{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-3-49","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 77-3-49","heading":"Issuance of process by commission; witnesses.","body":"The commission may issue subpoenas, subpoenas duces tecum and all necessary process in proceedings pending before it. Such process shall extend to all parts of the state and may be served by any person authorized to serve process of courts of record. All process issued by the commission shall be signed by the chairman or secretary of the commission, and the seal of the commission shall be affixed thereto.\nThe commission and each of the commissioners, for the purpose mentioned in this article, may administer oaths, examine witnesses and certify official acts.\nIn case of failure on the part of any person or persons to comply with any lawful order of the commission, or with any subpoena or subpoenas duces tecum, or in the case of the refusal of any witness to testify concerning any matter on which he may be interrogated lawfully, any court of record of general jurisdiction or a judge thereof, may on application of the commission compel obedience by proceedings for contempt as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from such court or a refusal to testify therein.","path":["Title 77. Public Utilities and Carriers","Chapter 3. Regulation of Public Utilities","Article 1. Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service."],"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":"e82f717592e6d2f28dab950401acefa6e447857c4eb40843647029c4627ec9bb","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-3-47","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-3-51","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."}