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MS Code § 75-66-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 66 - Home Solicitation Sales|§ 75-66-1. Definitions

  "Home solicitation sale" means a consumer credit sale of goods or services in which the seller or person acting for him engages in a personal solicitation of the sale at a residence of the buyer and the buyer's agreement or offer to purchase is there given to the seller or a person acting for him. It does not include a sale made pursuant to a preexisting revolving charge account, or a preexisting installment account allowing a series of sales, or a sale made pursuant to prior negotiations between the parties at a business establishment at a fixed location where goods or services are offered or exhibited for sale, or where the sale is initiated by the buyer, or where the seller is regulated by the Mississippi Public Service Commission. Where the first contact has been made by the seller or by someone on behalf of the seller, then any home solicitation sale made following such contact shall not be deemed to have been initiated by the buyer.   "Consumer Credit Sale" is a sale of goods or services in which:   credit is granted by a person who regularly engages as a seller in credit transactions of the same kind;   the buyer is a person other than an organization;   the goods or services are purchased primarily for a personal, family or household purpose; and   either the debt is payable in installments or a credit service charge is made.
MS Code § 75-66-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 66 - Home Solicitation Sales|§ 75-66-3. Buyer's right of cancellation; notice

  Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, in addition to any right otherwise to revoke an offer, cancel a contract or rescind a contract, the buyer has the right to cancel a home solicitation sale until midnight of the third business day after the day at which the buyer signs an agreement or offer to purchase which complies with this chapter.   Cancellation occurs when the buyer gives written notice of cancellation to the seller at the address stated in the agreement or offer to purchase.   Notice of cancellation, if given by certified or registered mail, is given when it is deposited in a mailbox properly addressed and postage prepaid.   Notice of cancellation given by the buyer need not take a particular form and is sufficient if it indicates by any form of written expression the intention of the buyer not to be bound by the home solicitation sale.   The buyer may not cancel a home solicitation sale if the buyer requests the seller to provide goods or services without delay because of an emergency, and   the seller in good faith makes a substantial beginning of performance of the contract before the buyer gives notice of cancellation, and   in the case of goods, the goods cannot be returned to the seller in substantially as good condition as when received by the buyer.
MS Code § 75-66-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 66 - Home Solicitation Sales|§ 75-66-5. When buyer's signature required on agreement or offer to purchase or attached statement; contents of documents; effect of seller's failure to comply with section

  In a home solicitation sale, unless the buyer requests the seller to provide goods or services without delay in an emergency, the seller must present to the buyer and obtain his signature to a written agreement or offer to purchase or his signature to a statement executed simultaneously with and attached to the written agreement or offer to purchase, which written statement, offer to purchase or attached statement, designates as the date of the transaction the date on which the buyer actually signs and contains a statement of the buyer's rights which shall comply with either subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section.   The statement must:   appear under the conspicuous caption: "BUYER'S RIGHT TO CANCEL," and   read as follows: "If this agreement was solicited at your residence and you do not want the goods or services, you may cancel this agreement by mailing a notice to the seller by certified or registered mail. The notice must say that you do not want the goods or services and must be mailed before midnight on the third business day after you sign this agreement. The notice must be mailed to:_______________(insert name and mailing address of seller). If you cancel, the seller may keep all or part of your cash down payment, but in no event may the seller retain an amount in excess of five percent (5%) of the cash price or the amount of the cash down payment whichever is the lesser."     A home solicitation sales contract which contains the notice of cancellation in the form and content required by rule or regulation of the Federal Trade Commission shall comply with the requirements of this section if it contains information to the consumer concerning his right to cancel at least equal to that required by subsection (2).   Until the seller has complied with this section, the buyer may cancel the home solicitation sale by notifying the seller in any manner and by any means of his intention to cancel.
MS Code § 75-66-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 66 - Home Solicitation Sales|§ 75-66-7. Tender to buyer on cancellation or revocation; retention of cancellation fee; rights of buyer on seller's failure to act

