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.