MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 63-5-21. Vehicle length limitations; exceptions.

The length limitations provided in Section 63-5-19 shall not apply to vehicles * * * operated at nighttime by a public utility transporting poles, pipes, machinery or other objects of a structural nature which cannot readily be dismembered when required for emergency repair of public service facilities or properties * * *. However, in respect to such night transportation every such vehicle and the load thereon shall be equipped with a sufficient number of clearance lamps on both sides and marker lamps upon the extreme ends of any projecting load to clearly mark the dimensions of such load.

SOURCES: Codes, 1942, § 8267; Laws,  1938, ch. 200; Laws, 1946, ch. 307, § 2; Laws, 1950, ch. 480; Laws, 1956, ch. 380; Laws, 1958, ch. 502; Laws, 1962, ch. 530; Laws, 1971, ch. 354, § 1; Laws, 1982, ch. 447, § 2; Laws, 2001, ch. 557, § 2, SB 2740, eff from and after July 1, 2001.

PREVIOUS VERSIONS:  Pre-2001


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