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MS Code § 77-9-149 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-149. Collecting charges for transportation of persons and property

 To charge and collect reasonable compensation for the transportation of persons and property on its road.
MS Code § 77-9-151 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-151. Issuing stocks and bonds

 To issue any part of its stock as preferred stock, and to fix the relative rights of common and preferred stock, and to issue such bonds and obligations as it may from time to time determine.
MS Code § 77-9-153 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-153. Increasing capital stock; issuing preferred stock to satisfy obligations

 To increase, from time to time, its capital stock, but never to exceed the amounts actually expended by the railroad company in constructions, completions, equipments, and additions to its railroad and property; a stockholder shall not be liable for the debts of the corporation beyond the sum due for unpaid subscriptions.   To issue preferred stock and fix the face value of each share at such amount as shall be determined by the board of directors, for the purpose of satisfying, paying and retiring the outstanding bonds, notes, secured or unsecured, or any other evidence of obligations of any kind or character, which obligations have been or shall be incurred by the railroad corporation.
MS Code § 77-9-155 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-155. Determining number of directors, officers and agents; prescribing compensation, duties and terms thereof

 To determine the number of directors, and of officers and agents under them, and to fix the compensation and prescribe the duties of each, and the terms of office of each.
MS Code § 77-9-157 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-157. Authorizing appointment of executive committee

 To authorize the directors to appoint an executive committee, with full power to act in their stead and place at all times when they are not in session.
MS Code § 77-9-159 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-159. Opening books of subscription; calling stockholders' meetings

 To open books of subscription for the capital stock of the company, and to call meetings of the stockholders for the election of directors and the performance of such other business as may be proper.
MS Code § 77-9-161 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-161. Mortgaging; securing mortgage bonds

 To mortgage or convey in trust, from time to time, any or all of its property, real, personal, and mixed, then owned or thereafter to be acquired, and also all or any of its rights, powers, privileges, liberties, immunities, or franchises, whether then owned, possessed, and enjoyed or thereafter to be acquired, including its right to be a corporation; and under such deed or deed in trust or mortgage, to secure, execute, and dispose of the mortgage bonds of the company to such amounts and maturing at such times and bearing such lawful interest as it may deem best; and to secure, in like manner or in any other way, the bonds and obligations of any other railroad company.
MS Code § 77-9-165 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-165. Leasing railroad and its properties

 To lease, except to parallel or competing lines, its railroad and all of its property and franchises, rights, powers, privileges, and immunities then owned or thereafter to be acquired, for a term of years, and to lease, except from parallel or competing lines, other railroads, in or out of this state for a term of years.
MS Code § 77-9-167 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-167. Doing an express or telegraph business

 To do an express business over its own line or lines of railroad; to acquire and put up, use, and operate a line or lines of telegraph along its lines; and to acquire, hold, and enjoy all such property as may be proper, necessary, or convenient in doing such express or telegraph business.
MS Code § 77-9-169 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-169. Having right of way generally

 To enter upon all lands, and to survey, lay out, and construct a railroad thereon. However, before so doing, it must contract and agree with the owner upon the price to be paid for the land or its use, or with the administrator, executor, or guardian in case the owner be dead, be an infant, or person of unsound mind. If an agreement cannot be made it must condemn and acquire the same by the exercise of the right of eminent domain as provided in Chapter 27, Title 11, of the Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 77-9-171 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-171. Having right of way over state lands

 To enter upon, acquire, and enjoy a right of way over and across any lands belonging to the state, the same not to exceed in width one hundred (100) feet, and the same not to be appropriated or used except when the actual construction of the road has reached such state lands.
MS Code § 77-9-173 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-173. Entering upon land adjacent to its right of way

 To enter upon land adjacent to its right of way for the purpose of making, or repairing, or changing the railroad, and to cut, quarry, dig, take, and carry away any stone, wood, gravel, earth, or other materials which may be necessary. However, in all such cases it shall make compensation to the owner as agreed upon, or upon condemnation as provided in Chapter 27, Title 11, of the Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 77-9-175 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-175. Acquiring lands for depots and other purposes

 To agree and contract for the acquisition of, or to exercise the right of eminent domain to condemn, lands necessary for depots or other necessary and proper purposes.
MS Code § 77-9-177 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-177. Crossing, intersecting, joining or uniting with other railroads

 To cross, intersect, join, or unite its railroad with any other railroad heretofore or hereafter constructed at any points on its route, and upon the ground of such other railroad company, with the necessary and proper turnouts, sidings, switches, and other conveniences, and to exercise the right of eminent domain for that purpose.
MS Code § 77-9-179 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-179. Crossing water courses

