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MS Code § 77-6-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-41. Investment of all monies received

 All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this chapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues may be temporarily invested and reinvested pending the disbursements thereof in such securities and other investments as may be permitted by law for investment of excess funds of municipalities.
MS Code § 77-6-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-43. Rights of holders of bonds

 Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceeding, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of the state or granted hereunder, or, to the extent permitted by law, under such resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds or under any agreement or other contract executed by the municipality or the authority pursuant to this chapter, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by this chapter or by such resolution to be performed by the authority or municipality or by any officer thereof, including the fixing, charging and collecting of rents, rates, fees and charges.
MS Code § 77-6-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-45. Bonds to be securities

 Bonds issued by a municipality or the authority under the provisions of Sections 77-6-29 through 77-6-57 are hereby made securities in which all public officers and agencies of the state and all political subdivisions, all insurance companies, banking associations, investment companies, executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such bonds are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any officer or agency of the state or any political subdivision for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or obligations of the state or any political subdivision is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
MS Code § 77-6-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-47. Obligations of issuing municipality or authority

 The bonds shall be special obligations of the municipality or the authority issuing them. The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the bonds shall not be payable from the general funds of the municipality or the authority, nor shall they constitute a legal or equitable pledge, charge, lien or encumbrance upon any of its property or upon any of its income, receipts or revenues, except the funds which are pledged under the resolution authorizing the bonds. Neither the full faith and credit nor the taxing power of a municipality or of the state are, or may be, pledged for the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, and no holder of the bonds shall have the right to compel the exercise of the taxing power by the state or a municipality or the forfeiture of any of its property in connection with any default thereon. Every bond shall recite in substance that the principal of and interest on the bond is payable solely from the revenues pledged to its payment and that the municipality or the authority is not obligated to pay the principal or interest except from such revenues.
MS Code § 77-6-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-49. Issuance of negotiable notes

  The authority shall have the power and is authorized, whenever revenue bonds of the authority have been validated as provided in Title 31, Mississippi Code of 1972, to issue from time to time its negotiable notes in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds as validated and to renew from time to time any such notes by the issuance of new notes, regardless of whether the notes to be renewed have matured. The authority may issue notes only to provide funds which would otherwise be provided by the issuance of the bonds as validated. The notes may be authorized, sold, executed and delivered in the same manner as bonds.   Any resolution authorizing notes of the authority or any issue thereof may contain any provisions which the authority is authorized to include in any resolution authorizing bonds of the authority or any issue thereof; and the authority may include in any notes any terms, covenants or conditions which it is authorized to include in any bonds.   All notes shall be general obligations of the authority, payable out of any of its funds or revenues, subject only to any contractual rights of the holders of any of its notes or other obligations then outstanding, provided that there may be specially pledged to the payment of such notes the proceeds to be derived from the issuance of the validated bonds in anticipation of the issuance of which the notes have been issued.   Validation of such bonds shall be a condition precedent to the issuance of such notes, but it shall not be required that such notes be judicially validated.   Bond anticipation notes shall not be issued in an amount exceeding the par value of the bonds in anticipation of which they are to be issued.
MS Code § 77-6-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-51. Evidence of indebtedness to be considered negotiable instruments

 Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, every evidence of indebtedness issued under this chapter shall have all the rights and incidences of negotiable instruments, subject to provisions for registration.
MS Code § 77-6-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-53. Refunding bonds

 A municipality or the authority is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of refunding bonds of the municipality or the authority for the purpose of refunding any bonds then outstanding which shall have been issued under the provisions of this chapter, including the payment of any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of such bonds. The issuance of such bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties and obligations of the municipality or the authority in respect to the same shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter which relate to the issuance of bonds, insofar as such provisions may be appropriate therefor.
MS Code § 77-6-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-55. Exemption from taxation

 Bonds, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation by the state or any political subdivision or any agency of either thereof, excepting inheritance, estate or gift taxes.
MS Code § 77-6-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-57. Dissolution of board of commissioners

 Whenever the board of commissioners of the authority and the utility commissions of its member municipalities shall by resolution or ordinance determine that the purposes for which the authority was formed have been substantially fulfilled and that all bonds theretofore issued and all other obligations theretofore incurred by the authority have been fully paid or satisfied, such board of commissioners and utility commissions may declare the authority to be dissolved. On the effective date of such resolution or ordinance, the title to all funds and other property owned by the authority at the time of such dissolution shall vest in the member municipalities of the authority as provided in this chapter and the bylaws of the authority.
MS Code § 77-6-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-59. Annual reports; audits

