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MS Code § 75-76-305 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 76 - Mississippi Gaming Control Act|Illegal Activities|§ 75-76-305. Use or manufacture of slugs or counterfeit chips or tokens prohibited; possession of certain devices prohibited

  It is unlawful for any licensee, employee or other person to use counterfeit chips in a gambling game.   It is unlawful for any person, in playing or using any gambling game designed to be played with, receive or be operated by chips or tokens approved by the commission or by lawful coins of the United States of America:   Knowingly to use other than chips or tokens approved by the commission or lawful coins, legal tender of the United States of America, or to use coins not of the same denomination as the coins intended to be used in that gambling game; or   To use any device or means to violate the provisions of this chapter.     It is unlawful for any person, not a duly authorized employee of a licensee acting in furtherance of his employment within an establishment, to have on his person or in his possession on or off the premises of any licensed gaming establishment any device intended to be used to violate the provisions of this chapter.   It is unlawful for any person, not a duly authorized employee of a licensee acting in furtherance of his employment within an establishment, to have on his person or in his possession on or off the premises of any licensed gaming establishment any key or device known to have been designed for the purpose of and suitable for opening, entering or affecting the operation of any gambling game, drop box or any electronic or mechanical device connected thereto, or for removing money or other contents therefrom.   It is unlawful for any person to have on his person or in his possession any paraphernalia for manufacturing slugs. As used in this subsection, "paraphernalia for manufacturing slugs" means the equipment, products and materials that are intended for use or designed for use in manufacturing, producing, fabricating, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, storing or concealing a counterfeit facsimile of the chips or tokens approved by the commission or lawful coins of the United States, the use of which is unlawful pursuant to subsection (2) of this section. The term includes, but is not limited to:   Metal or metal alloys;   Molds, forms or similar equipment capable of producing a likeness of a gaming token or United States coin;   Melting pots or other receptacles;   Torches; and   Tongs, trimming tools or other similar equipment.     Possession of more than one (1) of the devices, equipment, products or materials described in this section permits a rebuttable inference that the possessor intended to use them for cheating.
MS Code § 75-76-307 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 76 - Mississippi Gaming Control Act|Illegal Activities|§ 75-76-307. Cheating prohibited

 It is unlawful for any person, whether he is an owner or employee of or a player in an establishment, to cheat at any gambling game.
MS Code § 75-76-309 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 76 - Mississippi Gaming Control Act|Illegal Activities|§ 75-76-309. Manufacture, sale or distribution of gaming materials intended for illegal use prohibited; altering equipment prohibited; instructing others in cheating prohibited

  It is unlawful to manufacture, sell or distribute any cards, chips, dice, game or device that is intended to be used to violate any provision of this chapter.   It is unlawful to mark, alter or otherwise modify any associated equipment or gaming device in a manner that:   Affects the result of a wager by determining win or loss; or   Alters the normal criteria of random selection, which affects the operation of a game or which determines the outcome of a game.     It is unlawful for any person to instruct another in cheating or in the use of any device for that purpose, with the knowledge or intent that the information or use so conveyed may be employed to violate any provision of this chapter.
MS Code § 75-76-311 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 76 - Mississippi Gaming Control Act|Illegal Activities|§ 75-76-311. Additional penalties for violating Sections 75-76-301 through 75-76-313

  In addition to any other penalty provided in this chapter, any person who violates any provision of Sections 75-76-301 through 75-76-313, shall be punished:   For the first offense, by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not more than two (2) years, or by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.   For a second or subsequent violation of any of these provisions, by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not more than ten (10) years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00).     In addition to any other penalty provided in this chapter, any person who attempts, or two (2) or more persons who conspire, to violate any provision of Sections 75-76-301 through 75-76-313 each shall be punished by imposing the penalty provided in subsection (1) of this section for the completed crime, whether or not he personally played any gambling game or used any prohibited device.
MS Code § 75-76-313 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 76 - Mississippi Gaming Control Act|Illegal Activities|§ 75-76-313. Questioning of person suspected of violating gaming provisions; immunity from suit for questioning

