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MS Code § 77-3-729 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 15 - Mississippi Telephone Solicitation Act|§ 77-3-729. Defenses

 It shall be a defense in any action or proceeding brought under Section 77-3-725 or 77-3-727 that the defendant has established and implemented, with due care, reasonable practices and procedures to effectively prevent telephone solicitations in violation of this article.
MS Code § 77-3-731 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 15 - Mississippi Telephone Solicitation Act|§ 77-3-731. Commission granted personal jurisdiction over resident and nonresident telephone solicitors

 The commission is granted personal jurisdiction over any telephone solicitor, whether a resident or a nonresident, notwithstanding that telephone solicitors are not deemed to be a public utility, for the purpose of administering this article. The commission is granted personal jurisdiction over any nonresident telephone solicitor, its executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or any other appointed representative of such nonresident as to an action or proceeding authorized by this article or any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this article as authorized by Section 13-3-57, and also upon any nonresident, his or her executor, administrator, receiver, trustee or any other appointed representative of such nonresident who has qualified under the laws of this state to do business herein. Service of summons and process upon the alleged violator of this article shall be had or made as is provided by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 77-3-733 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 15 - Mississippi Telephone Solicitation Act|§ 77-3-733. Right of appeal

 Any party aggrieved by any final order of the commission pursuant to this article, or any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this article, shall have the right of appeal to the Chancery Court of Hinds County, Mississippi, First Judicial District.
MS Code § 77-3-735 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 15 - Mississippi Telephone Solicitation Act|§ 77-3-735. Service providers certificated by commission not liable for violations of others

 No provider of telephonic caller identification service, local exchange telephone company or long distance company certificated by the commission may be held liable for violations of this article committed by other persons or entities.
MS Code § 77-3-801 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 17 - Caller ID Anti-spoofing Act|§ 77-3-801. Short title

 This article may be cited as the "Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act."
MS Code § 77-3-803 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 17 - Caller ID Anti-spoofing Act|§ 77-3-803. Definitions

 As used in this article:   "Automatic number identification" means a system that identifies the billing account for a call and includes an enhanced 911 service capability that enables the automatic display of the ten-digit number used to place a 911 call from a wire line, wireless, interconnected VoIP or nontraditional telephone service.   "Caller identification information" means information provided by a caller identification service regarding the telephone number, or other origination information, of a call or facsimile transmission made using a telecommunications service or an interconnected VoIP service, or of a text message sent using a text-messaging service.   "Caller identification service" means any service or device designed to provide the user of the service or device with the telephone number of, or other information regarding the origination of, a call made using a telecommunications service or interconnected VoIP service. The term includes automatic number identification services.   "Interconnected VoIP service" means an interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol service that:   Enables real-time, two-way voice communications;   Requires a broadband internet connection from the user's location;   Requires internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment; and   Permits users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network.   "Place of primary use" means the street address where a subscriber's use of a telecommunications service or interconnected VoIP service primarily occurs, which shall be:   The residential street address or the primary business street address of the subscriber or, in the case of a subscriber of interconnected VoIP service, the subscriber's registered location; and   Within the licensed service area of the provider.   "Provider" means a person or entity that offers telecommunications service or interconnected VoIP service.   "Registered location" means the most recent information obtained by an interconnected VoIP service provider that identifies the physical location of an end user.   "Subscriber" means a person:   Who subscribes to a caller identification service in connection with a telecommunications service or an interconnected VoIP service; and   Whose place of primary use for the service described in paragraph (h)(i) is located in Mississippi.   "Telecommunications service" means the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to classes of users so as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the facilities used.
MS Code § 77-3-805 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 17 - Caller ID Anti-spoofing Act|§ 77-3-805. Causing caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to subscriber prohibited

 Except as provided in Section 77-3-807, a person shall not, in connection with any telecommunications service or interconnected VOIP service, knowingly and with the intent to defraud or cause harm to another person or to wrongfully obtain anything of value, cause any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to a subscriber.
MS Code § 77-3-807 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 17 - Caller ID Anti-spoofing Act|§ 77-3-807. Exceptions

 This article does not apply to:   The blocking of caller identification information.   Any law enforcement agency of the federal, state, county or municipal government.   Any intelligence or security agency of the federal government.   A telecommunications, broadband or voice-over-Internet service provider that is acting solely as an intermediary for the transmission of telephone service between the caller and the recipient.
MS Code § 77-3-809 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities|Article 17 - Caller ID Anti-spoofing Act|§ 77-3-809. Penalties

