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MS Code § 97-23-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-3. Advertising; untrue, deceptive, or misleading

 Any person who, with intent to sell or in any way dispose of merchandise, securities, service, or anything offered by such person, directly or indirectly, to the public for sale or distribution, or who, with intent to increase the consumption of or demand for such merchandise, securities, service or other thing, or to induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title thereto, or an interest therein, makes, publishes, disseminates, circulates or places before the public, or causes, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated or placed before the public within the state, in a newspaper or other publication, or in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, bill, circular, pamphlet or letter, or by a label affixed to the merchandise or its container, or in any other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service or anything so offered to the public, which advertisement contains any assertion, representation or statement of fact which is untrue, deceptive or misleading, including but not limited to representing himself as selling at wholesale unless he is actually selling at wholesale those items so represented, and which such person knew, or might on reasonable investigation have ascertained to be untrue, deceptive or misleading, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), and the offending person, whether found guilty or not, may be held civilly responsible in tort for damages to persons or property proximately resulting from a violation of this section. This section shall not apply to any owner, publisher, printer, agent or employee of a newspaper or other publication, periodical or circular, or to any agent of the advertiser who in good faith and without knowledge of the falsity or deceptive character thereof publishes, causes to be published, or participates in the publication of such advertisement. Firms with the word "wholesale" in their corporate title are not in violation of this section so long as they identify the sales as being made by their retail division.
MS Code § 97-23-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-5. Advertising; pulling down advertisements

 If any person shall pull down any advertisement authorized by law, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than six months.
MS Code § 97-23-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-7. Cotton; fraudulent packing

 If any person shall fraudulently pack or bale any cotton, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both.
MS Code § 97-23-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-9. Cotton; seed-cotton not sold at night

 Any person who shall buy, sell, or exchange or receive or deliver, in pursuance of any contract of sale or exchange, any cotton in the seed or ginned and not baled, between sunset on one day and sunrise on the next, shall, upon conviction, be punished as for a misdemeanor.
MS Code § 97-23-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-11. Cotton; scalage; deductions from true weight of bale prohibited

 If any purchaser or weigher of cotton shall deduct from the true weight of any bale or package thereof any amount whatever, as scalage, with intent to diminish the sum to be paid or credited to the seller, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars.
MS Code § 97-23-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-13. Cotton; scalage; purchasers of cotton to account for actual weight

 If any purchaser of cotton shall fail to account to the seller for the actual weight of the cotton bought, except where the amount of the deduction is agreed upon between them, or adjudged by a disinterested person for them, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in the last section.
MS Code § 97-23-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-15. Cottonseed meal; adulterated meal to be branded

 It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to adulterate any cottonseed meal with hulls, sawdust or anything else, without noting such adulteration in plain and legible characters on each sack, and it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or barter in this state any cottonseed meal adulterated with sawdust or anything else without such adulteration being noted in plain and legible characters on each sack or receptacle thereof. Any person or corporation violating the foregoing provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
MS Code § 97-23-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-17. Customers, patrons or clients; right to choose or refuse to serve; penalty for violation

  Every person, firm or corporation engaged in any public business, trade or profession of any kind whatsoever in the State of Mississippi, including, but not restricted to, hotels, motels, tourist courts, lodging houses, restaurants, dining room or lunch counters, barber shops, beauty parlors, theatres, moving picture shows, or other places of entertainment and amusement, including public parks and swimming pools, stores of any kind wherein merchandise is offered for sale, is hereby authorized and empowered to choose or select the person or persons he or it desires to do business with, and is further authorized and empowered to refuse to sell to, wait upon or serve any person that the owner, manager or employee of such public place of business does not desire to sell to, wait upon or serve. The provisions of this section shall not apply to corporations or associations engaged in the business of selling electricity, natural gas, or water to the general public, or furnishing telephone service to the public.   Any public place of business may, if it so desires, display a sign posted in said place of business serving notice upon the general public that "the management reserves the right to refuse to sell to, wait upon or serve any person," however, the display of such a sign shall not be a prerequisite to exercising the authority conferred by this section.   Any person who enters a public place of business in this state, or upon the premises thereof, and is requested or ordered to leave therefrom by the owner, manager or any employee thereof, and after having been so requested or ordered to leave, refuses so to do, shall be guilty of a trespass and upon conviction therefor shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned in jail not more than six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 97-23-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-21. Embezzlement; evidence of debt negotiable by delivery but not delivered

