SDCL § 10-26-4 — Notice that tax deed will issue--Service on owner and posting--Form of notice

On or before October tenth in the year in which the list of unpaid taxes is prepared by the treasurer and after the filing of the list as required by this chapter, the county treasurer shall give notice that tax deed will issue on the lands described in the delinquent tax list by serving notice to take tax deed by county on the recorded owner of the property. Notice shall be served either in person or by registered or certified mail sent to the recorded owner's last known address and posting a copy of the list at the place designated by the county commissioners under the provisions of § 17-3-1 in the county in which the lands are situated. A notice in substantially the following form shall be attached to the list:
"NOTICE TO TAKE TAX DEED BY COUNTY
"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons, firms, or corporations, who have, or claim any estate, right, title, or interest on, or claim to, or lien upon, any of the several pieces or parcels or lots of lands described in the list hereto attached. The list of taxes, including taxes reduced to judgment, upon real estate, which appear from the records in the office of the county treasurer of the county of _________, State of South Dakota, which are delinquent for the year as therein shown, which have not been paid for any of the years as therein shown, having been filed as required by law in the office of the county treasurer and county auditor of said county of _________, of which the list attached is a copy, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 10-26 of the South Dakota Codified Laws, being a proceeding for enforcing the payment of taxes upon real estate for the said county of _______________ remaining delinquent for six years or more.
"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the right of redemption will expire AND TAX DEED will be issued to _______________ county upon the expiration of sixty days from the completed service of this notice unless redemption is made as provided by law.
(Signed) __________ Treasurer of __________ county"