South Dakota adverse possession generally requires 20 years of possession: SDCL 15-3-1 bars an action to recover real property unless the owner was 'seized or possessed' within 20 years. A shorter 10-year path exists under SDCL 15-3-15 for someone in actual possession under good-faith color of title who also pays all taxes for ten successive years.
Under SDCL 15-3-1, 'no action for the recovery of real property... shall be maintained unless it appears that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor was seized or possessed of the premises in question within twenty years before the commencement of such action' — the baseline 20-year period. SDCL 15-3-15 provides a 10-year route: 'Every person in the actual possession of lands or tenements under claim and color of title made in good faith, and who shall have continued for ten successive years in such possession, and shall also during said time have paid all taxes legally assessed... shall be held and adjudged to be the legal owner' to the extent of the paper title. A successor may tack possession and tax payments to complete the ten years.
No specific statutory penalty. Adverse possession is a civil property doctrine, not a crime. An owner defeats a squatter by bringing a recovery action within the 20-year period, or before a color-of-title claimant completes 10 years of possession plus tax payments under SDCL 15-3-15.
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