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MS Code § 97-23-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-89. Sale, distribution of recordings without display of required information

  For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed herein, unless the context requires otherwise:   "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation or association.   "Manufacturer" means any individual, partnership, corporation or association which, after first having acquired the right to transfer sounds or images from the lawful owner thereof, actually transfers or causes the transfer thereon of such sounds or images recorded on a phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, videocassette, film or other article on which sounds or images are recorded, or assembles and transfers any product containing such transferred sounds or images as a component thereof.     It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture or knowingly (a) sell, rent, distribute or circulate, (b) cause to be sold, distributed or circulated, or (c) possess with intent to sell, rent, distribute or circulate, for any compensation, a recorded article or device containing sounds or images, including any phonograph record, tape, disc, videocassette, film or other article or device upon which sounds or images may be fixed or reproduced, without the actual name and street address of the manufacturer thereof and, when the recorded article or device contains sounds only, without the name of the actual performer or group of performers prominently disclosed on the cover, jacket, box or label containing such recorded article or device. Any person who is convicted of a first violation of this subsection shall be guilty of a felony and fined not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary for not more than three (3) years, or both. Any person who is convicted of a second or subsequent violation of this subsection shall be guilty of a felony and fined not more than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) or be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary for not more than seven (7) years, or both.   Each and every individual manufacture, distribution or sale or transfer for a consideration of such recorded article or device in violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a separate offense.   Property used in any way to violate the provisions of this section shall be subject to forfeiture under Sections 97-21-101 and 97-21-103.
MS Code § 97-23-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-91. Construction of Sections 97-23-87 through 97-23-91; private causes of action; confiscation of illegal recordings

  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of Sections 97-23-87 through 97-23-91 shall not be construed or interpreted to enlarge or diminish the rights of parties in civil litigation. Such sections shall not be construed or interpreted to apply to the transfer by a television operator, radio or television broadcaster, librarian or archivist of any such sounds (other than from the sound track of a motion picture) intended for, or in connection with, broadcast transmission, retransmission or related uses, or for archival purposes only.   Any owner of a recorded article or device whose work is allegedly the subject of a violation of the provisions of Section 97-23-87 or 97-23-89 shall have a cause of action in the circuit courts of this state for all damages resulting therefrom, including actual, compensatory, incidental and punitive damages.   Any lawful producer of a recorded article or device whose product is allegedly the subject of a violation of the provisions of Section 97-23-87 or 97-23-89 shall have a cause of action in the circuit courts of this state for all damages resulting therefrom, including actual, compensatory, incidental and punitive damages.   It shall be the duty of any state, county or local law enforcement officer to confiscate all recorded articles and devices prohibited by the provisions of Sections 97-23-87 and 97-23-89 and all equipment and components used or intended to be used in the manufacture of the recordings prohibited by said sections. The law enforcement officer confiscating such materials and equipment shall deliver the prohibited recorded material, equipment and components to the State Attorney General or the appropriate local district attorney of the judicial district in which the confiscation was made, or cause the same to be stored in a safe place until such time as the court having jurisdiction over the confiscated recorded material and equipment shall determine the rights, if any, of any person in and to said confiscated materials and the appropriate disposition of such material and equipment. The provisions of this section shall apply to any prohibited recording, regardless of lack of knowledge or intent on the part of the person in possession of same to violate Section 97-23-87 or 97-23-89.
MS Code § 97-23-92 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-92. Unauthorized use of audiovisual recording device in motion picture theater

