may be interposed or maintained by the former owner, or by any person claiming under him or her, in any action brought to quiet the title in the grantee in any tax deed, or by any person claiming under the grantee, in any tax deed issued and delivered by any treasurer unless the defense is interposed within one hundred eighty days after the recording of the tax deed in the office of the register of deeds in which the real property described in the tax deed is located.
Source: SL 1901, ch 56, §1; RPolC 1903, §2214; SL 1903, ch 70; RC 1919, §6825; SDC 1939, §57.0903; SL 1941, ch 337; SL 1983, ch 77; SL 1993, ch 91; SL 2018, ch 63, §156.
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.