South Dakota Lien Release
The Lien You Are Releasing
Pull your stamped copy of the lien — everything on this page is on it. If the details here do not match the instrument on record, the release does not release it, and no one at the counter will catch that for you.
This instrument says the debt is paid.
SDCL §§ 44-9-21, 44-9-22 discharges the lien on satisfaction of the debt. Signing it while money is still owed puts a false statement on the public record and gives away the security you filed to protect. If you have been paid part of it, this is not the document you want — talk to a construction attorney about what is.
Where this gets filed: Register of Deeds. The register of deeds of the county where the lien was filed under § 44-9-15 — or of the county that one is attached to for judicial purposes. On filing, the register cancels the lien of record. BUT § 44-9-21 by its own words reaches only a lien "claimed by filing the same in the office of the register of deeds," and a § 44-9-1(2) utility-line lien is filed with the SECRETARY OF STATE. That lien has no § 44-9-21 cancellation route and this instrument is not the answer for it.
The DUTY arises on satisfaction — § 44-9-21 says the creditor shall execute and deliver a satisfaction once the lien "is afterward satisfied by payment, foreclosure, compromise, or other method." What runs from a WRITTEN demand by the owner or any interested person is the ten-day EXPOSURE: neglect for ten days after demand makes you liable for all damages, costs and expenses including attorney's fees, plus an additional $100 penalty (§ 44-9-22). So payment alone triggers no penalty, but it does trigger the obligation, and the signer is "the creditor."