No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition and removing the key, and, when standing upon any perceptible grade, without effectively setting the brake thereon and turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 63-3-909
Parking of unattended motor vehicles
Known as the Uniform Highway Traffic Regulation Law
The act spans §§ 63–63 (250 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 294 So. 2d 179 - Gates v. OWEN CHEVROLET COMPANY (1974)
Most recently applied in 809 So. 2d 668 - Southern Heritage Ins. Co. v. CE FRAZIER CONST. CO. (March 2002)
Codes, 1942, § 8219; Laws, 1938, ch. 200.
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.