32-18-1. Brakes required on particular vehicles--Violation as misdemeanor.

Every motor vehicle, as defined by subdivision § 32-14-1(17) and every trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer manufactured or sold in this state, and any combination of such vehicles operating upon a highway within this state shall be equipped with brakes in compliance with the requirements of this chapter. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.

Source: SDC 1939, § 44.0346; SL 1967, ch 197, § 1; SL 1974, ch 222, § 1; SL 1977, ch 262, § 1; SL 1989, ch 255, § 70.

32-18-1.1. Certain farm vehicles exempt.

Any farm vehicle designed and used primarily for tillage or harvesting, or wagons and other implements of husbandry, drawn by another vehicle, if the use thereof is confined to agricultural purposes or to the conveyance of agricultural products and the transportation of farm property by or for the producers thereof, from farm to farm within his vicinity or from local community or market to farm or from farm to a local community or market, is exempt from the provisions of this chapter. Any farm vehicle, except wagons and other implements of husbandry drawn by another vehicle, traveling at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour shall comply with § 32-18-8.

Source: SL 1975, ch 196, § 5; SL 1989, ch 256, § 14.

32-18-1.2. Fertilizer and agricultural chemical trailers exempt--Exception for new vehicles.

Any vehicle designed and used primarily for the distribution and application of agricultural fertilizer or chemicals, when drawn by another vehicle shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. However, vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of over twenty thousand pounds manufactured after July 1, 1979, shall have brakes acting on all wheels.

Source: SL 1979, ch 223, § 4.