Mississippi Code Title 27. Taxation and Finance § 27-31-51

(1) As used in Sections 27-31-51 through 27-31-61:

(2) All warehouses, public or private, or other storage facilities in the State of Mississippi regularly engaged in the handling and storage of personal property in structures or in places adopted for such handling and storage which is consigned or transferred to such warehouse or storage facility for storage and handling shall be eligible for licensing under the provisions of Sections 27-31-51 through 27-31-61 as a “free port warehouse.” A manufacturer of personal property that maintains separate facilities, structures, places or areas for the temporary storage and handling of such personal property pending transit to a final destination outside the State of Mississippi shall be eligible for licensing under Sections 27-31-51 through 27-31-61 as a “free port warehouse,” and any license issued to such a manufacturer before January 1, 2012, is hereby ratified, approved and confirmed. No medical cannabis establishment, as defined in the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act, or warehouses, facilities, structures, places or areas belonging to or used by a medical cannabis establishment may be licensed as a free port warehouse.

(3) Such licenses shall be issued by the governing authorities to such warehouse or storage facility as will qualify under the definition of “free port warehouse” as herein defined, upon application by the warehouse or storage facility operator.