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Chapter 1 - Code of 1972
In General
§ 1-1-7. Contents - The Mississippi Code of 1972 shall cover all sections of...
§ 1-1-11. Distribution of the Code of 1972 - Fifty-seven (57) sets to the Mississippi House of Representatives and...
§ 1-1-12. Binding and identification of state-owned copies of Code of 1972 - The sets of the Mississippi Code of 1972 purchased by...
§ 1-1-13. When Code of 1972 to take effect - The Mississippi Code of 1972, except as expressly provided, shall...
§ 1-1-17. Appropriations - The cost of the recodification of the laws of Mississippi...
§ 1-1-19. Repeal of former statutes - Effect of Code of 1972 upon laws enacted at same session or before Code takes effect - From and after the effective date of the Mississippi Code...
§ 1-1-21. Effect of repeals by Code of 1972 upon former rights - The repeal of any statutory provisions by the Mississippi Code...
§ 1-1-22. Prior rights or actions involving taxes unaffected - Nothing in Section 1-1-35 shall affect or defeat any claim,...
§ 1-1-23. Effect of adoption of Code of 1972 upon offenses committed prior to effective date of Code - An offense committed, and a penalty or forfeiture incurred, previous...
§ 1-1-24. Prior violations of law and civil causes of action unaffected - Nothing in Section 1-1-35 shall be construed to defeat or...
§ 1-1-25. No revival of repealed laws - All statutes and parts of statutes which are repealed or...
§ 1-1-27. Vacation of offices by adoption of Code of 1972 - The repeal of any statutory provision which is revised and...
§ 1-1-29. Effect of adoption of Code of 1972 upon private and local laws - Private and local laws not revised and brought into the...
§ 1-1-31. Severability provision of Code of 1972 - If any chapter, article, section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or...
§ 1-1-33. Code of 1972 supplied to officers - Where any officer has received a set of the Mississippi...
§ 1-1-35. Revised manuscript declared to be official Code of the state of Mississippi - The Legislature finds and so declares that the code committee,...
§ 1-1-37. Enrollment of the Code of 1972 - In the enrollment of the Code of 1972, it shall...
§ 1-1-39. Deposition and preservation of enrolled draft - The enrolled draft of the official Mississippi Code of 1972...
Supplementation of Code of 1972 and Update of Computer Tapes
§ 1-1-57. Purchase and distribution of pocket part supplements and replacement bound volumes - The Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation...
§ 1-1-59. Provision and maintenance of Code in electronic form - The Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation...
§ 1-1-60. Requisitions from University of Mississippi law school; publication exchanges with other states - The dean of the law school of the University of...
§ 1-1-62. Number of volumes, supplements, and advance sheets required - The Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation...
Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation
§ 1-1-101. Legislative findings - The Legislature finds that the compilation, revision and publication of...
§ 1-1-103. Creation of Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation; composition; appointment and compensation of members; chairman; attendance at meetings by proxies; transaction of business by committee; meeti... - There shall be no business transacted, including adoption of rules...
§ 1-1-105. Committee staff - The Director of the House Legislative Services Office and the...
§ 1-1-107. General powers and duties of committee - The joint committee shall have the following powers and duties:...
§ 1-1-109. Authority of committee relating to preparation of legislative acts for publication - In preparing the acts of the Legislature for publication in...
§ 1-1-111. Approval by committee of manuscript of supplements and replacement volumes prepared by publishing company - From and after July 1, 1998, the manuscript of acts...
Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes
§ 1-3-1. Application of chapter - This chapter is applicable to every statute unless its general...
§ 1-3-3. Bond - The term "bond," when used in any statute, shall embrace...
§ 1-3-4. Capital case, capital offense, capital crime, and capital murder - The terms "capital case," "capital cases," "capital offense," "capital offenses,"...
§ 1-3-5. Crime - The term "crime," when used in any statute, shall mean...
§ 1-3-7. Drugs - The term "drugs," when used in any statute, shall embrace...
