South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 28 - Highway Markers And Signs
Section 31-28-23 - Tampering, molesting, or interfering with markers, signs, or control devices--Violation as misdemeanor--Liability for costs.

31-28-23. Tampering, molesting, or interfering with markers, signs, or control devices--Violation as misdemeanor--Liability for costs.
No person may, without lawful authority, attempt or actually alter, deface, injure, knock down, remove, or in any manner molest or interfere with any official highway marker, sign, guide board, traffic-control device, interstate highway gate, or any railroad sign or signal, barrier, warning device, or sign erected in connection with highway maintenance or construction activities. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor. Any person who violates this section is responsible for the cost of repairing or replacing such markers, signs, signals, barriers, or devices.

Source: SL 1963, ch 274, §§5, 6; SDCL, §31-28-24; SL 1984, ch 207, §73; SL 1996, ch 188, §3; SL 2001, ch 160, §1; SL 2006, ch 130, §12.

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Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 31 - Highways and Bridges

Chapter 28 - Highway Markers And Signs

Section 31-28-1 - Marking of highways with standard design--Numbers to correspond with official maps.

Section 31-28-2 - Directional signs at highway branches.

Section 31-28-4 - Description of routes selected for marking--Previously marked routes to conform.

Section 31-28-5 - Standard traffic control devices and markings--Adoption and erection--Uniformity of design.

Section 31-28-6 - Warning signs at points of danger--Maintenance--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 31-28-7 - Railway crossing signs--Maintenance--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 31-28-7.1 - Legally abandoned and nonoperational track defined.

Section 31-28-7.2 - Notice of nonoperational track becoming operational.

Section 31-28-8 - Erection of unofficial signs prohibited--Misdemeanor--Emergencies--Approval by Department of Transportation.

Section 31-28-10 - Marking intrastate and interstate highways--Uniformity--Conformity with other states.

Section 31-28-10.1 - Standards for supplemental guide signs--Rules--Definition.

Section 31-28-10.2 - Safety as prime consideration in supplemental guide signs--Traffic generating capacity secondary.

Section 31-28-10.3 - Supplemental guide signs for smaller institutions.

Section 31-28-11 - Markings to conform to uniform national signing standards on streets and roads constructed with federal aid.

Section 31-28-12 - Markings on highways under commissioners' jurisdiction--Distances between third class municipalities--Cost of markings.

Section 31-28-13 - Markings by local authorities--Local regulations not enforceable in absence of sign--Location and legibility of sign.

Section 31-28-14 - Unauthorized signs, markers, and signals prohibited--Authorization to organization.

Section 31-28-16 - Arterial highways--Right-of-way--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 31-28-17 - Hazardous intersections--Railroad crossings--Warning signs--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 31-28-19 - Markings resembling official signs--Obscuring official sign--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 31-28-20 - Commercial or political campaign advertising--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 31-28-21 - Signs on private property.

Section 31-28-22 - Prohibited sign as nuisance.

Section 31-28-23 - Tampering, molesting, or interfering with markers, signs, or control devices--Violation as misdemeanor--Liability for costs.

Section 31-28-23.1 - Civil penalty for tampering, removing, or interfering with highway marker, sign, or control device.

Section 31-28-25 - Traffic light control.

Section 31-28-28 - Unauthorized possession of official signs or markers as misdemeanor.

Section 31-28-29 - Activities of technical professionals not limited.