Bill Text: MS SB2509 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Motor Carrier Regulatory Law; extend repeal on voluntary inspection program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-15 - Approved by Governor [SB2509 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2024-SB2509-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Highways and Transportation
By: Senator(s) Branning
Senate Bill 2509
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 77-7-345, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO EXTEND THE REPEAL DATE ON THE PROVISION OF LAW THAT REGULATES THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE VOLUNTARY INSPECTION PROGRAM; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 77-7-345, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
77-7-345. (1) When not otherwise specifically provided, the Commissioner of Public Safety is authorized to make and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to provide a voluntary program for inspection of commercial motor vehicles.
(2) For the purposes of this section, "commercial motor vehicle" has the meaning ascribed in Section 63-1-203.
(3) The regulations, if promulgated, will:
(a) Create a voluntary program for inspection of any combination of truck, truck tractor, trailer, semi-trailer or pole trailer, including each segment of a combined vehicle, that is used upon the highways or streets as a commercial motor vehicle for compliance with all applicable federal and state motor carrier safety regulations;
(b) Require that inspectors have access to the vehicle maintenance log;
(c) Prescribe a method of documentation to be displayed on the vehicle that is readily visible to an observer in the form of a decal or sticker, and require that the form of documentation prescribed must be kept on the vehicle;
(d) Require that inspection occur on an annual basis for participation in the program;
(e) Provide that inspection is not mandatory;
(f) Impose a reasonable inspection fee, which shall be deposited to the credit of the operating fund of the Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety; and
(g) Specify that officers of the Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division will retain all responsibility and authority to monitor and enforce violations under Section 77-7-335.
(4) This section shall stand
repealed on * * * July 1, 2026.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after June 30, 2024.
