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2017 Mississippi Code
Title 27 - Taxation and Finance
Chapter 61 - Interstate Commercial Carriers Motor Fuel Tax
§ 27-61-21. Penalties; agreements; rules and regulations
Universal Citation: MS Code § 27-61-21 (2017)
- (1) When any person, owner, operator or driver liable for any tax hereunder shall operate a motor vehicle without complying with the provisions of Section 27-61-7 before leaving this state, then such person shall pay a fee in the amount of Twenty Dollars ($ 20.00). Any person, owner, operator or driver operating a vehicle subject to the provisions of this chapter with a revoked or illegally obtained International Fuel Tax Agreement credential shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($ 250.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($ 1,000.00) for the first such offense and not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($ 500.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($ 1,000.00) or confinement in the county jail for thirty (30) days or both for such subsequent offense.
- (2) The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into reciprocal agreements with neighboring states, whereby private carriers of property operating motor vehicles that cross the state line may be excluded from the provisions of Section 27-61-7, and is further authorized and empowered to issue such administrative rules pertaining to the collection of the tax imposed hereby on private carriers of property as may be reasonable and proper.
- (3) If any person shall issue or sign any invoice, bill of sale, or receipt specified in Section 27-61-7, which is false, untrue or incorrect in any material particular, or if any person shall fraudulently alter, change or forge any such invoice, then such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($ 250.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($ 1,000.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each offense.
- (4) If any person shall violate any provision of this chapter, then such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($ 250.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($ 1,000.00) for each offense.
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