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SD Codified L § 17-1-4 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 01 - Actual and Constructive Notice|Section 17-1-4 - Circumstances constituting constructive notice.

17-1-4. Circumstances constituting constructive notice.Every person who has actual notice of circumstances sufficient to put a prudent man upon inquiry as to a particular fact, and who omits to make such inquiry with reasonable diligence, is deemed to have constructive notice of the fact itself. Source: CivC 1877, §2109; CL 1887, §4743; RCivC 1903, §2452; RC 1919, §15; SDC 1939, §65.0504.
SD Codified L § 17-1-5 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 01 - Actual and Constructive Notice|Section 17-1-5 - False notice not validated by event.

17-1-5. False notice not validated by event.A notice which is false when given is not valid by the subsequent happening of the event. Source: CivC 1877, §2110; CL 1887, §4744; RCivC 1903, §2453; RC 1919, §16; SDC 1939, §65.0505.
SD Codified L § 17-2-1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-1 - Notices to be published in legal newspaper--Affidavit of publication.

17-2-1. Notices to be published in legal newspaper--Affidavit of publication.All legal and other official notices shall be published in a legal newspaper as defined in this chapter, and the affidavit of publication shall state that such newspaper is a legal newspaper, which affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of that fact; and every affidavit of publication shall state in plain terms the fees charged thereon. Source: SL 1887, ch 51, §3; CL 1887, §1431; SL 1893, ch 114, §2; RPolC 1903, §§1848, 1851; RC 1919, §§7070, 7073; SDC 1939, §65.0507; SL 1949, ch 445, §5.
SD Codified L § 17-2-2.1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-2.1 - Requirements for legal newspaper--Language--Size--Duration and frequency of publication.

17-2-2.1. Requirements for legal newspaper--Language--Size--Duration and frequency of publication.No publication is a legal newspaper for publishing legal and other official notices unless, for at least one year prior to publication of such notices, the publication is printed in the English language and contains at least four pages per issue, with at least one hundred twenty square inches of printed matter per page; and if the publication is a daily, is distributed at least five days each week, or if not a daily, is distributed at least once each week for at least fifty weeks each year. In any week in which there is a legal holiday, no more than four issues of a daily newspaper are necessary. Source: SL 1985, ch 165, §2.
SD Codified L § 17-2-2.2 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-2.2 - Price and circulation requirements.

17-2-2.2. Price and circulation requirements.A legal newspaper shall, for at least one year prior to publication of legal and official notices, maintain a definite price of not less than fifty percent of its published price, and shall be paid for by no less than fifty percent of those to whom it is distributed. Such legal newspaper shall have a minimum paid circulation of at least two hundred and be intended for distribution and circulation to the general public, without regard to business, trade, or profession. Source: SL 1985, ch 165, §3.
SD Codified L § 17-2-2.3 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-2.3 - Content requirements.

17-2-2.3. Content requirements.A legal newspaper shall contain reports of happenings of recent occurrences of a varied nature, such as political, social, moral, and religious subjects and miscellaneous reading matter, and for at least one year prior to publication of legal and official notices devote at least twenty-five percent of its total column space in at least one-half of its issues in any calendar year to such nonpaid news content. No more than eighty percent of the space devoted to such news content may duplicate any other publication, unless the duplicated material is from recognized general news services. Source: SL 1985, ch 165, §4.
SD Codified L § 17-2-2.4 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-2.4 - Office and mailing permit requirements.

17-2-2.4. Office and mailing permit requirements.A legal newspaper shall, for at least one year prior to publication of legal and official notices, maintain a known office of publication in the community where its mailing permit of original entry is issued, for the purpose of gathering news, soliciting advertising, and conducting general newspaper business. The terms "printed" or "published" mean that the newspaper is published where it maintains its known office of publication as described in this section, but no newspaper may have more than one place where it is published at the same time. Source: SL 1985, ch 165, §5.
SD Codified L § 17-2-2.5 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-2.5 - Ownership and circulation statements--Involuntary suspension of publication--Existing legal newspapers.

