27-5-77 - Penalties. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 27-5-77. Penalties.
 

If any owner, operator or driver of any carrier of property having a gross vehicle weight in excess of ten thousand (10,000) pounds shall willfully fail or refuse to stop at any inspection station and submit to an inspection or if any owner, operator or driver of any other vehicle which is required by any law or by any rule or regulation of the Mississippi Department of Transportation or State Tax Commission to stop at any inspection station and submit to an inspection shall willfully fail or refuse so to do, then such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by confinement in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and jail sentence, in addition to any other penalty or assessment as provided by law. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 10008-16; Laws,  1946, ch. 372, § 3; Laws, 1948, ch. 325, § 9; Laws, 1952, ch. 344, § 16; Laws, 1992, ch. 496, § 17; Laws, 1994, ch. 382, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1994.