South Dakota House Bill 1107

This law provides for renewal of certain nonresident commercial driver’s licenses, requires evidence of legal presence in the United States upon renewal of nonresident commercial driver‘s license, and allows the Department of Transportation to renew a nonresident commercial driver’s license without a skills or knowledge test if the license has been expired for less than one year.

AN ACT

ENTITLED, An Act to provide for the renewal of certain nonresident commercial driver licenses.

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

Section 1. That § 32-12A-13 be amended to read as follows:

32-12A-13. The department may issue a nonresident CDL to:

(1) A person who is domiciled in a foreign jurisdiction whose commercial motor vehicle

testing and licensing standards, as determined by the administrator of the Federal Motor

Carrier Safety Administration, do not meet the testing standards established in 49 C.F.R.

Part 383 as amended through January 1, 2007;

(2) A person who is domiciled in a state whose commercial driver licensing program has been

decertified by the administrator of the Federal motor Carrier Safety Administration.

The word, nonresident, shall appear on the face of the nonresident CDL. An applicant shall

surrender any nonresident CDL issued by another state. The holder of a nonresident CDL is subject

to the same disqualifications and conditions applicable to a commercial driver license issued to a

person domiciled in this state.

A nonresident commercial driver license issued pursuant to subdivision (1) of this section may

be renewed only upon presentation of valid documentary evidence that the applicant is authorized

to stay in the United States. The department may renew a nonresident commercial driver license

without a skills or knowledge test if the license has been expired for a period less than one year.