Mississippi Code
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.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 97 - Crimes

Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions

§ 97-23-1. False advertising and misrepresentation of nature of business

§ 97-23-3. Advertising; untrue, deceptive, or misleading

§ 97-23-5. Advertising; pulling down advertisements

§ 97-23-7. Cotton; fraudulent packing

§ 97-23-9. Cotton; seed-cotton not sold at night

§ 97-23-11. Cotton; scalage; deductions from true weight of bale prohibited

§ 97-23-13. Cotton; scalage; purchasers of cotton to account for actual weight

§ 97-23-15. Cottonseed meal; adulterated meal to be branded

§ 97-23-19. Embezzlement; by agents, bailees, trustees, servants and persons generally

§ 97-23-21. Embezzlement; evidence of debt negotiable by delivery but not delivered

§ 97-23-23. Embezzlement; buying or receiving embezzled goods

§ 97-23-25. Embezzlement; property held in trust or received on contract

§ 97-23-27. Embezzlement; property borrowed or hired

§ 97-23-29. Enticing away servant or lessee without written consent; provisions applicable to minors

§ 97-23-31. Insurance; acting as agent for company not complying with law

§ 97-23-33. Interference with exercise of lawful trade or calling by printing or distributing of matter, etc.

§ 97-23-35. Newspapers and periodicals to print names of their editors

§ 97-23-37. Oleomargarine and other imitation food to be branded

§ 97-23-39. Preventing employment by force or violence; penalty

§ 97-23-41. Preventing employment by force or violence; conspiracy

§ 97-23-43. Profession; practicing without license

§ 97-23-55. Storage battery; unlawful to deface rental battery

§ 97-23-57. Storage battery; unlawful to sell or give away rental battery

§ 97-23-59. Storage battery; unlawful to retain or recharge rental battery

§ 97-23-61. Storage battery; penalty

§ 97-23-83. Threats or coercion to prevent lawful conduct of business

§ 97-23-85. Unlawful restraint of trade; boycott; civil liability

§ 97-23-87. Unauthorized copying or sale of recordings

§ 97-23-94.1. Punishment for violation of Section 97-23-94

§ 97-23-95. Shoplifting; detention of suspect for questioning without incurring civil liability

§ 97-23-96. Civil remedy for shoplifting violations; written demand prior to commencing civil proceedings; recovery from parents or legal guardians of minors; costs

§ 97-23-97. Scalping of admission tickets at college events held on state property

§ 97-23-99. Giving away of merchandise by employee without authorization of merchant

§ 97-23-101. Laundering of monetary instruments; offense; penalties; effect of federal conviction