Mississippi Code
Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses
§ 97-31-7. Alcoholic preparations; permit to solicit or take orders

No person, firm or corporation, or any association whatsoever, except traveling salesmen engaged in selling exclusively to wholesale and retail merchants shall sell, barter or give away or keep for such purposes, or solicit or take orders therefor, any of the preparations, compounds, bitters, elixirs or extracts mentioned in Section 97-31-5, until a permit so to do shall be granted by the mayor and board of aldermen or mayor and councilmen of any incorporated city, town or village within which said business is or may be proposed to be carried on, or the board of supervisors of the county if the same is or proposed to be carried on without corporate limits of any city, town or village. Such permits may be granted by said authorities upon written application of the person, firm or corporation desiring to deal in such preparation, and the permit, if granted, shall be in writing, shall be spread at large upon the minutes of the proceedings of the mayor and board of aldermen or councilmen or the board of supervisors, as the case may be, giving the name of the dealer, or dealers, the preparation or commodities which it covers, and shall be for a period of one year from the date of its being granted. The granting of a permit to any person, firm or corporation, to barter, sell, give away, keep for sale, or solicit orders for the sale of same shall be in the discretion of the mayor and board of aldermen or councilmen or the board of supervisors, as the case may be, and they shall likewise have full authority and power, in their discretion, to revoke the same.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 97 - Crimes

Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses

§ 97-31-5. Alcoholic preparations; unlawful to sell or keep certain preparations; exceptions

§ 97-31-7. Alcoholic preparations; permit to solicit or take orders

§ 97-31-9. Alcoholic preparations; record of purchases required

§ 97-31-11. Ginger preparations; extracts

§ 97-31-15. Delivery of alcohol or wine to person other than consignee; affidavit required; penalty for false affidavit

§ 97-31-17. Denatured alcohol

§ 97-31-19. Law officers may store confiscated liquors, stills, etc.; consumption of liquor prohibited

§ 97-31-21. Manufacturing or distilling unlawful; making wine at home permitted; penalties

§ 97-31-23. Manufacturing or distilling unlawful; possession of still

§ 97-31-25. Patent medicines

§ 97-31-27. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; penalties

§ 97-31-29. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; agent or assistant of seller or buyer punished

§ 97-31-31. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; connivance by owner, occupant, etc. of house or boat where liquor kept

§ 97-31-33. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; exceptions; records to be kept by carrier; exceptions may be relied upon as defense

§ 97-31-37. Sale of alcohol by druggists; certain sales by retail and wholesale druggists permitted

§ 97-31-39. Sale of alcohol by druggists; medicinal purposes; physician's certificate

§ 97-31-41. Sale of alcohol by druggists; wine for sacramental purposes

§ 97-31-43. Sale of alcohol by druggists; statement of sales or prescriptions to be filed with circuit clerk; filing fee

§ 97-31-45. Sale of alcohol by druggists; penalties for certain violations

§ 97-31-47. Transportation of intoxicating liquors into or within state unlawful

§ 97-31-49. Solicitation of orders for liquors, etc. unlawful

§ 97-31-51. Witnesses; immunity from prosecution granted; penalty for refusing to testify

§ 97-31-53. Penalty for violations where punishment not specifically prescribed