Section 10-21-16 - Binding and numbering of tax receipts--Separate series used for separate years.

10-21-16. Binding and numbering of tax receipts--Separate series used for separate years. All tax receipts issued by the county treasurer shall be bound in books of convenient size, or in such form as may be prescribed by the auditor-general and numbered consecutively, commencing with number one on the first receipt issued for the taxes of any one year, and he shall not receipt for more than one year's taxes on the same property in one tax receipt, nor shall more than one series of numbers be used for any one year's taxes, but a separate and distinct series of numbers of receipts shall be kept and issued for the taxes of each year for which the same have been levied and assessed.

Source: SL 1897, ch 28, § 88; RPolC 1903, § 2151; RC 1919, § 6765; SDC 1939, § 57.1007; SL 1947, ch 404.