17-2-2.5. Ownership and circulation statements--Involuntary suspension of publication--Existing legal newspapers.In order to maintain legal newspaper status, the newspaper shall publish and submit to the secretary of state before January first of each year a sworn statement of ownership and circulation on forms prescribed by the secretary of state. Continuous publication within the meaning of this section and §§17-2-2.1 to 17-2-2.4, inclusive, is not deemed to be interrupted by any involuntary suspension of publication resulting from loss, destruction, failure, or unavailability of operating facilities, equipment, or personnel from any cause, and any newspaper so affected is not disqualified as a legal newspaper if publication is resumed within one week after it again becomes possible. This section and §§17-2-2.1 to 17-2-2.4, inclusive, do not disqualify as a legal newspaper any publication which, prior to January 1, 1985, was a legal newspaper, so long as it continues to meet the requirements under which it previously qualified. Source: SL 1985, ch 165, §6.
SD Codified L § 17-2-3 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-3 - Status as legal newspaper unaffected by consolidation.

17-2-3. Status as legal newspaper unaffected by consolidation.The consolidation or union of any two or more newspapers, any or all of which were before such consolidation legal newspapers as defined in §17-2-2.1, does not affect the legality of the newspaper formed by the consolidation. The consolidated newspaper shall be deemed to have complied with the requirements prescribed for a legal newspaper and to be a legal newspaper as defined in §17-2-2.1. Source: SL 1895, ch 131; RPolC 1903, §1850; RC 1919, §7069; SL 1919, ch 250; SL 1937, ch 185; SDC 1939, §65.0508; SL 1939, ch 298; SL 1943, ch 318; SL 1968, ch 271; SL 1987, ch 29, §8.
SD Codified L § 17-2-10 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-10 - Publication in adjoining county if no legal newspaper published in county.

17-2-10. Publication in adjoining county if no legal newspaper published in county.Whenever publication of any kind of order or notice is required in a newspaper in a county and there is no legal newspaper published in such county at the time publication begins, and there is no specific provision as to how such publication shall in that event be made, it shall be sufficient if the publication is made in a newspaper published in an adjoining county. Source: SL 1893, ch 114, §3; RPolC 1903, §1852; RC 1919, §7071; SDC 1939, §65.0509.
SD Codified L § 17-2-11 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-11 - Publication in county or nearest adjoining county if no legal newspaper published in municipality or district.

17-2-11. Publication in county or nearest adjoining county if no legal newspaper published in municipality or district.Whenever publication of any kind of order or notice is required in a newspaper in any municipality, or other district in a county and there is no legal newspaper published in such municipality, or district and there is no specific provision as to how such publication shall in that event be made, it shall be sufficient if the publication is made in any newspaper published in the county where the municipality, or district is situated, and if none is published in the county, then in any newspaper of the adjoining county, any part of the boundary line of which is nearest said municipality, or district, and if more than one county is equidistant by boundary, then in any of said counties. Source: SL 1893, ch 114, §3; RPolC 1903, §1852; RC 1919, §7071; SDC 1939, §65.0509; SL 1992, ch 60, §2.
SD Codified L § 17-2-12 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-12 - Publication in existing legal newspapers if not enough legal newspapers published in county.

17-2-12. Publication in existing legal newspapers if not enough legal newspapers published in county.Where publication is required in more than one newspaper in any municipality, county, or other district, and the required number of legal newspapers are not being published in such municipality, county, or other district at the time publication begins, publication in such newspaper or newspapers, as are actually being published in such municipality, county, or other district at the time publication begins, shall be sufficient. Source: SDC 1939, §65.0509; SL 1992, ch 60, §2.
SD Codified L § 17-2-13 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-13 - Substitute publication where legal newspaper refuses publication--Affidavit of refusal.

17-2-13. Substitute publication where legal newspaper refuses publication--Affidavit of refusal.Whenever publication is required in any legal newspaper and the editor of such newspaper shall refuse to make the publication for any reason other than nonpayment of his fee for the same, it shall then be sufficient legal notice by publication to publish such notice in any other legal newspaper which would be qualified for publication of such notice under §§17-2-10 to 17-2-12, inclusive, in the event the newspaper refusing to publish such notice did not exist, or to give such notice in any legal manner available if no newspaper is then qualified to publish the same. The affidavit of any disinterested person that he presented such notice to the editor or foreman of such newspaper with request for publication and that publication was refused and stating the reason why such publication was refused if any was given, shall be attached to the proof of giving the notice as finally given and shall be prima facie evidence of its contents and the rights of any such person thereafter relying on the same in good faith, shall not be prejudiced by any claim that such publication was not in fact refused. Source: SDC 1939, §65.0509.
SD Codified L § 17-2-16 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-16 - Designation of newspaper in which execution notice published.

