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MS Code § 75-15-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Money Transmitters Act|§ 75-15-17. Agents; appointment of subagents to conduct money transmission prohibited

 A licensee may conduct his business at one or more locations within this state and through or by means of such agents as the licensee may from time to time designate or appoint.No license under this chapter shall be required of any agent of a licensee, provided that this exemption shall apply only to the agent's acts on behalf of the licensee and this exemption shall not exempt the agent from the provisions of this chapter where he conducts money transmissions for his own account. The licensee shall require each of his appointed agents to display prominently on the agent's premises, where same may be readily viewed by prospective clients or purchasers, a printed certificate signed by an authorized official of licensee setting forth in bold letters the names of the licensee and agent and stating that the licensee holds a valid and existing license issued by the commissioner under this chapter and that agent is a duly authorized agent of licensee.Neither a licensee nor an agent may appoint a subagent to conduct money transmissions.
MS Code § 75-15-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Money Transmitters Act|§ 75-15-21. Exempt agents

 Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to require a licensee to list agents which are exempt by the provisions of Section 75-15-7 of this chapter.
MS Code § 75-15-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Money Transmitters Act|§ 75-15-23. Liability of licensee

 Each licensee shall be liable for the payment of all money transmissions and for all checks that the licensee sells, in whatever form and whether directly or through an agent, as the maker or drawer thereof according to the negotiable instrument laws of this state, and shall be responsible only for those acts of the agent done on behalf of the licensee.Every check sold by a licensee directly or through an agent shall bear the name of the licensee clearly imprinted thereon.During the period of time that a person is an appointed agent for a licensee, the agent shall not directly or indirectly conduct his own money transmission business and the agent shall not be, continue to be, or become an officer, director, stockholder, employee, or agent of any other licensee under this chapter.When a person ceases to be an agent of a licensee, he shall immediately cease displaying his agent's appointment certificate, as provided under Section 75-15-17 of this chapter and shall immediately surrender same to the licensee.
MS Code § 75-15-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Money Transmitters Act|§ 75-15-25. Limitation on outstanding money transmissions or checks in Mississippi

 Whenever the bond or securities deposit required under Section 75-15-11 is less than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00), the licensee may not at any time have a total amount in outstanding money transmissions or checks in Mississippi, in excess of the bond or securities deposit required of him under Section 75-15-11, and the licensee shall, in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner under this chapter, submit a written report to the commissioner on the last business day of each month regarding his money transmissions outstanding in Mississippi, whether issued by himself or through agents, provided that this limitation shall be the principal sum of the bond or the market value of the securities deposit required of the licensee under Section 75-15-11, and the sum of this limitation shall not be increased by any bond or securities deposit increase required by the commissioner under Section 75-15-29 or by deposit of any revocation order, suspension bond or securities deposit under Section 75-15-27.
MS Code § 75-15-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Money Transmitters Act|§ 75-15-29. Bond increase

 Any provision in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, the commissioner may at any time, if in his sole opinion the protection of the public so requires, increase the principal sum of the bond or the aggregate market value of the deposit required of any applicant or licensee by Section 75-15-11 but in no case shall the principal sum of the bond or the aggregate market value of the deposit required by Section 75-15-11 exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) and provided further, that in any situation, where a revocation order has been issued and the licensee involved has posted the additional bond required under Section 75-15-27, for suspension thereof, pending final determination, the commissioner may for the same reasons require the principal sum of the additional, suspension bond to be increased but in no case shall the principal sum thereof exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00), and provided further that if the licensee originally deposited with his application under Section 75-15-11 a corporate surety bond, the additional increase provided in this section must be by another corporate surety bond or an increase of the first one, written by the same corporate surety that wrote the first one and may not be a deposit of securities or if the licensee originally deposited securities, the additional increase shall also be of securities and not a corporate surety bond.
MS Code § 75-15-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Money Transmitters Act|§ 75-15-31. Penalties

  If any person to whom or which this chapter applies or any agent or representative of that person violates any of the provisions of this chapter or attempts to transact the business of conducting money transmissions as a service or for a fee or other consideration, without having first obtained a license from the commissioner under the provisions of this chapter, that person and each such agent or representative shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and may also be confined to the county jail for not more than twelve (12) months.Each violation shall constitute a separate offense.   If any person engages in business as provided for in this chapter without paying the license fee provided for in this chapter before beginning business or before the expiration of the person's current license, as the case may be, then the person shall be liable for the full amount of the license fee plus a penalty in an amount not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) for each day that the person has engaged in the business without a license or after the expiration of a license.   The commissioner may, after notice and hearing, impose a civil penalty against any licensee if the licensee or employee is adjudged by the commissioner to be in violation of the provisions of this chapter.The civil penalty shall not exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) per violation and shall be deposited into the Consumer Finance Fund of the Department of Banking and Consumer Finance.   When the commissioner has reasonable cause to believe that a person is violating any provision of this chapter, the commissioner, in addition to and without prejudice to the authority provided elsewhere in this chapter, may enter an order requiring the person to stop and refrain from the violation.The commissioner may sue in any circuit court of the state having jurisdiction and venue to enjoin the person from engaging in or continuing the violation or from doing any act in furtherance of the violation.In such an action, the court may enter an order or judgment awarding a preliminary or permanent injunction.
MS Code § 75-15-32 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Money Transmitters Act|§ 75-15-32. Commissioner authorized to examine persons suspected of conducting business requiring a license