 If any person shall commit or attempt to commit a violation of any provision of Sections 75-76-301 through 75-76-313, any officer, employee or agent of a licensee or any law enforcement officer, acting in good faith and upon probable cause based upon reasonable grounds therefor, may question such person in a reasonable manner for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not such person should be charged with a violation of Sections 75-76-301 through 75-76-313. The questioning of a person by an officer, employee or agent of a licensee or by a law enforcement officer shall not render the licensee, its officer, its employee or its agent, or a law enforcement officer, civilly liable for slander, false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, unlawful detention or otherwise in any case where the licensee's officer, employee or agent, or the law enforcement officer, is acting in good faith and upon reasonable grounds to believe that the person questioned is committing or attempting to commit a violation of Sections 75-76-301 through 75-76-313.
MS Code § 75-76-325 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 76 - Mississippi Gaming Control Act|Mississippi Gaming Commission Fund|§ 75-76-325. Mississippi Gaming Commission Fund created; use of funds; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund

  There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the "Mississippi Gaming Commission Fund." The special fund shall consist of monies deposited therein under Section 75-76-81 and monies from any other source designated for deposit into the fund. Unexpended amounts remaining in the special fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned or investment earnings on amounts in the fund shall be deposited to the credit of the fund.   Monies in the special fund may be used by the commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature, only for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this chapter. Unexpended amounts remaining in the special fund at the end of a fiscal year shall be used by the commission in calculating the amounts of fees to be imposed under Section 75-76-33(2)(f) during the next succeeding state fiscal year that will be necessary to provide the commission with sufficient revenue, when combined with other monies deposited into the special fund, to carry out the provisions of this chapter without any state general funds.   From and after July 1, 2016, the expenses of this agency shall be defrayed by appropriation from the State General Fund and all user charges and fees authorized under this section shall be deposited into the State General Fund as authorized by law.   From and after July 1, 2016, no state agency shall charge another state agency a fee, assessment, rent or other charge for services or resources received by authority of this section.
MS Code § 77-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 1 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service|§ 77-3-1. Application of article to municipal public utilities

 Except as otherwise provided in Section 77-3-6, any public utility as defined in paragraph (d) of Section 77-3-3, owned or operated by a municipality shall not be subject to the provisions of this article, except as to extension of utilities greater than one (1) mile outside corporate boundaries after March 29, 1956.
MS Code § 77-3-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 1 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service|§ 77-3-5. Jurisdiction and powers of commission

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and subject only to the limitations imposed in this chapter and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the Public Service Commission shall have exclusive original jurisdiction over the intrastate business and property of public utilities and, for purposes of clarification of the existing scope of said exclusive original jurisdiction, such exclusive original jurisdiction extends, but is not limited to: the establishment of retail rates; challenges, including customer complaints, to the amount of a retail rate or customer bill or whether such rate is just and reasonable; and challenges to the validity or accuracy of rates charged by a public utility, or to the accuracy or reliability of information submitted to the Public Service Commission by a public utility or other person in support of or in opposition to a proposed or approved rate, regardless of the legal theory upon which any such challenge is made. However, the commission shall not have jurisdiction over the production and gathering of natural gas or the sale of natural gas in or within the vicinity of the field where produced, or over the facilities and equipment utilized in any such operations, including, but not limited to, such facilities as separators, scrubbers and gasoline plants of all types. Further, the commission shall not have jurisdiction over the governance, management or other internal affairs of entities as described by paragraphs (b) and (c) below. Moreover, the commission shall not have jurisdiction to regulate the rates for the sales and/or distribution:   Of gas, water, electricity or sewage disposal services by municipalities to such persons as said municipalities are authorized by law to serve;   Of gas or electricity by cooperative gas or electric power associations to the members thereof as consumers, except as provided by Section 77-3-17, where service is rendered in a municipality;   Of water or sewage disposal service by nonprofit corporations or associations where the governing body of such corporation or association is elected by the consumers thereof or appointed by the county board of supervisors; or   Of water by districts organized under the provisions of Chapter 45, Laws of 1966-1967, Extraordinary Session.
MS Code § 77-3-6 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 1 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service|§ 77-3-6. Investigations and arbitration of billing and services between public utilities and customers

