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MS Code § 77-9-719 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 7 - Telegraph and Telephone Companies|§ 77-9-719. Consolidation and merger of telephone lines, exchanges and property authorized

 All telephone lines, exchanges and properties in any county of the State of Mississippi may be consolidated and merged so as to create and establish a telephone system in such county and to enable all patrons of such telephone properties to secure telephonic service over and through one system. When such merger and consolidation of the said telephone properties shall have been effected it shall be done in such manner as to eliminate all telephone exchanges of the said constituent companies in such consolidation or merger in such county saving and excepting one system of exchanges. When such consolidation and merger shall have been effected, the same shall be done in such manner as to provide one central telephone exchange in each of the municipalities situated in the county, in which such consolidation and merger shall have been effected.
MS Code § 77-9-721 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 7 - Telegraph and Telephone Companies|§ 77-9-721. Local authorities, public service commission, and attorney-general must consent to consolidation and merger

 The consolidation and merger of the said telephone properties in any county or in any of the municipalities located in such county shall not take effect until the individuals, associations or corporations owning the said telephone properties which are operating in such county or such municipalities shall have first obtained from the governing authority of each of the municipalities affected by such consolidation and merger as is proposed to be effected, the consent of such municipality to such consolidation and merger. Such consent shall be evidenced by an order of the governing authority of such municipality or municipalities duly and regularly entered upon the minutes of the said governing authority, giving its assent to such merger and consolidation. No consolidation and merger of the said telephone properties shall be effected until the individuals, associations or corporations owning such telephone system shall have also obtained the consent of the public service commission of the State of Mississippi to such consolidation and merger to be evidenced by an order of the said commission, duly and regularly entered upon its minutes. No consolidation of the telephone properties in such county or the municipalities located therein, shall be effected until the individuals, associations or corporations owning such telephone properties shall have produced in the office of the commission duly certified copies of the orders of the governing authority of the municipality, or municipalities, affected by such proposed consolidation and merger evidencing its assent thereto, as above provided. The said consolidation and merger shall not become finally effective and complete until the attorney-general of the State of Mississippi shall have given his certificate that such consolidation and merger is not contrary to the public welfare of the State of Mississippi and is in accordance with the terms of this section.
MS Code § 77-9-723 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 7 - Telegraph and Telephone Companies|§ 77-9-723. Nothing in preceding sections shall mandate consolidation and merger

 Nothing in Sections 77-9-719 and 77-9-721, shall be construed so as to require and compel any rural telephone system now being operated in any of the counties of the State of Mississippi, or that may be hereafter established in any of the said counties, to merge and consolidate with each other, or with any other telephone system now being operated in said counties. Nothing in said sections shall be construed so as to require telephone systems being operated and maintained by local communities for the use and benefit of the localities or communities only, to merge and consolidate with each other, or with other telephone systems.
MS Code § 77-9-725 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 7 - Telegraph and Telephone Companies|§ 77-9-725. Blacklisting of telegraphers because of union affiliation is unlawful

 It shall be unlawful for any telegraph company, telephone company, telegraph press association, railroad company, or any leased wire firm or private individual doing business in this state, and employing telegraphers for the purpose of transmitting telegraph dispatches for the general public, or any press association or private business, or in the operation of any railroad, to discriminate against any such telegrapher in its service or out of its service, or to blacklist or refuse employment to any telegrapher solely because of such telegrapher's affiliation with or membership in any lawful organization or trade or labor union of telegraphers.
MS Code § 77-9-727 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 7 - Telegraph and Telephone Companies|§ 77-9-727. Conspiracy to blacklist telegrapher is unlawful

 It shall be unlawful for any two or more such telegraph or telephone companies, telegraph press associations, railroad companies or leased wire firms or private individuals doing business in this state and employing telegraphers, to conspire, contract, mutually agree or co-operate to discriminate against, blacklist or refuse employment to any telegrapher merely on account of such telegrapher's affiliation with or membership in any lawful organization or trade or labor union of telegraphers.
MS Code § 77-9-729 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers|Article 7 - Telegraph and Telephone Companies|§ 77-9-729. Telegrapher discriminated against may recover actual and exemplary damages

