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MS Code § 69-29-205 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations|Article 5 - Protective Associations|§ 69-29-205. Reports

 It shall be the duty of the secretary of each county association to file annually with the Governor a report, countersigned by the president and treasurer of the association, showing the names of all officers and directors, the number of members, the amount of dues collected, the amount paid by the association in rewards, the number of arrests and convictions, the number of thefts of livestock and poultry, and the number stolen and recovered. It shall be the duty of the Governor to report to the Legislature in detail his expenditures from contingent fund, in an itemized statement, and he shall have on file in his office for the information of members of the Legislature the information furnished by the various county associations.
MS Code § 69-29-301 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations|Article 7 - Animal Research or Exhibiting Facility|§ 69-29-301. Short title

 This article may be cited and shall be known as the "Animal Research or Exhibiting Facilities Protection Act."
MS Code § 69-29-303 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations|Article 7 - Animal Research or Exhibiting Facility|§ 69-29-303. Definitions

 The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:   "Actor" means a person accused of any of the offenses defined in this act.   "Animal" means a warm or cold-blooded animal used in food or fiber production, agriculture, exhibition, research, testing, experimentation or education, including poultry, fish and insects.   "Animal research or exhibiting facility," hereinafter referred to as an "animal facility," includes a vehicle, building, separately secured yard, pad, pond, enclosure, structure or premises where an animal is kept, shown, handled, housed, exhibited, bred or offered for sale and any building, laboratory, institution, organization or school in which a person or persons are engaged in research, testing, educational or experimental activities or in which any commercial or academic enterprise is using warm-blooded or cold-blooded animals for food or fiber production, agriculture, research, testing, experimentation or education.   "Consent" means assent in fact, whether express or apparent.   "Deprive" means:   To purposely or knowingly withhold an animal or other property from the owner permanently or for such an extended time that a major portion of the value or enjoyment of the animal or property is lost to the owner;   To restore the animal or other property only upon payment for reward or other compensation; or   To dispose of an animal or other property in a manner that makes recovery of the animal or property by the owner unlikely.   "Effective consent" includes consent by a person legally authorized to act for the owner. Consent is not effective if:   Induced by force, threat, false pretenses or fraud;   Given by a person the actor knows is not legally authorized to act for the owner;   Given by a person who by reason of youth, mental disease or defect or intoxication is known by the actor to be unable to make reasonable decisions; or   Given solely to detect the commission of an offense.   "Owner" means a person who has title to the property, possession of the property, whether lawful or not, or a greater right to possession of the property than the actor.   "Person" means an individual, corporation, association, nonprofit corporation, joint-stock company, firm, trust, partnership, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common interest or other legal entity.   "Possession" means actual care, custody, control or management.
MS Code § 69-29-305 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations|Article 7 - Animal Research or Exhibiting Facility|§ 69-29-305. Prohibition against acquisition or exercise of control over animal facility with intent to disrupt or damage enterprise conducted at facility without consent of owner

 A person shall not, without the effective consent of the owner, acquire or otherwise exercise control over an animal facility, an animal from an animal facility or other property from an animal facility with the intent to deprive the owner of the facility, animal or property and to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility.
MS Code § 69-29-307 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations|Article 7 - Animal Research or Exhibiting Facility|§ 69-29-307. Prohibition against damaging or destroying animal or animal facility with intent to disrupt or damage without consent of owner

 A person shall not, without the effective consent of the owner, damage or destroy an animal facility or an animal or property in or on an animal facility with the intent to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility.
MS Code § 69-29-309 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations|Article 7 - Animal Research or Exhibiting Facility|§ 69-29-309. Prohibition against entering or remaining concealed in animal facility to commit prohibited act without consent of owner

