As Amended
SEC. 25-4-3. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) "Advisory boards or commissions" shall mean committees created solely to provide technical or professional knowledge or expertise to a parent organization, and whose members exercise no direct authority to expend public funds other than reimbursement for personal expenses incurred as a result of a member's service on the advisory board;
(b) "Business" shall mean any corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, organization, holding company, self-employed individual, joint stock company, receivership, trust or other legal entity or undertaking organized for economic gain;
(c) "Candidate for public office" shall mean an individual who has filed the necessary documents or papers to appear as a candidate for nomination for election or election to any elective office existing under the laws of the State of Mississippi, including primary, special or general elections. The term "candidate" does not include any person within the meaning of Section 301(b) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971;
(d) "Commission" shall mean the Mississippi Ethics Commission;
(e) "Compensation" shall mean money or thing of value received, or to be received, from any person for services rendered or to be rendered;
(f) "Income" shall mean money or thing of value received, or to be received, from any source, including, but not limited to, any salary, wage, advance, payment, dividend, interest, rent, forgiveness of debt, fee, royalty or any combination thereof;
(g) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, business, corporation, association, partnership, union or other legal entity;
(h) "Public employee" shall mean any individual who receives a salary, per diem or expenses paid in whole or in part out of funds authorized to be expended by the Mississippi State Legislature or by the governing body of any political subdivision thereof, or any other body politic within the State of Mississippi;
(i) "Public funds" shall mean all moneys, whether federal, state, district or local;
(j) "Public official" shall mean:
(i) Any elected official of the State of Mississippi or any political subdivision thereof or any other body politic within the State of Mississippi; or
(ii) Any member, officer, director, commissioner, supervisor, chief, head, agent or employee of the State of Mississippi, or any agency thereof, of any political subdivision of the State of Mississippi, of any body politic within the State of Mississippi, or of any public entity created by or under the laws of the State of Mississippi or by executive order of the Governor of the state, any of which is funded by public funds or which expends, authorizes or recommends the use of public funds.
SOURCES: Laws, 1979, ch. 508, Sec. 2; reenacted and amended, 1982, ch. 488, Sec. 2; reenacted, 1986, ch. 348, Sec. 2; reenacted, 1990, ch. 491, Sec. 2, eff from and after June 18, 1990 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to the reenactment of this section). Laws, 1995, ch. 360, Sec. 2, eff from and after August 25, 1995 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to the amendment of this section), and shall stand repealed from and after December 31, 1998.