Section 99-20-3 - Participation in community service restitution program

Any defendant who qualifies for participation as set out in this chapter, shall be entitled to participate in a community service restitution program. Any convicted defendant who, having been sentenced prior to July 1, 1983, and who qualifies for participation in the program herein established, may petition the circuit court of the county of his conviction to be sentenced under the provisions of this chapter.Laws, 1983, ch. 447, § 2; reenacted, Laws, 1987, ch. 367, § 2, eff. 7/1/1987.