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MS Code § 77-5-735 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-735. Exemption from laws relating to competitive bidding

 A municipality's or joint agency's purchase of, contract for the acquisition of, or contract for any property, including any project or interest therein, or the construction of, or the operation and maintenance of, any project, owned or to be owned jointly by such municipality or joint agency with any person, firm or corporation engaged in the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity, either within or without this state, other than with a municipality of this state or a joint agency created pursuant to this article, may be made or entered into without meeting the requirements of any law relating to acquisitions, purchases or contracts by competitive bids where the interest to be acquired by such municipality or joint agency in such property or project is twenty-five percent (25%) or less.   If a municipality or joint agency which finds and records on its minutes that acquisition of any project, or any interest therein, or any portion thereof, or any property or any interest therein or any portion thereof, which is authorized by this article is available or can be acquired or contracted for from or with only a single source, person, firm or corporation, then such acquisition or contract may be made or entered into without meeting the requirements of any law relating to acquisitions, purchases or contracts by competitive bids. If, after advertising for competitive bids as to other proposed purchases, acquisitions or contracts, only one (1) bid is received, the municipality or joint agency, as the case may be, may reject the bid and negotiate privately any purchase, contract or acquisition for a consideration not exceeding that proposed in the bid.
MS Code § 77-5-737 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-737. Joint agency pledge bonds

 A joint agency may issue its bonds pledging to the payment thereof as to both principal and interest the revenues or any portion thereof, derived or to be derived from all or any of its projects, and any additions and betterments thereto or extensions thereof, or contributions or advances from its members. Bonds of a joint agency shall be authorized by a resolution adopted by its governing board and spread upon its minutes.
MS Code § 77-5-743 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-743. Fixing, charging and collecting rents, fees, rates and charges; municipalities

 A municipality is hereby authorized to fix, charge and collect rents, rates, fees and charges for electric power and energy and other services, facilities and commodities sold, furnished or supplied through the facilities of its electric system or its interest in any joint project. For so long as any bonds of a municipality are outstanding and unpaid, the rents, fees and charges shall be so fixed as to provide revenues sufficient to pay all costs of and charges and expenses in connection with the proper operation and maintenance of its electric system, and its interest in any joint project, and all necessary repairs, replacements or renewals thereof, to pay when due the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all bonds and other evidences of indebtedness payable from said revenues, to create and maintain reserves as may be required by any resolution authorizing and securing bonds, to pay when due the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all bonds heretofore or hereafter issued to finance additions, improvements and betterments to its electric system, and to pay any and all amounts which the municipality may be obligated to pay from said revenues by law or contract. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit any municipality from expending any revenues in excess of that required herein in any manner otherwise permitted by law.
MS Code § 77-5-745 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-745. Fixing, charging and collecting rents, fees, rates and charges; joint agencies

 A joint agency is hereby authorized to fix, charge and collect rents, rates, fees and charges for electric power and energy and other services, facilities and commodities sold, furnished or supplied through the facilities of its projects. For so long as any bonds of a joint agency are outstanding and unpaid, the rents, rates, fees and charges shall be so fixed as to provide revenues sufficient to pay all costs of and charges and expenses in connection with the proper operation and maintenance of its projects, and all necessary repairs, replacements or renewals thereof, to pay when due the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all bonds and other evidences of indebtedness payable from said revenues, to create and maintain reserves as may be required by any resolution authorizing and securing bonds, and to pay any and all amounts which the joint agency may be obligated to pay from said revenues by law or contract.
MS Code § 77-5-747 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-747. Pledges made by municipalities or joint agencies

 Any pledge made by a municipality or joint agency pursuant to this article shall be valid and binding from the date the pledge is made. The revenues, securities and other moneys so pledged and then held or thereafter received by the municipality or joint agency or any fiduciary shall immediately be subject to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of the pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the municipality or joint agency without regard to whether such parties have notice thereof. The resolution trust indenture or other security instrument by which a pledge is created need not be filed or recorded in any manner.
MS Code § 77-5-749 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-749. Temporary investment and reinvestment of money

 All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this article, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues may be temporarily invested and reinvested pending the disbursements thereof in such securities and other investments as may be permitted by law for investment of excess funds of municipalities.
MS Code § 77-5-751 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-751. Proceedings to enforce rights of holders of bonds

 Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this article or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceeding, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of the state or granted hereunder, or, to the extent permitted by law, under such resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds or under any agreement or other contract executed by the municipality or joint agency pursuant to this article, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by this article or by such resolution to be performed by any joint agency or municipality or by any officer thereof, including the fixing, charging and collecting of rents, rates, fees and charges.
MS Code § 77-5-753 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-753. Bonds issued under this article as proper and legal investments

