27-55-503 - Purpose of article. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 27-55-503. Purpose of article.
 

It is declared to be the purpose and intention of the Legislature to impose an excise tax to provide highways, streets and roads on all persons engaged in business as distributors of special fuel in this state, computed at the rates stated in this article, subject to the exemptions and refunds herein enumerated; to inquire into all violations; and to impose and inflict the penalties herein provided; and especially are the chancery courts of this state authorized and empowered to require any and all persons to disclose and discover full information with reference to their dealing in and handling of special fuel as herein provided. Any and all persons making the disclosures and discoveries prayed for by any bill filed in the chancery courts of the State of Mississippi shall be, and are, hereby given full and complete immunity from all fines and jail sentences imposed by this article. 
 

Sources: Laws, 1999, ch. 461, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 1999.