Section 18-4-5 - Officers authorized to take proof or acknowledgment in foreign countries. - South Dakota Statutes

18-4-5. Officers authorized to take proof or acknowledgment in foreign countries. The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be made without the United States, before either:
(1) An ambassador, a minister, commissioner, or charge d'affaires of the United States, resident and accredited in the country where the proof or acknowledgment is made;
(2) A consul, vice consul, or consular agent of the United States, resident in the country where the proof or acknowledgment is made;
(3) A judge, clerk, register, or commissioner of a court of record of the country where the proof or acknowledgment is made;
(4) A notary public of such country;
(5) An officer authorized by the laws of the country where the proof of acknowledgment is taken to take proof or acknowledgment; or
(6) When any of the officers mentioned in this chapter are authorized to appoint a deputy, the acknowledgment or proof may be taken before such deputy.
All proofs or acknowledgments heretofore taken according to the provisions of this section are hereby declared to be sufficiently authenticated and to be entitled to record, and any such record hereafter made shall be notice of the contents of the instrument so recorded.

Source: CivC 1877, § 658; CL 1887, § 3280; RCivC 1903, § 973; SL 1907, ch 3; RC 1919, § 579; SDC 1939, § 51.1608.