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Abandoned Refrigerator - 97-5-9

Accessory after the Fact - 97-1-5

Maximum Penality: $1,000 and/or 1 year in County Jail OR $1,000.00 and/or 5 years
No Minimum

Accident, Leaving Scene, (Attended Vehicle, 63-3-401 through 63-3-405 )

Where personal injury or death involved

Minimum Penality: $100 and/or 30 days
Maximum: $5,000 and/or 1 year

Where only property damage involved

1st offense - $100 or 10 days
2nd offense within 1 year - $200 and/or 20 days
3rd offense within 1 year - $500 and/or 6 months

Accident, Leaving Scene (Unattended Vehicle - 63-3-407 )

1st Offense - $100 or 10 days
2nd Offense within one year - $200 and/or 20 days
3rd offense within 1 year - $500 and/or 6 months

Adultery or Fornication - 97-29-1

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Adultery or Fornication Between Teacher and Pupil - 97-29-3

Teacher

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
Minimum: 3 months

Pupil

Maximum: $500
No Minimum

Advertising, False - 97-23-1

Maximum: $100
No Minimum

Aggravated Assault - Manifesting Extreme Indifference to Human Life - Felony
- 97-3-7 (2)(a)

Maximum: 1 year in County Jail or 20 years plus $10,000
No Minimum

Aggravated Assault - Manifesting Extreme Indifference to Human Life -
with Weapon - 97-3-7 (2)(b)

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 30 years
No Minimum

Aggravated Assault - Use of Deadly Weapon or Other Means Likely to Produce Death or Serious Bodily Harm - Felony - 97-3-7 (2)(b)

Maximum: 1 year in County Jail or 20 years *$10,000

Alcoholic Beverages, Possession with Intent to Sell - 67-1-17

Maximum - $1,000 and/or 6 months
No minimum

Alcoholic Beverages, Possesion by Minor - 67-1-81

Maximum: $100.00
No Minimum

Alcoholic Beverages, Selling, Giving, Etc. After Hours - 67-3-53

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Alcoholic Beverages, Selling or Giving to Minor - 67-1-81

1st Offense - Minimum: $500 Maximum: $1000
2nd & Subsequent Offense Minimum: $1000 Maximum: $2,000 and/or 1 year

Alcoholic Beverages, Selling without Permit - 67-1-9 and - 67-1-87

67-1-87 See Maximum: $1000 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Animal Cruelty - 97-41-1

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Animals, Administering Poison to - 97-41-17

Maximum: $5,000 and 3 years
No Minimum

Animals, Killing or Injuring - 97-41-15

Maximum: $10,000 and 5 years in Penitentiary
Minimum: $1500 and 12 months in Penitentiary

Armed Robbery - 97-3-79

Maximum: Life and $10,000
Minimum: 3 years

Arrest, Resisting - 97-9-73

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail
No Minimum

Arson - 97-17-1

First Degree (burning school building) 97-17-3

Minimum: 2 years
Maximum: 20 years plus $10,000

Second Degree (other than dwelling house) 97-17-7

Minimum: 1 year
Maximum: 10 years plus $10,000

Third Degree (personal property) 97-17-7

Minimum: 1 year
Maximum: 3 years plus $10,000

Fourth Degree (attempt to burn) 97-17-9

Minimum: 1 year
Maximum: $1,000 or 2 years

Insured Property 97-17-11

Minimum: 1 year
Maximum: 10 years plus $10,000

Woods or Fields (setting fire to) 97-17-13

Willfully

Minimum: $200 and/or 1 year
Maximum: $1,000 and/or 2 years

Negligently

Minimum: $20
Maximum: $500 and/or 3 months in County Jail

Assault, Aggravated - Manifesting Extreme Indifference to Human Life - Felony
- 97-3-7 (2)(a)

Maximum: 1 year in County Jail or 20 years plus $10,000
No Minimum

Assault, Aggravated - On Policeman or Fireman in Line of Duty - Felony - With Weapon - 97-3-7 (2)(b)

