Senate Bill 2785

(As Passed the Senate)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-1-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO EXEMPT THE REQUIREMENTS OF DRIVER'S EXAMINATION AND LICENSURE FROM ACTIVE OR RESERVE DUTY MILITARY MEMBERS, THEIR SPOUSES AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN WHO ARE LICENSED AS DRIVERS UNDER A LAW REQUIRING THE LICENSING OF DRIVERS IN THEIR HOME STATE AND WHO HAVE IN THEIR IMMEDIATE POSSESSION A VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE ISSUED IN THEIR HOME STATE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 63-1-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

63-1-7. No license issued pursuant to this article shall be required of:

(a) Any person while operating a motor vehicle for military purposes, if the person is a member of the United States Armed Forces or Reserves on active duty, a member of the National Guard on active duty or full-time National Guard duty, a National Guard military technician, or participating in part-time National Guard training.

(b) Any nonresident person who has in his immediate possession a valid license to drive a motor vehicle on the highways of his home state or country, issued to him by the proper authorities of his home state or country, or of any nonresident person whose home state or country does not require the licensing of a person to operate a motor vehicle on the highways but does require him to be duly registered. Such person being eighteen (18) years of age or older may operate a motor vehicle in the state for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days without securing a license. However, any nonresident person operating a motor vehicle in this state shall be subject to all the provisions of this article, except as specified above.

(c) Any person while operating a road roller, road machinery or any farm tractor or implement of husbandry temporarily drawn, moved or propelled on the highways.

(d) Any engineer or motorman using tracks for road or street, though used in the streets.

(e) Any person while operating an electric personal assistive mobility device as defined in Section 63-3-103.

(f) A member of any active or reserve component branch of the United States of America Armed Forces, or a spouse or a dependent child not less than sixteen (16) years of age of a member of any active or reserve component branch of the United States of America Armed Forces, who has been licensed as a driver under a law requiring the licensing of drivers in his home state and who has in his immediate possession a valid driver's license issued to him in his home state shall be permitted without examination or license under this article to drive a motor vehicle on public roads, streets and highways of the State of Mississippi. The provisions of this paragraph shall not be affected by the person's, spouse's or dependent child's ownership of a motor vehicle registered in the State of Mississippi.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2021.