At all sales of all lands for delinquent taxes where all, or a portion, of such delinquent taxes are taxes and assessments levied and assessed by any irrigation district against the lands to be sold, the directors, if there be no other bidder for such land at such tax sale, may bid therefor the total amount of all delinquent taxes and assessments, penalty, and interest against such land, and thereupon the county treasurer shall strike off said lands to such irrigation district and issue certificate of tax sale to said irrigation district the same as such certificates of tax sales are issued to other purchasers.
SDCL 46A-7-37