Upon sentencing to the community service restitution program, the judge shall instruct the defendant as to what the sentence would have been had he or she not been placed in the community service restitution program, and shall inform the defendant as to consequences of failure to perform the community service sentence.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-20-13
Participant informed of possible criminal sentence; consequences of failure to perform community service sentence
Known as the Mississippi Community Service Restitution Act
The act spans §§ 99–99 (10 sections).
Laws, 1983, ch. 447, § 7; reenacted, Laws, 1987, ch. 367, § 7, eff from and after July 1, 1987.
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