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Incorporation and Consolidation of Railroad Corporations
§ 77-9-101. Preparation of application to governor by persons desiring creation of railroad corporation - Persons desiring the creation and organization of a railroad corporation...
§ 77-9-103. Issuance of proclamation by governor authorizing organization of railroad corporation - Upon the receipt of the application, the governor shall submit...
§ 77-9-105. Recording of application and proclamation - The application and the proclamation of the governor shall be...
§ 77-9-107. Organization and election of board of directors; selection of officers and adoption of bylaws - Upon the issuance of the proclamation by the governor, authorizing...
§ 77-9-109. Capital stock of railroad corporation - Any railroad corporation heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws...
§ 77-9-111. Filing of statement showing date of organization, amount of entire capital stock, and shares into which divided - When organized, the board of directors shall file in the...
§ 77-9-113. Organization by purchasers of railroad sold under execution, deed of trust, or foreclosure - When any railroad shall be sold under execution, or under...
§ 77-9-115. Amendment of railroad corporation charter - The charter of any railroad corporation organized under the provisions...
§ 77-9-117. Amendment of charter to carry out plan of reorganization under federal laws - If the attorney general be of the opinion that the...
§ 77-9-119. Consolidation of railroad corporations - Any railroad company organized and existing under the laws of...
§ 77-9-121. Competing or parallel railroads shall not consolidate - Except as provided in Section 77-9-119, it shall be unlawful...
General Corporate Powers
§ 77-9-141. Powers, rights and privileges of railroad corporations - Except as limited, or otherwise prescribed, by valid federal statutes...
§ 77-9-145. Suing; having a common seal - To sue and be sued, to plead and to be...
§ 77-9-147. Building and operating railroad - To build and construct, and thereafter to use, operate, own,...
§ 77-9-149. Collecting charges for transportation of persons and property - To charge and collect reasonable compensation for the transportation of...
§ 77-9-151. Issuing stocks and bonds - To issue any part of its stock as preferred stock,...
§ 77-9-153. Increasing capital stock; issuing preferred stock to satisfy obligations - To increase, from time to time, its capital stock, but...
§ 77-9-155. Determining number of directors, officers and agents; prescribing compensation, duties and terms thereof - To determine the number of directors, and of officers and...
§ 77-9-157. Authorizing appointment of executive committee - To authorize the directors to appoint an executive committee, with...
§ 77-9-159. Opening books of subscription; calling stockholders' meetings - To open books of subscription for the capital stock of...
§ 77-9-161. Mortgaging; securing mortgage bonds - To mortgage or convey in trust, from time to time,...
§ 77-9-165. Leasing railroad and its properties - To lease, except to parallel or competing lines, its railroad...
§ 77-9-167. Doing an express or telegraph business - To do an express business over its own line or...
§ 77-9-169. Having right of way generally - To enter upon all lands, and to survey, lay out,...
§ 77-9-171. Having right of way over state lands - To enter upon, acquire, and enjoy a right of way...
§ 77-9-173. Entering upon land adjacent to its right of way - To enter upon land adjacent to its right of way...
§ 77-9-175. Acquiring lands for depots and other purposes - To agree and contract for the acquisition of, or to...
§ 77-9-177. Crossing, intersecting, joining or uniting with other railroads - To cross, intersect, join, or unite its railroad with any...
§ 77-9-179. Crossing water courses - To construct, maintain, or operate its railroad under, over, and...
§ 77-9-181. Insuring persons and property - To insure persons and property, or either, transported or to...
§ 77-9-183. General grant of powers - To do and perform all and everything necessary to the...
§ 77-9-185. How powers are to be exercised - The powers conferred in Sections 77-9-141 through 77-9-183 are to...
§ 77-9-187. Terminal points and direction of line may be changed - A railroad company chartered under this article may, after beginning...
§ 77-9-189. Adoption and change of gauge - All railroads hereafter constructed in this state may adopt such...
§ 77-9-191. Fictitious stock is void - A railroad corporation shall not issue stocks or bonds except...
§ 77-9-193. Powers of stockholders - The board of directors is to be subject to the...
Safety
§ 77-9-223. Exception to requirement of headlights - Section 77-9-221 shall not apply: to tramroads, mill roads and...
