MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2020 Regular Session

To: Judiciary, Division A

By: Senator(s) Younger, Branning, McCaughn, Suber, Chassaniol, Moran, Sojourner, McDaniel, Jackson (32nd)

Senate Bill 2513

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. * * *The burden shall be on the owner of any such livestock to prove lack of negligence.  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.

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