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Miss. Code Ann. § 63-15-33

Allowance and effect of payment of judgment in installments; default

Known as the Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Law

The act spans §§ 63–63 (35 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case McCoy v. SOUTH CENT. BELL TELEPHONE CO. (1996)

Most recently applied in McCoy v. SOUTH CENT. BELL TELEPHONE CO. (November 1996)

Codes, 1942, § 8285-16; Laws, 1952, ch. 359, § 16, eff from and after January 1, 1953.

(1) A judgment debtor upon due notice to the judgment creditor may apply to the court in which such judgment was rendered for the privilege of paying such judgment in installments and the court, in its discretion and without prejudice to any other legal remedies which the judgment creditor may have, may so order and fix the amounts and times of payment of the installments.

(2) The department shall not suspend a license or a nonresident’s operating privilege, and shall restore any license or nonresident’s operating privilege suspended following nonpayment of a judgment, when the judgment debtor gives proof of financial responsibility and obtains such an order permitting the payment of such judgment in installments, and while the payment of any said installment is not in default.

(3) In the event the judgment debtor fails to pay any installment as specified by such order, then upon notice of such default, the department shall forthwith suspend the license or nonresident’s operating privilege of the judgment debtor until such judgment is satisfied, as provided in this chapter.

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.