Title 31 — HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES

For the purposes of this chapter, a controlled - access facility is defined as a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement or only a controlled right or ea…

The highway authority of the state, county, or municipality may designate and establish any controlled-access highway as a new and additional facility or may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within a controlled-access facility. Source: SL 1953, ch…

The state or any of its subdivisions may provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled-access facilities with existing state and county roads, and city or town streets, by grade separation or service road, or by closing off the roads and streets at the right…

No municipal street, county or state highway, or other public way may be opened into or connected with any controlled-access facility without the consent and previous approval of the highway authority in the state, county, or municipality having jurisdiction over the controlled-a…

The highway authorities of the state, counties, or municipalities may enter into agreements with each other, or with the federal government, respecting the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation, or vacation of a controlled-access facility o…

In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility the state, county, or municipal highway authorities may plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or designate as local service roads and str…

It is a Class 2 misdemeanor for any person: (1) To drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line on controlled - access facilities; (2) To make a left turn or semicircular or U - turn except through an opening provi…

For the purposes of §§ 31-8-15 to 31-8-15.2 , inclusive, a recovery vehicle is a motor vehicle which is specially equipped with a boom, winch, or wheel lift to tow, haul, or push a disabled motor vehicle. The recovery vehicle shall have amber beacon or flashing warning lights whi…

A recovery vehicle may not cross the median of a divided highway when the towed vehicle has more than three axles. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor. Source: SL 1988, ch 234 , § 3.

No automotive service station or other commercial establishment for serving motor vehicle users may be constructed or located within the right-of-way of, or on publicly owned or publicly leased land acquired or used for or in connection with, a controlled-access highway. This sec…

No vending facility may be licensed pursuant to the provisions of §§ 31-8-16 , 31-29-83 , and 31-32-13 unless the contract provides that ten percent of the gross receipts from the concession be paid to the Department of Transportation to defray the cost of trash collection. Sourc…

Any highway or street constituting a controlled-access facility may be a freeway open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic or the highway or street may be a parkway from which trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles are excluded. Source: SL 1953, ch 15…

The highway authorities of the state, counties, and municipalities, acting alone or in cooperation with each other or with any federal, state, or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, may plan, designate, …

Highway authorities of the state, counties, and municipalities may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of controlled - access facilities by the various classes of vehicles or traffic in a manner consistent with §§ 31-8-1 and

The highway authorities of the state, counties, and municipalities may design any controlled-access facility and regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which the facility is intended. In this connection the highway authorities may divide and separ…

No person has any right of ingress or egress to, from or across any controlled-access facility to or from any abutting land, except at any designated point at which access may be permitted. Source: SL 1953, ch 155 , § 4; SDC Supp 1960, § 28.09A04; SL 2010, ch 145 , § 67.

For the purposes of this chapter, the highway authorities of the state, counties, or municipalities may acquire private or public property rights for any controlled-access facility and service road, including rights of access, air, view, and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or c…

In connection with the acquisition of property or property rights for any controlled-access facility or portion thereof, or service road in connection therewith, the state, county, city, or town highway authority may acquire an entire lot, block, or tract of land, if, by so doing…

Any court proceeding necessary to acquire property or property rights for purposes of this chapter may take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts, to the end that the provision of controlled-access facilities may be expedited. Source: SL…