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MS Code § 45-15-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 15 - High Voltage Power Lines|§ 45-15-15. Severability clause

 Each section of this chapter, and every part of each section, is hereby declared to be independent, and any court holding that any section or part thereof as void, ineffective or unconstitutional for any cause, shall not affect the other sections or parts thereof, and it is now declared that the other sections or parts of sections would have been enacted regardless of any section or parts of sections which might be held unconstitutional, inoperative or ineffective.
MS Code § 45-17-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 17 - Civil Emergencies|§ 45-17-1. Imposition of curfews during civil emergencies; definitions

 "Civil emergency" is defined as:    A riot or unlawful assembly characterized by any use of force or violence disturbing the public peace, or any threat to use such force and violence, if accompanied by immediate power of execution, by two (2) or more persons acting together and without authority of law.   Any natural disaster or man-made calamity, including but not limited to flood, conflagration, cyclone, tornado, earthquake or explosion within the geographic limits of a municipality resulting in the death or injury of persons, or the destruction of property to such an extent that extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety and welfare.   The destruction of property, or the death or injury of persons brought about by the deliberate acts of one (1) or more persons acting either alone or in concert with others when such acts are a threat to the peace of the general public or any segment thereof.    "Curfew" is hereby defined as a prohibition against any person or persons walking, running, loitering, standing, sitting, lying or motoring upon any alley, street, public property or vacant premises within the corporate limits of the municipality except persons officially designated to duty with reference to said civil emergency or those lawfully on the streets as defined hereinafter.   "Chief administrative officer" is defined to be the mayor of any municipality. Any municipality, however, may by ordinance specially designate any official as chief administrative officer for purposes of this chapter.
MS Code § 45-17-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 17 - Civil Emergencies|§ 45-17-3. Proclamation of emergency

 When, in the judgment of the chief administrative officer of a municipality a civil emergency as defined herein is determined to exist, he shall forthwith proclaim in writing the existence of same, a copy of which proclamation will be filed with the clerk of the municipality.
MS Code § 45-17-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 17 - Civil Emergencies|§ 45-17-5. Curfew order to state times and places applicable; maximum duration

 After proclamation of a civil emergency by the chief administrative officer, he may order a general curfew applicable to such geographical areas of the municipality or to the municipality as a whole as he deems advisable, and applicable during such hours of the day or night as he deems necessary in the interest of the public safety and welfare. Said proclamation and general curfew shall have the force and effect of law and shall continue in effect until rescinded in writing by the chief administrative officer, but not to exceed five (5) days.
MS Code § 45-17-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 17 - Civil Emergencies|§ 45-17-7. Acts and activities which may be prohibited during emergency

 After proclamation of a civil emergency, the chief administrative officer may at his discretion, in the interest of public safety and welfare:   Order the closing of all retail liquor stores.   Order the discontinuance of the sale of intoxicating liquor and/or beer.   Order the discontinuance of the manufacture, transfer, use, possession or transportation of a Molotov cocktail or any other device, instrument or object designed to explode or produce uncontained combustion.   Order the discontinuance of selling, distributing, dispensing or giving away of any firearms or ammunition of any character whatsoever.   Issue such other orders as are necessary for the protection of life and property.
MS Code § 45-17-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 17 - Civil Emergencies|§ 45-17-9. Violations of orders may be declared misdemeanors; penalties

 Municipalities may provide by ordinance that any person violating the provisions of orders issued by the chief administrative officer pursuant to this authorization during a proclaimed civil emergency be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or six (6) months imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 45-17-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 17 - Civil Emergencies|§ 45-17-11. Persons to whom curfew does not apply

 Any curfew as defined hereby shall not apply to persons lawfully on the streets and public places during a civil emergency who have obtained written permission of the local chief of police or other law enforcement officer then in charge of municipal law enforcement, which permission shall be granted on good cause shown. This curfew shall not apply to medical personnel in the performance of their duties.
MS Code § 45-18-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 18 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 45-18-1. Citation

 Section 45-18-3 may be cited as the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
MS Code § 45-18-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 18 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 45-18-3. Authorization of execution of compact; terms of compact

 The Legislature of the State of Mississippi hereby authorizes the Governor of the State of Mississippi to enter into a compact on behalf of the State of Mississippi with any other state legally joining therein, in the form substantially as follows:
MS Code § 45-21-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-1. Rock festival defined

 For the purposes of this chapter, the terms "rock festival" and "such event" mean, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning, an actual, or a reasonably foreseeable, assembly of one thousand (1,000) or more people which does or did continue, or can reasonably be expected to continue, for a period of eighteen (18) or more consecutive hours upon private property which does not contain an established place of worship and at which the principal source of entertainment is, was or will be musical in nature.
MS Code § 45-21-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-3. Permit to be obtained from sheriff

