MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Judiciary A
By: Representatives Wallace, Carpenter, Barnett, Calvert, Ford (54th), Gibbs (36th), Huddleston, Lancaster, Newman, Pigott, Shanks, Smith, Weathersby, White, Evans (45th), Horan, Lamar, Massengill, Steverson, Walker
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 69-13-111, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM THE LAWS RELATING TO ESTRAYED LIVESTOCK ON HIGHWAYS WITH MISSISSIPPI NEGLIGENCE LAW; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 69-13-111, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
69-13-111. The owners of livestock which through
their owner's negligence are found on federal or state designated paved
highways or highway rights-of-way shall be subject to any damages as a result
of wrecks, loss of life or bodily injury as a result of said livestock being on
the above designated highways. * * * This section shall not be applicable to
any such highway or highway right-of-way or any type of highway or road located
on any levee maintained by the Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners or the
board of levee commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta through
maintenance contracts calling for or permitting pasturage of livestock on levee
rights-of-way.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.