<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 31-28-7 - Railway crossing signs--Maintenance--Violation as misdemeanor. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2053242Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2053242SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053242CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2053242Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2053242DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053242000001 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053242SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053242SCL-000002 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2053242Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=31-28-7"><span class="s2053242SENU">31-28-7</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053242SENU">. </span><span class="s2053242CL">Railway crossing signs--Maintenance--Violation as misdemeanor.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2053242Normal-000000"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053242DefaultParagraphFont">The public board or officer whose duty it is to repair or maintain any public highway shall erect and maintain at points in conformity with standard uniform traffic control practices on each side of the place at which a highway crosses an operational railway track or right-of-way, except within the limits of municipalities, a standard railroad advance warning sign. The sign shall be on the right-hand side of the highway approaching such crossing and at a distance from the crossing as the department or other controlling body shall direct. Any legally abandoned or nonoperational track which is crossed by a public highway and at which the crossing has been properly marked as a railway grade crossing may be marked with a supplemental sign, meeting uniform traffic control practices, to inform drivers of vehicles identified in § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=32-29-5"><span class="s2053242DefaultParagraphFont">32-29-5</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053242DefaultParagraphFont"> that a stop is not required at that crossing. Failure to comply with the provisions of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2053242Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053242000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2053242Normal"><span class="s2053242SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053242SCL-000002"> SL 1923, ch 284, § 4; SDC 1939, § 28.9903; SDC 1939, § 28.0901 as added by SL 1941, ch 130; SDCL § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=31-28-9"><span class="s2053242SCL-000002">31-28-9</span></a><span class="s2053242SCL-000002">; SL 1981, ch 228, § 1; SL 2010, ch 145, § 138.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 31-28-7 - Railway crossing signs--Maintenance--Violation as misdemeanor. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2053243Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2053243SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053243CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2053243Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2053243DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053243000001 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053243SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053243SCL-000002 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2053243Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=31-28-7.1"><span class="s2053243SENU">31-28-7.1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053243SENU">. </span><span class="s2053243CL">Legally abandoned and nonoperational track defined.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2053243Normal-000000"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053243DefaultParagraphFont">For the purpose of § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=31-28-7"><span class="s2053243DefaultParagraphFont">31-28-7</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053243DefaultParagraphFont">, legally abandoned track is any section of railway track on which formal legal abandonment proceedings have been completed. For the purpose of §§ </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=31-28-7"><span class="s2053243DefaultParagraphFont">31-28-7</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053243DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=31-28-7.2"><span class="s2053243DefaultParagraphFont">31-28-7.2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053243DefaultParagraphFont">, and </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=32-29-5"><span class="s2053243DefaultParagraphFont">32-29-5</span></a><span class="s2053243DefaultParagraphFont">, nonoperational track is any section of railway track on which there has been no traffic for the previous three months and there is no prospect of traffic in the near future.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2053243Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053243000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2053243Normal"><span class="s2053243SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053243SCL-000002"> SL 1981, ch 228, § 3.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 31-28-7 - Railway crossing signs--Maintenance--Violation as misdemeanor. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2053244Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2053244SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053244CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2053244Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2053244DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053244000001 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053244SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2053244SCL-000002 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2053244Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=31-28-7.2"><span class="s2053244SENU">31-28-7.2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053244SENU">. </span><span class="s2053244CL">Notice of nonoperational track becoming operational.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2053244Normal-000000"><span class="s2053244DefaultParagraphFont">If a nonoperational track becomes operational, the operator of that railroad shall, not less than thirty days prior to operating on the track, cause public notice to be given thereof, by publication in each newspaper published in each county in which the operator intends to operate, once each week for four consecutive weeks, notifying the public of the date on which operations shall begin. The operator shall also notify each school superintendent in those counties in writing of the commencement of operations.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2053244Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053244000001"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2053244Normal"><span class="s2053244SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2053244SCL-000002"> SL 1981, ch 228, § 4.</span></p></div></body></html>