  Except as provided in this chapter, within ten (10) days after a home solicitation sale has been cancelled or an offer to purchase revoked, the seller must tender to the buyer any payments made by the buyer and any note or other evidence of indebtedness.   If the down payment includes goods traded in, the goods must be tendered in substantially as good condition as when received by the seller. If the seller fails to tender the goods as provided by this section, the buyer may elect to recover an amount equal to the trade-in allowance stated in the agreement.   The seller may retain as a cancellation fee five percent (5%) of the cash price but not exceeding the amount of the cash down payment. If the seller fails to comply with an obligation imposed by this section, or if the buyer avoids the sale on any ground independent of his right to cancel provided by the provisions on the buyer's right to cancel as provided by Section 75-66-3 (1) of this chapter or revokes his offer to purchase, the seller is not entitled to retain a cancellation fee.   Until the seller has complied with the obligations imposed by this section, the buyer may retain possession of goods delivered to him by the seller and has a lien on the goods in his possession or control for any recovery to which he is entitled.
MS Code § 75-66-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 66 - Home Solicitation Sales|§ 75-66-9. Tender to seller on cancellation or revocation; place; demand; time; buyer's duty with respect to goods; compensation for services performed

  Except as provided in Section 75-66-7, within a reasonable time after a home solicitation sale has been cancelled or an offer to purchase revoked, the buyer upon demand must tender to the seller any goods delivered by the seller pursuant to the sale, but he is not obligated to tender at any place other than his residence. If the seller fails to demand possession of goods within a reasonable time after cancellation or revocation, the goods become the property of the buyer without obligation to pay for them. For the purpose of this section, forty (40) days is presumed to be a reasonable time.   The buyer has a duty to take reasonable care of the goods in his possession before cancellation or revocation and for a reasonable time thereafter, during which time the goods are otherwise at the seller's risk.   If the seller has performed any services pursuant to a home solicitation sale prior to its cancellation, the seller is entitled to no compensation except the cancellation fee provided in this chapter.
MS Code § 75-66-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 66 - Home Solicitation Sales|§ 75-66-11. Chapter inapplicable to insurance sales or solicitations

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as to apply to the sale or solicitation of insurance.
MS Code § 75-69-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 69 - Farm Loan Bonds|§ 75-69-1. Declaration of purpose

 It is the purpose of this chapter to encourage and to promote agriculture and agricultural production as the basis of the prosperity of all the people by assisting the availability for agricultural purposes, and for those engaged therein, of satisfactory credit facilities at a low rate of interest under the farmers cooperative system, as established in the laws of the United States by the provisions of the Federal Farm Loan Act, the Farm Credit Act of 1933, and acts amendatory of and supplementary to each of said acts.
MS Code § 75-69-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 69 - Farm Loan Bonds|§ 75-69-3. Farm credit securities; security for all public funds

 Federal farm loan bonds issued by the federal land banks, debentures issued by federal intermediate credit banks, and debentures issued by banks for cooperatives pursuant to said acts (all of such bonds and debentures being hereinafter called farm credit securities) are hereby designated as security for every character of public funds, and especially for the purpose of securing deposits made in designated depositories, of funds of the State of Mississippi, and of funds of the various counties, municipalities, levee boards, supervisors districts, school districts, rural electrification associations and authority, or any other public or municipal subdivisions which may now or hereafter exist in the State of Mississippi. Existing laws as to the designation of proper depositories for public funds are in nowise hereby disturbed.
MS Code § 75-69-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 69 - Farm Loan Bonds|§ 75-69-5. Purchase of farm credit securities by executors, trustees, administrators and guardians, etc.

 All trustees, executors, guardians and other fiduciaries in this state (unless prohibited by the will, deed or trust instrument, or unless any such trust instrument prescribes other investments exclusively) and administrators may, in addition to investments otherwise authorized by law, invest all funds held in trust or for investment in farm credit securities without the necessity of any precedent order of the chancery court and no liability whatsoever shall be incurred by any such fiduciary in purchasing farm credit securities without a precedent order of court.
MS Code § 75-69-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 69 - Farm Loan Bonds|§ 75-69-7. Insurance companies investing in farm credit securities

