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MS Code § 69-5-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 5 - Fairs; Stock Shows; Improvement of Livestock|Article 3 - Stock Shows and Improvement of Livestock|§ 69-5-121. Bulls for breeding; maintenance by certain counties; defrayal of expenses

  For the purpose of promoting, fostering and encouraging the upgrading and improving of livestock, any county with an assessed valuation of Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000.00) or more, and designated as a place for the holding of a livestock show, by the provisions of Section 69-5-103, may upon the order of the board of supervisors purchase, keep, maintain or sell bulls for breeding purposes, but not more than five (5) such bulls may be owned by any such county at any one (1) time.   The board of supervisors shall employ a proper and suitable person qualified by training and experience to aid, advise and assist livestock growers in the development of pastures, upgrading of livestock, or in any way helpful to encourage and promote the raising of livestock and who shall handle, care for, look after and be responsible for the bulls so bought, and such employee shall be charged with the duty of carrying out the provisions of this section in accordance herewith, and shall be paid such salary and expense as the board of supervisors may order, all of said sums to be paid out of the general funds of the county.   Such bulls shall be placed at convenient locations over the county under suitable maintenance contracts for their care and upkeep, and shall be available at all reasonable times to farmers and stock growers upon the payment of a nominal charge for the purpose solely of assisting in defraying the expense of such care and upkeep, the amount of such fees governed solely by such maintenance costs, and to be fixed at the discretion of the board of supervisors.   The board of supervisors shall make such rules and regulations for the services of said bulls as shall be for the best interests of the farmers and stock growers.   The board of supervisors may set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the general fund to pay the cost of employing such person and all expenses incidental to his employment and for the purchase of bulls for breeding purposes and to provide for the care and maintenance of such bulls and for defraying any and all expense necessary to carry out the intent of this section.
MS Code § 69-7-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-101. Central Market Board created

 For the purpose of aiding, establishing and providing proper facilities for the efficient handling of farm and other food products in the interest of farmer, consumer, the general public and the State of Mississippi, and to assist in the disposal and sale of such products, there is hereby created a Mississippi Central Market Board, hereinafter referred to as the "board."
MS Code § 69-7-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-103. Members; appointment and term of office

 The board shall consist of the State Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, who shall be a member and ex officio chairman thereof, and four other members to be appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be from each highway commissioner's district and the fourth member from the state at large, all of whom shall be qualified electors of the State of Mississippi, one of whom shall be a wholesale groceryman dealing in fruits and vegetables, one a retail groceryman dealing in fruits and vegetables, one a farmer growing fruits and/or vegetables, and one a farmer producing poultry and eggs. In making the first appointments, the term of office of the farmer producing poultry and eggs shall be appointed for one year, the retail groceryman dealing in fruits and vegetables shall be appointed for two years, the farmer growing fruits and/or vegetables shall be appointed for three years, and the wholesale groceryman dealing in fruits and vegetables shall be for four years, and each of the successors shall thereafter be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies on the board shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term.
MS Code § 69-7-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-105. Meetings of the board; compensation of members

 The board shall meet at least once each quarter during the fiscal year and at such other times and places as it may adopt by rule or regulation, and may be called in special session upon notice mailed by the secretary not less than seven (7) days prior to the date of the meeting, but this requirement as to notice may be waived by consent of all members of the board. Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and each member attending any meeting shall receive a per diem as is provided by Section 25-3-69, Mississippi Code of 1972, for each day, or part of a day, for each meeting, and actual expenses incurred attending meetings, except the commissioner of agriculture and commerce who shall receive no compensation for attending meetings.   No member of the board shall draw in salary and expenses a sum in excess of Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) in any fiscal year.
MS Code § 69-7-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-107. Headquarters; organization

 The board shall be domiciled at or near Jackson, Mississippi, and shall hold its first meeting in the office of the State Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, within ten days after the members have qualified for office by taking the oath of office as required by the constitution and filing the same in the office of the Secretary of State, for the purpose of organizing the board and adopting such rules and regulations for the future activities hereunder as may be necessary and proper to carry out the terms and provisions of this article.
MS Code § 69-7-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-111. State market manager; bond, duties, compensation

 The board is authorized to select an executive officer to be known as the state market manager, who shall have the ability to operate a large business and who shall have a knowledge of the problems of the growers and distributors and have had experience in the marketing of perishable vegetables. It shall be the duty of the state market manager to manage and control such market as may be established hereunder, subject to the supervision of the board, and to employ, subject to the approval of the board, such employees as may be necessary for the efficient and economical operation and maintenance of such market. The state market manager shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the Legislature, and shall devote his entire time and attention to the discharge of his duties as such manager. He shall attend all meetings of the board and be the secretary thereof and keep the minutes thereof, and shall have custody of its books, records, papers and accounts. The state market manager shall, before assuming the duties of his office, enter into a bond in the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) payable to the State of Mississippi conditioned upon the faithful performance of his or her duties.
MS Code § 69-7-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-113. State market manager to keep records and make reports

 The market manager shall keep, or have kept, records of all leases, rentals, sales, and expense items which shall be audited as other state records are audited. And he shall make, or cause to be made, a report of receipts and disbursements and other information pertaining to the operations of the market to each regular session of the Legislature.
MS Code § 69-7-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-115. Acquisition of facilities, equipment, etc.