  Any dispute between a municipally-owned or operated public utility and a customer of such public utility with regard to billing and/or services in excess of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($ 2,500.00) shall be subject to investigation, review and arbitration by the commission upon petition filed therefor with the commission by such public utility or customer. However, the commission shall not commence any investigation or proceedings pursuant to such petition if at the time of filing the petition suit has been filed in any court of this state or of the United States with regard to the subject matter of the dispute and in which such public utility and customer are parties. Any such petition shall be immediately dismissed if any such suit is filed after filing of the petition with the commission.   In any arbitration proceedings commenced under the provisions of this section, the commission may, by order entered on its minutes and delivery of a certified copy thereof to the public utility, direct any municipally-owned or operated public utility to provide the commission with copies of all statements, accounts and reports concerning operation of the public utility which the utility is required to provide the governing authorities of the municipality under Section 21-27-17. The commission is further authorized to conduct and shall conduct investigation of and informal hearings in the dispute and may negotiate with the public utility and the customer for the resolution thereof. In every arbitration proceeding under this section the commission shall perform such duties as it deems reasonable and likely to result in settlement of the dispute without commencement of litigation between the public utility and the customer.   Participation in any investigation, proceeding, negotiation, or settlement under the provisions of this section shall be voluntary by the public utility and the customer; however, no suit may be commenced in any court of this state by either the public utility or customer based upon the facts giving rise to the dispute for a period of sixty (60) days after a petition is filed with the commission under this section.   The provisions prescribed herein for the Public Service Commission to investigate, review and arbitrate disputes between a municipally-owned or operated public utility and a customer of such public utility shall not extend to tort actions.
MS Code § 77-3-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 1 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service|§ 77-3-7. Bonding of commission employees; preference for full-time employees; additional personnel

  The commission may require such bonds to be carried on its employees as the commission may deem necessary, the cost thereof to be paid by the commission. Insofar as possible to do so, personnel of the commission shall be retained on a full-time basis and shall have no other employment of any kind. As to any part-time or specially employed person, the minutes of the commission shall recite the necessity for deviation from full-time employment.   Nothing in this section should be interpreted to prevent the commission from utilizing the services of these additional personnel herein provided in rendering assistance to the commission in its other duties where such assignment does not interfere with duties in administering the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 77-3-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 1 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service|§ 77-3-8. Public service commission staff; Personnel Board to establish salaries; duties of staff; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund

  There is established in the commission a Public Service Commission staff, which staff shall be a unit, remain as a unit therein, and be responsive to the commission. The Public Service Commission staff shall consist of a sufficient number of professional, administrative, technical, clerical and other personnel as may be necessary for the staff to perform its duties and responsibilities as hereinafter provided. All such personnel of the Public Service Commission staff shall be recommended by the executive secretary and hired or rejected by the commission. Personnel shall be dismissed only for cause in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State Personnel Board. The personnel of the Public Service Commission staff shall be compensated and reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses, including food, lodging and travel, by the commission from the Public Service Commission Regulation Fund established by Section 77-1-6, and as authorized by Section 25-3-41. The Public Service Commission staff shall be responsible for gathering and analyzing information relating to all matters within the authority of the commission.   The State Personnel Board shall establish and maintain entry-level salaries sufficiently competitive to attract competent, qualified applicants for the specialized skills and positions required by this section without regard to the salaries paid the commissioners and notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary. The State Personnel Board shall authorize, where necessary, a range of salaries within which salary negotiations may be conducted for those positions for which specific knowledge, skills and abilities are set forth herein.   The Public Service Commission staff shall perform such duties as are assigned to them by the commission.   From and after July 1, 2016, the expenses of this agency shall be defrayed by appropriation from the State General Fund and all user charges and fees authorized under this section shall be deposited into the State General Fund as authorized by law.   From and after July 1, 2016, no state agency shall charge another state agency a fee, assessment, rent or other charge for services or resources received by authority of this section.
MS Code § 77-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 1 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service|§ 77-3-9. Attorney for public service commission

