An Act to revise certain tenant and landlord rights.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:
Section 1. That 21-16-1 be AMENDED:
21-16-1. Grounds for action.
An action of forcible entry and detainer, or of detainer only, is maintainable:
(1) If a party has by force, intimidation, fraud, or stealth, entered upon the prior actual possession of real property or the occupied structure of another, and detains the same;
(2) If a party, after entering peaceably upon real property or an occupied structure, turns out by force, threats, or menacing conduct, the party in possession;
(3) If a party by force or by menaces and threats of violence unlawfully holds and keeps the possession of any real property, or occupied structure, whether the same was acquired peaceably or otherwise;
(4) If a lessee in person or by subtenants holds over after the termination of his lease or expiration of his term, or fails to pay his rent for three days after the same shall be due;
(5) If a party continues in possession after a sale of the real property or occupied structure under mortgage, execution, order, or any judicial process, after the expiration of the time fixed by law for redemption, and after the execution and delivery of a deed or instrument of ownership;
(6) If a party continues in possession after a judgment in partition, or after a sale under an order or decree of a circuit court;
(7) If a lessee commits waste upon the leased premises, or does or fails to perform any act which, under the terms of the lease operates to terminate the same; or
(8) The lessee violates a material term of the written lease agreement between the lessor and lessee.
The term, occupied structure, used in this chapter is defined in subdivision 22-1-2(28).
Section 2. That 43-32-25 be AMENDED.
43-32-25. Tenant's property--Small amount left presumed abandoned--Disposal by lessor.
The
A
small amount of property
of a lessee,
the total reasonable value of which does not exceed five hundred
dollars,
left on a
leased
residential premises by
after
the lessee
for ten days after the lessee
has quit the premises,
or
been served with an execution of possession under chapter 21-16,
is presumed to
have been abandoned by
the tenant and
the lessor of the residential premises may dispose of the abandoned
property.
Section 3. That 43-32-26 be AMENDED.
43-32-26. Tenant's property--Valuable property stored--Lien--Disposal by lessor after period.
The property of a lessee, of a
total reasonable value exceeding five hundred dollars, left on leased
residential premises by the lessee after the lessee has either
quit the
premises,
shall be stored by the lessor
or been served with an execution for possession under chapter 21-16,
may be immediately removed and stored by the lessor.
The lessor
shall have
has a lien on
the property to the extent of the costs of moving,
handling,
and storing the property. After
storing the property for thirty The
lien does not have priority over a prior perfected security interest
in the property.
If the
lessee does not recover the property within twenty-eight days
after
quitting the premises or
more the lessor may treat the property as abandoned and
being served
with the execution of possession, the landlord may retain and dispose
of it
the property without legal process. The lessor is entitled to the
proceeds from the sale of the property.