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.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers
Article 15 - Joint municipal electric power
§ 77-5-703. Declaration of purpose
§ 77-5-707. Powers of municipality; determining power and energy needs; filing of determination
§ 77-5-711. Sale or exchange by municipality of excess capacity or output
§ 77-5-713. Application for licenses, permits, certificates or approvals
§ 77-5-719. Additional membership in joint agencies; withdrawal from membership
§ 77-5-721. Board of commissioners of joint agency; officers; quorum; voting; expenses
§ 77-5-723. Board of commissioners of joint agency; executive committee
§ 77-5-725. Rights and powers of joint agencies
§ 77-5-729. Member municipalities may contract to buy power from joint agencies
§ 77-5-731. Sale or exchange by joint agency of excess capacity or output
§ 77-5-735. Exemption from laws relating to competitive bidding
§ 77-5-737. Joint agency pledge bonds
§ 77-5-739. Issuance of bonds by municipalities and joint agencies
§ 77-5-743. Fixing, charging and collecting rents, fees, rates and charges; municipalities
§ 77-5-745. Fixing, charging and collecting rents, fees, rates and charges; joint agencies
§ 77-5-747. Pledges made by municipalities or joint agencies
§ 77-5-749. Temporary investment and reinvestment of money
§ 77-5-751. Proceedings to enforce rights of holders of bonds
§ 77-5-753. Bonds issued under this article as proper and legal investments
§ 77-5-755. Bonds issued as special obligations of municipality or joint agency issuing them
§ 77-5-759. Tax exempt status; bonds
§ 77-5-761. Tax exempt status; interest in project owned by municipality or joint agency
§ 77-5-763. Rights, privileges and immunities of personnel
§ 77-5-765. Dissolution of joint agencies
§ 77-5-767. Annual reports; joint agencies; municipalities
§ 77-5-769. Application of laws of other states and the United States
§ 77-5-771. Grants-in-aid and loans from federal and state governments
§ 77-5-773. Eminent domain; crossing lines and rights-of-way of utilities
§ 77-5-775. Personal liability of certain personnel