The commissioner of school and public lands may sell timber growing upon any school lands now owned or which may hereafter be acquired by the state when in his judgment it is conducive to the best interests of the state to sell such timber under such rules and regulations as he may establish.

Source: SL 1911, ch 224, § 70; RC 1919, § 5670; SL 1923, ch 259, § 1; SDC 1939, § 15.0317; SL 1978, ch 42, § 1.