As used in this article:(a) 'Department' means the Department of Public Safety.(b) 'Discharge plan' shall have the meaning provided in Section 47-7-33.1.(c) 'Driver's license' means a Class R license as authorized in Section 63-1-9.(d) 'Eligible person' means a person who has served a term of at least one (1) year and whose driver's license will be or has been suspended, revoked or cancelled for any reason upon the person's release. An 'eligible person' must be:(i) Within one hundred eighty (180) days of release from incarceration; or(ii) On probation or parole, having been released from incarceration within the previous six (6) months. An 'eligible person' must not be within the category of persons described by Section 63-1-307.(e) 'Provisional license' means a license as authorized in Section 63-1-305.(f) 'Provisional licensee' means the holder of a provisional driver's license.(g) 'Release from incarceration' shall mean release from a Mississippi Department of Corrections facility or an MDOC-approved residential program.Added by Laws, 2021, ch. 390, HB 551,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2021.
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