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 30 years
No Minimum

Assault, Aggravated - Use of Deadly Weapon or Other Means Likely to Produce Death or Serious Bodily Harm - Felony - 97-3-7 (2)b

Maximum: 1 year in County Jail or 20 years plus $10,000
No Minimum

Assault, Simple - Attempt by Physical Menace to Create Fear - Misdemeanor
- 97-3-7 (1)(c)

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail
No Minimum

Assault, Simple - Bodily Injury Caused by Negligence with Deadly Weapon or Other Means Likely to Produce Death or Serious Bodily Injury - Misdemeanor - 97-3-7 (1)(b)

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail
No Minimum

Assault, Simple - Causing Bodily Injury - Misdemeanor - 97-3-7 (l)(a)

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail
No Minimum

Assault, Simple - On Policeman or Fireman in Line of Duty - Felony - 97-3-7 (1)(a)

Maximum: $1000 and/or 5 years
No Minimum

Assault with Intent to Ravish - 97-3-71

Maximum: Life Imprisonment and $10,000
No Minimum

Attempt to Commit an Offense - 97-1-7

Capital Offenses: 10 years plus $10,000
Other Offenses: Punishment prescribed for crime itself

Bad Check - 97-19-55, 97-19-57 and 97-19-67

First Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
Minimum: $25 and/or 5 days

Second Offense

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year in the County Jail
Minimum: $50 and/or 30 days

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
Minimum: 1 year

First and Second Offense (any offense $100 or more)

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 3 years
Minimum: $100

Bail Bond Jumping - 83-39-29

Maximum: $1000 and/or 1 year in Jail
No Minimum

Battery, Sexual - 97-3-95

First Offense

Maximum: 30 years on First Offense and $10,000
No Minimum

Second or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: 40 years and $10,000 (offender must serve at least one half of sentence)
No Minimum

Beer or Wine, False Statement of Age by Person Under the Age of 21 - 67-3-70

Maximum: $500 and/or up to 30 days community service
Minimum: $25

Beer or Wine, Furnishing to Person Under the Age of 21 - 67-3-70

Maximum: $500 and/or up to 30 days community service
Minimum: $100

Beer or Wine, Purchase or Possession by Person Under the Age of 21 - 67-3-70

Maximum: $500 and/or up to 30 days community service
Minimum: $25

Beer or Wine, Sale to Minors, IntoxicatedPersons, Insane Persons or Habitual Drunkards by Holder of Permit - 67-3-53

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No minimum

Beer or Wine, Selling Without a License - 67-3-15

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Begging - Tramps - 97-35-33 and 97-35-29

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Boundary Landmarks, Altering or Destroying - 97-17-15

Maximum: $200
Minimum: $50

Bribery - 97-9-5

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 5 years in Penitentiary
No Minimum

Burglary - Breaking Inner Door of Dwelling at Night - 97-17-27

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Burglary - Breaking Out Of Dwelling - 97-17-25

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Burglary - Commercial Buildings, Cars, etc. - 97-17-33

Maximum: 7 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Burglary - Dwelling House - 97-17-19 .

Maximum: 10 years plus $10,000
No Minimum

Burglary - Dwelling House - Occupied - 97-17-21

See also 97-17-23
Maximum: 15 years plus $10,000
No Minimum

Burglary - Inhabited Dwelling - Breaking in at Night While Armed with a Deadly Weapon - 97-17-23

Maximum: 25 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Burglary Tools, Possession - 97-17-35

Maximum: 1 year in County Jail and/or 5 years in Penitentiary plus $10,000
No Minimuum

Carrying a Concealed Weapon - 97-37-1

First Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
Minimum: $100

Second Offense

Maximum: $500 or 6 months
Minimum: $100 and 30 days

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
Minimum: 1 year

If previously convicted of a felony

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
Minimum: 1 year

Cattle Theft - 97-17-53

First Offense

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 5 years
Minimum: $100 and/or 6 months in County Jail (jail sentence not mandatory)

Second Offense

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 20 years
Minimum: $500 and/or 1 year (sentence not mandatory)

Check, Bad - 97-19-55, 57, & 67

First Offense (Check being under $100)

