7-9-7.4. Original signatures required for recording paper document--Financing statements--Exhibits.
Unless otherwise provided by law, a paper document that is to be recorded or filed in the register of deeds' records as provided in this section or other applicable law shall contain the original signatures of the parties who execute the document and if required to be acknowledged or further proven, original signatures of the notary public, witnesses or other officer taking an acknowledgment. However, any financing statement filed and recorded pursuant to chapter 57A-9 does not need to contain:
(1)The signatures of the debtor or the secured party; or
(2)An acknowledgment.
No original signature may be required if the document is attached as an exhibit to an affidavit or other document that has an original signature that is acknowledged, sworn to with a proper jurat, or proved according to law.
Source: SL 2014, ch 47, §13.
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 7-9-7.4 - Original signatures required for recording paper document--Financing statements--Exhibits.
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.