Mississippi Code
Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways
§ 97-15-49. Road overseers; suffering road to remain out of repair

If any person shall suffer any public road of which he is the overseer to remain out of repair for more than ten days at any one time, unless hindered by extreme bad weather, or other unavoidable cause, on conviction thereof he shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.

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