  Any person who violates this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or shall be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or both.   Any violation of this article constitutes an unlawful trade practice under Section 75-24-5 and, in addition to any remedies or penalties set forth in this article, shall be subject to any remedies or penalties available for a violation of that statute.   Any violation of this article constitutes a violation of the Mississippi Telephone Solicitation Act, Section 77-3-701 et seq., and in addition to any remedies or penalties provided in this article, shall be subject to any remedies or penalties available for a violation of that act.
MS Code § 77-5-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-1. Short title

 This article may be cited as the "State Rural Electrification Authority Law."
MS Code § 77-5-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-3. Definitions

 The following terms, whenever used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:   "Authority" shall mean the corporation created by this article.   "Board" shall mean the board of directors of the authority.   "Bonds" shall mean and include negotiable bonds, interim certificates or receipts, notes, debentures and all other evidences of indebtedness either issued or the payment thereof assumed by the authority.   "Acquire" shall mean and include construct, acquire by purchase, lease, devise, gift or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or other mode of acquisition.   "Person" or "inhabitant" shall mean and include natural persons, firms, associations, corporations, business trusts, partnerships and bodies politic.   "Energy" shall mean and include any and all electric energy, no matter how or where generated or produced.   "System" shall mean and include any plant, works, system facilities, or properties, or parts thereof, together with all appurtenances thereto, used or useful in connection with the generation, production, transmission or distribution of energy.   "State" shall mean the State of Mississippi.   "Municipality" shall mean any incorporated city, town or village of the state.   "Federal agency" shall mean and include the United States of America, the President of the United States of America, Tennessee Valley Authority, the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works, the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration, and any and all other authorities, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States of America, heretofore or hereafter created.   "Improve" shall mean and include construct, reconstruct, improve, repair, extend, enlarge or alter.   "Service" shall mean and include the sale or other disposition of energy at the lowest cost consistent with sound economy, public advantage and the prudent conduct of the business of the authority.
MS Code § 77-5-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-5. Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority created

 A corporation, to be known as the "Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority," is hereby created as an agency of the state. Said authority shall be a public corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name, and shall under that name be a body politic and corporate.
MS Code § 77-5-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-7. Board of directors of authority

 The authority shall have a board of directors. The powers of the authority shall be vested in and exercised by a majority of the members of the board then in office.
MS Code § 77-5-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-9. Number, appointment, removal and terms of board of directors

 The board shall consist of three members who shall be appointed by the governor of the state, one (1) each from the three (3) supreme court districts of the state. The first appointment of members of the board shall be made by the governor by April 10, 1936. The term of office of the members of the board first appointed shall be one (1), two (2) and three (3) years, respectively, dating from the first day of the month in which the last of such appointments is made, and thereafter the term of office of the directors shall be three years. Directors shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualify, and directors shall be eligible for reappointment. An appointment to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term. The governor may remove any member of the board within the term for which such member shall have been appointed, giving to such member a copy of the charges against him and an opportunity to be heard in his defense.
MS Code § 77-5-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-11. Organization of board; officers

 Promptly after appointment the board shall meet to organize. At such meeting and at the first meeting in each year thereafter, the members shall choose from their number a president and a secretary.
MS Code § 77-5-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-13. Compensation of members of board

 The members of the board shall not be entitled to compensation for their services but they shall be entitled to reimbursement for all expenses incurred in connection with the performance of their duties, and to an honorarium of not more than six hundred dollars ($ 600.00) per year as the governor may decide, payable monthly.
MS Code § 77-5-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-15. Members of board shall not hold full time state office

 The members of the board shall not hold any full time salaried public office under the state.
MS Code § 77-5-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-17. Powers of board

 The board shall have power to do all things necessary or convenient in conducting the business of the authority, including, but not limited to:    The power to adopt and amend by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs and the business in which it is engaged;   To use, with the consent of a municipality, the agents, employees or facilities of such municipality and to provide for payment of the agreed proportion of the costs therefor;   To appoint officers, agents and employees and to fix their compensation;   To inquire into any matter relating to the affairs of the authority, to compel by subpoena the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers material to any such inquiry, to administer oaths to witnesses and to examine witnesses and such books and papers;   To appoint an advisory board to assist in the formation of proper policies in respect to the business of the authority;   To execute instruments;   To delegate to one or more of its members, or to its agents and employees, such powers and duties as it may deem proper.
MS Code § 77-5-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-19. Corporate purpose of the authority

 The corporate purpose of the authority is to encourage and promote the fullest possible use of energy by all of the inhabitants of the state by rendering service to said inhabitants, to whom energy is not available or, in the opinion of the board, is not available at reasonable rates.
MS Code § 77-5-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-21. General grant of powers to authority