 The Public Service Commission shall appoint an attorney who shall assist and advise the commission in all matters affecting its powers and duties and to perform such duties and services in connection with this chapter and the enforcement thereof as the commission may require. Such attorney shall be a member of the Mississippi State Bar, shall have practiced law for a minimum of five (5) years and shall possess considerable knowledge of utility regulation generally and of the case law, statutory law and the common law relating thereto. The attorney for the commission shall, upon request of the commission, aid in any investigation or hearing held under the provisions of this chapter. His salary shall be set by the commission, and his salary and expenses shall be paid in the same manner and from the same funds as the salary and expenses of the commissioners.
MS Code § 77-3-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 1 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service|§ 77-3-11. Certificate of public convenience and necessity required; exceptions; complaints prompting hearing as to adequacy of service

  No person shall construct, acquire, extend or operate equipment for manufacture, mixing, generating, transmitting or distributing natural or manufactured gas, or mixed gas, or water, for any intrastate sale to or for the public for compensation, or for the operation of a public utility operating a business and equipment or facilities as contemplated by subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (d) of Section 77-3-3, without first having obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the operation of such equipment or facility.   No person shall construct, acquire, extend or operate equipment for manufacture, generating, transmitting or distributing electricity for any intrastate or interstate sale to or for the public for compensation without first having obtained from the commission a certificate that the present and future public convenience and necessity require or will require the operation of such equipment or facility. Provided, however, nothing herein contained shall be construed to require a joint municipal electric power agency organized in accordance with the provisions of Section 77-5-201 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, to obtain any permit, license, certificate or approval from the Mississippi Public Service Commission.   No person shall construct, acquire, extend or operate equipment or facilities for collecting, transmitting, treating or disposing of sewage, or otherwise operating an intrastate sewage disposal service, to or for the public for compensation, without first having obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the operation of such equipment or facilities.   However, nothing herein shall be construed to require any certificate of convenience and necessity from the commission for the production and gathering of natural gas, the sale of natural gas in or within the vicinity of the field where produced, the distribution or sale of liquefied petroleum gas, the sale of natural gas to the ultimate consumer for use as a motor vehicle fuel, or for the facilities and equipment utilized in any such operations.   Upon complaints filed by not less than ten percent (10%) of the total subscribers or three thousand five hundred (3,500) subscribers of a public utility, whichever is less, then the commission shall hold a hearing on the adequacy of service as contemplated in Section 77-3-21.
MS Code § 77-3-12 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 1 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service|§ 77-3-12. Certificate of public convenience and necessity grants exclusive right to public utility to provide services for which certificate issued; utility systems authorized to extend facilities through certificated area of another utility for purposes other than certificated need

  A certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Public Service Commission authorizing public utility services to or for the public for compensation in an area grants an exclusive right to the public utility to provide that service in the certificated area.   Nothing contained in subsection (1) of this section or any other provision of law shall prohibit any utility system from extending its system plant, lines or other facilities in or through the certificated area of another utility for purposes other than providing services to or for the public for compensation in such certificated area similar to those services provided by the certificated utility.
MS Code § 77-3-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 1 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service|§ 77-3-15. Two or more persons holding certificates for similar operations in same municipality

 Where there shall be two (2) or more persons holding certificates of convenience and necessity for similar operation in the same municipality, such operation may be carried on by such persons within their respective certificated areas and such persons shall be exempt from further application to the commission for extension of or additions to their facilities within their respective certificated areas of said municipality, including any extensions of the corporate limits thereof.   Municipally operated utilities shall not be subject to regulation under this article.