5-9-24. Procedure for forfeiture of installment contract--Service of notice.
To effect such forfeiture the commissioner of school and public lands shall serve upon the purchaser or his legal representatives or assigns a notice specifying the conditions in which default has been made, stating that such contract will terminate thirty days after the service of such notice or at the expiration of three months after the default, if that time has not already expired, unless prior thereto the purchaser shall comply with such conditions and pay the costs of service. Such notice shall be served personally in the manner provided for the service of summons in civil actions. If the person to be served is not a resident of the state, cannot be found therein, or is deceased, any of which facts the return of the sheriff of the county where the real estate lies shall be prima facie evidence that he cannot be found in such county, then service shall be made by three weeks published notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the real estate is situated, and such service shall be binding upon all parties in interest in said real estate, including all of the personal representatives, heirs at law, devisees, legatees, next of kin, and creditors of any deceased person. Personal service of said notice without the state, proved by the affidavit of the person making the same, made before an authorized officer having a seal, shall have the same effect as the published notice herein provided for.
Source: SL 1919, ch 306, §3; SL 1929, ch 221; SDC 1939, §15.0309.