Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-11 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 25-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-11
Status: in_force

The inspections and the quarantine enforcement referred to in this article shall be conducted under the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce by the Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry and the State Entomologist at Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science and such assistants as may become necessary. It shall be the duty of the Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry and the State Entomologist to make recommendations to the commissioner regarding quarantines and regulations.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-305 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 15-305
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-305
Status: in_force

The State Veterinarian shall appoint the necessary number of local state inspectors and range riders to assist the counties in systematic tick eradication, who shall be commissioned by the Board of Animal Health as livestock inspectors. The salaries of said inspectors and range riders shall be fixed by the Board of Animal Health and shall be sufficient to insure the employment of competent men. If the services of any of said inspectors or range riders is not satisfactory to the State Veterinarian, his services shall be immediately discontinued, and the decision of the state veterinarian, after confirmation by the board, shall be final without recourse and the commission of said inspector shall be cancelled. The salaries of said inspectors shall be paid from funds at the disposal of the Board of Animal Health, drawn by secretary and approved by chairman.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-28-5 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 28-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-28-5
Status: in_force

(a) To qualify for designation as an agricultural district, a district shall initially contain at least fifty (50) contiguous acres and may include any number of individual property ownerships; however, no single ownership shall contain less than fifteen (15) acres.

(b) Agricultural districts shall include only ownerships engaged in agricultural production.

(c) Before designation of an agricultural district, landowners must submit a petition to the local soil and water conservation district commissioners requesting designation of an agricultural district. The petition shall include the following information:

(i) A general description of the proposed agricultural district including total number of ownerships, total acreage, land use information, social and economic information about the respective area of the county and potential impacts on development of agricultural production;

(ii) Location of the proposed agricultural district boundary on a standard United States Geological Survey Quadrangle map (1:2000 scale);

(iii) Location of the proposed agricultural district boundary on the local county tax assessor map including location and identification of each ownership within the agricultural district as well as identification of all ownerships adjacent to the agricultural district;

(iv) A description of the type and extent of agricultural production activity for each ownership within the proposed agricultural district;

(v) Other pertinent information as the local soil and water conservation district commissioners may require to evaluate the petition.

(d) Individual ownership participation in an agricultural district is entirely voluntary, and no land shall be included in the agricultural district without the consent of the owner.

(e) Upon receipt of a petition the local soil and water conservation district commissioners shall notify the county board of supervisors and/or any local or regional planning or zoning body that may apply by sending a copy of the petition to such body.

(f) In evaluating a petition for the establishment of an agricultural district the local soil and water conservation district commissioners shall consider the following:

(i) The capability of the land to support continued agricultural production as indicated by soil conditions, climate, topography and other natural conditions;

(ii) The ability of the local, regional, state and international markets to support continued agricultural production; and

(iii) Any matter which might be relevant to evaluation of the petition.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-205 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 15-205
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-205
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county in the State of Mississippi may, by order entered on the minutes of said board, express their intention to engage in the eradication of tuberculosis, in livestock under the area plan in cooperation with the board of animal health, and the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. Such order so entered upon the minutes of said board shall be published for thirty days in a newspaper published in said county and having a general circulation therein, and at the expiration of said thirty days if twenty per cent or more of the qualified electors of said county shall not file with said board a petition protesting against said order, the board shall enter an order upon their minutes to so engage in said eradication provided for in the previous order; but should twenty per cent or more of the qualified electors of said county file with said board a petition protesting against said order, then the board of supervisors shall call an election, after having given the notice required by law, and if a majority of the qualified electors of said county voting at said election in favor of engaging in such eradication, then the board shall enter upon its minutes an order to that effect; should a majority of the qualified electors of said county voting fail to vote in favor of engaging in such eradication, then said board shall enter an order upon its minutes refusing to engage in such eradication.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-3 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 13-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-3
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors shall provide for the holding of elections under the provisions of this article in the same manner as now provided by law for holding special elections in the county and the ballots for such election shall have written or printed upon them the following:

“For State-Wide Stock Law ___

Against State-Wide Stock Law ___”

But the result of said election in any county shall in no wise affect the operation of the state-wide stock law in so far as it relates to hogs. When an election has been held in any county, then no other election shall be held in that county within twelve months.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-24-17 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 24-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-24-17
Status: in_force

(1) If the analysis shall show that any soil or plant amendment falls short of the guaranteed analysis in any one (1) soil or plant amending ingredient, or in total soil or plant amending ingredients, beyond “investigational allowances” as established by regulation, a penalty of three (3) times the commercial value of such deficiency shall be assessed against the registrant by the commissioner on all the products represented by the sample analyzed.

(2) All penalties assessed under this section shall be paid to the commissioner within thirty (30) days after the date of notice to the registrant from the Department of Agriculture and Commerce. The commissioner shall deposit the amount of the penalty into the General Funds account of the State Treasury.

(3) Nothing contained in this section shall prevent any person from appealing to a court of competent jurisdiction for a judgment as to the justification of such penalties imposed under subsection (1) and (2) above.

(4) The penalties payable in subsections (1) and (2) above shall in no manner be construed as limiting the consumer's right to bring a civil action in damage against the registrant paying said civil penalties.

(5) For the purpose of determining commercial values to be applied under the provisions of this section, the commissioner shall determine from the registrant's sales invoice the values charged for the soil or plant amending ingredients. If no invoice is available or if the invoice fails to provide sufficient information, the commissioner may use other methods to determine values. The values so determined shall be used in determining and assessing penalties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-19-15 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 19-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-19-15
Status: in_force

(1)(a) Any person violating this chapter or the rules and regulations issued under this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court having jurisdiction.

(b) Each violation and each day's violation shall constitute a separate offense.

(c) Any person violating this chapter or the rules and regulations issued under this chapter in such a way that causes harm or poses a threat to man, animals or the environment is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) or by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of not more than twenty (20) years or by both such fine and imprisonment for each violation.

(2) Each violation of this chapter or the applicable rules and regulations shall subject the violator to administrative action as provided for in Sections 69-25-51 through 69-25-63 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-31-13 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 31-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-31-13
Status: in_force

After May 1, 1979, no person shall use or cause to be used any grain moisture-measuring device which has not been inspected and approved for use by the department; except that after May 1, 1979, a newly purchased grain moisture-measuring device may be used prior to regular inspection and approval if the user of such device has given at least ten (10) days' notice to the department of the purchase prior to the use of such new device.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-207 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-207
Status: in_force

All contracts entered into hereunder between a county designated in Section 69-27-201 and an owner of land therein for the terracing and/or ditching thereof shall be in such legal form as may be approved by the attorney for the board of supervisors, and each such contract, before becoming effective, shall contain a legal description of the land, shall be signed in his own behalf by the owner of the land, and if the property contained in such description be a part of the homestead of such owner, by the husband or wife, as the case may be, before at least two witnesses, and properly proved for recording, or acknowledged before some officer authorized to accept acknowledgments, shall be approved in writing by the secretary of the soil erosion committee, and shall be accepted by the board of supervisors, by order upon its minutes setting forth the date of the contract and the name of the landowner. Any number of such contracts may be accepted in one order, but no such contract shall be accepted unless all taxes theretofore becoming due and payable on the land therein described have been paid. Upon the acceptance of such contract or contracts, the clerk of the board of supervisors, acting in his official capacity as chancery clerk, shall note upon the lis pendens record the name of such landowner, together with a description of the land contained in such contract, which listing shall be notice to any subsequent purchaser or incumbrancer. Any subsequent transaction concerning such land shall be by reason of such listing and such notice subject to any and all assessments which may thereafter be made by virtue of such contract. All such contracts so accepted shall remain binding upon the signers thereof unless cancelled by an order of the board of supervisors, either of its own motion or by mutual agreement with the then owner of the land. The county shall not be liable for damages or otherwise because of its cancellation of any such contract, or its failure to perform the same; and the owner of the land shall not be required to make any payment under such contract unless and until the work to be done thereunder has been completed. The amount to be paid by the owner of the land for the work to be done under any such contract may at his option be paid in one payment on or before the 1st day of February following the completion thereof, or in not more than four equal annual payments, the first payment to be due on the first day of February following completion of the work, and one on the first day of February in each year thereafter until all are paid, with six per cent (6%) interest from the maturity date of the first payment; but such option shall be exercised in advance, and the terms of payment stated in the contract. All payments under such contracts shall be made to the tax collector of the county, for the benefit of a soil erosion fund or funds, to be collected, accounted for, paid in, and commissions charged thereon by the tax collector, as in case of other taxes collected for the county, except that sales of land for default in such payments shall be as herein provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-14 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-14
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-14
Status: in_force

(1) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund designated as the Wildflower Seed Revolving Fund to be used by the Mississippi Soil and Water Conservation Commission to contract for the purchase of wildflower seeds from public or private providers, for resale to local conservation districts or other governmental entities for planting programs.

(2) The Wildflower Revolving Fund shall be funded by monies received from the sale of seeds to the local conservation districts or other governmental entities. Monies collected from the sales shall be deposited into the Wildflower Revolving Fund. The State Treasurer shall make disbursements for payment of purchase of wildflower seeds upon requisition by the Soil and Water Conservation Commission and upon the issuance of warrants by the Department of Finance and Administration.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-101 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-101
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Central Market Board is hereby abolished, and all of the powers, duties, property, contractual rights and obligations, and unexpended funds of that commission shall be transferred to the Department of Agriculture and Commerce on July 1, 2021. Wherever the term “ Central Market Board ” appears in any laws or regulation, the same shall mean the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, hereinafter referred to as “the department.” The transfer of personnel shall be commensurate with the number and classification of positions allocated to the commission.

For the purpose of aiding, establishing and providing proper facilities for the efficient handling of farm and other food products in the interest of farmer, consumer, the general public and the State of Mississippi, and to assist in the disposal and sale of such products, there is hereby created a Mississippi Farmers Market, hereinafter referred to as the “market” at 929 High Street in Jackson.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-115 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-115
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-115
Status: in_force

In order to encourage and promote the raising of livestock in the State of Mississippi there is hereby created a body politic and corporate to be hereinafter known as “Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association,” which said body politic and corporate shall be under the management and control of the commissioner of agriculture and commerce, director of extension service, and president of the Mississippi Livestock Association, hereinafter designated as directors, who shall serve without compensation.

The Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association shall each year, at a time to be fixed by the directors, and under the supervision and rules and regulations promulgated by said directors, hold a livestock show at Greenwood in Leflore county, for the counties of Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington, Yazoo, Tallahatchie, and Montgomery, at which the owners of livestock within said counties may exhibit and compete for prizes or awards offered by the directors of the said Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association, or for prizes or awards offered by any person or corporation through said directors, upon complying with the rules and regulations governing such livestock show.

No owner of livestock who has competed for a prize at any of the district livestock shows provided for in Section 69-5-105 , during the current year, shall be eligible to compete for a prize at the show herein provided for in that year; and likewise, no one who competed for a prize at the show herein provided for during the current year shall be eligible to compete for a prize at any of the said district livestock shows during the current year.

The directors are hereby authorized to accept and hold for use at the Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association any appropriations, donations, or other funds designated to or to be awarded as prizes or awards under regulations promulgated by the directors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-21 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 25-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-21
Status: in_force

Any person in this state who receives from without the state any plant or plant product, or other thing or substance as to which the requirements of section next before the last above have not been complied with, or who receives any plant or plant product, or other thing or substance, sold, given away, carried, shipped, or delivered for carriage or shipment within this state as to which the requirements of next foregoing section have not been complied with, shall immediately inform the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce or an inspector thereof and isolate and hold the plant or plant product or other thing or substance unopened or unused subject to such inspection and other disposition as may be provided for by the commissioner.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 27-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-9
Status: in_force

(1) The State Soil and Water Conservation Commission shall be constituted as follows:

(a) Eleven (11) voting members:

(i) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce;

(ii) The State Forester;

(iii) The President of the Mississippi Association of Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioners;

(iv) The first vice president of the association;

(v) The second vice president of the association;

(vi) The immediate or most recent ex-president of the association willing and able to serve; and

(vii) Five (5) members to be elected from the membership of the soil and water conservation district commissioners at the annual meeting of the association, one (1) from each United States congressional district by a caucus of the association members from each congressional district as constituted at the time of the caucus, to be elected as follows: First District, one (1) member elected for a one-year term, beginning January 1, 1968, and ending January 1, 1969, his successor to be similarly elected at the 1968 annual meeting of the association for a three-year term ending January 1, 1972, and each successor elected in the succeeding third annual meeting for a three-year term; Second District, one (1) member elected for a two-year term beginning January 1, 1968, and ending January 1, 1970, his successor to be similarly elected at the 1969 annual meeting of the association for a three-year term ending January 1, 1973, and each successor elected in the succeeding third annual meeting for a three-year term; Third District, election to be similar to the Second District; Fourth District, one (1) member elected for a three-year term beginning January 1, 1968, and ending January 1, 1971, each successor to be similarly elected at the succeeding third annual meeting for a three-year term; Fifth District, election to be similar to Fourth District.

(viii) The elected members of the board as constituted on January 15, 2003, shall continue to serve until the expiration of their respective terms. As the terms of the five (5) members expire, the members shall be elected as follows: one (1) member from each congressional district by caucus of the association members from each congressional district as constituted at the time of the caucus and the remainder to be elected from the state at large by the membership of the association. The position and term of the member elected from the Third District whose term expires January 1, 2004, shall be the term and position of the at large member.

(b) The purpose of the above procedure is to provide that when put into effect, elected members will serve three-year staggered terms. The State Soil and Water Conservation Commission is empowered to adopt and carry out procedures for filling unexpired terms of its elected members. The incumbent will continue to serve until his successor is duly qualified and enters into the duties of his office.

(c) Two (2) members shall serve ex officio and without voting power, but with all privileges of discussion and debate as follows:

(i) The Director of the State Extension Service; and

(ii) The Director of the State Agricultural and Forestry Experimental Station.

(d) Such nonvoting ex officio member who, due to the pressure of his other required official duties, believes that he will be unable to regularly attend meetings of the commission shall designate a substitute to attend in his stead with the same rights and privileges that he would have had.

(2) The commission shall designate its chairman and vice chairman and may, from time to time, change such designation. A majority of the voting members of the commission shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of a majority in any matter within their duties shall be required for its determination. The voting members of the commission shall receive a per diem at the uniform rate established in Section 25-3-69, Mississippi Code of 1972 , for their services on the commission for not more than thirty-six (36) days in any one calendar year. In addition, and in the discretion of the commission, all members may be entitled to expenses, including traveling expenses, necessarily incurred in the discharge of their duties on the commission, not to exceed the rate established in Section 25-3-41, Mississippi Code of 1972 , for state officers and employees. The commission may provide for the execution of surety bonds for all employees and officers who shall be entrusted with funds or property, shall provide for the keeping of a full and accurate record of all proceedings and of all resolutions, regulations and orders issued or adopted, and shall provide for an annual audit of the accounts of receipts and disbursements by the State Auditor.

(3) The commission shall keep a record of its official actions, shall adopt a seal, which seal shall be judicially noticed, and may perform such acts, hold such public hearings, and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the execution of its functions under this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-31 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 25-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-31
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall have power to make reciprocal agreements with the responsible officials of other states under which nursery stock or plants from any other state may be sold or delivered in Mississippi under the same conditions required for the sale or delivery of Mississippi nursery stock or plants in the state concerned.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-2 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-2
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-2
Status: in_force

(1) Every person, firm, association or corporation, before seeking to sell or transfer dogs or cats, or both, for research, shall obtain a license from the Director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Livestock Theft Bureau. The fee and requirements for such license shall be set by the Director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Livestock Theft Bureau. Application for such license shall be made on forms prescribed and furnished by the director. Such license shall be nontransferable, renewable annually. A new license shall be issued if there is any change in the location or ownership of the business.

