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§ 77-6-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 77-6-3. Legislative intent - The Legislature hereby finds and declares that certain municipalities of...
§ 77-6-5. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have...
§ 77-6-7. Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi created; purpose; initial membership; principal office - There shall be created a local distribution company of the...
§ 77-6-9. Membership in authority after its creation; withdrawal - After the creation of the authority, any other municipality may...
§ 77-6-11. Board of commissioners - The authority shall consist of a board of commissioners appointed...
§ 77-6-13. Executive committee of board of commissioners - The board of commissioners of the authority may create an...
§ 77-6-15. Rights and powers of authority - The authority shall have all of the rights and powers...
§ 77-6-17. Projects requiring financing by bonds; approval required; determination by authority; notice of determination; hearing; appeal from determination - The authority shall not undertake any project required to be...
§ 77-6-19. Municipalities that may contract with authority - The municipalities with which the authority shall be authorized to...
§ 77-6-21. Contracts to buy gas from authority - Any municipality which is a member of the authority may...
§ 77-6-23. Excess capacity or output may be sold or exchanged - The authority may sell or exchange the excess capacity or...
§ 77-6-25. Provisions to be construed as authorizing joint and several ownership of projects - The definitions and all other terms and provisions of this...
§ 77-6-27. Acquisition of property; contract requirements - A municipality's or the authority's purchase of, contract for the...
§ 77-6-29. Power to issue revenue bonds - The authority may issue revenue bonds pledging to the payment...
§ 77-6-31. Revenue bonds; powers and duties - All bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be advertised...
§ 77-6-33. Security for bonds - In the discretion of the governing board of the issuer,...
§ 77-6-35. Rents, rates, fees and charges by municipality - A municipality is hereby authorized to fix, charge and collect...
§ 77-6-37. Rents, rates, fees and charges by authority - The authority is hereby authorized to fix, charge and collect...
§ 77-6-39. Pledge of municipality or authority valid and binding when made - Any pledge made by a municipality or the authority pursuant...
§ 77-6-41. Investment of all monies received - All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this chapter,...
§ 77-6-43. Rights of holders of bonds - Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this...
§ 77-6-45. Bonds to be securities - Bonds issued by a municipality or the authority under the...
§ 77-6-47. Obligations of issuing municipality or authority - The bonds shall be special obligations of the municipality or...
§ 77-6-51. Evidence of indebtedness to be considered negotiable instruments - Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, every evidence of...
§ 77-6-53. Refunding bonds - A municipality or the authority is hereby authorized to provide...
§ 77-6-55. Exemption from taxation - Bonds, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit...
§ 77-6-57. Dissolution of board of commissioners - Whenever the board of commissioners of the authority and the...
§ 77-6-59. Annual reports; audits - The authority shall, following the closing of each fiscal year,...
§ 77-6-61. Application of laws of other states - Legislative consent is hereby given (a) to the application of...
§ 77-6-63. Grants and loans authorized - The governing authorities of any municipality or the authority are...
§ 77-6-65. Powers and duties in connection with eminent domain, sales to customers of public utilities, and utility lines and rights-of-way - Municipalities participating in a project of the authority shall possess...
§ 77-6-67. Where utility commission and municipality have same governing authorities - Whenever the governing authorities of the utility commission and of...
§ 77-6-69. Provisions supplemental to other laws - The foregoing sections of this chapter shall be deemed to...
§ 77-6-73. Provisions to be liberally construed - In order to effectuate the purposes and policies prescribed in...
§ 77-6-75. Members of legislature to have no interest in bonds - No member of the Legislature or elected official or any...