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2006 South Dakota Code - 05 — Annual Registration And License Plates
- 32-5-1 — Motor vehicle defined.
- 32-5-1.1 — Repealed.
- 32-5-1.2 — Mopeds exempt from chapter.
- 32-5-1.3 — Farm vehicles exempt--Exceptions.
- 32-5-1.4 — All-terrain vehicles used in agriculture exempt.
- 32-5-2 — Application for registration--Contents--Failure to provide information asmisdemeanor--Acceptance of incomplete or erroneous form prohibited.
- 32-5-2.1 — Staggered registration of noncommercial vehicles--Snowmobiles excepted.
- 32-5-2.2 — Determination of month to register vehicle.
- 32-5-2.3 — Renewal of registration--Initial registration period--Proration of fees.
- 32-5-2.4 — Renewal of registration during assigned month--Expiration of staggeredlicense plates or validation stickers--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-2.5 — Renewal of registration of acquired motor vehicle--Credit (Effective untilJanuary 1, 2008).
- 32-5-2.5 — Registration of acquired motor vehicle--Application (Effective January 1,2008).
- 32-5-2.6 — Early renewal--Fee for late renewal.
- 32-5-2.7 — Registration of vehicle expires upon transfer or assignment of vehicleownership--Removal of plates required--Misdemeanor.
- 32-5-2.8 — Removed plates to be affixed to new vehicle or destroyed--Vehicleregistration--Misdemeanor.
- 32-5-2.9 — Operation of purchased vehicle that had plates removed--Bill of sale.
- 32-5-3 — Information respecting owner of vehicle--Information respecting use ofvehicle.
- 32-5-4 — Repealed.
- 32-5-4.1 — Nonresident registration application--Issuance of nonnegotiable interstatetitle--Purpose and duration--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-4.2 — Forwarding of nonnegotiable interstate title to department with application.
- 32-5-4.3 — Repealed.
- 32-5-5 — Vehicle license fee based on weight--Certification of correct weight.
- 32-5-6 — Schedule of fees for noncommercial motor vehicles.
- 32-5-6.1 — License fees for noncommercial motor homes--"Motor home" defined.
- 32-5-6.2 — Repealed.
- 32-5-6.3 — Schedule of fees for noncommercial vehicles not an automobile, pickuptruck, or van.
- 32-5-6.4 — Registration of certain noncommercial motor vehicles for less than twelvemonths--Fee.
- 32-5-7 — Repealed.
- 32-5-8 — Schedule of fees for certain recreational vehicles, noncommercial trailers, andsemitrailers.
- 32-5-8.1 — Identification plate required for certain trailers or semitrailers--Display--Fee--Transfer of title.
- 32-5-8.2 — Trailers or semitrailers with identification plates may only be pulled bycertain motor vehicles--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-8.3 — Temporary permit for certain noncommercial motor vehicles to pull identifiedtrailer or semitrailer.
- 32-5-8.4 — Additional fee when weight exceeds license.
- 32-5-9 — Schedule of fees for motorcycles.
- 32-5-9.1 — Fees for snowmobiles--Period of license--Payment.
- 32-5-9.2 — Disposition of snowmobile fees and initial registration tax.
- 32-5-9.3 — Initial registration tax on snowmobiles--Failure to pay as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-10 — Repealed.
- 32-5-10.1 — Motorcycle safety education fee--Amount and payment.
- 32-5-10.2 — Motorcycle safety education fee--Deposit in special revenue fund.
- 32-5-10.3 — Motorcycle safety education fee--Collection and remittance.
- 32-5-10.4 — Repealed.
- 32-5-11 — Repealed.
- 32-5-16.1 — Mobile home or manufactured home license fee--Establishment of purchaseprice by bill of sale or retail book value--Fee in lieu of certain taxes--Exemption for certain entities.
- 32-5-16.2 — Division of receipts from mobile home or manufactured home license fees.
- 32-5-16.3 — Permit required to move mobile home or manufactured home--Valid forsingle trip--Conditional on tax payment--Fee--Disposition of fees--Dealer--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-16.4 — , 32-5-16.5. Repealed.
- 32-5-16.6 — Penalties for owner's or lender's failure to obtain tax affidavit--Notificationto department.
- 32-5-16.7 — Penalties for transporter's, manufacturer's, or dealer's failure to obtain taxaffidavit--Notification to department.
