2019 Mississippi Code
Title 63 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations
Chapter 15 - Motor Vehicle Safety — Responsibility
§ 63-15-25. Certification to department of unsatisfied judgment; reports of convictions, pleas or actions in judicial proceedings for violations of motor vehicle laws
(1) Whenever any person fails within sixty days to satisfy any judgment, upon the written request of the judgment creditor or his attorney it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court, or of the judge of a court which has no clerk, in which any such judgment is rendered within this state, to forward to the department immediately after the expiration of said sixty days, a certified copy of such judgment.
(2) If the defendant named in any certified copy of a judgment reported to the department is a nonresident, the department shall transmit a certified copy of the judgment to the official in charge of the issuance of licenses of the state of which the defendant is a resident.
(3) The clerk of the court, or the judge of a court which has no clerk, in which any conviction for violation of a motor vehicle law is rendered, or in which a person charged with violation of a motor vehicle law has pleaded guilty or forfeited bail, shall forward immediately to the department a certified a copy of the judgment, order or record of other action of the court. This copy shall be prima-facie evidence of the conviction, plea or other action stated.