 Every officer, clerk, agent, or other person mentioned in Section 97-23-19 who shall embezzle or fraudulently secrete, conceal, or convert to his own use, by putting the same in circulation, any evidence of debt negotiable by delivery, but not delivered or issued as a valid instrument, shall be guilty of embezzlement, and punished, on conviction, as provided in the last section.
MS Code § 97-23-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-23. Embezzlement; buying or receiving embezzled goods

 Every person who shall buy or in any way receive any money, goods, rights in action, or other valuable security, effects, or property, knowing the same to have been embezzled, taken or secreted contrary to law, on conviction thereof, shall suffer the penalty provided in Section 97-17-70, for receiving stolen property.
MS Code § 97-23-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-25. Embezzlement; property held in trust or received on contract

 If any person shall fraudulently appropriate personal property or money which has been delivered to him on deposit, or to be carried or repaired, or on any other contract or trust by which he was bound to deliver or return the thing received or its proceeds, on conviction, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than ten years, or be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or either.
MS Code § 97-23-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-27. Embezzlement; property borrowed or hired

 The fraudulent appropriation of certain specific property by one to whom it has been delivered on a contract or loan for use, or of letting and hiring, after the time at which, according to the contract, the right of use acquired thereby has ceased, or before that time by a disposition not authorized by the contract, shall be an offense within the meaning of Section 97-23-25 and shall be punished as therein prescribed.
MS Code § 97-23-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-29. Enticing away servant or lessee without written consent; provisions applicable to minors

 If any person shall wilfully interfere with, entice away, or who shall knowingly employ, or who shall in any manner induce a laborer or renter who has contracted with another person for a specified time to leave his employer or the leased premises, before the expiration of his contract without the consent of the employer or landlord in writing signed by said landlord or employer under or with whom said laborer had first contracted, he shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and in addition shall be liable to the employer or landlord for all advances made by him to said renter or laborer by virtue of his contract with said renter or laborer, and for all damages which he may have sustained by reason thereof. The provisions of this section shall apply to minors under contract made by a parent or guardian.
MS Code § 97-23-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-31. Insurance; acting as agent for company not complying with law

 Any person who shall do or perform any of the acts or things mentioned in the laws governing insurance companies, the doing or performing of which is there provided, shall constitute such person the agent of the company, for any insurance company not organized under or incorporated by the laws of this state, without such company having first complied with the requirements of the laws of this state or having received the certificate of authority from the commissioner of insurance, as required by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, be fined five hundred dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding twelve months, or by either; but the penalties of this section shall not apply to an adjuster of a loss, if the insurance could not have been obtained from a company which had complied with the laws of this state, or if the insurance was given at a rate fully one-half of one per centum less than that charged by such companies.
MS Code § 97-23-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-33. Interference with exercise of lawful trade or calling by printing or distributing of matter, etc.

 If any person shall wilfully and maliciously print, circulate or distribute, cause to be printed, circulated or distributed, or assist in printing, circulating or distributing, in any form whatever, any matter, the purpose and design of the contents thereof being to wilfully and maliciously interfere with, or prevent another from exercising a lawful trade or calling, or engaging in a lawful business, or engaging in lawful use and enjoyment of his property, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months in the county jail or be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or both.
MS Code § 97-23-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-35. Newspapers and periodicals to print names of their editors

 Newspapers and periodicals published in this state, for regular distribution through the mails or otherwise, shall print at the top of the editorial page of said publication the full name of its chief editor, the assistant editor, if any, or the person or persons directly responsible for the editorial utterances of said publication. The owner or owners of any newspaper or periodical published in this state in violation of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense.
MS Code § 97-23-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-37. Oleomargarine and other imitation food to be branded

 A person who sells or manufactures, exposes or offers for sale as an article of food, any oleomargarine or other substance in imitation of any article of food, without disclosing the imitation by a suitable and plainly visible mark or brand, indicating and naming what the substance really is, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one month, or both.
MS Code § 97-23-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-39. Preventing employment by force or violence; penalty

