7-9-14. Replacement of unusable indexes--Completion of incomplete indexes--Admissibility in evidence.
In any county where the register of deeds shall have failed to make or keep proper indexes of the records of that office which by the laws of this state are required to be made or kept, or, where deterioration or destruction from any cause any such indexes become unusable or likely to become unusable by reason of continued use, the board of county commissioners shall have authority to cause such indexes to be made or copied, or cause any incompleted indexes to be completed from the records of that office and may employ competent persons for such purposes.
Such indexes when so made, or copied, or completed and when approved by the board of county commissioners shall be received and admitted in evidence in any court of competent jurisdiction in the same manner as if they had been made and kept as heretofore required by law. Any such indexes which have been heretofore so made, or copied, or completed and approved shall likewise be admissible in evidence.
Source: SL 1937, ch 82; SDC 1939, ยง12.0706; SL 1955, ch 18.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 09 - Register Of Deeds
Section 7-9-1 - Duty to keep records of instruments--Destruction of unneeded records.
Section 7-9-1.1 - Recording, filing, and indexing of records by microfilming or computerization.
Section 7-9-2 - Seal of office--Use on instruments.
Section 7-9-3 - Time of recording.
Section 7-9-4 - Special townsite deed record required.
Section 7-9-5 - Conveyances of platted land not accepted until plat recorded.
Section 7-9-7.1 - Report of information in recorded instruments.
Section 7-9-7.2 - Certificate of value--Form.
Section 7-9-7.3 - State exempt from filing certificate of value.
Section 7-9-8 - Numerical indexes of instruments affecting real property--Form.
Section 7-9-8.1 - Endorsement of date, time, and identifying number--Entry in indexes.
Section 7-9-9 - Alphabetical indexes of instruments affecting real property.
Section 7-9-10 - Monthly report to tax officials of real estate transfers.
Section 7-9-11 - Numbering and alphabetical index of instruments relating to personal property.
Section 7-9-12 - Form of personal property index.
Section 7-9-13 - Continued use of previously authorized register index.
Section 7-9-13.1 - Release of old age assistance liens.
Section 7-9-15 - Fees--Real estate documents to conform to format standards--Exception.
Section 7-9-15.1 - Immunity from personal liability for bad checks.
Section 7-9-16 - Reception record and fee book maintained by register--Entries in record.
Section 7-9-18 - Failure by register to collect, record, report or pay over fees as theft.
Section 7-9-19 - Refusal to record.
Section 7-9-20 - Court action for refusal to record.
Section 7-9-21 - Liability of register for refusal to record.
Section 7-9-22 - Suspicion of counterfeit recorded documents--Notice.
Section 7-9-24 - Electronic preservation of documents.
Section 7-9-25 - County register of deeds modernization and preservation relief fund.