Every person, company, association, partnership, manufacturing company, or railroad company now existing or hereafter organized in this state engaged in employing labor for manufacturing purposes, or any railroad within this state shall be prohibited from discounting any trade check, coupons, or other written instrument issued for the payment of such labor. It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, corporation, or trade establishment purchasing said trade checks, coupons, or other instruments issued for the payment of such labor to discount the same. Any person, partnership, corporation, or trade establishment purchasing the same at a discount, or any company, corporation, railroad, or other person issuing said checks, coupons, or other written instruments who shall discount the same in settlement with the employees shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) and not more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for each offense.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 1 - Employer and Employee
§ 71-1-1. Occupational health and safety program
§ 71-1-17. Children under fourteen not to work in mills or factories
§ 71-1-19. Child labor in accord with school attendance
§ 71-1-21. Regulating hours of labor
§ 71-1-23. Sheriff to enforce law
§ 71-1-25. County health officer to inspect
§ 71-1-27. Misdemeanor to fail or refuse to obey order of officer
§ 71-1-29. Misdemeanor to violate child labor laws
§ 71-1-31. Certain canneries excepted
§ 71-1-37. Discounting trade checks prohibited
§ 71-1-39. Trade checks must be paid in cash
§ 71-1-41. Employee trust plan
§ 71-1-43. Income or principal of employee trust plan not to be encumbered
§ 71-1-45. Assignment or pledge of wages
§ 71-1-47. Denial or abridgment of work