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MS Code § 63-3-411 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 9 - Accidents and Reports|§ 63-3-411. Duties of drivers involved in accidents involving injury or death or property damage of $500 or more to report accidents; supplemental reports; investigations and reports by law enforcement officers

  The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent extent of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or more shall immediately, by the quickest means of communication, give notice of the collision to the local police department if the collision occurs within an incorporated municipality, or if the collision occurs outside of an incorporated municipality to the nearest sheriff's office or highway patrol station.   The department may require any driver of a vehicle involved in an accident, of which report must be made as provided in this section, to file supplemental reports whenever the original report is insufficient in the opinion of the department. Additionally, the department may require witnesses of accidents to render reports to the department.   It shall be the duty of the highway patrol or the sheriff's office to investigate all accidents required to be reported by this section when the accident occurs outside the corporate limits of a municipality, and it shall be the duty of the police department of each municipality to investigate all accidents required to be reported by this section when the accidents occur within the corporate limits of the municipality.  Every law enforcement officer who investigates an accident as required by this subsection, whether the investigation is made at the scene of the accident or by subsequent investigation and interviews, shall forward within six (6) days after completing the investigation a written report of the accident to the department if the accident occurred outside the corporate limits of a municipality, or to the police department of the municipality if the accident occurred within the corporate limits of such municipality. Police departments shall forward such reports to the department within six (6) days of the date of the accident.    Whenever an engineer of a railroad locomotive, or other person in charge of a train, is required to show proof of his identity under the provisions of this article, in connection with operation of such locomotive, to any law enforcement officer, such person shall not be required to display his operator's or chauffeur's license but shall display his railroad employee number.   In addition to the information required on the "statewide uniform traffic accident report" forms provided by Section 63-3-415, the department shall require the parties involved in an accident and the witnesses of such accident to furnish their phone numbers in order to assist the investigation by law enforcement officers.
MS Code § 63-3-413 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 9 - Accidents and Reports|§ 63-3-413. Reporting of accident by occupant of vehicle when driver incapable of reporting

 Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making a required accident report and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of making a report, such occupant shall make or cause to be made said report.
MS Code § 63-3-415 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 9 - Accidents and Reports|§ 63-3-415. Accident report forms

  The department shall prepare and furnish "statewide uniform traffic accident report" forms to other agencies, municipal police departments, county sheriffs and other suitable law enforcement agencies or individuals. The department may charge an amount not exceeding the actual costs incurred by the department in preparing and furnishing the forms. The Department of Public Safety also may make such forms available in electronic format, which shall be accessible by law enforcement departments and other agencies without charge.   Every accident report required by Section 63-3-411 from a law enforcement officer or individual shall be made on the statewide uniform traffic accident report form provided by the department.   In addition to the information required on the accident report forms provided for herein, the department shall include a place on such report forms for the phone numbers of the parties involved in the accident and any witnesses to such accident.   "Statewide uniform traffic accident report" forms shall not have printed upon them the name of any elected state official.
MS Code § 63-3-419 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 9 - Accidents and Reports|§ 63-3-419. Reporting by hospitals and medical examiners of deaths from motor vehicle accidents

  Every county medical examiner or county medical examiner investigator shall, on or before the tenth day of each month, report in writing to the department the death of any person within his jurisdiction during the preceding calendar month as the result of an accident involving a motor vehicle and the circumstances of such accident.   Every hospital shall notify the county medical examiner or county medical examiner investigator of the county in which the accident occurred of the death within the hospital of any person who dies as a result of injuries apparently sustained in an accident involving a motor vehicle.
MS Code § 63-3-421 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 9 - Accidents and Reports|§ 63-3-421. Tabulation and analysis of accident reports

 The department shall receive accident reports required by this article, and shall tabulate and may analyze all accident reports and shall publish annually or at more frequent intervals statistical information based thereon as to the number and circumstances of traffic accidents.
MS Code § 63-3-423 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 9 - Accidents and Reports|§ 63-3-423. Requirement of accident reports by municipal corporations; confidentiality of reports

 Any incorporated city, town, village, or other municipality, may by ordinance require that the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident shall also file with a designated city department a report of such accident or a copy of any report required under this article to be filed with the department. Any such report shall be for the confidential use of the city department and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 63-3-417.
MS Code § 63-3-501 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-501. Maximum speed limits on state, interstate and controlled access highways; maximum speed limit on toll roads

 Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall operate a vehicle on the highways of the state at a speed greater than sixty-five (65) miles per hour.   The Mississippi Transportation Commission may, in its discretion, by order duly entered on its minutes, increase the speed restrictions on any portion of the Interstate Highway System provided such speed restrictions are not increased to more than seventy (70) miles per hour. The commission may likewise increase the speed limit to seventy (70) miles per hour on controlled access highways with four (4) or more lanes.   A governmental entity that operates and maintains a toll road as authorized under Section 65-43-1, or that contracts with some person or business to operate and maintain a toll road as authorized under Section 65-43-3, may establish the maximum speed for motor vehicles operated on any such toll road; however, the maximum speed so established may not exceed eighty (80) miles per hour.
MS Code § 63-3-502 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-502. Penalties for conviction of driving motor vehicle or motorcycle on street or highway in a race

  For the purposes of this section:   "Motor vehicle" has the meaning ascribed in Section 27-19-3.   "Motorcycle" has the meaning ascribed in Section 27-19-3.   "Street" or "highway" means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular traffic.     Any person driving a motor vehicle or motorcycle upon a street or highway in a race, upon conviction, shall be punished as follows:   A person convicted for the first offense of violating this subsection shall be fined not less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), imprisoned for not more than forty-eight (48) hours, or both.   For a second conviction of any person violating this subsection, the offenses being committed within a period of five (5) years, the person shall be fined not less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) nor more than One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00), shall be imprisoned not less than five (5) days nor more than one (1) year, and shall be sentenced to community service work for not less than ten (10) days nor more than one (1) year.     For a third or subsequent conviction of any person violating this subsection, the offenses being committed within a period of five (5) years, the person shall be guilty of a felony and fined not less than Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) nor more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), and shall serve not less than one (1) year nor more than five (5) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections; however, for any such offense that does not result in serious injury or death to any person, the sentence of incarceration may be served in the county jail at the discretion of the circuit court judge.   After a conviction under this subsection and upon receipt of the court abstract, the Commissioner of Public Safety shall suspend the driver's license and driving privileges of the person for not less than five (5) years.       A conviction and imposition of a sentence under this section does not prevent a conviction and imposition of a sentence under Section 63-7-103.
MS Code § 63-3-503 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-503. Modification of maximum speed limits by state highway commission; maximum penalties for violations

 Whenever the state highway commission shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any speed set forth in Section 63-3-501 is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part of a highway, said commission shall determine and declare a reasonable and safe speed limit thereat which shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at such intersection or other place or part of highway.   Whenever the state highway commission determines that speed limits set forth in Section 63-3-501 are different from those speeds set forth in applicable laws of the Federal Government, then said commission may declare a speed limit which is consistent with such laws and which shall be effective immediately upon adoption by the commission. Appropriate signs giving notice of the adopted speed limits shall be erected upon order of the commission.   The maximum fine and sentence to be imposed for a violation of excessive speed above the maximum limits set by the state highway commission pursuant to the authority granted by this section shall be one-half (1/2) the fine and sentence imposed by Section 63-9-11 if the excessive speed does not exceed the maximum limits imposed by Section 63-3-501.
MS Code § 63-3-505 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-505. Conditions under which speed must be decreased

 The driver or operator of any motor vehicle must decrease speed when approaching and crossing an intersection, when approaching and going around a curve, when approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, or when special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic. All trucks, or truck-trailer combinations and passenger buses shall be required to reduce speed to forty-five miles per hour during inclement weather when visibility is bad.
MS Code § 63-3-507 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-507. Details of complaint and summons or notice to appear alleging speeding violation

 In every charge of violation of Sections 63-3-501 through 63-3-505, and subsection (2) of Section 63-3-509 the complaint as well as the summons or notice to appear, shall specify the speed at which the defendant is alleged to have driven as well as the speed applicable within the district or at the location.
MS Code § 63-3-509 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-509. Minimum speed limits

  No motor vehicle shall be driven at a speed less than thirty miles per hour on federal designated highways where no hazard exists. An exception to this requirement shall be recognized when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, or when a vehicle or combination of vehicles is necessarily, or in compliance with law or police direction, proceeding at a reduced speed.  Police officers are hereby authorized to enforce this provision by directions to drivers. In the event of apparent wilful disobedience to this provision and refusal to comply with the direction of an officer in accordance herewith the continued slow operation by a driver shall be a misdemeanor.    In the event a speed limit of seventy miles per hour is established on any portion of the Interstate Highway System or on four-laned U.S. designated highways as is provided in Section 63-3-501, a minimum speed of forty miles per hour shall be established for those vehicles having a maximum speed restriction of seventy miles per hour. Notice of said minimum speed shall be posted on such roads.
MS Code § 63-3-511 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-511. Modification of speed limits by local authorities; establishment of speed limits upon roads of correctional facilities; modification of local limits to conform to lower limits established by state highway commission

