If there are no other bidders offering the amount due under a tax certificate sale, the treasurer may bid off all or any tax certificate offered at the sale for the amount of taxes, penalty, interest, and costs due and unpaid on the property, in the name of the county. The county may acquire all the rights, both legal and equitable, that any purchaser may acquire by reason of the purchase.
S.D. Codified Laws § 10-23-24
Bidding off on behalf of county as purchaser at tax sale
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Broadhurst v. American Colloid Company (1970)
Most recently applied in Aspen Storage, Inc. v. Lawrence County (July 2007)
Source: SL 1901, ch 46, § 1; RPolC 1903, § 2203; RC 1919, § 6794; SDC 1939, § 57.1108; SL 2018, ch 63, § 101.
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