Bill Text: MS HB576 | 2020 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence when damages from.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 17-3)
Status: (Passed) 2020-07-08 - Approved by Governor [HB576 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2020-HB576-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Judiciary A
By: Representatives Wallace, Carpenter, Barnett, Calvert, Ford (54th), Gibbs (36th), Huddleston, Lancaster, Newman, Pigott, Shanks, Smith, Weathersby, White, Evans (45th), Horan, Lamar, Massengill, Steverson, Walker
House Bill 576
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 69-13-111, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM THE LAWS RELATING TO ESTRAYED LIVESTOCK ON HIGHWAYS WITH MISSISSIPPI NEGLIGENCE LAW; TO CREATE A TRANSITION PROVISION TO BE NOTED BY THE EDITOR; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 69-13-111, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
69-13-111. The owners of livestock which through
their owner's negligence are found on federal or state designated paved highways
or highway rights-of-way shall be subject to any damages as a result of wrecks,
loss of life or bodily injury as a result of said livestock being on the above
designated highways. * * *
This section shall not be applicable to any such highway or highway right-of-way
or any type of highway or road located on any levee maintained by the Board of
Mississippi Levee Commissioners or the board of levee commissioners for the
Yazoo-Mississippi Delta through maintenance contracts calling for or permitting
pasturage of livestock on levee rights-of-way.
SECTION 2. The provisions of this act shall not be applicable to any case filed before July 1, 2020.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