 A person shall not, without the effective consent of the owner, with the intent to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility:   Enter an animal facility, not then open to the public, with intent to commit an act prohibited by this act;   Remain concealed, with intent to commit an act prohibited by this act, in an animal facility; or   Enter an animal facility and commit or attempt to commit an act prohibited by this act.
MS Code § 69-29-311 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations|Article 7 - Animal Research or Exhibiting Facility|§ 69-29-311. Prohibition against entering or remaining in animal facility with intent to disrupt or damage enterprise conducted at facility without consent of owner; notice requirement; definitions

  A person shall not, without the effective consent of the owner, enter or remain in an animal facility with the intent to disrupt or damage the enterprise conducted at the animal facility if the person:   Had notice that the entry was forbidden; or   Received notice to depart but failed to do so.     For purposes of this section, "notice" means:   Oral or written communication by the owner or someone with apparent authority to act for the owner;   Fencing or other enclosure obviously designed to exclude intruders or to contain animals; or   A sign or signs posted on the property or at the entrance to the building, reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders, indicating that entry is forbidden.
MS Code § 69-29-313 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations|Article 7 - Animal Research or Exhibiting Facility|§ 69-29-313. Applicability

 This article does not apply to, affect or otherwise prohibit actions taken by the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, any other federal, state or local department or agency or an official or employee of these entities while in the exercise or performance of a power of duty imposed by law or regulation.
MS Code § 69-29-315 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 29 - Livestock Brands, Theft or Loss of Livestock and Protective Associations|Article 7 - Animal Research or Exhibiting Facility|§ 69-29-315. Penalties for violations

  A person violating the provisions of Sections 69-29-305, 69-29-307 and 69-29-309, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than three (3) years, or both.   A person violating the provisions of Section 69-29-311, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or both.
MS Code § 71-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-1. Citation; purpose; construction

  This chapter shall be known and cited as "Workers' Compensation Law," and shall be administered by the Workers' Compensation Commission, hereinafter referred to as the "commission," cooperating with other state and federal authorities for the prevention of injuries and occupational diseases to workers and, in event of injury or occupational disease, their rehabilitation or restoration to health and vocational opportunity; and this chapter shall be fairly and impartially construed and applied according to the law and the evidence in the record, and, notwithstanding any common law or case law to the contrary, this chapter shall not be presumed to favor one party over another and shall not be liberally construed in order to fulfill any beneficent purposes.   Wherever used in this chapter, or in any other statute or rule or regulation affecting the former Workmen's Compensation Law and any of its functions or duties:   The words "workmen's compensation" shall mean "workers' compensation"; and   The word "commission" shall mean the Workers' Compensation Commission.     The primary purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law are to pay timely temporary and permanent disability benefits to every worker who legitimately suffers a work-related injury or occupational disease arising out of and in the course of his employment, to pay reasonable and necessary medical expenses resulting from the work-related injury or occupational disease, and to encourage the return to work of the worker.
MS Code § 71-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-9. Exclusiveness of liability

 [Effective until July 1, 2021, this section will read:]   The liability of an employer to pay compensation shall be exclusive and in place of all other liability of such employer to the employee, his legal representative, husband or wife, parents, dependents, next-of-kin, and anyone otherwise entitled to recover damages at common law or otherwise from such employer on account of such injury or death, except that if an employer fails to secure payment of compensation as required by this chapter, an injured employee, or his legal representative in case death results from the injury, may elect to claim compensation under this chapter, or to maintain an action at law for damages on account of such injury or death. In such action the defendant may not plead as a defense that the injury was caused by the negligence of a fellow servant, nor that the employee assumed the risk of his employment, nor that the injury was due to the contributory negligence of the employee.
MS Code § 71-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-9. Exclusiveness of liability