 It shall be unlawful for any person by the use of force or violence, or threat of the use of force or violence, to prevent or to attempt to prevent any person from engaging in any lawful vocation within this state. Any person guilty of violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in the sum of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both, or in the state penitentiary not more than two (2) years.
MS Code § 97-23-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-41. Preventing employment by force or violence; conspiracy

 It shall be unlawful for any two or more persons to conspire together to use force or violence, or threats thereof, to prevent any person or persons from engaging in any lawful vocation or work in this state, and it shall be unlawful for any two or more persons in furtherance of such conspiracy to assemble or gather together at any place where a labor dispute exists or anywhere in this state for the purpose of carrying such unlawful conspiracy into effect. Any person violating this section, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, or both, or in the state penitentiary not more than two years.   The term "labor dispute" as used in this section shall include any controversy between an employer and two (2) or more of his employees concerning the terms or conditions of employment or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment.
MS Code § 97-23-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-43. Profession; practicing without license

 If any person shall practice as an attorney and counsellor-at-law, or shall practice as a physician or surgeon, or shall practice as a dentist, or shall practice as a pharmacist, without having first been examined and obtained a license as required by law, he shall, on conviction, of the first offense, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars or more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months or more than twelve months or both; and such person, upon conviction of the second offense against this section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred ($200.00) dollars or more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year or more than two years; and such person, upon conviction of any succeeding offense, shall be punished in the discretion of the court; provided, however, that such punishment shall in no case exceed the payment of a fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or imprisonment for five years.
MS Code § 97-23-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-55. Storage battery; unlawful to deface rental battery

 It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or deface or alter or destroy, or cause to be removed or defaced or altered or destroyed the word "rental" or any letter, word, mark or character, printed or painted or stamped or branded upon or attached to, any electric storage battery which has been so placed upon or attached to such electric storage battery to identify the same as belonging to or being the property of another.
MS Code § 97-23-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-57. Storage battery; unlawful to sell or give away rental battery

 It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, dispose of, deliver or give, or to attempt to sell, dispose of, deliver or give, to any person other than the owner thereof or his agent any electric storage battery upon which the word "rental" or letter, word, mark or character is printed, painted, stamped or branded, for the purpose of identifying said electric storage battery as being a rental battery belonging to or being the property of another.
MS Code § 97-23-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-59. Storage battery; unlawful to retain or recharge rental battery

 It shall be unlawful for any person to retain in his possession for a longer period than fourteen days, or to recharge, except in cases of emergency, without the consent of the owner thereof, any electric storage battery upon which the word "rental" or any letter, word, mark or character is printed, painted, stamped or branded for the purpose of identifying the said electric storage battery as belonging to or being the property of another.
MS Code § 97-23-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-61. Storage battery; penalty

 Any person violating any of the provisions of any one of Sections 97-23-55 through 97-23-59 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 97-23-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-83. Threats or coercion to prevent lawful conduct of business

 If any person shall in any manner threaten with bodily harm, intimidate or coerce another person to prevent said person from lawfully trading or carrying on business, including buying or selling, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year in the county jail or be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or both.
MS Code § 97-23-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions|§ 97-23-85. Unlawful restraint of trade; boycott; civil liability

 If two (2) or more persons conspire to prevent another person or other persons from trading or doing business with any merchant or other business and as a result of said conspiracy said persons induce or encourage any individual or individuals to cease doing business with any merchant or other person, and when such conspiracy is formed and effectuated because of a reasonable grievance of the conspirators over which the said merchant or place of business boycotted or against which a boycott is attempted has no direct control or no legal authority to correct, or when the conspiracy results from such alleged grievance against the merchant or other person boycotted when no notice of such grievance has been given the merchant or party boycotted and no reasonable opportunity to correct such alleged grievance has been given such merchant or other person against whom the conspiracy was formed, then each of such persons shall be guilty of the crime of unlawful restraint of trade and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisoned for not more than two (2) years and in addition each such person shall be liable in civil action for any damages suffered by said merchant or place of business so wrongfully boycotted and also for attorney fees incurred by said merchant or person boycotted in a civil action to recover damages.