In the event that any owner or owners of land acquired by reliction shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of § 43-17-14 within the time therein specified the supervisors of the township or townships, or trustees or city council or commissioners of the municipality where such relicted land or any part thereof is situated, or either of them, may institute an action in the circuit court of the county where such land or any part thereof is situated against the owners of such lands to compel and cause the subdivision of such relicted lands in the proper proportions among the various owners thereof and that the same be surveyed by a competent surveyor, such survey, showing the area and boundaries of such relicted land to which each owner is entitled, to be made and recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county or counties where any such land or any part thereof is situated.

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Source: SL 1903, ch 173, § 2; RC 1919, § 505; SDC 1939, § 51.1111; SL 1992, ch 60, § 2.