{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-17-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 77-17-9","heading":"Electric cooperatives prohibited from: allowing use of electric delivery system by affiliate to diminish reliability of the system, requiring purchase of broadband services from affiliate as condition of receiving electric energy from the cooperative, and disconnecting electric service for nonpayment of broadband services provided by affiliate.","body":"(1) An electric cooperative shall not allow the installation or operation of a broadband system on its electric delivery system by an affiliate or other broadband operator to diminish the reliability of the electric delivery system.\n(2) An electric cooperative shall not require any person to purchase broadband services from an affiliate or other broadband operator as a condition of receiving or continuing to receive electric energy from the electric cooperative.\n(3) An electric cooperative shall not disconnect, nor threaten to disconnect, its electric service to any customer due to the customer’s failure to pay for broadband services provided to the customer by an affiliate or other broadband operator.","path":["Title 77. Public Utilities and Carriers","Chapter 17 Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.77.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:18Z","sha256":"1a956c96bd0d6d0abef775bcec3b55f5dbb91f02dd86efb537e39f407d572e3f","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-17-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-17-11","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}