<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 32-32-5.2 - Use of red and amber lights by school bus operator--Violation as misdemeanor. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2055161Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2055161SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2055161CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2055161Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2055161DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2055161Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } p.s2055161Normal-000002 { text-indent: 0.25in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2055161000003 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2055161SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2055161SCL-000004 { 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="s2055161Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=32-32-5.2"><span class="s2055161SENU">32-32-5.2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055161SENU">. </span><span class="s2055161CL">Use of red and amber lights by school bus operator--Violation as misdemeanor.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055161Normal-000000"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055161DefaultParagraphFont">When stopping to receive or discharge pupils, the operator of a school bus to which § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=32-32-5"><span class="s2055161DefaultParagraphFont">32-32-5</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055161DefaultParagraphFont"> applies shall cause the amber caution lights to be lighted at a distance of not less than three hundred feet nor more than five hundred feet from the point where the pupils are to be received or discharged from the bus. If the point of receiving or discharging pupils is:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055161Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055161DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    On the roadway, as defined by § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=32-14-1"><span class="s2055161DefaultParagraphFont">32-14-1</span></a><span class="s2055161DefaultParagraphFont">, in a rural, residential, and business district and off the roadway in a residential district, the operator shall bring the bus to a stop, turn off the amber caution lights, turn on the red flashing signal lights and extend the stop signal arm. After receiving or discharging pupils, the operator shall turn off the red flashing signal lights, retract the stop signal, and proceed en route; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055161Normal-000001"><span class="s2055161DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Off the roadway in a business district and rural district and when discharging or receiving passengers at a school location when the passengers need not cross the lane of traffic, the operator shall bring the bus to a stop and turn off the amber caution lights and not activate the red flashing signal lights. After receiving or discharging passengers, the operator shall proceed en route.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055161Normal-000002"><span class="s2055161DefaultParagraphFont">A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055161Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055161000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2055161Normal"><span class="s2055161SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2055161SCL-000004"> SL 1963, ch 255, § 3; SDCL, § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=32-32-5"><span class="s2055161SCL-000004">32-32-5</span></a><span class="s2055161SCL-000004">; SL 1970, ch 175, § 33; SL 1974, ch 228, § 1; SL 1975, ch 211, § 1; SL 1976, ch 30, § 4; SL 1977, ch 266; SL 1989, ch 255, § 218; SL 1992, ch 230, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html>