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
Minimum: $25

Second Offense

Maximum: $1000 and/or 1 year in County Jail
Minimum: $50 and/or 30 days

Third Offense

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
Minimum: 1 year

First and Second Offense (over $100)

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 3 years
Minimum: $100

Child Abuse - 97-5-39 2

Maximum: 20 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Child, Contributing to Delinquency or
Neglect - 97-5-39- 1

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year in County Jail
No Minimum

Child - Removal from State by Non-custodial Parent or Relative
- Chap. 469, Laws of 1984

Maximum: $2,000 and/or 3 years in Penitentiary

Child - Carnal Knowledge of Unmarried Stepchild or Adopted Child
- 67-5-41- 1

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Child - Carnal Knowledge of, While
Cohabitating with Parent - 97-5-41- 2

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Child Desertion - 97-5-3

Maximum: $500 and/or 2 years
Minimum: $25

Concealed Weapon, Carrying of - 97-37-1

Misdemeanor

$1,000 and/or 1 year County Jail
No Minimum

Felony

$5,000 and/or 5 years in Penitentiary
No Minimum

Capital Murder or Murder or a Violation

Maximum: $500,000 and/or 20 years in Penitentiary
No Minimum

Conspiracy to Commit a Crime - 97-1-1

Misdemeanor:

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year in County Jail
No Minimum

Felony

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 5 years in Penitentiary
No Minimum

Capital Murder or Murder or Violation

Maximum: $500,000 and/or 20 years in Penitentiary
No Minimum

Controlled or Counterfeit Substance,
Sale, Etc. - 41-29-139

Controlled Substance, Fraud in
Acquisition, Etc. - 41-29-144- 1

Crash Helmets - 63-7-64

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 or 20 days
No Minimum

Credit Cards, Use with Intent to
Defraud - 97-19-21

First Offense Under $100Misdemeanor)

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year
No Minimum

Subsequent Offenses under $100 and any offense where $100 or more was obtained (felony)

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 3 years
Minimum: $100

Defrauding Innkeeper - 75-73-9

Value less than $25

Maximum: $500 and/or 1 year in County Jail
Minimum: $50

Value exceeds $25

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year
Minimum: $100

Desecration of Cemeteries - 97-29-25

Maximum: $500 and/or 1 year
No Minimum

Desertion of Child Under Sixteen
- 97-5-3

Maximum: $500 and/or 2 years
Minimum: $25

Destroying Public Property - 97-17-39

Damage $300 or less

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year in Jail
No Minimum

Damage $300 or more

$5,000 and/or 5 years in State Penitentiary

Devices, Traffic Control - Obedience to
- 63-3-133 and 63-3-313

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

$500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Disorderly Conduct - Breach of Peace
- 97-35-3

Maximum: $200 and/or 4 months
No Minimum

Disorderly Conduct - Breaching Peace with a Willful and Wanton Disregard for the Life or Safety of Another - 97-35-7- 3

Maximum: $2,000 and/or 5 years
No Minimum

Disorderly Conduct - Failure to Comply with Request or Command of Law Enforcement Officers - Penalties - 97-35-7

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail
No Minimum

Disorderly Conduct - Inciting a Riot - 97-35-3- 2

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Disorderly Conduct - Interference with Business Customers, Invitees, Etc. - 97-35-5

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail
No Minimum

Disturbance of Family - 97-35-11

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Disturbing the Peace - 97-35-15

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Disturbance of Worship - 97-35-17

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Dogs, Stealing - 97-17-51

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail OR 2 years Penitentiary and $10,000
Minimum: 1 year Penitentiary

Driving in More than One Lane - 63-3-603

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Driving in Center Lane of Three Lanes - 63-3-603

First Offense

$100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

$200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

$500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Driver's License - None or Expired - 63-1-5 and 63-1-41

Maximum: $250 and Costs and/or 6 months
Minimum: $5 and Costs and/or 1 month

Driver's License - Revoked or Suspended - 63-1-57

Maximum: 6 months and/or $500
Minimum 2 days and/or $200

Driving on Right Half of Roadway - 63-3-601

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Driving Under the Influence of Drugs - 63-11-30

Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor or other Substances - 63-11-30- 1 and - 3

First Offense

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 48 hours in Jail
Minimum: $250 and MASEP

Second Offense Within 5 years

Maximum: $1,500 and 1 year or 10 days to 1 year community service
Minimum: $600 and 10 days in jail and 10 days community service

Third Offense

Maximum: $5,000 and 5 years imprisonment
Minimum: $2,000 and 1 year imprisonment

Fourth and Subsequent Offense within 5 years

Maximum: $5,000 and 5 years in Penitentiary
Minimum: $2,000 and 90 days in Penitentiary

Drugs, paraphernalia for Taking, Etc. - 41-29-139- D

Drunk, Public - 97-29-47

Maximum: $100 and/or 30 days
No Minimum

Embezzlement - 97-23-19

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000 OR $1,000 and/or 1 year in County Jail
No Minimum

Embezzlement, Under Contract - 97-23-25 and 97-23-27

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Emergency Vehicles - Yielding to - 63-3-809

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Equipment, Improper - 63-7-1 through 63-7-81

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Escape - 97-9-49

If Charge/Confinement Misdemeanor

Maximum: 1 year in County Jail
No Minimum

If Charge/Confinement Penitentiary

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000 if for felony
No Minimum

Exposure, Indecent - 97-29-31

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Failure to Keep Record of Firearm Sales - 97-37-11

Maximum: $25
Minimum: $ 5

Failure to Yield Right of Way - 63-3-1003

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

False Advertising - 97-23-1

Maximum: 3 times the value of the money, property or thing obtained and 1 years in County Jai OR 3 years and $10,000
No Minimuml

False Alarm of Fire - 97-35-45

Maximum: $500 and/or 1 year
No Minimum

False Pretenses - 97-19-39

Maximum: 3 times the value of the money, property or thing obtained and 1 year in County Jail OR 3 years and $10,000
No Minimum

False Representation as Controlled Substance - 41-29-146

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year
No Minimum

Fireworks Possession, Sale, Etc. - 45-13-1

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year
No Minimum

Fish and Game Index - See Back of Book Following to Close - 63-3-619

Forged, False, or Fraudulent Prescription - 41-29-144- 2

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 5 years
Minimum: 1 year in Penitentiary

Forgery - 97-21-35

Maximum: 15 years and $10,000 OR 12 months in County Jail (if amount of value is less than $100) at discretion of the Court.
Minimum: 2 years

Forgery, Uttering - 97-21-59

Maximum: 15 years and $10,000 OR 12 months in County Jail (if amount of value involved is less than $100) at discretion of the Court.
Minimum: 2 years

Fornication or Adultery - 97-29-1

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Fraud, Welfare, Medicaid, Food Stamp Public Assistance Fraud - 97-19-71

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year in County Jail OR $10,000 and 3 years in Penitentiary
Minimum: $100

Gambling - 97-33-1

Maximum: $500..if fine and cost not paid immediately, up to 90 days in Jail
No Minimum

Gambling - Building Owners, Lessees,
Etc., Not to Permit - 97-33-13

Maximum: $2,000
Minimum: $100

Gambling Game or Gaming Table - Keeping - 97-33-9

Maximum: $2,000 and/or 2 months
Minimum: $25

General Misdemeanor Penalty - 99-19-31

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Grand Larceny - 97-17-41

Value under $100 Petit

Maximum: $100 and/or 3 months
No Minimum

Value $100 or more Grand

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 5 years
No Minimum

Handicapped Parking - 27-19-56

Handicapped Parking Areas, Unlawfully Parking Within - 27-29-56

Maximum: $100
No Minimum

Hazing in the Course of Initiation Into Organization - CH. 343 S.B. 2165
- 97-3-105

First Degree

Maximum: $2,000 and/or 6 months in County Jail
No Minimum

Second Degree

Maximum: $1,000
No Minimum

Height of Vehicles - 63-5-17

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Helmets, Crash - 63-7-64

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Hitchhiking - 63-3-1109

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

House, Dwelling, Shooting Into - 97-37-29

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 10 years OR $5,000 and/or 1 year in County Jail
No Minimum

