5-24-12. Acceptance of gifts to state--Actions for recovery.
Whenever any grant, devise, bequest, donation, or gift, or assignment of money, or chose in action, of any property, real or personal, is made to this state, the Governor shall receive the gift, the title thereto shall pass to the state, and the state may, if necessary, commence proceedings for the recovery of such property. However, if such gift is subject to any preexisting condition or contractual obligation, the Governor shall receive it only after determining that it is the best interest of the state to do so. A gift may be received subject to a preexisting condition or contractual obligation which it would be otherwise illegal to impose on state property if the property were already in the possession of the state.
Source: SDC 1939, §55.1102; SL 1949, ch 216; SL 1977, ch 54, §7; SL 1996, ch 46.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 5 - Public Property, Purchases and Contracts
Chapter 24 - Receipt, Care And Accounting For Public Property
Section 5-24-1 - Annual inventory of personal property required of local officers and employees.
Section 5-24-1.1 - Inventory of state personal property required.
Section 5-24-2 - Cost or value to be shown in inventory--Filing.
Section 5-24-3 - Place of filing of duplicate inventories.
Section 5-24-4 - Purchased property to be noted in inventory report.
Section 5-24-5 - Lost or destroyed property to be noted in inventory--Date and circumstances shown.
Section 5-24-6 - Civil liability of officer for failure to account for property.
Section 5-24-7 - Delivery of public property to successor in office--Receipt.
Section 5-24-8 - Failure to account for public property as misdemeanor.
Section 5-24-12 - Acceptance of gifts to state--Actions for recovery.
Section 5-24-13 - Acceptance and distribution of federal surplus property--Records.
Section 5-24-14 - Property management internal service fund.
Section 5-24-15 - Transfer of property from Homestake Mining Company authorized.