§ 77-9-225. Locomotives to give warning when approaching crossings; penalty - Every railroad company shall cause each locomotive engine run by...
§ 77-9-227. Freight cars shall not be placed in rear of passenger cars; penalty - In forming a passenger train, freight or merchandise or lumber...
§ 77-9-229. Backing into or along a passenger depot; penalty - It shall be unlawful to back a train of cars,...
§ 77-9-233. Exception to requirement of pilots and headlights - Section 77-9-231 shall not apply: to railroads whose principal business...
§ 77-9-235. Obstructing highways and streets; penalty - Every railroad company, upon stopping any train at a place...
§ 77-9-236. Obstructing highways and streets; criminal responsibility of crew complying with orders of employer - No member of a train crew, yard crew or engine...
§ 77-9-237. Speed limit in cities - Any railroad company having the right of way may run...
§ 77-9-245. Inclosures around depots - A railroad company may erect an inclosure around a depot,...
§ 77-9-247. Railroads shall erect "railroad crossbuck." - Every railroad corporation or company or person or persons operating...
§ 77-9-248. Installation of crossbuck as present signs are replaced - The crossbuck signs provided for in Section 77-9-247 shall be...
§ 77-9-251. Highway crossings and bridges - Where a railroad is constructed so as to cross a...
§ 77-9-257. Inspection of railroads - The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall have every railroad inspected whenever...
§ 77-9-261. Failure to submit to inspection; penalties - If any officer or other employee of a railroad company...
Service and Facilities
§ 77-9-321. Rights of shippers of livestock - A person who has chartered a car for the purpose...
Rates
§ 77-9-373. Civil damages recoverable from railroad guilty of extortion - A party injured may recover of a railroad corporation or...
Accidents; Liability in Tort
§ 77-9-431. Notice of accidents - Each railroad shall report accidents to the Mississippi Department of...
§ 77-9-435. Railroads liable for negligence and mismanagement of employees, and mismanagement of engines - Every railroad company shall be liable for all damages which...
Administration and Enforcement
§ 77-9-481. Duties of railroad inspectors - The inspectors, employed pursuant to the authority granted in Section...
§ 77-9-483. Training of railroad inspectors - After selection the inspectors shall go through thirty (30) days...
§ 77-9-485. Authority of railroad inspectors - All inspectors on duty shall wear uniforms as prescribed by...
§ 77-9-487. Purchase of necessary equipment authorized - The Mississippi Transportation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to...
§ 77-9-489. Payment of salaries and expenses from commission's regulation fund; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund - The salaries of all employees authorized to enforce the provisions...
§ 77-9-491. Cooperation with other state agencies authorized - For the purpose of administering and enforcing the provisions of...
§ 77-9-493. Tax for regulation of railroads - All reasonable and necessary operating expenses of the administration of...
Railroad Police Officers
§ 77-9-501. Short title - Sections 77-9-501 through 77-9-517 shall be cited as "The Mississippi...
§ 77-9-503. Definitions - For purposes of Sections 77-9-501 through 77-9-517, unless the context...
§ 77-9-507. Handling of persons arrested by officers - A person arrested by a railroad police officer shall be...
§ 77-9-509. Liability of railroad for acts of officer; indemnification - The railroad by the act of requesting the appointment of...
§ 77-9-511. Powers of officers appointed and commissioned in other states - The governor of this state may enter into agreement with...
§ 77-9-513. Fee for commission; bond; "hold harmless" provision - Each railroad policeman commissioned under Sections 77-9-501 through 77-9-517 shall...
§ 77-9-515. Termination of powers and authority of officers - The powers and authority of any railroad police officer, whether...
§ 77-9-517. No waiver of sovereign immunity of state - Nothing contained herein shall be construed to waive the sovereign...
Abandonment of Railroad Lines
§ 77-9-523. Legislative committees to consider proposed abandonment - Each member of the Legislature representing a legislative district within...
§ 77-9-525. Public hearing; resolution as to position on proposed abandonment - A public hearing, in the discretion of the Senate Highway...
Mississippi-Alabama Railroad Authority Compact
§ 77-9-531. Mississippi-Alabama Railroad Authority Compact - The Governor, on behalf of this state, is hereby authorized...