Bill Text: MS SB2513 | 2020 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence in an action for damages.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: (Failed) 2020-06-09 - Died In Committee [SB2513 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2020-SB2513-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Judiciary, Division A
By: Senator(s) Younger, Branning, McCaughn, Suber, Chassaniol, Moran
Senate Bill 2513
(As Passed the Senate)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 69-13-111, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM THE LAWS RELATING TO ESTRAYED LIVESTOCK ON HIGHWAYS WITH MISSISSIPPI NEGLIGENCE LAW; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. (1) Section 69-13-111, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
69-13-111. The owners of
livestock which through their owner's negligence are found on federal or state-designated
paved highways or highway rights-of-way shall be subject to any damages as a
result of wrecks, loss of life or bodily injury as a result of said livestock
being on the above-designated highways. * * * This section shall not be applicable
to any such highway or highway right-of-way or any type of highway or road
located on any levee maintained by the Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners
or the Board of Levee Commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta through
maintenance contracts calling for or permitting pasturage of livestock on levee
rights-of-way.
(2) The provisions of this act placing the burden of proving negligence on the plaintiff in estrayed livestock on highways cases shall not be applicable in any case filed prior to July 1, 2020.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.
