Miss. Code Ann. § 63-15-53

Self-insurance

Known as the Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Law

The act spans §§ 63–63 (35 sections).

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case McCoy v. SOUTH CENT. BELL TELEPHONE CO. (1996)

Most recently applied in 8 So. 3d 866 - Enterprise Leasing Co.-South Central, Inc. v. Bardin (May 2009)

Codes, 1942, § 8285-34; Laws, 1952, ch. 359, § 33, eff from and after January 1, 1953.

(1) Any person in whose name more than 25 motor vehicles are licensed may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance issued by the department as provided in subsection (2) of this section.

(2) The department may, in its discretion, upon the application of a person, issue a certificate of self-insurance when it is satisfied that such person is possessed and will continue to be possessed of ability to pay judgments obtained against such person.

(3) Upon not less than five days notice and a hearing pursuant to such notice, the department may upon reasonable grounds cancel a certificate of self-insurance. Failure to pay any judgment within thirty days after such judgment shall have become final shall constitute a reasonable ground for the cancellation of a certificate of self-insurance.

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.