Title 75, Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments

The board is authorized to impose monetary penalties and take such other disciplinary actions as authorized by Sections 75-57-1 through 75-57-63 and Sections 75-57-101 through 75-57-119. (a) Any person found by the board in violation of Sections 75-57-1 through 75-57-63 and Secti…

(1) The board may establish by regulation a system of permits for those engaged in the liquefied compressed gas business in the state. If adopted, and approved by the Commissioner of Insurance, no one may engage in the liquefied compressed gas business without first having obtain…

In order to increase compliance and to reduce the burden of regulation, the board shall seek consistency between its regulations and those regulations adopted by the departments and agencies of the United States Government.

No regulations may be issued affecting the price or allocation of liquefied compressed gas, allocation of markets between liquefied compressed gas suppliers or the terms and conditions of providing liquefied compressed gas service.

The board shall require that metering equipment in delivery vehicles used in dispensing of liquefied compressed gas shall be calibrated to an accuracy of a plus or minus tolerance of two percent (2%) at least once a year. This requirement shall not apply to delivery vehicles used…

(1) Any individual aggrieved by a final decision of the board shall be entitled to judicial review. (2) Any appeal from the board’s decision shall be filed in the circuit court of the county where the board has its office. The appeal shall be filed within thirty (30) days after n…

(1) There is established a propane education and research program to be administered by the Department of Insurance through the State Liquefied Compressed Gas Board, created in Section 75-57-101, Mississippi Code of 1972, for the purpose of promoting the growth and development of…

It is expressly provided that, subsequent to the issuance of a permit by the Mississippi State Oil and Gas Board permitting the creation of such spaces, compressed air, liquefied compressed gases, refined hydrocarbons, oil or gas, or both, and those liquefied compressed gases kno…

(1) Before any person, firm or corporation shall enter the liquefied petroleum gas business as a distributor of liquefied petroleum gas, who plans to make retail or wholesale tank truck deliveries to consumer, and before a permit may be granted as required by Section 75-57-49, su…

Sections 75-57-151 through 75-57-165 apply to a facility of a public elementary or secondary school, including a charter school, or a private elementary or secondary school, inclusive of all buildings and structures located on the school grounds where liquefied petroleum gas is u…

For the purposes of Sections 75-57-151 through 75-57-165, the definitions ascribed to terms in Section 75-57-5 are also applicable to Sections 75-57-151 through 75-57-165.

(1) A person responsible for a school facility shall perform an annual pressure test on the liquefied petroleum gas piping system in the school facility. The test must be performed and results reported to the facility’s liquefied petroleum gas distributor before the beginning of …

(1) The person responsible for a school facility shall have a pressure test performed by a liquefied petroleum gas distributor authorized to operate in this state, or by a person qualified to install, alter, or repair a liquefied compressed gas system, who has an appropriate perm…

(1) A person responsible for a school facility shall provide written notice to the school’s liquefied petroleum gas distributor specifying the date and result of each pressure test or other inspection. (2) The liquefied petroleum gas distributor shall maintain a copy of the notic…

(1) A distributer shall discontinue service to a school facility if:(a) The distributor receives official notification from the firm or individual conducting the test of a hazardous liquefied petroleum gas leakage in the facility piping system; or(b) A test or other inspection at…

(1) The results of the annual pressure test in any facility of a public elementary or secondary school, including a charter school, or any school accredited by the State Board of Education, must be reported to the State Department of Education within thirty (30) days of the testi…

The State Liquefied Compressed Gas Board, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Insurance, is authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as it deems necessary or appropriate to implement the requirements of Sections 75-57-151 through 75-57-165.

Unless otherwise specified in Sections 75-57-1 through 75-57-63, no container shall have a designed working pressure of less than that required for a 100 type. Any container to be charged with a compressed gas which has a vapor pressure at 100 degrees F. of between 151 and 215 po…

The administration of the Liquefied Compressed Gas Equipment Inspection Law of Mississippi (Sections 75-57-1 through 75-57-63) are transferred from the Chairman of the State Tax Commission to the Commissioner of Insurance. All personnel, records, property and equipment allocated …

Anhydrous ammonia bulk storage plants shall not be installed within the limits of any municipality unless such anhydrous ammonia bulk storage plant is located within an industrial park or an industrial area serviced by a municipal fire department. The installation of any such bul…

The Commissioner of Insurance is vested with the sole and exclusive power and authority and is charged with the duty of administering Sections 75-57-1 through 75-57-63, and the State Liquefied Compressed Gas Board shall have the authority to establish and enforce reasonable rules…

The governing body of any municipality is authorized to require the removal of any anhydrous ammonia storage plant which may be located within its corporate limits, if, after hearing, it is established that such plant is unsafe in any manner. Any aggrieved person may appeal from …

No cylinder installation shall be made unless the cylinders are designed, fabricated, tested and marked in accordance with the regulations of the United States Department of Transportation or the United States Interstate Commerce Commission, and constructed for a designed pressur…

Wherein sections of Sections 75-57-1 through 75-57-63 do not exceed those requirements of the current published regulations of the National Fire Protection Association applicable to liquefied petroleum gas, the laws and regulations of the State Liquefied Compressed Gas Board shal…

All containers and pertinent equipment owned or in use by the government of the United States of America are exempt from the provisions of Sections 75-57-1 through 75-57-63. Liquefied petroleum gas containers using liquefied petroleum gas as a fuel to propel recreational vehicles…

(1) From and after March 16, 1948, any installer or other person who shall install, connect, alter, extend, change or repair any liquefied compressed gas or compressed natural gas system, container or appliance whatsoever, or who shall install, connect, change, extend, alter or r…

(1) Before any person shall be granted a permit to, or shall engage in or continue in the business of the distributing, either wholesale or retail, installing, altering, extending, changing or repairing of any liquefied compressed gas system, appliance or container, or in the bus…

(a) Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions which follow govern the construction and meanings of the terms used in Sections 75-57-1 through 75-57-63:(a) “Liquefied compressed gas” means both liquefied petroleum gas and anhydrous ammonia when the latter is used excl…

Any person, firm or corporation operating or engaging in the business of selling or installing liquefied compressed gas containers or systems, or in the business of selling or distributing liquefied compressed gas or appliances without first having secured a permit from the State…

(1) Whenever the existing or future laws, rules or regulations of any other state of the United States shall require minimum storage facilities, of any type, character or kind, whether fixed or permanent, in connection with the distribution of liquefied compressed gas at retail, …

Any corporation, domestic or foreign, or any individual, partnership or association of persons whatsoever who with intent to engross or forestall or impede the competitive sale of or monopolize the sale of liquefied petroleum gases or liquefied petroleum gas consumer appliances i…

After March 16, 1948, all containers and pertinent equipment used, sold, and installed in this state for the storage, dispensing and transportation of liquefied compressed gases for the purposes of providing gas for industrial, commercial, agricultural, and domestic uses shall be…

The codes of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code – Section II Material Specifications; Section VIII Pressure Vessels; and Section IX Welding and Brazing Qualifications; American Petroleum Institute Standard 620 (American Petroleum Instit…