  Any person who knowingly operates the audiovisual recording function of any device in a motion picture theater while a motion picture is being exhibited without the consent of the motion picture theater owner commits a crime punishable as provided in subsection (7) of this section.   The term "audiovisual recording function" means the capability of a device to record or transmit a motion picture or any part thereof by means of any technology whether developed before or after July 1, 2005.   The term "motion picture theater" means a movie theater, screening room or other venue that is being utilized primarily for the exhibition of a motion picture at the time of the alleged offense.   The owner or lessee of a motion picture theater, or the authorized agent or employee of the owner or lessee, who alerts law enforcement authorities of an alleged violation of this section shall not be liable in any civil action arising out of measures taken while awaiting the arrival of law enforcement authorities by the owner, lessee, agent or employee in the course of subsequently detaining a person whom the owner, lessee, agent or employee in good faith believed to have violated this section unless the plaintiff can show by clear and convincing evidence that the measures were manifestly unreasonable or the period of detention was unreasonably long.   This section does not prevent any lawfully authorized investigative, law enforcement, protective, or intelligence gathering employee or agent of the local, state or federal government from operating any audiovisual recording device in a motion picture theater as part of lawfully authorized investigative, protective, law enforcement, or intelligence gathering activities.   Nothing in this section shall prevent prosecution under any provision of law providing for greater penalty.   A person convicted of violating this section shall be punished by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six (6) months, or either.
MS Code § 97-23-94 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-94. Aiding and abetting shoplifting by minor; penalty

  In addition to any other offense and penalty provided by law, it shall be unlawful for any person eighteen (18) years of age or older to encourage, aid or abet any person under the age of eighteen (18) years to commit the crime of shoplifting as defined in Section 97-23-93. In addition to any other penalty provided by law, any person who violates this section shall be punished as follows:   Upon a first conviction the defendant shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), or punished by imprisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.   Upon a second conviction the defendant shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or punished by imprisonment not to exceed ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.   Upon a third or subsequent conviction the defendant shall be guilty of a felony and fined One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisoned for a term not exceeding three (3) years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.     In addition to the penalties prescribed in subsection (1) of this section, the court is authorized to require the defendant to make restitution to the owner of the property where shoplifting occurred in an amount equal to twice the value of such property.
MS Code § 97-23-94.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-94.1. Punishment for violation of Section 97-23-94

 Any person aged eighteen (18) years or older who encourages, aids or abets any person under the age of eighteen (18) years to violate Section 97-23-93 shall be punished as provided in Section 97-23-94 and as otherwise provided by law.
MS Code § 97-23-95 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-95. Shoplifting; detention of suspect for questioning without incurring civil liability

 If any person shall commit or attempt to commit the offense of shoplifting, or if any person shall wilfully conceal upon his person or otherwise any unpurchased goods, wares or merchandise held or owned by any store or mercantile establishment, the merchant or any employee thereof or any peace or police officer, acting in good faith and upon probable cause based upon reasonable grounds therefor, may question such person in a reasonable manner for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not such person is guilty of shoplifting as defined herein. Such questioning of a person by a merchant, merchant's employee or peace or police officer shall not render such merchant, merchant's employee or peace or police officer civilly liable for slander, false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, unlawful detention or otherwise in any case where such merchant, merchant's employee or peace or police officer acts in good faith and upon reasonable grounds to believe that the person questioned is committing or attempting to commit the crime of shoplifting.
MS Code § 97-23-96 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-96. Civil remedy for shoplifting violations; written demand prior to commencing civil proceedings; recovery from parents or legal guardians of minors; costs

