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Mississippi Code 1972 (2024)
Title 97 - CRIMES (§§ 97-1-1 — 97-47-9)
Chapter 15 - OFFENSES AFFECTING HIGHWAYS, FERRIES AND WATERWAYS (§§ 97-15-1 — 97-15-51)
- Section 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
- Section 97-15-3 - Highway commission members and employees; bribery
- Section 97-15-5 - Highway commission members, employees or highway contractors; conspiracy to violate contracts and defraud state
- Section 97-15-7 - and 97-15-9 - [Repealed]
- Section 97-15-11 - Highway contractors, materialmen, etc.; collusion to raise prices
- Section 97-15-13 - Hunting or shooting on or across streets and highways; shooting, etc., at traffic control devices
- Section 97-15-15 - Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; charging excessive toll
- Section 97-15-17 - Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; failure to give bond; suffering bridge, etc. to be out of order
- Section 97-15-19 - Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; unreasonable detention of person
- Section 97-15-21 - Levees; breaking enclosures; depositing trash, etc., or storing commodities; damaging
- Section 97-15-23 - Levees; disfiguring, etc., or excavating dirt or sand on levee right-of-way
- Section 97-15-25 - Levees; maliciously cutting, destroying, etc
- Section 97-15-27 - Levees; hunting or engaging in target practice upon mainline levee structure or right-of-way
- Section 97-15-29 - Littering highways and private property with trash or substance likely to cause fire; civil liability; fines; disposition of proceeds
- Section 97-15-30 - Penalties for unauthorized dumping of solid wastes; "commercial purpose" defined
- Section 97-15-31 - Littering highways, streets, sidewalks, etc. with tacks, glass or other damaging objects
- Section 97-15-32 - Dumping of dead wildlife, wildlife parts or waste in or on highways, private property, lakes, navigable waters, etc.; penalties
- Section 97-15-33 - Obstructing, injuring, destroying bridge, causeway or ferry
- Section 97-15-35 - Obstructing or injuring plank-road, covered, or other roads
- Section 97-15-37 - Obstructing public highway
- Section 97-15-39 - Obstructing waterways; felling tree or bush into stream or canal or obstructing in any way
- Section 97-15-41 - Obstructing waterways; felling trees in excess of six inches in diameter into running stream
- Section 97-15-43 - Obstructing waterways; navigable channel
- Section 97-15-45 - Obstructing waterways; permanently obstructing navigable waters
- Section 97-15-47 - Road overseers; refusing or neglecting duty
- Section 97-15-49 - Road overseers; suffering road to remain out of repair
- Section 97-15-51 - Corporation convicted for failure to keep road, etc., in repair; consequences of failure to pay fine
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