17-2-1. Notices to be published in legal newspaper--Affidavit of publication--Online notice.
All legal and other official notices must be published in a legal newspaper as described in this chapter. When any legal notice is required by law to be published in any newspaper, the newspaper publishing the notice shall place the notice on a statewide website, established and maintained as a repository for such notices by an organization representing a majority of South Dakota newspapers.
The newspaper shall include a prominent link to the statewide website on the newspaper's website homepage or post all public notices to the newspaper's website in a manner that is accessible and free to the public, if the newspaper maintains a website. The affidavit of publication must state that the newspaper is a legal newspaper. The affidavit is prima facie evidence of that fact. Each affidavit of publication must state in plain terms the fees charged.
Source: SL 1887, ch 51, §3; CL 1887, §1431; SL 1893, ch 114, §2; RPolC 1903, §§1848, 1851; RC 1919, §§7070, 7073; SDC 1939, §65.0507; SL 1949, ch 445, §5; SL 2022, ch 55, §1.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 17 - Notice and Publication
Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice
Section 17-2-2.2 - Price and circulation requirements.
Section 17-2-2.3 - Content requirements.
Section 17-2-2.4 - Office and mailing permit requirements.
Section 17-2-3 - Status as legal newspaper unaffected by consolidation.
Section 17-2-10 - Publication in adjoining county if no legal newspaper published in county.
Section 17-2-16 - Designation of newspaper in which execution notice published.
Section 17-2-17 - Day on which weekly publication made--Interval between publications.
Section 17-2-18 - Weekly publication constituting publication for stated number of days.
Section 17-2-18.2 - Type size required for legal publication.
Section 17-2-19 - Legal publication fees not otherwise prescribed--Review and adjustment.
Section 17-2-20 - Fees chargeable for second and subsequent publications.
Section 17-2-22.1 - Affidavit of printer or publisher admissible in evidence--Prima facie evidence.
Section 17-2-23 - Publication affidavits validated despite discrepancy in name of newspaper.
Section 17-2-26 - Vested rights protected against validating provisions.
Section 17-2-27 - Publication affidavits validated without additional affidavit as to fees.