Bill Text: MS HB576 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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-Introduced.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
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; 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. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.