The driver of any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire, or any school bus carrying any school child, or any vehicle carrying explosive substances or combustible or flammable liquid as a cargo or part of a cargo, before crossing at grade any track of a railroad, except where a police officer or traffic control signal directs traffic to proceed or the track is nonoperational and is marked with a supplemental sign as provided in SDCL 31-28-7, shall stop the vehicle within 50 feet from the nearest rail of the railroad and shall not proceed until he or she has ascertained that he or she can do so safely. After stopping as required in this section and upon proceeding, the driver of any vehicle shall cross only in the gear of the vehicle that there will be no necessity of changing gears while traversing the crossing and shall not shift gears while crossing the tracks.
(1992 Code, § 40-205)
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Similar provisions, see SDCL 32-29-5