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Every owner of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, truck tractor, road tractor, trailer or semitrailer, or recreational vehicle or trailer, which is operated or driven upon the public highways of this state must register that vehicle.

“Motor vehicle” includes all vehicles or machines, trailers, semitrailers, recreational vehicles, truck tractors, road tractors and motorcycles propelled by any power other than muscular and used upon the public highways for the transportation of persons or property, or both.

To clarify the issuance of vehicle titles and registrations for trailers and semi-trailers, the following exemptions from the statutory definitions of "trailer" and "semi-trailer" are adopted:

  • "Auxiliary axle," an auxiliary undercarriage assembly with a fifth wheel and tow bar used to convert a semi-trailer to a full trailer, commonly referred to as converter gears or converter dollies;
  • "Implement of husbandry," every vehicle designed or adapted and used exclusively for agricultural operations and is only incidentally moved or operated upon a highway;
  • "Special mobile equipment," every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and is only incidentally operated or moved over a highway; and
  • "Car toter or tow dolly," a two-wheeled conveyance designed or adapted to be used to support the weight of one axle of a motor vehicle while being towed in combination behind another motor vehicle.

These vehicles are not subject to the vehicle title and registration provisions.

Farm vehicle

Any farm wagon, farm implement drawn by another vehicle or farm vehicle which is designed and used primarily for tillage, harvesting or transportation of agricultural products or farm property by or for agricultural producers is exempt unless the farm vehicle is a stock trailer, gooseneck trailer or semitrailer towed by a licensed motor vehicle on any public highway or a passenger vehicle, two- or three-axle truck or semi tractor.

All-terrain vehicle

Any three-wheeled or four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle using a highway ditch or crossing a highway to get to and from a field or pasture and being used during farm or ranch labor is exempt from registration.

Motor vehicles owned by nonresidents

Registration does not apply to any motor vehicles owned by a nonresident of this state, if the owner has complied with the provisions of the law of the state of which he or she is a resident, relative to the registration thereof and the display of a registration number plate or plates thereon.

The provisions of 32-5-46 as to the exemption from registration of any motor vehicle owned by a nonresident shall apply only to the extent that under the law of the state of his residence like exemptions and privileges are granted to motor vehicles, motorcycles, trailers, truck tractors, road tractors, and motor buses, duly registered under the laws and owned by residents of South Dakota.

Vehicle reciprocity where no agreement in place

If no agreement, arrangement or declaration is in effect with respect to another jurisdiction, any vehicle properly registered or licensed in another jurisdiction and for which evidence of compliance is supplied, will receive, when operated in South Dakota, the same exemptions, benefits and privileges granted by such other jurisdiction to vehicles properly registered South Dakota. Reciprocity extended under this provision will apply to commercial vehicles only when engaged exclusively in interstate commerce.

Citations

  • S.D. Codified Laws 32-5-2 Application – Contents – Failure to provide requested information – Class 2 misdemeanor
  • S.D. Codified Laws 32-5-1 “Motor vehicle” defined
  • ARSD 64:28:01:02 Exemptions to definitions of “trailer” and semi-trailer”
  • S.D. Codified Laws 32-5-1.3 Farm vehicle exemption
  • S.D. Codified Laws 32-5-1.4 ATV exemption
  • S.D. Codified Laws 32-5-46 Applicability of this chapter to motor vehicles owned by nonresidents
  • S.D. Codified Laws 32-5-48 Applicability of this chapter to motor vehicles owned by nonresidents; Reciprocity
  • S.D. Codified Laws 32-10-14 Availability of reciprocity to vehicle in another jurisdiction where no agreement in place
['Registration and Permits - Motor Carrier']
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