(2) At the time application is made for a license under subsection (1) of this section and before the issuance of such license by the Director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Livestock Theft Bureau, the applicant shall file with the director a bond in the penal sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) payable to the State of Mississippi with surety to be approved by the Secretary of State for the faithful performance of the requirements of this section. Evidence shall be supplied to the director annually, at the time license is renewed, that the bond continues in force and effect. In the event the bond is cancelled or will not be renewed, the bonding company shall notify the director in writing at least thirty (30) days before the cancellation of such bond. If a bond is cancelled or fails to be renewed, the license issued under this section shall stand void automatically. The license shall not stand void if a new bond as required herein is filed with the director before the expiration date of the original bond.

(3) The following information shall be recorded by every person, firm, association or corporation licensed under this section for each dog or cat received, sold or transferred under the provisions of this section:

(a) The name, address and telephone number of the person, firm, association or corporation from whom each dog or cat was received and to whom each dog or cat was delivered.

(b) A complete description of each dog or cat received, sold or transferred, including a photograph of each side of the animal.

(c) Any other information as required by the Director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Livestock Theft Bureau.

(4) The Director of the Mississippi Agricultural and Livestock Theft Bureau shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the provisions of this section.

(5) Any person violating the provisions of this section, upon conviction for a first violation, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both. Any person violating the provisions of this section, upon conviction for a second or subsequent violation, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for not less than one (1) year or a fine of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both. Any person who holds a license issued under this section who is convicted of any violation of this section, shall have his license revoked for a minimum of one (1) year.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-11 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 25-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-11
Status: in_force

The inspections and the quarantine enforcement referred to in this article shall be conducted under the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce by the Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry and the State Entomologist at Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science and such assistants as may become necessary. It shall be the duty of the Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry and the State Entomologist to make recommendations to the commissioner regarding quarantines and regulations.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-203 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 7-203
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-203
Status: in_force

Every person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or other legal entity in this state, engaged in the business of operating an incubator, or incubators, for hatching baby chicks and ratites, including baby ostrich, emu and rhea, for sale, distribution or under contract, either oral or written, for the production of ostrich, emu, rhea, broilers, laying hens, roosters or eggs for sale, distribution or processing by contract with others, either oral or written, is required to obtain a license to engage in such business from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce of the State of Mississippi. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall charge a fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) for such license and a like fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) for the renewal thereof, which license must be renewed annually on or before July 1 of each succeeding year. The fees charged for the license shall be paid by the commissioner to the State Treasurer, who shall deposit the same in the General Fund in the State Treasury. Strict accounting of all fees charged hereunder shall be made by the commissioner.

Nothing in this article shall be construed to require any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, who may be engaged in the businesses covered by this article wholly for themselves, or any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, who purchases his own flocks and becomes wholly responsible for the growing and feeding thereof, to obtain a license hereunder.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-53-3 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 53-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-53-3
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, an agritourism professional is not liable for injury to or death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of agritourism activities if the warning contained in Section 69-53-5 is posted as required and, except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, no participant or participant's representative can maintain an action against or recover from an agritourism professional for injury, loss, damage or death of the participant resulting exclusively from any of the inherent risks of agritourism activities. In any action for damages against an agritourism professional for agritourism activity, the agritourism professional may plead the provisions of this section as an affirmative defense.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section prevents or limits the liability of an agritourism professional if the agritourism professional does any one or more of the following:

(a) Commits or omits an act if the act or omission constitutes willful or wanton disregard for the safety of the participant, and that act or omission proximately causes injury, damage or death to the participant.

(b) Has actual knowledge or reasonably should have known of a dangerous condition on the land, facilities or equipment used in the activity or the dangerous propensity of a particular animal used in such activity and does not make the danger known to the participant, and the danger proximately causes injury, damage or death to the participant.

(c) Intentionally injures the participant.

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section:

(a) Prevents or limits the liability of an agritourism professional under products liability laws.

(b) Shall be construed so as to negate that assumption of risk is an affirmative defense.

(4) Any limitation on legal liability afforded by this section to an agritourism professional is in addition to any other limitations of legal liability otherwise provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-17-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 17-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-17-9
Status: in_force

The application for registration shall be made in such form and contain such information as may be prescribed by the Board of Animal Health of the State of Mississippi and shall give in detail the composition of the preparation, the safety of its use, recommendations and directions for use, claims of effectiveness and proof of all claims, and shall include an official product label and any other evidence which the said board considers necessary in determining eligibility of registration in compliance with this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-109 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 15-109
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-109
Status: in_force

(1) The Governor of the State of Mississippi, when advised by the Board of Animal Health that an emergency exists due to the presence of foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious diseases of animals, or European fowl pest and similar diseases among poultry, in this state, or chronic wasting disease in any cervids, is hereby authorized to declare a state of emergency and to order all animals or poultry quarantined or slaughtered that may be affected with, or possible carriers of such diseases.

(2) The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to cooperate with any department of the federal government engaged in the combating and control of any such disease mentioned in subsection (1) and to this end the Governor is authorized and empowered to do any and all things in cooperation with the federal government necessary to the control and extermination of any such diseases mentioned in subsection (1) among animals or poultry that may be affected therewith.

(3) For the purposes of this section, the Governor shall have full and complete police power, and shall exercise same anywhere in the State of Mississippi, and if an emergency should exist to such an extent that such becomes necessary the Governor may employ such personnel to enforce such police powers and quarantine that may be necessary to control and prevent the spreading of any such diseases mentioned in subsection (1) among animals or poultry in this state. Such personnel when appointed by the Governor shall work under the direction of the Mississippi Board of Animal Health, or its representative, and shall be paid such compensation as the Governor may determine out of any money made available for the enforcement of this section.

(4) When any animals or poultry or materials are ordered to be destroyed, under the provisions of this section, the owner of same shall be paid for each such animal or poultry or materials destroyed an amount not exceeding the amount authorized to be paid by the federal government in matching funds expended for the destruction of each such animal or poultry or materials infected with any such diseases mentioned in subsection (1).

(5) In the event of the happening of an outbreak of any such diseases mentioned in subsection (1) in Mississippi, the Governor is hereby authorized to borrow not to exceed Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) to carry out the terms and provisions of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-109 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 15-109
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-109
Status: in_force

(1) The Governor of the State of Mississippi, when advised by the Board of Animal Health that an emergency exists due to the presence of foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious diseases of animals, or European fowl pest and similar diseases among poultry, in this state, or chronic wasting disease in any cervids, is hereby authorized to declare a state of emergency and to order all animals or poultry quarantined or slaughtered that may be affected with, or possible carriers of such diseases.

(2) The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to cooperate with any department of the federal government engaged in the combating and control of any such disease mentioned in subsection (1) and to this end the Governor is authorized and empowered to do any and all things in cooperation with the federal government necessary to the control and extermination of any such diseases mentioned in subsection (1) among animals or poultry that may be affected therewith.

(3) For the purposes of this section, the Governor shall have full and complete police power, and shall exercise same anywhere in the State of Mississippi, and if an emergency should exist to such an extent that such becomes necessary the Governor may employ such personnel to enforce such police powers and quarantine that may be necessary to control and prevent the spreading of any such diseases mentioned in subsection (1) among animals or poultry in this state. Such personnel when appointed by the Governor shall work under the direction of the Mississippi Board of Animal Health, or its representative, and shall be paid such compensation as the Governor may determine out of any money made available for the enforcement of this section.

(4) When any animals or poultry or materials are ordered to be destroyed, under the provisions of this section, the owner of same shall be paid for each such animal or poultry or materials destroyed an amount not exceeding the amount authorized to be paid by the federal government in matching funds expended for the destruction of each such animal or poultry or materials infected with any such diseases mentioned in subsection (1).

(5) In the event of the happening of an outbreak of any such diseases mentioned in subsection (1) in Mississippi, the Governor is hereby authorized to borrow not to exceed Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) to carry out the terms and provisions of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-323 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 7-323
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-323
Status: in_force

No person, firm, organization or corporation shall sell, offer for sale, or advertise for sale shell eggs that do not meet the minimum requirements for U. S. Consumer Grade AA, Grade A, or Grade B. Any change in the U. S. standards of quality for individual eggs made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture not conforming to the above designated standards shall be adopted in lieu of the above designated standards.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-31-5 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 31-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-31-5
Status: in_force

The department shall inspect or cause to be inspected at least annually every moisture-measuring device used in commerce in this state, except those belonging to the United States or the state, or any subdivision of either, except as may be requested. The department may inspect or cause to be inspected at the convenience of the department any moisture-measuring device upon a request in writing from the owner.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-47-15 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 47-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-47-15
Status: in_force

(1) The department may conduct or provide for audits of all documents used to verify that certified products meet organic standards.

(2) These audits shall include, where appropriate:

(a) An inventory audit, a listing of the formulations of the product, percent accuracy in labeling, the amount bought and sold per product and producer or destination and the number of vendors and amount of product per vendor; or

(b) A farm audit, listing the amounts sold per product, date and destination and the area and location planted of each product with dates of harvest.

(3) Information contained in audit records that is exempt under the Public Records Act of Mississippi shall remain confidential. Such exempt confidential information shall include, but not be limited to:

(a) Information that, if released, would give advantage to competitors or bidders; and

(b) Trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential by statute or judicial decision.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-1 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 13-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-1
Status: in_force

There is declared, created and now in existence a statewide stock law which embraces all of the territory of the State of Mississippi and which is declared to be uniform throughout the state, except as hereinafter provided. Any person or persons owning or having under control any livestock such as cattle, horses, mules, jacks, jennets, sheep, goats and hogs, shall not permit such livestock to run at large upon the open or unfenced lands of another person, except as herein expressly provided, but shall keep such livestock confined in a safe inclosure or upon lands belonging to such person. However, upon the petition of twenty percent of the qualified electors of any county of this state, outside of the municipalities thereof, the board of supervisors of such county shall call an election to be held within sixty days after the filing of such petition for the purpose of permitting the qualified electors of such county, outside of the municipalities, to vote upon the question whether or not the provisions of the statewide stock law shall remain in force in such county, outside of the municipalities thereof; and if a majority of the qualified electors of such county, outside of the municipalities thereof, voting in said election, shall vote to sustain the statewide stock law, then it shall remain in full force and effect in said county, but should a majority of the qualified electors of said county, outside of said municipalities, voting in said election, vote against the statewide stock law, then sixty days after said election the provisions thereof shall not apply to or be in force in said county, outside of the municipalities thereof, except in its application to hogs or swine, which shall not be permitted in any event to run at large in any county of this state.

In the event a county has heretofore elected to come out from under the stock law, no less than five years after such election, upon the petition of twenty percent of the qualified electors of any such county outside the municipalities thereof, the board of supervisors shall call an election to be held within sixty days after the filing of such petition to vote upon the question of whether or not the provisions of the statewide stock law shall apply in that county outside the municipalities. If a majority of the qualified electors of such county, outside of the municipalities thereof, voting in said election, shall favor the statewide stock law, then sixty days after said election the provisions of the statewide stock law shall apply in that county outside the municipalities. If the majority of those voting in the election vote against the statewide stock law, the provisions of the statewide stock law shall continue to be inapplicable to such county outside municipalities. No election on the same question may be held more often than once every two years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-21-117 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 21-117
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-21-117
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who is a nonresident of this state and who intends to perform agricultural aircraft operations in this state as an applicator or pilot shall obtain the appropriate applicator's or pilot's license under this article and comply with all the other licensing requirements for a resident licensee. Nonresident applicators shall also designate and maintain a resident agent in this state for service of process.

(2) Any person who is duly licensed as an agricultural aviation pilot in another state, whose requirements for licensure as an agricultural aviation pilot are at least equal to those of this state, may be granted an agricultural aviation pilot's license by this state upon the submission of the required application, provided the laws of the state from which the applicant comes grant similar privileges to applicants from this state. The department is authorized to enter into a reciprocity agreement with any state meeting the qualifications of this subsection.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-7 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-7
Status: in_force

Wherever used or referred to in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(a) “District” or “soil and water conservation district” means a governmental subdivision of this state, and a public body, corporate and politic, organized in accordance with the provisions of this article, for the purposes, with the powers and subject to the restrictions hereinafter set forth.

(b) “Commissioner” means one of the members of the governing body of a district, elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(c) “Committee” or “State Soil and Water Conservation Committee” means the state and soil and water conservation commission as renamed under the provisions of Section 67-27-2 and created in Section 69-27-9 .

(d) “Petition” means a petition filed under the provisions of Section 69-27-15 for the creation of a district.

(e) “Nominating petition” means a petition filed under the provisions of Section 69-27-31 to nominate candidates for the office of commissioner of a soil and water conservation district.

(f) “State” means the State of Mississippi.

(g) “Agency of this state” includes the government of this state and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the government of this state.

(h) “United States” or “agencies of the United States” includes the United States of America, the United States Department of Agriculture, and any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America.

(i) “Government” or “governmental” includes the government of this state, the government of the United States, and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them.

(j) “Landowner” or “owner of land” includes any person, firm or corporation who shall hold legal or equitable title to any lands lying within a district organized under the provisions of this article.

(k) “Land operator” or “operator of land” includes any person, firm or corporation, other than the owner, who shall be in possession of any lands lying within a district organized under the provisions of this article, whether as lessee, renter, tenant or otherwise.

(l) “Due notice” means notice published at least three (3) times with an interval of at least seven (7) days between each publication date, in a newspaper of general circulation within the area where the land proposed to be included in a conservation district is located, or if no such newspaper or general circulation be available, by posting at a reasonable number (not less than five (5)) of conspicuous places within such area, such posting to include posting one (1) copy upon the bulletin board of the courthouse of each county where any of the lands in such proposed district may be located. Notice shall also be given by United States mail to all of the landowners of the proposed district or the district of any hearing or election. At any hearing held pursuant to such notice, at the time and place designated in such notice, adjournment may be made from time to time without the necessity of renewing such notice for such adjourned dates.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-35-7 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 35-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-35-7
Status: in_force

No association, meeting or activity undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this act and intended to benefit all of the producers and handlers of milk and dairy products in Mississippi shall be deemed or considered illegal or in restraint of trade.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-25 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-25
Status: in_force

After twelve (12) months shall have expired from the date of entry of a determination by the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee that operation of a proposed district is not administratively practicable and feasible, and denial of a petition pursuant to such determination, subsequent petitions may be filed as aforesaid, and action taken thereon in accordance with the provisions of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-9-15 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 9-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-9-15
Status: in_force

(1) The commissioner may conduct an audit of the board to verify compliance with any rules and regulations promulgated for the efficient enforcement of this chapter.

(2) Under this section, the audited board shall provide information to the commissioner that verifies the amounts received and expended from the fees assessed and collected by the department and remitted to the board. Records maintained in the course of the normal conduct of business by the board may serve as verification.

