18-4-25. False certification of acknowledgment or proof as forgery.
If any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment or proof of any conveyance of real property or of any other instrument which by law may be recorded, knowingly and falsely certifies that any such conveyance or instrument was acknowledged by any party thereto or was proved by any subscribing witness, when in truth such conveyance or instrument was not acknowledged or proved as certified, he is guilty of forgery.
Source: PenC 1877, §553; CL 1887, §6754; RPenC 1903, §579; RC 1919, §4184; SDC 1939, §13.4113.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 18 - Oaths and Acknowledgments
Chapter 04 - Acknowledgment And Proof Of Instruments
Section 18-4-1 - Officers authorized to take proof or acknowledgment within state.
Section 18-4-7 - Authentication of military certificate not required--Form of certificate attached.
Section 18-4-8 - Acknowledgments taken by military officers before 1943.
Section 18-4-9 - Uniformity of interpretation of military provisions.
Section 18-4-10 - Identity of person making acknowledgment to be known or proved to officer.
Section 18-4-11 - Certificate of officer taking acknowledgment to be attached.
Section 18-4-12 - Form of general certificate of acknowledgment.
Section 18-4-13 - Form of certificate of corporate acknowledgment.
Section 18-4-14 - Form of certificate of acknowledgment by attorney.
Section 18-4-15 - Form of certificate of acknowledgment by deputy sheriff.
Section 18-4-16 - Fees chargeable for acknowledgments--Violation as petty offense.
Section 18-4-17 - Means of proving instrument not acknowledged.
Section 18-4-18 - Proof of instrument by subscribing witness.
Section 18-4-19 - Circumstances permitting proof of instrument by handwriting.
Section 18-4-20 - Facts to be established for proof by handwriting.
Section 18-4-21 - Powers of officers authorized to take proof of instruments.
Section 18-4-22 - Contents of certificate of officer taking proof of instrument.
Section 18-4-23 - Authentication of certificates of acknowledgment or proof.
Section 18-4-24 - Clerk's certificate to accompany proof or acknowledgment taken by magistrate.
Section 18-4-25 - False certification of acknowledgment or proof as forgery.
Section 18-4-27 - Prior instruments governed by prior law.
Section 18-4-28 - Validity of conveyances acknowledged or proved under prior law.
Section 18-4-29 - Form--Certificate of acknowledgement--Video communication technology.