 The board is hereby authorized subject to the approval of the building commission to acquire by purchase, donation, lease or condemnation, and for and in the name of the State of Mississippi, a suitable site or sites, accessible to highways and railroads and air terminal facilities, and to erect and install thereon such structures, facilities, and equipment as may be necessary for the inspection, grading, standardization, classification, refrigeration, processing and marketing of such products (for both food and feed), within the amount appropriated for such purposes by the Legislature and subject to the approval of the building commission.
MS Code § 69-7-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-117. Management and disposition of property

  The Mississippi Central Market Board is authorized and empowered to assume jurisdiction of, and to administer any properties that may be acquired by the State of Mississippi for the use and benefit of said Mississippi Central Market Board, located at Prairie, Monroe County, Mississippi, and to administer the affairs of said properties in accordance with the authority conferred on said Mississippi Central Market Board by this article.   The Mississippi Central Market Board is hereby authorized and empowered to lease, or rent, to any corporation, individual, partnership, municipality, county or political subdivision thereof, any part of the property under their jurisdiction, or which may hereafter come under their jurisdiction, located at Prairie, Monroe County, Mississippi, that cannot be used for the purposes as set forth in this article.   The funds derived from any lease, or rental contract entered into under authority of this section shall be placed in the state treasury to the credit of the general fund of the state.   The Mississippi Central Market Board shall not enter into any lease, or rental contract under authority of this section, until such lease, or rental contract has first been approved by the Agricultural and Industrial Board, and their approval of same entered upon their minutes.
MS Code § 69-7-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-119. Limitation on powers of board

 The board shall not have the power to:   acquire, construct, maintain or operate any market or facility which is not operated primarily for the purpose of purchasing and selling at wholesale;   engage in the purchase or sale of farm produce, except the leasing as a grower or produce dealer of a stall or store upon the market and such transactions as are ordinarily incidental thereto and at the same rental as like businesses pay.
MS Code § 69-7-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 3 - Mississippi Central Market Board|§ 69-7-121. Central market fund

 All funds collected under this article shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of Central Market Fund and shall be used solely for payment of the expenses of operation and maintenance of such market and facilities including the acquisition, leasing, maintenance and operation of local farm market facilities located at other points in the State of Mississippi as provided for herein, and for the employment of such production and marketing personnel as will, in the discretion of the Central Market Board, more effectively promote the operation of such market, on warrants issued according to law pursuant to payment vouchers signed by the chairman or his designee.
MS Code § 69-7-201 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 5 - Poultry and Poultry Products|§ 69-7-201. What constitutes "doing business"; resident agent; service of process

 For the purposes of this article, every person, firm, corporation, association or other legal entity who is engaged in hatching baby chicks and ratites, including baby ostrich, emu and rhea, for sale, distribution or under contract, either oral or written, for the production of ostrich, emu, rhea, broilers, laying hens, roosters or eggs, and every person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, who procures the production of ostrich, emu, rhea, broilers, laying hens, roosters or eggs for sale, distribution or processing by contract with others, either oral or written, shall be considered "doing business" within the State of Mississippi, and every person, firm, corporation, association or other legal entity that is a nonresident of this state and who desires to "do business" within this state as covered by this article shall, as a condition precedent to obtaining a license hereunder, appoint or designate a resident of the State of Mississippi as agent for the service of process and shall file such appointment or designation with the Secretary of State. Thereafter, the service of summons upon the agent appointed or designated shall be sufficient to give the courts of this state jurisdiction of any cause of action arising under the terms of this article. Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity who "does business" under the provisions of this article, whether under a license or otherwise, without appointing or designating an agent as herein required shall be deemed to have appointed the Secretary of State as such agent and may be proceeded against in courts of this state by service of process upon the Secretary of State.
MS Code § 69-7-203 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 5 - Poultry and Poultry Products|§ 69-7-203. License required; fees; renewals

 Every person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or other legal entity in this state, engaged in the business of operating an incubator, or incubators, for hatching baby chicks and ratites, including baby ostrich, emu and rhea, for sale, distribution or under contract, either oral or written, for the production of ostrich, emu, rhea, broilers, laying hens, roosters or eggs for sale, distribution or processing by contract with others, either oral or written, is required to obtain a license to engage in such business from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce of the State of Mississippi. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall charge a fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) for such license and a like fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) for the renewal thereof, which license must be renewed annually on or before July 1 of each succeeding year. The fees charged for the license shall be paid by the commissioner to the State Treasurer, who shall deposit the same in the General Fund in the State Treasury. Strict accounting of all fees charged hereunder shall be made by the commissioner.   Nothing in this article shall be construed to require any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, who may be engaged in the businesses covered by this article wholly for themselves, or any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, who purchases his own flocks and becomes wholly responsible for the growing and feeding thereof, to obtain a license hereunder.
MS Code § 69-7-205 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 5 - Poultry and Poultry Products|§ 69-7-205. Issuance and renewal or refusal of license

