Driving while license is revoked, suspended, or canceled--Misdemeanors
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case State v. Vento (1999)
Most recently applied in State v. Clifford (March 2026)
Source: SL 1959, ch 261, § 29; SDC Supp 1960, § 44.9950 (1); SL 1988, ch 254, § 4.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Any person who drives a motor vehicle on any public highway of this state at a time when his privilege is:
(1) Revoked is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor;
(2) Suspended is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor;
(3) Canceled is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.