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Miss. Code Ann. § 63-3-133

Traffic signals or devices

Known as the Uniform Highway Traffic Regulation Law

The act spans §§ 63–63 (250 sections).

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 854 So. 2d 1051 - Entergy Mississippi, Inc. v. Bolden (2003)

Most recently applied in Mississippi Transportation Commission v. Montgomery (February 2012)

Codes, 1942, § 8142; Laws, 1938, ch. 200.

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

“Official traffic-control devices” means all signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this chapter placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.

“Official traffic-control signal” means any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to proceed.

“Railroad sign or signal” means any sign, signal, or device erected by authority of a public body or official or by a railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.

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.