{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-19-131","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-131","heading":"Operation of vehicle without payment of tax.","body":"(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, any owner, operator, dealer, agent, or any other person who shall operate or cause to be operated upon the highways of this state, without having paid the privilege license tax or fee required by the provisions of this article, or without having the license tag or required license tag and decals affixed upon such vehicle as required by law, or who shall alter or change any license tag or decals issued in any way, or who except for a violation of subsection (2) of this section, shall violate any other provision of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) and not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.\n(2) Any owner, operator, dealer, agent or any other person who shall operate or cause to be operated upon the highways of this state, without having paid the privilege license tax or fee required by the provisions of this article and who knowingly and intentionally (a) displays an out-of-state license tag on the motor vehicle; or (b) displays a license tag or decal on the motor vehicle which was issued for another vehicle, shall upon conviction be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or both. For the purposes of this subsection (2) a prima facie case of a knowing and intentional violation of this subsection shall be established upon evidence that such person is more than ninety (90) days delinquent in paying the privilege license tax and fees for such vehicle as required under this article.\n(3) Any vehicle hereinabove described may be cited whether the violation is observed when the vehicle is actually in operation on the highway or not.","path":["Title 27. Taxation and Finance","Chapter 19. Motor Vehicle Privilege and Excise Taxes","Article 1. Motor Vehicle Privilege Taxes."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.27.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17; absent from the newer snapshot, which serves other sections of this chapter, so it may since have been repealed or amended","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:52:13Z","sha256":"d986cc337e4164123992eb1af583dac3e9005709ba3faa0e5ff282499182b1b1","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-19-129","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-19-133","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}