If any person shall commit or attempt to commit a violation of any provision of Sections 75-76-301 through 75-76-313, any officer, employee or agent of a licensee or any law enforcement officer, acting in good faith and upon probable cause based upon reasonable grounds therefor, may question such person in a reasonable manner for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not such person should be charged with a violation of Sections 75-76-301 through 75-76-313. The questioning of a person by an officer, employee or agent of a licensee or by a law enforcement officer shall not render the licensee, its officer, its employee or its agent, or a law enforcement officer, civilly liable for slander, false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, unlawful detention or otherwise in any case where the licensee’s officer, employee or agent, or the law enforcement officer, is acting in good faith and upon reasonable grounds to believe that the person questioned is committing or attempting to commit a violation of Sections 75-76-301 through 75-76-313.
Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-313
Questioning of person suspected of violating gaming provisions; immunity from suit for questioning
Known as the Mississippi Gaming Control Act
The act spans §§ 75–75 (152 sections).
Laws, 1993, ch. 488, § 8, eff from and after passage (approved April 20, 1993
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.