Any person who willfully and knowingly violates this chapter or any regulation or written order of the commission promulgated or issued under this chapter or any condition of a permit, or makes any false statement, representation or certification or knowingly fails to make any statement, representation or certification in any application, record, report, plan or other document filed or required to be maintained under a regulation or written order of the commission promulgated or issued under this chapter, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 53-9-57
Criminal penalties; violation of condition of permit or order
Known as the Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law
The act spans §§ 53–53 (61 sections).
Laws, 1979, ch. 477, § 24; Laws, 1997, ch. 306, § 28, eff from and after passage (approved March 10, 1997
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.