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MS Code § 77-13-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-13. Advance notice as relieving excavator of certain liabilities

 The act of giving notice in accordance with Section 77-13-5 shall relieve the notifying party of all liability to a utility should such notice be ignored or the information provided by the utility subsequent to said notice be materially inaccurate; provided, however, the act of giving advance notice and/or obtaining information as required by this chapter shall not relieve any person making excavations from doing so in a careful and prudent manner, nor shall it relieve such person from liability for any injury or damage proximately resulting from his/her negligence.
MS Code § 77-13-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-15. Notice to one-call system

 Notification to Mississippi One-Call System, Inc., as provided in Section 77-13-5, may be effected by giving notice to Mississippi One-Call System, Inc., in writing, by telephone, fax or other electronic means made available through Mississippi One-Call System, Inc.
MS Code § 77-13-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-17. Operator responsibilities

  Any operator who fails to follow, abide by or comply with this chapter shall be responsible for the cost or expense the excavator shall incur as a direct result of the failure of the operator to follow, abide by or comply with the provisions of this chapter.   Operators who have underground utility lines or underground facilities within the State of Mississippi shall be a member of Mississippi 811, Inc.   The person giving notice of the intent to excavate to Mississippi 811, Inc., shall be furnished an individual locate request number for each notification and, upon request, shall be furnished the names of the operators to whom the notification will be transmitted.   An adequate record of all notifications shall be maintained by Mississippi 811, Inc., in order to document timely compliance with this chapter. These records shall be retained for a period of not less than four (4) years and shall be made available at a reasonable cost upon proper and adequate advance request.   The services of Mississippi 811, Inc., will be provided on working days as defined in Section 77-13-3(h) at least between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.   Mississippi 811, Inc., will voice-record the notification telephone calls and after-hour calls will at least reach a voice recording which explains emergency notification procedures.   All operators shall provide Mississippi 811, Inc., the following information:   A list of counties, cities and towns in which the operator has underground utility lines or underground facilities in each county.   A digital map, paper map or geospatial information showing the location of the operator's underground utility lines or underground facilities or for other reasons wish to receive notification of proposed excavation.   An update on an annual basis of each operator's underground utility lines or underground facilities for the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 77-13-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-19. Enforcement; injunctions

 In addition to any other rights and remedies which a person may have, any person shall have the right to resort to and apply for injunctive relief, both temporary and permanent, in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce compliance with the provisions of this chapter and to restrain and prevent violations and threatened violations thereof.
MS Code § 77-13-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-23. Operator waives right to recover damages to operator's underground facilities under certain circumstances; exemption

 Any operator who suffers damages as a result of not participating as a member of Mississippi 811, Inc., waives the right to recover damages to the operator's underground facilities from the excavator if the excavator complied with the provisions of this chapter. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any municipality, as defined in Section 17-1-1, that owns or operates a utility.
MS Code § 77-13-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-25. Effect of chapter on certain contracts between railroads and owners or operators of underground facilities or utility lines on railroad right-of-way

 Nothing in this chapter shall modify or abrogate any contractual provision entered into between any railroad and any other party owning or operating an underground facility or underground utility lines within the railroad's right-of-way.
MS Code § 77-13-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-27. Enforcement of damage prevention

  Any person, whether excavator or operator, who violates this chapter, or the rules or regulations promulgated under this chapter, shall be subject to a civil penalty as follows:   For a first violation, the violator shall complete a course of training concerning compliance with this chapter as determined by the executive committee;   For a second violation occurring within a five-year period, the violator shall complete a course of training concerning compliance with this chapter as determined by the executive committee or pay a civil penalty in an amount set by the executive committee, not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) per incident, or both;   For a third or subsequent violation occurring within a five-year period, the violator shall pay a civil penalty in an amount set by the executive committee, not to exceed Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) per incident; and   Notwithstanding this subsection and subsection (2) of this section, if any violation was the result of gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct as determined by the executive committee, the executive committee shall require the violator to complete a course of training concerning compliance with this chapter as determined by the executive committee and pay a civil penalty in an amount set by the executive committee, not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per incident.     Any person who is required to complete a course of training under subsection (1) of this section shall be responsible for paying for the cost of the training. For those instances in which training is ordered, if the person is a firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, joint venture, department or subdivision of the state or other governmental entity or any other body or organization, the executive committee may require that at least one (1) manager or supervisor thereof attend any such training.   Any excavator who violates this chapter may be required to cease work on any excavation, or not start a proposed excavation, until the excavator complies with this chapter.
MS Code § 77-13-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-31. Powers of the board

