Chapter 9 - 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 7-9-6 - Tax payment certificate required for recording of plat-County auditor's, state highway, and centrally assessed railroad property plats excepted
- Section 7-9-7 - Names, addresses, and descriptions required in recorded instruments-Certificate of value
- 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 - [Effective Until 7/1/2024] Original signatures required for recording paper document-Financing statements-Exhibits
- Section 7-9-7.4 - [Effective 7/1/2024] 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 7-9-14 - Replacement of unusable indexes-Completion of incomplete indexes-Admissibility in evidence
- 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 7-9-17 - Deposit of fees and other collections received-Charging on account-Record of accounts receivable
- 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 7-9-23 - [Repealed]
- Section 7-9-24 - Electronic preservation of documents
- Section 7-9-25 - County register of deeds modernization and preservation relief fund
- Section 7-9-26 - Fees deposited into fund-Distribution
- Section 7-9-27 - Duty of the county governing body to fund register of deeds-Gifts, grants, contributions, and funds from other sources
- Section 7-9-28 - South Dakota association of county officials register of deeds modernization and preservation relief fund
- Section 7-9-29 - Fiscal year of fund-Computation of each county's share of deposits-Division of money in fund-Administrative fee