MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Judiciary B

By: Representative Manning

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 99-3-13, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CREATE A FELONY OFFENSE FOR FAILING TO STOP ON INSTRUCTION OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OR FLEEING A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER AFTER BEING STOPPED AND CAUSING PURSUIT BY SUCH OFFICER; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1. Section 99-3-13, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

99-3-13. (1) If a person commits an offense and be pursued by a sheriff or constable, and escape from the county of the officer, the officer may pursue and apprehend him in any county and take him to the county in which the offense was committed; and in all cases an officer or other person having the lawful custody of a prisoner, passing through any county on his route, may lodge the prisoner in any jail for safekeeping, as circumstances require. In like manner if a person commit an offense within the corporate limits of an incorporated municipality and be pursued by a marshal or any other municipal peace or police officer and shall escape from the municipality, such municipal peace or police officer may pursue and apprehend such offender to places without the corporate limits of the municipality and to any place within the State of Mississippi to which such person may flee and may return such person to the municipality in which such offense was committed.

(2) Any person in a motor vehicle who shall fail to stop after being instructed by a law enforcement officer who has probable cause to stop such vehicle or who shall flee such law enforcement officer after being stopped and shall cause such law enforcement officer to pursue such person in hot pursuit in order to apprehend or arrest such person shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or imprisoned for not more than five (5) years, or both.

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