32-18-10. Single control device operating all service brakes--Violation as misdemeanor--Additional control devices.
Every motor vehicle described in §32-18-1, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer, and every combination of such vehicles, except motorcycles and motor-driven cycles, equipped with brakes shall have the braking system so arranged that one control device can be used to operate all service brakes. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
This section does not prohibit vehicles from being equipped with an additional control device to be used to operate brakes on the towed vehicles. This section does not apply to driveaway or towaway operations unless the brakes on the individual vehicles are designed to be operated by a single control on the towing vehicle.
Source: SL 1967, ch 197, §1 (h); SL 1989, ch 255, §73.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
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 32-18-2 - 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 32-18-9 - Testing of brakes.
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 32-18-19 - Buses and trucks with air brakes--Reservoir--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 32-18-22 - Low vacuum warning signal--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 32-18-24 - Check valve required on air or vacuum reservoirs--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.