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South Dakota traffic control documentation requirements

What South Dakota DOT asks a contractor to record about temporary traffic control, where that requirement comes from, and how strong the evidence behind it is.

Primary source

South Dakota DOT — primary source

Source confidence

Medium

What South Dakota requires

Documented requirement

SDDOT inspection checklist guidance says to review required inspection diary content and includes daily verification of night protection/warnings needed through the project.

Source: South Dakota DOT — primary source

How solid is this? South Dakota is documented from a medium-confidence agency source, linked above, but we have not yet verified contract-binding specification language the way we have for the states in the full analysis. What governs your job is your contract and its special provisions — check them. This page is a stub until that verification is done, and it is deliberately excluded from search results so it cannot pass itself off as more than it is.

On federal-aid work, 23 CFR 630 Subparts J and K apply whatever South Dakota specifies, with a compliance date of December 31, 2026 — the federal floor, explained. And after an incident the questions come from the incident, not the specification: 105 published judicial matters on that.

DTCD produces this record from the drive-through itself, and names the controlling South Dakota requirement on the generated PDF. Open a sample before deciding anything.

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What changes at the South Dakota state line

Crews rarely work one state, and the record a neighbouring DOT expects is often named differently and cited somewhere else entirely. Here is how the states bordering South Dakota compare:

State	Citation	Evidence we have
Iowa	Section 2528.01.C (Traffic Quality Control)	Contract-binding spec language
Minnesota	Traffic Control Special Provision 2563 + Technical Memorandum 22-08-T-02	Binding language identified
Montana	Not yet verified	Agency source, high confidence
Nebraska	Not yet verified	Agency source, high confidence
North Dakota	Not yet verified	Agency source, high confidence
Wyoming	Section 703.4.2 (Documentation)	Contract-binding spec language

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