(3) The commissioner may apply for and the court may grant a temporary or permanent injunction on disbursements made to the board from violating or continuing to violate any of the provisions of this chapter or any rule or regulation promulgated under this chapter, notwithstanding the existence of other remedies at law. The injunction shall be issued without bond.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-69 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-69
Status: in_force

In so far as any of the provisions of this article are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this article shall be controlling.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-215 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-215
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-215
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the soil erosion committee to notify the board of supervisors, the county assessor and the landowner within fifteen days after the performance of each contract by the county or separate soil erosion district, giving the assessor the name of the landowner, the legal description of the land, the amount to be paid to the county or district, and how payable, and to the landowner a notice that a special assessment will be made against his land by the assessor for the amount determined by the committee, and presented to the next meeting of the board of supervisors beginning more than ten days thereafter for approval. The assessor shall, at the next meeting of the board beginning more than ten days after such notice, file with the board of supervisors, in duplicate, on appropriate forms, keeping a copy thereof on file in his own office, an assessment of the land for a special improvement tax thereon equal to the amount fixed by the committee, and payable as provided by the contract. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors at said meeting to hear any objections to such assessment, by the landowner or the holder of any lien thereon, and to determine the amount of the assessment, not to exceed the amount fixed by the committee, and to approve the assessment as finally determined. The clerk of the board shall forthwith certify such assessment to the tax collector of the county upon the duplicate of the assessment filed by the assessor. In event such assessment be not returned to or acted upon by the board at the first meeting for any reason, it may be returned, considered and acted upon at any subsequent meeting. When approved, such assessment shall be a lien upon the land subordinate only to the lien of other taxes, prior and subsequent, and no delay or irregularity in the giving of notices, the making of the assessment, the hearing and approval thereof, or the certification thereof to the tax collector, shall affect the validity of the assessment if the work was actually done upon the land and the amount of the assessment does not exceed the contract price. Appeals may be taken to the circuit court of the county as in other cases of assessments for taxation, by the landowner or the holder of any lien upon the land. Nothing herein contained shall prevent any landowner from making payment to the tax collector of the estimated amount to become due under his contract, or any part thereof, in advance of the time the same becomes due, and the tax collector shall receive any payment so tendered, and give the landowner credit therefor against the assessment when made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 37-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-9
Status: in_force

The commissioner and the corporation or their authorized agent(s), after first notifying the owner, shall have authority to enter cotton fields, cotton processing facilities and other premises in order to carry out survey, suppression or eradication activities, including treatment with pesticides and monitoring of growing cotton or other host plants as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner and the corporation or their authorized agent(s) shall have authority to make inspection of any fields or premises in this state and any property located therein for the purpose of determining whether such property is infested with the boll weevil and for determining the extent of infestation. Such inspection and other activities may be conducted in a reasonable manner without a warrant at any reasonable time. Any judge of this state may, within his or her jurisdiction and upon proper cause shown, issue a warrant giving the commissioner the right of entry to any premises for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section or other activities authorized by this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-45-13 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 45-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-45-13
Status: in_force

There is created a special fund to be designated as the “Mississippi Agricultural Promotions Fund” within the State Treasury to receive all monies related to the Mississippi Agricultural Promotions Program. Monies deposited in the fund shall be expended, upon legislative appropriations, and upon requisition therefor by the Commissioner of Agriculture, for the purposes of implementing, marketing and promoting the Mississippi Agricultural Promotions Program. Unexpended amounts remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned on amounts in the fund shall be deposited to the credit of the fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-39-15 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 39-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-39-15
Status: in_force

The commissioner may issue and enforce a written or printed “stop sale, use or removal” order to the owner or custodian of any lot of agricultural liming material and to hold at a designated place when the commissioner finds such agricultural liming material is being offered or exposed for sale in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or regulations adopted pursuant thereto until the law has been complied with and the agricultural liming material is released in writing by the commissioner or the violation has been otherwise legally disposed of by written authority. The commissioner shall release the agricultural liming material so withdrawn when the requirements of the provisions of this chapter or regulations adopted pursuant thereto have been complied with and all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the withdrawal have been paid.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-15 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-15
Status: in_force

Any twenty-five (25) owners of land lying within the limits of the territory proposed to be organized into a district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee asking that a soil and water conservation district be organized to function in the territory described in the petition. Such petition shall set forth:

(a) The proposed name of said district.

(b) That there is need, in the interest of the public health, safety, and welfare, for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory described in the petition.

(c) A description of the territory proposed to be organized as a district, which description shall not be required to be given by metes and bounds or by legal subdivisions, but shall be deemed sufficient if generally accurate.

(d) A request that the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee duly define the boundaries for such district; that a referendum be held within the territory so defined on the question of the creation of a soil conservation district in such territory; and that the committee determine that such a district be created.

Where more than one petition is filed covering parts of the same territory, the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee may consolidate all or any such petitions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-3-117 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-117
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-3-117
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to issue, make, use, or circulate any certification as defined in this article without the authority or approval of the approved state seed certifying agency.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-26-7 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 26-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-26-7
Status: in_force

As used in this Compact, with reference to this state, the term “ executive head ” shall mean the Governor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-15 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 23-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-15
Status: in_force

(1) The penalties provided for violations of Section 69-23-5 (1) shall not apply to:

(a) Any carrier while lawfully engaged in transporting a pesticide within this state if such carrier shall, upon request, permit the commissioner or his employees to copy all records showing the transaction in and movement of the articles;

(b) Public officials of this state and the federal government engaged in the performance of their official duties in administering state or federal pesticide laws or regulations or while engaged in pesticide research.

(c) The manufacturer or shipper of a pesticide for experimental use only:

(i) By or under the supervision of an agency of this state or of the federal government authorized by law to conduct research in the field of pesticides; or

(ii) By others if the pesticides shipper or manufacturer holds a valid experimental use permit as provided for by Section 69-23-25 or by EPA.

(2) No article shall be deemed in violation of this chapter when intended solely for export to a foreign country, and when prepared or packaged according to the specifications or directions of the purchaser. If not so exported, all the provisions of this chapter shall apply.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-305 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-305
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-305
Status: in_force

A person shall not, without the effective consent of the owner, acquire or otherwise exercise control over an animal facility, an animal from an animal facility or other property from an animal facility with the intent to deprive the owner of the facility, animal or property and to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-65 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-65
Status: in_force

(1) In order to assist in carrying out the objectives set forth in this article, the board of supervisors of Adams, Attala, Benton, Carroll, Chickasaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Clay, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene, Grenada, Hancock, Harrison, Hinds, Holmes, Jasper, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pearl River, Pike, Rankin, Scott, Simpson, Stone, Union, Walthall, Warren, Wayne, Webster, Winston, Yalobusha and Yazoo counties of the State of Mississippi are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to lease to any soil conservation district of said respective counties, as authorized in this article, any road machinery belonging to the respective counties upon reasonable terms to be agreed upon, by contract between such board and such district, entered on the minutes of the board of supervisors making the lease.

(2) Be it further provided that if no soil conservation district exists within the county that the boards of supervisors of such counties may lease, as provided in subsection (1) of this section, road machinery belonging to the county to agricultural associations organized under the provisions of Sections 79-17-1 to 79-17-39, Mississippi Code of 1972 , under the same terms and conditions as specified hereinabove for lease to soil conservation districts.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-217 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 25-217
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-217
Status: in_force

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person or business entity to:

(a) Violate this chapter or any rules or regulations promulgated under this chapter;

(b) Fail to comply with a corrective action plan issued by the commissioner under Section 69-25-213(2) ;

(c) Transport hemp or hemp materials in violation of Section 69-25-209 or rules or regulations adopted under this chapter; or

(d) Cultivate or grow hemp with a delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of more than three-tenths percent (0.3%) on a dry weight basis.

(2) Any person or business entity that purposely, knowingly or recklessly violates this provision of this chapter relating to hemp production or processing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction of the violation, shall be fined in an amount not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or both such fine and imprisonment.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2) of this section, if any person or entity purposely, recklessly or knowingly cultivates or grows hemp with a delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of more than one percent (1%) on a dry weight basis that person or entity shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment.

(4) For purposes of this section, the terms “purposely”, “knowingly” and “recklessly” have the following meanings:

(a) “ Purposefully ” means a person acts purposely with respect to a material element of an offense if:

(i) The element involves the nature of his or her conduct or a result thereof, it is his or her conscious object to engage in conduct of that nature or to cause such a result; and

(ii) The element involves the attendant circumstances, he or she is aware of the existence of such circumstances or he or she believes or hopes that they exist.

(b) “ Knowingly ” means a person acts knowingly with respect to a material element of an offense if:

(i) The element involves the nature of his or her conduct or the attendant circumstances, he or she is aware that his or her conduct is of that nature or that such circumstances exist; and

(ii) The element involves a result of his or her conduct, he or she is aware that it is practically certain that his or her conduct will cause such a result.

(c) “ Recklessly ” means a person acts recklessly with respect to a material element of an offense when he or she consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the material element exists or will result from his or her conduct. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that, considering the nature and purpose of the actor's conduct and the circumstances known to him or her, its disregard involves a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a law-abiding person would observe in the actor's situation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-17-1 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 17-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-17-1
Status: in_force

This article shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the “Livestock Biologics and Drug Law of 1958.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-44-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 44-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-44-9
Status: in_force

(1) The board shall plan and conduct a program of research, education and advertising designed to promote the corn industry in Mississippi. The board is authorized to use the funds derived from the assessment imposed herein for these purposes, including basic administration expenses of the plan. Use of these funds may be applied, as prescribed in this section, within or without the State of Mississippi, including regional, national and international research and promotional applications.

(2)(a) The Mississippi Legislature finds and declares that the factors which affect the ability of Mississippi corn farmers to market their crop are established by national and international forces in the world market. The Legislature further finds and declares that the expenditure of funds by the board for the purpose of influencing the development and implementation of national and international policy affecting the marketing of corn produced by Mississippi farmers is the expenditure of funds for a public purpose.

(b) The board may expend a portion of the funds received and administered by the board for the purpose of influencing the development and implementation of national and international policy affecting the marketing of corn produced by Mississippi farmers.

(c) The amount of funds expended by the board in each fiscal year for the purposes authorized in this subsection shall not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the budget of the board for that fiscal year.

(d) The board shall not expend any funds for the purpose of influencing any political activity.

(3) A report of all income and expenditures shall be made annually on December 31, with four (4) copies of the report to be filed and presented during the regular sessions of the Mississippi Legislature with each of the following: the Chairman of the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce and the State Auditor.

(4) If the board fails to make an annual report in violation of the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, the board shall be subject to a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-11-7 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 11-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-11-7
Status: in_force

The commissioner is hereby charged with the execution and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the state veterinarian shall have authority to exercise all of the powers vested in the commissioner in the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-31 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-31
Status: in_force

Within thirty (30) days after the date of issuance by the Secretary of State of a certificate of organization of a soil and water conservation district, nominating petitions may be filed with the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee to nominate candidates for commissioners of such district. The committee shall have authority to extend the time within which nominating petitions may be filed. No such nominating petition shall be accepted by the committee unless it shall be subscribed by twenty-five (25) or more owners of lands lying within the boundaries of such district. Landowners may sign more than one such nominating petition to nominate more than one candidate for commissioner but in no event shall a landowner sign more than three (3) such nominating petitions. The committee is hereby authorized to enact and implement rules to provide that not more than one commissioner shall be a resident of any one county or supervisors district, unless there is no person qualified and willing to serve in another county or supervisors district. The committee shall give due notice of an election to be held for the election of three (3) commissioners for the district. The names of all nominees, on behalf of whom such nominating petitions have been filed within the time herein designated, shall appear, arranged in alphabetical order of the surnames, upon ballots, with a square before each name and a direction to insert an X mark in the square before any three (3) names to indicate the voter's preference. All owners of lands lying within the district shall be eligible to vote in such election. Only such landowners shall be eligible to vote. The three (3) candidates who receive a majority of the votes cast in such an election shall be elected commissioners for such district. In the event any candidate fails to receive a majority, then the candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall run off in an election to be held two (2) weeks thereafter. The committee shall pay all the expenses of such elections, shall supervise conduct thereof, shall prescribe regulations governing the conduct of such election and the determination of the eligibility of voters therein, and shall publish the results of same.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-35-27 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 35-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-35-27
Status: in_force

(1) In the event a majority of the bulk tank units eligible for participation in such referendum and voting therein shall vote in favor of such assessment, then the said assessment shall be collected monthly for the number of years set forth in the call for such referendum, and the collection of such assessment shall be under such method, rules and regulations as may be determined by the state ADA conducting the same; and the said assessment so collected shall be paid into the treasury of the state ADA to be used together with other funds from other sources. Funds to be collected pursuant to a referendum conducted under this act shall be withheld and paid by each handler, including producer handlers, to the state ADA by the last calendar day of the month succeeding the month in which the milk was received by the handler.

(2) In the event of a failure to pay part or all of an assessment levied pursuant to this act, the Attorney General of the state shall, upon the request of the state ADA, enforce the provisions of this act and collect such monies for payment to the state ADA. In the alternative to requesting the Attorney General to enforce the provisions of this act, the state ADA may bring a civil action to collect assessment from a handler failing to pay such assessments. A handler found to have failed to pay assessments pursuant to this act shall also be liable for reasonable attorney's fees and costs in the collection of such assessments.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-3-29 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-3-29
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever it has been alleged that any person or other entity has violated any of the provisions of this article, or any of the rules or regulations promulgated hereunder, the matter shall be conducted as an administrative proceeding under the terms and conditions of Sections 69-25-51 through 69-25-63 , and where found culpable, such person or other entity shall be subject to the administrative and civil penalties provided therein.

(2) The procedures described herein shall not apply to seed arbitration claims which are described in Sections 69-3-20 through 69-3-22 , as such claims shall be governed by the procedures set forth in those statutes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-41 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 25-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-41
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce or any of his inspectors or employees shall be a proper party in any court of equity to effectively carry out any of the provisions of this article when an injunction would be a proper remedy.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-307 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-307
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-307
Status: in_force

The commission shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as necessary for the implementation of the Mississippi Soil and Water Cost-Share Program. The commission is authorized to conduct public hearings or otherwise seek the advice, counsel and recommendations of interested owners, associations, industrialists or other persons or groups. Adequate notice of any public hearing must be provided within the general area of the site of the hearing. The commission shall publish such rules and regulations and shall make the same available upon request.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-311 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 15-311
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-311
Status: in_force

Systematic dipping of all cattle, horses, jacks, jennets and mules infested with or exposed to the cattle tick (Margaropus annulatus), shall be taken up as soon as practical in all counties or portions of counties that shall at any time be found partially or completely infested with the cattle tick (Margaropus annulatus) under the direction of the State Veterinarian, acting under the authority as herein provided, and as provided by the rules and regulations of the board of animal health. However, this section shall not hinder or handicap the operation of stock law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-21 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 37-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-21
Status: in_force

(1) If any referendum conducted under this chapter fails to receive the required number of affirmative votes, the bureau, at the request of the corporation, shall be authorized to call other referenda.

(2) After the passage of any referendum, the eligible voters may be allowed, by subsequent referenda to be held upon recommendation of the corporation, to vote on whether to continue with the program and/or to modify the assessment fee. However, before any referendum is held proposing any modifications of the assessment, the corporation must submit its recommendation to the commissioner for approval. Upon petition by twenty percent (20%) of all eligible voting cotton growers within the state, the corporation shall be required to conduct a subsequent referendum on the question called in the petition, provided that the corporation is required to hold no more than one (1) petitioned referendum during any given calendar year. All the requirements for an initial referendum must be met in any subsequent referenda. The results of the referendum, along with annual audits of all monies expended on programs affected by the referendum, shall be reported each year to the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chairmen of the Senate Agriculture Committee and the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee.

(3) It is the intent of the Legislature that the cost of the containment/maintenance phase of the boll weevil eradication program be borne by the producers, and that any subsequent debt incurred by the program be funded by subsidies, loans and grants from the federal government and other sources.

(4) No assessment under any subsequent referendum for a containment/maintenance program may exceed Twelve Dollars ($12.00) an acre, and it shall be incumbent upon the Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation to levy only that amount necessary to ensure the financial stability of the eradication program.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-329 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 13-329
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-329
Status: in_force

A justice of the peace, where there is a county ranger, shall not have authority to do any act concerning estrays, except to take the information from the taker up and to issue the summons for the appraisers; and he shall be entitled to the same fee for such service as the ranger, to be collected and paid over by the ranger; but if there be not a ranger, a justice of the peace may perform all the duties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-115 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 5-115
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-115
Status: in_force

In order to encourage and promote the raising of livestock in the State of Mississippi there is hereby created a body politic and corporate to be hereinafter known as “Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association,” which said body politic and corporate shall be under the management and control of the commissioner of agriculture and commerce, director of extension service, and president of the Mississippi Livestock Association, hereinafter designated as directors, who shall serve without compensation.

The Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association shall each year, at a time to be fixed by the directors, and under the supervision and rules and regulations promulgated by said directors, hold a livestock show at Greenwood in Leflore county, for the counties of Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington, Yazoo, Tallahatchie, and Montgomery, at which the owners of livestock within said counties may exhibit and compete for prizes or awards offered by the directors of the said Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association, or for prizes or awards offered by any person or corporation through said directors, upon complying with the rules and regulations governing such livestock show.

No owner of livestock who has competed for a prize at any of the district livestock shows provided for in Section 69-5-105 , during the current year, shall be eligible to compete for a prize at the show herein provided for in that year; and likewise, no one who competed for a prize at the show herein provided for during the current year shall be eligible to compete for a prize at any of the said district livestock shows during the current year.

The directors are hereby authorized to accept and hold for use at the Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association any appropriations, donations, or other funds designated to or to be awarded as prizes or awards under regulations promulgated by the directors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-265 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-265
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-265
Status: in_force

Every dealer or handler shall keep a complete and accurate record of all eggs handled by him. Such records shall be in such form and contain such other information as the board shall, by rule or regulation, prescribe. The records shall be preserved by said dealers or handlers for a period of one (1) year and shall be offered for inspection at any time upon oral or written demand by the board, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, or any duly authorized agent or representative of either.

Every dealer or handler, at such time or times as the board or the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce may require, shall submit reports or other documentary information deemed necessary for the efficient and equitable collection of the assessment imposed under this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-121 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-121
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-121
Status: in_force

(1) For the purpose of promoting, fostering and encouraging the upgrading and improving of livestock, any county with an assessed valuation of Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000.00) or more, and designated as a place for the holding of a livestock show, by the provisions of Section 69-5-103 , may upon the order of the board of supervisors purchase, keep, maintain or sell bulls for breeding purposes, but not more than five (5) such bulls may be owned by any such county at any one (1) time.

(2) The board of supervisors shall employ a proper and suitable person qualified by training and experience to aid, advise and assist livestock growers in the development of pastures, upgrading of livestock, or in any way helpful to encourage and promote the raising of livestock and who shall handle, care for, look after and be responsible for the bulls so bought, and such employee shall be charged with the duty of carrying out the provisions of this section in accordance herewith, and shall be paid such salary and expense as the board of supervisors may order, all of said sums to be paid out of the general funds of the county.

(3) Such bulls shall be placed at convenient locations over the county under suitable maintenance contracts for their care and upkeep, and shall be available at all reasonable times to farmers and stock growers upon the payment of a nominal charge for the purpose solely of assisting in defraying the expense of such care and upkeep, the amount of such fees governed solely by such maintenance costs, and to be fixed at the discretion of the board of supervisors.

(4) The board of supervisors shall make such rules and regulations for the services of said bulls as shall be for the best interests of the farmers and stock growers.

(5) The board of supervisors may set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the general fund to pay the cost of employing such person and all expenses incidental to his employment and for the purchase of bulls for breeding purposes and to provide for the care and maintenance of such bulls and for defraying any and all expense necessary to carry out the intent of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-53-1 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 53-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-53-1
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed, unless the context requires otherwise:

(a) “ Agritourism ” means the travel or visit by the general public to, or the practice of inviting or allowing the general public to travel to or visit a working farm, ranch, or other commercial agricultural, aquacultural, horticultural, or forestry operation for the purpose of enjoyment, education, or participation in the activities of the farm, ranch, or other agricultural, aquacultural, horticultural, or forestry operation.

(b) “ Agritourism activity ” means any activity which allows members of the general public, for recreational, entertainment or educational purposes, to view or enjoy rural activities, including, but not limited to, farming activities, ranching activities or historic or cultural or natural attractions.

(c) “ Agritourism professional ” means any person, partnership, corporation, or the employees or authorized agents, who offer or conduct one or more agritourism activities, whether or not for compensation.

(d) “ Inherent risks of agritourism activity ” means those dangers or conditions that are an integral part of an agritourism activity, including, but not limited to, certain hazards involving surface and subsurface conditions, natural conditions of land, vegetation and waters, the behavior of wild or domestic animals, and ordinary dangers of structures or equipment ordinarily used in farming, ranching, or other commercial agricultural, aquacultural, horticultural or forestry operation. Inherent risks of agritourism activity also include the potential of a participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to injury to the participant or others, including failing to follow instructions given by the agritourism professional or failing to exercise reasonable caution while engaging in the agritourism activity.

(e) “ Participant ” means any person, other than the agritourism professional, who engages in an agritourism activity.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-19 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-19
Status: in_force

(1) After the committee has made and recorded a determination that there is need, in the interest of public health, safety, and welfare, for the organization of a district in a particular territory and has defined the boundaries thereof, it shall consider the question whether the operation of a district within such boundaries with the powers conferred upon soil and water conservation districts in this article is administratively practicable and feasible. To assist the committee in the determination of such administrative practicability and feasibility, it shall be the duty of the committee, within a reasonable time after entry of the finding that there is need for the organization of the proposed district and the determination of the boundaries thereof, to hold a referendum within the proposed district upon the proposition of the creation of the district, and to cause due notice of such referendum to be given. The question shall be submitted by ballots upon which the words “for creation of a soil and water conservation district of the lands below described and lying in the county(ies) of __________ and __________,” and “against creation of a soil and water conservation district of the lands below described and lying in the county(ies) of __________ and __________,” shall appear, with a square before each proposition and a direction to insert an X mark in the square before one or the other of said propositions as the voter may favor or oppose creation of such district. The ballot shall set forth the boundaries of such proposed district as determined by the committee. All owners of lands lying within the boundaries of the territory, as determined by the state soil and water conservation committee, shall be eligible to vote in such referendum. Only such landowners shall be eligible to vote.

(2) The committee shall pay expenses for the issuance of such notices and the conduct of such hearings and referendums as hereinabove provided for and shall supervise the conduct of such hearings and referendums. It shall issue appropriate regulations governing the conduct of such hearings and referendums, and providing for the registration prior to the date of the referendum of all eligible voters, or prescribing some other appropriate procedure for the determination of those eligible as voters in such referendum. No informalities in the conduct of such referendum or in any matters relating thereto shall invalidate said referendum or the results thereof if notice thereof shall have been given substantially as herein provided and said referendum shall have been fairly conducted.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-127 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 23-127
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-127
Status: in_force

The commissioner may obtain an injunction to enjoin the violation of Sections 69-23-101 through 69-23-135 or any regulations issued under those sections in the chancery court of the county in which the violation occurs.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-17-105 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 17-105
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-17-105
Status: in_force

Any sheriff, constable, police officer, highway patrolman, or special investigator authorized under the provisions of Section 69-29-1, Mississippi Code of 1972 , shall have the power to inspect the register of drugs dispensed required to be maintained by this article at a reasonable time during normal business hours of the dispenser or vendor thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-3-101 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-3-101
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, the president of Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, and the director of the agricultural and forestry experimental station of Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science are hereby vested with the full authority to designate a seed improvement association as the official state seed certifying agency for the State of Mississippi. Said officials are hereby further authorized, if they shall be satisfied at any time that the association acting as the official state seed certifying agency is not functioning in a manner conducive to the best interest of agriculture in this state, to terminate the appointment of such association, and to designate another seed improvement association as the official state seed certifying agency.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-213 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 15-213
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-213
Status: in_force

The boards of supervisors of the various counties of the State of Mississippi which are not engaged in the eradication of bovine tuberculosis on the area plan, may in their discretion, pay indemnity on cattle which react to a co-operative tuberculin test authorized by the Mississippi Board of Animal Health on the same basis as provided in Section 69-15-211 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-333 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 7-333
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-333
Status: in_force

The powers of enforcement of this article shall be vested in the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce of the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-24 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-24
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-24
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authorities of an incorporated municipality within this state are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to make contributions to the various soil conservation districts either now or hereafter located entirely or partially within the county in which the municipality is situated.

(2) This section is intended to be cumulative and not to repeal or limit or abridge any laws in this state which provide for assistance to soil conservation districts.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-57 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-57
Status: in_force

(1) Within sixty (60) days after a petition pursuant to Section 69-27-55 has been filed with the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, it shall cause due notice to be given of one or more proposed hearings upon the question of the desirability and necessity in the interest of the public health, safety, and welfare, of the adjustment of the boundaries or creation of such district, upon the question of appropriate boundaries of such district, upon the propriety of the petition and other proceedings taken under this article, and upon all questions relevant to such inquiries. All owners and operators of land within the territory described in the petition, and of lands within any territory considered for addition to such described territory, and all owners and all operators of land within the existing district or districts from which territory is being considered for withdrawal, and all other interested parties, shall have the right to attend such hearings and be heard. If it shall appear upon the hearing that it may be desirable to include within the proposed adjusted boundary or within the proposed district territory outside of the area within which due notice of the hearing has been given, the hearing shall be adjourned and due notice of further hearing shall be given throughout the entire area to be considered and such further hearing held.

(2) After such hearing or hearings, if the committee shall determine, upon the facts presented at such hearings and upon such other relevant facts and information as may be available, that there is need, in the interest of the public health, safety, and welfare, for adjustment in the boundaries, or for withdrawing territory from an existing district for the purpose of combination with other territory or district to provide an opportunity for more effective functioning of one or more districts in the territory considered at the hearings, it shall have the power to and shall make and record such determination, and shall define, by metes and bounds, or by legal subdivisions, the boundaries of such adjusted territory, or the boundaries of such district or districts. In making such determination and in defining such boundaries, the committee shall give due weight and consideration to the topography of the area considered, the composition of the soils, the distribution of erosion, the prevailing water and land-use practices, the desirability and necessity of including within the boundaries the particular lands under consideration and the benefit such lands may receive from being included within such boundaries, the relation of the proposed area to existing watersheds and agricultural regions, and to other soil and water conservation districts already organized or proposed to be organized under the provisions of this article, the relationship to existing political subdivisions of the state, and such other physical, geographical, and economic factors as are relevant, having due regard to the legislative determinations set forth by law.

(3) If the committee shall determine after such hearings, after due consideration of the said relevant facts, that there is no need for the adjustment in boundary, or the revision of districts in the territory considered at the hearing, it shall make and record such determination and shall deny the petition. After twelve (12) months shall have expired from the date of the denial of any such petition, subsequent petitions covering the same or substantially the same territory may be filed as aforesaid and new hearings held and determinations made thereon.

(4) The committee shall pay all expenses for the issuance of such notices and the conduct of such hearings as are deemed necessary by the committee. The committee shall supervise the conduct of all hearings provided pursuant to the provisions of this article. It shall issue appropriate regulations governing the conduct of such hearings.

(5) If the committee has decided that the adjustment of boundaries or revision of districts is needed, as provided in subsection (2) of this section, it shall have the power to make the determination, upon the facts presented at such hearings, and upon such other relevant facts and information as may be available, that the operation of a district with the adjusted boundaries, or as revised or consolidated within the defined boundaries, is administratively practicable and feasible. If the committee shall determine that the operation of such district is not administratively practicable and feasible, it shall record such determination and deny the petition. If the committee shall determine that the operation of a district within the described boundaries is administratively practicable and feasible, it shall record such determination and shall proceed with the organization of the district in the manner provided in Sections 69-27-15 to 69-27-29 , except that a referendum as provided therein shall not be deemed necessary, a hearing or hearings being substituted therefor.

(6) After twelve (12) months shall have expired from the date of entry of a determination by the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee that operation of a district within the adjusted boundary or revised territory is not administratively practicable and feasible, and denial of a petition pursuant to such determination, subsequent petitions may be filed as provided in subsection (3) of this section and action taken thereon in accordance with the provisions of Sections 69-27-55 to 69-27-61 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-657 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 7-657
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-657
Status: in_force

For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) “ Capable of use as human food ” means and shall apply to any catfish or part or product thereof unless it is denatured or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the commissioner to deter its use as human food, or unless it is naturally inedible by humans.

(b) “ Cash sale ” means a sale in which the seller does not expressly extend credit to the buyer.

(c) “ Catfish ” means any species within the family of Ictaluridae.

(d) “ Commissioner ” means the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce of the State of Mississippi.

(e) “ Direct retail sale ” means the sale of catfish products directly to the consumer.

(f) “Person” includes any individual, partnership, corporation and association or other legal entity.

(g) “ Processor ” means any person engaged in handling, storing, preparing, manufacturing, packing or holding catfish products.

(h) “ Producer ” means any person engaged in the business of producing catfish, by any method.

(i) “ Product ” means any catfish product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any catfish or portion thereof.

(j) “ Secured party ” means a lender who has a perfected security interest pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code in the catfish being sold.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-5 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 15-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-5
Status: in_force

The members of the Board of Animal Health who are not full-time public officers or public employees shall be entitled to a per diem as is provided by Section 25-3-69, Mississippi Code of 1972 , not to exceed twenty (20) days in any fiscal year. All members shall be entitled to mileage and actual and necessary expenses in attending such regular or special meetings, as provided by Section 25-3-41 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-333 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-333
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-333
Status: in_force

The Soil and Water Conservation Commission shall retain title to each piece of heavy or specialized machinery or equipment so purchased and made available to any soil and water conservation district until such time as the district fully amortizes the commission's investment in such machinery or equipment. After the commission's investment in such machinery or equipment has been fully amortized, it is authorized and empowered to transfer the title thereto to the district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-269 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-269
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-269
Status: in_force

No egg producer with over three thousand (3,000) hens nor any egg handler or dealer shall sell or offer for sale any lot of eggs produced, distributed or marketed in Mississippi upon which the assessment imposed herein has not been paid. The assessment imposed herein shall be paid at such time or times as is fixed by the board. In the event such assessment is paid by any dealer who is not a producer, the dealer may bill the producer of such eggs in the amount of the assessment paid by him.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-303 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 29-303
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-303
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(a) “Actor” means a person accused of any of the offenses defined in this article.

(b) “Animal” means a warm or cold-blooded animal used in food or fiber production, agriculture, exhibition, research, testing, experimentation or education, including poultry, fish and insects.

(c) “Animal research or exhibiting facility,” hereinafter referred to as an “animal facility,” includes a vehicle, building, separately secured yard, pad, pond, enclosure, structure or premises where an animal is kept, shown, handled, housed, exhibited, bred or offered for sale and any building, laboratory, institution, organization or school in which a person or persons are engaged in research, testing, educational or experimental activities or in which any commercial or academic enterprise is using warm-blooded or cold-blooded animals for food or fiber production, agriculture, research, testing, experimentation or education.

(d) “Consent” means assent in fact, whether express or apparent.

(e) “Deprive” means:

(i) To purposely or knowingly withhold an animal or other property from the owner permanently or for such an extended time that a major portion of the value or enjoyment of the animal or property is lost to the owner;

(ii) To restore the animal or other property only upon payment for reward or other compensation; or

(iii) To dispose of an animal or other property in a manner that makes recovery of the animal or property by the owner unlikely.

(f) “Effective consent” includes consent by a person legally authorized to act for the owner. Consent is not effective if:

(i) Induced by force, threat, false pretenses or fraud;

(ii) Given by a person the actor knows is not legally authorized to act for the owner;

(iii) Given by a person who by reason of youth, mental disease or defect or intoxication is known by the actor to be unable to make reasonable decisions; or

(iv) Given solely to detect the commission of an offense.

(g) “Owner” means a person who has title to the property, possession of the property, whether lawful or not, or a greater right to possession of the property than the actor.

(h) “Person” means an individual, corporation, association, nonprofit corporation, joint-stock company, firm, trust, partnership, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common interest or other legal entity.