 Any such telegraph or telephone company, telegraph press association, railroad company or leased wire firm or private individual violating Section 77-9-725, shall be liable in actual and exemplary damages to the person so discriminated against.   Any telegraph or telephone company, telegraph press association, railroad company, or leased wire firm or private individual violating Section 77-9-727, shall be jointly and severally liable in actual and exemplary damages to the party so aggrieved.
MS Code § 77-11-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 1 - Enforcement of Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Standards|§ 77-11-1. Declaration of purpose

 The purpose of this article is to make provision for the enforcement by the Mississippi Public Service Commission of Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Standards adopted both by the Mississippi Public Service Commission and by the U. S. Department of Transportation, pursuant to the provisions of Article 1, Chapter 3 of this title, and the Federal Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, 49 USC, sections 1671 et seq., by way of injunctive and monetary sanctions substantially the same as are provided under Section 1678 and Section 1679 of said federal act, so that the commission may certify as the regulatory authority as provided in said federal act.
MS Code § 77-11-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 1 - Enforcement of Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Standards|§ 77-11-3. Civil penalties

  Any person operating a public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Public Service Commission under subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (d) of Section 77-3-3, and Section 77-3-5, who violates any provision of any Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Standard adopted both by the United States Department of Transportation, pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, and by the commission pursuant to Article 1, Chapter 3, of this title, shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), payable to the State of Mississippi for each such violation for each day that such violation persists. The maximum civil penalty shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) for any related series of violations.   Any such civil penalty may be imposed by the chancery court of the county in which the violation occurs or in which the person violating the same resides or has his or its principal place of business, upon complaint of the commission and after opportunity for a hearing thereon. Any such civil penalty may be compromised by the commission, subject to the approval of the court. In determining the amount of such penalty, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, the appropriateness of such penalty to the size of the business of the person charged, the gravity of the violation and the good faith of the person charged in attempting to achieve compliance, after notification of a violation, shall be considered. The amount of such penalty, when finally determined, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, may be deducted from any sums owing by the State of Mississippi to the person charged or may be recovered under judgment of said chancery court, and upon collection shall be paid to the treasury of the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 77-11-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 1 - Enforcement of Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Standards|§ 77-11-5. Restraint of violations and enforcement of standards

  Pursuant to the provisions of Section 77-3-75, the chancery court, First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, shall have jurisdiction to restrain violations of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Standards adopted by both the United States Department of Transportation and the Mississippi Public Service Commission, and to enforce, by mandamus, injunction or other appropriate remedy, orders of said commission adopting such standards. Whenever practicable, the commission shall give notice to any person against whom an action for injunctive relief is contemplated and afford him an opportunity to present his views, and, except in the case of a knowing and willful violation, shall afford him reasonable opportunity to achieve compliance. However, the failure to give such notice and afford such opportunity shall not preclude the granting of appropriate relief.   In any proceeding for criminal contempt for violation of an injunction or restraining order issued under this article, trial shall be by the court, or upon demand of the accused, by a jury and, upon demand of the accused, a jury trial for criminal contempt shall be transferred to the chancery court of the county in which the accused resides or has his principal place of business.
MS Code § 77-11-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 1 - Enforcement of Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Standards|§ 77-11-7. Application of penalties

 The penalties for injunction and monetary sanctions provided in this article apply only to the provisions of this article, and are separate and apart from those otherwise provided by Article 1, Chapter 3, of this title.
MS Code § 77-11-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 3 - Safety and Inspection Standards of Municipal Gas Systems|§ 77-11-101. Commission shall provide for standards of safety and inspection of gas districts, municipal gas systems, and certain pipelines

