Section 45-4-4 - Location certificate--Recording of claim--Contents--Validity.
45-4-4. Location certificate--Recording of claim--Contents--Validity. The discoverer of a lode shall within sixty days from the date of discovery record his claim in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which such lode is located by a location certificate which shall contain:
(1) The name of the lode;
(2) The name of the locator or locators;
(3) The date of location;
(4) If a lode claim, the number of linear feet in length claimed along the course of the vein each way from the point of discovery, with the width claimed on each side of the center of the vein, and the general course of the vein or lode as near as may be, and such a description of the claim located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim.
Any location certificate of a lode claim which shall not contain the matters specified in this section shall be void.
Source: PolC 1877, ch 31, §§ 3, 4; SL 1881, ch 96, §§ 1, 2; CL 1887, §§ 1999, 2000; SL 1899, ch 113; RPolC 1903, §§ 2534, 2535; RC 1919, §§ 8728, 8729; SDC 1939, §§ 42.0103, 42.0104; SL 1955, ch 152, § 1.