5-7-29. Effect of approved assignment of lease.
Upon approval by the commissioner of school and public lands of an assignment, the assignor shall stand relieved from all obligations to the state with respect to the lands embraced in the assignment and the state shall likewise be relieved from all obligations to the assignor as to such tract or tracts, and thereupon, the assignee shall succeed to all of the rights and privileges of the assignor with respect to such tracts and shall be held to have assumed all of the duties and obligations of the assignor to the state as to such tracts.
Source: SL 1931, ch 203, §4; SDC 1939, §15.0512.