32-22-21. Maximum weight per tire and on any axle or combination of axles--Violation as misdemeanor.
No vehicle equipped with pneumatic tires may be operated or moved upon any highway in this state, if the weight of the vehicle and the load thereon resting upon the surface of the highway exceeds:
(1)Six hundred pounds on any inch of the tire width on:
(a)An axle equipped with dual tires;
(b)A steering axle;
(c)An axle of an oversize or overweight vehicle that cannot be readily reduced in size or weight and is operating with a permit issued under §32-22-42;
(d)An axle of a trailer being towed by a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of eleven thousand pounds or less; or
(e)An axle equipped with tires having a minimum width of four hundred forty-five millimeters or seventeen and one-half inches if operated on a highway identified in §32-22-21.2; or
(2)Five hundred pounds on any inch of the tire width on any other type of axle.
In no instance may the weight on any axle or combination of axles exceed the maximum weight limits specified in §32-22-16. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Source: SDC 1939, §44.0336 (6) (e) as added by SL 1943, ch 158, §2; SL 1947, ch 192; SL 1953, ch 234; SL 1957, ch 223, §2; SL 1959, ch 260, §2; SL 1984, ch 230, §19; SL 1996, ch 202, §§2, 3; SL 2013, ch 148, §1.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 22 - Weight Size And Load Restrictions
Section 32-22-2 - Movement of load or wide farm machinery during darkness as misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-5 - Maximum length of vehicle--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-6 - Flagging or lighting extended loads--Violations as misdemeanors.
Section 32-22-8.2 - Local regulation restricted--Access permits.
Section 32-22-8.3 - Issuance of trip permits unaffected.
Section 32-22-8.4 - Length limitations on stinger-steered automobile transports.
Section 32-22-9 - Combination of vehicles of more than two units--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-10 - Requirements for combination vehicles.
Section 32-22-12.1 - Certain combination exempt--Specifications--Violation as misdemeanor--Rules.
Section 32-22-14 - Maximum height of vehicles--Exceptions--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-14.1 - Exemption of vehicles used to transport farm commodities or implements.
Section 32-22-16 - Maximum weight of vehicle or combination of vehicles--Axles--Misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-16.1 - Formula for weight on group of consecutive axles.
Section 32-22-19 - Combination vehicles deemed single for weight purposes.
Section 32-22-21.1 - Single trip permits to move to scale site.
Section 32-22-21.2 - Highways to which maximum weight limit applies.
Section 32-22-22 - Tire width defined.
Section 32-22-28 - Metal wheeled vehicles--Maximum weight--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-29 - Track vehicles excepted.
Section 32-22-30.1 - Construction vehicles and equipment--Operation on highway projects.
Section 32-22-39 - Books of single trip permits--Payment of fee--Designation of routes.
Section 32-22-40 - Annual or single trip permits by local subdivisions.
Section 32-22-41 - Oversize permits--Duration--Rules.
Section 32-22-42 - Rules governing issuance of overweight and oversize permits--Fees.
Section 32-22-42.3 - Livestock hauler exemption.
Section 32-22-42.12 - Certain vehicles hauling from point of harvest--Exemption.
Section 32-22-42.13 - Single trip permit.
Section 32-22-42.15 - Last trailer marked long load.
Section 32-22-43 - Liability for damages not affected by issuance of permit.
Section 32-22-46 - Emergency movement of national defense vehicles.
Section 32-22-47 - Maximum vehicle weight on bridges--Required and permissible signs--Exception.
Section 32-22-48 - Damages for crossing bridge with overweight vehicle--Misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-49 - Person and vehicle defined.
Section 32-22-50 - Authority to weigh vehicle--Requiring vehicle to be driven to scales.
Section 32-22-51 - Removal of overweight portion of load--Risk of loss of unloaded cargo.
Section 32-22-52 - Operation of oversize or overweight vehicle as misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-55 - Schedule of penalties for operation of overweight vehicle.
Section 32-22-57 - Lift axle control requirements--Permits--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-57.2 - Specification of size and load carrying capacity of variable load axles.
Section 32-22-59 - Restrictions on size, weight or class.
Section 32-22-60 - Size and load restrictions--Notice--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 32-22-62 - Exemption of tow trucks or wreckers under certain conditions.