Every truck, truck tractor, bus with a capacity of ten or more passengers, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer having a width at any part in excess of eighty inches shall be equipped with four clearance lamps. Two of such lamps shall be located at the extreme right and left sides of the front of such vehicle, and displaying an amber light visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the front of the vehicle, and the remaining two lamps located at the extreme right and left sides of the rear of the vehicle and displaying red lights visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle, which rear clearance lamps shall be in addition to the red lamps required in § 32-17-8. A violation of this section is a petty offense.
S.D. Codified Laws § 32-17-14
Vehicles requiring clearance lamps--Location and visibility of clearance lamps--Violation as petty offense
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Corey v. Kocer (1972)
Most recently applied in Schulte v. Schultz (June 1972)
Source: SDC 1939, § 44.0352 (9); SL 1957, ch 227, § 1; SL 1959, ch 254; SL 1965, ch 197, § 1; SL 1973, ch 208; SL 1989, ch 255, § 48.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.