7-29-21. Validation of prior conveyances of county land--Right barred by no action. All instruments of conveyance of real property made by any county prior to January 1, 1992, which real property was acquired by such county through tax deed proceedings or in satisfaction of school fund mortgages or by compromise with insolvent banks or through foreclosure or settlement of "building fund" mortgages or by exchange or transfer of title of county-owned lands for other lands, or by any other means or from any other source, are, notwithstanding any omissions, irregularities, or defects in the proceedings had and taken by said county to sell and convey the same, hereby validated, legalized and cured to the extent that such conveyances shall operate to convey to the person named as grantee in such instrument of conveyance all of the right, title and interest of said county in and to such real property.

If any person has any vested right in any real property by reason of any omission referred to in this section, and if no action or proceeding to enforce such right was commenced prior to July 1, 1993, such right shall be forever barred. No action or proceeding brought involving real property shall be of any force or effect, or maintainable in any court of this state, unless prior to July 1, 1993, there was recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the real property affected is situated, a notice of the pendency of such action, in accordance with chapter 15-10.

Source: SL 1968, ch 278, § 1; SL 1992, ch 307, § 1.