MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Transportation

By: Representative Cameron

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-13-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REMOVE THE EXEMPTION UNDER THE MISSISSIPPI MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY INSPECTION LAW OF THOSE MOTOR VEHICLES MANUFACTURED OR HAVING A MODEL YEAR EARLIER THAN 1961; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1. Section 63-13-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

63-13-7. (1) * * * The Commissioner of Public Safety shall, not more than once each year, require that every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer and pole trailer registered in this state be inspected and that an official certificate of inspection and approval be obtained for each such vehicle. Each such vehicle must display at all times a certificate of inspection and approval duly issued for such vehicle upon the lower left hand corner of the windshield thereof or upon such vehicle in such position as to be visible from the outside.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, every motor vehicle registered in any other state and operated over the highways of this state shall be inspected and shall display an inspection certificate which shall be different either in color or design from the inspection certificates issued for use on state registered vehicles.

However, the Commissioner of Public Safety may authorize the acceptance in this state of a certificate of inspection and approval issued under the authority of a qualified agency or department of another state, provided that every municipality, county and state office in such other state accepts under a mutually acceptable reciprocal agreement, Mississippi's certificate of inspection and approval. The commissioner shall except from the provisions of this chapter all passenger buses and other vehicles certified by the Interstate Commerce Commission and subject to its rules and regulations and its periodical inspections.

(3) The Commissioner of Public Safety shall require all school buses in the State of Mississippi to be inspected during the months of July or August each year and may provide such special certificate of inspection and approval as he may deem necessary.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1999.