 Whenever local authorities, including boards of supervisors, within their respective jurisdictions, determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed permitted under this article on any street, or any county road or any portion thereof, or at any intersection is greater than is reasonable or safe under conditions found to exist upon such street, or any county road or any portion thereof, or at such intersection, such local authorities shall determine and declare, by ordinance, a reasonable and safe speed limit, which shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected on such street, or any county road or any portion thereof, or at such intersection, or upon the approaches thereto. However, no speed limit shall be fixed by any such local authorities at less than fifteen (15) miles per hour.   The Commissioner of Corrections is authorized to establish by regulation reasonable and safe speed limits upon the roads of the correctional facilities under his jurisdiction which shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected. Speed limits may be based upon road or traffic conditions or upon security considerations.   Provided, however, that whenever the State Highway Commission shall, pursuant to Section 63-3-503, lower the maximum speed limit in response to federal laws, regulations or guidelines for purposes of energy conservation, local authorities, including boards of supervisors, shall immediately lower maximum speed limits on local highways, not to exceed a maximum speed of fifty-five (55) miles per hour.
MS Code § 63-3-513 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-513. Special speed limitation on bridges and elevated structures; proof of violations

 The state highway commission upon request from any local authority shall, or upon its own initiative may, conduct an investigation of any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway, and if it shall thereupon find that such structure cannot with safety to itself withstand vehicles traveling at the speed otherwise permissible under this article, the commission shall determine and declare the maximum speed of vehicles which such structure can withstand, and shall cause or permit suitable signs stating such maximum speed to be erected and maintained at a distance of one hundred feet before each end of such structure.   No person shall drive a vehicle over any bridge or other elevated structure constituting a part of a highway at a speed which is greater than the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to such bridge or structure, when such structure is signposted as provided in this section.   Upon the trial of any person, charged with a violation of this section, proof of said determination of the maximum speed by said commission and the existence of said signs shall constitute conclusive evidence of the maximum speed which can be maintained with safety to such bridge or structure.
MS Code § 63-3-515 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-515. Speed limits near schools and churches, upon levees and causeways, and in other designated special zones

 The boards of supervisors of counties and the governing authorities of municipalities are hereby authorized to adopt by order or resolution and to enforce within their respective territorial boundaries the maximum legal rate of speed at which a motor vehicle may be run or operated along any public street, road, highway (except state-maintained highways), or portion thereof in the vicinity of schools and churches, upon levees and causeways and in other special zones which the board or governing authorities may designate. The rate of speed so established shall be determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study. The order or resolution setting such speed limits may provide that such limits are only effective during specified times of the day, days of the week and months of the year.
MS Code § 63-3-517 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-517. Applicability of speed restrictions to emergency vehicles; duties of drivers of emergency vehicles

 The speed limitations set forth in this article shall not apply to authorized emergency vehicles when responding to emergency calls and the drivers thereof sound audible signal by bell, siren, or exhaust whistle. This section shall not relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the street, nor shall it protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequence of a reckless disregard of the safety of others.
MS Code § 63-3-519 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-519. Use of radar speed detection equipment; authorization and limitations

 It shall be unlawful for any person or peace officer or law enforcement agency, except the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, to purchase or use or allow to be used any type of radar speed detection equipment upon any public street, road or highway of this state. However, such equipment may be used:   1. By municipal law enforcement officers within a municipality having a population of two thousand (2,000) or more upon the public streets of the municipality;   2. By any college or university campus police force within the confines of any campus wherein more than two thousand (2,000) students are enrolled;   3. By municipal law enforcement officers in any municipality having a population in excess of fifteen thousand (15,000) according to the latest federal census on federally designated highways lying within the corporate limits.   The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol will not set up radar on highways within municipalities with a population in excess of fifteen thousand (15,000) according to the latest federal census.
MS Code § 63-3-521 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 11 - Restrictions on Speed; Use of Radar|§ 63-3-521. Use of radar speed detection equipment; penalties for violations

 Any person who violates section 63-3-519 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished 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 § 63-3-601 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations|Chapter 3 - Traffic Regulations and Rules of the Road|Article 13 - Driving on Right Side of Roadway: Overtaking and Passing; Following|§ 63-3-601. Vehicles to be driven on right half of roadway; exceptions

 Upon all roadways of sufficient width a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows:   1. When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction under the rules governing such movement;   2. When the right half of a roadway is closed to traffic while under construction or repair;   3. Upon a roadway divided into three marked lanes for traffic under the rules applicable thereon; or   4. Upon a roadway designated and signposted for one-way traffic.