The driver of any authorized emergency vehicle when responding to an emergency call upon approaching a red or stop signal or any stop sign shall slow down as necessary for safety but may proceed cautiously past such red or stop sign or signal. At other times drivers of authorized emergency vehicles shall stop in obedience to a stop sign or signal.
Miss. Code Ann. § 63-3-315
Obedience of official traffic-control devices by emergency vehicles
Known as the Uniform Highway Traffic Regulation Law
The act spans §§ 63–63 (250 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Walker v. Graham (1991)
Most recently applied in 25 So. 3d 305 - Rayner v. Pennington (January 2010)
Codes, 1942, § 8148; Laws, 1938, ch. 200.
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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.