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Miss. Code Ann. § 63-3-905

Authority of police officers to remove or provide for removal of illegally stopped vehicles

Known as the Uniform Highway Traffic Regulation Law

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

Codes, 1942, § 8216; Laws, 1938, ch. 200.

(1) Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of Section 63-3-903, such officer is hereby authorized to move such vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to move the same, to a position off the paved or improved or main traveled part of such highway.

(2) Whenever any police officer finds a vehicle unattended upon any bridge or causeway or in any tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an obstruction to traffic, such officer is hereby authorized to provide for the removal of such vehicle to the nearest garage or other place of safety.

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.