Acknowledgments by officers or employees of banks validated

No public officer qualified to take acknowledgments or proofs of written instruments may be disqualified for taking the acknowledgment or proof of any instrument in writing in which a bank is interested by reason of his employment, whether as officer or employee, or by reason of his stock ownership or director status in a bank so interested, and any such acknowledgments or proofs taken before July 1, 1981, are hereby validated. Source: SL 1981, ch 346 , § 2; SDCL, § 51-15-15.