97-17-75 - Removing personal property subject to lien from county, or selling same. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-17-75. Removing personal property subject to lien from county, or selling same.
 

Any person who shall remove, or cause to be removed, or aid or assist in removing from the county in which it may be, any personal property which may be the subject of a pledge, mortgage, deed of trust, conditional sales contract, lien of a lessor of lands, or lien by judgment, or any other lien of which such party has notice, without the consent of the holder of such encumbrance or lien, or who shall conceal or secrete such property, or who shall sell or dispose of the same or any part thereof without the consent of the mortgagee or beneficiary, or conditional vendor, with intent to defraud the holder of the encumbrance or lien, whether any of these acts shall be done before or after the maturity of the debt secured by the lien, and shall not immediately discharge such encumbrance or lien or pay to the holder of such lien or encumbrance the value of such property in event same is less than the amount of such lien or encumbrance, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the custody of the Department of Corrections not more than three (3) years, or be fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1871, § 2659; 1880, § 2909; 1892, § 1184; 1906, § 1262; Hemingway's 1917, § 992; 1930, § 1020; 1942, § 2252; Laws,  1954, ch. 237, § 2; Laws, 2005, ch. 511, § 5, eff from and after July 1, 2005.