Hunting, Shooting on or Across Streets or Highways - 97-15-13

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
Minimum: $100 and/or 60 days

Impersonating an Officer - 97-7-43

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Incestuous Marriages - 97-29-27

Maximum: $500 and/or 10 years
No Minimum

Innkeeper, Defrauding - 75-73-9

Value less than $25

Maximum: $500 and/or 1 year in County Jail
Minimum: $50

Value exceeds $25

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year
Minimum: $100

Inns, Holdover Guests - 75-73-9

Maximum: $100
No Minimum

Inspection Sticker - Expired, None or Off Another Vehicle - 63-13-7

Maximum: $50 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Intercourse, Unnatural - 97-29-59

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Interfering with a Police Officer
Intersections, Yielding at, Uncontrolled - 63-3-801

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Intoxicating Liquor, Driving Under the Influence - 63-11-30

First Offense

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 24 hours in jail
Minimum: $250 and MASEP

Second Offense

Maximum: $1,000 and 1 year or 10 days to 1 year community service
Minimum: $600 and 48 consecutive hours imprisonment or 10 days community service

Third Offense

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year
Minimum: $800 and 30 days imprisonment

Fourth and Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $5,000 and 5 years in penitentiary
Minimum: $2,000 and 90 days in penitentiary

Kidnapping - 97-3-53

Maximum: Life Imprisonment and $10,000 OR 30 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Lane, One, Driving in more than - 63-3-603

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Lane Change, Signal Required - 63-3-707

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Lanes, Three-Driving in Center Lane - 63-3-603

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Petit and Grand - 97-17-41 and Larceny 97-17-43

Value under $250 Petit

Maximum: $1000 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Value $250 or More Grand

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 5 years
No Minimum

Second Offense - Auto Theft

Maximum: $2,000 and/or 10 years
No Minimum

Larceny, Trespass Less Than - 97-17-61

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Leaving the Scene of Accident, Attended Vehicle - 63-3-401 through 63-3-405

Where personal property or death is involved

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 1 year
Minimum: $100 and/or 30 days

Where only property damaged is involved

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense within 1 year

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Leaving the Scene of Accident, Unattended Vehicle - 63-3-407

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Length of Vehicles - 63-15-19

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

License, Driver's - None or Expired - 63-1-5 and 63-1-41

Maximum: $250 and Costs and/or 6 months
Minimum: $5 and Costs and/or 1 month

License, Driving while Revoked or Suspended - 63-1-57

Maximum: 6 months and/or $500
Minimum: 2 days and/or $200

License, Practice without a - 97-23-43

First Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 12 months
Minimum: $100 and/or 3 months

Second Offense

Maximum: $500 or 2 years
Minimum: $200 or 1 year

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 5 years
No Minimum

Light, Red - Running - 63-3-309

First Offense

Maximum: $100
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Littering - 97-15-29

Maximum: $50
Minimum: $10

Load, Front Projecting - 63-5-23

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third and Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Load, Side Projecting - Passenger Vehicles - 63-5-15

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third And Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Looting - 97-17-65

Maximum: $10,000 and/or 15 years
No Minimum

Lotteries - 97-33-31

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Machine, Coin Operated - Breaking Into, Etc. - 97-17-68

First Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 30 days
No Minimum

Any Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 1 year
Minimum: 6 months or fine not to exceed $60

Malicious Mischief - 97-17-67

Maximum: Two times the value of the property or 12 months
No Minimum

Manslaughter - Culpable Negligence - 97-3-47

Maximum: $500 and/or 1 year in County Jail OR 20 years and $10,000
Minimum: $500 OR 2 years

Manslaughter - 97-3-35

Maximum: $500 and/or 1 year in County Jail OR 20 years and $10,000
Minimum: $500 OR 2 years

