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Code · South Dakota · Title 51 · Chapter 51-1

51A-1-15. Acknowledgments by officers or employees of banks validated.

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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.
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