2011 South Dakota Code
Title 32 MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 32. School Buses
§32-32-6 Duty of motorists to slow or stop in obedience to amber or red signal--Exception for specified highways--Violation as misdemeanor.

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.