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NOTICE OF POST-ELECTION AUDITNotice is hereby given, in accordance with SDCL 12-17B-21, that a Post-Election Audit of the November 5, 2024 General Election will be conducted on November 14, 2024 in the Commission Chambers, Courthouse Annex, 25 Market Street, Aberdeen, SD 57401. The Audit will ...

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If a person completes a registration the county auditor must register that person's party affiliation as no party affiliation. **OTHER – This category is for voters who write any other political party on their voter registration form that is not currently a recognized political party in South Dakota

Welcome to the Brown County Register of Deeds office. The Register of Deeds office is the primary records office of the county, and is also one of the departments that generates revenue for the county from filing and recording fees, transfer and copy fees, and vital record fees.

The Register of Deeds officially records certain legal documents and real estate records, such as deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, easements, covenants, plats, contract for deeds, assignments, powers of attorney, etc. Our office records the history and title to the land in Brown County.

South Dakota law has specific rules about what documents can be recorded, and how recorded documents need to be formatted. These “do-it-yourself” forms may be unrecordable in our state because they do not comply with these laws. Unfortunately, someone may pay “a small fee” for these forms, only to be told at the recorders office that the documents must be rejected because of noncompliance.

Responsibilities include: Administering all state laws pertaining to the ad valorem property tax system Assisting with abatement Continuing to educate the public on the South Dakota tax system Determining tax exempt status for applicable properties Determining the taxable value of approximately 28,000 parcels.

Department ResponsibilitiesThe function of the Brown County Equalization is to establish an assessed value for every piece of property within the county. Those property values are then used to determine the real estate tax due from that property.Non-agricultural property is assessed according to what value in dollars it would sell for on an open market.

The State's Computerized Criminal History (CCH) system contains data on subjects arrested for misdemeanors and felonies in South Dakota (per SDCL 23-5-1 and 23-5-4) that go through the State courts, along with all penitentiary entries and follow-up criminal information.

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Along with NIBRS, the DCI is tasked with collecting fingerprint cards from law enforcement for the South · Dakota Criminal History.

The Register of Deeds office is authorized to issue certified copies of South Dakota vital records, such as birth, death and marriage . We also issue Marriage Licenses. Our office maintains burial records within each respective county. According to state law, birth, death, and marriage records ...

Did you know the first number on a South Dakota license plate identifies what county the vehicle was registered in? For example, a license plate beginning with a ‘3’ was registered in Brown County; one beginning with ‘43’ was registered in Lake County.