Miss. Code Ann. § 75-67-503 (2026)

The following words and phrases used in this article shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

• (a) "Appropriate law enforcement agency" means the sheriff of each county in which the licensee maintains an office, or the police chief of the municipality in which the licensee maintains an office, or law enforcement officers of the Department of Public Safety.

• (b) "Attorney General" means the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi.

• (c) "Check" means any check, draft, money order, personal money order, pre-authorized customer draft, or other instrument for the transmission or payment of money as determined by the Commissioner of Banking and Consumer Finance, but shall not include travelers checks or foreign drawn payment instruments.

• (d) A "check casher" means any individual, partnership, association, joint-stock association, trust or corporation, excluding the United States government and the government of this state, who exchanges cash or other value for any check, draft, money order, personal money order, or other instrument for the transmission or payment of money, except travelers checks and foreign drawn payment instruments, and who charges a fee therefor.

• (e) "Commissioner" means the Mississippi Commissioner of Banking and Consumer Finance, or his designee, as the designated official for the purpose of enforcing this article.

• (f) "Department" means the Department of Banking and Consumer Finance.

• (g) "Licensee" means any individual, partnership, association or corporation duly licensed by the Department of Banking and Consumer Finance to engage in the business of cashing checks under this article.

• (h) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, trust, association or any legal entity however organized.

• (i) "Personal money order" means any instrument for the transmission or payment of money in relation to which the purchaser or remitter appoints or purports to appoint the seller thereof as his agent for the receipt, transmission or handling of money, whether such instrument is signed by the seller or by the purchaser or remitter or some other person.

Laws, 1998, ch. 587, § 2; reenacted and amended, Laws, 1999, ch. 481, § 2; reenacted without change, Laws, 2003, ch. 341, § 2; reenacted without change, Laws, 2007, ch. 488, § 2; reenacted without change, Laws, 2011, ch. 309, § 2, eff. 2/24/2011.

Reenacted without change by Laws, 2013, ch. 408, HB 559, 2, eff. 3/20/2013.