South Dakota § 31-24-9 - Approaches to highway grade crossings--Failure to perform duty to provide--Petty offense.
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§ 31-24-9. Approaches to highway grade crossings--Failure to perform duty to provide--Petty offense.
Township supervisors, county commissioners, the Department of Transportation, or others having direction of any highway grade shall provide at every place where such grade crosses an intersecting public highway an easy and accessible approach to such grade on each side thereof upon each such intersecting public highway. The approach shall be at least twenty-four feet in width. Any officer or other person charged with the duty of providing approaches at an intersection, as provided in this section, who fails in the performance of the duty, commits a petty offense.
Source: SL 1919, ch 218, §§ 1, 2; SDC 1939, §§ 28.0909, 28.9907; SL 2010, ch 145, § 121.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 31-24-9 ("Approaches to highway grade crossings--Failure to perform duty to provide--Petty offense.") is part of the South Dakota Codified Laws, the codified statutory law of South Dakota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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