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2015 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 32 - MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 18 - Brakes And Brake Fluid
- § 32-18-1 Brakes required on particular vehicles--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-1.1 Certain farm vehicles exempt.
- § 32-18-1.2 Fertilizer and agricultural chemical trailers exempt--Exception for new vehicles.
- § 32-18-2 Wheels on which brakes must act--Particular vehicles.
- § 32-18-3 Trailers, semitrailers, or pole trailers exempt from all-wheel requirement.
- § 32-18-4 Towed vehicles exempt from all-wheel requirement.
- § 32-18-5 Multiaxle trucks and truck tractors exempt from all-wheel requirement.
- § 32-18-6 Motorcycles exempt from all-wheel requirement.
- § 32-18-7 Service brakes required--Exceptions--Adequacy--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-8 Capabilities of service brakes--Braking force--Stopping distance--Classification of particular vehicles--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-9 Testing of brakes.
- § 32-18-10 Single control device operating all service brakes--Violation as misdemeanor--Additional control devices.
- § 32-18-11 Towing vehicles with air brakes--Application of trailer brakes--Automatic application--Manual application--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-12 Towing vehicles with vacuum brakes--Operation of towed vehicle brakes--Independent control system--Automatic application--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-13 Parking brakes--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-14 Capability of parking brake--Parking brake assisted by service brake.
- § 32-18-15 Continuing application of parking brake.
- § 32-18-16 Use of same braking mechanism for service and parking brakes.
- § 32-18-17 Trailers with air or vacuum brakes--Automatic continuing operation--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-18 Brakes on towing vehicle in case towed vehicle breaks away--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-19 Buses and trucks with air brakes--Reservoir--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-20 Buses and trucks with air brakes--Warning signal for low air pressure--Pressure gauge--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-21 Multiaxle trucks equipped with vacuum assistor brakes--Vacuum reservoir--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-22 Low vacuum warning signal--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-23 Combined air and vacuum power warning signal devices--Gauge not considered adequate.
- § 32-18-24 Check valve required on air or vacuum reservoirs--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-25 Safeguard against air backflow from reservoir through supply line--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-26 Maintenance and adjustment of brakes--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 32-18-26.1 Repealed.
- § 32-18-27 Brake inspection of motor-driven cycle.
- § 32-18-28 Denying registration to noncomplying cycles.
- § 32-18-29 Definition of hydraulic brake fluid.
- § 32-18-30 Distribution and service of hydraulic brake fluid.
- § 32-18-31 , 32-18-32. Repealed.
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