32-32-6 — Duty of motorists to slow or stop in obedience to amber or red signal--Exception forspecified highways--Violation as misdemeanor.
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32-32-6.
Duty of motorists to slow or stop in obedience to amber or red signal--Exception
for specified highways--Violation as misdemeanor.
The operator of a motor vehicle on a two-lane
highway or a private road meeting or overtaking a school bus on which the amber warning lights are
flashing shall reduce the speed of his vehicle to not more than twenty miles per hour and proceed
past the school bus with caution. The operator of a motor vehicle when he meets or overtakes a
school bus on which the red signal lights are flashing shall bring his vehicle to a complete stop not
closer than fifteen feet from the school bus and shall remain stopped until the flashing red signal
lights are extinguished.
The operator of a motor vehicle on a highway providing two or more lanes in each direction need
not stop when he meets a school bus which is traveling in the opposite direction even though the
school bus is stopped and its red signal lights flashing. The operator of a motor vehicle on a highway
providing two or more lanes in each direction shall stop when he overtakes a school bus traveling
in the same direction when the school bus is stopped and its red signal lights are flashing.
A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Source: SL 1963, ch 255, §§ 2, 3; SDCL, § 32-32-5; SL 1970, ch 175, § 33; SL 1974, ch 228, § 2; SL 1975, ch 211, § 2; SL 1982, ch 250; SL 1989, ch 255, § 219; SL 1989, ch 277.