 The Mississippi Public Service Commission is hereby vested with authority to provide for standards of safety and inspection of gas districts, or municipally owned and/or operated transmission or distribution of natural, artificial, or mixed natural and artificial gas, by means of transportation, transmission or distribution facilities and equipment municipally owned and/or operated by said municipality or gas district. To the maximum extent permissible under the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, the commission is also hereby vested with authority to provide for standards of safety and inspection of facilities owned and/or operated as private pipelines, private pipeline carriers or private pipeline carriers by contract which are not engaged in the transmission, sale, sale for resale or distribution of gas to the public for compensation and which are not therefore subject to the general jurisdiction of the commission as public utilities, which said facilities are used for the intrastate transmission or distribution of natural, artificial and mixed natural and artificial gas by means of intrastate transportation, transmission or distribution facilities or equipment owned and/or operated by any such pipeline.
MS Code § 77-11-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 3 - Safety and Inspection Standards of Municipal Gas Systems|§ 77-11-103. Commission shall prescribe standards and procedures

 To carry out the provisions of this article, the public service commission shall prescribe the safety standards and inspection procedures for said gas districts or municipally owned and/or operated gas systems and for said private pipelines, private pipeline carriers and private pipeline carriers by contract.
MS Code § 77-11-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 3 - Safety and Inspection Standards of Municipal Gas Systems|§ 77-11-105. Enforcement of federal safety standards

 The public service commission shall have the right, power and authority to provide and make certification, reports and information to the secretary of the United States Department of Transportation; to enter into agreements with said secretary to carry out the purposes of this article; to enforce federal safety standards in the State of Mississippi in lieu of enforcement by the said department of transportation; and to exercise regulatory jurisdiction over the safety of pipeline systems owned and/or operated by gas districts or municipalities and said private pipelines, private pipeline carriers and private pipeline carriers by contract in the transportation of gas as permitted by the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968.
MS Code § 77-11-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 3 - Safety and Inspection Standards of Municipal Gas Systems|§ 77-11-107. Promulgation of rules and regulations; inspection; right of access

 In order to determine whether or not each gas district or municipally owned and/or operated gas system or pipeline or privately owned or operated gas pipeline is operating in compliance with the required safety standards and to enforce such compliance, the Mississippi Public Service Commission shall have the right, power and authority to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to facilitate such purpose. Authorized personnel of the commission shall be authorized to inspect all such gas districts, municipally or privately owned and/or operated gas systems, pipelines, facilities and equipment and shall have the right of access and entry to all buildings and property owned, leased and operated by such systems. Other information shall be made available to the commission upon request.
MS Code § 77-11-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 3 - Safety and Inspection Standards of Municipal Gas Systems|§ 77-11-109. Penalty

 Each gas district or municipally owned utility or privately owned and/or operated gas pipeline in the State of Mississippi shall be subject to the same penalty as other gas utilities for failure to comply with the gas pipeline safety standards adopted by the Mississippi Public Service Commission.
MS Code § 77-11-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 3 - Safety and Inspection Standards of Municipal Gas Systems|§ 77-11-111. Limitation of commission's authority

 This article authorizes the Mississippi Public Service Commission to exercise jurisdiction over gas pipeline safety and inspection of gas districts or municipally owned and/or operated gas utilities or privately owned and operated gas pipelines which do not sell, transport or distribute gas to the public, and whose facilities are used for the intrastate transmission or distribution of natural, artificial and mixed natural and artificial gas, but all other operations, services and rates of gas districts or municipally owned and/or operated gas utilities or such privately owned and operated gas pipelines which do not sell, transport or distribute gas to the public shall remain exclusively with the gas districts or municipality or municipally owned and/or operated gas utility or with the owner and/or operator of such private pipeline not serving the public.
MS Code § 77-11-301 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 7 - Intrastate Gas Pipelines|§ 77-11-301. Legislative findings

 The Legislature of the State of Mississippi hereby finds that the public interest will be served by fostering the construction and operation of intrastate gas pipelines in order to secure for public and private needs a dependable supply of gas which will be produced within this state. The Legislature further finds that an emergency exists because numerous commercial enterprises have been closed or restricted in operation due to a shortage of gas resulting in a loss of employment and industrial capacity within this state and threatens irreparable injury to life or property, and the possibility exists that supplies of gas for residential and health related purposes may be restricted in the future. In order to assist in alleviating these shortages, both actual and potential, the Legislature enacts this legislation.
MS Code § 77-11-303 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 7 - Intrastate Gas Pipelines|§ 77-11-303. Application of article