 Bonds issued by a municipality or joint agency under the provisions of this article are hereby made securities in which all public officers and agencies of the state and all political subdivisions, all insurance companies, banking associations, investment companies, executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such bonds are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any officer or agency of the state or any political subdivision for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or obligations of the state or any political subdivision is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
MS Code § 77-5-755 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-755. Bonds issued as special obligations of municipality or joint agency issuing them

 The bonds shall be special obligations of the municipality or joint agency issuing them. The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the bonds shall not be payable from the general funds of the municipality or joint agency, nor shall they constitute a legal or equitable pledge, charge, lien or encumbrance upon any of its property or upon any of its income, receipts or revenues, except the funds which are pledged under the resolution authorizing the bonds. Neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of a municipality or of the state are, or may be, pledged for the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, and no holder of the bonds shall have the right to compel the exercise of the taxing power by the state or a municipality or the forfeiture of any of its property in connection with any default thereon. Every bond shall recite in substance that the principal of and interest on the bond is payable solely from the revenues pledged to its payment and that the municipality or joint agency is not obligated to pay the principal or interest except from such revenues.
MS Code § 77-5-757 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-757. Refunding bonds

 A municipality or joint agency is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of refunding bonds of the municipality or joint agency for the purpose of refunding any bonds then outstanding which shall have been issued under the provisions of this article, including the payment of any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of such bonds. The issuance of such bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties and obligations of the municipality or joint agency in respect to the same shall be governed by the provisions of this article which relate to the issuance of bonds, insofar as such provisions may be appropriate therefor.
MS Code § 77-5-759 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-759. Tax exempt status; bonds

 Bonds, their transfer and the income therefrom (including any profit made on the sale thereof), shall at all times be free from taxation by the state or any political subdivision or any agency of either thereof, excepting inheritance, estate or gift taxes.
MS Code § 77-5-761 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-761. Tax exempt status; interest in project owned by municipality or joint agency

 Any interest in a project owned by a municipality or owned by a joint agency shall be exempt from all state, county and local ad valorem or other property taxes. The purchase, exchange or interchange of capacity, transmission, or electric power and energy for resale by any municipality or joint agency under this article shall not be subject to sales, use or other tax. The sale of any electric power or energy from any project to any municipality shall not be subject to sales, use or other tax.
MS Code § 77-5-763 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-763. Rights, privileges and immunities of personnel

 Personnel employed or appointed by a municipality to work on a joint project or for a joint agency shall have the same authority, rights, privileges and immunities which the officers, agents and employees of the appointing municipality enjoy within the territory of that municipality, whether within or without the territory of the appointing municipality, when they are acting within the scope of their authority or in the course of their employment.   Personnel employed or appointed directly by a joint agency or by a participating municipality or by a nonprofit operating agency of the participating municipalities or of the joint agency, shall be eligible for participation in the Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System with the same rights, privileges, obligations and responsibilities as they would have if they were employees of a municipality.
MS Code § 77-5-765 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-765. Dissolution of joint agencies

 Whenever the board of commissioners of a joint agency and the utility commissions of its member municipalities shall by resolution or ordinance determine that the purposes for which the joint agency was formed have been substantially fulfilled and that all bonds theretofore issued and all other obligations theretofore incurred by the joint agency have been fully paid or satisfied, such board of commissioners and utility commissions may declare the joint agency to be dissolved. On the effective date of such resolution or ordinance, the title to all funds and other property owned by the joint agency at the time of such dissolution shall vest in the member municipalities of the joint agency as provided in this article and the bylaws of the joint agency.
MS Code § 77-5-767 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-767. Annual reports; joint agencies; municipalities

 Each joint agency shall, following the closing of each fiscal year, submit an annual report of its activities for the preceding year to the governing authorities and to the utility commissions of its member municipalities. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering the operations of the joint agency during such year. The joint agency shall cause an audit of its books of record and accounts to be made at least once in each year by certified public accountants and the cost thereof may be treated as a part of the cost of construction of a project or projects, or otherwise as part of the expense of administration of a project covered by such audit.   The municipalities possessing ownership interests in a project shall, following the closing of each fiscal year, submit a consolidated or combined annual report of their activities with respect to such project for the preceding year to the respective governing authorities of such municipalities, each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement covering the operations of the jointly owned project during such year. The municipalities possessing ownership interests in a project shall cause an audit or the books of record and accounts relating to such project to be made at least once in each year by certified public accountants and the cost thereof may be treated as a cost of construction of the project, or otherwise as part of the expenses of the administration of the project covered by such audit.
MS Code § 77-5-769 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-769. Application of laws of other states and the United States

