7-31-25. Sale contract void on default in payment of installments--Forfeiture and reentry by county. The deferred payments for lands sold and the interest thereon shall be paid promptly when due to the county treasurer. Whenever the purchaser of any tract shall fail to pay the principal or interest due by him to the county for such tract within three months after same shall become due, or shall violate any of the provisions of the contract of sale, such contract shall be null and void, and he shall forfeit the amount of purchase money and interest paid on the purchase of said land, and all right, title and interest in all improvements thereon and such payments and improvements shall be retained by the county for the same purposes for which the proceeds of sale from such lands are used, in full satisfaction and in liquidation of all damages for the use and possession of said property by the purchaser; and the county shall have the immediate right to reenter and take possession of said real estate.
Source: SL 1941, ch 37; SDC Supp 1960, § 12.3404 (10).
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