Register of Deeds
The Kingsbury County Register of Deeds Office serves as the official repository for many of the county's most important public records. Often described as the county's library of permanent records, this office is responsible for recording, preserving, and providing access to a wide variety of legal and historical documents. These records include land ownership and property transfers, mortgages, plats, liens, easements, military discharge records, and vital records such as birth, marriage, and death records. By maintaining these documents with accuracy and integrity, the Register of Deeds Office helps protect property rights, preserve local history, and provide valuable information to residents, businesses, legal professionals, and government agencies.
Register of Deeds
Caryn Hojer
PO Box 146
De Smet, SD 57231
Phone: 605-854-3591
Fax: 605-854-3833
rod1@kingsburycountysd.org
Deputy Register of Deeds
Brian Tande
Hours
Monday-Friday - 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Closed over noon hour
Closed all State and Federal Holidays
County Procedures for E-recording
- Electronic recordings will be received between the hours of 8:00 am and 2:00 pm Central Standard time. E-packages may be submitted at any time, however, they will not be recorded outside of posted hours.
- Only Electronic Models 2 and 3 will be accepted (visit pria.us for additional information.)
- Documents must be original and scanned in black and white with a minimum of 300 dpi.
- Images must be sent in TIFF.
- Electronic documents must adhere to all South Dakota Statutes.
- No more than one satisfaction/assignment will be accepted within the same e-recording package.
- Documents will be rejected if not legible.
- Payments of recording fees must be made via ACH by the Delivery Agent (e-recording vendor). Kingsbury County will not acccept payments for recording fees and/or transfer tax directly from the e-recording submitter customer.
- Kingsbury County's current electronic recording providers are Simplifile and CSC.
- Kingsbury County Register of Deeds, by communicating with the e-recording vendor, reserves the right to terminate the right for submitter customers to continue to e-record in Kingsbury County.
- There are no additional fees charged by this county for e-recording, however, a submission fee will be charged by the submitter vendor.
- Plats may not be submitted for e-recording.
Document Preparation
Effective July 1, 2010 Pursuant to South Dakota Codified Laws 43-28-24 through 43-28-28:
- The preparer of a document or instrument may not include an individual’s personally identifiable information in any document or instrument that is prepared and presented for recording in the county office of the register of deeds.
- This section does not apply to any document or instrument that was executed by an individual prior to July 1, 2010.
- These provisions do not apply to a state or federal tax lien or release relating to a state or federal tax lien, a military separation or discharge record, a uniform commercial code filing in the county office of the register of deeds or any governmental certified copy of a document or instrument terms used in this Act mean: (1) “Personally identifiable information,” any information that includes one or more of the following specific unique identifiers when combined with an individual’s name:
- A social security number. This term does not, however, include the last four digits of a social security number;
- Checking, savings, or share account number; or
- Credit, debit, or charge card number;(2) “Preparer,” any person who creates, drafts, edits, revises, or changes the document or instrument that is recorded with the register of deeds.
- The term, preparer, does not include any person who hires, requires, refers, pays, or requests that the document or instrument be drafted or recorded. The register of deeds may not reject a document or instrument presented for recording solely because the document or instrument fails to comply with SDCL 43-28-24 to 43-28-27.
Quick Links
- South Dakota Codified Laws
- South Dakota State Website
- South Dakota Department of Vital Records
- SD Birth Record Search – Birth dates over 100 years:
- To file a Fictitious Business Name online with the SD Secretary of State
- Kingsbury County Genealogical Society
- South Dakota Association of County Officials
- Birth Record Application
- Death Record Application
- Marriage Record Application
- Marriage License Application Worksheet
- Parental Consent Form
Transfer Fee Exemption
Transfer Fee Exemption Statute SDCL 43-4-22 -
Exemptions from real estate transfer fee The fee imposed by SDCL 43-4-21 does not apply to the transfer of title if:
(1) Recorded before July 1, 1968
(2) By or to the United States of America, this state, or any instrumentality, agency or political subdivision of either;
(3) Solely in order to provide for or to release security for a debt or obligation;
(4) Which confirms or corrects a deed previously executed and recorded;
(5) Between husband and wife, or parent and child with only nominal actual consideration therefor;
(6) On sale for delinquent taxes or assessments, sheriffs' deeds, other deeds issued in foreclosure actions or proceedings or deeds issued in lieu of foreclosure actions or proceedings;
(7) On partition;(8) Pursuant to any mergers or consolidations of corporations or limited liability companies or plans of reorganization by which substantially all of the assets of corporations or limited liability companies are transferred;(
9) By a subsidiary corporation to its parent corporation for no consideration, nominal consideration, or in sole consideration of the cancellation or surrender of the subsidiary's stock;
(10) Pursuant to decrees of distribution entered in any decedent's estate;
(11) Between an individual grantor, or grantors, and a corporation, where the grantor or grantors and the owner of the majority of the capital stock of the corporation are the same person;
(12) Between any corporation and its stockholders or creditors, or between any limited liability company and its members or creditors, if to effectuate a dissolution of the corporation or limited liability company it is necessary to transfer the title of real property from the corporate entity to the stockholders or creditors;
(13) On cemetery lots and grave sites;
(14) Between an individual grantor, or grantors, and a limited or general partnership if the grantor or grantors and the owner of the majority interest in the limited or general partnership are the same person;
(15) Between a fiduciary and a beneficiary of the fiduciary or between a fiduciary and a third party, if the transfer or conveyance is to accommodate the fiduciary relationship;
(16) Between individuals, regardless of the relationship, if the conveyance is an absolute gift without consideration of any kind in return for the conveyance;
(17) Pursuant to a decree of divorce, annulment or separate maintenance or pursuant to a settlement agreement approved or adopted by a decree of divorce, annulment or separate maintenance;(18) For which no consideration was given;(19) Between any limited liability company and its members.