 Any individual, organization, corporation or other entity desiring to hold a rock festival in this state shall obtain, at least ten (10) or more days prior to the date upon which such event shall commence or be held, a written permit from the sheriff of the county in which such event is sought to be held. No rock festival shall be held in this state without a valid permit from the sheriff of such county.
MS Code § 45-21-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-5. Permit to be obtained from sheriff; conditions of issuance

 The sheriff of such county shall issue such written permit upon presentation by the applicant of the following:   A cash bond in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) conditioned to provide security that the applicant shall assume financial responsibility for any damages to public or privately owned real or personal property, for any fine assessed for the failure to comply with the specifications and plans presented to and certified by the state board of health and with any pertinent regulations of the state board of health about which the applicant had written notice prior to certification, and for the costs of any additional law enforcement personnel or equipment reasonably expended by any political subdivision of this state, if any of these occur as a direct result of such event;   A written certification by the state board of health that the written specifications and plans, proposed by the applicant, for the establishment of health and safety precautions and facilities in connection with such event for the purpose of assuring that the public health and safety will not be endangered; and   Written proof of the payment of the state amusement tax as provided in Section 27-11-5, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 45-21-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-7. Amenability to lawsuit

 Any individual, organization, corporation or other entity applying for a permit to hold a rock festival in this state shall be deemed to be doing business in this state. If such applicant is a nonresident of this state, the applying for such permit shall be deemed equivalent to the appointment by such nonresident of the Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi, or his successor or successors in office, to be the true and lawful attorney or agent of such nonresident upon whom all lawful process may be served in any action or proceeding accrued or accruing from such event. Such applicant is thereby further deemed to be subject to the laws of this state, the jurisdiction of the courts of this state and the fines, damages, penalties or other rulings and decrees of such courts regardless of whether the proceeds of the cash bond have been depleted.
MS Code § 45-21-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-9. Sheriff to obtain additional surety bond

 Upon the posting by such applicant of the cash bond pursuant to Section 45-21-5, the sheriff of such county shall secure a surety bond in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). Such surety bond shall be in addition to the official bond of such sheriff. The premium for such surety bond shall be paid by the applicant.
MS Code § 45-21-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-11. Health and safety regulations; approval of state board of health

  The state board of health is hereby directed to establish for rock festivals health and safety regulations which shall assure that the public health and safety is not endangered hereby and which shall provide for the furnishing of adequate undertakings to secure full compliance with the sanitary code and other applicable law, adequate and satisfactory water supply and sewerage facilities, adequate drainage, adequate toilet and lavatory facilities, adequate refuse storage and disposal facilities, adequate sleeping areas and facilities, wholesome food and sanitary food service, adequate medical facilities, insect and noxious weed control, adequate fire protection and such other matters as may be appropriate for security of life or health.   The state board of health is hereby authorized and empowered to approve and certify in writing the written specifications and plans proposed by any individual, organization, corporation or other entity desiring to hold a rock festival in this state. Such specifications and plans shall be submitted to the state board of health at least eighteen (18) days prior to the commencement of such event and shall conform to the health and safety regulations promulgated pursuant to this section. The state board of health shall grant such certification or deny such certification, with reasons for such denial, within eight (8) days of the submission of such specifications and plans. Such specifications and plans may be altered, with the approval of the state board of health, to conform with the health and safety regulations promulgated pursuant to this section.   In the review of the specifications and plans proposed by any individual, organization, corporation or other entity desiring to hold a rock festival in this state, the state board of health may require such specific written specifications, plans and reports as are necessary for reasonable and proper review and determination in the light of the various factors therein involved, including but not limited to the probable number of people that will be in attendance at such event.   The state board of health shall specify in the certification the number of tickets which may be sold or distributed within seventy-two (72) hours of the commencement of such event.   Such specifications and plans may contain reasonable alternative requirements based upon different numbers of tickets having been sold and distributed.
MS Code § 45-21-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-13. Restriction as to sale of tickets

 In order that the state board of health may establish criteria for implementing the pertinent health and safety regulations and that certification may be granted with a sufficient degree of certainty as to the probable number of people that will be in attendance at such event, no tickets of admission thereto shall be distributed or sold seventy-two (72) hours prior to the commencement of such event; provided, however, that tickets of admission may be distributed or sold within such seventy-two-hour period as specifically established by the state board of health in the certification or as approved, in writing, by the local board of health, if such additional sale or distribution of tickets can be permitted within the pertinent health and safety regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 45-21-11.
MS Code § 45-21-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-15. Inspection of site; notification of noncompliance

 The county board of health of the county in which such event is to be held shall inspect, within seventy-two (72) and at a time no later than forty-eight (48) hours before the commencement of such event, the location or site of such event to determine whether the holder of the permit has complied with the specifications and plans certified by the state board of health. After notifying the holder of such permit of the specific items with which substantial compliance does not exist and if the holder of such permit fails to comply within twenty-four (24) hours with those items specified in the inspection as not in substantial compliance with the specifications and plans certified by the state board of health, such county board of health shall notify the sheriff of such county of the lack of substantial compliance.
MS Code § 45-21-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-17. Revocation of permit

