South Dakota's tire weight limits on highways are being increased for mobile cranes—vehicles with lifting booms that move between job sites—allowing them to carry up to 650 pounds per inch of tire width instead of the standard 600 pounds. This change applies only to mobile cranes operating with a required permit and moving with their boom carried over the vehicle.
The amendment STRENGTHENS the mobile crane tire weight limit provision by requiring that cranes operating under the higher 650-pound-per-inch limit must have a permit issued under § 32-22-42, adding an important regulatory safeguard that was absent in the introduced version. This change narrows the availability of the higher weight limit to only permitted mobile cranes rather than allowing any crane to operate at that weight.
The amendment corrects a minor typographical error in the tire width specification, changing "forty-19 five" to "forty-five" millimeters, and converts the bill from its engrossed legislative form to its enrolled (final passed) form with standard enrollment language and signature pages—this is a technical formatting change with no substantive shift to the bill's purpose of establishing higher tire weight limits for mobile cranes.
Signed by the Governor H.J. 496
Delivered to the Governor H.J. 452
Signed by the President S.J. 405
Signed by the Speaker H.J. 435
Senate Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0. S.J. 357
Transportation Certified uncontested, placed on consent S.J. 17
Transportation Do Pass Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. S.J. 17
Transportation Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
First read in Senate and referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 232
House of Representatives Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 0. H.J. 262
Transportation Certified uncontested, placed on consent H.J. 14
Transportation Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0. H.J. 14
Transportation Motion to amend H.J. 14
Transportation Scheduled for hearing
First read in House and referred to House Transportation H.J. 180
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Do Pass Amended
Transportation — Do Pass
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Transportation — Do Pass Amended