Any person who willfully and knowingly violates this chapter or any regulation or written order of the commission promulgated or issued under this chapter or any condition of a permit, or makes any false statement, representation or certification or knowingly fails to make any statement, representation or certification in any application, record, report, plan or other document filed or required to be maintained under a regulation or written order of the commission promulgated or issued under this chapter, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or both.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals
Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land
Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law
§ 53-9-3. Legislative findings and declarations
§ 53-9-9. Administration and enforcement of chapter
§ 53-9-23. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit-reissuance
§ 53-9-29. Reclamation plan included in application; contents
§ 53-9-49. Authorized departures from performance standards; experimental practices
§ 53-9-53. Sign at entrance of surface coal mining and reclamation operation
§ 53-9-57. Criminal penalties; violation of condition of permit or order
§ 53-9-63. Nonexclusivity of penalty provisions
§ 53-9-73. Cooperation with Secretary of Interior
§ 53-9-75. Application of chapter to public corporations
§ 53-9-81. Inapplicability of chapter
§ 53-9-83. Lease of state coal deposits
§ 53-9-87. Training, examination, and certification of persons responsible for blasting