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Miss. Code Ann. § 5-8-13

Prohibited acts; required acts

Known as the Lobbying Law Reform Act

The act spans §§ 5–5 (12 sections).

Laws, 1994, ch. 469, § 7; brought forward without change, Laws, 2015, ch. 431, § 13, eff from and after July 1, 2015.

(1) A lobbyist shall not contract to receive or accept compensation dependent upon the success or failure of a legislative or executive action.

(2) A lobbyist or lobbyist’s client shall not knowingly or willfully make or cause to be made a false statement or misrepresentation of facts to an executive, legislative or public official or public employee, or to the public in general with the intent to affect the outcome of a legislative or executive action.

(3) A lobbyist or lobbyist’s client shall not cause a legislative or executive action for the purpose of obtaining employment to lobby in support of or in opposition to the legislative or executive action.

(4) An executive, legislative or public official or public employee shall not be a lobbyist, except that he may act as a lobbyist when acting in his official capacity.

(5) A lobbyist must disclose anything of value given in whole or in part to any executive, legislative or public official or public employee.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.