{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-6-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 77-6-9","heading":"Membership in authority after its creation; withdrawal.","body":"After the creation of the authority, any other municipality may become a member thereof upon application to such authority after the adoption of a resolution by the utility commission of the municipality setting forth the determination and finding prescribed in Section 77-6-7, and the adoption by the governing authorities of the municipality of a resolution or ordinance ratifying the determination of the utility commission and authorizing said municipality to participate, and with the majority consent of the members of the authority evidenced by the resolutions of their respective utility commissions. Any municipality may withdraw from the authority, provided that all contractual rights acquired and obligations incurred while a municipality was a member shall remain in full force and effect. The withdrawing municipality shall continue to honor its obligations entered into while a member of the authority.","path":["Title 77. Public Utilities and Carriers","Chapter 6. Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Law"],"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":"8b5c7024da78e918cb2e35f255867a185ed3c9e75e4b3a98b98dee49eb5f37e5","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-6-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-6-11","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."}