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MS Code § 63-7-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-71. Warning and safety appliances for trucks and buses; display

  Whenever any motor truck or bus is stopped upon the highway except for the purpose of picking up or discharging passengers, or its lighting equipment is disabled during the period when lighted lamps must be displayed on vehicles and such motor truck or bus cannot immediately be removed from the main traveled portion of a highway outside of a business or residence district, the driver or other person in charge of such vehicle shall cause such flares, fusees, reflectors, or other signals to be lighted or otherwise placed in an operating condition and placed upon the highway, one at a distance of approximately one hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle, one approximately one hundred feet in advance of the vehicle and the third upon the roadway side of the vehicle. However, if the vehicle is transporting inflammables, no flares (pot torches) fusees, oil lanterns, or any signal produced by a flame, may be used, and in lieu of such signals, either (a) three red electric lanterns or flares and three red cloth flags, or (b) three emergency reflectors and three red cloth flags shall be used.   Whenever any motor truck or bus is stopped upon the highway except for the purpose of picking up or discharging passengers between the hours of one half hour before sunrise and one half hour after sunset, the driver or person in charge of such vehicle shall place upon the highway in a standing position red flags, one at a distance not less than one hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle and one not less than one hundred feet in advance of the vehicle and the third upon the roadway side of the vehicle.   No person shall at any time operate a motor truck transporting explosives as a cargo or part of a cargo upon the highway unless it carries (a) electric lanterns or flares and red cloth flags or (b) red emergency reflectors and red cloth flags as required in Section 63-7-69. Such electric flares, electric lanterns and emergency reflectors must be capable of producing a red light or red reflection and shall be displayed upon the roadway when and as required in this section.
MS Code § 63-7-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-73. Protectors or flaps for rear wheels

  No person shall drive or operate or cause to be driven or operated, upon the public highways, streets, bridges and culverts within the State of Mississippi, or any subdivision thereof, any car, truck, truck-tractor, trailer or semi-trailer or bus used for the transportation of property or persons the gross weight of which, including load, exceeds ten tons unless such motor vehicle is equipped with suitable metal protectors or substantial flexible flaps on the rear-most wheels of such vehicle or combination of vehicles, so as to prevent as far as possible such wheels from throwing dirt, water and other materials on the windshields of following motor vehicles. However, pole trailers, dump trucks, and all trucks carrying an "F" license tag shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.   Such protectors or flaps shall be constructed of substantial and suitable materials approved by the commissioner of public safety and shall have a ground clearance of not more than one-fifth of the distance from the center of the rear-most axle to the center of the flaps under any conditions of loading operation of the motor vehicle. They shall be at least as wide as the tires they are protecting. However, if the motor vehicle is so designed and constructed that the purposes of this section cannot be met, then, in the discretion of the commissioner of public safety, no such protectors or flaps shall be required. If the said rear-most wheels are not adequately covered at the top by fenders, body or other parts of the vehicle, the said protectors or flaps shall be extended to a point directly above the rear-most axle. Lamps or wiring shall not be attached to protectors or flaps, and any reflectors or reflectorized material attached to or made a part of the protectors or flaps shall be in addition to the reflectors required by law on the vehicle.   The commissioner of public safety is hereby charged with the duty of administering the provisions of this section.   Any person convicted for a violation of any of the provisions of this section shall for the first violation thereof be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) or by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days; for a second conviction such person shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or by imprisonment for not more than twenty (20) days.
MS Code § 63-7-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-75. Speedometers

 All motor vehicles operating on the public highways of this state, carrying passengers for hire, shall be equipped at all times with a speedometer, in good workable condition, reflecting the correct speed, with a dial sufficiently large to be read by the passengers on the said motor vehicle.
MS Code § 63-7-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-77. Vehicles transporting explosives