 Any insurance company, hospital service association or burial association organized under the laws of the State of Mississippi, or properly domesticated within this state, and permitted to do business herein, may purchase farm credit securities with its capital, provided that there shall not be invested at any one time, in said securities, more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the total assets of any such association or company; but any such company may invest its accumulated funds and its reserves in said securities at its pleasure and without limitation hereby; and a deposit of said securities by any such foreign company, under the provisions of any law of this state, shall be accepted by the State of Mississippi as a compliance with such provision.
MS Code § 75-69-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 69 - Farm Loan Bonds|§ 75-69-9. State banks and trust companies investing in farm credit securities

 All banking corporations (including savings banks and trust companies), building and loan associations, credit unions, and finance companies, organized under the laws of the State of Mississippi, shall have power, each at its discretion, to invest its capital in farm credit securities to an amount not exceeding twenty-five percent (25%) thereof and to invest its surplus and undivided profits in said securities at its pleasure without limitation hereby.
MS Code § 75-73-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 73 - Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 75-73-1. Copy of law to be posted in all hotels and inns

 A copy of Sections 75-73-3 and 75-73-5 shall be posted and kept posted in a conspicuous place in the general office or lobby, provided for the use of guests and patrons of every public inn and hotel.
MS Code § 75-73-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 73 - Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 75-73-3. Penalty

 Any innkeeper or hotel keeper or manager who shall fail, neglect or refuse to comply with Section 75-73-1 of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars. Each day's failure, neglect or refusal shall constitute a separate offense, and may be punished as such.
MS Code § 75-73-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 73 - Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 75-73-5. Hotels and innkeepers; liability for valuables of guests

 No innkeeper, whether individual, partnership or corporation, who constantly has in his inn an iron safe or suitable vault in good order and fit for the safe custody of money, bank notes, jewelry, articles of gold and silver manufacture, precious stones, personal ornaments, railroad mileage books or tickets, negotiable or valuable papers, bullion, and who keeps on the doors of the sleeping rooms used by his guests, locks or bolts, and on the transoms and windows of said rooms suitable fastenings, shall be liable for the loss or injury to any such property suffered by any guest, unless such guest has offered to deliver the same to such innkeeper for custody in such iron safe or vault and such innkeeper has refused or omitted to take it and deposit it in such safe or vault for custody and to give such guest a receipt therefor.   Provided, however, that the innkeeper of any inn shall not be obliged to receive from any one guest for deposit in such safe or vault any property hereinbefore described exceeding a total value of five hundred dollars ($500.00), and shall not be liable for any excess of such property, whether received or not; but such innkeeper may, by special agreement with a guest, receive for deposit in such safe or vault any property on such terms as they may agree to in writing. Every innkeeper shall be liable for any loss of the above enumerated articles by a guest in his inn caused by the theft or negligence of the innkeeper or any of his servants.
MS Code § 75-73-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 73 - Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 75-73-7. Loss of property; maximum allowed; guest's responsibility

 The liability of the innkeeper of any inn, whether individual, partnership or corporation, for the loss of or injury to personal property placed by his guests under his care other than that described in Section 75-73-5 shall be that of a depository for hire. Provided, however, that in no case shall such liability exceed the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each trunk and contents; twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each valise and contents, and five dollars ($5.00) for each box, bundle or package and contents so placed under his care, unless he shall have consented in writing with such guest to assume a greater liability; except that nothing herein shall prevent any guest of any hotel or inn from recovering at common law the actual value of the contents of any trunk, valise, box or package which, after being given into the care or custody of the hotel or innkeeper or placed in the rooms of a hotel or inn, shall be lost by or through theft, or the negligence, carelessness or omission of any hotel or innkeeper or his servant or employee, and not by or through the carelessness, negligence or omission of such guest.
MS Code § 75-73-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 73 - Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 75-73-9. Obtaining board and lodging with intent to defraud

