This chapter shall be known as the Mississippi Community Service Restitution Act. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an alternative method of punishment in cases in which the defendant would have otherwise been sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-20-1
Short title; purpose
Known as the Mississippi Community Service Restitution Act
The act spans §§ 99–99 (10 sections).
Laws, 1983, ch. 447, § 1; reenacted, Laws, 1987, ch. 367, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1987.
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