 The commissioner, or his duly authorized representative, for the purpose of discovering violations of this chapter and for the purpose of determining whether persons are subject to the provisions of this chapter, may examine persons licensed under this chapter and persons reasonably suspected by the commissioner of conducting business that requires a license under this chapter, including all relevant books, records and papers employed by those persons in the transaction of their business, and may summon witnesses and examine them under oath concerning matters relating to the business of those persons, or such other matters as may be relevant to the discovery of violations of this chapter, including without limitation the conduct of business without a license as required under this chapter.
MS Code § 75-15-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Money Transmitters Act|§ 75-15-33. Construction of chapter

 The masculine, feminine and neuter genders shall each include the others and the singular shall include the plural.
MS Code § 75-15-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Money Transmitters Act|§ 75-15-35. Compliance with state and federal money laundering laws

 Each licensee shall comply with state and federal money laundering laws, including, but not limited to, the federal "Bank Secrecy Act," 12 USC Section 1951 et seq.
MS Code § 75-19-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 19 - Seals|§ 75-19-1. Use of private seals dispensed with except as to corporations

 The use of private seals is dispensed with, except as to corporations; and all distinction between sealed and unsealed instruments, made by private persons, either as to the rights conferred by them or the remedies on them, is abolished.
MS Code § 75-19-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 19 - Seals|§ 75-19-3. Instruments to be interpreted and enforced without reference to seals

 Any instrument of writing made and delivered by a private person without a seal or scroll, or other semblance or representation of a seal, shall be operative according to the intent of the maker, as expressed in the writing, in the same manner and as to full extent as if the seal of the maker were thereto affixed.
MS Code § 75-19-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 19 - Seals|§ 75-19-5. Scroll or seal, or the want of it, does not affect or vary rights

 The use of, or a failure to use, a seal or scroll, or other semblance or representation of a seal, by a private person in making an instrument, shall not in any manner affect it, nor in any way vary the rights of the parties to it.
MS Code § 75-19-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 19 - Seals|§ 75-19-7. Bonds of public officers and bonds in legal proceedings good without seal

 The bonds of all public officers, and all bonds in any legal proceeding, shall be valid and obligatory on all the signers, without a seal or representation of a seal, in the same manner as if duly sealed.
MS Code § 75-21-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-1. Trust and combine; defined

 A trust or combine is a combination, contract, understanding or agreement, expressed or implied, between two or more persons, corporations or firms or association of persons or between any one or more of either with one or more of the others, when inimical to public welfare and the effect of which would be:   To restrain trade;   To limit, increase or reduce the price of a commodity;   To limit, increase or reduce the production or output of a commodity;   To hinder competition in the production, importation, manufacture, transportation, sale or purchase of a commodity;   To engross or forestall a commodity;   To issue, own or hold the certificate of stock of any trust and combine within the spirit of this chapter knowing it to be such at the time of the issue or the acquisition or holding such certificate; or   To place the control to any extent of business or of the proceeds or earnings thereof, contrary to the spirit and meaning of this chapter, in the power of trustees, by whatever name called; or   To enable or empower any other person than themselves, their proper officers, agents and employees to dictate or control the management of business, contrary to the spirit and meaning of this chapter; or   To unite or pool interest in the importation, manufacture, production, transportation, or price of a commodity, contrary to the spirit and meaning of this chapter.   Any corporation, domestic or foreign, or any partnership, or individual, or other association, or person whatsoever, who are now, or shall hereafter create, enter into, become a member of, or a party to any trust or combine as hereinabove defined shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of a conspiracy to defraud and shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided. Any person, association of persons, corporation, or corporations, domestic or foreign, who shall be a party or belong to a trust and combine shall be guilty of crime and upon conviction thereof shall, for a first offense be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) and for a second or subsequent offense not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), and may be enjoined by a final decree of the chancery court, in a suit by the state on the relation of the attorney general, from the further prosecution of or doing of the acts constituting the trust and combine as defined in this chapter.
MS Code § 75-21-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-3. Additional contracts or combinations not allowed by law

