S.D. Codified Laws § 7-3-21
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County commissioners' certificate of completion of transcriptions--Recording of instruments before certificate filed
Official statutory text
It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of such newly organized county, as soon as the work of transcribing the records of the original county shall have been completed, to file a certificate to that effect with the auditor of such newly organized county and, until such certificate shall have been filed, any and all instruments or matters of record filed or recorded in the original county pertaining to property rights or interests in such newly organized county shall be deemed constructive notice to all purchasers or encumbrancers the same as though such instruments or matters of record had already been transcribed.
Source: SL 1915, ch 132, § 4; RC 1919, § 5784; SDC 1939, § 12.0413.
Source: SL 1915, ch 132, § 4; RC 1919, § 5784; SDC 1939, § 12.0413.
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