  Any person who proves by clear and convincing evidence that he has been injured in any fashion by reason of any violation of the provisions of Section 97-23-93, Mississippi Code of 1972, has a cause of action for threefold the actual damages sustained or damages in the amount of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), whichever is greater, reasonable attorney's fees and court costs in the trial and in any proceedings in appellate courts. The recovery of stolen goods regardless of condition shall not affect the right to the minimum recovery provided herein.   Before filing an action for damages under this section, the person claiming injury must make a written demand for Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or threefold the actual damages sustained, whichever is greater, of the person or accused liable for damages under this section. If the accused to whom a written demand is made complies with such demand within thirty (30) days after receipt of the demand, he shall be given a written release from further civil liability for the specific act of shoplifting by the victim making the written demand.   Any victim who has a cause of action under this section may recover the damages allowed under this section from the parents or legal guardian of any unemancipated minor who lives with his parents or legal guardian and who is liable for damages under this section if it is proven that the parents or legal guardian had knowledge of the minor's intent to violate the provisions of Section 97-23-93 or aided and abetted the minor in such violations. Foster parents shall not be liable for the acts of children placed with them.  Nothing in this section shall in any way be construed as to abrogate, compromise or violate any minor's right to confidentiality under any other provision of the Mississippi Code of 1972 or otherwise.    In no event shall punitive damages be awarded under this section.   In awarding damages, attorney's fees, expenses or costs under this section, the court shall not consider the ability of the opposing party to pay such fees and costs. Nothing under this section shall be interpreted as limiting any right to recover damages, attorney's fees, expenses or costs provided under other provisions of law.
MS Code § 97-23-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-97. Scalping of admission tickets at college events held on state property

 It shall be unlawful for any admission ticket to any athletic contest of any college or university of the State of Mississippi or for any admission ticket to any entertainment event held on state property to be sold for a price in excess of the price printed on the face of the ticket.   It shall be unlawful to sell any such admission tickets at any place or in any manner except at such places and in such manner as designated by the proper authorities issuing such tickets.   Nothing in this section shall prohibit a private individual from selling tickets bought for personal use at a price not to exceed the price on the face of the ticket.   Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as for a misdemeanor.
MS Code § 97-23-99 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-99. Giving away of merchandise by employee without authorization of merchant

 It shall be unlawful for any employee of a merchant engaged in the sale of goods to the public to willfully give away any merchandise of a value of less than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) intended for sale without receiving full payment for such merchandise or to give away any merchandise without the specific authorization of the merchant. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisoned for not more than one (1) year or both.
MS Code § 97-23-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-105. Falsely using or producing retail sales receipts and universal product codes

  A person who, with intent to cheat or defraud a retailer, possesses, uses, utters transfers, makes, alters, counterfeits or reproduces a retail sales receipt or a universal product code label commits a misdemeanor which shall be punished, upon conviction thereof, by imprisonment not to exceed one (1) year, a fine not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both.   A person who, with intent to cheat or defraud a retailer, possesses fifteen (15) or more retail sales receipts or universal product code labels or possesses a device the purpose of which is to manufacture fraudulent retail sale receipts or universal product code labels commits a felony punishable, upon conviction thereof, by imprisonment not to exceed five (5) years, a fine not to exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-23-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-111. Automated sales suppression devices, zappers and phantom-ware programs prohibited; definitions; penalties

  As used in this section,the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed hereinunless the context clearly indicates otherwise:   "Automated salessuppression device" or "zapper" means a softwareprogram carried on a memory stick or other flash memory data storagedevice, or on a removable optical disc or accessed through an Internetlink, or by any other means, that falsifies the electronic recordsof electronic cash registers and other point-of-sale systems, including,but not limited to, transaction data and transaction reports.   "Electronic cashregister" means a device that keeps an electronic record, registeror supporting documentation, through the use of an electronic deviceor computer system, of data for the purpose of computing, compilingor processing retail sales transaction data, and includes a cash registeror any other point-of-sale system.   "Phantom-ware"means a hidden or concealed programming option embedded in the operatingsystem of, or hardwired into, an electronic cash register that canbe used to create a second or alternate set of records or to eliminateor manipulate transaction records, which may or may not be preservedin digital format, to represent either the actual or the manipulatedrecord of transactions.   "Transaction data"means data relating to a transaction which includes, but is not limitedto, data identifying each item purchased by a customer; the pricefor each item; a taxability determination for each item; a segregatedtax amount for each of the taxed items; the amount of cash or credittendered; the net amount returned to a customer in change; the dateand time of a purchase; the name, address and identification numberof a vendor; and the receipt or invoice number of a transaction.   "Transaction report" means:   A report that contains, but is not limitedto, documentation of the sales, taxes or fees collected, media totals,and discount voids of an electronic cash register and that is printedon cash register tape or other hard copy at the end of a day or shift;   A report that documents every action performedon or by an electronic cash register and that is stored electronically;and/or   Any variation of reports described insubparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph (e).       It shall be unlawful for any person toknowingly create, design, manufacture, sell, purchase, lease, install,update, repair, service, transfer, use, or possess or otherwise makeavailable any automated sales suppression device, zapper or phantom-ware.   Any person who violates the provisionsof this section shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof,shall be fined not more than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00)or imprisoned for not more than fifteen(15) years, or both.   An automated sales suppression device,zapper or phantom-ware and any device containing such device or softwareshall be contraband and shall be forfeited to the state.
MS Code § 97-25-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 25 - Offenses Affecting Railroads, Public Utilities and Carriers|§ 97-25-1. Electric power lines and facilities; tampering, injury or unauthorized use; stealing or destroying fixtures and equipment

