32-14-6. Restrictions respecting weight of vehicle--Duration of period of restrictionBSigns designating restricted area.
Local authorities, including road districts, may by ordinance or resolution prohibit the operation of vehicles upon any highway or impose restrictions as to the weight of vehicles allowed. Such prohibitions or restrictions apply only to vehicles to be operated upon any highway under the jurisdiction of and for the maintenance of which such local authorities are responsible and only if the highway by reason of physical condition, rain, snow, or other climatic conditions will be seriously damaged or destroyed unless the use of vehicles on the highway is prohibited or the permissible weights of the vehicles are reduced. Any local authority enacting any such ordinance or resolution shall erect and maintain or cause to be erected and maintained signs designating the provisions of the ordinance or resolution at each end of that portion of any highway affected by the ordinance or resolution. The ordinance or resolution is not valid unless such signs are erected and maintained.
Source: SDC 1939, §44.0343; SL 1999, ch 151, §6; SL 2002, ch 158, §3.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 14 - Traffic Regulation Generally
Section 32-14-1 - Definitions.
Section 32-14-2 - Applicability to drivers of publicly owned vehicles--Exceptions.
Section 32-14-4 - Regulation of speed in public parks.
Section 32-14-5 - Traffic control devices--One-way traffic--Processions and assemblages.
Section 32-14-8 - Road construction vehicles excepted--Traveling to and from road work.
Section 32-14-9 - Conditions imposed by owner upon permissive use of private property.
Section 32-14-12 - Certain maintenance vehicles exempt from overwidth restrictions.
Section 32-14-13 - Golf cart defined.
Section 32-14-16 - Golf cart ordinances authorized in municipalities and improvement districts.