South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 18 - Brakes And Brake Fluid
Section 32-18-1 - Brakes required on particular vehicles--Violation as misdemeanor.

32-18-1. Brakes required on particular vehicles--Violation as misdemeanor.
Every motor vehicle, as defined by subdivision §32-14-1(17) and every trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer manufactured or sold in this state, and any combination of such vehicles operating upon a highway within this state shall be equipped with brakes in compliance with the requirements of this chapter. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SDC 1939, §44.0346; SL 1967, ch 197, §1; SL 1974, ch 222, §1; SL 1977, ch 262, §1; SL 1989, ch 255, §70.

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South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 32 - Motor Vehicles

Chapter 18 - Brakes And Brake Fluid

Section 32-18-1 - Brakes required on particular vehicles--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-1.1 - Certain farm vehicles exempt.

Section 32-18-1.2 - Fertilizer and agricultural chemical trailers exempt--Exception for new vehicles.

Section 32-18-2 - Wheels on which brakes must act--Particular vehicles.

Section 32-18-3 - Trailers, semitrailers, or pole trailers exempt from all-wheel requirement.

Section 32-18-4 - Towed vehicles exempt from all-wheel requirement.

Section 32-18-5 - Multiaxle trucks and truck tractors exempt from all-wheel requirement.

Section 32-18-6 - Motorcycles exempt from all-wheel requirement.

Section 32-18-7 - Service brakes required--Exceptions--Adequacy--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-8 - Capabilities of service brakes--Braking force--Stopping distance--Classification of particular vehicles--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-9 - Testing of brakes.

Section 32-18-10 - Single control device operating all service brakes--Violation as misdemeanor--Additional control devices.

Section 32-18-11 - Towing vehicles with air brakes--Application of trailer brakes--Automatic application--Manual application--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-12 - Towing vehicles with vacuum brakes--Operation of towed vehicle brakes--Independent control system--Automatic application--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-13 - Parking brakes--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-14 - Capability of parking brake--Parking brake assisted by service brake.

Section 32-18-15 - Continuing application of parking brake.

Section 32-18-16 - Use of same braking mechanism for service and parking brakes.

Section 32-18-17 - Trailers with air or vacuum brakes--Automatic continuing operation--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-18 - Brakes on towing vehicle in case towed vehicle breaks away--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-19 - Buses and trucks with air brakes--Reservoir--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-20 - Buses and trucks with air brakes--Warning signal for low air pressure--Pressure gauge--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-21 - Multiaxle trucks equipped with vacuum assistor brakes--Vacuum reservoir--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-22 - Low vacuum warning signal--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-23 - Combined air and vacuum power warning signal devices--Gauge not considered adequate.

Section 32-18-24 - Check valve required on air or vacuum reservoirs--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-25 - Safeguard against air backflow from reservoir through supply line--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-26 - Maintenance and adjustment of brakes--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 32-18-27 - Brake inspection of motor-driven cycle.

Section 32-18-28 - Denying registration to noncomplying cycles.

Section 32-18-29 - Definition of hydraulic brake fluid.

Section 32-18-30 - Distribution and service of hydraulic brake fluid.