 The authority shall, following the closing of each fiscal year, submit an annual report of its activities for the preceding year to the governing authorities and to the utility commissions of its member municipalities. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering the operations of the authority during such year. The authority shall cause an audit of its books of record and accounts to be made at least once in each year by certified public accountants and the cost thereof may be treated as a part of the cost of construction of a project or projects, or otherwise as part of the expense of administration of a project covered by such audit.   The municipalities possessing ownership interests in a project shall, following the closing of each fiscal year, submit a consolidated or combined annual report of their activities with respect to such project for the preceding year to the respective governing authorities of such municipalities. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering the operations of the jointly owned project during such year. The municipalities possessing ownership interests in a project shall cause an audit of the books of record and accounts relating to such project to be made at least once in each year by certified public accountants and the cost thereof may be treated as a cost of construction of the project, or otherwise as part of the expenses of the administration of the project covered by such audit.
MS Code § 77-6-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-61. Application of laws of other states

 Legislative consent is hereby given (a) to the application of the laws of other states with respect to taxation, payments in lieu of taxes, and the assessment thereof, to any municipality or the authority which has acquired or has an interest in a project, real or personal, situated without the state, or which owns or operates a project without the state pursuant to this chapter, and (b) to the application of regulatory and other laws of other states and of the United States to any municipality or authority which owns or operates a project without the state.
MS Code § 77-6-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-63. Grants and loans authorized

 The governing authorities of any municipality or the authority are hereby authorized to make application and to enter into contracts for and to accept grants-in-aid and loans from the federal and state governments and their agencies for planning, acquiring, constructing, expanding, maintaining and operating any project or facility, or participating in any research or development program, or performing any function which such municipality or the authority may be authorized by general or local law to provide or perform.   In order to exercise the authority granted by this section, the governing authorities of any municipality or the authority may:   Enter into and carry out contracts with the state or federal government or any agency or institution thereof under which such government, agency or institution grants financial or other assistance to the municipality or authority;   Accept such assistance or funds as may be granted or loaned by the state or federal government with or without such a contract;   Agree to and comply with any reasonable conditions which are imposed upon such grants or loans;   Make expenditures from any funds so granted.
MS Code § 77-6-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-65. Powers and duties in connection with eminent domain, sales to customers of public utilities, and utility lines and rights-of-way

 Municipalities participating in a project of the authority shall possess the power of eminent domain for a project authorized by this chapter to the extent and in the same manner and under the same laws now available to municipalities under the laws of this state; provided, however, a municipality or the authority exercising the power of eminent domain for a project authorized by this chapter shall have no power to condemn any facilities or property owned by a public utility or gas association for the production, transmission or distribution of gas.   There shall be no transmission, sale, distribution or delivery of natural, artificial or mixed gas by the authority to any end user being served by a public utility as defined by Section 77-3-3(d)(ii) holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Mississippi Public Service Commission or to any end user located or to be located within the certificated area of such a public utility nor shall the powers of the authority be exercised for or on behalf of any such end user unless the public utility holding such a certificate of public convenience and necessity shall have filed with the Mississippi Public Service Commission a statement that it is either unwilling or unable to serve such user.   The lines and rights-of-way of any public utility or of gas associations or of municipalities participating in a project or of the authority may be crossed by any other municipalities participating in a project of the authority. The lines of any municipality participating in a project of the authority may be crossed by any public utility or gas association. Provided, however, the amount of damages, if any, resulting to the line or right-of-way from the crossing thereof as provided herein shall be determined by the affected parties and shall be paid by the public utility, gas association, municipality or municipalities participating in a project, or the authority, to the owner of the lines or rights-of-way crossed. When the parties affected cannot agree upon the damages to be paid for the crossing, either party may file with the circuit court of the county in which the crossing occurs a petition seeking a determination of the amount of the damages. Said action shall be tried by jury at the next regular term of said court in the same manner and under the same principles as provided for the determination of damages in eminent domain proceedings.
MS Code § 77-6-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-67. Where utility commission and municipality have same governing authorities

 Whenever the governing authorities of the utility commission and of any municipality are one and the same, separate actions required by this chapter by the governing authorities of the municipality with respect to an action or determination required by this chapter by the governing authorities of the municipality with respect to an action or determination required by this chapter of a utility commission, including the ratification of resolutions of said utility commission, shall not be necessary, but the action required of a utility commission by this chapter shall be deemed to have occurred when done by the body forming the governing authorities and the utility commission.
MS Code § 77-6-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-69. Provisions supplemental to other laws

 The foregoing sections of this chapter shall be deemed to provide an additional, alternative and complete method for the doing of the things authorized thereby and shall be deemed and construed to be supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing; provided, however, that insofar as the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other general, special or local law, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the issuance of bonds for the purpose of financing the ownership of any facilities or any interest therein by any private corporation.
MS Code § 77-6-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-71. Provisions not subject to Public Service Commission law

