§ 63-11-32. Development, implementation and funding of driver improvement program for first offenders convicted of driving while intoxicated or under influence of another substance which impairs ability to operate motor vehicle
The State Department of Public Safety in conjunction with the Governor’s Highway Safety Program, the State Board of Health, or any other state agency or institution shall develop and implement a driver improvement program for persons identified as first offenders convicted of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or another substance which had […]
§ 63-11-33. Interlock Device Fund; purpose; use of monies
[Effective until July 1, 2020, this section will read as follows:] There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Interlock Device Fund. The purpose of the fund shall be to provide funding for the Driver’s License Bureau of the Department of Public Safety and also to provide funding […]
§ 63-11-37. Contents and disposition of record of conviction under § 63-11-30
It shall be the duty of the trial judge, upon conviction of a person under Section 63-11-30, to mail or otherwise deliver in a method prescribed by the commissioner a true and correct copy of the traffic ticket, citation or affidavit evidencing the arrest that resulted in the conviction and a certified copy of the […]
§ 63-11-39. Reduction of charges under chapter
The court having jurisdiction or the prosecutor shall not reduce any charge under this chapter to a lesser charge.
§ 63-11-40. Driving while driving license or privilege cancelled, suspended or revoked
Any person whose driver’s license, or driving privilege has been cancelled, suspended or revoked under the provisions of this chapter and who drives any motor vehicle upon the highways, streets or public roads of this state, while such license or privilege is cancelled, suspended or revoked, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction […]
§ 63-11-41. Admissibility in criminal prosecution of evidence of refusal to submit to chemical test
If a person under arrest refuses to submit to a chemical test under the provisions of this chapter, evidence of refusal shall be admissible in any criminal action under this chapter.
§ 63-11-17. Liability for administering test or analysis
No qualified person, hospital, clinic or funeral home shall incur any civil or criminal liability as the result of the proper administration of a test or chemical analysis of a person’s breath, blood or urine when requested in writing by a law enforcement officer to administer such a test or perform such chemical analysis.
§ 63-11-45. Denial of insurance coverage on ground of refusal to submit to test or upon basis of test results
No coverage otherwise afforded under any policy of insurance shall be denied on the ground that any person has refused any test provided for by this chapter nor on the basis of the results of any such test. Any provision to such effect in any insurance policy hereinafter issued shall be void.
§ 63-11-1. Short title
This chapter may be cited as the Mississippi Implied Consent Law.
§ 63-11-3. Definitions
The following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed herein, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: “Driving privilege” or “privilege” means both the driver’s license of those licensed in Mississippi and the driving privilege of unlicensed residents and the privilege of nonresidents, licensed or not, the purpose of this section being to make unlicensed […]