(a) If any land sold under a decree as herein mentioned is not redeemed within the time allowed herein, the court in which the suit is brought for condemnation shall direct the special commissioner to execute to the purchaser or his or her assignee a deed, which may be in the form and have the force and effect of a deed of a special commissioner who has sold lands in a suit brought by an improvement district as prescribed in § 14-90-1303.
(b) The deed mentioned in subsection (a) of this section shall only be made on the filing of the certificate of purchase in the court, unless proof of the loss thereof shall be made to the satisfaction of the court.