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MS Code § 97-13-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Election Crimes|§ 97-13-31. Voting; aid in preparing ballot prohibited

 If any election officer or other person, except as authorized by law, shall aid or assist, or influence, a voter in preparing a ballot, or shall attempt so to do, he or she shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one (1) year, or be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-13-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Election Crimes|§ 97-13-33. Voting; dishonest decisions by managers concerning qualifications of voters

 When one who offers to vote at an election shall be objected to by any challenger as a person unqualified to vote, if the manager of such election shall permit him to vote without honestly considering his qualifications, or if any manager shall refuse the vote of such person without honestly considering his qualifications, or if any manager shall knowingly permit an unqualified person to vote, or shall knowingly refuse the vote of a qualified person, he shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one (1) year, or be fined not more than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-13-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Election Crimes|§ 97-13-35. Voting; by unqualified person, or at more than one place, or for both parties in same primary

  Any person who shall vote at any election, not being legally qualified, or who shall vote in more than one (1) county, or at more than one (1) place in any county or in any city, town, or village entitled to separate representation, or who shall vote out of the district of his legal domicile, or who shall vote or attempt to vote in the primary election of one (1) party when he shall have voted on the same date in the primary election of another party, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one (1) year, or be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both.   Any person who shall vote in the second primary election of one (1) party when he voted in the first primary election of another party preceding the same regular, special, or general election shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor and be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six (6) months, or be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-13-36 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Election Crimes|§ 97-13-36. Multiple voting; penalties

 Any person who shall knowingly vote at any election in more than one (1) county or at more than one (1) place in any county, municipality or other political subdivision with the intent to have more than one (1) vote counted in any election shall be guilty of the crime of multiple voting and, upon conviction, shall be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary not more than five (5) years, or be fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both; or in a county jail not more than one (1) year, or be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-13-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Election Crimes|§ 97-13-37. Intimidating, boycotting, etc., elector to procure vote

 Whoever shall procure, or endeavor to procure, the vote of any elector, or the influence of any person over other electors, at any election, for himself or any candidate, by means of violence, threats of violence, or threats of withdrawing custom, or dealing in business or trade, or of enforcing the payment of a debt, or of bringing a suit or criminal prosecution, or by any other threat or injury to be inflicted by him, or by his means, or shall violate any provision of Section 23-15-871 or 23-15-874, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one (1) year, or be fined not more than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-13-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Election Crimes|§ 97-13-39. Intimidating elector to prevent voting

  If any person shall, by illegal force, or threats of force, prevent, or endeavor to prevent, any elector from giving his vote, he shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one (1) year, or be fined not more than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00), or both.   If any person shall, utilize the requirements to provide voter identification to intimidate a voter, or to prevent a person from voting who is otherwise qualified to vote shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary not more than five (5) years, or fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-13-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Election Crimes|§ 97-13-41. Penalty for false entry, unauthorized revision, removal or alteration in Statewide Elections Management System or poll book

 Any person who shall knowingly make a false entry, unauthorized revision, removal, or alteration in the Statewide Elections Management System or poll book, shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary for a term not exceeding ten (10) years, and be liable to the action of the aggrieved party.
MS Code § 97-13-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Election Crimes|§ 97-13-43. Penalty for willfully tampering with or damaging voting machine, tabulating computer or other device used in connection with election or preventing correct operation of said machine or device

 Any person who willfully tampers with or damages any voting machine or tabulating computer or device to be used or being used at or in connection with any election or who prevents or attempts to prevent the correct operation of any voting machine or tabulating computer or device shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years, or be fined Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-13-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 13 - Election Crimes|§ 97-13-45. Penalty for unlawfully showing ballot to another, making false statement as to inability to mark ballot, or marking ballot so as to identify voter

 Any voter who shall, except as provided by law, allow his ballot to be seen by any person, or who shall make a false statement as to his inability to mark his ballot, or who shall place any mark upon his ballot by which it can afterwards be identified as the ballot voted by him, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).
MS Code § 97-15-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-1. Destroying, defacing, etc., milepost, signboard, etc., or bridge, underpass or overpass prohibited; penalties; liability for cost of repair; liability of parents of minor

  Any person who shall willfully destroy, deface, mar, damage, pull down or remove any milepost, signboard, or index board, or road number, or railroad crossing sign or flasher signal, or other traffic control device shall, on conviction thereof, be liable for the actual cost of replacing or repairing such sign and shall be fined not less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six (6) months, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. If the offender is a minor, the parents of such minor shall be civilly liable in accordance with Section 93-13-2 for the actual cost of replacing or repairing the sign, signal or device.   The penalties prescribed in subsection (1) of this section shall also be applicable to any person, and to the parents of any minor, who willfully defaces, mars or damages any bridge, underpass or overpass.
MS Code § 97-15-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-3. Highway commission members and employees; bribery

