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MS Code § 75-85-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 85 - Transient Vendor|§ 75-85-9. State tax commission to prepare necessary forms

 The State Tax Commission shall prepare uniform forms for license applications, license certificates and license renewals issued under this chapter.
MS Code § 75-85-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 85 - Transient Vendor|§ 75-85-11. Registered agent for transient vendor; tax collector as agent for service of process

  Each applicant for a transient vendor license shall designate a registered agent on the license application. The registered agent must be a resident of the county or municipality for which the license is sought and shall be the agent on whom any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the licensee may be served. The registered agent must agree in writing to act as the agent. The license applicant shall file a copy of the agreement with the license application.   The county tax collector and the municipal tax collector shall maintain an alphabetical list of all transient vendors in the county or municipality, as the case may be, and the names and addresses of their registered agents.   If a transient vendor who does business in a county or municipality fails to have or to maintain a registered agent in that county or municipality or if the designated registered agent cannot be found at the stated permanent address, the county tax collector or municipal tax collector, as the case may be, is the agent of the transient vendor for service of process, notices or demands. Service on the tax collector is made by delivering to his office duplicate copies of the process, notice or demand. If such a process, notice or demand is served on the tax collector, he shall immediately forward one (1) copy by registered or certified mail to the permanent address of the transient vendor.   This section does not limit or otherwise affect the right of any person to serve a process, notice or demand in any other manner authorized by law.
MS Code § 75-85-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 85 - Transient Vendor|§ 75-85-13. License fee; bond requirements

  Each applicant for a transient vendor license shall include a license fee set by the governing authority of the county or municipality not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) with the application, which fee shall be deposited in the general fund of the county or municipality that issues the license. The applicant shall also execute a cash bond or a surety bond issued by a corporate surety authorized to do business in this state in an amount that is the lesser of either Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) or five percent (5%) of the wholesale value of any merchandise or service to be offered for sale by the applicant. The surety bond shall be issued in favor of the state and shall be conditioned upon payment of: (a) all taxes due from the applicant to the state or to a political subdivision of the state; (b) any fines assessed against the applicant or the applicant's agents or employees for a violation of this chapter; and (c) any judgment rendered against the applicant or the applicant's agents or employees in a cause of action commenced by a purchaser of merchandise or services not later than one (1) year after the date the merchandise or services were sold by the applicant.   The transient vendor shall maintain the bond during the period that the vendor conducts business in the county or municipality and for a period of one (1) year after the termination of the business. After the transient vendor furnishes satisfactory proof to the county tax collector or municipal tax collector, as the case may be, that the vendor has satisfied all claims of purchasers of merchandise from or services offered by the vendor and that all sales taxes and other applicable taxes have been paid, the bond shall be released.
MS Code § 75-85-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 85 - Transient Vendor|§ 75-85-15. Issuance of license; validity of license; renewal of license

  The county tax collector and the municipal tax collector shall issue a transient vendor license under this chapter only if all requirements of this chapter have been met. The license is not transferable and is valid only within the territorial limits of the issuing county or municipality. A license expires ninety (90) days after the day of issuance.   A license may be renewed on payment of a Twenty-five Dollar ($25.00) renewal fee and filing for renewal with the county tax collector or municipal tax collector, as the case may be, before the expiration of the current license. A license may be renewed only one (1) time after which a licensee must once again purchase a new license pursuant to the provisions of Section 75-85-13, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 75-85-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 85 - Transient Vendor|§ 75-85-17. Posting of sales tax number, license number and statement concerning sales receipt; vendor to keep running total of sales

 While transacting his business, a transient vendor shall post in a prominent place, so that they may clearly be seen by purchasers of the merchandise or services which he is offering, his state sales tax number, his transient vendor license number, and a statement that he is required to give purchasers, at the time of payment, receipts for purchases that include sales tax. The postings required in this section shall be written in bold, legible letters and numbers not less than one (1) inch in height. The transient vendor shall keep a running total of his sales.
MS Code § 75-85-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 85 - Transient Vendor|§ 75-85-19. Penalties for violation of chapter

 Any person who knowingly or intentionally operates a transient business without a valid license as provided by this chapter or who knowingly or intentionally advertises, offers for sale, or sells any merchandise or services in violation of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six (6) months, or be both fined and imprisoned. Such person may also be proceeded against by suit, and the tax collector may seize and sell any property of the person liable for the tax and penalty in the same manner as property of taxpayers delinquent for the payment of ad valorem taxes due on personal property may be distrained and sold.
MS Code § 75-87-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 87 - Contracts Between Out-of-State Principals and Commissioned Sales Representatives|§ 75-87-1. Definitions

