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§ 32-29-8 Construction and low-clearance vehicles required to take special precautions at grade crossings--Violation as misdemeanor.

SD Codified L § 32-29-8 (2019) (N/A)
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32-29-8. Construction and low-clearance vehicles required to take special precautions at grade crossings--Violation as misdemeanor. No person may operate or move any crawler type tractor, steam shovel, derrick, roller, or any equipment or structure having a normal operating speed of ten or less miles per hour or a vertical body or load clearance of less than one-half inch per foot of the distance between any two adjacent axles or in any event of less than nine inches, measured above the level surface of a roadway, upon or across any tracks at a railroad grade crossing without first complying with § 32-29-9. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SL 1970, ch 175, § 29, § 1; SL 1989, ch 255, § 237.

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