Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 12 - Finance and Administration
Part 6 - Office of Purchasing, Travel and Fleet Management
Chapter 9 - Ethics in Public Contracting
Section 12-6-9.109 - Restriction on Employees Buying Surplus Property

Section 25-4-105(3)(b), Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated, states, "No public servant shall be a purchaser, direct or indirect, at any sale made by him in his official capacity or by the governmental entity of which he is an officer or employee, except in respect of the sale of goods and services when provided as public utilities or offered to the general public on a uniform price schedule." In the case of a sale by a state agency, no state employee, regardless of the agency affiliation of the selling party or the purchaser, may participate in the sale as a purchaser.