32-18-24. Check valve required on air or vacuum reservoirs--Violation as misdemeanor.
All motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers, when equipped with air or vacuum reservoirs or reserve capacity as required by §32-18-19 or 32-18-21, shall have such reservoirs or reserve capacity so safeguarded by a check valve or equivalent device that in the event of failure or leakage in its connection to the source of compressed air or vacuum, the stored air or vacuum may not be depleted by the leak or failure. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Source: SL 1967, ch 197, §1 (i) (3); SL 1989, ch 255, §83.
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.