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Mississippi DUI penalties breakdown: every component, line by line

Our Mississippi DUI costs page gives the state overview. This page does the narrower job: it prices each component of Miss. Code Ann. § 63-11-30 for a first, second and third conviction, the mandatory minimums, the restricted-license and interlock route, and the reinstatement charges the state actually publishes — with no added-up total.

The first offence, component by component

Mississippi's first-offence DUI under § 63-11-30 is a misdemeanour built around a short jail exposure, a bounded fine and a mandatory education programme. On the Mississippi Bar's published summary of the statute, a first offence carries up to 48 hours in jail — which the court may substitute with attendance at a victim impact panel — a fine of not less than $250 nor more than $1,000, and a license suspension of 120 days. Attendance at the Mississippi Alcohol Safety Education Program (MASEP) is mandatory for first offenders and is a condition of getting the license back, delivered over four weekly sessions in the published programme descriptions. MASEP is priced by the programme rather than by the statute — older published state summaries put both the MASEP course fee and the license reinstatement fee at $100 each — so those two $100 lines are the closest thing Mississippi has to a published restoration schedule, and they are tabled here with that attribution rather than as current DPS tariffs.

Mississippi also offers a first-offence route most states do not: nonadjudication. A qualifying first offender who completes the court-ordered programme — the alcohol safety programme, payment of the fine and fees, and a 120-day ignition-interlock requirement on the published summaries — can avoid a conviction being entered at all. For cost purposes that route does not make the case cheaper in the short run: the same fine band, programme fee and device period are paid, and an interlock-restricted license is available during the suspension only with an approved device installed at the driver's expense. What nonadjudication changes is the record, not the component list, which is why this page prices the components identically for both routes and treats the interlock period, not a reinstatement total, as the priced unit.

Second and third offences, and what escalates

Mississippi counts priors inside five years, and the ladder is steep. A second offence within five years is a misdemeanour carrying five days to six months in jail, a fine of $600 to $1,500, ten days to a year of community service in the published summaries, and a license suspension of one year on the Mississippi Bar's summary, with a diagnostic assessment and any treatment it recommends. A third offence within five years is a felony: one to five years, a fine of $2,000 to $5,000, and a three-year license suspension on the Bar's summary, with vehicle forfeiture exposure in the statute's summaries. A fourth or subsequent offence remains a felony with two to ten years and fines up to $10,000 in those summaries, and a ten-year suspension. The separate offence of DUI child endangerment — driving under the influence with a child under sixteen in the vehicle — is charged and sentenced on top of the DUI itself under § 63-11-30(12), with its own fine and imprisonment tiers, and it is not merged with the underlying offence for sentencing.

Refusal, the restricted license, and reinstatement charges

A first refusal under Mississippi's implied-consent law brings a 90-day license suspension on the administrative track, even where the criminal case has not yet been decided, and the published summaries put the same 90-day figure on a first test-failure suspension before conviction. Reinstatement after a conviction suspension requires the period to be served, MASEP to be completed and proof of financial responsibility filed — in practice an SR-22 filing, whose filing fee is a small insurer charge but whose premium effect Mississippi does not publish and this page does not estimate. Beyond the $100 reinstatement fee in the older published summaries, Mississippi sets no single DUI restoration tariff: court costs vary by court, the assessment and treatment after a repeat offence are provider-billed, and the interlock is vendor-leased, so this page tables the statutory fine bands, jail ranges and suspension periods and describes those components rather than adding them into a statewide total no Mississippi authority has published.

Sources: Miss. Code Ann. § 63-11-30 (offence tiers, MASEP and child endangerment); The Mississippi Bar, Driving Under the Influence summary (120-day / 1-year / 3-year suspension ladder); published DPS programme and reinstatement summaries ($100 MASEP and reinstatement figures). Last verified: October 2026.

What this state does not publish as a single figure

Mississippi court costs and assessments are set by the court and the county or municipality where the case is heard, not by Miss. Code Ann. § 63-11-30, and no single published DUI amount covers them. The evaluation, education or treatment components described above, any probation or programme supervision, and an interlock provider's installation, monthly lease, calibration and removal charges are all billed outside the statute's fine and revocation figures. Those components are described as requirements on this page rather than priced as state charges. There is no published Mississippi figure for the effect of a DUI on car insurance prices, and none is estimated here — insurance is mentioned only where a filing requirement such as SR-22 proof of financial responsibility is itself a reinstatement component.

There is no added-up statewide total on this page for the same reason: the published components above are the figures the statute, the licensing agency or the court schedule actually sets, and the remaining components are billed case by case. Adding them together would produce a number no Mississippi authority has published. Use the table to price the components that apply to a specific case, and use our first-offense cost guide, second-offense guide and third-offense guide for the national pattern each component follows.

Common questions

What is the fine for a first Mississippi DUI?

$250 to $1,000 under § 63-11-30, with up to 48 hours in jail, a 120-day license suspension and mandatory completion of the Mississippi Alcohol Safety Education Program.

What is MASEP, and is it optional?

No — the Mississippi Alcohol Safety Education Program is mandatory for first offenders and a condition of license reinstatement; older published state summaries price the course at $100, the same figure given there for the reinstatement fee.

When does a Mississippi DUI become a felony?

At the third offence within five years: one to five years, a fine of $2,000 to $5,000 and a three-year license suspension on the Mississippi Bar's summary of § 63-11-30.

Sources: Miss. Code Ann. § 63-11-30 (first, second, felony-third and child-endangerment tiers and the nonadjudication and interlock provisions); The Mississippi Bar, Driving Under the Influence article (offence ladder and the 120-day, one-year and three-year suspension periods); published Mississippi programme summaries for the MASEP course fee and reinstatement fee, attributed on-page as older published figures. Last verified: October 2026. This page is educational information about costs only — not legal advice. Laws and fees change; confirm current figures with your court and your state's driver-licensing agency.