Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 12 - Finance and Administration
Part 6 - Office of Purchasing, Travel and Fleet Management
Chapter 9 - Ethics in Public Contracting
Sec2 12-6-9.101 - Definitions of Terms Used in this Chapter

(1) Confidential Information - any information which is available to an employee only because of the employee's status as an employee of Mississippi and is not a matter of public knowledge or available to the public on request.

(2)Conspicuously - written in such special or distinctive format, print, or manner that a reasonable person against whom it is to operate ought to have noticed it.

(3)Direct or Indirect Participation - involvement through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, preparation of any part of a purchase request, influencing the content of any specification or procurement standard, rendering of advice, investigation, auditing, or in any other advisory capacity.

(4) Financial Interest -

(5) Gratuity - a payment, loan, subscription, advance, deposit of money, services, or anything of more than nominal value, present or promised, unless consideration of substantially equal or greater value is received.

(6) Immediate Family - a spouse, children, parents, brothers and sisters, and such other relatives as may be designated by the Ethics Commission.

(7) Official Responsibility - direct administrative or operating authority, whether intermediate or final, either exercisable alone or with others, either personally or through subordinates, to approve, disapprove, or otherwise direct Mississippi action.

(8) Purchase Request - that document whereby a using agency requests that a contract be entered into for a specified need, and may include, but is not limited to, the technical description of the requested item, delivery schedule, transportation, criteria for evaluation, suggested sources of supply, and information supplied for the making of any written determination required by this Code.