Written demand for fair value of shares--Remittance by acquiring person--Court settlement after sixty days--Court procedure--Costs

SDCL § 47-33-15 — under SOUTH DAKOTA DOMESTIC PUBLIC CORPORATION TAKEOVER ACT.

SDCL § 47-33-15

(1) Any shareholder of the domestic public corporation who receives the notice required by § 47-33-14 and who is entitled to and desires to receive fair value for his shares from the acquiring person, may make written demand on the acquiring person for payment of the fair value of his shares. The written demand shall be sent by the shareholder to the acquiring person to the address and within the time period specified in the notice. The demand of the shareholder shall state the number and class or series, if any, of the shares owned by him with respect to which the demand is made and shall also state the amount the shareholder is willing to accept in payment for those shares from the acquiring person. Any shareholder who does not make such written demand within such time period shall have no further right to receive payment from the acquiring person required by § 47-33-14 for the shares owned by him with respect to which no written demand was made. (2) Immediately upon receipt of a demand for payment from a shareholder pursuant to this section, the acquiring person shall remit to the shareholder either the amount demanded by the shareholder or the amount offered by the acquiring person in the notice required by § 47-33-14 , together with interest to the date of payment. If the remittance made by the acquiring person is less than the amount demanded by the shareholder, the remittance shall be accompanied by a notice from the acquiring person of the shareholder's right to demand supplemental payment, accompanied by copies of this section and §