# South Dakota minimum auto liability insurance

For South Dakota minimum auto liability insurance, bodily injury per person is twenty - five thousand dollars; bodily injury per accident is fifty thousand dollars; property damage per accident is twenty - five thousand dollars, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **State:** South Dakota _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Bodily injury per person:** twenty - five thousand dollars _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Bodily injury per accident:** fifty thousand dollars _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Property damage per accident:** twenty - five thousand dollars _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Issuing authority:** South Dakota Codified Laws § 32-35-70

## What the source says

> shall insure the person named therein and any other person as insured, using any insured vehicle or vehicles with the express or implied permission of the named insured, against loss from the liability imposed by law for damages arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of the vehicle or vehicles within the United States of America or the Dominion of Canada, subject to limits exclusive of interests and costs, with respect to each insured vehicle, as follows: twenty - five thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident and, subject to the limit for one person, fifty thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident, and twenty - five thousand dollars because of injury to or destruction of property of others in any one accident.

## Source

- https://sdlegislature.gov/api/Statutes/32-35-70.html

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-06.
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