 Whoever being a member of the state highway commission, or any engineer, agent, or other employee, acting for or on behalf of the commission, shall accept, or agree to accept, receive or agree to receive, ask or solicit, either directly or indirectly, and any person who shall give or offer to give, or promise or procure to be promised, offered or given, either directly or indirectly to any member of said commission, or to any engineer, agent, or other employee acting for and on behalf of the commission, any monies, or any contract, promise, undertaking, obligation, gratuity or security for the payment of money, or for the delivery or conveyance of anything of value or of any political appointment or influence, present, or reward of any employment or any other thing of value, with the intent to have his decision or action on any question, matter, cause or proceeding which may at the time be pending, or which may by law be brought before him in his official capacity or in his place of trust or profit, influence thereby, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years, and shall forever after be disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the constitution or laws of this state.
MS Code § 97-15-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-5. Highway commission members, employees or highway contractors; conspiracy to violate contracts and defraud state

 Any member of the state highway commission or any person employed by the state highway commission, in connection with the carrying on of the work outlined in Title 65, Mississippi Code of 1972, who shall knowingly perform any act with intent to injure the state, or any contractor or his agent, or employee, or any other person, who shall conspire with the director or with any member of the state highway commission, or employee thereof or with any state official, to permit a violation of any contract with intent to injure or defraud the state, or any contractor or agent, or employee of any contractor who shall knowingly do any work on any state highway in violation of contract, and with intent to defraud the state, the member of the state highway commission, or employee thereof, state official or contractor, or employee or agent of such contractor, or any other person so conspiring or so doing, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof shall be confined in the state penitentiary not less than one year, nor more than five years, or be fined not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or both. In addition, any such person shall be liable to the state highway commission for double the amount the state may have lost by reason thereof, such liability to be covered by any bond that may have been executed by such official, contractor, or employee, the liability hereunder of the bondsmen, however, being limited to the total amount of said bond and not more.
MS Code § 97-15-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-11. Highway contractors, materialmen, etc.; collusion to raise prices

 It shall be unlawful for any contractors, material dealers, individuals, manufacturers, producers, or corporations, to enter into collusion, private agreement, or secret understanding, to raise the price of construction work or of equipment, supplies or materials for any state highway work. Any contractor, material dealer, manufacturer, producer or their agent or employee, or officer, agent or employee of any corporation, convicted of this offense shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
MS Code § 97-15-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-15. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; charging excessive toll

 Any keeper of any public ferry, toll-bridge, or causeway, who shall demand or receive from any person any rate of toll not allowed by the order of the board of supervisors of the county in which the same may be kept, shall, for each offense, on conviction thereof, be fined not more than fifty dollars.
MS Code § 97-15-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-17. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; failure to give bond; suffering bridge, etc. to be out of order

 If any owner or keeper of a public ferry, toll-bridge, or causeway, shall fail to give bond as required by law, or shall suffer said ferry, bridge, or causeway, or any part or appurtenance thereof, to be out of good repair for more than five days at any one time, such owner or keeper, or both, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not more than fifty dollars.
MS Code § 97-15-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-19. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; unreasonable detention of person

 If any person shall be unreasonably detained, at any time, at any public ferry, toll-bridge, or causeway, by the carelessness, negligence, or wilfulness of the owner or keeper thereof, such owner or keeper, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.
MS Code § 97-15-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-21. Levees; breaking enclosures; depositing trash, etc., or storing commodities; damaging

 If any person shall willfully cut, break down, remove, destroy or damage any cattle gap or any fence or part thereof erected by any board of levee commissioners or the agents or employees of said board of levee commissioners for the purpose of enclosing any levee right-of-way under the control of said board of levee commissioners or who shall break down, remove or destroy any gate in any such fence, or shall willfully leave unclosed and open any such gate after having opened same, or make said levee or said levee right-of-way a place of deposit or storage for any woodpiles or refuse, garbage or dead animals or any cotton, lumber, bricks or any other commodities, or who shall willfully do any material damage injurious to said levee, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each offense. In addition to the penalties herein provided for, if any levee board is required to remove any such forbidden objects herein described, the owner or owners of such forbidden objects shall be liable in damages to the levee board for the cost of removing such objects, which damages may be recovered in a court action brought for that purpose; and the said levee board shall have a right of action against any person for any other damage sustained to the levee or levee right-of-way by reason of a violation of this section.
MS Code § 97-15-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-23. Levees; disfiguring, etc., or excavating dirt or sand on levee right-of-way

 If any person or persons shall willfully cut into, mutilate or disfigure any levee or excavate dirt or sand from the right-of-way owned by any board of levee commissioners or any part thereof, or trespass upon said levee in violation of posted regulations, without being authorized to do so by the said board of levee commissioners, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each offense, or shall be confined in the county jail for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
MS Code § 97-15-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-25. Levees; maliciously cutting, destroying, etc.