Marijuana, See. Controlled Substance

Mayhem - 97-3-59

Maximum: 7 years and $10,000
Minimum: 6 months in County Jail

Minors - Alcoholic Beverages - 67-1-81

Maximum: $100
No Minimum

Minors - Beer or Wine - 67-3-53

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Minors, Sale or Gift of Tobacco to - 97-5-25

Maximum: $100 and/or 3 months
Minimum: $20 and/or 1 week

Misdemeanor, General Penalty - 99-19-31

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Molesting - 97-5-23

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 10 years
Minimum: $100 and/or 1 year

Motor Vehicles, Darkened or Tinted Windows - 63-7-59- 2

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Motor Vehicle Identification Number Change or Mutilation of - 97-17-101

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 6 months in Jail
No Minimum

Motor Vehicle Window Tinting, Unlawful Installation - 63-7-59- 8

Maximum: $1000 and/or 3 months
No Minimum

Motor Vehicle Window Tinting, Unlawful Reproduction or Use of Label - 63-7-59- 8

Maximum: $1000 and/or 1 year in Jail
No Minimum

Murder - 97-3-19, 99-7-37, and 99-17-20

Murder

Maximum: Life Imprisonment and $10,000
No Minimum

Capital

Maximum: Death or Life Imprisonment
No Minimum

Obscene Language on Telephone - 97-29-45

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail OR 2 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Obstruction of Justice - 97-9-55

Maximum: $500 and/or 2 years
Minimum: 1 month in County Jail

Obstructing Public Streets - 97-35-25

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

One-Way Street - 63-3-605

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Open After Hours - Beer, etc. - 67-3-53

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Paraphernalia, for Taking, Etc. Drugs - 41-29-139

Passing, Improper - 63-3-609, 63-3-611 and 63-3-613

First Offense

Maximum: $100 and/or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Pecans, Removal from Public Rights-of-Way - New Chapter 391-1981

Maximum: $100 and/or 30 days in County Jail
No Minimum

Peeping Tom - 97-29-61

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Penalty, General, for Misdemeanor - 99-19-31

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Perjury - 97-9-59 and 97-9-61

Trial for Capital Offense

Maximum: 20 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Other Trials

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Petit Larceny - 97-17-43

Value under $100

Maximum: $100 and/or 3 months
No Minimum

Value $100 or more Grand

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 3 years
No Minimum

Picketing which Interferes with Access to Government Buildings, Property, Streets and Sidewalks - 97-7-63

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Police Officer - Failure to Obey Order or Direction of in Controlling Traffic - 63-3-203

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Police Officer, Interfering with

Posted Lands of Another, Trespass on - 97-17-85

Maximum: $250 per offense
No Minimum

Practice without a License - 97-23-43

First Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 12 months
Minimum: $100 and/or 3 months

Second Offense

Maximum: $500 or 2 years
Minimum: $200 or 1 year

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 5 years
No Minimum

Prescription, False or Fraudulent - 41-29-144- 2

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 5 years
Minimum: 1 year in Penitentiary

Profanity, Etc. in a Public Place - 97-29-47

Maximum: $100 and/or 30 days
No Minimum

Prostitution - 97-29-49 - Penalty - 97-29-53

Maximum: $200 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Public Drunkenness - 97-29-47

Maximum: $100 and/or 30 days
No Minimum

Public Property, Destruction of - 97-17-39

Where damage is $300 or less

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year in Jail
No Minimum

Where damage is $300 or more

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 5 years in state penitentiary
No Minimum

Rabies, Inoculation - 41-53-1 Raffles - 97-33-49

First Offense

Maximum: $5 and Costs
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $25 and Costs
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $50 and Costs
No Minimum

Rape - Assault with Intent to Ravish - 97-3-71

Maximum: Life Imprisonment and $10,000
No Minimum

Rape - Capital - 97-3-65

Maximum: Death
Minimum: Life Imprisonment

Rape - 97-3-65

Maximum: Life Imprisonment and $10,000 (If Jury set it. If not, Court sets it up for Life Imprisonment)
No Minimum

Rape - Statutory - 97-3-67

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months or 5 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Receiving Embezzled Goods - 97-23-23

