Replacing a lost car title in South-Dakota
South Dakota replaces a title for $10 through the local county treasurer, and lets you start the process online first.
What South-Dakota charges
The replacement title fee is $10. Duplicate Title Application filed at the local county treasurer's office; can be started online at my605drive.sd.gov.
That figure comes from South Dakota Department of Revenue – Motor Vehicles Division, read from its own page and current as of August 2026. The hub compares all fifty states if you want to see where South-Dakota sits — the spread runs from $5 to $101, which is wider than most people expect for the same piece of paper.
The part that catches people out
The Duplicate Title Application is filed at the county treasurer’s office, but the state runs my605drive.sd.gov where the application can be started before you go. That combination — begin online, finish at a county window — is a middle path between the states that are entirely online and the ones that are entirely paper, and it keeps the counter visit short.
South Dakota Form 1002: Duplicate Title Application, with every box filled in
That is the document South-Dakota wants, and we publish a worked example of it: South Dakota Form 1002: Duplicate Title Application.
Related: what a replacement title costs in every state, and why the wait matters more than the fee · every South-Dakota form a seller meets · selling a car in South-Dakota.
Sources
- South Dakota Department of Revenue – Motor Vehicles Division — replacement title fee — Where the South-Dakota figure of $10 was read, current as of August 2026
- South Dakota Department of Revenue – Motor Vehicles Division — agency home — The agency that issues South-Dakota titles