Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 63-7-33 (2026)
Multiple-beam road-lighting equipment; control by operator
✓ current as of July 2026
Whenever a motor vehicle is being operated on a highway or shoulder adjacent thereto during the times specified by law, the driver shall use a distribution of light, or composite beam, directed high enough and of sufficient intensity to reveal persons and vehicles at a safe distance in advance of the vehicle, subject to the requirement that whenever the driver of a vehicle approaches an oncoming vehicle within five hundred feet, such driver shall use a distribution of light or composite beam so aimed that the glaring rays are not projected into the eyes of the oncoming driver.
Codes, 1942, § 8229-12; Laws, 1938, ch. 200; Laws, 1948, ch. 343, § 20; Laws, 1954, ch. 326, § 2.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1986–2022 · leading case: Helen Lidy v. Film Transit, Inc., 796 F.2d 103 (5th Cir. 1986).
Helen Lidy v. Film Transit, Inc., 796 F.2d 103 (5th Cir. 1986). “See Miss.Code Ann. § 63-7-33 (1972). She places great emphasis on Pine-gar’s testimony that about ten seconds elapsed between the moment he dimmed his lights and the point he encountered the object on the road.”
Golden Flake Snack Foods, Inc. v. Thornton, 548 So. 2d 382 (Miss. 1989). “Miss. Code Ann. § 63-7-33 (1972) states in part, "Whenever the driver of a vehicle approaches an oncoming vehicle within five hundred feet, such driver shall use a distribution of light or composite beam so aimed that the glaring rays are not projected into the eyes of the…”
State v. L. Gardner, 2022 MT 3 (Mont. 2022). “61 (2021); Miss. Code Ann. § 63-7-33 (2021); Mo. Rev.”
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