Title 77, Public Utilities and Carriers

(1) Each municipality and joint agency is hereby authorized to issue at one (1) time or from time to time its bonds for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of any of the purposes authorized by this article. The principal of, premium, if any, and the interest on such…

In the discretion of the governing board of the issuer, any bonds issued under the provisions of this article may be secured by a resolution, a trust indenture or other security instrument, and in this regard the issuer may enter into an agreement with any trust company or bank h…

A municipality is hereby authorized to fix, charge and collect rents, rates, fees and charges for electric power and energy and other services, facilities and commodities sold, furnished or supplied through the facilities of its electric system or its interest in any joint projec…

A joint agency is hereby authorized to fix, charge and collect rents, rates, fees and charges for electric power and energy and other services, facilities and commodities sold, furnished or supplied through the facilities of its projects. For so long as any bonds of a joint agenc…

Any pledge made by a municipality or joint agency pursuant to this article shall be valid and binding from the date the pledge is made. The revenues, securities and other moneys so pledged and then held or thereafter received by the municipality or joint agency or any fiduciary s…

All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this article, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues may be temporarily invested and reinvested pending the disbursements thereof in such securities and other investments as may be permitted by law for investment…

Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this article or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, m…

Bonds issued by a municipality or joint agency under the provisions of this article are hereby made securities in which all public officers and agencies of the state and all political subdivisions, all insurance companies, banking associations, investment companies, executors, ad…

The bonds shall be special obligations of the municipality or joint agency issuing them. The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the bonds shall not be payable from the general funds of the municipality or joint agency, nor shall they constitute a legal or equitable pl…

A municipality or joint agency is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of refunding bonds of the municipality or joint agency for the purpose of refunding any bonds then outstanding which shall have been issued under the provisions of this article, includin…

Bonds, their transfer and the income therefrom (including any profit made on the sale thereof), shall at all times be free from taxation by the state or any political subdivision or any agency of either thereof, excepting inheritance, estate or gift taxes.

Any interest in a project owned by a municipality or owned by a joint agency shall be exempt from all state, county and local ad valorem or other property taxes. The purchase, exchange or interchange of capacity, transmission, or electric power and energy for resale by any munici…

Personnel employed or appointed by a municipality to work on a joint project or for a joint agency shall have the same authority, rights, privileges and immunities which the officers, agents and employees of the appointing municipality enjoy within the territory of that municipal…

Whenever the board of commissioners of a joint agency and the utility commissions of its member municipalities shall by resolution or ordinance determine that the purposes for which the joint agency was formed have been substantially fulfilled and that all bonds theretofore issue…

Each joint agency shall, following the closing of each fiscal year, submit an annual report of its activities for the preceding year to the governing authorities and to the utility commissions of its member municipalities. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and…

Legislative consent is hereby given (a) to the application of the laws of other states with respect to taxation, payments in lieu of taxes, and the assessment thereof, to any municipality or joint agency created pursuant to this article which has acquired or has an interest in a …

The governing authorities of any municipality or joint agency are hereby authorized to make application and to enter into contracts for and to accept grants-in-aid and loans from the federal and state governments and their agencies for planning, acquiring, constructing, expanding…

Municipalities participating in a joint project and joint agencies shall possess the power of eminent domain for a project authorized by this article to the extent and in the same manner and under the same laws now available to municipalities under the laws of this state; provide…

No commissioner of any joint agency or officer of any municipality or person or persons acting in their behalf, while acting within the scope of their authority, shall be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of his carrying out any of the powers expressly…

Whenever the governing authorities of the utility commission and of any municipality are one and the same, separate actions required by this article by the governing authorities of the municipality with respect to an action or determination required by this article by the governi…

The foregoing sections of this article shall be deemed to provide an additional, alternative and complete method for the doing of the things authorized thereby and shall be deemed and construed to be supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be …

Nothing contained in this article shall affect in any manner the authority or rights of any public utility, any electric power association, or any municipality to engage in the retail distribution of electric power within the service areas as certificated to them by the public se…

In order to effectuate the purposes and policies prescribed in this article, the provisions hereof shall be liberally construed.

(a) For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context shall otherwise require:(a) “Municipal utility” means any municipality of the State of Mississippi and any board, commission or other governing or supervisory body …

(a) A municipal utility as defined in this article may adopt a safety incentive program and may pay safety incentives from the revenues of the municipal utility, but not from tax revenues, subject to the following conditions and limitations:(a) The safety incentive shall be in th…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Mississippi Electric Cooperatives Broadband COVID-19 Act.”

(1) The Legislature finds and declares that the State of Emergency and ongoing public health crisis related to COVID-19 has caused significant challenges in the immediate delivery of educational, health care and other services. The Legislature further finds and declares that due …

(1) From the date of the beginning of the period for applications for grants under this section, the Staff shall consider and review applications from any eligible applicant. Any project applied for by an electric cooperative must be for the purpose of the electric cooperative im…

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the “Public Utilities Application Fund,” which shall consist of funds made available by the Legislature in any manner and funds from any other source designated for deposit into such fund. Unexpended…

(1) An applicant desiring to participate in one (1) of the grant programs shall make written application to the Staff for a grant. (2) Any primary application must be submitted on or before the close of business on July 17, 2020. A primary application must include the following: …

(1) Each applicant receiving any grant funds under this article shall monthly file project status reports with the Public Utilities Staff. The initial project status report shall be due on or before September 15, 2020, and updates shall be provided on or before the fifteenth day …