Any person who offers any false or forged instrument, knowing that the instrument is false or forged, for filing, registering, or recording in a public office, which instrument, if genuine, could be filed, registered, or recorded under any law of this state or of the United States, is guilty of a Class 6 felony.

Source: SDC 1939, § 13.1245; SDCL, § 22-39-31; SL 1976, ch 158 , § 39-5 ; SDCL Supp, § 22-39-39 ; SL 1978, ch 158 , § 7; SDCL, § 22-11-23.1 ; SL 2005, ch 120 , §§ 219, 226.