 Any person operating any vehicle transporting any explosive as a cargo or part of a cargo upon a highway shall at all times comply with the provisions of this section.   Said vehicle shall be marked or placarded on each side and the rear with the word "explosives" in letters not less than eight inches high, or there shall be displayed on the rear of such vehicle a red flag not less than twenty-four inches square marked with the word "danger" in white letters six inches high.   Every said vehicle shall be equipped with not less than two fire extinguishers, filled and ready for immediate use, and placed at a convenient point on the vehicle so used.   The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate such additional regulations governing the transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles by vehicles upon the highways as he shall deem advisable for the protection of the public.
MS Code § 63-7-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-79. Color of used school buses operated on highways for other than school purposes

  Any person who owns or operates a used school bus for the purpose of transportation or use of any kind on the public roads and highways of the State of Mississippi, other than for school purposes, shall change the color of such bus from the regular school bus color of yellow or national school bus chrome to a color in contrast to this color before such bus can be used or operated on the highways or public roads in Mississippi.   The vendor or owner of any school bus shall inform the purchaser in writing at or prior to the time of the sale of any bus not to be used for school purposes as to the requirements of this section.   Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
MS Code § 63-7-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-81. Effect of chapter on right to recover damages in civil actions

 Nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to curtail or abridge the right of any person to prosecute a civil suit for damages by reason of injuries to person or property resulting from the negligent use of the highways by any motor vehicle, or its owner, or his employee or agent.
MS Code § 63-7-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-83. Covering of open top vehicles carrying sand, dirt, gravel or rock

 Every truck, trailer or other carrier with an open top, while traveling upon any state, United States or interstate highway in the State of Mississippi and while carrying any load of sand, dirt, gravel or rock shall be equipped with a tarpaulin, canvas or other such top and same to be secured over the top of any load of sand, dirt, gravel, or rock.
MS Code § 63-7-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-85. Use of sideboards on open top vehicles carrying sand, dirt, gravel or rock

 In lieu of the tarpaulin provided in Section 63-7-83, a truck, trailer or other carrier with an open top while traveling upon any state, United States or interstate highway in the State of Mississippi and while carrying any load of sand, dirt, gravel or rock shall be in full compliance with Sections 63-7-83 through 63-7-89 provided same is not loaded within six (6) inches of the top of the bed or is equipped with four (4) six-inch (6") sideboards, which sideboards shall be attached one (1) each to the front, back and two (2) sides of the carrier body, and shall remain lowered while the body is being loaded, provided that no part of the load shall extend above the body of the carrier. After loading, the sideboards shall be raised and secured to remain raised during travel, and the space between the top of the sideboards and the top of the load making contact with the sideboards shall not be less than six (6) inches.
MS Code § 63-7-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-87. Enforcement of §§ 63-7-83 and 63-7-85

 The State Tax Commission, Mississippi Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies are hereby charged with enforcement of Sections 63-7-83 through 63-7-89.
MS Code § 63-7-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-89. Penalties for violations of §§ 63-7-83 and 67-3-85

 Any person, firm or corporation operating a truck, trailer or other carrier on any state, United States or interstate highway not properly covered as set forth in Section 63-7-83 or without sideboards as set forth in Section 63-7-85 or in violation of any of the other provisions of said Section 63-7-85 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each separate and distinct violation.
MS Code § 63-7-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-91. Slow-moving vehicle safety emblem; requirement

 When any vehicle, whether pulled, towed, self-propelled or animal-drawn, which is not under ordinary circumstances moved, operated or driven at a speed in excess of twenty-five (25) miles per hour, is moved, operated or driven on any public highway or city street which is open for vehicular travel, it shall display a triangular slow-moving-vehicle emblem or high intensity reflectorized tape mounted as near as practicable to the center of the mass and at an approximate height of not less than two (2) nor more than six (6) feet from level ground or pavement surface. In any event, the emblem or tape shall be mounted so as to be entirely visible from the rear, day or night; and the emblem or tape and its position of mounting on the vehicle shall meet the specifications established by rules and regulations properly adopted and promulgated by the Commissioner of Public Safety. Except in cases of emergency, vehicles subject to the provisions of this section that display the reflectorized tape shall not be operated upon any highway on the designated state highway system during the period from sunset to sunrise.
MS Code § 63-7-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-93. Slow-moving vehicle safety emblem; prohibition

