36-13-20. Recitals in certificate of registration--Authority to engage in business--Access to public offices and records.
A certificate issued by the board under the provisions of this chapter shall recite that the bond required by §36-13-15 has been duly filed and approved. Such certificate authorizes the person named in it to engage in and carry on the business of an abstracter of real estate titles in the county in the State of South Dakota in which the person has his or her or its place of business. An abstracter with such a certificate shall, during ordinary business hours, have access to any of the offices of any of the counties of the State of South Dakota and may make such memoranda or notation from the records thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of making such abstracts of title to property in the county in which the abstracter is qualified, and for the purpose of compiling, posting, copying, and keeping up the abstracter's abstract books, indexes, or records.
Source: SDC 1939, §1.0109; SL 2008, ch 195, §25.