  The board has the power and authority to:   Adopt a budget and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the responsibilities of the board and the executive committee under this chapter. The board shall adopt its initial budget and promulgate its initial rules and regulations no later than December 31, 2016.   Make and enter into contracts.     The board shall:   Through its executive committee, initiate investigations and conduct hearings as required by this section;   Manage the Underground Damage Prevention Fund created by Section 77-13-35;   Assess its annual operating cost to operators in an amount equal to the amount necessary to offset the cost of investigative, administrative and legal services and other costs reasonably necessary to carry out its responsibilities under this chapter. The annual operating costs shall be determined after deducting funds available from other sources, including, but not limited to, federal grants, and such annual operating costs shall be apportioned in a proportional manner based on volume of locate requests, and shall be collected by Mississippi 811, Inc., from the operators; and   Subject to the availability of funding in the Underground Damage Prevention Fund created by Section 77-13-35, contract with appropriate individuals, entities or agencies to conduct training and public awareness for damage prevention.
MS Code § 77-13-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-33. Investigation of complaint of violation; hearing; judicial review

  The board shall develop and implement a process whereby upon receipt of a complaint of a violation of this chapter, the executive committee shall initiate an investigation of the complaint which may include a request that the Pipeline Safety Division designate an employee of the division who will investigate the complaint in accordance with this chapter and the rules adopted by the board.   Any investigator acting upon request by the executive committee may issue citations for violations of this chapter in a form and manner established by the board. Any citation shall include a recommendation for the penalty to be assessed and training to be completed under Section 77-13-27.   If the person to whom the citation is issued under subsection (2) of this section does not pay the citation or submit to ordered training, or both as applicable, within thirty (30) days, then the executive committee shall conduct a hearing and issue an order which includes its findings and ordered penalties. The hearing shall be held at the time and place set forth in the citation or in a separate notice of hearing.   A person aggrieved by the executive committee's order may, within sixty (60) days, seek judicial review in the form of an appeal "de novo" in the Chancery Court of the county in which the excavation occurred. If the excavation occurred in more than one (1) county, then the appeal shall be conducted in the chancery court of the county where the greatest amount of excavation referenced in the citation occurred.   The person initiating a complaint of violation under this chapter shall submit to the board all information and documents in its possession related specifically to the alleged violation.   Evidence of findings of fact, civil penalties, or any of the actions or proceedings pursuant to this chapter shall not be admissible in any other civil causes of action. This chapter shall not limit any person's right to pursue any additional civil remedy otherwise allowed by law.   Nothing in this chapter shall grant the executive committee or the board jurisdiction over damage to utilities located above the ground.
MS Code § 77-13-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-35. Underground Damage Prevention Fund

  There is created an Underground Damage Prevention Fund to be administered and used by the board for the purpose of carrying out its duties under this chapter. All sources of funds collected by the board under this chapter, including, but not limited to, grants, assessments, and civil penalties collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited into the Underground Damage Prevention Fund. Any monies remaining in the Underground Damage Prevention Fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund, but shall remain in the Underground Damage Prevention Fund for the exclusive use of the board. The expenditure of monies in the Underground Damage Prevention Fund shall be at the discretion of the board to carry out its duties under this chapter. Excess funds shall be used for purposes related to buried utility damage prevention, including, but not limited to, public awareness programs, training and education programs for excavators, operators, line locators, and other persons to reduce the number and severity of violations of this chapter.   The Pipeline Safety Division, with assistance from the board, shall apply for all grants, including those awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which may be used to fund the cost of services associated with Section 77-13-29(3), and any such grants received shall be used to pay for such services.
MS Code § 77-13-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities|§ 77-13-37. Scope of authority

 Nothing in this chapter shall expand the jurisdiction of the Pipeline Safety Division or the commission in any way.
MS Code § 77-15-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 15 - Local Natural Gas Districts|§ 77-15-3. Annual financial report

 Audited financial statements shall be maintained in the office of each local natural gas district for public inspection and shall be available to the public during normal business hours.
MS Code § 77-17-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act|§ 77-17-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act."
MS Code § 77-17-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act|§ 77-17-7. No expansion of regulatory authority of state agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions beyond state or federal laws and regulations in place on January 30, 2019

 The passage of Chapter 301, Laws of 2019, does not expand the regulatory authority of any state agency, instrumentality or political subdivision of the State of Mississippi beyond the existing state or federal law and regulations in place on January 30, 2019.
MS Code § 77-17-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act|§ 77-17-9. Electric cooperatives prohibited from: allowing use of electric delivery system by affiliate to diminish reliability of the system, requiring purchase of broadband services from affiliate as condition of receiving electric energy from the cooperative, and disconnecting electric service for nonpayment of broadband services provided by affiliate

  An electric cooperative shall not allow the installation or operation of a broadband system on its electric delivery system by an affiliate or other broadband operator to diminish the reliability of the electric delivery system.   An electric cooperative shall not require any person to purchase broadband services from an affiliate or other broadband operator as a condition of receiving or continuing to receive electric energy from the electric cooperative.   An electric cooperative shall not disconnect, nor threaten to disconnect, its electric service to any customer due to the customer's failure to pay for broadband services provided to the customer by an affiliate or other broadband operator.
MS Code § 77-17-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act|§ 77-17-13. Liberal construction of chapter

