7-9-6. Tax payment certificate required for recording of plat--County auditor's, state highway, and centrally assessed railroad property plats excepted.
No register of deeds may accept for record or record any plat of any subdivision or rearrangement of any tract of land unless it is accompanied by the certificate of the county treasurer that all taxes which are liens upon the tract so subdivided have been fully paid. This section does not apply to plats of outlots made by the county auditor for purposes of taxation of the property platted. This section does not apply to plats made by the state highway engineer or any registered land surveyor in the employ of the state transportation department, for the purpose of describing rights of way purchased or to be purchased by the state transportation department. This section does not apply to plats made to enable the sale or transfer of centrally assessed railroad property as defined by §10-28-1. This section does not apply to plats made by a municipality describing easements and rights-of-way for municipal utilities.
Source: SL 1913, ch 342, §§1 to 3; RC 1919, §5917; SDC 1939, §12.0710; SL 1941, ch 27; SL 1980, ch 55; SL 1992, ch 53.
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.