MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 97-25-5. Railroads; destroying crossing-sign, gate or warning-strings.

If any person shall wilfully obliterate, injure or destroy any railroad-gate, warning-strings, cattle-gap or any board or sign erected or maintained by a railroad company in pursuance of law, he shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three (3) months, or both.

SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 35, art. 39; 1871, Sec. 2425; 1880, Sec. 1051; 1892, Sec. 1268; 1906, Sec. 1343; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1077; 1930, Sec. 1107; 1942, Sec. 2343; Laws, 1981, ch. 541, Sec. 4, eff from and after July 1, 1981.


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