Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Miss. Code Ann. § 77-9-227

Freight cars shall not be placed in rear of passenger cars; penalty

Codes, 1906, § 4044; Hemingway’s 1917, § 6668; 1930, § 6113; 1942, § 7765; Laws, 1942, ch. 273.

In forming a passenger train, freight or merchandise or lumber cars shall not be placed in the rear of passenger cars. If they, or any of them, shall be so placed and any accident happens to life or limb, the officer or agent who so directed or knowingly suffered such arrangement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. This section shall not apply where railroad trains are carrying personnel and equipment in connection with military or naval movements.

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.