(i) “Possession” means actual care, custody, control or management.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-23 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 25-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-23
Status: in_force

Whenever the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce finds that there exists outside of this state any destructive or nuisance insect pest, disease or noxious weed, the commissioner may give public notice thereof, specifying the locations, the plants and the plant products infested, infected or declared noxious and which are likely to become infested or infected therewith. In order to safeguard the environment, agricultural and horticultural production, plants and plant products, the movement of such plants or plant products or other things or substances into this state from the infected or infested locality shall thereafter be prohibited until the commissioner determines that the danger of the introduction into this state of such insect pests, diseases or noxious weeds from such locality has ceased to exist.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-28-3 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 28-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-28-3
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(a) “Agricultural production” means those operations including associated land and facility management activities engaged in the commercial propagation, raising, harvesting and/or processing of any plant or animal or products thereof for the purposes of consumption, utilization, goods or services either on-site or for distribution.

(b) “Farmland” means land and associated facilities involved in agricultural production activities.

(c) “Agricultural district” means those properties residing within a contiguous boundary and meeting appropriate criteria for designation as such by the local soil and water conservation district.

(d) “Soil and water conservation district” means that governmental body established by Section 69-27-15 et seq.

(e) “State Soil and Water Conservation Commission” means that governmental body established by Section 69-27-2 et seq.

(f) “District commissioners” means the governing body of the local soil and water conservation district.

(g) “Ownership” means any individual, family, company, corporation or organization holding title to property within a proposed or established agricultural district.

(h) “Petition” means the application and the application process for designation of an agricultural district as submitted to the local soil and water conservation district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-101 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-101
Status: in_force

In order to carry out the purposes of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act enacted by the Congress of the United States, the Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science (hereinafter referred to as the “university”) is hereby designated as the agency of the State of Mississippi to administer any state plan authorized by this article which shall be approved by the secretary of agriculture of the United States (hereinafter referred to as the “secretary of agriculture”) for the State of Mississippi pursuant to the provisions of said Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-205 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 29-205
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-205
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the secretary of each county association to file annually with the Governor a report, countersigned by the president and treasurer of the association, showing the names of all officers and directors, the number of members, the amount of dues collected, the amount paid by the association in rewards, the number of arrests and convictions, the number of thefts of livestock and poultry, and the number stolen and recovered. It shall be the duty of the Governor to report to the Legislature in detail his expenditures from contingent fund, in an itemized statement, and he shall have on file in his office for the information of members of the Legislature the information furnished by the various county associations.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-303 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 13-303
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-303
Status: in_force

On receiving notice of the taking up of an estray, the ranger or justice of the peace shall issue his summons to two disinterested and competent persons of the neighborhood who, first having been sworn to value and appraise the same truly, shall value and appraise such animal and certify the valuation under their hands, together with a particular description of the kind, marks, brand, stature, color, and age, which certificate shall be returned or transmitted to the ranger within ten days to be registered.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-7 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 27-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-7
Status: in_force

Wherever used or referred to in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(a) “District” or “soil and water conservation district” means a governmental subdivision of this state, and a public body, corporate and politic, organized in accordance with the provisions of this article, for the purposes, with the powers and subject to the restrictions hereinafter set forth.

(b) “Commissioner” means one of the members of the governing body of a district, elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(c) “Committee” or “State Soil and Water Conservation Committee” means the state and soil and water conservation commission as renamed under the provisions of Section 67-27-2 and created in Section 69-27-9 .

(d) “Petition” means a petition filed under the provisions of Section 69-27-15 for the creation of a district.

(e) “Nominating petition” means a petition filed under the provisions of Section 69-27-31 to nominate candidates for the office of commissioner of a soil and water conservation district.

(f) “State” means the State of Mississippi.

(g) “Agency of this state” includes the government of this state and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the government of this state.

(h) “United States” or “agencies of the United States” includes the United States of America, the United States Department of Agriculture, and any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America.

(i) “Government” or “governmental” includes the government of this state, the government of the United States, and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them.

(j) “Landowner” or “owner of land” includes any person, firm or corporation who shall hold legal or equitable title to any lands lying within a district organized under the provisions of this article.

(k) “Land operator” or “operator of land” includes any person, firm or corporation, other than the owner, who shall be in possession of any lands lying within a district organized under the provisions of this article, whether as lessee, renter, tenant or otherwise.

(l) “Due notice” means notice published at least three (3) times with an interval of at least seven (7) days between each publication date, in a newspaper of general circulation within the area where the land proposed to be included in a conservation district is located, or if no such newspaper or general circulation be available, by posting at a reasonable number (not less than five (5)) of conspicuous places within such area, such posting to include posting one (1) copy upon the bulletin board of the courthouse of each county where any of the lands in such proposed district may be located. Notice shall also be given by United States mail to all of the landowners of the proposed district or the district of any hearing or election. At any hearing held pursuant to such notice, at the time and place designated in such notice, adjournment may be made from time to time without the necessity of renewing such notice for such adjourned dates.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-101 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 15-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-101
Status: in_force

(1) The boards of supervisors of any county, or one or more counties, are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to establish areas composed of one or more counties for the purpose of cooperating with the Board of Animal Health and the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, separately or jointly, in providing for a program of control and eradication of certain diseases of livestock and poultry within such area established.

(2) Boards of supervisors of any county or counties acting under the authority conferred by this section are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to contribute to the support of such area program in an amount equal to thirty-three and one-third per cent of the cost of administering the program in such area. The cost of administering such program to be determined by the board and entered upon their minutes at the time funds are appropriated for the support of same. The funds herein authorized to be expended by the board or boards of supervisors of each county or group of counties comprising such area shall be paid out of the General Fund of such county or counties on order of the board of supervisors duly entered on their minutes.

(3) The Board of Animal Health is hereby authorized to purchase and supply at cost any vaccine necessary for use in control and eradication of diseases of livestock and poultry in such area hereby authorized to be established, to the owners of livestock or poultry residing in an area cooperating with the control program hereby authorized.

(4) In order that any area created under the provisions of this section may have the services of a veterinarian, the board of animal health is hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to employ a veterinarian for such area, and such area veterinarian shall have the authority to employ local veterinarians with the approval of the board of animal health, and the board of supervisors of the county or counties comprising such area are authorized and empowered to contribute to the payment of the salary of such veterinarians employed by the board of animal health.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-209.nr2 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-209.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-209.nr2
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of a county as designated in Section 69-27-201 may, on the recommendation of the soil erosion committee, or shall, if so required by the election hereinafter provided for, advertise for bids as in other cases and purchase the proper terracing and/or ditching machinery for the county and provide the necessary labor for the operation thereof, and the necessary supplies and maintenance to properly operate the same, subject, however, to the approval of the soil erosion committee herein otherwise provided. In event the board of supervisors shall fail or refuse to advertise for bids for the purchase of any machinery recommended by said soil erosion committee within sixty (60) days after receipt of such recommendation, it shall, on the filing with it of a petition signed by ten percent (10%) or more of the qualified electors of the county, call and hold as in other cases a special election in said county within sixty (60) days after the filing of the petition, in which election the question shall be, for or against the purchase of terracing and/or ditching machinery for the county; and if a majority of the votes cast in said election be in favor of the purchase of such machinery, then said board shall, at its next meeting, advertise for bids for the purchase thereof, and thereafter further perform the duties required of it hereunder with respect to soil erosion work. Such advertisement for bids shall constitute notice to the public of the intention of the board to make such purchase and the board may proceed accordingly unless on or before the first day of the meeting at which said bids are to be opened a petition, signed by twenty percent (20%) or more of the qualified electors of the county, shall be filed with the clerk of the board protesting against such purchase, in which event such purchase shall not be made unless approved in an election called and held for the purpose in the manner provided for the calling and holding of elections on the question of the issuance of tax anticipation note or notes. Said board shall have full supervision of all soil erosion work, the machinery, labor, supplies, contracts, and the funds arising from work performed, from taxation, if any, or otherwise, except to the extent herein otherwise specifically provided; and in administering the soil erosion fund the board shall take into consideration the repairs and replacements incident to the operation of the character of machinery in use in order that the work may continue without undue interruption as long as may be necessary. All acts and proceedings of the board with respect to soil erosion work and the funds thereof shall be by order upon its minutes, as in other cases. Contracts for terracing and/or ditching shall be performed as nearly as possible in the order of their dates, any deviation therefrom by reason of necessity, public convenience, causes beyond the control of the committee, or agreement with the landowners, to be under the direction of the soil erosion committee. Only one (1) committee shall be appointed in said county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-8-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-8-9
Status: in_force

(1) Each collecting person shall collect and remit the assessments levied by this section in accordance with Section 69-8-7 .

(2) Each collecting person shall remit all assessments to the council with the required report no later than the fifteenth day of the month following the close of the reporting period.

(a) Assessments collected by the council are not state funds and will not be required to be deposited in the State Treasury.

(b) Each calendar month shall be a reporting period. The reporting period shall end at the close of business on the last day of the month.

(c) Required report information and forms shall be determined and provided by the council.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-207 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 25-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-207
Status: in_force

(1) Pursuant to the provisions of this article, cultivation and processing of hemp, as defined in Section 69-25-203 , are authorized in this state. Cultivation and processing of hemp are subject to regulation by the department and may only be performed by persons or business entities that hold a valid license or registration issued hereunder.

(2) The commissioner shall create a State Plan for submission to and approval by the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Secretary of Agriculture. The commissioner and department shall promulgate such reasonable regulations as necessary to implement the State Plan and provisions of this article. The commissioner and the department shall be authorized to promulgate any rule or regulation deemed necessary for the administration of the provisions of this article in compliance with any federal law, rule or regulation promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture.

(3) The department is authorized to accept applications, and issue licenses and/or registrations for all hemp growers and hemp processors. The department shall adopt and enforce all rules and regulations related to those licenses and/or registrations.

(4) All hemp growers must be licensed by the department.

(5) All hemp processors must register with the department.

(6) All licensed holders and registered processors shall keep and maintain crop and/or processing records in accordance with rules and regulations adopted and enforced by the department. The department may subject the required records to inspection. The department may make an inspection for the purpose of ensuring compliance with:

(a) USDA guidelines;

(b) Provisions of this article;

(c) Department rules and regulations;

(d) Any terms or conditions of a license issued hereunder;

(e) Registration with the department; or

(f) A final department order directed to the grower's or processor's hemp operations or activities.

(7) All hemp growers and processors shall be subject to a background investigation conducted by the Department of Public Safety, which shall include both a state and federal background check.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-19-5 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 19-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-19-5
Status: in_force

Professional services are defined as follows:

(a) Entomological work. Receiving fees for advice or prescriptions for the control or eradication of any insect pest or rodent. Receiving fees for actual spraying, dusting, fumigating or any other methods used for the control or eradication of any insect pest or rodent. When the majority of the income of an operation, business or individual comes from the actual operation of a farm and the sale of crops therefrom and, as a service to other farmers, these services are performed, such services shall not be included in this definition.

(b) Plant pathological work. Receiving fees for advice or prescriptions for the control or eradication of any plant disease. Receiving fees for actual spraying or any other methods used for the control or eradication of any plant disease. When the majority of the income of an operation, business or individual comes from the actual operation of a farm and the sale of crops therefrom and, as a service to other farmers, these services are performed, such services shall not be included in this definition.

(c) Horticultural and floricultural work. Receiving fees for landscaping and setting of plants or for the sale of any plants for which the seller contracts to render future services.

(d) Tree surgery work. Advertising in a local phone book, newspaper, newsletter, bulletin or other prominently displayed sign as a licensed or bonded tree surgeon and receiving compensation for any work or consultation relative to the care, pruning, cabling, bracing, topping, trimming, fertilizing, cavity work and removal of ornamental trees and shrubs in any manner. Nothing shall prevent any person from performing such services as long as their advertising does not include the description licensed or bonded.

(e) Weed control work. Receiving fees for advice or prescriptions for the control or eradication of any weed. Receiving fees for actual spraying or other methods used for the control or eradication of any plant which grows where not wanted. When the majority of the income of an operation, business or individual comes from the actual operation of a farm and the sale of crops therefrom and, as a service to other farmers, these services are performed, such services shall not be included in this definition.

(f) Soil classifying work. Receiving compensation for plotting the boundaries of soil and describing and evaluating the kinds of soil as to their behavior and response to management under various uses.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-2-33 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-2-33
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise authorized in Section 7-5-39 , the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall represent the department in issuing, selling and validating bonds or notes authorized under Sections 69-2-19 through 69-2-39 of this chapter, and the department is authorized to pay from the proceeds derived from the sale of such bonds or notes, or from other funds available to the department, the reasonable cost of approving attorney's fees, validating, printing and cost of delivery of such bonds or notes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-309 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-309
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-309
Status: in_force

A person shall not, without the effective consent of the owner, with the intent to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility:

(a) Enter an animal facility, not then open to the public, with intent to commit an act prohibited by this article;

(b) Remain concealed, with intent to commit an act prohibited by this article, in an animal facility; or

(c) Enter an animal facility and commit or attempt to commit an act prohibited by this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-13 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 23-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-13
Status: in_force

Jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to the distribution, sale and transportation of pesticides is vested exclusively in the commissioner.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-1 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 13-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-1
Status: in_force

There is declared, created and now in existence a statewide stock law which embraces all of the territory of the State of Mississippi and which is declared to be uniform throughout the state, except as hereinafter provided. Any person or persons owning or having under control any livestock such as cattle, horses, mules, jacks, jennets, sheep, goats and hogs, shall not permit such livestock to run at large upon the open or unfenced lands of another person, except as herein expressly provided, but shall keep such livestock confined in a safe inclosure or upon lands belonging to such person. However, upon the petition of twenty percent of the qualified electors of any county of this state, outside of the municipalities thereof, the board of supervisors of such county shall call an election to be held within sixty days after the filing of such petition for the purpose of permitting the qualified electors of such county, outside of the municipalities, to vote upon the question whether or not the provisions of the statewide stock law shall remain in force in such county, outside of the municipalities thereof; and if a majority of the qualified electors of such county, outside of the municipalities thereof, voting in said election, shall vote to sustain the statewide stock law, then it shall remain in full force and effect in said county, but should a majority of the qualified electors of said county, outside of said municipalities, voting in said election, vote against the statewide stock law, then sixty days after said election the provisions thereof shall not apply to or be in force in said county, outside of the municipalities thereof, except in its application to hogs or swine, which shall not be permitted in any event to run at large in any county of this state.

In the event a county has heretofore elected to come out from under the stock law, no less than five years after such election, upon the petition of twenty percent of the qualified electors of any such county outside the municipalities thereof, the board of supervisors shall call an election to be held within sixty days after the filing of such petition to vote upon the question of whether or not the provisions of the statewide stock law shall apply in that county outside the municipalities. If a majority of the qualified electors of such county, outside of the municipalities thereof, voting in said election, shall favor the statewide stock law, then sixty days after said election the provisions of the statewide stock law shall apply in that county outside the municipalities. If the majority of those voting in the election vote against the statewide stock law, the provisions of the statewide stock law shall continue to be inapplicable to such county outside municipalities. No election on the same question may be held more often than once every two years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-309 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 15-309
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-309
Status: in_force

If it shall be determined by the State Veterinarian, or his authorized agent, that any county or counties shall be partially or completely infested with the cattle tick (Margaropus annulatus), the board of supervisors of said counties which are partially or completely infested with the cattle tick (Margaropus annulatus) shall immediately take up the work of systematic tick eradication as provided in this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-209 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 15-209
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-209
Status: in_force

Cattle which react to the tuberculin test or show marked diagnostic symptoms of tuberculosis shall be condemned and branded with the letter “T” on the left jaw, and be disposed of as directed by the board of animal health.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-103 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 25-103
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-103
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce shall have full and plenary power to deal with Africanized honey bees (Apris mellifera scutellata) and with American and European foul brood, and all other contagious or infectious diseases and parasites of honey bees which, in its opinion, may be prevented, controlled or eradicated; and shall have full power and is hereby authorized to make, promulgate and enforce such rules, ordinances and regulations and to perform such acts, through its agents or otherwise, as in its judgment may be necessary to control, eradicate or prevent the introduction, spread or dissemination of Africanized honey bees and all contagious diseases of honey bees and parasites as far as may be possible and all such rules, ordinances and regulations of said department shall have the force and effect of law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-211 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 13-211
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-211
Status: in_force

No reimbursement shall be made under the Homestead Exemption Law of 1946 for any tax levy made under the provisions of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-13 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 37-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-13
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation, upon certification by the bureau, may enter into agreements with the State of Mississippi, other states, the federal government and other parties as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

(2) In order to be eligible for certification by the bureau, the corporation must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the bureau that:

(a) It is a nonprofit organization and could qualify for tax-exempt status under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 [ 26 USC 501(a) ];

(b) Its purpose is for the representation of cotton growers associations that are open to all cotton growers in this state; and

(c) It has only one (1) class of voting members with each member entitled to only one (1) vote.