Maximum: $1000 and 6 months or 5 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Receiving Stolen Property - 97-17-69

Maximum: $1000 and/or 6 months or 5 years and/or $10,000
No Minimum

Reckless Driving - 63-3-1201

First Offense

Maximum: $100
Minimum: $5

Second Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 10 days
No Minimum

Records, Failure to Keep, of Firearm Sales - 97-37-11

Maximum: $25
Minimum: $5

Red Light, Running - 63-3-309

Refrigerator, Abandoned - 97-5-9

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Removing Personal Property Subject to Lien Out of County or Selling
- 97-17-75

Maximum: Value of the property and/or 1 year
No Minimum

Removing Property Subject to Lien Out of State - 97-17-77

Value under $400

Maximum: $1000 and/or 12 months
No Minimum

Value if $400 or more

Maximum: $5000 and/or 3 years
Minimum: $500 and/or 1 year

Resisting Arrest - 97-9-73

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail
No Minimum

Right Half; Driving on Roadway - 63-3-601

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Right-of-Way, Entering Highway From Private Road - 63-3-807

Right-of-way, Failure-to Yield - 63-3-1003

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Right-of-Way, Yield, Emergency Vehicles - 63-3-809

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Right-of-way, Yielding at Uncontrolled Intersections - 63-3-801

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Robbery - 97-3-73

Maximum: 15 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Robbery, Armed - 97-3-79

Maximum: Life and $10,000
Minimum: 3 years

Robbery - Threatening Letter Demanding Money, Property - 97-3-81

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Robbery, Threat to Injure - 97-3-77

Maximum: 15 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Running, Red Light - 63-3-309

First Offense

Maximum: $100
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

School Buses, Meeting or Overtaking - 63-3-615

Maximum: $500 and/or 1 year
Minimum: $200

School Zone, Speeding in - 63-3-515

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Selling, Giving, Etc. Beer or Wine after Hours - 67-3-53

Maximum: $100 and/or 30 days in County Jail
No Minimum

Selling Beer or Wine to Minors Intoxicated Persons, Insane Persons or
Habitual Drunkards by Holder of a Permit - 67-3-53

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Selling Beer or Wine without a License - 67-3-15

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Selling Liquor without a Permit - 97-31-27

First Offense

Maximum: $500 or 3 months
Minimum: $100 and/or 1 week

Second Offense

Maximum: $100 and 6 months
Minimum: $100 and 60 days

Third and Subsequent Offense

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
Minimum: 1 year

Sexual Battery - 97-3-95

First Offense

Maximum: 30 years in First Offense Pentientiary and $10,000
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: 40 years in Penitentary and $10,000(offender must serve at least one half of sentence.)
No Minimum

Sexually Oriented Materials, Dissemination to Persons Under
18 Years of Age - 97-5-27

Maximum: $5000 and/or 1 year
Minimum: $500

Sexually Oriented Materials, Public Display of - 97-5-29

Maximum: $5000 and/or 1 year
Minimum: $500

Shooting at Traffic Control Devices - 97-15-13

Maximum: $500 and/or 30 days
Minimum: $100

Shooting into Dwelling House - 97-37-29

Maximum: $5,000 and/or 10 years OR $5,000 and/or 1 year in County Jail
No Minimum

Shoplifting - 97-23-93

First Offense Where Value of Goods is $250 or Less

$750 and/or 30 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 90 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 5 years
No Minimum

Signal - Required for Lane Change and Stop - 63-3-707

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Sodomy, Intercourse, Unnatural - 97-29-59

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Speeding - 63-3-501

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Speeding, School Zone - 63-3-515

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Statutory Rape - 97-3-67

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months OR 5 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Stealing Public Records - 97-9-3

Maximum: $500 and/or 1 year in County Jail
No Minimum

Stop Sign, Running - 63-3-100l

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Streets, Obstructing Public - 97-35-25

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Tag - None, Expired or Improperly Mounted - 27-19-31

Maximum: $100 and/or 30 days in Jail
Minimum: $10

Telephone - Profane, Indecent, Etc. Language - 97-29-45

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months in County Jail OR 2 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Threatening Language on Telephone - 97-29-45

