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MS Code § 77-5-447 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 9 - Local Governmental Power Development Under Laws of 1936|§ 77-5-447. Construction of article; article supplemental and additional to existing law

 This article is for the public purpose of promoting the increased use of electricity in the urban and rural areas of this state, and to enable all counties, as well as cities and towns, to secure the benefit of the surplus power generated or to be generated by the Tennessee Valley Authority at Wilson Dam in the State of Alabama and Norris Dam in the State of Tennessee, or the power generated at any other works or dams. This article is remedial in nature and the powers granted in it shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes hereof, and to this end every municipality shall have power to do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes hereof in addition to the powers expressly conferred in this article.   The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law. Bonds may be issued under the provisions of this article for the acquisition or improvement of an electric plant notwithstanding that any other law may provide for the issuance of bonds for like purposes and without regard to the requirements, restrictions or procedural provisions contained in any other law. Any proceedings heretofore taken by any municipality relating to the subject-matter of this article, whether or not commenced under any other law, may at the option of the governing body, be discontinued and new proceedings instituted under this article.
MS Code § 77-5-501 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 11 - Unfair Practices of Electricity Distributors|§ 77-5-501. Competition with proposed system barred for six months after filing of maps and statement of proposed operation

  Whenever a corporation or association organized under the provisions of Article 5 of this chapter (hereafter referred to in this article as the "filing corporation") or whenever a group of persons which has formed a temporary organization with the intention of forming such a corporation or association under said laws, shall file with the Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority (hereafter referred to in this article as the "authority") a map or maps indicating the area or areas in which the operations of said filing corporation are intended to be conducted, together with a statement verified by oath or affirmation to the effect that a majority of the potential users of electric energy, not then receiving central station electric service in said area or areas, has signified in writing its willingness to take service from the proposed system of said filing corporation it shall be unlawful for an electric utility, power and light company, person or corporation, after receipt of any notice provided in this article of the filing of said map or maps and statement, to begin the construction of any electric distribution lines within said area or areas or to solicit customers for electric service therein or in any manner to conflict, interfere or compete with the proposed system of said filing corporation, until after the expiration of six (6) months from the date of said filing of said map or maps and statement.   The words "area" or "areas" as used herein in connection with the maps to be filed by said filing corporation shall be deemed to mean the area or areas which may be served in normal practice by secondary voltage extensions from the primary voltage lines indicated in said maps, which in any event shall not be less than fifteen hundred (1500) feet from either side of said primary lines.
MS Code § 77-5-503 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 11 - Unfair Practices of Electricity Distributors|§ 77-5-503. Competition with proposed system barred for twelve months after filing of notice of federal loan agreement

 In the event that the filing corporation within the six months period provided for in Section 77-5-501 shall enter into any loan agreement with any federal agency for the financing of its proposed electric system, and shall file a written notice thereof with the authority, together with a copy of said loan agreement, no such electric utility, power and light company, person or corporation after receipt of notice of such loan agreement shall begin the construction of any electric distribution lines within said area or areas or solicit customers for electric service therein until after the expiration of twelve (12) months from the date of filing said notice of said loan agreement.
MS Code § 77-5-505 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 11 - Unfair Practices of Electricity Distributors|§ 77-5-505. Notice to be furnished private utilities

 It shall be the duty of the authority to give notice in writing of the filing of the map or maps and statement and the loan agreement provided for in Sections 77-5-501 and 77-5-503 to each electric utility and power and light company having any electric transmission or distribution lines or system within or within ten (10) miles of any area shown in said maps where said filing corporation intends to operate its proposed system. There shall be attached to said notice blueprint copies of said maps, a copy of said statement, and a copy of the notice of said loan agreement in the event that such an agreement shall have been entered into. Sufficient copies for the purpose of such notices shall be furnished to the authority by and at the expense of the filing corporation. The filing corporation may give the notices required by said sections and such notices shall be effectual for the purposes of this article, notwithstanding any failure of the authority to give the notices herein provided for. Any notice shall be deemed to have been given within the requirements of this article when it has been deposited in the mails with postage prepaid and addressed to the principal office of any such electric utility, power and light company, person or corporation.
MS Code § 77-5-507 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 11 - Unfair Practices of Electricity Distributors|§ 77-5-507. Promulgation of rules and regulations by authority; enforcement powers of authority

 The authority is hereby authorized to make and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this article and to take appropriate action for the enforcement thereof, including proceedings for injunctions against violations thereof, instigated in the name of the authority and upon its own motion. These powers and remedies shall be in addition to all other remedies provided in this article or that may exist under general provisions or rules of law.
MS Code § 77-5-509 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 11 - Unfair Practices of Electricity Distributors|§ 77-5-509. Injunctions; chancery court powers