 Upon notification by the county board of health that the holder of a permit for such event has not substantially complied, within twenty-four (24) hours of the commencement of such event with the specifications and plans certified by the state board of health or any pertinent regulation of the state board of health about which the holder of the permit had written notice prior to such certification, the sheriff of such county shall thereupon revoke such permit.
MS Code § 45-21-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-19. Penalties

  Any individual, organization, corporation or other entity, holding or sponsoring a rock festival in this state without having obtained a written permit for such event from the sheriff of the county in which such event is held, shall be subject to a fine of no more than Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00). This subsection shall not apply to a holder of a permit which has been revoked by the sheriff upon notification by the county board of health of such county of the lack of substantial compliance with the specifications and plans certified by the state board of health.   Any individual, organization, corporation or other entity, holding or sponsoring a rock festival in this state with a permit which has been revoked by the sheriff upon notification by the county board of health of such county of the lack of compliance with the specifications and plans certified by the state board of health, shall be subject to a fine of no more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00).   In addition to the penalties authorized in subsections (1) and (2) of this section, any individual, organization, corporation or entity holding or sponsoring a rock festival in this state in violation of the certification of the state board of health or any pertinent regulation of the state board of health about which the applicant had written notice prior to such certification, shall be subject to a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each violation thereof.
MS Code § 45-21-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 21 - Rock Festivals|§ 45-21-21. Recovery or other disposition of bond

  If no court action or proceeding has been instituted against the holder of such permit to recover property damage incurred as a direct result of such event, if no fine assessed against the holder of such permit for failure to substantially comply with the specifications and plans certified by the state board of health or any pertinent regulation of the state board of health about which the holder of the permit had written notice prior to such certification remains unpaid and if no additional law enforcement expense remains unpaid, then sixty (60) days after the conclusion of such event the sheriff shall return the full amount of the cash bond to the party posting it thereof.   If a court action or proceeding has been instituted against the holder of such permit, then the sheriff shall place such cash bond with such court where such action or proceeding has been instituted to be placed in escrow. If no such court action or proceeding has been instituted but a fine assessed against the holder of such permit for failure to comply with the health and safety regulations remains unpaid, or if any additional law enforcement expense remains unpaid, then the sheriff shall reimburse the political subdivision reasonably incurring such legitimate additional law enforcement expenses, the sheriff shall forward to the court assessing such fine portions of the cash bond to meet such obligations and the sheriff shall forward the remainder of such cash bond returned to the party posting. If the cash bond is insufficient to meet such obligations, then the cash bond shall be apportioned equally among such court and such political subdivision.
MS Code § 45-23-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 23 - Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety|§ 45-23-1. Title

 This chapter shall be cited as the "Mississippi Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Law of 1974."
MS Code § 45-23-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 23 - Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety|§ 45-23-3. Application

 This chapter, except as otherwise herein provided, shall apply to all boilers and pressure vessels operating or intended for operation in the State of Mississippi or its territories.
MS Code § 45-23-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 23 - Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety|§ 45-23-5. Definitions

 The words, terms and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein unless the context requires otherwise:    "Boiler" shall mean a closed vessel in which water is heated, steam or high temperature liquid is generated, steam is superheated, or in which any combination of these functions is accomplished, under pressure or vacuum, for use externally to itself by the direct application of energy from the combustion of fuels, or from other high temperature fluids, or from electricity or nuclear energy. The term "boiler" shall include fired units for heating or vaporizing liquids other than water where these units are separate from processing systems and are complete within themselves.   "Power boiler" shall mean a boiler in which steam or other vapor is generated at a pressure of more than fifteen (15) pounds per square inch gauge (hereinafter referred to as psig).   "High pressure, high temperature water boiler" shall mean a water boiler operating at pressures exceeding one hundred sixty (160) psig, or temperatures exceeding two hundred fifty (250) degrees Fahrenheit.   "Heating boiler" shall mean a steam or vapor boiler operating at pressures not exceeding fifteen (15) psig, or a hot water boiler operating at pressures not exceeding one hundred sixty (160) psig, or temperatures not exceeding two hundred fifty (250) degrees Fahrenheit.     "Pressure vessel" shall mean a vessel in which the pressure is obtained from an external source or by the application of heat from an indirect source or from a direct source other than those vessels defined in paragraph (1) of this section.   "Certificate inspection" shall mean an inspection, the report of which is used by the chief inspector to decide whether or not a certificate as provided by Sections 45-23-41 through 45-23-49 may be issued. This certificate inspection shall be an internal inspection when construction permits; otherwise it shall be as complete an inspection as possible.