(3) The corporation's board of directors shall be composed of members who shall be chosen according to bylaws established by the corporation. Two (2) members elected from each of the five (5) original cotton growers regions as those regions existed before July 1, 2010, shall serve as voting members.

(4) There shall be six (6) nonvoting advisory members as follows:

(a) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, who shall serve in a nonvoting advisory capacity only, or his or her designee;

(b) The Vice President of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Mississippi State University, who shall serve in a nonvoting advisory capacity only, or his or her designee;

(c) The Vice President of the School of Agriculture, Research, Extension and Applied Sciences at Alcorn State University, who shall serve in a nonvoting advisory capacity only, or his or her designee;

(d) The President of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, who shall serve in a nonvoting advisory capacity only, or his or her designee; and

(e) The Chairmen of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees, who shall serve in nonvoting advisory capacities only.

(5) All books and records of account and minutes of proceedings of the board shall be available for inspection or audit by the commissioner at any reasonable time.

(6) Employees or agents of the board who handle funds of the board shall be adequately bonded in an amount to be determined by the commissioner.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-51-1 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 51-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-51-1
Status: in_force

It is the goal of this state to encourage ethanol production plants in the state to utilize Mississippi-produced corn and other agriculture and forest resource commodities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-308 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-308
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-308
Status: in_force

For a district commissioner to participate in any water quality cost-share project funded directly or indirectly by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the district board of which the commissioner is a member shall not participate in the proposal, development, planning, advisory or implementation phases of the project. The Mississippi Soil and Water Conservation Commission shall make all decisions without the involvement of the district board.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-11-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 11-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-11-9
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall have power and authority to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations relating to the feeding of swine, the disposal of diseased and dead swine, and all other rules and regulations not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter designed to control and eradicate infectious and contagious diseases of swine as well as rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-335 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 13-335
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-335
Status: in_force

For any failure of the ranger to make out and put up a correct list of all the estrays in his county, or to make his report to the board of supervisors as required, the board of supervisors may fine the ranger not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, which may be collected by scire facias and execution.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-10-11 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 10-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-10-11
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of any laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling to the extent of the conflict.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-3 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 23-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-3
Status: in_force

Definitions for the purpose of this chapter:

(a) The term “pesticide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, mitigating or attracting any pests; and shall also include adjuvants intended to enhance the effectiveness of pesticides; and any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant.

(b) The term “insecticide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, mitigating or attracting insects which may be present in any environment whatsoever.

(c) The term “fungicide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any fungi.

(d) The term “rodenticide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating rodents or any other vertebrate animals which the commissioner shall declare to be pests.

(e) The term “herbicide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any weed.

(f) The term “adjuvant” means any substance that, when added to a pesticide is intended to aid, modify or enhance its effectiveness by its properties of serving as a wetting agent, detergent, spreading agent, synergist, deposit builder, adhesive, surfactant, emulsifying agent, deflocculating agent, water modified, or similar agent, with or without toxic properties of its own, and when sold in a package or container separate from that of the pesticide with which it is to be used.

(g) The term “nematicide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating nematodes.

(h) The term “plant regulator” means any substance or mixture of substances intended through physiological action, for accelerating the rate of growth or rate of maturation, or for otherwise altering the behavior of ornamental or crop plants, or the produce thereof, but shall not include substances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants, and soil amendments.

(i) The term “defoliant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission.

(j) The term “desiccant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissues.

(k) The term “disinfectant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating bacteria or other harmful microorganisms; or otherwise frees from infection; commonly applied to inanimate objects.

(l) The term “bactericide” means a substance capable of destroying a given species of vegetative bacteria but not necessarily capable of destroying bacterial spores.

(m) The term “insect” means any of the numerous small invertebrate animals generally having the body more or less obviously segmented, for the most part belonging to the class insecta, comprising six-legged, usually winged forms as, for example, beetles, bugs, bees, flies, and to other allied classes of orthropods whose members are wingless and usually have more than six (6) legs as, for example, spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, and wood lice.

(n) The term “nematodes” means invertebrate animals of the phylum nemathelminthes and class nematoda, that is, unsegmented round worms with elongated, fusiform, or sac-like bodies covered with cuticle, and inhabiting soil, water, plants or plant parts; may also be called nemas or eelworms.

(o) The term “fungi” means all nonchlorophyll-bearing thallophytes (that is, all nonchlorophyll-bearing plants of a lower order than mosses and liverworts) as, for example, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, yeasts, and bacteria except those on or in living man or other animals, and those in or on processed food, beverages or pharmaceuticals.

(p) The term “weed” means any plant which grows where not wanted.

(q) The term “ingredient statement” means:

(i) A statement of the name and percentage of each active ingredient, together with the total percentage of the inert ingredients in the pesticide;

(ii) When the pesticide contains arsenic in any form, the ingredient statement shall also include the percentages of total and water soluble arsenic, each calculated as elemental arsenic;

(iii) In the case of spray adjuvants, the ingredient statement need contain only the names of the functioning agents and the total percentage of the constituents ineffective as spray adjuvants.

(r) The term “active ingredient” means:

(i) In the case of a pesticide other than a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant an ingredient which will prevent, destroy, repel, attract or mitigate insects, nematodes, fungi, rodents, weeds or other pests;

(ii) In the case of a plant regulator, an ingredient which, through physiological action, will accelerate or retard the rate of growth or rate of maturation or otherwise alter the behavior of ornamental or crop plants or the produce thereof;

(iii) In the case of a defoliant, an ingredient which will cause the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant;

(iv) In the case of a desiccant, an ingredient which will artificially accelerate the drying of plant tissue;

(v) In the case of a spray adjuvant, any ingredient which will act as a functioning agent.

(s) The term “inert ingredient” means an ingredient which is not an active ingredient.

(t) The term “antidote” means the most practical immediate treatment in case of poisoning and includes first aid treatment.

(u) The term “person” means any individual, partnership, association, corporation or organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not.

(v) The term “commissioner” means the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, or his agent.

(w) The term “entomologist” means the State Entomologist of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce.

(x) The term “registrant” means the person registering any pesticide pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

(y) The term “label” means the written, printed, or graphic matter on, or attached to, the pesticide, or the immediate container thereof, and the outside container or wrapper of the retail package, if any there be, of the pesticide.

(z) The term “labeling” means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter:

(i) Upon the pesticide or any of its containers or wrappers;

(ii) Accompanying the pesticide at any time;

(iii) To which reference is made on the label or in literature accompanying the pesticide, except when accurate, nonmisleading reference is made to current official publications of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture or Interior, the United States Public Health Service, State Experiment Station, state agricultural colleges, or other similar federal institutions or official agencies of this state, or other states authorized by law to conduct research in the field of pesticides.

(aa) The term “adulterated” shall apply to any pesticide if its strength or purity falls below the professed standard or quality as expressed on labeling or under which it is sold, or if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the articles, or if any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.

(bb) The term “misbranded” shall apply to any pesticide:

(i) If its labeling bears any statement, design, or graphic representation relative thereto or to its ingredients which is false or misleading to any particular;

(ii) If it is an imitation of or is offered for sale under the name of another pesticide;

(iii) If its labeling does not contain a statement of the use classification under which the product is registered;

(iv) If the labeling accompanying it does not contain instructions for use which are necessary and, if complied with, together with any requirements imposed under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, are adequate for the protection of health and environment;

(v) If the label does not contain a warning or caution statement which may be necessary and, if complied with, together with any requirements which may be imposed under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, are adequate to protect health and environment;

(vi) If the label does not bear an ingredient statement on that part of the immediate container and on the outside container or wrapper, if there be one, through which the ingredient statement on the immediate container cannot be clearly read, of the retail package which is presented or displayed under customary conditions of purchase; the ingredient statement may appear prominently on another part of the container as permitted under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act if the size or form of the container makes it impracticable to place it on the part of the retail package which is presented or displayed under customary conditions of purchase;

(vii) If any word, statement or other information required by or under the authority of this chapter to appear on the labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements, designs or graphic matter in the labeling) and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use;

(viii) If in the case of an insecticide, fungicide or herbicide, or nematicide when used as directed or in accordance with commonly recognized practice, it shall be injurious to living man or other vertebrate animals or vegetation, except weeds, to which it is applied, or to the person applying such pesticide; or

(ix) In the case of a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant when used as directed it shall be injurious to living man or other vertebrate animals, or vegetation to which it is applied, or to the person applying such pesticide; provided, that physical or physiological effect on plants or parts thereof shall not be deemed to be injurious when this is the purpose for which the plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant was applied, in accordance with the label claims and recommendations.

(cc) The term “environment” includes water, air, land and all plants and man and other animals living therein and inter-relationships which exist among these.

(dd) The term “EPA” means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

(ee) The term “imminent hazard” means a situation which exists when the continued use of a pesticide during the time required for cancellation under this chapter would likely result in unreasonable adverse effects on the environment or will involve unreasonable hazard to the survival of a species declared endangered by the Secretary of the Interior.

(ff) The term “pest” means:

(i) Any insects, rodents, nematodes, fungi, weeds, or

(ii) Other forms of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life or virus, bacteria, or other microorganism (except viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms on or in living man or other living animals) which the commissioner declares to be a pest.

(gg) The term “licensed pesticide dealer” means any person who distributes or offers for sale restricted use pesticides and/or state restricted use pesticides.

(hh) The term “Pesticide dealer manager” means an individual (who may be the owner) supervising pesticide distribution at one (1) outlet holding a pesticide dealer license.

(ii) The term “protect health and environment” means protection against any unreasonable adverse effects on the environment.

(jj) The term “restricted use pesticide” means any pesticide classified for restricted use by EPA or the commissioner. Any pesticide which is not classified for restricted use by January 1, 1976, will be deemed to be for general use. In order not to deprive the citizens of this state of the benefits derived from newly developed pesticides or uses which may be restricted by EPA after January 1, 1976, the commissioner may register such pesticides for restricted use if that is the only method by which they may be made available to the citizens of Mississippi.

(kk) The term “state restricted pesticide” means any pesticide use which, when used as directed or in accordance with a widespread and commonly recognized practice, the commissioner determines subsequent to a hearing requires additional restrictions for that use to protect the environment, including man, lands, beneficial insects, animals, crops and wildlife other than pests.

(ll) The term “unreasonable adverse effects on the environment” means any unreasonable risk to man or the environment, taking into account the economic, social and environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide.

(mm) The term “FIFRA” means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, as amended.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-3-113 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-113
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-3-113
Status: in_force

The duly approved state seed certifying agency is hereby vested with the full authority to establish, create and specify rules and regulations for the designation of seeds, plants and plant parts and other farm products as certified or Mississippi certified to be grown, harvested, offered for sale or distributed. Such rules and regulations shall be approved by the state seed board before becoming effective. No seeds, plants or plant parts or other farm products grown or to be grown in Mississippi shall be eligible for certification hereunder except by full compliance as to standards, requirements and forms of or for certification as may be made by the duly approved state seed certifying agency. No certification within the provisions of this article shall be made or authorized except through the approved state certifying agency as herein provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-301 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 15-301
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-301
Status: in_force

(1) The work of tick eradication shall be prosecuted by the Board of Animal Health under the following provisions: The State Veterinarian, with the approval and consent of the board, shall hire an assistant executive officer for tick eradication who shall receive a salary of not exceeding Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) per annum to be fixed by the board, who shall be duly qualified for the work and of recognized ability and experience in tick eradication and who shall have full authority and jurisdiction, subject to the rules and regulations of the Board of Animal Health in the matter, direction and administration of the work of eradication of the Texas and splenic fever and the fever-carrying tick, in the State of Mississippi, until such time as in the judgment of the board it is necessary for the prosecution to a successful conclusion of the campaign of eradicating said ticks and tick fever.

(2) The assistant executive officer shall have for the purpose of eradication of the Texas and splenic fever or fever-carrying tick, all the powers, authority and jurisdiction now conferred by law upon the Executive Officer of the Board of Animal Health, upon the conditions and limitations set forth in this section.

(3) The assistant executive officer shall employ such inspectors and range riders and other employees as may be deemed necessary by the Board of Animal Health for the successful prosecution of the work of eradication of the Texas and splenic fever and fever-carrying tick, the compensation of such inspectors, range riders, and other employees to be fixed by the board and paid out of any appropriation made to the board for tick eradication.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-215 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-215
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-215
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the soil erosion committee to notify the board of supervisors, the county assessor and the landowner within fifteen days after the performance of each contract by the county or separate soil erosion district, giving the assessor the name of the landowner, the legal description of the land, the amount to be paid to the county or district, and how payable, and to the landowner a notice that a special assessment will be made against his land by the assessor for the amount determined by the committee, and presented to the next meeting of the board of supervisors beginning more than ten days thereafter for approval. The assessor shall, at the next meeting of the board beginning more than ten days after such notice, file with the board of supervisors, in duplicate, on appropriate forms, keeping a copy thereof on file in his own office, an assessment of the land for a special improvement tax thereon equal to the amount fixed by the committee, and payable as provided by the contract. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors at said meeting to hear any objections to such assessment, by the landowner or the holder of any lien thereon, and to determine the amount of the assessment, not to exceed the amount fixed by the committee, and to approve the assessment as finally determined. The clerk of the board shall forthwith certify such assessment to the tax collector of the county upon the duplicate of the assessment filed by the assessor. In event such assessment be not returned to or acted upon by the board at the first meeting for any reason, it may be returned, considered and acted upon at any subsequent meeting. When approved, such assessment shall be a lien upon the land subordinate only to the lien of other taxes, prior and subsequent, and no delay or irregularity in the giving of notices, the making of the assessment, the hearing and approval thereof, or the certification thereof to the tax collector, shall affect the validity of the assessment if the work was actually done upon the land and the amount of the assessment does not exceed the contract price. Appeals may be taken to the circuit court of the county as in other cases of assessments for taxation, by the landowner or the holder of any lien upon the land. Nothing herein contained shall prevent any landowner from making payment to the tax collector of the estimated amount to become due under his contract, or any part thereof, in advance of the time the same becomes due, and the tax collector shall receive any payment so tendered, and give the landowner credit therefor against the assessment when made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-9-11 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 9-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-9-11
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of any laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling to the extent of the conflict.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-337 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 13-337
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-337
Status: in_force

If any person shall take up any horse, mare, mule, jack, cattle, sheep, goat or hog as an estray, contrary to the provisions of this article; or if any person, having taken up such animal, shall fail to send it to or notify the owner, if known, or to give information to the ranger as required, or shall fail to perform any duty required of him, or shall abuse such animal, or shall use the same in an unreasonable or improper manner, so that damage shall be done to the owner, or the value of the animal be impaired; or if any person shall take or send away an estray out of this state, or shall trade, sell, or barter the same; or if any taker up shall fail to deliver said estray to the ranger at the courthouse on the day of the sale of said estray, such person shall, for every such offense, be punished as for a misdemeanor, and, in addition thereto, shall be liable to the owner for the value of the animal; and the taker up shall forfeit all compensation for taking up and keeping such estray.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-51-5 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 51-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-51-5
Status: in_force

(1) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce is authorized to make cash payments to producers of ethanol, anhydrous alcohol, bio-diesel and wet alcohol located in the state. These payments shall apply only to ethanol, bio-diesel, anhydrous alcohol and wet alcohol fermented and produced at plants in the state. For purposes of this section, an entity that holds a controlling interest in more than one (1) ethanol or bio-diesel plant is considered a single producer. The amount of the payment for each producer's annual production is:

(a) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, for each gallon of ethanol, bio-diesel or anhydrous alcohol produced in Mississippi in accordance with subsection (13) of this section on or before June 30, 2005, or for ten (10) years after the start of production, whichever is later, Twenty Cents (20¢) per gallon; and

(b) For each gallon of wet alcohol produced in Mississippi in accordance with subsection (13) of this section on or before June 30, 2005, or for ten (10) years after the start of production, whichever is later, a payment in cents per gallon calculated by the formula “alcohol purity in percent divided by five (5),” and rounded to the nearest cent per gallon, but not less than Eleven Cents (11¢) per gallon.