- 32-5-16.8 — Single party not to be assessed multiple penalties.
- 32-5-16.9 — Assessment based upon mistake of fact or error of law--Hearing--Appeal.
- 32-5-17 — Repealed.
- 32-5-18.1 — Licensing and compensation requirements applicable to highway constructionor reconstruction--Special permits not required while engaged inconstruction.
- 32-5-19 — Repealed.
- 32-5-21 — Motorbus defined--Noncommercial fee--Gross maximum weight.
- 32-5-22 — Unregistered motor vehicles.
- 32-5-23 — Destruction of licensed vehicle--Failure of vehicle to pass inspection--Surrender of plates--Refund of fee.
- 32-5-24 — Refund of overpayments authorized--Fund available for payment--Time limitfor application.
- 32-5-25 — Dealer's license fee.
- 32-5-26 — Repealed.
- 32-5-27 — Tax, title, and license--Used car dealers--Sale of unlicensed vehicle--Timelimitation--Exemption from excise tax--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-27.1 — Repealed.
- 32-5-28 — Repealed.
- 32-5-29 — Sales of vehicles prima facie evidence that seller is used car dealer--Particularparties excepted--Violations--Misdemeanor.
- 32-5-30 — Fee for noncommercial vehicles more than five years old.
- 32-5-31 — Repealed.
- 32-5-31.1 — Transferred.
- 32-5-31.2 — Repealed.
- 32-5-32.1 — Transferred.
- 32-5-33 — Repealed.
- 32-5-34 — Repealed.
- 32-5-35 — Transferred.
- 32-5-36 — Transferred.
- 32-5-37 — Repealed.
- 32-5-42 — Vehicles owned by public agencies, Indian tribes or churches--Applicationfor registration--Number plates--Costs--Disposition of costs--Newregistration required on business use.
- 32-5-42.1 — Nonprofit adjustment training center vehicles--Registration--Plates--Disposition of costs.
- 32-5-43 — Identifying markings of state-owned vehicles--Exceptions--License plates.
- 32-5-44 — Plates without yearly designation--Distinctive color--Yearly renewaldispensed with.
- 32-5-45 — Exemption of mobile homes purchased outside state.
- 32-5-46 — Vehicles owned by nonresidents--Compliance with laws of foreign state--Display of foreign license plates.
- 32-5-47 — Definition of nonresident.
- 32-5-47.1 — Military personnel, domestic volunteers, and dependents as nonresidents.
- 32-5-48 — Reciprocity required.
- 32-5-49 — Repealed.
- 32-5-49.1 — Registration not required for nonresident harvest vehicles during harvestseason--Compensation certificate required--Violation a misdemeanor.
- 32-5-50 — Dealers participating in driver education program--Application todepartment--Fee--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-51 — License plate design--Operation on highways.
- 32-5-52 — Radius of use of vehicle--Size of first or second class municipality--Violationas misdemeanor.
- 32-5-53 — Superseded.
- 32-5-54 — Repealed.
- 32-5-55 — Licensing vehicles owned by members of national guard--Distinctive platesadditional.
- 32-5-55.1 — Retired members of national guard--Distinctive plates.
- 32-5-56 — Fee for distinctive plates--Disposition of fees.
- 32-5-56.1 — Period of retention of national guard plates.
- 32-5-57 — Repealed.
- 32-5-59 — Request for issuance of plates--Issuance of plates.
- 32-5-60 — Repealed.
- 32-5-61 — Failure to apply for distinctive plates.
- 32-5-62 — Discharge from national guard--Surrender of distinctive plates--Retention ofregular plates.
- 32-5-63 — Sale of vehicle with distinctive plates--Notification to adjutant general--Transfer of plates from old to new vehicle.
- 32-5-64 — Other statutes applicable to national guard registration.
- 32-5-65 — Additional distinctive plates for employees of commercial radio orbroadcasting companies--Call letters of station--Fee--Surrender of plates--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-65.1 — Additional distinctive plates for amateur radio licensees--Fee--Surrender ofplates--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-66 — Application for radio licensees special plates--Issuance of distinctive plates.
- 32-5-67 — Disposition of fees for special plates--Expenditure.
- 32-5-68 — Repealed.
- 32-5-75 — Repealed.