 Any corporation, domestic or foreign, or individual, partnership, or association of persons whatsoever, who, with intent to accomplish the results herein prohibited or without such intent, shall accomplish such results to a degree inimical to public welfare, and shall thus:   Restrain or attempt to restrain the freedom of trade or production;   Or shall monopolize or attempt to monopolize the production, control or sale of any commodity, or the prosecution, management or control of any kind, class or description of business;   Or shall engross forestall or attempt to engross or forestall any commodity;   Or shall destroy or attempt to destroy competition in the manufacture or sale of a commodity, by selling or offering the same for sale at a lower price at one place in the state than another or buying or offering to buy a commodity at a higher price at one place in the state than another, differences of freight and other necessary expenses of sale and delivery considered;   Or shall destroy or attempt to destroy competition by rendering any service or manipulating, handling or storing any commodity for a less price in one locality than in another, the differences in the necessary expenses of carrying on the business considered, shall be deemed and held a trust and combine within the meaning and purpose of this section, and shall be liable to the pains, penalties, fines, forfeitures, judgments, and recoveries denounced against trusts and combines and shall be proceeded against in manner and form herein provided, as in case of other trusts and combines.   It shall be sufficient to make out a prima facie case of a violation of subdivision (e) of this section to show lower charge for the service therein mentioned in one locality than another, or to show a higher price paid for a commodity in one locality than another, differences of freight and other necessary expenses of operating business considered.
MS Code § 75-21-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-5. Agricultural and other organizations not forbidden

 Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to forbid the existence of agricultural, horticultural, poultry, cattle or dairy organizations, instituted for the purpose of cooperation or mutual help, having no capital stock and not conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof, nor be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade under the antitrust law; nor shall this chapter prevent or penalize agreements entered into between canners or catchers of seafood products or between canners and catchers of such products for the advancement and welfare of the seafood industry in Mississippi, when such agreements so made between canners or catchers of such products, or canners and catchers of such products, shall be approved by an order entered upon the minutes of the Mississippi Seafood Commission.
MS Code § 75-21-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-7. Penalty for violation of anti-trust laws

 Any person, corporation, partnership, firm or association of persons and the officers and representatives of the corporation or association violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall forfeit not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for every such violation. Each month in which such person, corporation or association shall violate this chapter shall be a separate violation, the forfeiture and penalty in such case to be recovered alone by suit in the name of the state on the relation of the attorney general and by the consent of the attorney general suits may be brought by any district attorney, such suits to be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction.
MS Code § 75-21-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-9. Private persons and corporations may sue

 Any person, natural or artificial, injured or damaged by a trust and combine as herein defined, or by its effects direct or indirect, may recover all damages of every kind sustained by him or it and in addition a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500.00), by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction. Said suit may be brought against one or more of the parties to the trust or combine and one or more of the officers and representatives of any corporation a party to the same, or one or more of either. Such penalty may be recovered in each instance of injury. All recoveries herein provided for may be sued for in one suit.
MS Code § 75-21-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-11. Contracts void

 Every contract or agreement to enter into or pursue any trust and combine, and every contract or agreement made by another with any trust and combine, or with any member of a trust and combine for any purpose relative to the business of such trust and combine, is void, and cannot be enforced in any court.
MS Code § 75-21-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-13. Corporations not to purchase competing one

 No corporation shall acquire directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the capital stock of any competing corporation doing business in this state, nor directly or indirectly acquire the franchise, plant or equipment of any other competing corporation doing business in this state if such other corporation be engaged in the same kind of business and be a competitor therein, where the effect of such acquisition of stock, franchise, plant or equipment may be to substantially lessen competition or to restrain trade or competition in the state, or any community thereof, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce and will be inimical to public welfare. This section shall not apply to corporations purchasing such stock in payment of an indebtedness, and not using the same by voting, or otherwise, to bring about or attempting to bring about, the substantial lessening of competition. Provided, however, that fire and marine insurance corporations may own stock in other insurance companies and may be licensed to do business in this state, or authorized to continue business in this state, but the state insurance commissioner may refuse permission to any company to be licensed in the first instance or he may subsequently revoke the license of any company if it appears after notice and hearing that to permit one insurance corporation owning stock in a competing corporation to continue to do business in this state would be injurious to, or contrary to the public interest.
MS Code § 75-21-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-15. To defraud in public contracts

 If any person, association, firm or corporation shall combine with any other person, association, firm or corporation, or if either of them combine with one or more of the others to prevent, by pooling, any or either of said persons, associations, firms or corporations from separately or individually bidding for the performance of a public work for the state, or any county, municipality, or levee board thereof; or if any person, association, firm or corporation shall prevent, by persuasion or reward, any other person, association, firm or corporation, or any one or more of them, from bidding for the performance of such public work, they, and each of them, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
MS Code § 75-21-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-17. Moneys not collectible

 All sums of money to be paid on any contract on behalf of the state, or any county, municipality or levee board thereof, when the provision of Section 75-21-15 had been violated, shall not be collectible, nor shall the same be paid by any officer or board having the payment thereof.
MS Code § 75-21-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 75 - Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments|Chapter 21 - Trusts and Combines in Restraint or Hindrance of Trade|§ 75-21-19. Proceedings for forfeiture of charter and right to do business

 Proceedings of any and every kind for forfeiture of charter, for forfeiture of right to do business in this state, for recovery of damages and all civil proceedings of any character whatever authorized by law for the execution and enforcement of the antitrust laws of this state may be brought against any corporation in any county where it has a domicile or place of business, or where any of its officers or agents may be found.