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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers » Chapter 11 - Gas Pipelines and Distribution Systems » Article 3 - Safety and Inspection Standards of Municipal Gas Systems

§ 77-11-101. Commission shall provide for standards of safety and inspection of gas districts, municipal gas systems, and certain pipelines

The Mississippi Public Service Commission is hereby vested with authority to provide for standards of safety and inspection of gas districts, or municipally owned and/or operated transmission or distribution of natural, artificial, or mixed natural and artificial gas, by means of transportation, transmission or distribution facilities and equipment municipally owned and/or operated by said municipality […]

§ 77-11-103. Commission shall prescribe standards and procedures

To carry out the provisions of this article, the public service commission shall prescribe the safety standards and inspection procedures for said gas districts or municipally owned and/or operated gas systems and for said private pipelines, private pipeline carriers and private pipeline carriers by contract.

§ 77-11-105. Enforcement of federal safety standards

The public service commission shall have the right, power and authority to provide and make certification, reports and information to the secretary of the United States Department of Transportation; to enter into agreements with said secretary to carry out the purposes of this article; to enforce federal safety standards in the State of Mississippi in […]

§ 77-11-107. Promulgation of rules and regulations; inspection; right of access

In order to determine whether or not each gas district or municipally owned and/or operated gas system or pipeline or privately owned or operated gas pipeline is operating in compliance with the required safety standards and to enforce such compliance, the Mississippi Public Service Commission shall have the right, power and authority to promulgate reasonable […]

§ 77-11-109. Penalty

Each gas district or municipally owned utility or privately owned and/or operated gas pipeline in the State of Mississippi shall be subject to the same penalty as other gas utilities for failure to comply with the gas pipeline safety standards adopted by the Mississippi Public Service Commission.

§ 77-11-111. Limitation of commission’s authority

This article authorizes the Mississippi Public Service Commission to exercise jurisdiction over gas pipeline safety and inspection of gas districts or municipally owned and/or operated gas utilities or privately owned and operated gas pipelines which do not sell, transport or distribute gas to the public, and whose facilities are used for the intrastate transmission or […]