10-18-2. Compromise, abatement or rebate of uncollectible tax--Circumstances in which authorized--Apportionment among funds and taxing districts. The board of county commissioners may compromise, abate or rebate taxes in the following cases:

(1) The board may abate any or all of the delinquent taxes and penalty on real property if taxes remain unpaid and the property has been offered for sale as required by the code for two successive years and not sold because of depreciation in the value of the property or otherwise, or if any property has been bid in by the county and one year has elapsed since the bid;

(2) If the board determines that the full amount of any taxes extended and charged against any real property platted into lots and blocks cannot be realized by a sale of the property or otherwise, it may settle or compromise any of the taxes for any year or years as in its judgment is in the best interest of the county;

(3) The board may compromise, abate, or cancel any taxes extended against any real property conveyed to the State of South Dakota for the benefit of any of its educational institutions, or when the county has acquired lands through foreclosure of permanent school fund mortgage loans, courthouse building fund loans, jail building fund loans, courthouse and jail building fund loans, or through foreclosure of mortgages pledged to the county to secure county deposits or lands taken in satisfaction thereof;

(4) The board may, as a means of relief, abate in an equitable manner the taxes assessed or extended against real property for the year in which a loss occurred because of flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable casualty;

(5) Repealed by SL 1992, ch 80, § 148;

(6) If the board determines that the full amount of any taxes extended and charged against a centrally assessed railroad company cannot be realized by a sale of the property or otherwise, and the railroad is in bankruptcy or receivership, the board may settle or compromise any of the taxes for any year or years as in its judgment is in the best interest of the county;

(7) The board may abate or refund the taxes assessed or extended on any real property from which structures have been removed after the assessment date upon verification by the director of equalization;

(8) The board may abate or refund the taxes pursuant to § 10-6A-4;

(9) The board may abate or refund the taxes pursuant to § 10-13-40.4;

(10) The board may abate or refund the taxes pursuant to § 10-4-40.

The amount of any such taxes so compromised, abated, or refunded shall be apportioned pro rata among the several funds and taxing districts affected thereby.

Source: SL 1889, ch 118, § 1; SL 1895, ch 181, § 1; SL 1897, ch 34, § 1; RPolC 1903, §§ 2222 to 2224; RC 1919, §§ 6809 to 6812; SL 1925, ch 89; SL 1931, ch 260; SL 1933, ch 192; SDC 1939, § 57.0802; SL 1941, ch. 336; SL 1943, ch 288; SL 1968, ch 258, § 1; SL 1983, ch 75, § 1; SL 1986, ch 92; SL 1989, ch 91, § 1; SL 1992, ch 80, § 148; SL 2006, ch 39, § 2; SL 2007, ch 50, § 2, eff. Mar. 2, 2007; SL 2008, ch 39, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2007.