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2011 South Dakota Code
Title 49 PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS
Chapter 16A. Intrastate Railroad Regulation
§49-16A-119 Trains prohibited from blocking streets, roads or highways during emergency--Violation as misdemeanor.
SD Codified L § 49-16A-119 (through 2011) What's This?
49-16A-119. Trains prohibited from blocking streets, roads or highways during emergency--Violation as misdemeanor. A standing railroad engine or car may not occupy or block any street, road, or highway grade crossing for more than twenty consecutive minutes, if the path of any emergency vehicle making an emergency trip is blocked by the railroad engine or car, unless it is disabled, by accident or otherwise and cannot be moved without striking any object or person on track. A violation of this section by a railroad corporation is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Source: SL 1994, ch 355.
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