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General powers and duties of Commissioner of Insurance.

Miss. Code Ann. § 75-57-3
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The Commissioner of Insurance is vested with the sole and exclusive power and authority and is charged with the duty of administering this chapter, and the State Liquefied Compressed Gas Board shall have the authority to establish and enforce reasonable rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions hereof, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter. For the purpose of administering the provisions hereof, the Commissioner of Insurance is empowered to employ such field inspectors as are necessary to the proper discharge of his duties under this chapter. The Commissioner of Insurance and his agents and employees shall have full access, ingress and egress, at all reasonable hours, to any of the premises or buildings where liquefied compressed gases may be received, stored, transported, sold, offered or exposed for sale, manufactured, refined, distilled, compounded or blended. The Commissioner of Insurance and his agents and employees shall have the right to check and inspect any liquefied compressed gas container, system, pump, equipment, tank car, storage tank, or vehicle in which any liquefied compressed gas is present, or it has reason to believe it present, and the Commissioner of Insurance and his agents and employees shall have the authority to take therefrom samples not exceeding one (1) gallon for analysis. The Commissioner of Insurance and his agents and employees shall have full authority to inspect any vehicle, equipment or system where it has reason to believe that the vehicle, equipment or system operates by the use of, or is equipped to operate by the use of, liquefied compressed gases.