Any P.O.D. account may be paid, on request, to any original party to the account. Payment may be made, on request, to the P.O.D. payee or to the personal representative or heirs of a deceased P.O.D. payee upon presentation to the financial institution of proof of death showing that the P.O.D. payee survived all persons named as original payees. Payment may be made to the personal representative or heirs of a deceased original payee if proof of death is presented to the financial institution showing that his decedent was the survivor of all other persons named on the account either as an original payee or other persons named on the account either as an original payee or as P.O.D. payee.
S.D. Codified Laws § 29A-6-114
Payment of P.O.D
Source: SL 1991, ch 230, § 2; SL 1992, ch 88, § 12; SL 1993, ch 94, § 6; SDCL 30-23-56; SL 1995, ch 167, § 172.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.