36-13-20. Recitals in certificate of registration--Authority to engage in business--Access to public offices and records.
A certificate issued by the board under the provisions of this chapter shall recite that the bond required by §36-13-15 has been duly filed and approved. Such certificate authorizes the person named in it to engage in and carry on the business of an abstracter of real estate titles in the county in the State of South Dakota in which the person has his or her or its place of business. An abstracter with such a certificate shall, during ordinary business hours, have access to any of the offices of any of the counties of the State of South Dakota and may make such memoranda or notation from the records thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of making such abstracts of title to property in the county in which the abstracter is qualified, and for the purpose of compiling, posting, copying, and keeping up the abstracter's abstract books, indexes, or records.
Source: SDC 1939, §1.0109; SL 2008, ch 195, §25.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 36 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 13 - Abstracters Of Title
Section 36-13-1 - Abstracters' Board of Examiners--Professional members.
Section 36-13-1.1 - Lay member of board.
Section 36-13-1.2 - Definition of terms.
Section 36-13-1.3 - Chain of title defined.
Section 36-13-2 - Election of officers--Bond required of secretary-treasurer.
Section 36-13-2.1 - Board continued within Department of Labor and Regulation--Records and reports.
Section 36-13-4 - Records and accounts of board--Inspection.
Section 36-13-6 - Enforcement of chapter by board--Seal.
Section 36-13-6.1 - Promulgation of rules.
Section 36-13-7 - Subpoena power of board officers--Administration of oaths--Depositions.
Section 36-13-8 - Certificate of registration required for business of abstracting.
Section 36-13-9 - Unauthorized business prohibited--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 36-13-9.1 - Injunctions--Election of remedies.
Section 36-13-10 - Title plant required to engage in business.
Section 36-13-11 - Application for certificate of registration--Examination--Fees.
Section 36-13-11.1 - Criminal background investigation of applicants.
Section 36-13-12 - Scope of examination for certificate of registration.
Section 36-13-13 - Separate applications and examinations for different counties.
Section 36-13-15 - Bond required for certificate of registration--Amount and conditions.
Section 36-13-17 - Filing and registration of bond.
Section 36-13-18 - Additional bond required for certificate--Insufficient bond.
Section 36-13-19 - Parties to action on abstracter's bond.
Section 36-13-21.1 - Inspection costs collected from applicant.
Section 36-13-22 - Temporary certificate to engage in business.
Section 36-13-23 - Register of applicants and certificates.
Section 36-13-24 - Seal of abstracter--Impression deposited with board--Affixing to abstracts.
Section 36-13-26 - Certified abstract as prima facie evidence in judicial proceedings.
Section 36-13-26.1 - Abstracter's countersignature on title policy.
Section 36-13-27 - Destroyed public records replaced from abstracter's records--Expense.
Section 36-13-28 - Suspension or revocation of certificate of registration.