MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2015 Regular Session

To: Municipalities

By: Senator(s) Burton

Senate Bill 2433

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 21-19-15, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNING AUTHORITY OF A MUNICIPALITY TO RESTRICT OR REGULATE PARKING ON ANY PUBLIC STREET OR ROADWAY WITHOUT POSTING SIGNAGE THAT DESCRIBES THE PARKING RESTRICTION OR REGULATION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 21-19-15, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     21-19-15.  (1)  The governing authorities of municipalities shall have power to make all needful police regulations necessary for the preservation of good order and peace of the municipality and to prevent injury to, destruction of, or interference with public or private property.

     (2)  The governing authority of a municipality shall have the power to regulate or prohibit any mill, laundry or manufacturing plant from operating whereby the soot, cinders or smoke therefrom, or the unnecessary noises thereof, may do damage to or interfere with the use or occupation of public or private property.

     (3)  The governing authority of a municipality shall have the power to prohibit or regulate the sale or use of firecrackers, roman candles, torpedoes, sky rockets, and any and all explosives commonly known and referred to as fireworks; the term "fireworks" shall not include toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns, other devices in which paper caps manufactured in accordance with United States Interstate Commerce Commission regulations for packing and shipping of toy paper caps are used, or toy pistol paper caps manufactured as provided herein, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.

     (4)  The governing authority of a municipality may enact an ordinance specifying the manner and means by which a motor vehicle may be immobilized due to failure of the record title owner of the motor vehicle to pay traffic or parking fines totaling over Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00).

     (5)  The governing authority of a municipality may * * * not enforce an ordinance regulating or restricting parking on any public street or roadway * * *unless without signage that adequately describes the parking regulation or restriction * * * is posted within two hundred fifty (250) feet of the portion of the street or roadway where parking is regulated or restricted.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.

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