State of South Dakota  
EIGHTY-SEVENTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2012  

400T0189   SENATE BILL   NO.  53  

Introduced by:    The Committee on Judiciary at the request of the Department of Public Safety
 

        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to permit the Department of Public Safety to require certain accident reports to be filed by electronic means.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That § 32-34-10 be amended to read as follows:
    32-34-10. Every Each law enforcement officer or other person assigned by a law enforcement agency to investigate traffic accidents shall, after receiving notice that an accident described in § 32-34-7 occurred, cause a notice to be affixed in a manner prescribed by the secretary of public safety to the vehicle damaged, indicating that the accident has been reported and the circumstances surrounding the accident are being investigated. The law enforcement officer or other person assigned by a law enforcement agency to investigate traffic accidents shall forward to the Department of Public Safety, within three days after completion of the investigation of the accident, an investigator's report of the accident so reported. After July 1, 2013, any law enforcement officer or other person assigned by a law enforcement agency to investigate traffic accidents and complete a report pursuant to § 32-34-7 is required to file the report by electronic means with the department if the submissions pursuant to § 32-34-7 for that

law enforcement agency total more than sixty reports during the prior calendar year.