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Mississippi · Snapshot Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17

Miss. Code Ann. § 77-9-223: Exception to requirement of headlights.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Title 77. Public Utilities and Carriers
  2. Chapter 9. Railroads and Other Common Carriers
  3. Article 3. Railroads and Railroad Corporations.
  4. Safety

Section 77-9-221 shall not apply:

(a) to tramroads, mill roads and roads engaged principally in lumber or logging transportation in connection with mills;

(b) to railroad systems under thirty miles long which do not run regular night schedules;

(c) to any engine, the lighting equipment of which shall have failed during a trip, provided that it be shown that the equipment was in efficient and effective working condition when the trip was begun; or

(d) to switch engines going to and returning from wrecks, or sent out on a main line to bring into a terminal a train, the engine of which has become disabled.

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