It shall be unlawful for any contractors, material dealers, individuals, manufacturers, producers, or corporations, to enter into collusion, private agreement, or secret understanding, to raise the price of construction work or of equipment, supplies or materials for any state highway work. Any contractor, material dealer, manufacturer, producer or their agent or employee, or officer, agent or employee of any corporation, convicted of this offense shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways
§ 97-15-3. Highway commission members and employees; bribery
§ 97-15-11. Highway contractors, materialmen, etc.; collusion to raise prices
§ 97-15-15. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; charging excessive toll
§ 97-15-19. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; unreasonable detention of person
§ 97-15-21. Levees; breaking enclosures; depositing trash, etc., or storing commodities; damaging
§ 97-15-23. Levees; disfiguring, etc., or excavating dirt or sand on levee right-of-way
§ 97-15-25. Levees; maliciously cutting, destroying, etc.
§ 97-15-31. Littering highways, streets, sidewalks, etc. with tacks, glass or other damaging objects
§ 97-15-33. Obstructing, injuring, destroying bridge, causeway or ferry
§ 97-15-35. Obstructing or injuring plank-road, covered, or other roads
§ 97-15-37. Obstructing public highway
§ 97-15-43. Obstructing waterways; navigable channel
§ 97-15-45. Obstructing waterways; permanently obstructing navigable waters
§ 97-15-47. Road overseers; refusing or neglecting duty
§ 97-15-49. Road overseers; suffering road to remain out of repair