  Any person who shall intentionally in anywise obstruct, injure, break, tamper with or destroy or in any manner interrupt any electric power line or the transmission of electric current in connection with such line, or who shall make or use electric power from any unauthorized connection with such line, or who shall intentionally injure or destroy any of the posts, wires, insulators, fixtures, equipment, installations or other things belonging to any electric power system, or used in connection with the furnishing of electric power service, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and such person shall, on conviction, be fined not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or imprisoned in the county jail for not exceeding six (6) months, or both.   Every person who shall be convicted of taking and carrying away, feloniously, such property as listed in subsection (1) of this section, of the value of one hundred dollars ($100.00) or more, shall be guilty of grand larceny and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding five (5) years, or shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or both.   If any person shall feloniously take, steal and carry away any such property as listed in subsection (1) of this section, under the value of one hundred dollars ($100.00), he shall be guilty of petit larceny and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three (3) months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-25-4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 25 - Offenses Affecting Railroads, Public Utilities and Carriers|§ 97-25-4. Railroads; offenses committed on railroad right-of-way

  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to do any of the following acts without first having obtained written permission from the owner or operator of the railroad line:   To attempt to board or disembark from a moving freight train;   To damage or deface, or attempt to damage or deface, railroad track, signals, switches, buildings, structures, bridges, rights-of-way, wire lines, motive power, rolling stock or other property; or   To dump, or cause to be dumped, upon railroad right-of-way any paper, ashes, sweepings, household wastes, glass, metal, tires, mattresses, furniture, dangerous substances or any other refuse or substance of any kind.     Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to:   Railroad employees engaged in the performance of their duties; or   Representatives of utilities or other agencies with easements across or along the railroad in the performance of their duties.     Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days or by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) but not more than Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00), or both, and may be required to pay any clean-up costs. In addition, any person who is convicted for a violation of subsection (1)(b) or subsection (1)(c) of this section shall be ordered by the court to make restitution to the owners or operators of the railroad line or property in an amount determined by the court to compensate for all damages caused by such person and all costs related to cleanup necessitated as a result of such person's unlawful conduct.   The penalties provided for in this section shall be in addition to any other penalties provided by law for the same or similar acts.   As used in this section the term "right-of-way" means track, roadbed and adjacent property which would be readily recognizable to a reasonable person as railroad property.
MS Code § 97-25-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 25 - Offenses Affecting Railroads, Public Utilities and Carriers|§ 97-25-5. Railroads; destroying crossing-sign, gate or warning-signals

 If any person shall willfully obliterate, injure or destroy any railroad-gate, warning-signals, cattle-gap or any board or sign erected or maintained by a railroad company in pursuance of law, he shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three (3) months, or both. In addition, any person who is convicted for a violation of this section shall be ordered by the court to make restitution to the owners or operators of the railroad line or property in an amount determined by the court to compensate for all damages caused by such person and all costs related to cleanup necessitated as a result of such person's unlawful conduct.