 To construct, maintain, or operate its railroad under, over, and across any and all streams or bodies of water, whether navigable or not, which lie along or across its route, and to erect, use, and maintain bridges over the same; however, whenever a navigable stream or body of water is crossed by a bridge, there shall be maintained a draw or swing in the bridge sufficient to allow the passage of boats and water craft; and to establish such transfers, landings, wharves, approaches, and inclines as may be convenient or necessary in transferring by boat or other water craft its freight, passengers, cars, and rolling stock, loaded or unloaded, upon and across any river or body of water; and to own, use, operate, and control, of itself or with others, all such steamboats, transfer boats, ferries, or water craft, as are or may be convenient in crossing such water or plying therein so as to develop trade over its line of railroad.
MS Code § 77-9-181 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-181. Insuring persons and property

 To insure persons and property, or either, transported or to be transported over its railroad, and all property coming or about to come into its possession or control for the purpose of transportation or incident thereto, or for storage in any of its depots, storage houses or wharves.
MS Code § 77-9-183 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-183. General grant of powers

 To do and perform all and everything necessary to the exercise of the powers expressed in this article, and to the accomplishment of the objects of its creation and organization, including the exercise of the right of eminent domain as provided in Chapter 27, Title 11, of the Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 77-9-185 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-185. How powers are to be exercised

 The powers conferred in Sections 77-9-141 through 77-9-183 are to be exercised by a board of directors and the officers, agents, and employees under them.
MS Code § 77-9-187 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-187. Terminal points and direction of line may be changed

 A railroad company chartered under this article may, after beginning the construction of its road, make all necessary or proper changes in its course or direction from that specified in the application for its incorporation, and may, with the consent of the Public Service Commission, change its terminal point.
MS Code § 77-9-189 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-189. Adoption and change of gauge

 All railroads hereafter constructed in this state may adopt such gauge for their respective roads as the stockholders may determine.   Any railroad company, the gauge of whose road is not the standard, may change the gauge to the standard gauge whenever a majority of the capital stock of the company, voted at any regular meeting of the stockholders, may direct.
MS Code § 77-9-191 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-191. Fictitious stock is void

 A railroad corporation shall not issue stocks or bonds except for money, labor done or in good faith agreed to be done, or property actually received. Any fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.
MS Code § 77-9-193 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|General Corporate Powers|§ 77-9-193. Powers of stockholders

 The board of directors is to be subject to the stockholders of the railroad company, who may meet as often as they shall determine. The stockholders may remove any or all of the directors from office, elect others, and vacate and annul any by-laws, order, or rule established or ordinance passed by the directors.
MS Code § 77-9-223 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-223. Exception to requirement of headlights

 Section 77-9-221 shall not apply:   to tramroads, mill roads and roads engaged principally in lumber or logging transportation in connection with mills;   to railroad systems under thirty miles long which do not run regular night schedules;   to any engine, the lighting equipment of which shall have failed during a trip, provided that it be shown that the equipment was in efficient and effective working condition when the trip was begun; or   to switch engines going to and returning from wrecks, or sent out on a main line to bring into a terminal a train, the engine of which has become disabled.
MS Code § 77-9-225 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-225. Locomotives to give warning when approaching crossings; penalty

 Every railroad company shall cause each locomotive engine run by it to be provided with a bell of at least thirty (30) pounds weight and with a whistle or horn which can be heard distinctly at a distance of three hundred (300) yards, and shall cause the bell to be rung or the whistle or horn to be blown at the distance of at least three hundred (300) yards from the place where the railroad crosses over any public highway or municipal street. The bell shall be kept ringing continuously or the whistle or horn shall be kept blowing at repeated intervals until said crossing is passed.   Every person, company or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) or be imprisoned not more than thirty (30) days, or be both so fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.   The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
MS Code § 77-9-227 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-227. Freight cars shall not be placed in rear of passenger cars; penalty

 In forming a passenger train, freight or merchandise or lumber cars shall not be placed in the rear of passenger cars. If they, or any of them, shall be so placed and any accident happens to life or limb, the officer or agent who so directed or knowingly suffered such arrangement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. This section shall not apply where railroad trains are carrying personnel and equipment in connection with military or naval movements.
MS Code § 77-9-229 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-229. Backing into or along a passenger depot; penalty

