If the payee fails to provide a written statement of the transfer fee payable within thirty days of the date of a written request for such statement sent to the address shown in the notice of transfer fee, the grantor, on recording of the affidavit required under § 43-4-56, may convey any interest in the real property to any grantee without payment of the transfer fee and is not subject to any further obligation under the private transfer fee obligation. In such event the real property shall be conveyed free and clear of the transfer fee and private transfer fee obligation.

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 43-4-55

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Property: includes property, real and personal. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

Source: SL 2011, ch 196, § 10.