2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 37 - EDUCATION
Chapter 25 - Driver Education and Training.
37-25-7 - Student eligibility for instruction; learners' permits.

§ 37-25-7. Student eligibility for instruction; learners' permits.
 

Each school district providing driver training and education shall prescribe regulations determining who can best profit by and who shall receive instruction under this program. It is provided, however, that any student receiving instruction under this chapter shall be: 
 

(a) Fourteen years of age or above; 

(b) A regularly enrolled student in the ninth, tenth, eleventh or twelfth grade; and 

(c) A full-time student in the respective secondary school. 

Any driver education student under fifteen (15) years of age shall secure a learner's permit issued by the Department of Public Safety which shall be valid only while the student is under the direct supervision of a driver education instructor and is actually enrolled in an approved course of driver education which consists of thirty (30) hours of classroom and six (6) hours of dual driving instruction. The learner's permit shall expire at the end of the driver training course. The Department of Public Safety shall charge a fee of One Dollar ($1.00) for the issuance of a learner's permit. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 6232-74; Laws,  1962, ch. 341, § 4; Laws, 1994, ch. 588, § 5, eff from and after September 1, 1995.