South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 18 - Brakes And Brake Fluid
Section 32-18-18 - Brakes on towing vehicle in case towed vehicle breaks away--Violation as misdemeanor.

32-18-18. Brakes on towing vehicle in case towed vehicle breaks away--Violation as misdemeanor.
Every motor vehicle manufactured or assembled after July 1, 1967, and used to tow a trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer equipped with brakes, shall be equipped with means for providing that in case of breakaway of the towed vehicle, the towing vehicle will be capable of being stopped by the use of its service brakes. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SL 1967, ch 197, §1 (e); SL 1989, ch 255, §78.

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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.