17-2-16. Designation of newspaper in which execution notice published.In all cases of publications of notices in connection with sales upon an execution, the plaintiff may designate the newspaper, published within the county, in which such notice shall be published. Source: SL 1887, ch 51, §1; CL 1887, §1430; SL 1891, ch 66; RPolC 1903, §1847; RC 1919, §7072; SL 1929, ch 203; SL 1937, ch 183; SDC 1939, §65.0512; SL 1939, ch 299; SL 1945, ch 357; SL 1957, ch 500.
SD Codified L § 17-2-17 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-17 - Day on which weekly publication made--Interval between publications.

17-2-17. Day on which weekly publication made--Interval between publications.Whenever in any act or statute providing for the publishing of notices, the phrase "successive weeks," "weeks successively," "consecutive weeks," or "weeks consecutively" is used, the term weeks shall be construed to mean calendar weeks, and the publication upon any day in such weeks shall be sufficient publication for that week, except that at least five days shall intervene between such publications, and all publications heretofore or hereafter made in accordance with the provisions of this section or §17-2-18 shall be deemed legal and valid. Source: SL 1889, ch 38; RCivC 1903, §2445; RC 1919, §8; SDC 1939, §65.0506; SL 1943, ch 317.
SD Codified L § 17-2-18 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-18 - Weekly publication constituting publication for stated number of days.

17-2-18. Weekly publication constituting publication for stated number of days.Unless the context otherwise plainly requires, whenever publication is directed by a statute or rule of court for a stated number of days or for not less than a stated number of days before or after the event to be noticed, it shall mean the publication once where the stated number of days is ten or less and at least once a week for two consecutive weeks where the stated number of days is eleven or more and only the first publication must be made prior to the stated period of time. Source: SDC 1939, §65.0506; SL 1943, ch 317; SL 1972, ch 129, §5.
SD Codified L § 17-2-18.1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-18.1 - Time allowed for publication of proceedings and reports of political subdivisions.

17-2-18.1. Time allowed for publication of proceedings and reports of political subdivisions.It shall be the duty of publishers of official newspapers to cause publication of minutes of proceedings and reports required to be published by counties, municipal corporations and school districts to be made within ten days after receipt thereof. A publication made subsequent to such time shall not be deemed invalid but the publisher may thereby forfeit his right to payment therefor. Source: SL 1972, ch 129, §4.
SD Codified L § 17-2-18.2 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-18.2 - Type size required for legal publication.

17-2-18.2. Type size required for legal publication.Legal publications in official newspapers with a circulation of less than nine thousand shall be printed in not less than eight point type, and in official newspapers with a circulation of more than nine thousand in not more than six point type. A publication in violation of this section shall not invalidate any publication otherwise made in compliance with law but the newspaper printing the same may be denied payment therefor. Source: SL 1972, ch 129, §3; SL 1974, ch 159; SL 1977, ch 181.
SD Codified L § 17-2-19 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-19 - Legal publication fees not otherwise prescribed--Review and adjustment.

17-2-19. Legal publication fees not otherwise prescribed--Review and adjustment.If any legal publication of anything is required or allowed by law, and no other fee is prescribed for that publication, the Bureau of Administration shall establish, by rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26, the maximum fee which may be charged for the publication. The bureau shall annually review and adjust rates to reflect changes in economic conditions within the newspaper industry and the general economy. The bureau shall consult with representatives of the daily and weekly newspaper industry and with representatives of local units of governments. Source: PolC 1877, ch 39, §22; SL 1887, ch 51, §1; CL 1887, §1430; SL 1891, ch 66; RPolC 1903, §1847; RC 1919, §7072; SL 1929, ch 203; SL 1937, ch 183; SDC 1939, §65.0512; SL 1939, ch 299; SL 1945, ch 357; SL 1957, ch 500; SL 1968, ch 272; SL 1972, ch 128, §1; SL 1973, ch 139; SL 1976, ch 151, §1; SL 1982, ch 173, §§1, 2; SL 1989, ch 183, §§1-3; SL 2004, ch 142, §1.
SD Codified L § 17-2-20 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-20 - Fees chargeable for second and subsequent publications.

17-2-20. Fees chargeable for second and subsequent publications.The rates stated by §17-2-19 shall apply for the first insertion of a legal notice. Subsequent insertion shall be paid for at eighty percent of the stated charges. Source: SL 1887, ch 51, §1; CL 1887, §1430; SL 1891, ch 66; RPolC 1903, §1847; RC 1919, §7072; SL 1929, ch 203; SL 1937, ch 183; SDC 1939, §65.0512; SL 1939, ch 299; SL 1945, ch 357; SL 1957, ch 500.
SD Codified L § 17-2-22 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-22 - Notices validated despite hearing or action in same week as final publication--Rights barred by no action.