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months County Jail
No Minimum

Timber Stealing - 97-17-59

Value of timber less than $25

Maximum: $500 and/or 100 days
Minimum: $200 and/or 30 days

Value of timber $25 or more

Maximum: $500 and/or 5 years
Minimum: $200 and/or 1 year

Traffic Control Devices, Obedience to - 63-3-133 and 63-3-313

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $00 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Traffic, Driving in More Than One Lane - 63-3-603

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Traffic, Driving in Center Lane - 63-3-603

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Traffic, One-Way - 63-3-605

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Trains, Shooting or Hurling Missiles at - 97-25-47

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Tramps - Begging - 97-35-29 and 97-35-33

Maximum: $1000 and/or 5 years in Penitentiary OR $1000 and/or 1 year in County Jail
No Minimum

Trees, Injuring or Destroying Ornamental or Shade Trees - 97-17-83

Maximum: $20 per tree or 30 days
Minimum: $5 per tree or 10 days

Trespass - 97-17-97

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Trespass Less Than Larceny - 97-17-61

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Trespass Upon Enclosed Land of Another - 97-17-85

Maximum: $250 Per Offense
No Minimum

Trespassing Upon Lands of Another - 97-17-93

First Offense

Maximum: $250
Minimum: $150

Second Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 30 days
Minimum: $250 and/or 10 days

Trespass, Willful - 97-17-87

Maximum: $250 per Offense
No Minimum

Turn, Left - At Intersection - 63-3-803

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Unlawful Cohabitation, Adultery or Fornication - 97-29-1

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Unnatural Intercourse - 97-29-59

Maximum: 10 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Utility Customer, Defraud of - 97-25-3

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Utilities, Theft of - 97-25-3

Maximum: $200 and/or 3 months
Minimum: $100

Vagrancy - 97-35-37

Maximum: 30 days or Bond $201
Minimum: 10 days or Bond $201

Vehicles, Height of - 63-5-17

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Vehicle Identification Number, Change or Mutilation of - 97-17-101

Maximum: $1000 and/or 6 months in Jail OR $1000 and/or 5 years in the Penitentiary
No Minimum

Vehicles, Improper Passing - 63-3-609, 63-3-611 and 63-3-613

First Offense

Maximum: $100 and/or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Vehicles, Passenger, Improper Loads - 63-5-15 and 63-5-23

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Vehicles, Length of - 63-5-19

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum

Voyeurism, Peeping Tom - 97-29-59

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
No Minimum

Weapons and Cartridges Given to Minors or Intoxicated Person - 97-37-13

Maximum: $200 and/or 3 months
Minimum: $25

Weapon, Concealed - 97-37-1

First Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
Minimum: $100

Second Offense

Maximum: $500 or 6 months
Minimum: $100 and 30 days

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
Minimum: 1 year

Previously convicted of a Felony

Maximum: 5 years and $10,000
Minimum: 1 year

Weapons, Discharge Prohibited - 97-3-11

Maximum: $500 and/or 3 months
No Minimum

Weapons, Exhibiting - 97-37-19

Maximum: $500 and/or 3 months
No Minimum

Weapons, Father Permitting Minor Son to have or Carry Concealed - 97-37-15

Maximum: $200 and/or 60 days
Minimum: $20

Weapons, Possession By Students - 97-37-17

Maximum: $300 and/or 3 months
No Minimum

Welfare Fraud - Medicaid - Chap. 503, Laws of 1984

Maximum: $50,000 and/or 5 years
No Minimum

Welfare, Medicaid, Food Stamp, Public Assistance Fraud - New Chapter 530-1981

Maximum: $1,000 and/or 1 year in County Jail OR $10,000 and 3 years in Penitentiary
Minimum: $100 OR $1,000

Width of Vehicles - 63-5-13

First Offense

Maximum: $100 or 10 days
No Minimum

Second Offense

Maximum: $200 and/or 20 days
No Minimum

Third or Subsequent Offense

Maximum: $500 and/or 6 months
No Minimum