2011 South Dakota Code
Title 32 MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 28. Traffic Control Devices
§32-28-4.1 Left turn on red--Local option--Violation of restrictions as misdemeanor.


SD Codified L § 32-28-4.1 (through 2011) What's This?

32-28-4.1. Left turn on red--Local option--Violation of restrictions as misdemeanor. The governing body of a municipality may authorize by ordinance, adopted pursuant to chapter 9-19, a motor vehicle to make a left-hand turn from an intersection after stopping in obedience to a red or stop signal as defined in § 32-28-4. This left-hand turn may only be authorized for a motor vehicle which has stopped in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available on a one-way roadway and intends to turn on to a one-way roadway in which the direction of traffic is moving to the left of the motor vehicle. In addition such turns may only be made after yielding the right-of-way to pedestrians or other traffic proceeding as directed by the signal at the intersection. A violation of such restrictions is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SL 1980, ch 233; SL 1989, ch 255, § 235.

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