 Any filing corporation may institute proceedings to enjoin any violations of this article in the chancery court of any county where said filing corporation may have its principal place of business or where any such violations are alleged to take place or to be threatened, and such proceedings may be on the relation of the attorney-general or any district or county attorney of any district in which any portion of the proposed electric system of said filing corporation may be located. It shall be the duty of said officers to prosecute and to assist in the prosecution of said proceedings.   For the enforcement of this article, the said chancery court or the chancellor, in vacation, may exercise all the powers now or hereafter existing under the laws of this state in proceedings for injunctive relief, including temporary restraining orders. In any proceedings instituted by the authority on its own motion or by petition signed by the attorney-general or any district or county attorney, as herein provided, no bond shall be required as a condition of the issuance of any restraining order or injunction.
MS Code § 77-5-511 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 11 - Unfair Practices of Electricity Distributors|§ 77-5-511. Certified copy of statement of willingness to take service from proposed system as prima facie evidence

 In any proceeding for the enforcement of this article, a certified copy of the statement mentioned in Section 77-5-501 shall be admitted in evidence and shall be presumed to be prima facie proof of the verity and accuracy of all statements therein required by the provisions of said section. The burden of proof shall be upon any defendant in any such proceeding to rebut said presumption by a clear preponderance of the evidence.
MS Code § 77-5-513 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 11 - Unfair Practices of Electricity Distributors|§ 77-5-513. Private utilities are not liable for service during six and twelve month periods

 During the periods of six (6) and twelve (12) months, respectively, as provided in Sections 77-5-501 and 77-5-503, no person, firm, association or corporation within the area or areas indicated upon said maps within which the filing corporation proposes to operate shall have the right to require any electric utility or electric light and power company to supply electric energy. No action shall be brought or maintained in any court for damages for failure to supply such electric energy within said periods of six (6) and twelve (12) months, respectively, or within a reasonable time thereafter. The provisions of this section shall not be deemed to apply to any valid and enforceable contracts in writing for electric service subsisting at the time of receipt by any party to such contracts of any notice of filing said maps and statements provided for in Section 77-5-501.
MS Code § 77-5-515 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 11 - Unfair Practices of Electricity Distributors|§ 77-5-515. Inapplicability of article

 This article shall not apply to the furnishing of electric energy to manufacturing, processing or industrial enterprises or to buildings necessary and appropriate to the operation of said enterprises, including residences, or to the solicitation of such electric service, or to the construction of through high voltage transmission lines not intended to serve individual rural customers in the area or areas shown on said maps provided for in Section 77-5-501. However, nothing in this section shall be construed as restricting the right of the filing corporation to serve manufacturing, processing or industrial enterprises.
MS Code § 77-5-601 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 13 - Contracts with the United States|§ 77-5-601. Contracts with United States for acquisition of electrical system and purchase or sale of electricity authorized

 Any municipal corporation, county, city, town, or village, power district or improvement authority, hereinafter called "municipality," owning and/or operating or hereafter authorized to acquire and/or operate any electric generation, transmission and/or distribution system, is hereby authorized to contract with the United States of America, any agency thereof, or with any corporation owned by the United States for the acquisition of any such system or part thereof and/or the purchase or sale of electric energy. Such municipality is authorized in any such contract to stipulate and agree to such covenants, terms, and conditions as the governing body or board of the municipality may deem appropriate, including but without limitation, covenants, terms and conditions with respect to the resale rates, financial and accounting methods, service, operation and maintenance practices, and the manner of disposing of the revenues, of any such system, and to comply therewith. Any such contract heretofore entered into and any such covenants, terms or conditions heretofore stipulated or agreed to are hereby expressly validated.
MS Code § 77-5-603 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 13 - Contracts with the United States|§ 77-5-603. Article cumulative and supplemental; construction of article

 Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any authority, power or right which any municipality may have in the absence hereof. This article shall be construed as cumulative and shall be in addition and supplemental to any power, authority or right conferred by any other law.   This article is remedial in nature and any power, authority or right hereby conferred shall be liberally construed, and to this end every municipality shall have the power, authority and right, in addition to those expressly conferred hereby, to do all things necessary or convenient in carrying out the purposes hereof.
MS Code § 77-5-701 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-701. Short title

 This article may be cited as the "Joint Municipal Electric Power and Energy Law."
MS Code § 77-5-703 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-703. Declaration of purpose

 The legislature of the State of Mississippi hereby finds and determines that:   A critical situation exists with respect to the present and future supply of electric power and energy in the State of Mississippi;   The cost of energy either purchased at wholesale or generated by said electrical utilities has caused the cost of electricity to consumers to increase dramatically during the past few years;   Many municipalities in the state have for many years owned and operated systems for the generation and/or distribution of electric power and energy to customers in their respective areas and are empowered severally to engage in the generation and transmission of electric power and energy.   Such municipalities owning electric generation and/or distribution systems have an obligation to provide their inhabitants and customers the most adequate, reliable and economical source of electric power and energy in the future that may be available to them;   In order to achieve the economies and efficiencies made possible by the proper planning, acquisition, construction, financing, sizing and location of facilities for the generation and/or transmission of electric power and energy which may not be practical for any municipality acting alone, and to insure an adequate, reliable and economical supply of electric power and energy to the people of the state, it is desirable for the State of Mississippi to authorize municipal electric systems and/or joint agencies created pursuant to this article to jointly or severally plan, acquire, construct, finance, develop, own, operate and maintain electric generation and/or transmission facilities with each other, or any person, firm, association or corporation, public or private, engaged in the generation, transmission or distribution of electric power and energy within this state or any other state, all as may be appropriate to their needs in order to provide for their present and future power requirement for all uses without supplanting or displacing the service at retail of other electric suppliers operating in the state; and   The joint planning, financing, development, ownership and operation of electric generation and/or transmission facilities by municipalities which own electric generation and/or distribution systems or by joint agencies created pursuant to this article and the issuance of revenue bonds for such purposes as provided in this article is for public use and for public and municipal purposes and is a means of achieving economies, adequacy and reliability in the generation and/or transmission of electric power and energy and the meeting of future needs of the state and its inhabitants.
MS Code § 77-5-711 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-711. Sale or exchange by municipality of excess capacity or output

