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§ 77-5-701. Short title - This article may be cited as the "Joint Municipal Electric...
§ 77-5-703. Declaration of purpose - The legislature of the State of Mississippi hereby finds and...
§ 77-5-705. Definitions - The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this...
§ 77-5-707. Powers of municipality; determining power and energy needs; filing of determination - In addition and supplemental to the powers otherwise conferred on...
§ 77-5-709. Proportionate ownership of undivided interest in projects; liability of municipality; contracts; issuance of bonds - Each municipality shall own an undivided interest in any project...
§ 77-5-711. Sale or exchange by municipality of excess capacity or output - Capacity or output or related services derived by a municipality...
§ 77-5-713. Application for licenses, permits, certificates or approvals - Municipalities proposing to jointly plan, finance, develop, own and operate...
§ 77-5-715. Contracts for exchange, interchange, wheeling, pooling and transmission of electric power - Municipalities participating in a joint project or projects are hereby...
§ 77-5-717. Creation of joint agencies; application process; issuance of certificate of incorporation - The utility commissions of two (2) or more municipalities may,...
§ 77-5-719. Additional membership in joint agencies; withdrawal from membership - After the creation of a joint agency, any other municipality...
§ 77-5-721. Board of commissioners of joint agency; officers; quorum; voting; expenses - The joint agency shall consist of a board of commissioners...
§ 77-5-723. Board of commissioners of joint agency; executive committee - The board of commissioners of a joint agency may create...
§ 77-5-725. Rights and powers of joint agencies - Each joint agency shall have all of the rights and...
§ 77-5-727. Determining appropriateness of projects to be undertaken by joint agencies; objections; appeal process - No joint agency shall undertake any project required to be...
§ 77-5-729. Member municipalities may contract to buy power from joint agencies - Any municipality which is a member of the joint agency...
§ 77-5-731. Sale or exchange by joint agency of excess capacity or output - A joint agency may sell or exchange the excess capacity...
§ 77-5-733. Joint or several ownership and maintenance by municipalities and joint agencies with other public agencies - The definitions and all other terms and provisions of this...
§ 77-5-735. Exemption from laws relating to competitive bidding - A municipality's or joint agency's purchase of, contract for the...
§ 77-5-737. Joint agency pledge bonds - A joint agency may issue its bonds pledging to the...
§ 77-5-739. Issuance of bonds by municipalities and joint agencies - All bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be advertised...
§ 77-5-741. Bonds to be secured by resolution, trust indenture or other security instrument; contents - In the discretion of the governing board of the issuer,...
§ 77-5-743. Fixing, charging and collecting rents, fees, rates and charges; municipalities - A municipality is hereby authorized to fix, charge and collect...
§ 77-5-745. Fixing, charging and collecting rents, fees, rates and charges; joint agencies - A joint agency is hereby authorized to fix, charge and...
§ 77-5-747. Pledges made by municipalities or joint agencies - Any pledge made by a municipality or joint agency pursuant...
§ 77-5-749. Temporary investment and reinvestment of money - All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this article,...
§ 77-5-751. Proceedings to enforce rights of holders of bonds - Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this...
§ 77-5-753. Bonds issued under this article as proper and legal investments - Bonds issued by a municipality or joint agency under the...
§ 77-5-755. Bonds issued as special obligations of municipality or joint agency issuing them - The bonds shall be special obligations of the municipality or...
§ 77-5-757. Refunding bonds - A municipality or joint agency is hereby authorized to provide...
§ 77-5-759. Tax exempt status; bonds - Bonds, their transfer and the income therefrom (including any profit...
§ 77-5-761. Tax exempt status; interest in project owned by municipality or joint agency - Any interest in a project owned by a municipality or...
§ 77-5-763. Rights, privileges and immunities of personnel - Personnel employed or appointed by a municipality to work on...
§ 77-5-765. Dissolution of joint agencies - Whenever the board of commissioners of a joint agency and...
§ 77-5-767. Annual reports; joint agencies; municipalities - Each joint agency shall, following the closing of each fiscal...
§ 77-5-769. Application of laws of other states and the United States - Legislative consent is hereby given (a) to the application of...
§ 77-5-771. Grants-in-aid and loans from federal and state governments - The governing authorities of any municipality or joint agency are...
§ 77-5-773. Eminent domain; crossing lines and rights-of-way of utilities - Municipalities participating in a joint project and joint agencies shall...
§ 77-5-775. Personal liability of certain personnel - No commissioner of any joint agency or officer of any...
§ 77-5-777. Exemption from requirements of separate actions under this article when governing authorities of utility commission and municipality are same - Whenever the governing authorities of the utility commission and of...
§ 77-5-779. Provisions supplemental and additional - The foregoing sections of this article shall be deemed to...
§ 77-5-781. Authority or right of other entities to engage in retail distribution of electric power not impaired - Nothing contained in this article shall affect in any manner...
§ 77-5-783. Construction of article - In order to effectuate the purposes and policies prescribed in...