Title 5 — PUBLIC PROPERTY, PURCHASES AND CONTRACTS

It shall be the duty of the attorney general to make examination at each of the United States land offices of this state as to the condition of the titles to all school and public lands, and to take such steps before said land office of the United States and the Department of the…

No person shall acquire any vested rights in and to any islands or land described in § 5-3-9 , by reason of residence thereon or improvement thereof, except as herein provided. Any person who, for five years next prior to the first day of July 1911, shall have resided upon and im…

The commissioner of school and public lands shall classify all common school and endowment lands into three classes, as follows: Class 1: To include all lands which are most valuable for agricultural purposes; Class 2: To include all lands which are most valuable for meadow and p…

It shall be the duty of the commissioner of school and public lands to supply to the several county auditors of this state a description of all unsold state indemnity and endowment lands situated within the organized school districts of his county. Source: SL 1917, ch 335 , § 4; …

When lands granted to the state by act of Congress approved February 22, 1889, have been or shall be lost to the state by reason of being otherwise disposed of by the United States prior to survey, or when, prior to survey, any of such lands have been or shall be included in a re…

The commissioner of school and public lands is authorized and directed to ascertain and locate the general grants of land made by Congress to this state and when such commissioner shall find that sections sixteen and thirty - six or any part thereof, in any township of the state,…

When the commissioner of school and public lands shall ascertain that sections sixteen and thirty - six or any part thereof granted to the state have been actually settled upon prior to the survey thereof by the general government, and are occupied by bona fide settlers, claiming…

When the commissioner of school and public lands shall ascertain that sections sixteen and thirty - six, or any part thereof, granted to the state, are or have been lawfully included and embraced within any forest or other reservation established under or by authority of any act …

When the commissioner of school and public lands ascertains that what, if surveyed, would be sections sixteen and thirty - six, or any part thereof, granted to the state, falls upon any lake or navigable river, and that the quantity of land intended to be conveyed as sections six…

The commissioner of school and public lands may exchange, with the approval of the Governor and following a public hearing, any common school, indemnity, or endowment land for any land located within the State of South Dakota of like appraised value. The commissioner may also exc…

The State of South Dakota, when exchanging land pursuant to § 5-3-7 or selling land pursuant to chapter 5-9 , may hold a perpetual conservation easement preserving the archaeological and paleontological aspects on such land to protect the public interest. The conveyance documents…

All islands and accumulations of land formed in the beds of navigable streams and meandered lakes, except on the Missouri River below the Fort Randall power plant and Lake Francis Case, belonging to the state shall be under the supervision of the commissioner of school and public…