 The provisions of this article shall be applicable to all intrastate gas pipelines and related facilities, which would otherwise be a public utility as defined in Section 77-3-3, Mississippi Code of 1972, for the transmission, sale, sale for resale, and distribution of natural or artificial or mixed gas used within this state for consumption by industrial users or to a public utility or a public utility owned or operated by any municipality. The provisions of this article shall also be applicable in the manner set forth herein to the gas flowing through such pipelines.
MS Code § 77-11-305 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 7 - Intrastate Gas Pipelines|§ 77-11-305. Definitions

 For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context shall otherwise require:   "Corporation" shall mean a private or public corporation, municipality, association, a joint stock association or a business trust.   "Person" shall include a natural person, a partnership of two (2) or more persons having a joint or common interest, a cooperative, non-profit, limited dividend, or mutual association, a corporation or any other legal entity.   "Municipality" shall mean any incorporated city or town or village.   "Intrastate gas pipeline" shall mean the entire pipeline system owned by an entity carrying gas produced wholly within this state, which is not a field gathering system, including the primary gas pipeline and all lateral supply lines and related facilities extending therefrom to the point of sale to any industrial users, a public utility, or a public utility owned or operated by a municipality.   "Public utility" as used in this article shall mean any entity as defined by Section 77-3-3(d)(ii), Mississippi Code of 1972.   "Commission" shall mean the Mississippi Public Service Commission.
MS Code § 77-11-307 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 7 - Intrastate Gas Pipelines|§ 77-11-307. Exemption from requirements imposed on public utilities

  No person who shall construct, acquire, extend or operate an intrastate gas pipeline for transmitting natural, manufactured or mixed gas for sale, sale for resale, or distribution for consumption by industrial users, public utilities, or a public utility owned or operated by a municipality, shall be deemed a public utility or be required to obtain a gas certificate or public convenience and necessity from the commission to engage in the foregoing activities.   Any person engaged in the transmission, sale, sale for resale, or distribution of natural, artificial, or mixed natural and artificial gas to industrial users, public utilities, or public utilities owned or operated by municipalities, by means of transportation, transmission or distribution in an intrastate gas pipeline shall not be deemed a public utility or be required to obtain a gas certificate of public convenience and necessity from the commission.
MS Code § 77-11-309 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 7 - Intrastate Gas Pipelines|§ 77-11-309. Restriction on transmission, sale or distribution to industrial user serviced by gas public utility

 There shall be no transmission, sale, sale for resale, or distribution of natural, artificial, or mixed gas by an intrastate pipeline to an industrial user being served by a gas public utility holding a gas certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the commission or to an industrial user to be located within such certificated area unless the gas public utility holding such certificate of public convenience and necessity shall have filed with the commission a statement that it is either unwilling or unable to serve said user. Provided, however, that nothing contained in this article shall prevent the sale or transmission of natural gas to an industrial user by the producer of such gas or the sale of natural gas in or within the vicinity of the field where the gas is produced.
MS Code § 77-11-311 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems|Article 7 - Intrastate Gas Pipelines|§ 77-11-311. Jurisdiction to enforce pipeline safety standards; natural gas or electric power public utility not exempt from regulation

 The commission shall have jurisdiction over an intrastate gas pipeline for the enforcement of natural gas pipeline safety standards, provided that nothing in this article shall be construed to exempt any natural gas or electric power public utility from regulation by the Public Service Commission as set out in Section 77-3-35, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 79-4-2.01 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 79 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships|Chapter 4 - Mississippi Business Corporation Act|Article 2 - Incorporation|§ 79-4-2.01. Incorporators

 One or more persons may act as the incorporator or incorporators of a corporation by delivering articles of incorporation to the Secretary of State for filing.