  The rates, services and practices relating to the purchase, development, storage, transmission, distribution and sale by the authority of gas as authorized by this chapter shall not be subject to the provisions of the Mississippi Public Service Commission law nor to its regulation.   The provisions of this chapter do not, and are not intended to, increase or diminish the authority and jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission with respect to the distribution, sale, or transmission of gas by any county, municipal corporation or other political subdivision of this state.
MS Code § 77-6-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-73. Provisions to be liberally construed

 In order to effectuate the purposes and policies prescribed in this chapter, the provisions hereof shall be liberally construed.
MS Code § 77-6-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-75. Members of legislature to have no interest in bonds

 No member of the Legislature or elected official or any partner or associate of any member of the Legislature or elected official shall be interested or derive any income, either directly or indirectly, from the issuance of any bonds under this chapter during his or her term of office or within one (1) year after the expiration of such term of office.
MS Code § 77-6-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law|§ 77-6-77. Temporary borrowing through revenue anticipation notes for current and necessary expenses

  The authority is hereby authorized to make temporary borrowings through revenue anticipation notes for the purpose of meeting the current and necessary expenses of the authority (including the purchase of gas supplies) and paying the costs of issuing the revenue anticipation notes. The authority is authorized to make such temporary borrowings through revenue anticipation notes for a period not to exceed thirteen (13) months. To provide for such temporary borrowings, the authority may provide for the private sale of such revenue anticipation notes and may enter into any purchase, loan or credit agreements or other agreements with any banks, trust companies or other lending institutions, investment banking firms or persons in the United States having power to enter into the same. The authority shall provide for repayment of any revenue anticipation note issued hereunder within thirteen (13) months from the issuance date thereof from all or a portion of any available revenues of the system.   All temporary borrowings made under this section shall be evidenced by revenue anticipation notes of the authority which shall be issued, from time to time, for such amounts, in such form and in such denominations and subject to terms and conditions of sale and issuance, prepayment or redemption and maturity, rate or rates of interest and time of payment of interest as the board of commissioners shall authorize and direct in accordance with this section. Such authorization and direction may provide for the subsequent issuance of replacement notes to refund, upon issuance thereof, such notes, and may specify such other terms and conditions with respect to the notes or any replacement notes authorized for issuance as the board of commissioners of the authority may determine and direct. Revenue anticipation notes issued by the authority under the provisions of this section shall not be subject to any other requirements set forth in this chapter with respect to projects financed with bonds or the sale of issuance of bonds.
MS Code § 77-8-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 8 - Transportation Network Companies|§ 77-8-1. Definitions

 As used in this chapter:   "Personal vehicle" means a vehicle that is used by a transportation network company driver and is:   Owned, leased or otherwise authorized for use by the transportation network company driver; and   Not a common carrier by motor vehicle, contract carrier by motor vehicle, or restricted motor carrier under Chapter 7, Title 77, Mississippi Code of 1972.   "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Insurance.   "Department" means the Mississippi Department of Insurance.   "Digital network" means any online-enabled technology application service, website or system offered or utilized by a transportation network company that enables the prearrangement of rides with transportation network company drivers.   "Transportation network company" means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other entity that is licensed under this chapter and operating in Mississippi that uses a digital network to connect transportation network company riders to transportation network company drivers who provide prearranged rides. A transportation network company shall not be deemed to control, direct or manage the personal vehicles or transportation network company drivers that connect to its digital network, except where agreed to by written contract.   "Transportation network company driver" or "driver" means an individual who:   Receives connections to potential passengers and related services from a transportation network company in exchange for payment of a fee to the transportation network company; and   Uses a personal vehicle to offer or provide a prearranged ride to riders upon connection through a digital network controlled by a transportation network company in return for compensation or payment of a fee.   "Transportation network company rider" or "rider" means an individual or persons who use a transportation network company's digital network to connect with a transportation network driver who provides prearranged rides to the rider in the driver's personal vehicle between points chosen by the rider.   "Prearranged ride" means the provision of transportation by a driver to a rider, beginning when a driver accepts a ride requested by a rider through a digital network controlled by a transportation network company, continuing while the driver transports a requesting rider, and ending when the last requesting rider departs from the personal vehicle. A prearranged ride does not include transportation provided using a common carrier by motor vehicle, contract carrier by motor vehicle, or restricted motor carrier under Chapter 7, Title 77, Mississippi Code of 1972. A prearranged ride does not include shared expense carpool arrangements or vanpooling as defined in Section 77-7-7, or any other type of arrangement or service in which the driver receives a fee that does not exceed the driver's costs associated with providing the ride.