5-9-5. Offer to purchase particular tract--Forfeiture or return of payment.
Any person may file with the commissioner of school and public lands a written offer on any tract, which offer shall be accompanied by a payment of fifty cents for each acre in the tract on which the offer is made. If the tract of land is selected for sale in the year in which the offer is made, the payment, once received, is not refundable and the amount shall be deposited to the credit of the permanent fund of the class of land involved. If the tract is not selected for sale by the commissioner or the Board of Appraisal in the year in which the offer is made, the payment shall be returned to the offeror.
Source: SDC 1939, ยง15.0302 as added by SL 1961, ch 54; SL 1982, ch 52.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 5 - Public Property, Purchases and Contracts
Chapter 09 - Sale Of School And Public Lands
Section 5-9-1 - Selection of school and endowment lands to be sold--Amount sold each year.
Section 5-9-4 - Designation and appraisal of separate tracts for sale--Reappraisal of unsold land.
Section 5-9-5 - Offer to purchase particular tract--Forfeiture or return of payment.
Section 5-9-6 - Publication of notice of land sale--Selection and appraisal to be concurrent.
Section 5-9-7 - Certification and publication of description and appraised price of land offered.
Section 5-9-8 - Commissioner to conduct sales.
Section 5-9-9 - Time and place of sale--Minimum price--Adjournment of sale--Record of sales.
Section 5-9-10 - Terms of installment sale--Interest--Prepayment option.
Section 5-9-11 - Notice to lessee of sale.
Section 5-9-12 - Successful bidder's deposit with commissioner.
Section 5-9-13 - Time of vesting of right or title after sale.
Section 5-9-17 - Return of purchaser's deposit on governor's disapproval of sale.
Section 5-9-24 - Procedure for forfeiture of installment contract--Service of notice.
Section 5-9-25 - Recording of notice of default--Prima facie evidence.
Section 5-9-26 - Reinstatement of contract on compliance by purchaser with conditions of notice.
Section 5-9-27 - Action at law to set aside installment contract in default.
Section 5-9-28 - Taxability of land sold--Notice to county auditor of disapproval of sale.
Section 5-9-30 - Special contract of sale given to tax purchaser after issuance of tax deed.
Section 5-9-33 - Issuance to bankrupt of patent to land set aside as homestead.
Section 5-9-34 - Sale for public purposes of tract not exceeding one hundred sixty acres.
Section 5-9-35 - Conveyance of tract not exceeding one hundred sixty acres--Reversion to state.
Section 5-9-36 - Sale of improvements on school and public lands authorized.
Section 5-9-37 - Appraisal and minimum price of improvements offered for sale--Disapproval of sale.
Section 5-9-38 - Publication of notice of sale of improvements--Private sales of small value.
Section 5-9-39 - Conservation easement for certain state land conveyed to another party.