CHAPTER 157

(HB 1107)

Salvage vehicle definition revised.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  clarify the definition of a salvage vehicle.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 32-3-51.19 be amended to read as follows:

     32-3-51.19.   For purposes of §§ 32-3-51.5, 32-3-51.9, 32-3-51.19, 32-3-51.20, and 32-3-51.21, the term, salvage vehicle, means any motor vehicle as defined in §  32-3-51.10 that an insurer or self insurer determines a total loss due to damage caused by fire, vandalism, collision, weather, submersion in water, or flood. This section does not apply to any motor vehicle more than six model years old or with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than sixteen thousand pounds.

     Signed February 8, 2006

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