 As used in this chapter:   "Commission" means compensation accruing to a sales representative for payment by a principal, the rate of which is expressed as a percentage of the dollar amount of certain orders or sales.   "Principal" means any person who does not have a permanent or fixed place of business in this state and who:   Engages in the business of manufacturing, producing, importing or distributing a product or products for sale to customers who purchase such product or products for resale;   Utilizes sales representatives to solicit orders for such product or products; and   Compensates the sales representatives, in whole or in part, by commission.   "Sales representative" means any person who engages in the business of soliciting, on behalf of a principal, orders for the purchase at wholesale of the product or products of the principal. The term "sales representative" shall not include a person who places orders or purchases for such person's own account for resale or is engaged in home solicitation sales regulated pursuant to Section 75-66-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 75-87-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 87 - Contracts Between Out-of-State Principals and Commissioned Sales Representatives|§ 75-87-3. Sales representative contract to set forth means by which commissions shall be computed and paid

 Whenever any principal enters into an oral or written contract with a sales representative for services to be rendered within this state and the contemplated method of compensation of the sales representative involves a commission, the contract shall set forth the means by which the commission shall be computed and paid.
MS Code § 75-87-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 87 - Contracts Between Out-of-State Principals and Commissioned Sales Representatives|§ 75-87-5. Commissions due and payable within 21 days of termination of sales representative's contract

 Whenever the contract between a sales representative and any principal is terminated, all commissions due the sales representative by the principal shall be due and payable within twenty-one (21) days of such termination.
MS Code § 75-87-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 87 - Contracts Between Out-of-State Principals and Commissioned Sales Representatives|§ 75-87-7. Action to recover commissions; triple commissions; attorney fees

 Any principal who fails to timely pay the sales representative as provided in Section 75-87-5, shall be liable to the sales representative in a civil action for up to triple the commissions due to the sales representative, plus reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
MS Code § 75-89-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-1. Short Title

 This chapter shall be know and may be cited as the "Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act."
MS Code § 75-89-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-5. Commodity sale or purchase permitted only pursuant to Section 75-89-7 or 75-89-9

 Except as otherwise provided in Section 75-89-7 or Section 75-89-9, no person shall sell or purchase, or offer to sell or purchase, any commodity under any commodity contract or under any commodity option, or offer to enter into or enter into as seller or purchaser any commodity contract or any commodity option.
MS Code § 75-89-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-7. Persons authorized to conduct commodity transactions

 The prohibitions in Section 75-89-5 shall not apply to any transaction offered by and in which any of the following persons, or any employee, officer or director thereof acting solely in that capacity, is the purchaser or seller:   A person registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a futures commission merchant or as a leverage transaction merchant whose activities require such registration;   A person registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or registered under the laws of this state as a securities broker-dealer whose activities require such registration;   A person affiliated with, and whose obligations and liabilities under the transaction are guaranteed by, a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this section;   A person who is a member of a contract market designated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or any clearinghouse thereof;   A financial institution.   The exemption provided by this section shall not apply to any transaction or activity which is prohibited by the Commodity Exchange Act or CFTC rule.
MS Code § 75-89-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-11. Requirements to engage in trade or business of commodity merchant

  No person shall engage in the trade or business of, or otherwise act as, a commodity merchant unless such person:   Is registered or temporarily licensed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for each activity constituting such person as a commodity merchant and such registration or temporary license shall not have expired, nor been suspended nor revoked; or   Is exempt from such registration by virtue of the Commodity Exchange Act or of a CFTC rule.     No board of trade shall trade, or provide a place for the trading of, any commodity contract or commodity option required to be traded on or subject to the rules of a contract market designated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission unless such board of trade has been so designated for such commodity contract or commodity option and such designation shall not have been vacated, nor suspended nor revoked.
MS Code § 75-89-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-13. Fraudulent or deceitful acts, false or misleading statements or reports, and the like prohibited

 No person, in connection with the purchase or sale of, the offer to sell, the offer to purchase, the offer to enter into, or the entry into any commodity contract or commodity option, shall directly or indirectly:   Cheat or defraud, or attempt to cheat or defraud, any other person or employ any device, scheme or artifice to defraud any other person;   Make any false report, enter any false record or make any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;   Engage in any transaction, act, practice or course of business, including without limitation any form of advertising or solicitation, which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person; or   Misappropriate or convert the funds, security or property of any other person.
MS Code § 75-89-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-15. Vicarious or agency liability

  The act, omission or failure of any official, agent, or other person acting for any individual, association, partnership, corporation or trust within the scope of his employment or office shall be deemed the act, omission or failure of such individual, association, partnership, corporation or trust, as well as of such official, agent or other person.   Every person who directly or indirectly controls another person liable under any provision of this chapter, every partner, officer, or director of such other person, every person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions, every employee of such other person who materially aids in the violation is also liable jointly and severally with and to the same extent as such other person, unless the person who is also liable by virtue of this provision sustains the burden of proof that he did not know, and in the exercise of reasonable care could not have known, of the existence of the facts by reason of which the liability is alleged to exist.
MS Code § 75-89-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-17. Purpose and construction; no private rights or remedies created

 This chapter may be construed and implemented to effectuate its general purpose to protect investors, to prevent and prosecute illegal and fraudulent schemes involving commodity contracts and to maximize coordination with federal and other states' laws and the administration and enforcement thereof. This chapter is not intended to create any rights or remedies upon which actions may be brought by private persons against persons who violate the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 75-89-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-19. Investigation and enforcement by administrator; compulsion of testimony and other evidence

