32-9-15. Schedule of commercial motor vehicle fees per gross pounds--Older vehicles. In consideration of the unusual use of the public highways, each person, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, desiring to operate a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer, upon the public highways of this state as a motor carrier, shall annually pay the commercial motor vehicle fee as follows, to the county treasurer of the county of which the person is a resident, if a carrier of property; or to the Department of Revenue, if the person is not a resident of this state:

(1) Gross weight under 4000 pounds, eighty-five dollars;

(2) Gross weight of 4001 to 6000 pounds, one hundred dollars;

(3) Gross weight of 6001 to 8000 pounds, one hundred fifteen dollars;

(4) Gross weight of 8001 to 10,000 pounds, one hundred thirty dollars;

(5) Gross weight of 10,001 to 12,000 pounds, one hundred fifty dollars;

(6) Gross weight of 12,001 to 14,000 pounds, one hundred seventy-five dollars;

(7) Gross weight of 14,001 to 16,000 pounds, two hundred dollars;

(8) Gross weight of 16,001 to 18,000 pounds, two hundred twenty-five dollars;

(9) Gross weight of 18,001 to 20,000 pounds, two hundred fifty dollars;

(10) For each additional 2000 pounds or major fraction thereof in excess of 20,000 pounds, forty dollars.

(11) For each vehicle or combination of vehicles as defined in § 32-22-10 with a gross weight in excess of 78,000 pounds, seven dollars in addition to the fee schedule above.

If any commercial motor vehicle, according to the manufacturer's model year designation, is ten years old or more on January first of the year for which a license fee is required, that fee is ninety percent of the fee ordinarily prescribed.

Source: SDC 1939, § 44.0426; SL 1939, ch 176, § 2; SL 1943, ch 161, § 2; SL 1947, ch 195, § 3; SL 1957, ch 231; SL 1961, ch 236; SL 1966, ch 138; SL 1967, ch 205; SL 1967, ch 206; SL 1968, ch 175; SL 1974, ch 214, § 1; SL 1975, ch 202; SL 1977, ch 249, § 26; SL 1982, ch 243, § 4; SL 2004, ch 17, § 113; SL 2011, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 11-1), § 161, eff. Apr. 12, 2011; SL 2011, ch 139, § 10.