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§ 32-17-16 Vehicles transporting passengers for compensation as requiring clearance and identification lamps--Buses excepted--Times during which lamps must be lighted--Violation as misdemeanor.

SD Codified L § 32-17-16 (2019) (N/A)
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32-17-16. Vehicles transporting passengers for compensation as requiring clearance and identification lamps--Buses excepted--Times during which lamps must be lighted--Violation as misdemeanor. Every motor propelled or motor drawn vehicle designed or used for the transportation of property or for the transportation of passengers for compensation, except buses operated entirely within municipalities when their interiors are illuminated, shall display lighted lamps at the times mentioned in § 32-17-4 when and as required in §§ 32-17-14 and 32-17-15 except that such lamps may be, but are not required to be, lighted when any such vehicle is upon a highway which is sufficiently illuminated by street lamps to render any person or objects visible at a distance of five hundred feet. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SDC 1939, § 44.0352 (8); SL 1989, ch 255, § 62.

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