 Legislative consent is hereby given (a) to the application of the laws of other states with respect to taxation, payments in lieu of taxes, and the assessment thereof, to any municipality or joint agency created pursuant to this article which has acquired or has an interest in a project, real or personal, situated without the state, or which owns or operates a project without the state pursuant to this article, and (b) to the application of regulatory and other laws of other states and of the United States to any municipality or joint agency which owns or operates a project without the state.
MS Code § 77-5-771 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-771. Grants-in-aid and loans from federal and state governments

 The governing authorities of any municipality or joint agency are hereby authorized to make application and to enter into contracts for and to accept grants-in-aid and loans from the federal and state governments and their agencies for planning, acquiring, constructing, expanding, maintaining and operating any project or facility, or participating in any research or development program, or performing any function which such municipality or joint agency may be authorized by general or local law to provide or perform.   In order to exercise the authority granted by this section, the governing authorities of any municipality or joint agency may:   Enter into and carry out contracts with the state or federal government or any agency or institution thereof under which such government, agency or institution grants financial or other assistance to the municipality or joint agency;   Accept such assistance or funds as may be granted or loaned by the state or federal government with or without such a contract;   Agree to and comply with any reasonable conditions which are imposed upon such grants or loans;   Make expenditures from any funds so granted.
MS Code § 77-5-773 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-773. Eminent domain; crossing lines and rights-of-way of utilities

 Municipalities participating in a joint project and joint agencies shall possess the power of eminent domain for a project authorized by this article to the extent and in the same manner and under the same laws now available to municipalities under the laws of this state; provided, however, a municipality or joint agency exercising the power of eminent domain for a project authorized by this article shall have no power to condemn any facilities or property owned by a public utility or electric power association for the generation, transmission or distribution of electric power and energy.   The lines and rights-of-way of any public utility or of electric power associations or of municipalities participating in a joint project or of any joint agency may be crossed by any municipalities participating in a joint project or by any joint agency. The lines of any municipality participating in a joint project or of any joint agency may be crossed by any public utility or electric power association. Provided, however, the amount of damages, if any, resulting to the line or right-of-way from the crossing thereof as provided herein shall be determined by the affected parties and shall be paid by the public utility, electric power association, municipality or municipalities participating in a joint project, or joint agency to the owner of the lines or rights-of-way crossed. When the parties affected cannot agree upon the damages to be paid for the crossing, either party may file with the circuit court of the county in which the crossing occurs a petition seeking a determination of the amount of the damages. Said action shall be tried by jury at the next regular term of said court in the same manner and under the same principles as provided for the determination of damages in eminent domain proceedings.
MS Code § 77-5-775 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-775. Personal liability of certain personnel

 No commissioner of any joint agency or officer of any municipality or person or persons acting in their behalf, while acting within the scope of their authority, shall be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of his carrying out any of the powers expressly or impliedly given in this article.
MS Code § 77-5-777 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-777. Exemption from requirements of separate actions under this article when governing authorities of utility commission and municipality are same

 Whenever the governing authorities of the utility commission and of any municipality are one and the same, separate actions required by this article by the governing authorities of the municipality with respect to an action or determination required by this article by the governing authorities of the municipality with respect to an action or determination required by this article of a utility commission, including the ratification of resolutions of said utility commission, shall not be necessary, but the action required of a utility commission by this article shall be deemed to have occurred when done by the body forming the governing authorities and the utility commission.
MS Code § 77-5-779 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-779. Provisions supplemental and additional

 The foregoing sections of this article shall be deemed to provide an additional, alternative and complete method for the doing of the things authorized thereby and shall be deemed and construed to be supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing; provided, however, that insofar as the provisions of this article are inconsistent with the provisions of any other general, special or local law, the provisions of this article shall be controlling. Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize the issuance of bonds for the purpose of financing the ownership of any facilities or any interest therein by any private corporation.
MS Code § 77-5-781 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-781. Authority or right of other entities to engage in retail distribution of electric power not impaired

 Nothing contained in this article shall affect in any manner the authority or rights of any public utility, any electric power association, or any municipality to engage in the retail distribution of electric power within the service areas as certificated to them by the public service commission under the Public Utilities Act of 1956.
MS Code § 77-5-783 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Electric Power|Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power|§ 77-5-783. Construction of article

 In order to effectuate the purposes and policies prescribed in this article, the provisions hereof shall be liberally construed.