South Dakota Statutes

§ 32-17-27 — Lights on parked vehicles--Color and visibility--Vehicles parked within municipality--Violation as misdemeanor.

South Dakota § 32-17-27
JurisdictionSouth Dakota
Title 32MOTOR VEHICLES
Ch. 32-16VEHICLE LIGHTS AND FLARES

This text of South Dakota § 32-17-27 (Lights on parked vehicles--Color and visibility--Vehicles parked within municipality--Violation as misdemeanor.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering South Dakota primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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S.D. Codified Laws § 32-17-27 (2026).

Text

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 a distance of five hundred feet to the front of such vehicle and projecting red light visible under like conditions from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear, except that no lights need be displayed upon any such vehicle when parked within the corporate limits of a municipality. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

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535 F.3d 771 (Eighth Circuit, 2008)
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Legislative History

SDC 1939, § 44.0351; SL 1961, ch 230; SL 1963, ch 264; SL 1965, ch 196; SL 1989, ch 255, § 65.

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