- 32-5-76 — Additional special plates for persons with substantial disabilities--Secretaryto define term--Design of plates--Surrender of plates--Violation asmisdemeanor.
- 32-5-76.1 — Portable certificates for persons with substantial disabilities--Application--Physician's certificate--Rules--Surrender of certificate--Violations asmisdemeanors.
- 32-5-76.2 — Portable certificates for nonprofit organizations, hospitals, local governmententities, etc.--Application--Rules--Surrendering certificate--Violations asmisdemeanors.
- 32-5-76.3 — Distinctive plates for nursing facilities transporting persons with disabilities--Surrender of plates--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-77 — Special license for historical cars--Application and fee--Plates as permanent--Use of vehicle restricted--Disposition of fee.
- 32-5-77.1 — Repealed.
- 32-5-77.2 — Displaying original number plates on historical cars.
- 32-5-77.3 — Historical motorcycle license plates--Application and fee--Permanence--Useof vehicle restricted.
- 32-5-78 — General license fees in lieu of other taxes against vehicle.
- 32-5-79 — Application blanks furnished by department--Time of furnishing.
- 32-5-80 — Registration of motorcycles.
- 32-5-81 — Application to county treasurer--Issuance of distinctive number plate--Fuelused by vehicle--Failure to identify fuel as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-82 — Delivery or forwarding of plates or stickers--Applicant to pay costs of postageand handling--Disposition of fees.
- 32-5-82.1 — Number stickers--Evidence of current registration.
- 32-5-83 — Design of number plates--Color contrast.
- 32-5-83.1 — Color of number stickers--Contrast with plates.
- 32-5-84 — Composition of number plates--Size of figures--Snowmobile tags.
- 32-5-84.1 — Composition of stickers.
- 32-5-84.2 — Snowmobile license must be attached.
- 32-5-85 — Number of plates issued.
- 32-5-86 — Reflectorized plates--Determination by department--Elimination of bidsdeemed not feasible.
- 32-5-87 — Repealed.
- 32-5-88 — Mount Rushmore design--Costs and feasibility.
- 32-5-89 — Determination of characteristics of plate--Dealers' plates.
- 32-5-89.1 — Omitted.
- 32-5-89.2 — Special personalized license plates as replacement for regular plates--Numberof letters--Duplications prohibited--Offensive letter combinations.
- 32-5-89.3 — Application for personalized plates--Fees--Superimposed over regular plates--Validated each year with stickers--Fee disposition.
- 32-5-89.4 — Transfer of vehicle--Removal of personalized plate required until transferapproved by secretary--Violation as petty offense.
- 32-5-89.5 — Replacement of lost, mutilated, or destroyed personalized plates--Affidavit--Fee--Disposition of fee.
- 32-5-89.6 — Refund of certain personalized license fees.
- 32-5-90 — Registration--Contents--Owner's signature--Registration number.
- 32-5-90.1 — Certified abstract of registration information--Fee.
- 32-5-90.2 — Repealed.
- 32-5-91 — Inspection of registration by peace officer--Possession of registration--Violation as petty offense.
- 32-5-92 — Lost certificate of registration--Duplicate--Fee.
- 32-5-93 — Forwarding applications to department.
- 32-5-94 — Application and registration of vehicle--Manner to facilitate retrieval.
- 32-5-95 — Repealed.
- 32-5-96 — Repealed.
- 32-5-97 — Separate numbering of different types of vehicles.
- 32-5-97.1 — Farm trucks--Decal attached to license plate.
- 32-5-97.2 — Utility trucks--Decal attached to license plate.
- 32-5-98 — Operation without distinctive number prohibited--Conspicuous display--Removal of unauthorized numbers--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-99 — Loss of plates--Issuance of duplicates--Affidavit--Fee--Disposition of fee--Report of loss.
- 32-5-99.1 — Repealed.
- 32-5-99.2 — Repealed.
- 32-5-100 — Plates as state property.
- 32-5-101 — Operation of vehicle while registration is suspended--Misdemeanor.
- 32-5-102 — Prosecution for assault or homicide not barred--Civil action.
- 32-5-103 — Trafficking in license plates--Counterfeiting--Alteration--Misdemeanor.
- 32-5-104 — Repealed.
- 32-5-105 — Repealed.
- 32-5-106 — Municipal licensing or taxing of vehicles.
