32-17-26. Lights on other vehicles–Color and visibility–Violation as petty offense. All vehicles not required in §§32-17-1 to 32-17-25, inclusive, to be equipped with specified lighted lamps shall carry one or more lighted lamps or lanterns displaying a white light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of at least five hundred feet to the […]
32-17-27. Lights on parked vehicles–Color and visibility–Vehicles parked within municipality–Violation as misdemeanor. Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a highway whether attended or unattended during the times mentioned in §32-17-4, there shall be displayed upon such vehicle one or more lamps projecting a white or amber light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from […]
32-17-28. Vehicles required to be equipped with portable flares, lights or reflectors–Visibility–Violation as misdemeanor. Every motor truck, tractor, truck tractor, farm tractor, road tractor, or road patrol, or any and all combinations thereof, including trailers and semitrailers, and all vehicles exceeding a width at any point of eighty inches operated on the public highways of […]
32-17-29. Time during which flares must be displayed–Location and spacing of flares–Removal of vehicle–Violation as misdemeanor–Exceptions. Every operator of a motor truck, tractor, truck tractor, farm tractor, road tractor, or road patrol, or any combination thereof, including trailers and semitrailers, and all vehicles exceeding a width at any point of eighty inches, shall, immediately upon […]
32-17-30. Subsequent violations of flare requirements–Revocation of license. If a person violates §32-17-28 or 32-17-29 more than once, the court may impose as an additional penalty the revoking of any permit or license, or both, which the person so convicted holds pertaining to ownership or operation of motor vehicles. Source: SDC 1939, §44.9918; SL 1976, […]
32-17-4. Periods during which lamps must be lighted–Violation as misdemeanor. Each motor vehicle on a highway during the period from sunset to sunrise and at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible any person on the highway at a distance of two hundred feet ahead, shall be equipped with […]
32-17-4.1. Circumstances exempting law enforcement officers from use of motor vehicle lights. The requirements of §32-17-4 do not apply to a law enforcement officer, as defined in §23-3-27, while operating a motor vehicle owned, leased, or otherwise the property of the state or a political subdivision, in the performance of the officer’s law enforcement duties […]
32-17-42. Lights on emergency vehicles–Duty of driver–Authorization to use lights–Violation as misdemeanor. Any motor vehicle authorized by the Department of Transportation, a tow truck or wrecker as defined in §32-17-10, or a vehicle operated by a member of an organized fire department or organized search and rescue unit or by a person who is an […]
32-17-43. Exemption of towed highway maintenance vehicles. A vehicle used primarily for the maintenance of highways and drawn by another vehicle equipped and operated with flashing yellow lights is exempt from the provisions of this chapter when operated during daylight hours. Source: SL 1985, ch 254.
32-17-44. Command post vehicle to be equipped with green light. Any vehicle used as a command post at the site of any accident or emergency incident involving any hazard may be equipped with one green rotating beacon light to be visible 360 degrees. Source: SL 1989, ch 269.
32-17-45. Red and blue lights authorized for law enforcement officers. Any law enforcement officer may operate a police vehicle with a combination of red lights as provided by §32-31-4 and blue lights as described in §32-17-42. Source: SL 1993, ch 233, §1.
32-17-46. Warning light on certain slow-moving vehicles during darkness–Violation as misdemeanor. No vehicle that is required to display a slow-moving vehicle emblem pursuant to §32-15-20 may be operated during the period of day between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise on the following day on any public highway unless the vehicle has […]
32-17-47. Flashing lights required on certain animal-drawn vehicles–Violation as misdemeanor. Any animal-drawn vehicle operating on a highway during the period from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise and at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render the vehicle clearly discernible to any person on the highway […]
32-17-5. Construction and adjustment of headlamps–Visibility distance–Four headlight system–High beam indicator–Violation as misdemeanor. The headlamps of motor vehicles shall be so constructed, arranged, and adjusted that, except as provided in §32-17-7, they shall at all times mentioned in §32-17-4 and under normal atmospheric conditions and on a level road produce a driving light sufficient to […]
32-17-6. Requirements respecting adjustment of headlamps–Violation as misdemeanor. Headlamps shall be deemed to comply with the provisions of §32-17-5 prohibiting glaring and dazzling lights, if none of the main bright portion of the headlamp beams rises above a horizontal plane passing through the lamp centers parallel to the level road upon which the loaded vehicle […]
32-17-7. Circumstances under which headlamps must be dimmed–Violation as misdemeanor. Whenever a motor vehicle, except a moped equipped with a single beam headlamp as provided in §32-17-24.1, is being operated upon a highway, or a portion thereof, which is sufficiently lighted to reveal a person on the highway at a distance of two hundred feet […]
32-17-8. Rear lamps required–Visibility–Combination of vehicles–Height of mounting–Violation as petty offense. Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer, except as otherwise provided in this section, and any other vehicle which is being drawn at the end of a combination of vehicles shall be equipped with at least two tail lamps mounted on the rear, […]
32-17-8.1. Stop lamps required–Mounting–Visibility–Violation as petty offense. Except for a vehicle equipped with a slow-moving vehicle emblem in compliance with §§32-15-20 and 32-15-21, each motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer shall be equipped with at least two stop lamps with at least one on each side. The side stop lamps shall be mounted on […]
32-17-9. Red lights on front of vehicle prohibited–Excepted vehicles–Misdemeanor. Except for any authorized emergency vehicle as defined by §32-14-1, any person who drives or moves any vehicle upon a highway with any red light thereon visible from directly in front thereof, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. Source: SDC 1939, §44.9924; SL 1967, ch […]