  The administrator may conduct investigations, within or without this state, as he finds necessary or appropriate to:   Determine whether any person has violated, or is about to violate, any provision of this chapter or any rule or order of the administrator; or   Aid in enforcement of this chapter.     The administrator may publish information concerning any violation of this chapter or any rule or order of the administrator.   For purposes of any investigation or proceeding under this chapter, the administrator or any officer or employee designated by rule or order, may administer oaths and affirmations, subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, take evidence and require the production of any books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, agreements or other documents or records which the administrator finds to be relevant or material to the inquiry.     If a person does not give testimony or produce the documents required by the administrator or a designated employee pursuant to an administrative subpoena, the administrator or designated employee may apply for a court order compelling compliance with the subpoena or the giving of the required testimony.   The request for order of compliance may be addressed to either:   The Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, if the person is within this state; or   The appropriate court of the state having jurisdiction over the person refusing to testify or produce, if the person is outside this state.
MS Code § 75-89-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-21. Action by administrator to prevent, enjoin, and prosecute violations; administrative penalties

  If the administrator believes, whether or not based upon an investigation conducted under Section 75-89-19, that any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act or practice constituting a violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule or order hereunder, the administrator may seek any or all of the following remedies:   Issue a cease and desist order with or without a prior hearing against the person(s) engaged in the prohibited activities, directing them to cease and desist from further illegal activity;   Issue an order imposing an administrative penalty up to a maximum of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) for each offense and each violation shall be considered as a separate offense in a single proceeding or a series of related proceedings, to be paid to the administrator and requiring reimbursement to the administrator for all costs and expenses incurred in the investigation of the violation(s) and in the institution of administrative proceedings, if any, as a result thereof; or   Initiate any of the actions specified in subsection (2) of this section.     The administrator may institute any or all of the following actions in the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, or in the appropriate courts of another state, in addition to any legal or equitable remedies otherwise available:   An action for a declaratory judgment;   An action for a prohibitory or mandatory injunction to enjoin the violation and to ensure compliance with this chapter or any rule or order of the administrator;   An action for disgorgement; or   An action for appointment of a receiver or conservator for the defendant or the defendant's assets.
MS Code § 75-89-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-23. Judicial measures to prevent, enjoin, and prosecute violations of Mississippi or other state's Commodity Act; special remedies; administrator need not post bond

    Upon a proper showing by the administrator that a person has violated, or is about to violate, any provision of this chapter or any rule or order of the administrator, the court may grant appropriate legal or equitable remedies.   Upon a showing of violation of this chapter or a rule or order of the administrator, the court, in addition to traditional legal and equitable remedies, including temporary restraining orders, permanent or temporary prohibitory or mandatory injunctions, and writs of prohibition or mandamus, may grant the following special remedies:   Disgorgement;   Declaratory judgment;   Restitution to investors wishing restitution; and   Appointment of a receiver or conservator for the defendant or the defendant's assets.     Appropriate remedies when the defendant is shown only about to violate this chapter or a rule or order of the administrator shall be limited to:   A temporary restraining order;   A temporary or permanent injunction;   A writ of prohibition or mandamus; or   An order appointing a receiver or conservator for the defendant or the defendant's assets.     Upon a proper showing by the administrator or commodity agency of another state that a person, other than a government or governmental agency or instrumentality, has violated, or is about to violate, any provision of the commodity code of that state or any rule or order of the administrator or commodity agency of that state, the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, may grant appropriate legal and equitable remedies.   Upon showing of a violation of the commodity act of another state or a rule or order of the administrator or commodity agency of another state, the court, in addition to traditional legal or equitable remedies including temporary restraining orders, permanent or temporary prohibitory or mandatory injunctions and writs of prohibition or mandamus, may grant the following special remedies:   Disgorgement; and   Appointment of a receiver, conservator or ancillary receiver or conservator for the defendant or the defendant's assets located in this state.     Appropriate remedies when the defendant is shown only about to violate the commodity act of another state or a rule or order of the administrator or commodity agency of another state shall be limited to:   A temporary restraining order;   A temporary or permanent injunction;   A writ of prohibition or mandamus; and   An order appointing a receiver, conservator or ancillary receiver or conservator for the defendant or the defendant's assets located in this state.       The court shall not require the administrator to post a bond in any official action under this chapter.
MS Code § 75-89-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 89 - Mississippi Commodities Enforcement Act|§ 75-89-25. Penalties; period of limitations; institution of criminal proceedings

  Any person who willfully violates:   Any provision of this chapter; or   Any rule or order of the administrator under this chapter shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) or imprisoned not more than five (5) years, or both, for each violation.     Any person convicted of violating a rule or order under this chapter may be fined, but may not be imprisoned, if the person proves he had no knowledge of the rule or order.   No indictment or information may be returned under this chapter more than five (5) years after the alleged violation.   The administrator may refer such evidence as is available concerning violations of this chapter or any rule or order of the administrator to the Attorney General or to the proper district attorney, who may, with or without such a referral from the administrator, institute the appropriate criminal proceedings under this chapter.