- 32-5-107 — Temporary permit for person in possession of title or bill of sale--Inspectionof title or bill of sale--Fee.
- 32-5-108 — Additional special plates for certain disabled veterans--Design of plates--Fees--Surrender of plates--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-109 — Special plates for prisoners of war--Fees--Surrender of plates--Violation asmisdemeanor.
- 32-5-109.1 — Special plates for Pearl Harbor survivors--Application--Fees--Design--Surrender of distinctive plates--Retention of regular plates.
- 32-5-109.2 — Distinctive plates for purple heart recipients--Surrender of plates--Violationas misdemeanor.
- 32-5-109.3 — Distinctive plates for Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.
- 32-5-109.4 — Distinctive plates for honorably discharged veterans--Violation asmisdemeanor.
- 32-5-110 — Commemorative or souvenir license plates--Use for general transportationpurposes.
- 32-5-111 — Power of secretary to make rules and require uniformity in administration ofstatute--Duty of local officials.
- 32-5-112 — Duties of county treasurers.
- 32-5-113 — Special license plates for firefighters.
- 32-5-114 — Fee for firefighters plates.
- 32-5-115 — Time for retention of firefighter's plates.
- 32-5-116 — Application for firefighters plates--Deadline.
- 32-5-117 — Certification of firefighters plates.
- 32-5-118 — Registration of regular number plates required for firefighters plates.
- 32-5-119 — Failure to apply for firefighters plates.
- 32-5-120 — Firefighters plates surrendered upon discharge, separation, or retirement.
- 32-5-121 — Transfer of firefighters plates.
- 32-5-122 — Applicability of state motor vehicle laws to firefighters plates.
- 32-5-123 — Special plates identifying Indian tribes.
- 32-5-124 — Fee for Indian tribe license plates.
- 32-5-125 — Replacement of Indian tribe license plates.
- 32-5-126 — Certain trailers authorized to be licensed for more than one year--Fee.
- 32-5-127 — Additional charges for decals and plates mailed to owner.
- 32-5-128 — Exemption from excise tax for motor vehicles leased to tax exempt entities.
- 32-5-129 — Licensed agents authorized to register motor vehicles.
- 32-5-130 — Procedure for licensing agents.
- 32-5-131 — Contract for services of licensed agent.
- 32-5-132 — Licensed agents to serve specified counties.
- 32-5-133 — Fiscal responsibilities of licensed agents.
- 32-5-134 — Submission of motor vehicle license revenues.
- 32-5-135 — Submission of revenue from county wheel tax and excise tax.
- 32-5-136 — Specialty plates allowing for organization decal--In lieu of regular licenseplates--Limited to noncommercial vehicles--Fees.
- 32-5-137 — Qualifications for organization seeking decal.
- 32-5-138 — Information required of organization applying for organization decal.
- 32-5-139 — Department to furnish or authorize decals--Reimbursement--Fee--Organization to establish criteria and issue decals--Unauthorized decalsprohibited--Violation as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-139.1 — Specialty license plates that allow for placement of first responder decalsauthorized--Fees.
- 32-5-139.2 — First responder organization to meet certain requirements for decal approval.
- 32-5-139.3 — First responder decals to be furnished by department--Reimbursement ofcosts and fee--Issuance of decals by organization--Misuse or unauthorizeduse as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-140 — Temporary permit for vehicle bearing specialty license plates withorganization or first responder decal--Duration and fee--Misuse or failure topurchase as misdemeanor.
- 32-5-141 — Refund of temporary permit fee before April 1, 2000.
- 32-5-142 — Suspension of registration, title, or license if distress warrant issued--Creditfor fee paid.
- 32-5-143 — Definitions.
- 32-5-144 — Disclosure of personal information contained in motor vehicle recordsprohibited--Exceptions.
- 32-5-145 — Personal information to be disclosed for certain purposes.
- 32-5-146 — Disclosure to one who has subject's consent.
- 32-5-147 — Disclosure on proof of identity of requestor and representation of use forcertain limited purposes.
- 32-5-148 — Department may impose conditions on requesting person.
- 32-5-149 — Retention of records by certain recipients.
- 32-5-150 — Misrepresentation by requesting person as misdemeanor--Use of personalinformation to commit crime of violence as felony.
- 32-5-151 — Person in possession of title or certificate authorized to renew registration--Misrepresentation as misdemeanor.
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