In this chapter, the term, motor vehicle, includes all vehicles or machines, trailers, semitrailers, recreational vehicles, truck tractors, road tractors, and motorcycles propelled by any power other than muscular and used upon the public highways for the transportation of persons or property, or both.

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Source: SDC 1939, § 44.0101; SL 1961, ch 217; SL 1970, ch 168, § 1; SL 1970, ch 169, § 1; SL 1974, ch 92, §§ 4 to 6; SL 1975, ch 196, § 3; SL 1977, ch 249, §§ 1 to 3; SL 1978, ch 224, § 18; reenacted 1988, ch 27, § 5.