MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1997 Regular Session

To: Judiciary

By: Senator(s) Hewes

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 97-17-97, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO ALLOW PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS FROM ENTERING PUBLIC HOUSING AREAS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 97-17-97, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

97-17-97. (1) If any person or persons shall without authority of law go into or upon or remain in or upon any building, premises or land of another, whether an individual, a corporation, partnership or association, or any part, portion or area thereof, including the premises of any public housing authority, after having been forbidden to do so, either orally or in writing including any sign hereinafter mentioned, by any owner, or lessee or custodian, or other authorized person, including the administrators of a public housing authority and without regard to whether such person may have been invited onto the premises of the housing authority by a tenant, or after having been forbidden to do so by such sign or signs posted on, or in such building, premises or land, or part, or portion, or area thereof, at a place or places where such sign or signs may be reasonably seen, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by confinement in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(2) The provisions of this section are supplementary to the provisions of any other statute of this state.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1997.