 The use of the slow-moving-vehicle emblem or high intensity reflectorized tape shall be restricted to the slow-moving vehicles specified in Section 63-7-91 and the use of such emblem or tape on any other type of vehicle or stationary object on or along any public highway or city street is prohibited.
MS Code § 63-7-95 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-95. Slow-moving vehicle safety emblem; rules and regulations

 The Commissioner of Public Safety is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations establishing standards and specifications for the design, materials and mounting of a standard slow-moving-vehicle emblem and high intensity reflectorized tape for the uniform identification of slow-moving vehicles. In adopting said rules and regulations the Commissioner of Public Safety shall consider the standard markings used in other states, the current recommendations of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers, in order that the slow-moving-vehicle emblem or tape may be more universally recognizable and of adequate quality.
MS Code § 63-7-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-97. Slow-moving vehicle safety emblem; relationship with other requirements as to lighting and safety equipment

 Nothing in Sections 63-7-91 through 63-7-101 shall be construed to relieve the owner and/or operator of the vehicles identified in Section 63-7-91 from complying with all other requirements for lighting and safety equipment on these vehicles.
MS Code § 63-7-99 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-99. Slow-moving vehicle safety emblem; presumption as to use of reasonable care in operation of vehicle

 Compliance with Section 63-7-91 shall not create a prima facie case or presumption that such owner or operator of the vehicle used reasonable and ordinary care in the operation of such vehicle under the circumstances then existing by the use or display of such slow-moving-vehicle emblem or high intensity reflectorized tape.
MS Code § 63-7-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|General Provisions|§ 63-7-101. Slow-moving vehicle safety emblem; enforcement of provisions

 Sections 63-7-91 through 63-7-101 are hereby made a part of the Uniform Highway Traffic Regulation Law as amended, and their enforcement shall be as provided by said law.
MS Code § 63-7-201 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Tampering With or Alteration of Odometers|§ 63-7-201. Definitions

 As used in Sections 63-7-201 through 63-7-209:    The term "dealer" means any person who has sold five (5) or more motor vehicles in the past twelve (12) months to purchasers who in good faith purchased such vehicles for purposes other than resale.   The term "distributor" means any person who has sold five (5) or more motor vehicles in the past twelve (12) months for resale.   The term "odometer" means an instrument for measuring and recording the actual distance a motor vehicle travels while in operation; but shall not include any auxiliary odometer designed to be reset by the operator of the motor vehicle for the purpose of recording mileage on trips.   The term "repair and replacement" means to restore to a sound working condition by replacing the odometer or any part thereof or by correcting what is inoperative.
MS Code § 63-7-203 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Tampering With or Alteration of Odometers|§ 63-7-203. Offenses

  It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise for sale, to sell, to use, or to install on any part of a motor vehicle or on an odometer in a motor vehicle any device which causes the odometer to register any mileage other than the true mileage driven. For the purposes of this section the true mileage driven is that mileage driven by the car as registered by the odometer within the manufacturer's designed tolerance.   It shall be unlawful for any person with the intent to defraud to operate a motor vehicle on any street or highway knowing that the odometer of such vehicle is disconnected or nonfunctional.   It shall be unlawful for any person to disconnect, turn back, reset or alter, or cause to be disconnected, reset or altered, the odometer of any motor vehicle with the intent to reduce the number of miles indicated thereon.
MS Code § 63-7-205 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Tampering With or Alteration of Odometers|§ 63-7-205. Warranty relating to odometer mileage

 If a manufacturer, distributor, or dealer of a new motor vehicle makes any warranty to the purchaser of, and with respect to, a new motor vehicle which is based on the amount of miles that the motor vehicle is driven, only those miles which the motor vehicle has been driven on and after the date that the motor vehicle has first been sold as new to the purchaser shall be considered for purposes of the warranty.   The mileage indicated upon the odometer of the motor vehicle on the date that the motor vehicle is first sold as new to the purchaser shall, for the purposes of the warranty, be the mileage upon which the warranty shall commence.
MS Code § 63-7-207 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Tampering With or Alteration of Odometers|§ 63-7-207. Service, repair or replacement of odometer