17-2-22. Notices validated despite hearing or action in same week as final publication--Rights barred by no action.All publications of notices which were made in the form, for the number of publications and length of time required by the law then applicable thereto, with the final publication on a day prior to hearing or other action pursuant to such notice and all orders and decrees entered, or other action taken, or permitted to be taken, based upon any such notice, prior to January 1, 1992, are hereby legalized and validated notwithstanding the fact that hearing was held, or other action had, or permitted to be had, in the same calendar week as the final publication of such notice.If any person has any vested right in any real or personal property by reason of any omission referred to in this section, and if no action or proceeding to enforce such right was commenced prior to July 1, 1993, such right shall be forever barred. No action or proceeding brought involving real property shall be of any force or effect, or maintainable in any court of this state, unless prior to July 1, 1993, there was recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the real property affected is situated, a notice of the pendency of such action, in accordance with chapter 15-10. Source: SL 1963, ch 468; SL 1992, ch 307, §5.
SD Codified L § 17-2-22.1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-22.1 - Affidavit of printer or publisher admissible in evidence--Prima facie evidence.

17-2-22.1. Affidavit of printer or publisher admissible in evidence--Prima facie evidence.The affidavit of any printer, foreman of any printer, publisher of any newspaper, published in this state, or employee of such publisher having personal knowledge of the facts stated in said affidavit, of the publication of any notice, order, or advertisement which by any law of this state is required or authorized to be published in such newspaper, is entitled to be read in evidence in all courts, and in all proceedings before any officer, board, or body, and is prima facie evidence of such publication and of the facts stated therein. Source: CCivP 1877, §490; CL 1887, §5304; RCCivP 1903, §530; RC 1919, §2721; SL 1937, ch 184; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §36.1102; SDCL, §19-4-5; SL 1979, ch 154, §18.
SD Codified L § 17-2-23 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-23 - Publication affidavits validated despite discrepancy in name of newspaper.

17-2-23. Publication affidavits validated despite discrepancy in name of newspaper.Whenever it shall appear from the affidavit of publication of a notice or of other legal or official matter which has been filed or recorded prior to July 1, 1949, in any action or proceeding or in the office of any register of deeds that the name of the newspaper in which such publication was had does not strictly conform to the name of newspaper contained in any order for the publication thereof or is not identical with the name of such newspaper, and where there is no reasonable ground for doubt as to the newspaper referred to in said affidavit and said order being one and the same newspaper, such affidavit of publication of said notice is hereby legalized and validated and said affidavit of publication and the record thereof shall have in all respects the same force and effect as though said inconsistency or discrepancy hereinbefore referred to did not exist. Source: SL 1949, ch 445, §3; SDC Supp 1960, §65.0305-1 (3).
SD Codified L § 17-2-24 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-24 - Publication affidavits validated despite failure to describe status as legal newspaper.

17-2-24. Publication affidavits validated despite failure to describe status as legal newspaper.Any affidavit of the publication of a notice or of any other legal or official matter which has been filed or recorded prior to July 1, 1949, in any action or proceeding or in the office of any register of deeds which does not show upon its face that the newspaper in which such publication was had was a legal newspaper at the time such publication was made is hereby legalized and validated and said affidavits of publication and the record thereof shall have in all respects the same force and effect as though it did show upon its face that such newspaper was a legal newspaper at the time said publication was had. Source: SL 1949, ch 445, §1; SDC Supp 1960, §65.0305-1 (1).
SD Codified L § 17-2-25 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 17 - Notice and Publication|Chapter 02 - Legal Newspapers and Publication of Notice|Section 17-2-25 - Publication affidavits validated despite failure to recite statutory authority for execution.

17-2-25. Publication affidavits validated despite failure to recite statutory authority for execution.Any affidavit of the publication of a notice or of any other legal or official matter which has been filed or recorded prior to July 1, 1949, in any action or proceeding or in the office of any register of deeds which does not show upon its face that it was executed by a person authorized by statute to make such affidavit of publication but from which it shall appear that the person making such affidavit knew the facts relative to such publication at the time such affidavit was made and affirmatively states that it was so made is hereby legalized and validated and said affidavit of publication and the record thereof shall have in all respects the same force and effect as though it did show upon its face that such affidavit was executed by a person authorized by statute to make such affidavit of publication. Source: SL 1949, ch 445, §2; SDC Supp 1960, §65.0305-1 (2).