Mississippi Code
Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways
§ 97-15-31. Littering highways, streets, sidewalks, etc. with tacks, glass or other damaging objects

It shall be unlawful for any person, or corporation acting through any employee or agent, to knowingly or wilfully or carelessly place glass, nails, tacks, or other objects which may damage the property of another, in any public street, highway, alley-way, or sidewalk. If said person or corporation shall not immediately gather up and remove same, he or it shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and in addition shall be liable to any person injured thereby, or injury to his property, for two times the amount of actual damage sustained.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 97 - Crimes

Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways

§ 97-15-3. Highway commission members and employees; bribery

§ 97-15-5. Highway commission members, employees or highway contractors; conspiracy to violate contracts and defraud state

§ 97-15-11. Highway contractors, materialmen, etc.; collusion to raise prices

§ 97-15-15. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; charging excessive toll

§ 97-15-17. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; failure to give bond; suffering bridge, etc. to be out of order

§ 97-15-19. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; unreasonable detention of person

§ 97-15-21. Levees; breaking enclosures; depositing trash, etc., or storing commodities; damaging

§ 97-15-23. Levees; disfiguring, etc., or excavating dirt or sand on levee right-of-way

§ 97-15-25. Levees; maliciously cutting, destroying, etc.

§ 97-15-27. Levees; hunting or engaging in target practice upon mainline levee structure or right-of-way

§ 97-15-31. Littering highways, streets, sidewalks, etc. with tacks, glass or other damaging objects

§ 97-15-33. Obstructing, injuring, destroying bridge, causeway or ferry

§ 97-15-35. Obstructing or injuring plank-road, covered, or other roads

§ 97-15-37. Obstructing public highway

§ 97-15-39. Obstructing waterways; felling tree or bush into stream or canal or obstructing in any way

§ 97-15-41. Obstructing waterways; felling trees in excess of six inches in diameter into running stream

§ 97-15-43. Obstructing waterways; navigable channel

§ 97-15-45. Obstructing waterways; permanently obstructing navigable waters

§ 97-15-47. Road overseers; refusing or neglecting duty

§ 97-15-49. Road overseers; suffering road to remain out of repair

§ 97-15-51. Corporation convicted for failure to keep road, etc., in repair; consequences of failure to pay fine