As Amended
SEC. 65-3-1. Collection of tolls on state highway forbidden.
Subject only to the proviso hereinafter contained, it shall be unlawful for any person, acting privately or in any official capacity or as an employee of any subdivision of the state, to charge or collect any toll or other charge from any person for the privilege of traveling on any part of any highway which has been heretofore or may hereafter be designated as a state highway, and being a part of the state highway system, or on or across any bridge wholly within this state, which is a part of any such highway.
For a violation of this section, any judge or chancellor may, in term time or vacation, grant an injunction upon complaint of the state highway commission.
However, none of the provisions of this section shall prohibit the collection of any toll or other charge for the privilege of traveling on, or the use of, any causeway, bridge, tunnel, toll bridge, or any combination of such facility constructed under the provisions of sections 65-23-101 to 65-23-119, forming a part of U. S. Highway No. 90 across the Bay of St. Louis, or across or under the East Pascagoula River or the West Pascagoula River on said U. S. Highway 90.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 8058; Laws, 1942, ch. 292; 1948, ch. 332, Sec. 31; 1950, ch. 400.