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§ 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...
Article 5 - Express Companies
§ 77-9-601. Only chartered express companies to do business of common carriers - It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, whether...
§ 77-9-603. Penalty for violation - If any person, partnership, association or society of persons or...
§ 77-9-605. Offices of express companies - Every express company shall establish and maintain offices for the...
§ 77-9-607. Civil liability of express companies - If any express company, through any agent or employee, shall...
Article 7 - Telegraph and Telephone Companies
§ 77-9-701. Offices of telegraph companies - Every telegraph company shall establish and maintain offices for the...
§ 77-9-703. Duty of telegraph and telephone companies to transmit messages; penalty for failure, neglect or refusal - A telegraph or telephone company shall transmit all written messages...
§ 77-9-705. Duty of telegraph and telephone companies to deliver messages; penalty for failure, neglect or refusal - A telegraph or telephone company shall deliver all messages addressed...
§ 77-9-707. Evidence of transmission of telegram in suits against telegraph companies - In any suit against a telegraph company for nondelivery or...
§ 77-9-709. Duty of telegraph and telephone companies to transmit public messages - Telegraph or telephone companies or associations shall be bound, on...
§ 77-9-711. Erection of telegraph and telephone lines - All companies or associations of persons incorporated or organized for...
§ 77-9-713. Local authorities may regulate construction and maintenance of lines - The board of supervisors of any county, and the governing...
§ 77-9-715. Liability for damages caused by erection, continuance and use of lines - Telegraph and telephone companies or associations shall be responsible for...
§ 77-9-717. Exercise of eminent domain for construction of new lines - Telegraph and telephone companies, for the purpose of constructing new...
§ 77-9-719. Consolidation and merger of telephone lines, exchanges and property authorized - All telephone lines, exchanges and properties in any county of...
§ 77-9-721. Local authorities, public service commission, and attorney-general must consent to consolidation and merger - The consolidation and merger of the said telephone properties in...
§ 77-9-723. Nothing in preceding sections shall mandate consolidation and merger - Nothing in Sections 77-9-719 and 77-9-721, shall be construed so...
§ 77-9-725. Blacklisting of telegraphers because of union affiliation is unlawful - It shall be unlawful for any telegraph company, telephone company,...
§ 77-9-727. Conspiracy to blacklist telegrapher is unlawful - It shall be unlawful for any two or more such...
§ 77-9-729. Telegrapher discriminated against may recover actual and exemplary damages - Any such telegraph or telephone company, telegraph press association, railroad...
Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems
Article 1 - Enforcement of Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Standards
§ 77-11-1. Declaration of purpose - The purpose of this article is to make provision for...
§ 77-11-7. Application of penalties - The penalties for injunction and monetary sanctions provided in this...
Article 3 - Safety and Inspection Standards of Municipal Gas Systems
§ 77-11-101. Commission shall provide for standards of safety and inspection of gas districts, municipal gas systems, and certain pipelines - The Mississippi Public Service Commission is hereby vested with authority...
§ 77-11-103. Commission shall prescribe standards and procedures - To carry out the provisions of this article, the public...
§ 77-11-105. Enforcement of federal safety standards - The public service commission shall have the right, power and...
§ 77-11-107. Promulgation of rules and regulations; inspection; right of access - In order to determine whether or not each gas district...
§ 77-11-109. Penalty - Each gas district or municipally owned utility or privately owned...
§ 77-11-111. Limitation of commission's authority - This article authorizes the Mississippi Public Service Commission to exercise...
Article 5 - Taxation on Municipal Gas Utilities for Benefit of Public Service Commission
§ 77-11-201. Levy of tax on municipal gas utilities to provide commission with funds for safety regulation and inspection; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund - All reasonable and necessary operating expenses of the administration of...
Article 7 - Intrastate Gas Pipelines
§ 77-11-301. Legislative findings - The Legislature of the State of Mississippi hereby finds that...
§ 77-11-303. Application of article - The provisions of this article shall be applicable to all...
§ 77-11-305. Definitions - For the purposes of this article, the following words shall...
§ 77-11-309. Restriction on transmission, sale or distribution to industrial user serviced by gas public utility - There shall be no transmission, sale, sale for resale, or...
§ 77-11-311. Jurisdiction to enforce pipeline safety standards; natural gas or electric power public utility not exempt from regulation - The commission shall have jurisdiction over an intrastate gas pipeline...
Chapter 13 - Regulation of Excavations Near Underground Utility Facilities
§ 77-13-1. Legislative intent - It is the intent of the Legislature to protect underground...
§ 77-13-3. Definitions - The words defined in this section shall have the following...
§ 77-13-5. Excavator's investigation of site; notice to utility of planned excavation - The written, electronic or telephonic notice required by this paragraph...
§ 77-13-9. Marking location of underground facilities; timeliness - Click to view UTILITY OR TYPE OF FACILITY GROUP IDENTIFYING...
§ 77-13-13. Advance notice as relieving excavator of certain liabilities - The act of giving notice in accordance with Section 77-13-5...
§ 77-13-15. Notice to one-call system - Notification to Mississippi One-Call System, Inc., as provided in Section...
§ 77-13-19. Enforcement; injunctions - In addition to any other rights and remedies which a...
§ 77-13-23. Operator waives right to recover damages to operator's underground facilities under certain circumstances; exemption - Any operator who suffers damages as a result of not...
§ 77-13-25. Effect of chapter on certain contracts between railroads and owners or operators of underground facilities or utility lines on railroad right-of-way - Nothing in this chapter shall modify or abrogate any contractual...
§ 77-13-37. Scope of authority - Nothing in this chapter shall expand the jurisdiction of the...
Chapter 15 - Local Natural Gas Districts
§ 77-15-1. Board of directors of local natural gas districts - The initial terms of the two (2) municipal/county system-user board...
§ 77-15-3. Annual financial report - Audited financial statements shall be maintained in the office of...
Chapter 17 - Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act
§ 77-17-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 77-17-3. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have...
§ 77-17-7. No expansion of regulatory authority of state agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions beyond state or federal laws and regulations in place on January 30, 2019 - The passage of Chapter 301, Laws of 2019, does not...
§ 77-17-13. Liberal construction of chapter - This chapter is to be liberally construed, and the enumeration...
§ 77-17-15. Annual audit of compliance with chapter; notice to members of election of board of directors, meetings, and election results - Every electric cooperative shall conduct an annual audit of compliance...