  Any person who shall, for himself or as the agent or representative of another or as an officer of a corporation, obtain food, lodging, money, property or other accommodations of a value less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) at any hotel, motel, motor hotel, motor lodge, inn, boarding or eating house with intent to defraud the owner or keeper thereof, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) and not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding one (1) year, or both; but any person who shall, for himself or as the agent or representative of another or as an officer of a corporation, obtain food, lodging, money, property or other accommodations of a value of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) or over at any hotel, motel, motor hotel, motor lodge, inn, boarding or eating house with intent to defraud the owner or keeper thereof shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) and not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisoned in the State Penitentiary for a term of one (1) year, or both. In case of a second and subsequent conviction of the offense described, regardless of the value of the food, lodging, money, property or other accommodations obtained, the punishment shall be by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of not exceeding two (2) years.   No person shall remain in a hotel or motel where his term or stay has expired if the person has been given a separate written notice of his agreed departure date and checkout time at the time he registered in the hotel or motel, the person has signed such notice acknowledging his departure time, and the person has been given written notice at least three (3) hours prior to the time required to leave the hotel or motel room. Willful violations of this subsection shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) and each violation shall be a separate offense. This subsection shall not apply in case of serious medical emergency requiring the room's continued use.
MS Code § 75-73-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 73 - Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 75-73-11. Proof of fraudulent intent; what constitutes prima facie evidence

 Proof that lodging, food, money, property, or other accommodations were obtained by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other property, that the person refused or neglected to pay for such food, lodging or other accommodations, or that he absconded without paying or offering to pay for such food, lodging or other accommodations, or that he surreptitiously removed or attempted to move his baggage, or that he made, drew, issued, and delivered to the owner or keeper of any hotel, motel, motor hotel, motor lodge, inn, boarding or eating house, any check, draft or order on any bank or other depository in payment of food, lodging, money, property, or other accommodations, and has no funds or has insufficient funds on deposit to his credit in such bank or depository with which such check, draft, or order may be paid in full, and all other checks, drafts, or orders upon such funds then outstanding, shall be deemed prima facie proof of the fraudulent intent mentioned in Section 75-73-9. Provided, however, that this section shall not apply in cases where there has been an agreement for extension of credit made at the time or before the lodging, food, money, property, or other accommodations have been furnished.
MS Code § 75-73-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 73 - Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 75-73-13. Hotel authorities may eject violators of the law

  If any person be guilty of disorderly conduct or other conduct prohibited by law, or intoxication or any breach of the peace, or of the use of obscene or profane language on the premises of any hotel, or if any person register at said hotel under an assumed name, then the manager of said hotel or anyone who is at the time acting as said manager or for said manager may eject said person or persons from said hotel premises using only such force as may be necessary to accomplish the same, and may command the assistance of the employees of said hotel to assist in said ejection and may cause any person violating the law to be detained and delivered to the proper authorities.   If a person who has been given written notice of his agreed departure and checkout time at the time he registered in the hotel or motel, who has signed such notice acknowledging his checkout time, and who has been given written notice at least three (3) hours prior to the time required to leave the hotel or motel room remains in a hotel or motel room after his term or stay has expired, the manager of the hotel or motel or anyone who is at the time acting as said manager or for said manager may eject said person and other occupants and their personal belongings from said hotel or motel premises using the assistance of the appropriate lawful authority to accomplish the same. If the registered occupant is not present, the manager of the hotel or motel, or the person acting as or for said manager, shall make and sign a written, itemized inventory of the personal belongings in the room before same shall be removed, which inventory shall also be signed, as witness thereto, by the lawful authority assisting such hotel or motel manager. Such hotel or motel manager shall use reasonable care to preserve and protect such personal belongings for a period not longer than ten (10) days. No action for damages, or otherwise, shall be maintainable against the owners, operators or managers of a hotel or motel, or appropriate lawful authority for reasonable exercise of rights pursuant to Sections 75-73-9 and 75-73-13. This subsection shall not apply in case of serious medical emergency requiring the room's continued use.
MS Code § 75-73-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 73 - Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 75-73-15. Innkeepers to have lien on baggage

 Keepers of hotels, inns, boarding houses and restaurants shall have a lien on the goods and personal baggage of their guests and boarders to secure the payment of any money due from them for board and lodging and hotel accommodations; and may enforce the same by a seizure and sale of such goods and baggage, as hereinafter provided.