The producer payments for anhydrous alcohol, bio-diesel and wet alcohol under this section may be paid to the original producer.

No payments shall be made for production that occurs after June 30, 2015.

(2) If the level of production at an ethanol or bio-diesel plant increases due to an increase in the production capacity of the plant, the payment under subsection (1)(a) of this section applies to the additional increment of production until ten (10) years after the increased production began. Once a plant's production capacity reaches thirty million (30,000,000) gallons per year, no additional increment shall qualify for the payment.

(3) The commissioner is authorized to make payments to producers of ethanol, bio-diesel or wet alcohol in the amount of One and One-half Cents (1- 1 / 2 ¢) for each kilowatt hour of electricity generated using biomass in a cogeneration facility at an ethanol plant located in the state. Payments under this subsection shall be made only for electricity generated at cogeneration facilities that begin operation by June 30, 2005. The payments apply to electricity generated on or before the date ten (10) years after the producer first qualifies for payment under this subsection. Total payments under this subsection in any fiscal year may not exceed Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($750,000.00). For the purposes of this subsection:

“ Cogeneration ” means the combined generation of:

(a) Electrical or mechanical power; and

(b) Steam or forms of useful energy, such as heat, that are used for industrial, commercial, heating or cooling purposes.

(4) Payments under subsections (1) and (2) of this section to all producers may not exceed Thirty-seven Million Dollars ($37,000,000.00) in a fiscal year. Total payments under subsections (1) and (2) of this section to a producer in a fiscal year may not exceed Six Million Dollars ($6,000,000.00).

(5) By the last day of October, January, April and July, each producer shall file a claim for payment for ethanol, bio-diesel, anhydrous alcohol and wet alcohol production during the preceding three (3) calendar months. A producer with more than one (1) plant shall file a separate claim for each plant. A producer that files a claim under this subsection shall include a statement of the producer's total ethanol, bio-diesel, anhydrous alcohol and wet alcohol production in Mississippi during the quarter covered by the claim, including anhydrous alcohol and wet alcohol produced or received from an outside source. A producer shall file a separate claim for any amount claimed under subsection (3) of this section. For each claim and statement of total ethanol, bio-diesel, anhydrous alcohol and wet alcohol production filed under this section, the volume of ethanol, bio-diesel, anhydrous alcohol and wet alcohol production or amounts of electricity generated using biomass must be examined by an independent certified public accountant in accordance with standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

(6) Payments shall be made November 15, February 15, May 15 and August 15. A separate payment shall be made for each claim filed. Except as provided in subsection (9) of this section, the total quarterly payment to a producer under this subsection, excluding amounts paid under subsection (3) of this section, may not exceed One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00).

(7) If the total amount for which all producers are eligible in a quarter under subsection (3) of this section exceeds the amount available for payments, the commissioner shall make payments pro rata.

(8) After July 1, 2002, new production capacity is eligible for payment under this section only if the commissioner received:

(a) An application for approval of the new production capacity;

(b) An appropriate letter of long-term financial commitment for construction of the new production capacity; and

(c) Copies of all necessary permit applications for construction of the new production capacity. The commissioner may approve new production capacity based on the order in which the applications are received.

(9) Notwithstanding the quarterly payment limits of subsections (4) and (6), the commissioner shall make an additional payment in the eighth quarter of each fiscal biennium to ethanol or bio-diesel producers for Twenty Cents (20¢) per gallon of production in the eighth quarter of the biennium that is greater than seven million five hundred thousand (7,500,000) gallons.

(10) The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement this chapter and objective criteria by rule for who is eligible or not eligible for payment in compliance with this chapter.

(11) A plant in production or under construction by June 30, 2005, shall continue to receive uninterrupted payments under this section of at least Twenty Cents (20¢) per gallon of ethanol or bio-diesel produced until July 1, 2015.

(12) Promotional or educational efforts related to ethanol that are financed wholly or partially with state funds and that promote or identify a particular crop or commodity used to produce ethanol must also include a description of the other potential sources of ethanol listed in Section 69-51-3 .

(13) It is the intent of this legislation that corn, biomass and resource commodities shall be furnished totally by Mississippi farmers insofar as the supply is available.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-51 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-51
Status: in_force

The commissioners of any two or more districts organized under the provisions of this article may cooperate with one another in the exercise of any or all powers conferred in this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-115 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 13-115
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-115
Status: in_force

Any person who wrongfully removes impounded livestock from the enclosure provided by the board of supervisors under this article, without paying all fees and assessments against same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as in other cases provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-2-37 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 2-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-2-37
Status: in_force

All bonds or notes issued under Sections 69-2-19 through 69-2-39 of this chapter and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Mississippi except gift, transfer and inheritance taxes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-223 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 25-223
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-223
Status: in_force

(1) The provisions of this article which provides authority to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce to administer the provisions of the “Mississippi Hemp Cultivation Act,” shall be subject to legislative appropriation or receipt of necessary funding from any private or public entity for purposes of implementation.

(2) The provisions of this article shall not have any effect upon any programs administered by Mississippi State University, which shall remain exempt, as such programs related to the educational, research or testing functions performed by Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory, shall continue to function in accordance with the mission of the university, as approved by the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-1-317 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-317
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-1-317
Status: in_force

(1) The commissioner may conduct an audit of any person that prepares, stores, handles or supplies any covered commodity for retail sale to verify compliance with Sections 69-1-301 to 69-1-319 .

(2) Any person subject to an audit under this section shall provide information to the commissioner that verifies the country of origin of the covered commodities. Records maintained in the course of the normal conduct of the business of those persons, including animal health papers, import or customs documents or producer affidavits, may serve as verification.

(3) The commissioner may seek injunctive relief if a person fails to provide the information required under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-48-1 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 48-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-48-1
Status: in_force

The purpose of this chapter is to promote the growth and development of the peanut industry in Mississippi by research, advertisement promotions and education and market development, thereby promoting the general welfare of the people of this state.

For purposes of this chapter:

(a) “ Board ” means the Mississippi Peanut Promotion Board.

(b) “ Department ” means the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-7 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 27-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-7
Status: in_force

Wherever used or referred to in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(a) “District” or “soil and water conservation district” means a governmental subdivision of this state, and a public body, corporate and politic, organized in accordance with the provisions of this article, for the purposes, with the powers and subject to the restrictions hereinafter set forth.

(b) “Commissioner” means one of the members of the governing body of a district, elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(c) “Committee” or “State Soil and Water Conservation Committee” means the state and soil and water conservation commission as renamed under the provisions of Section 67-27-2 and created in Section 69-27-9 .

(d) “Petition” means a petition filed under the provisions of Section 69-27-15 for the creation of a district.

(e) “Nominating petition” means a petition filed under the provisions of Section 69-27-31 to nominate candidates for the office of commissioner of a soil and water conservation district.

(f) “State” means the State of Mississippi.

(g) “Agency of this state” includes the government of this state and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the government of this state.

(h) “United States” or “agencies of the United States” includes the United States of America, the United States Department of Agriculture, and any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America.

(i) “Government” or “governmental” includes the government of this state, the government of the United States, and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them.

(j) “Landowner” or “owner of land” includes any person, firm or corporation who shall hold legal or equitable title to any lands lying within a district organized under the provisions of this article.

(k) “Land operator” or “operator of land” includes any person, firm or corporation, other than the owner, who shall be in possession of any lands lying within a district organized under the provisions of this article, whether as lessee, renter, tenant or otherwise.

(l) “Due notice” means notice published at least three (3) times with an interval of at least seven (7) days between each publication date, in a newspaper of general circulation within the area where the land proposed to be included in a conservation district is located, or if no such newspaper or general circulation be available, by posting at a reasonable number (not less than five (5)) of conspicuous places within such area, such posting to include posting one (1) copy upon the bulletin board of the courthouse of each county where any of the lands in such proposed district may be located. Notice shall also be given by United States mail to all of the landowners of the proposed district or the district of any hearing or election. At any hearing held pursuant to such notice, at the time and place designated in such notice, adjournment may be made from time to time without the necessity of renewing such notice for such adjourned dates.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-9-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 9-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-9-9
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board shall plan and conduct a program of research, education and advertising designed to promote the soybean industry in Mississippi and said board is authorized to use the funds derived from the assessment imposed herein for these purposes, including basic administration expenses of said plan. Use of these funds may be applied, as prescribed in this section, within or without the State of Mississippi, including regional, national and international research and promotional applications.

(2) The funds may be expended only for the purposes set out in this chapter and shall be spent in no manner for political purposes. A report of all expenditures shall be made annually on December 31, with four (4) copies of the report to be filed and presented during regular sessions of the Mississippi Legislature with each of the following: the Chairman of the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce and the State Auditor.

(3) If the board fails to make an annual report in violation of the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, the board shall be subject to a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-31-13 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 31-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-31-13
Status: in_force

After May 1, 1979, no person shall use or cause to be used any grain moisture-measuring device which has not been inspected and approved for use by the department; except that after May 1, 1979, a newly purchased grain moisture-measuring device may be used prior to regular inspection and approval if the user of such device has given at least ten (10) days' notice to the department of the purchase prior to the use of such new device.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-24-25 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 24-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-24-25
Status: in_force

(1) If it shall appear from the examination of any soil or plant amendment that any of the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations issued thereunder have been violated, the commissioner shall cause notice of the violations to be given to the registrant, distributor, or possessor from whom said sample was taken. Any person so notified shall be given opportunity to be heard under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commissioner and State Chemist. If it appears after such hearing, either in the presence or absence of the person so notified, that any of the provisions of this chapter or rules and regulations issued thereunder have been violated, the commissioner and State Chemist may certify the facts to the proper prosecuting attorney.

(2) Any person convicted of violating any provision of this chapter or the rules and regulations issued thereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided for in Section 99-19-31 . Appeals from convictions under this subsection shall be as in other cases at law.

(3) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the commissioner, State Chemist or their representative to report for prosecution or for the institution of seizure proceedings as a result of minor violations of the chapter when they believe that the public interests will be best served by a suitable notice of warning in writing.

(4) It shall be the duty of each prosecuting attorney to whom any violation is reported to cause appropriate proceedings to be instituted and prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction without delay.

(5) The commissioner is hereby authorized to apply for and the court to grant a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating or continuing to violate any of the provisions of this chapter or any rule or regulation promulgated under the chapter notwithstanding the existence of other remedies at law. Said injunction shall be issued without bond.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-209 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-209
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-209
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of a county as designated in Section 69-27-201 may, on the recommendation of the soil erosion committee, or shall, if so required by the election hereinafter provided for, advertise for bids as in other cases and purchase the proper terracing and/or ditching machinery, either for the county as a whole or for any one or more supervisors districts thereof as a soil erosion district, and provide the necessary labor for the operation thereof, and the necessary supplies and maintenance to properly operate the same, subject, however, to the approval of the soil erosion committee herein otherwise provided. In event the board of supervisors shall fail or refuse to advertise for bids for the purchase of any machinery recommended by said soil erosion committee within sixty (60) days after receipt of such recommendation, it shall, on the filing with it of a petition signed by ten percent (10%) or more of the qualified electors of the county as a whole, or of one or more supervisors districts as the petition may provide, call and hold as in other cases a special election in said county, or in such one or more supervisors districts, within sixty (60) days after the filing of the petition, in which election the question shall be, for or against the purchase of terracing and/or ditching machinery for the county, or for one or more supervisors districts as the case may be; and if a majority of the votes cast in said election be in favor of the purchase of such machinery, then said board shall, at its next meeting, advertise for bids for the purchase thereof, and thereafter further perform the duties required of it hereunder with respect to soil erosion work. Such advertisement for bids shall constitute notice to the public of the intention of the board to make such purchase and the board may proceed accordingly unless on or before the first day of the meeting at which said bids are to be opened a petition, signed by twenty percent (20%) or more of the qualified electors of the county, exclusive of those who pay poll tax only, or if the soil erosion district is composed of one or more supervisors districts then of twenty percent (20%) or more of such soil erosion district, shall be filed with the clerk of the board protesting against such purchase, in which event such purchase shall not be made unless approved in an election called and held for the purpose in the manner provided for the calling and holding of elections on the question of the issuance of tax anticipation note or notes. Said board shall have full supervision of all soil erosion work, the machinery, labor, supplies, contracts, and the funds arising from work performed, from taxation, if any, or otherwise, except to the extent herein otherwise specifically provided; and in administering the soil erosion fund the board shall take into consideration the repairs and replacements incident to the operation of the character of machinery in use in order that the work may continue without undue interruption as long as may be necessary. In event machinery be purchased hereunder for soil erosion districts composed of one or more supervisors districts, but less than the whole county, then the soil erosion fund shall be administered in one or more subdivisions as may be necessary, so as to keep separate the operations of the several soil erosion districts of the county, and the taxes levied, if any, shall likewise be levied upon said separate soil erosion districts, in the same manner as for separate road districts; and for these purposes such separate soil erosion districts may be designated by name or number, to be declared by the board. All acts and proceedings of the board with respect to soil erosion work and the funds thereof shall be by order upon its minutes, as in other cases. Contracts for terracing and/or ditching shall be performed as nearly as possible in the order of their dates, any deviation therefrom by reason of necessity, public convenience, causes beyond the control of the committee, or agreement with the landowners, to be under the direction of the soil erosion committee. Only one (1) committee shall be appointed in said county, regardless of the number of soil erosion districts in operation therein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-35-15 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-35-15
Status: in_force

Any referendum conducted under the provisions of this act shall be held on a statewide basis. In such referendum, the bulk tank units eligible for participation shall vote upon the question of whether or not there shall be levied an annual assessment for a period of five (5) years in the amount set forth in the call for such referendum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-111 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 15-111
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-111
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to drive, convey, transport or allow to drift from any state or territory, into this state any livestock except under the supervision and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Board of Animal Health. Steers may be moved into the state for feeding and grazing purposes under special permit issued by the State Veterinarian.

Livestock shipped, trailed, driven or otherwise transported into this state from other states or territories shall be subject to examinations and tests approved by the Board of Animal Health for the purpose of determining if such animals are free of infectious abortion or bangs disease. Should such animals react to the tests, they shall immediately upon notice to the owner from the board or one (1) of the board's inspectors or veterinarians be returned to the state from which they came, or slaughtered under the supervision and direction of the board. The Board of Animal Health is authorized and empowered to require livestock owners or persons having livestock in charge, affected with, or exposed to infectious abortion, upon notice to assemble or have assembled such livestock at a place and time designated by an inspector or veterinarian of the Board of Animal Health or of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry in order that the proper and necessary tests and examinations can be made. All animals which react to the test for infectious abortion or show marked diagnostic symptoms of infectious abortion shall be quarantined, segregated, isolated or otherwise disposed of under the direction of the Board of Animal Health.

Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section or any of the rules and regulations of the Board of Animal Health shall be deemed in violation of the provisions of this section and shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 69-15-53 through 69-15-69 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-39-11 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 39-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-39-11
Status: in_force

(1) Each separately identified product shall be registered once each year before being distributed in this state. The application for registration shall be submitted to the commissioner on forms furnished or approved by him. Upon approval by the commissioner, a copy of the registration shall be furnished to the applicant.

(2) A distributor shall not be required to register any brand of agricultural liming material that is already registered under this chapter by another person, providing the label does not differ in any respect.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-1-309 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-309
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-1-309
Status: in_force

(1) A retailer of a covered commodity that is farm-raised fish or wild fish may designate the covered commodity as having a United States country of origin only if:

(a) In the case of farm-raised fish, it is hatched, raised, harvested and processed in the United States; or

(b) In the case of wild fish, it is:

(i) Harvested in waters of the United States, a territory of the United States or a state, including the waters thereof; and

(ii) Processed in the United States, a territory of the United States or a state, including the waters thereof.

(2) The notice of country of origin for wild fish and farm-raised fish shall distinguish between wild fish and farm-raised fish.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-207 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 25-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-207
Status: in_force

(1) Pursuant to the provisions of this article, cultivation and processing of hemp, as defined in Section 69-25-203 , are authorized in this state. Cultivation and processing of hemp are subject to regulation by the department and may only be performed by persons or business entities that hold a valid license or registration issued hereunder.

(2) The commissioner shall create a State Plan for submission to and approval by the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Secretary of Agriculture. The commissioner and department shall promulgate such reasonable regulations as necessary to implement the State Plan and provisions of this article. The commissioner and the department shall be authorized to promulgate any rule or regulation deemed necessary for the administration of the provisions of this article in compliance with any federal law, rule or regulation promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture.

(3) The department is authorized to accept applications, and issue licenses and/or registrations for all hemp growers and hemp processors. The department shall adopt and enforce all rules and regulations related to those licenses and/or registrations.

(4) All hemp growers must be licensed by the department.

(5) All hemp processors must register with the department.

(6) All licensed holders and registered processors shall keep and maintain crop and/or processing records in accordance with rules and regulations adopted and enforced by the department. The department may subject the required records to inspection. The department may make an inspection for the purpose of ensuring compliance with:

(a) USDA guidelines;

(b) Provisions of this article;

(c) Department rules and regulations;

(d) Any terms or conditions of a license issued hereunder;

(e) Registration with the department; or

(f) A final department order directed to the grower's or processor's hemp operations or activities.

(7) All hemp growers and processors shall be subject to a background investigation conducted by the Department of Public Safety, which shall include both a state and federal background check.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-36-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 36-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-36-9
Status: in_force

(1) No person shall violate this chapter, the Southern Dairy Compact, or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant to either this chapter or the compact.

(2) In addition to any other penalties provided by law, a civil penalty of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) may be imposed for each violation, licenses may be revoked or suspended, or an additional penalty may be imposed in lieu of revocation or suspension.

(3) Each day on which a violation occurs shall be a separate violation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 29-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-9
Status: in_force

Any person who shall, with intent to defraud, brand or mis-brand, mark or mismark any neat cattle or swine not his own; or any person who shall intentionally brand over a previous brand or in any manner alter, deface or obliterate a previous brand or earmark, or shall cut out and obliterate a previous brand or earmark on any neat cattle or swine, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary not less than six months nor more than one year.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-325 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 8 / Section 15-325
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-325
Status: in_force

Any person or persons, firm or corporation, driving, conveying, transporting or allowing to drift from any state or territory, into or through this state, or within this state from a quarantined county or area into a free county or area or into a county or area in which systematic tick eradication is in progress, animals infested with or exposed to the cattle fever tick (Margaropus annulatus) shall be deemed to be in violation of the animal health laws of this state and shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 69-15-53 through 69-15-69 . Nothing herein shall apply to livestock shipped through a recognized disinfecting station and accompanied by a regulation permit covering the movement therefrom.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-221 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-221
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-221
Status: in_force

No bids for furnishing equipment under the provisions of this article may be considered or accepted by any county, unless said bid is the factory list price plus a reasonable delivery charge.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-3 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 37-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-3
Status: in_force

The Legislature has determined that the boll weevil is a public nuisance, a pest and a menace to the cotton industry. The purpose of this chapter is:

(a) To provide procedures through which cotton growers in the State of Mississippi may manage boll weevil suppression, pre-eradication or eradication programs and boll weevil containment/maintenance programs;

(b) To provide for certification of the Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation to cooperate with state and federal agencies in the administration of cost-sharing programs for suppression, pre-eradication, eradication or post-eradication of boll weevils in Mississippi; and

(c) To empower the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce to promulgate and enforce regulations in support of those programs. This chapter should be construed liberally to achieve these purposes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-7 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-7
Status: in_force

Headquarters of the Mississippi State Fair operations shall be in connection with the office of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-25 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 23-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-23-25
Status: in_force

Upon the condition that the State of Mississippi is certified by the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency to issue experimental use permits for the testing of pesticides, the commissioner of agriculture and commerce may prescribe regulations for the issuance of such experimental permits. The commissioner may issue such experimental permit if he determines that the applicant needs the permit to obtain information necessary to register a pesticide under the provisions of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-105 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 25-105
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-105
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, its agents and employees, shall have authority to enter any depot, express office, storeroom, warehouse or premises for the purpose of inspecting any honey bees or beekeeping fixtures or appliances therein or thought to be therein, for the purpose of ascertaining whether said bees or fixtures are infected with any contagious or infectious disease or parasite or which they may have reason to believe are Africanized bees or have been or are being transported in violation of any of the provisions of this article.

The said department through its agents or employees may require the removal from this state of any honey bees or beekeeping fixtures which have been brought into the state in violation of the provisions of this article, or if finding any honey bees or fixtures infected with any contagious or infectious disease or parasite or if finding that such bees are Africanized or if such bees or fixtures have been exposed to danger of infection by such diseases, may require the destruction, treatment or disinfection of such infected or exposed bees, hives, fixtures or appliances.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-367 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-367
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-367
Status: in_force

If for any reason any section, paragraph, provision, clause or part of Sections 69-27-345 through 69-27-365 shall be held unconstitutional or invalid, that section shall not affect or invalidate any other section, paragraph, provision, clause or part of sections 69-27-331 through 69-27-367 not in and of itself invalid, but the remaining portions thereof shall be in force without regard to that so invalidated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-9-9 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 9-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-9-9
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board shall plan and conduct a program of research, education and advertising designed to promote the soybean industry in Mississippi and said board is authorized to use the funds derived from the assessment imposed herein for these purposes, including basic administration expenses of said plan. Use of these funds may be applied, as prescribed in this section, within or without the State of Mississippi, including regional, national and international research and promotional applications.

(2) The funds may be expended only for the purposes set out in this chapter and shall be spent in no manner for political purposes. A report of all expenditures shall be made annually on December 31, with four (4) copies of the report to be filed and presented during regular sessions of the Mississippi Legislature with each of the following: the Chairman of the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce and the State Auditor.

(3) If the board fails to make an annual report in violation of the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, the board shall be subject to a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-5 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 25-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-5
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall appoint a full-time executive secretary and director, hereinafter called the “Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry,” whose office shall be at Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. The director shall serve at the will and pleasure of the commissioner and shall receive a salary in an amount to be determined by the commissioner. It shall be the duty of the director to enforce the rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner and to perform such other functions that may be assigned to him by the commissioner.

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and the Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry shall appoint a full-time State Entomologist, who shall be a qualified entomologist and whose office shall be at Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-21-109 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 21-109
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-21-109
Status: in_force

(1) The department may adopt any rules and regulations as may be necessary or desirable to implement the provisions of this article, to control and regulate the aerial application of agricultural substances in this state, and to restrict the use of any agricultural substances that create hazards to the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Mississippi. The department shall establish by regulation professional standards for applicators and pilots in the interest of the safety, welfare and general well-being of the citizens of Mississippi and for the protection of the state's fish and wildlife, air, water and soil. No rule or regulation adopted under the terms of this article shall be effective unless it has first been submitted to and approved by the Advisory Board of the Bureau of Plant Industry, a division of the department, established in Section 69-25-3 .

(2) The department is authorized to procure samples of agricultural substances before and after they are mixed for testing purposes.

(3) The department is authorized to maintain an office and employ necessary personnel within its budget to carry out the purposes of this article.

(4) It shall be the duty of the department, and the department shall have the authority, to enforce this article and all rules and regulations made and adopted in compliance with this article. The department shall not have jurisdiction to determine liability between private parties.

(5) The department's representatives shall have the authority to enter into any premises where there is reason to believe that an agricultural substance is being or has been applied by a pilot or any applicator's office or place of operations or where he is preparing to apply any of the materials herein stated, for the purpose of enforcement of this article. The department shall have authority to inspect all aircraft and equipment found on the premises, to take samples of any agricultural substances and to inspect and copy any records found on the premises.

(6) The department may cooperate with or enter into formal cooperative agreements with any public or private agency or educational institution of this state or any other state or federal agency for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-311 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 10 / Section 15-311
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-15-311
Status: in_force

Systematic dipping of all cattle, horses, jacks, jennets and mules infested with or exposed to the cattle tick (Margaropus annulatus), shall be taken up as soon as practical in all counties or portions of counties that shall at any time be found partially or completely infested with the cattle tick (Margaropus annulatus) under the direction of the State Veterinarian, acting under the authority as herein provided, and as provided by the rules and regulations of the board of animal health. However, this section shall not hinder or handicap the operation of stock law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-339 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 13-339
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-339
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Military Department, acting through the training site supervisor at Camp Shelby, is hereby authorized and empowered to take up and impound in a proper enclosure all livestock found roaming at large upon any state-owned or leased lands comprising the state military reservation in Forrest and contiguous counties, in violation of the statewide stock law statutes.

(2) The training site supervisor shall provide a safe and secure enclosure in which such livestock shall be impounded, and will insure that such animals are cared for in a humane manner until removed for such enclosure as hereinafter provided. It shall be unlawful for any owner of livestock or any other person to remove such livestock without the authority of the training site supervisor, and such offense shall be deemed a misdemeanor.

(3) There is hereby created a statutory lien in the amount of the cost of impounding each animal, not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00), against each head of cattle, horse or mule, and all other livestock so found upon and impounded upon the state military reservation; and in addition a lien of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per day shall accrue for the feeding and care of each animal so impounded. No animal shall be removed by its owner until the full lien is paid in cash to the training site supervisor, who shall give a receipt for such money paid and account for the same in the manner to be established by the military department. All funds collected under this section shall be forwarded to the adjutant general on or before the fifth day of each month, and such funds shall be expended under his supervision in carrying out the provisions of this section and in making improvements to the military reservation.

(4) The training site supervisor shall publish a monthly notice in one (1) newspaper having general circulation in Forrest County, the general description of the livestock impounded and held on the end of the preceding month, and said notice shall offer the lawful owners the opportunity to claim their livestock by a day and hour certain, but not less than ten (10) days, after paying the full statutory lien imposed. All animals not claimed by the designated date and hour may be sold as a herd to the highest bidder for cash within ten (10) days and a proper receipt shall be given the purchaser and the funds accounted for as provided for in the preceding subsection.

(5) This section is declared to be remedial legislation and is enacted for the purposes of protecting the personal and real property of the state military reservation known as Camp Shelby from livestock illegally thereon, and enhancing the safety of members of the National Guard and other reserve military forces of Mississippi and other states which train and conduct military exercises and maneuvers on said lands; and neither the training site supervisor, nor any other public employee, shall be liable in any civil or criminal court in carrying out the provisions of this section. The purchasers of livestock under the provisions of this section shall receive a valid title, and such purchaser shall not be liable in a civil or criminal court to any person for any purchase made under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-609 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-609
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-609
Status: in_force

All distributors, processors or wholesalers of catfish products, distributing or selling catfish products, shall provide information to each person, firm or corporation to whom they distribute or sell catfish products for resale as to the labeling information required in subsection (1) of Section 69-7-607 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-111 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-111
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-5-111
Status: in_force

The directors mentioned in Section 69-5-101 are hereby authorized to accept and hold for the use of the Mississippi Livestock Show or the dairy shows or the roundup show any appropriation, donation, or other fund donated to or to be awarded as prizes or awards under regulations promulgated by the directors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-24-15 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 9 / Section 24-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-24-15
Status: in_force

(1) It is the duty of the commissioner and State Chemist, who may act through their duly authorized agents, to sample, inspect, make analyses of, and test soil or plant amendments distributed within the State of Mississippi at any time and place, and to such an extent they may deem necessary to determine whether such soil or plant amendments are in compliance with the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner, individually or through his agents, is authorized to enter upon any public or private premises of carriers during regular business hours in order to have access to soil or plant amendments subject to provisions of the chapter and the rules and regulations pertaining thereto, and to the records relating to their distribution.

(2) The methods of analysis and sampling shall be those adopted by the State Chemist from sources such as the Association of Official Analytical Chemists, or other sources acceptable to the State Chemist.

(3) The results of official analyses of soil or plant amendments and portions of official samples shall be distributed by the State Chemist as provided by regulation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-357 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-357
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-27-357
Status: in_force

Upon the issuance and sale of such bonds, the State Bond Commission shall transfer the proceeds of any such sale or sales to the revolving fund created in Section 69-27-343 . The proceeds of such bonds shall be disbursed solely upon the order of the Soil and Water Conservation Commission under such restrictions, if any, as may be contained in the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-36-3 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 36-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-36-3
Status: in_force

(1) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall appoint five (5) delegates from Mississippi to represent the state on the Southern Dairy Compact Commission, created and provided for in Article III of the Southern Dairy Compact. The delegates shall include one (1) dairy producer who is engaged in the production of milk at the time of appointment or reappointment, one (1) consumer representative, one (1) dairy processor, one (1) retail distributor and one (1) delegate at large. There shall be at least one (1) member appointed from each separate Supreme Court district in Mississippi.

(2) Each delegate shall serve for a term of four (4) years and shall serve diligently and conscientiously and shall strive to achieve the purposes of the Southern Dairy Compact.

(3) Each appointment shall be submitted to the Mississippi Senate for confirmation.

(4) Vacancies in delegate positions shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments for the unexpired portion of the vacant delegate's position.

(5) The commissioner may provide funding as necessary to the delegation during its term.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-33-3 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-33-3
Status: in_force

When pecan trees are grown on private property and the branches of such trees extend over a public road, street or highway right-of-way, any pecans falling from any such pecan trees onto such public right-of-way shall be deemed the property of the owner of such pecan trees until the end of the harvesting season, and it shall be unlawful for any person, without the permission of the owner of such trees, to remove such pecans from any such public right-of-way during the harvesting season. It shall be unlawful for any person, without the permission of the owner of such trees, to pick or otherwise remove any pecans from the limbs or branches of pecan trees or to cause pecans to fall from such trees. Any person found to be in violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined an amount not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or be imprisoned for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days in jail, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-2-35 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 1 / Section 2-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-2-35
Status: in_force

Bonds or notes issued under Sections 69-2-19 through 69-2-39 of this chapter shall be legal investments for commercial banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, and insurance companies organized under the laws of this state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-13 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 2 / Section 29-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-29-13
Status: in_force

The owner of any cattle or stock which shall be mortgaged shall, within thirty days, give notice to the mortgagee of the death, theft or estray of any animal included in the lien created by said mortgage, if the mortgagor has knowledge of the death, theft or estray, and any owner who shall fail to give such notice shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than sixty (60) days, or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-337 — MS Code / Title 69 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-337
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-337
Status: in_force

If an authorized representative of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall determine, after inspection, that any lot of eggs is in violation of this article, he may issue a “stop sale order” as to such lot or lots of eggs and forthwith notify the owner or custodian of such eggs. Such order shall specify the reason for its issuance. A stop sale order shall prohibit the further marketing of the eggs subject to it until such eggs are released by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce or his duly authorized agent.