 The authority is hereby vested with all powers necessary or requisite for the accomplishment of its corporate purpose and capable of being delegated by the legislature of this state. No enumeration of particular powers granted shall be construed to impair any general grant of power herein contained, or to limit any such grant to a power or powers of the same class or classes as those so enumerated.
MS Code § 77-5-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-25. Operations outside of state authorized

 To the extent necessary in the judgment of the board to make effective the powers conferred by this article, the authority shall have the power to acquire, own, operate, maintain and/or improve a generating and/or transmission system or systems outside the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 77-5-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-27. Issuance of bonds by authority

 The authority shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its bonds in anticipation of its revenues, for any corporate purpose. Said bonds may be authorized by resolution or resolutions of the board, and may be issued in one or more series, may bear such date or dates, mature at such time to times not exceeding twenty-five (25) years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding that allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972, payable semiannually, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, and be declared or become due before the maturity date thereof, as such resolution or resolutions may provide. Said bonds may be issued for money or property, at public or private sale for such price or prices, as the board shall determine. The interest cost to maturity of the money or property (at its value as determined by the board, the determination of which shall be conclusive) received for any issue of said bonds, shall not exceed the rate allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972. Said bonds may be repurchased by the authority out of any available funds at a price not to exceed the principal amount thereof and accrued interest, and all bonds so repurchased shall be canceled. Pending the preparation or execution of definitive bonds, interim receipts or certificates, or temporary bonds may be delivered to the purchaser or purchasers of said bonds. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds and the interest coupons appertaining thereto, if any, issued pursuant to this article shall possess all of the qualities of negotiable instruments.
MS Code § 77-5-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-29. Validity of bonds

 Said bonds bearing the signature of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all the persons whose signatures appear thereon shall have ceased to be officers. The validity of said bonds shall not be dependent on nor be affected by the validity or regularity of any proceedings relating to the acquisition or improvement of the system or systems for which said bonds are issued. The resolution or resolutions authorizing said bonds may provide that the bonds shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to this article, which recital shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and of the regularity of their issuance.
MS Code § 77-5-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-31. Bonds of authority not debts of state

 No holder or holders of any bonds issued under this article shall ever have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the state or of any political subdivision thereof to pay said bonds or the interest thereon. Each bond issued under this article shall recite in substance that said bond, including the interest thereon, is payable from the revenues pledged to the payment thereof, and that said bond does not constitute a debt of the state.
MS Code § 77-5-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-33. Rates, fees and charges; application thereof

 The authority shall not be operated for gain or profit or primarily as a source of revenue to the state. The authority shall, however, prescribe and collect reasonable rates, fees or charges for the services, facilities and commodities made available by it, and shall revise such rates, fees or charges from time to time whenever necessary so that the authority shall be and always remain self-supporting, and shall not require appropriations by the state to enable it to carry out its purpose. The rates, fees, or charges prescribed shall be such as will produce revenue at least sufficient (a) to pay when due all bonds and interest thereon, for the payment of which such revenue is or shall have been pledged, charged or otherwise incumbered, including reserves therefor, and (b) to provide for all expenses of operation, maintenance or improvement of the system or systems acquired by the authority, including reserves therefor. Any surplus thereafter remaining shall be devoted solely to the reduction of rates.
MS Code § 77-5-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-35. Pledge of state to bondholders that it will not impair rate-making power of authority

 The state does pledge to and agree with the holders of bonds issued by the authority that the state will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in the authority to fix and collect such rates, fees and charges as may be necessary or advisable in order to produce sufficient revenue to meet all expenses of maintenance and operation of its system or systems and to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holders of such bonds, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of the holders of such bonds, until such bonds together with interest thereon, and interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any suits, actions or proceedings by or on behalf of such bondholders are fully paid and discharged.
MS Code § 77-5-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority|§ 77-5-37. Security for bonds

 In connection with the issuance of bonds or in order to secure the payment of its bonds, the authority incorporated under this article shall have power:   To pledge all or any part of its revenues.   To vest in a trustee or trustees the right to enforce any covenant made to secure, to pay, or in relation to its bonds, to provide for the powers and duties of such trustee or trustees, to limit the liabilities thereof, and to provide the terms and conditions upon which the trustee or trustees or the holders of bonds or any amount or proportion of them may enforce any such covenant.   To make such covenants and to do any and all such acts and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order to secure its bonds or which, in the absolute discretion of the board, tend to make the bonds more marketable notwithstanding that such covenants, acts and things may restrict or interfere with the exercise of the powers granted in this article, it being the intention hereof to give the authority power to do all things in the issuance of bonds, and for their security, that a private business corporation can do under the general laws of the state.