Limited term of lease--Agricultural land--Municipal lots
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Pauley v. Simonson (2006)
Most recently applied in Stoebner v. Konrad (June 2018)
Source: CivC 1877, § 203; CL 1887, § 2719; RCivC 1903, § 226; RC 1919, § 296; SL 1921, ch 277; SDC 1939, § 38.0403; SL 1977, ch 343; SL 1992, ch 60, § 2.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
No lease or grant of agricultural land for a longer period than twenty years, in which shall be reserved any rent or service of any kind, shall be valid.
No lease or grant of any municipal lot for a longer period than ninety-nine years, in which shall be reserved any rent or service of any kind, shall be valid.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.