 It shall be unlawful to back a train of cars, or part of a train, or an engine into or along a passenger depot at a greater rate of speed than three (3) miles an hour. Every such train, part of a train, or engine backing into or along a passenger depot, and within fifty (50) feet thereof, shall, for at least three hundred (300) feet before it reaches or comes opposite to such depot, be preceded by a servant of the railroad company on foot, not exceeding forty (40) nor under twenty (20) feet in advance, to give warning. For every injury inflicted by a railroad company while violating this section, the party injured may recover full damages without regard to mere contributory negligence.   A failure to observe this section shall cause a railroad company to be liable to a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.
MS Code § 77-9-233 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-233. Exception to requirement of pilots and headlights

 Section 77-9-231 shall not apply:   to railroads whose principal business is hauling logs;   to locomotive engines running for coal or water, doubling hills, returning from trains when broken into, or going to or returning from trains in the yard limits of terminal stations;   to engines engaged in regular switching service in yards or road engines switching at intermediate stations; or   to any locomotive engines in cases of washouts, wrecks, or when going to the assistance of engines so disabled as to block the main track of a railroad.
MS Code § 77-9-235 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-235. Obstructing highways and streets; penalty

 Every railroad company, upon stopping any train at a place where such railroad shall cross a highway, shall so uncouple its cars as not to obstruct travel upon such highway for a longer period than five (5) minutes. Every railroad company shall, upon stopping a train at a place where the railroad is crossed by a street, so uncouple the cars as not to obstruct travel thereon for a longer period than shall be prescribed by ordinance of the city, town or village. A failure to observe this section shall cause a railroad company to be liable to a fine of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for each offense. The conductor in charge of any train so violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00), on conviction thereof.   The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
MS Code § 77-9-236 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-236. Obstructing highways and streets; criminal responsibility of crew complying with orders of employer

 No member of a train crew, yard crew or engine crew of a railroad which is a common carrier shall be held criminally responsible or found guilty of violating any state laws or of any municipal ordinances regulating or intended to regulate the blocking of any street, road or highway grade crossings by trains or passenger or freight cars upon reasonable proof that the blocking of said street, road or highway grade crossings was necessary to comply with the orders or instructions, either written or oral, of his employer or its officers or supervisory officials; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not relieve the employer or railroad from any responsibility placed upon said employee or railroad by any such state laws or by such municipal ordinances; and provided further, that the employer or railroad shall stand in the place of the member of the train crew, yard crew or engine crew in such circumstances and shall be responsible for the violation of any such state laws or municipal ordinances and any criminal fines resulting therefrom.   The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
MS Code § 77-9-237 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-237. Speed limit in cities

 Any railroad company having the right of way may run locomotives and cars by steam through cities and towns, at the rate of thirty miles an hour and no more. The company shall be liable for any damages or injury which may be sustained by any one from such locomotive or cars whilst they are running at a greater speed than thirty miles an hour through any city or town. The public service commission shall have power to fix and prescribe limits in cities and towns in which railroad companies may run locomotives and cars by steam at a greater rate than thirty miles an hour, and whenever it shall have fixed and prescribed such limits in any city or town this section shall not thereafter apply to the running of cars and locomotives by steam within the same.
MS Code § 77-9-245 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-245. Inclosures around depots

 A railroad company may erect an inclosure around a depot, where the public safety requires it, to prevent persons other than passengers from coming near the locomotive and cars, and may exclude from within such inclosure all persons except passengers.
MS Code § 77-9-247 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-247. Railroads shall erect "railroad crossbuck."

 Every railroad corporation or company or person or persons operating or controlling any railroad track intersecting a public road or street at grade crossings shall erect and maintain at each such crossing the standard sign known as "railroad crossbuck," the design of which has been standardized by the Association of American Railroads and which appears in the "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices" for the State of Mississippi as adopted by the Commissioner of Public Safety, the Mississippi Transportation Commission and the United States Department of Transportation.   Provided, further, that said railroad crossbuck shall be reflectorized and be placed in the right side of the road or street on both sides of the railroad and shall indicate the number of tracks crossing the road or street in accordance with the aforesaid manual on uniform traffic control devices.   The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
MS Code § 77-9-248 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 3 - Railroads and Railroad Corporations|Safety|§ 77-9-248. Installation of crossbuck as present signs are replaced

 The crossbuck signs provided for in Section 77-9-247 shall be installed by the corporation, company or persons controlling the railroad as the present signs are replaced.   The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Mississippi Department of Transportation.