 Capacity or output or related services derived by a municipality from its ownership share of a project not then required by such municipality for its own use and for the use of its consumers may be sold or exchanged by such municipality, for such consideration and for such period and upon such other terms and conditions as may be determined by the parties, either within or without the state, to any state, federal or municipal or private agency or corporation, including joint agencies created pursuant to this article and to any person, firm, association or corporation, public or private, engaged in the generation, transmission or distribution of electric power and energy within this state or any other state. Provided, however, that sales of excess capacity or output of a project to electric power associations, public utilities and other persons, the interest on whose securities and other obligations is not exempt from taxation by the federal government, shall not be made in such amounts, for such periods of time, and under such terms and conditions as will cause the interest on bonds issued to finance the cost of a project to become taxable by the federal government.
MS Code § 77-5-713 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-713. Application for licenses, permits, certificates or approvals

 Municipalities proposing to jointly plan, finance, develop, own and operate a project are hereby authorized, either jointly or separately, to apply to the appropriate agencies of the state, the United States, or any state thereof, and to any other proper agency for such licenses, permits, certificates or approvals as may be necessary, and to construct, maintain and operate projects in accordance with such licenses, permits, certificates or approvals and to obtain, hold and use such licenses, permits, certificates and approvals in the same manner as any other operating unit of any other person; provided, however, nothing herein contained shall be construed to require a municipality to obtain any license, certificate, permit, or approval from the public service commission of Mississippi.
MS Code § 77-5-715 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-715. Contracts for exchange, interchange, wheeling, pooling and transmission of electric power

 Municipalities participating in a joint project or projects are hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the exchange, interchange, wheeling, pooling and transmission of electric power and energy produced by such project or projects with any municipality of this state or any other state owning electric distribution facilities, any electric power association, or any public or private utility, or any state, federal or municipal agency which owns electric generation, transmission or distribution facilities in this state or any other state.
MS Code § 77-5-719 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-719. Additional membership in joint agencies; withdrawal from membership

 After the creation of a joint agency, any other municipality may become a member thereof upon application to such joint agency after the adoption of a resolution by the utility commission of the municipality setting forth the determination and finding prescribed in Section 75-5-717, and the adoption by the governing authorities of the municipality of a resolution or ordinance ratifying the determination of the utility commission and authorizing said municipality to participate, and with the unanimous consent of the members of the joint agency evidenced by the resolutions of their respective utility commissions. Any municipality may withdraw from a joint agency, provided, however, that all contractual rights acquired and obligations incurred while a municipality was a member shall remain in full force and effect.
MS Code § 77-5-723 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-723. Board of commissioners of joint agency; executive committee

 The board of commissioners of a joint agency may create an executive committee of the board of commissioners. The board may provide for the composition of the executive committee so as to afford, in its judgment, fair representation of the member municipalities. The executive committee shall have and exercise such of the powers and authority of the board of commissioners during intervals between the board's meetings as may be prescribed by its rules, motions or resolutions. The terms of office of the members of the executive committee and the method of filling vacancies therein shall be fixed by the rules of the board of commissioners of the joint agency.
MS Code § 77-5-731 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-731. Sale or exchange by joint agency of excess capacity or output

 A joint agency may sell or exchange the excess capacity or output of a project not then required by any of its members for such consideration and for such period and upon such other terms and conditions as may be determined by the parties to any municipality in this state or any other state owning electric distribution facilities, to any political subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities of any other state, to other joint agencies organized pursuant to this article, to any electric power association, to any public or private utility, or to any other state, federal or municipal agency which owns electric generation, transmission or distribution facilities either within or without this state. Provided, however, that sales of excess capacity or output of a project to electric power associations, public or private utilities, and other persons the interest on whose securities and other obligations are not exempt from taxation by the federal government shall not be made in such amounts, for such periods of time, and under such terms and conditions as will cause the interest on bonds issued to finance the cost of a project to become taxable by the federal government.
MS Code § 77-5-733 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-733. Joint or several ownership and maintenance by municipalities and joint agencies with other public agencies

 The definitions and all other terms and provisions of this article shall be construed so as to include and authorize the joint or several ownership, operation, and/or maintenance by one or more municipalities or joint agencies of a project, or any undivided ownership interest therein, with any person, firm, association or corporation, public or private, engaged in the generation, transmission or distribution of electric power or energy either within or without this state.