 Nothing in Sections 63-7-201 through 63-7-209 shall prevent the service, repair, or replacement of an odometer, provided the mileage indicated thereon remains the same as before the service, repair, or replacement. Where the odometer is incapable of registering the same mileage as before such service, repair, or replacement, the odometer shall be adjusted to read zero and a notice in writing shall be attached to the left door frame of the vehicle by the owner or his agent specifying the mileage prior to repair or replacement of the odometer and the date on which it was repaired or replaced. Any removal or alteration of such notice so affixed shall be unlawful.
MS Code § 63-7-209 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Tampering With or Alteration of Odometers|§ 63-7-209. Penalties

 Violation of the provisions of Sections 63-7-201 through 63-7-209 shall be deemed a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 63-7-301 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Child Passenger Restraint Devices|§ 63-7-301. Requirement of device or belt positioning booster seat system; failure to provide and use device or belt positioning booster seat system not deemed negligence

    Every person transporting a child under the age of four (4) years in a passenger motor vehicle, and operated on a public roadway, street or highway within this state, shall provide for the protection of the child by properly using a child passenger restraint device or system meeting applicable federal motor vehicle safety standards.   Every person transporting a child in a passenger motor vehicle operated on a public roadway, street or highway within this state, shall provide for the protection of the child by properly using a belt positioning booster seat system meeting applicable federal motor vehicle safety standards if the child is at least four (4) years of age, but less than seven (7) years of age and measures less than four (4) feet nine (9) inches in height or weighs less than sixty-five (65) pounds.   If more than two (2) children who are required under subsection (1) of this section to use a booster seat are being transported in a vehicle at one time, and the vehicle only has two (2) lap and shoulder belts in the rear seat, then only the two (2) children sitting in the seats with the lap and shoulder belts are required to use a belt positioning booster seat system and safety belt, and any other children may be secured with a safety seat lap belt only.     The term "passenger motor vehicle" as used in Sections 63-7-301 through 63-7-311 has the same meaning as defined in Section 63-2-1(2). Sections 63-7-301 through 63-7-311 do not apply to the vehicles described in Section 63-2-1(3).   Failure to provide and use a child passenger restraint device or system or a belt positioning booster seat system shall not be considered contributory or comparative negligence.
MS Code § 63-7-303 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Child Passenger Restraint Devices|§ 63-7-303. Duties, rights, liabilities, etc., between parent and child

 No provision of Sections 63-7-301 through 63-7-313 shall be construed as creating any duty, standard of care, right or liability between parent and child that is not recognized under the laws of the State of Mississippi as they exist on July 1, 1983, or as they may at any time in the future be constituted by statute or court decision.
MS Code § 63-7-305 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Child Passenger Restraint Devices|§ 63-7-305. Enforcement

 The provisions of Section 63-7-301 may be enforced by any duly sworn law enforcement officer of this state, or of any county or political subdivision thereof.
MS Code § 63-7-309 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Child Passenger Restraint Devices|§ 63-7-309. Penalties

 Any person convicted of violating the provisions of Section 63-7-301 shall be fined not more than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) for each offense.
MS Code § 63-7-311 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 7 - Equipment and Identification|Child Passenger Restraint Devices|§ 63-7-311. Notice of requirement for devices

 The state tax commission shall provide notice of the requirement for child restraint devices or systems, which notice shall accompany the delivery of a motor vehicle license tag.
MS Code § 63-17-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 17 - Manufacture, Sales and Distribution|Bill of Sale; Numbers and Marks on Motor Vehicles|§ 63-17-1. Sale, purchase, etc., of automobile without bill of sale

 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, purchase or own any automobile unless the seller shall furnish to and the buyer shall take and reserve, a bill of sale, signed by the seller, showing the make and model, vehicle identification number and other identifying marks thereof, the address of the seller, and the name and address of the person from whom the seller purchased. Said bill of sale may be in the following form:   "Name of purchaser_______________Address of purchaser_______________Manufacturer_______________Model_______________Vehicle identification number_______________Other marks_______________Name and address of person from whom seller purchased_______________Signature of seller_______________Address of seller_______________ ."