 [Effective from and after July 1, 2021, this section will read:]    Except as provided under subsection (2) of this section, the liability of an employer to pay compensation shall be exclusive and in place of all other liability of such employer to the employee, his legal representative, husband or wife, parents, dependents, next of kin, and anyone otherwise entitled to recover damages at common law or otherwise from such employer on account of such injury or death, except that if an employer fails to secure payment of compensation as required by this chapter, an injured employee, or his legal representative in case death results from the injury, may elect to claim compensation under this chapter, or to maintain an action at law for damages on account of such injury or death. In such action the defendant may not plead as a defense that the injury was caused by the negligence of a fellow servant, nor that the employee assumed the risk of his employment, nor that the injury was due to the contributory negligence of the employee.   An employer shall not be liable under this chapter to a first responder, as defined in Section 25-15-403, if such first responder elects to receive benefits under the "Mississippi First Responders Health and Safety Act."
MS Code § 71-3-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-11. Waiting period

 No compensation except medical benefits shall be allowed for the first five (5) days of the disability. In case the injury results in disability of fourteen (14) days or more, the compensation shall be allowed from the date of disability.
MS Code § 71-3-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-13. Maximum and minimum recovery

  Compensation for disability or in death cases shall not exceed sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the average weekly wage for the state per week, nor shall it be less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) per week except in partial dependency cases and in partial disability cases.   Maximum recovery: The total recovery of compensation hereunder, exclusive of medical payments under Section 71-3-15, arising from the injury to an employee or the death of an employee, or any combination of such injury or death, shall not exceed the multiple of four hundred fifty (450) weeks times sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the average weekly wage for the state.
MS Code § 71-3-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-19. Maintenance while undergoing vocational rehabilitation

 An employee who as a result of injury is or may be expected to be totally or partially incapacitated for a remunerative occupation and who, under the direction of the commission is being rendered fit to engage in a remunerative occupation may, in the discretion of the commission under regulations adopted by it, receive additional compensation necessary for his maintenance, but such additional compensation shall not exceed Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) a week for not more than fifty-two (52) weeks.
MS Code § 71-3-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-21. Temporary partial disability

 In case of temporary partial disability resulting in decrease of earning capacity, there shall be paid to the injured employee sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the difference between the injured employee's average weekly wages before the injury and his wage-earning capacity after the injury in the same or other employment, subject to the maximum limitations as to weekly benefits as set up in this chapter, payable during the continuance of such disability but in no case exceeding four hundred fifty (450) weeks or an amount greater than the multiple of four hundred fifty (450) weeks times sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the average weekly wage for the state.
MS Code § 71-3-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-23. Hernia

 In all cases of claim for hernia, it shall be shown by a preponderance of the evidence:   That the descent or protrusion of the hernia or rupture immediately followed as the result of sudden effort, severe strain, or the application of force to the abdominal wall;   That there was severe pain in the region of the hernia or rupture;   That there has been no descent or protrusion of the hernia or rupture prior to the accident for which compensation is claimed;   That the physical distress resulting from the descent or protrusion of the hernia or rupture was noticed immediately by claimant, and communicated to his employer within a reasonable time; and   That the physical distress following the descent or protrusion of the hernia or rupture was such as to require the attendance of a licensed physician or surgeon within five (5) days after the injury for which compensation is claimed. Postoperative hernias shall be considered as original hernias.   In every case of hernia or rupture as above defined, it shall be the duty of the employer forthwith to provide the necessary and proper medical, surgical, and hospital care and attention to effectuate a cure by radical operation of said hernia or rupture, and to pay compensation under the provisions of paragraph (b) of Section 71-3-17, not exceeding, however, a period of twenty-six (26) weeks.   In case the employee shall refuse to permit such operation, it shall be the duty of the employer to provide all necessary first aid, medical and hospital care and services, to supply the proper and necessary truss or other mechanical appliance to enable said employee to resume work, and shall further pay compensation under the provisions of paragraph (b) of Section 71-3-17, not exceeding, however, the period of thirteen (13) weeks.   In case death results within a period of one (1) year, either from the hernia or rupture or from the radical operation thereof, compensation shall be paid the dependents as provided in other death cases under this chapter.
MS Code § 71-3-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-27. Aliens

