63-3-905 - Authority of police officers to remove or provide for removal of illegally stopped vehicles. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 63-3-905. Authority of police officers to remove or provide for removal of illegally stopped vehicles.
 

(1)  Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of Section 63-3-903, such officer is hereby authorized to move such vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same, to a position off the paved or improved or main traveled part of such highway. 

(2)  Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any bridge or causeway or in any tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, such officer is hereby authorized to provide for the removal of such vehicle to the nearest garage or other place of safety. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8216; Laws,  1938, ch. 200.