Traffic Fine Lookup

How much is a speeding ticket in Mississippi?

statute caps it; each court sets the amount · 1 tiers · every row cited · sources retrieved 2026-07-17

set by the local courtcourt-set

15 mph over the limit, first offense — the full arithmetic is on this page.

Mississippi law only CAPS the fine — Any speed over the limit (statute prints no mph fine tiers): set by the local court — and the amount you actually pay is set by the court handling the ticket, with local costs and add-ons attaching on top. This page shows the statutory ceilings, what is uniform statewide, and exactly where the local court takes over. For 15 mph over the limit, the honest answer is set by the local court — the page decomposes what is knowable statewide instead of inventing a total. Points: Mississippi has no demerit-point system: the Department of Public Safety's 84-page official Driver's Manual describes license suspension and revocation without any point schedule, and no Mississippi statute read for this build assigns points to speeding. Convictions go on the driving record and suspension flows from specific offenses (e.g., DUI, mandatory-revocation offenses), not point accumulation. Every row on this page carries its citation — 4 primary sources (statute text, court fine schedules, DMV publications), each with a retrieval date, plus the local-variation caveat that applies in Mississippi. This is a reference to what the law and the schedules print; it is not legal advice.

How Mississippi sets it Mississippi's statute caps a first speeding conviction's fine at $100 and prints no mph tiers — the justice court or municipal court handling the ticket sets the fine within that cap. What IS fixed statewide sits on top of the fine: a $90.50 standard state assessment attaches to every traffic conviction, a further $10, $20, or $30 speeding assessment is added by how far over the limit the speed was, and neither can be suspended or reduced by the court. Local court costs then vary by court.

The fine, tier by tier

Speeding fines in Mississippi by speed over the limit. “Base fine” is what the statute or schedule names; “what you actually owe” includes the mandatory add-ons where state law fixes them.
Speed over the limit Base fine What you actually owe Citation
Any speed over the limit (statute prints no mph fine tiers) up to $100 cap only set by the local court court-set Miss. Code §63-9-11(2)

First-conviction cap: a fine of not more than $100 or up to 10 days. Within one year, a second conviction is capped at $200 (or 20 days, or both) and a third or subsequent at $500 (or 6 months, or both). The court sets the actual fine; the statewide assessments below then attach regardless of the fine amount.

The mandatory add-ons

These attach on top of whatever fine the court sets:

Add-on How it is computed Citation
Standard state assessment (traffic violations) $90.50 flat to the State General Fund on every fine or penalty imposed for any Title 63 violation, except implied-consent (DUI) offenses and parking/registration offenses; cannot be suspended or reduced by the court Miss. Code §99-19-73(1), (9)
Speeding state assessment — 10 up to 20 mph over $10 flat, in addition to the standard assessment, for driving "at a speed that exceeds the posted speed limit by at least ten (10) miles per hour but not more than twenty (20) miles per hour" Miss. Code §99-19-73(5)(a)
Speeding state assessment — 20 up to 30 mph over $20 flat for "at least twenty (20) miles per hour but not more than thirty (30) miles per hour" over — the statute's brackets share their boundary numbers (20 appears in both this bracket and the one below it), reproduced here as written Miss. Code §99-19-73(5)(b)
Speeding state assessment — 30 mph or more over $30 flat for a speed "that exceeds the posted speed limit by thirty (30) miles per hour or more" Miss. Code §99-19-73(5)(c)
Court costs (justice or municipal court) Set by the court handling the citation; no uniform statewide amount was sourced for this build Miss. Code §63-9-11 (fines payable to the convicting court); see caveats

Worked example: 15 mph over the limit, first offense

Line Amount Citation
Fine — set by the court, statutory ceiling $100 Miss. Code §63-9-11(2)
Standard state assessment (traffic) $91 Miss. Code §99-19-73(1)
Speeding assessment (10–20 mph over bracket) $10 Miss. Code §99-19-73(5)(a)
Where it lands set by the local court court-set

The fine line is a CEILING, not a price: the justice or municipal court sets the fine anywhere up to $100 for a first offense. The two state assessments are exact and unavoidable — $90.50 on any traffic conviction plus $10 for a speed in the 10-to-20-over bracket — and the statute forbids the court to suspend or reduce them even when it suspends the fine. Local court costs come on top, so there is no statewide total to print.

License points

Mississippi has no demerit-point system: the Department of Public Safety's 84-page official Driver's Manual describes license suspension and revocation without any point schedule, and no Mississippi statute read for this build assigns points to speeding. Convictions go on the driving record and suspension flows from specific offenses (e.g., DUI, mandatory-revocation offenses), not point accumulation.

The Commissioner of Public Safety may suspend a license on grounds listed in the Driver's Manual — conviction of an offense requiring mandatory revocation, out-of-state offenses that would suspend in Mississippi, and similar — none of which is a point threshold. (Mississippi Driver's Manual (DPS, 2023), License Suspension, Revocation & Reinstatement)

Local variation — the honest caveat

The fine within the $100/$200/$500 caps and the court costs are both set by the individual justice court or municipal court, so identical tickets cost different amounts in different courts. The statewide constants are the assessments: $90.50 plus the $10/$20/$30 speeding bracket. A first-time (three-year window) defendant may also elect a traffic safety violator course — paying the fine, costs, and assessments plus a $10 election fee — to keep the violation off the driving record. (Miss. Code §63-9-11(2), (3); §99-19-73)

Sources

Every figure above was compiled from these sources, with a verbatim quote of the sentence carrying each number stored in the dataset so any row can be re-checked against its origin.

This is not legal advice This page republishes what Mississippi's statutes, court fine schedules, and driver-licensing publications print, for reference. Amounts change on legislative cycles, and the court named on a citation is the authority on what is owed in that court. Nothing here is advice about any citation or case.