 The commissioner of agriculture and commerce is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to promulgate proper rules and regulations for the issuance of the license and for the renewal thereof, and for the preparation of the proper forms to be used, and the commissioner shall, to the best of his ability, inquire into the financial responsibility of every applicant for license and shall diligently endeavor to determine such applicants' business reputation. Should the investigation made by the commissioner indicate insolvency of the applicant and such applicant is unable to establish the proof of his financial responsibility by furnishing proper credit references and financial statements, he may furnish to the commissioner copies of any contracts he may have with other allied and related businesses that would justify the commissioner in issuing the license. Otherwise, the commissioner shall not issue the license to any person who cannot reasonably establish his financial responsibility to carry out any contract he may propose to enter into.
MS Code § 69-7-207 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 5 - Poultry and Poultry Products|§ 69-7-207. Application for license

 The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall prescribe and furnish the necessary and proper forms for an application for a license required by Section 69-7-203, and such application form must be signed by the applicant, under oath, as to the correctness of the information furnished therein. Any applicant who shall knowingly furnish any false or fraudulent information for the purpose of obtaining a license hereunder, when such application has been duly and properly signed under oath, shall be guilty of perjury and subject to the penalties therefor.
MS Code § 69-7-209 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 5 - Poultry and Poultry Products|§ 69-7-209. Appeal from refusal to grant license

 Any person feeling aggrieved with the decision of the commissioner of agriculture and commerce in refusing to grant a license hereunder shall have recourse by an appeal to the chancery court of Hinds County, Mississippi, by petition filed within thirty days from the date of final refusal to issue such license. The chancery court of Hinds County shall have and it is hereby given full jurisdiction of such appeal and it may enter any appropriate orders therein in term time or in vacation.
MS Code § 69-7-211 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 5 - Poultry and Poultry Products|§ 69-7-211. Injunctions

 Should any person continue to operate such business without having complied with the provisions of this article, the commissioner of agriculture and commerce is authorized to file petition for an injunction in the chancery court of the district where the violator may reside, or in the district where the violation occurred. The chancery court shall have and it is hereby given full jurisdiction to hear and determine the petition and enter any and all appropriate orders in term time and in vacation.
MS Code § 69-7-213 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 5 - Poultry and Poultry Products|§ 69-7-213. Penalties

 Any person who continues the operation of any of the businesses for which a license is required under the provisions of this article, without having complied with the provisions hereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
MS Code § 69-7-251 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 6 - Egg Marketing Board|§ 69-7-251. Definitions

 As used in this article, the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings herein given to them, except where the context expressly indicates otherwise:   "Board" means the Mississippi Egg Marketing Board.   "Person" means every person, partnership, firm, company, association, corporation or legal entity engaged in the production or sale of eggs in the state.   "Eggs" means pullet and hen eggs only.   "Handler" and "dealer" means any person engaged within the state as a wholesale distributor in the business of distributing eggs in Mississippi regardless of where the eggs are produced.   "Producer" means any person engaged in the business of producing eggs in Mississippi, either as an owner or as an officer or stockholder of a business engaged in producing eggs in Mississippi, or any person deriving a profit from such a business.   "Ship" or "shipping" means to move or cause to move eggs in intrastate or interstate or foreign commerce by rail, truck, boat, airplane or any other means.   "Shipper" means any person engaged in shipping or causing to be shipped eggs in intrastate or interstate or foreign commerce, whether owner, agent or otherwise.   "Case" means a standard case of thirty (30) dozen eggs.
MS Code § 69-7-253 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals|Chapter 7 - Markets and Marketing; Domestic Fish Farming|Article 6 - Egg Marketing Board|§ 69-7-253. Board continued; membership; terms; vacancies

 There is hereby continued the Mississippi Egg Marketing Board with domicile at the capital city of the state. The board shall be composed of five (5) members: one (1) member shall be the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce as ex officio member. One (1) member shall be an egg producer as defined in this article. Three (3) members shall be employed by or associated with egg industry related businesses, or disciplines which include poultry support, marketing, promotion, home economist, extension poultry science agencies and the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce. No more than one (1) industry-related business or discipline member shall be employed by, associated with or have a financial interest in the same company or subsidiary.   The Governor shall appoint the members from a list provided by the board based upon a poll of its members. The terms shall be for six (6) years. Each member shall serve, after the completion of his term, until his successor is appointed and duly qualified. Each vacancy shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term.   The terms of office of persons appointed under the original act shall continue until the expiration of the terms to which they were appointed, the intent of this article being to continue the Mississippi Egg Marketing Board.