Section 10-23-12 - Private sale of property not sold at public sale--Certificate of sale--Tax receipts. - South Dakota Statutes

10-23-12. Private sale of property not sold at public sale--Certificate of sale--Tax receipts. After the tax sale shall have been closed, and after the treasurer has made his return thereto to the county auditor, if any real property remains unsold for want of bidders, the treasurer is authorized and required to sell the same at private sale at his office to any person who will pay the amount of taxes, penalty, and costs thereon for the same, and to deliver to purchasers a certificate as provided by law and to make out duplicate receipts for the taxes on such real estate, and deliver one to the purchaser and the other to the county auditor as in this title provided, with the additional statement inserted in the certificate that such real property has been offered at public sale for taxes but not sold for want of bidders, and in which certificate he is required to write "sold for taxes at private sale." The treasurer is further authorized and required to sell as aforesaid all real property in his county in which taxes remain unpaid and delinquent for any previous year or years.

Source: SL 1897, ch 28, § 122; RPolC 1903, § 2201; RC 1919, § 6792; SDC 1939, § 57.1105.