 If any person shall wilfully or maliciously cut, break, injure, or destroy any levee constructed by authority of law, he shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years.
MS Code § 97-15-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-27. Levees; hunting or engaging in target practice upon mainline levee structure or right-of-way

 If any person shall hunt or engage in target practice upon any levee structure erected by any board of levee commissioners, the entire landside right-of-way of the levee structure or the riverside right-of-way of the levee structure within a distance of two hundred (200) feet from the toe of the levee structure, the person or persons shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in Section 49-7-141(1) for Class I violations of the game and fish laws.
MS Code § 97-15-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-31. Littering highways, streets, sidewalks, etc. with tacks, glass or other damaging objects

 It shall be unlawful for any person, or corporation acting through any employee or agent, to knowingly or wilfully or carelessly place glass, nails, tacks, or other objects which may damage the property of another, in any public street, highway, alley-way, or sidewalk. If said person or corporation shall not immediately gather up and remove same, he or it shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and in addition shall be liable to any person injured thereby, or injury to his property, for two times the amount of actual damage sustained.
MS Code § 97-15-32 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-32. Dumping of dead wildlife, wildlife parts or waste in or on highways, private property, lakes, navigable waters, etc.; penalties

  Anyone who puts, throws or dumps on the streets, roads or highways within this state, or within the limits of the rights-of-way of such streets, roads or highways, or in the lakes, streams, rivers or navigable waters or upon any private property without permission of the owner of such property, any dead wildlife, wildlife parts or waste, in addition to being civilly liable for all damages caused by such act, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided in this section.   Any person found guilty of the violation of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) nor more than Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00).   A person convicted for a first offense under this section may be required to perform the following, and a person convicted for a second or subsequent offense shall be required to:   Remove the unlawfully discarded dead wildlife or waste;   Restore property damaged by, or pay damages for any damage arising out of the unlawfully discarded dead wildlife or waste;   Perform community public service relating to the removal of any unlawfully discarded dead wildlife or waste or to the restoration of any area polluted by unlawfully discarded dead wildlife or waste; and   Pay all reasonable investigative and prosecutorial expenses and costs to the investigative and/or prosecutorial agency or agencies.     It shall be the duty of all law enforcement officers to enforce the provisions of this section.
MS Code § 97-15-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-33. Obstructing, injuring, destroying bridge, causeway or ferry

 If any person shall wilfully obstruct, break, injure, or destroy any bridge, causeway, or ferry, or any appurtenances thereof which shall have been established for the convenience of the public by the proper authority, he shall, on conviction, be fined not more than one hundred dollars, and shall be liable, further, for all damages occasioned by such wrongful act.
MS Code § 97-15-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-35. Obstructing or injuring plank-road, covered, or other roads

 If any person shall wantonly or negligently obstruct or injure any plank-road, or any covered road, or other roads, on conviction thereof, he shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not longer than six months in the county jail, or both.
MS Code § 97-15-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-37. Obstructing public highway

 If any person shall fell any bush or tree into any public highway, or obstruct the same in any manner whatever, and shall not remove the obstruction immediately, it shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof the offender, in addition to the penalty recoverable by law, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or be imprisoned not more than one week.
MS Code § 97-15-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-39. Obstructing waterways; felling tree or bush into stream or canal or obstructing in any way

 If any person shall fell any bush or tree into a stream or canal not less than one hundred and fifty (150) feet wide, or obstruct the same in any way whatever, and shall not remove the obstruction immediately, it shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, the offender, in addition to the penalty recoverable by law, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or be imprisoned not more than one week.
MS Code § 97-15-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-41. Obstructing waterways; felling trees in excess of six inches in diameter into running stream

 It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person, firm, corporation, association or organization to push, fell or cut trees, in excess of six (6) inches in diameter, into a running stream, or deposit or leave in a running stream, trees, in excess of six (6) inches in diameter, logs in excess of six (6) inches in diameter or tree tops, without removing the same immediately, in such cases where such will materially impede the flow of or navigation upon such running stream.   Any violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00).   Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the rafting and movement of logs in a running stream in the customary manner and for commercial purposes. Provided, however, the provisions of this section shall not be construed to affect in any way the riparian rights of any person, firm, corporation, association or organization.
MS Code § 97-15-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways|§ 97-15-43. Obstructing waterways; navigable channel

 If any captain or master of a vessel, or any person, shall obstruct, or cause to be obstructed, any navigable bay, river, creek, or other navigable channel or pass thereof, in any manner whatever, or shall discharge any ballast in any harbor or place other than that designated by the harbor commissioners therefor, on conviction thereof, the offender shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not longer than six months, or both.