The treasurer shall make receipts for tax payments. One receipt may be delivered to the person paying the taxes and the other shall, within one week, be filed with the county auditor. The county auditor’s copy of the receipt shall specify the property on which the tax was assessed, the amount of taxes collected for state purposes, the amount of each separate and distinct fund the tax is allocated to, and the years for which any of the real property described has been sold for taxes and not redeemed, unless the certificates for the tax sales are more than six years old.

Any county auditor who fails to enter on any tax receipt the amount of taxes for state purposes, or any treasurer who fails to specify on the tax receipt the information required by this section, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Attorney's Note

Under the South Dakota Laws, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class 2 misdemeanorup to 30 daysup to $500
For details, see § 22-6-2

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 10-21-14

  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • 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.

Source: SDC 1939, §§ 57.1007, 57.9911; SL 1947, ch 404; SL 1982, ch 86, § 22; SL 1992, ch 80, § 168; SL 1998, ch 63, § 3; SL 2018, ch 63, § 15.