How much is a speeding ticket in South Dakota?

The fine, tier by tier

• state-set state law or a statewide schedule fixes this number.
• cap only the statute sets a ceiling; the court picks the amount within it.
• court-set no statewide number exists — the local court’s schedule decides.

The mandatory add-ons

Already inside the totals above — this is the arithmetic that turns the base fine into the payment:

Worked example: 15 mph over the limit, first offense, mail-in payment (any road type — interstate, state highway, county road, or municipal street)

The statewide schedule prints $137.50 as the mail-in total for 11–15 over: a $59 fine plus $78.50 in uniform court costs ($50 liquidated costs + $23.50 automation surcharge + $5 victims' compensation). The same schedule's separate tables push the 11–15-over total to $196.50 in a construction zone and $192.50 in a school zone.

What raises it

• Construction zone (SDCL 32-25-19.1). A separate schedule roughly doubles the fine: totals of $116.50 (1–5 over), $156.50 (6–10), $196.50 (11–15), $236.50 (16–20), $276.50 (21–25), $386.50 (26+). (SD UJS FY27 Fine and Bond Schedule (SPCO rows))
• School zone (SDCL 32-25-14). A separate schedule applies: totals of $112.50 (1–5 over), $152.50 (6–10), $192.50 (11–15), $232.50 (16–20), $272.50 (21–25), $382.50 (26+). (SD UJS FY27 Fine and Bond Schedule (SCHL rows))

License points

South Dakota's statutory point list assigns no points for speeding — the statute says outright that its catch-all 'other moving offenses' category 'does not include speeding offenses.' Points attach to offenses like DUI (10), reckless driving (8), and stop-sign violations (3), not to ordinary speed.

For offenses that do carry points, accumulating 15 points in 12 consecutive months or 22 points in 24 consecutive months subjects the license to suspension — speeding convictions contribute nothing toward those totals. (SDCL 32-12-49.1; SDCL 32-12-49.2)

When a court appearance is required

Speeding is on Schedule II, so it is payable by mail without appearing. The schedule requires an appearance before a magistrate or circuit judge for Class 2 misdemeanors NOT listed on Schedule II, and for accidents involving injury or property damage. (SD UJS FY27 Fine and Bond Schedule, Schedule II preamble)

Where speed becomes a criminal charge

• All speeding is a Class 2 criminal misdemeanor. Criminal-classification facts; the schedule above is what payable tickets actually cost. (SDCL 32-25-1.1; SDCL 32-25-4; SDCL 32-25-7.1; SDCL 22-6-2)

Criminal penalties are a courtroom matter and outside a fine table's scope — this page records the threshold as a fact and stops there.

Local variation — the honest caveat

The fine tiers are statewide and cover municipal streets and county roads, but the costs stack differs by prosecution type: violations of county or municipal ordinances carry $72.50 in costs ($50 + $17.50 + $5) instead of the $78.50 attached to state-law violations. The schedule itself is promulgated as a standing order in each judicial circuit from the statewide template. (SD UJS FY27 Fine and Bond Schedule, costs table and order)

• Amounts are the FY2027 edition, effective July 1, 2026; the UJS reissues the schedule each fiscal year.
• Schedule amounts are mail-in figures for clerk magistrates; a court sentencing after an appearance may impose up to the Class 2 misdemeanor maxima (SDCL 22-6-2).
• The speeding tier table is shared by SDCL 32-25-1.1 (state highways), 32-25-4 (interstates), 32-25-7 (other roadways including municipal streets and county roads), and 32-25-7.1 (divided four-lane rural highways).

Sources

Every figure above was compiled from these sources, with a verbatim quote of the sentence carrying each number stored in the dataset so any row can be re-checked against its origin.

• South Dakota Unified Judicial System — FY27 Fine and Bond Schedule for Use by Clerk Magistrates retrieved 2026-07-17 · FY27 · effective 2026-07-01
  https://ujs.sd.gov/media/c3enonvl/fy2027-fine-and-bond-schedule.pdf
• SDCL 32-25-1.1, 32-25-4, 32-25-7.1 — speed limits; violation as Class 2 misdemeanor (sdlegislature.gov) retrieved 2026-07-17
  https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/32-25-1.1
• SDCL 22-6-2 — Misdemeanor classes and penalties (sdlegislature.gov) retrieved 2026-07-17
  https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/22-6-2
• SDCL 32-12-49.1 — Point system for offenses; number of points charged (sdlegislature.gov) retrieved 2026-07-17
  https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/32-12-49.1
• SDCL 32-12-49.2 — Point accumulation subjecting license to suspension (sdlegislature.gov) retrieved 2026-07-17
  https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/32-12-49.2