 This chapter is to be liberally construed, and the enumeration of any object, power, manner, method or thing shall not be deemed to exclude like or similar objects, purposes, powers, manners, methods or things. Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted or construed to infringe upon nor otherwise encumber the property or property interests used by any investor-owned electric public utility to provide electric service to its customers.
MS Code § 77-17-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act|§ 77-17-15. Annual audit of compliance with chapter; notice to members of election of board of directors, meetings, and election results

 Every electric cooperative shall conduct an annual audit of compliance with this chapter, which shall be made publicly available. Any electric cooperative electing to operate under the provisions of this chapter must send notice by mail to its members of its elections for board of directors separately from any bill, and must send notice by mail to its members of (i) application for candidacy to the board of directors, and (ii) annual meetings at least ninety (90) days before an election or annual meeting. Any electric cooperative electing to operate under the provisions of this chapter must publish, by paid advertisement in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the electric cooperative's certificated area, results of its elections to each member.
MS Code § 79-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|§ 79-1-1. Automatic extension of corporate charters for certain corporations under certain circumstances

    If a business corporation was created (i) for a limited period of existence, and (ii) before April 18, 1988, the life of the business corporation shall be perpetual if the business corporation continues to do business for thirty (30) days after March 14, 2011.   If a nonprofit corporation was created (i) for a limited period of existence, and (ii) before January 1, 1988, the life of the nonprofit corporation shall be perpetual if the nonprofit corporation continues to do business for thirty (30) days after March 14, 2011.     If a business or nonprofit corporation (a) has a limited period of existence that expired before March 14, 2011, and (b) the business or nonprofit corporation continues to do business for thirty (30) days after March 14, 2011, the life of that corporation shall be perpetual. The corporation's charter and articles of incorporation shall be deemed to have been automatically amended before the end of the limited period of existence to state that the corporation's life shall be perpetual. No further action on the part of the corporation is necessary to execute the provisions of this subsection.   Any corporation may, after March 14, 2011, amend its articles of incorporation to provide for a limited period of existence.
MS Code § 79-1-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|§ 79-1-3. Gifts and donations

 In addition to all other powers granted by law, every corporation organized or existing under the laws of this state shall have power, from its earnings, to make gifts, donations, or contributions for the public welfare or for charitable, scientific, religious, or educational purposes, which gifts, donations, or contributions shall be charged by such corporation to operating expenses. The specific grant of such power by this section shall not be construed as raising any presumption or implication that such power has not heretofore existed.
MS Code § 79-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|§ 79-1-5. Execution of proxies by fiduciary without order or direction of court

 Without obtaining the order or direction of any court or the judge thereof, in vacation, any fiduciary, including those acting as executor, administrator, guardian, agent or trustee, owning corporate stock registered in the name of the fiduciary, as such, or in the name of another for the convenience of the fiduciary, or in the names of more than one fiduciary, whether the corporation issuing such stock is foreign or domestic, may, in addition to the voting rights now vested in such fiduciary, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, a proxy or proxies to others for the voting of such corporate stock, and may waive notice of and give consent to any meeting of stockholders of any corporation, regular or special, or a meeting of property owners, or cause such to be done, and may authorize in writing any action which could be taken by stockholders in meeting assembled, where such consent is authorized by statute, charter or certificate of incorporation, or bylaws, or cause such written consent to be given, but subject always to the following limitations:   In granting any proxy, reasonable care must be exercised in deciding who shall act as proxy and whether or not instructions as to the voting of said stock shall be given to such proxy.   If there are two or more fiduciaries acting, the proxy shall be executed by, and voting instructions shall be issued by, agreement of all fiduciaries or a majority of them.   In the event the manner or method of voting, or the purposes to be accomplished, are fixed by the instrument or instruments appointing said fiduciaries, the directions contained therein shall govern.
MS Code § 79-1-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|§ 79-1-7. Defective organization not a defense

 It shall not be a defense to any suit against a corporation that there was a defect or informality in its organization.
MS Code § 79-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|§ 79-1-9. Social, civil and political rights of employees protected

 Any corporation doing business in this state shall be liable to a penalty of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) for every unlawful interference with the social, civil, or political rights of any of its agents or employees, and the same may be recovered by suit, to be brought by the injured party.
MS Code § 79-1-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|§ 79-1-11. May execute bond in suits

 Any corporation, under the signature of its president or other authorized officer, agent, or attorney, may execute, without affixing the corporate seal, all bonds which shall be necessary at the commencement or during the progress of any case to a final determination, and such bonds shall be binding on the corporation.
MS Code § 79-1-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|§ 79-1-13. Property and franchise of corporation salable under judgment

 When judgment shall be rendered against any corporation, all its property, real and personal, and its franchise shall be liable to be seized and sold in satisfaction thereof; and the sale shall vest the title to the franchise in the purchaser, with all privileges and immunities; and the officer making the sale shall immediately put him in possession; and the purchaser may recover any penalties imposed for injuries to the franchise, and shall also discharge all the duties imposed by the charter on the corporate body, and be liable to like penalties as the original stockholders which may accrue after his purchase of the franchise.