45-21-7 - Amenability to lawsuit. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 45-21-7. Amenability to lawsuit.
 

Any individual, organization, corporation or other entity applying for a permit to hold a rock festival in this state shall be deemed to be doing business in this state. If such applicant is a nonresident of this state, the applying for such permit shall be deemed equivalent to the appointment by such nonresident of the secretary of state of the state of Mississippi, or his successor or successors in office, to be the true and lawful attorney or agent of such nonresident upon whom all lawful process may be served in any action or proceeding accrued or accruing from such event. Such applicant is thereby further deemed to be subject to the laws of this state, the jurisdiction of the courts of this state and the fines, damages, penalties or other rulings and decrees of such courts regardless of whether the proceeds of the cash bond have been depleted. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 7015-54; Laws,  1971, ch. 414, § 4, eff from and after passage (approved March 23, 1971).