The boards of supervisors of counties and the governing authorities of municipalities are hereby authorized to adopt by order or resolution and to enforce within their respective territorial boundaries the maximum legal rate of speed at which a motor vehicle may be run or operated along any public street, road, highway (except state-maintained highways), or portion thereof in the vicinity of schools and churches, upon levees and causeways and in other special zones which the board or governing authorities may designate. The rate of speed so established shall be determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study. The order or resolution setting such speed limits may provide that such limits are only effective during specified times of the day, days of the week and months of the year.
Miss. Code Ann. § 63-3-515
Speed limits near schools and churches, upon levees and causeways, and in other designated special zones
Known as the Uniform Highway Traffic Regulation Law
The act spans §§ 63–63 (250 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 963 F. Supp. 2d 809 - Young v. Waste Connections of Tennessee, Inc. (2013)
Most recently applied in 963 F. Supp. 2d 809 - Young v. Waste Connections of Tennessee, Inc. (July 2013)
Codes, Hemingway’s 1917, § 5776; 1930, § 5570; 1942, § 8060; Laws, 1916, ch. 116; Laws, 1986, ch. 353, eff from and after July 1, 1986.
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.