Section 32-17-4 - Periods during which lamps must be lighted--Violation as misdemeanor.
32-17-4. Periods during which lamps must be lighted--Violation as misdemeanor. Every vehicle upon a highway within this state during the period from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise and at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible any person on the highway at a distance of two hundred feet ahead, shall be equipped with lighted front and rear lamps as respectively required in §§ 32-17-1 to 32-17-26, inclusive, for different classes of vehicles and subject to exemption with reference to lights on parked vehicles as declared in § 32-17-27. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Source: SDC 1939, § 44.0352 (1); SL 1989, ch 255, § 58.