 Compensation under this chapter to aliens not residents (or about to become nonresidents) of the United States or Canada shall be in the same amount as provided for residents, except that dependents in any foreign country shall be limited to surviving wife and child or children or, if there be no surviving wife or child or children, to surviving father or mother whom the employee has supported, either wholly or in part, for the period of one (1) year prior to the date of the injury, and except that the commission may, at its option or upon the application of the insurance carrier, commute all future installments of compensation to be paid to such aliens by payment of a lump sum equal to the present value of all future payments of compensation computed at four percent (4%) discount compounded annually.
MS Code § 71-3-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-29. Compromise, commutation, and lump sum payments

 Rules of the commission shall govern compromise payments where the prescribed schedules are not applicable and which, in its discretion, may be made in cases where it is not possible to determine the exact extent of disability, as for example in certain injuries to the back or head. The commission shall also have full authority to adjudicate the disposition of death claims. Commutation and lump sum settlement payments shall be governed by rules of the commission, and shall not be made except when determined to be in the best interest of the injured worker or his dependents, the commission having final authority in such questions.
MS Code § 71-3-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-31. Determination of wages

 Except as otherwise specifically provided, the basis for compensation under this chapter shall be the average weekly wages earned by the employee at the time of the injury, such wages to be determined from the earnings of the injured employee in the employment in which he was working at the time of the injury during the period of fifty-two (52) weeks immediately preceding the date of the injury divided by fifty-two (52); but if the injured employee lost more than seven (7) days during such period, although not in the same week, then the earnings for the remainder of such fifty-two (52) weeks shall be divided by the number of weeks remaining after the time so lost has been deducted. When the employment prior to the injury extended over a period of less than fifty-two (52) weeks, the method of dividing the earnings during that period by the number of weeks and parts thereof during which the employee earned wages shall be followed, provided that results just and fair to both parties will thereby be obtained. Where, by reason of the shortness of time during which the employee has been in the employment of his employer, it is impracticable to compute the average weekly wages by the above method of computation, regard shall be had to the average weekly amount which, during the first fifty-two (52) weeks prior to the injury or death, was being earned by a person in the same grade, employed at the same or similar work in the community. Wherever allowances of any character are made to an employee in lieu of wages or specified as part of the wage contract, they shall be deemed a part of his earnings.
MS Code § 71-3-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-33. Guardian for minor or incompetent

 The commission may require the appointment by a court of competent jurisdiction, for any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor, of a guardian or other representative to receive compensation payable to such person under this chapter and to exercise the powers granted to or to perform the duties required of such person under this chapter.
MS Code § 71-3-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 71 - Labor and Industry|Chapter 3 - Workers' Compensation|General Provisions|§ 71-3-35. Limitation

  No claim for compensation shall be maintained unless, within thirty (30) days after the occurrence of the injury, actual notice was received by the employer or by an officer, manager, or designated representative of an employer. If no representative has been designated by posters placed in one or more conspicuous places, then notice received by any superior shall be sufficient. Absence of notice shall not bar recovery if it is found that the employer had knowledge of the injury and was not prejudiced by the employee's failure to give notice. Regardless of whether notice was received, if no payment of compensation (other than medical treatment or burial expense) is made and no application for benefits filed with the commission within two (2) years from the date of the injury or death, the right to compensation therefor shall be barred.   If a person who is entitled to compensation under this chapter is mentally incompetent or a minor, the limitation for filing application for benefits shall not be applicable so long as such person has no guardian or other authorized representative, but shall be applicable in the case of a person who is mentally incompetent or a minor from the date of appointment of such guardian or other representative, or in the case of a minor, if no guardian is appointed before he becomes of age, from the date he becomes of age.   Where recovery is denied to any person, in a suit brought at law or admiralty to recover damages in respect of injury or death, on the ground that such person was an employee and that the defendant was an employer within the meaning of this chapter and that such employer had secured compensation to such employee under this chapter, the limitation upon filing application for benefits shall begin to run only from the date of termination of such suit.