Title 32, MOTOR VEHICLES

Any school bus meeting the requirements of § 32-32-4 which is owned by a private person or corporation in this state and used to provide transportation services for school children may, when not being used to transport children under the contract, be used for transporting persons…

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 32-32-4 , any bus used to transport children as part of the federal Head Start Program pursuant to 45 C.F.R. 1304, as amended to January 1, 1992, may be painted school bus yellow as defined in § 32-32-3 if the bus is in compliance with the scho…

Any school bus purchased or in operation before September 1, 1992, shall be equipped with a stop arm signal by September 1, 1999. Any school bus equipped with a stop arm signal shall comply with the provisions of § 32-32-5.2 . Source: SL 1992, ch 230 , § 5.

If any school bus, as defined in § 32-32-1 , is transporting students enrolled in a school district in this state and is equipped with an external video system capable of recording traffic activity around the bus, any recording from that video system is discoverable and may be en…

Every school bus owned or operated by or for a school or school district shall bear upon the front and rear thereof plainly visible signs containing the words, school bus, in letters not less than eight inches in height. When any such vehicle is being operated upon a highway for …

The color of every vehicle which transports ten or more students and is owned or operated by or for a school or school district used for transportation of school children shall be national school bus yellow in color, in accordance with the rules of the South Dakota Board of Educa…

No person, persons, or organizations may use the color reserved for school buses as provided in § 32-32-3 in connection with the operation of any other vehicle or vehicles, whether school bus or not, for purposes not connected with or incident to the transportation of school chil…

Any school bus with a capacity for ten or more students, used to transport children to and from a public or nonpublic school, shall be equipped on the front and rear with alternately flashing amber caution lights and alternately flashing red signal lights. However, this section d…

The lighting requirements provided by § 32-32-5 shall apply to all school buses, regardless of the date of manufacture of said bus, purchased after July 1, 1974, and all school buses covered by the provisions of this chapter shall meet such requirements by July 1, 1979. Source: S…

When stopping to receive or discharge pupils, the operator of a school bus to which § 32-32-5 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 rec…

The operator of a motor vehicle on a highway that has less than two lanes of travel in each direction, or on a private road, when approaching a school bus that has its amber warning lights flashing, shall reduce the speed of the vehicle to fifteen miles per hour or less and proce…

The driver of a vehicle upon a highway with separate roadways need not stop upon meeting or passing a vehicle used and designated as a school bus which is on a different roadway or when upon a limited or controlled - access highway and the school bus is stopped in a loading zone …

Any motor vehicle which is used in a violation of § 32-32-6 in circumstances where the driver of the vehicle is unknown shall be subject to a civil penalty of two hundred fifty dollars. Source: SL 1979, ch 228 , § 1.