§ 1-3-9. Established - The term "established" or "hereafter established" when used in any...
§ 1-3-11. Felony - The term "felony," when used in any statute, shall mean...
§ 1-3-13. Fertilizers - All substances, chemicals and compounds commonly known as commercial fertilizers,...
§ 1-3-15. Food - The term "food," when used in any statute, shall embrace...
§ 1-3-17. Gender, masculine to embrace the feminine - Words in the masculine gender shall embrace a female as...
§ 1-3-19. Infamous crime - The term "infamous crime," when used in any statute, shall...
§ 1-3-21. Infant - The term "infant," when used in any statute, shall include...
§ 1-3-23. Insurrection - The term "insurrection," when used in any statute, means an...
§ 1-3-24. Intellectual disability - The term "intellectual disability," when used in any statute, means...
§ 1-3-25. Land - The term "land," when used in any statute, shall include...
§ 1-3-26. Minimum education program, minimum program, minimum foundation program - Wherever the phrase "minimum education program," "minimum program" or "minimum...
§ 1-3-27. Minor - The term "minor," when used in any statute, shall include...
§ 1-3-29. Month - The term "month," when used in any statute, means a...
§ 1-3-31. Navigable waters - Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-109-1, all rivers, creeks...
§ 1-3-33. Number, singular and plural - Words used in the singular number only, either as descriptive...
§ 1-3-35. Oath - The term "oath," when used in any statute, shall include...
§ 1-3-37. Offense - The term "offense," when used in any statute, shall mean...
§ 1-3-39. Person - The term "person," when used in any statute, shall apply...
§ 1-3-41. Personal property - The term "personal property," when used in any statute, means...
§ 1-3-43. Promissory note - Every promise in writing whereby any person, firm or body...
§ 1-3-45. Property - The term "property," when used in any statute, includes personal...
§ 1-3-47. Railroad - Every person, firm, association of persons or company, whether incorporated...
§ 1-3-49. State - The term "state," when applied to different parts of the...
§ 1-3-51. Stationery - The term "stationery," as applied to purchases for the state,...
§ 1-3-53. Sworn - The term "sworn," when used in any statute, shall include...
§ 1-3-55. United States - The term "United States," when used in any statute, shall...
§ 1-3-57. Unsound mind - The term "unsound mind," when used in any statute in...
§ 1-3-58. Ward - Whenever the term "ward" is used, it shall be liberally...
§ 1-3-59. Will - The term "will," when used in any statute, shall include...
§ 1-3-61. Written - The term "written," when used in any statute, may include,...
§ 1-3-63. Year - The term "year," when used in any statute, means a...
§ 1-3-65. Construction of terms generally - All words and phrases contained in the statutes are used...
§ 1-3-67. How time computed when a number of days is prescribed - When process shall be required to be served or notice...
§ 1-3-69. When a number of weeks is prescribed - When publication shall be required to be made in some...
§ 1-3-71. Civil law to control computation of relationship unless otherwise provided - In each and every statute of this state heretofore enacted,...
§ 1-3-73. Civil law to apply in construing - The civil law rule of computing kinship or relationship is...
§ 1-3-75. Petitions must be signed personally by petitioners - All petitions presented to any governing body of the State...
§ 1-3-76. Procedures for contesting disqualification of signatures on petition requesting vote on matter affecting county or municipality - When any petition is filed by qualified electors of a...
§ 1-3-77. General severability provision - If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or any part...
Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals
§ 1-5-1. Printing of general, local and private laws - The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide for...
§ 1-5-3. Disposition of general, local and private laws and journals of legislature; responsibility - The Office of the Secretary of State shall be responsible...
§ 1-5-5. General laws and journals, local and private laws deposited in state law library - The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide five...
§ 1-5-7. Distribution of general laws and journals, and local and private laws free of charge - The Office of the Secretary of State shall distribute and...
§ 1-5-9. Distribution of general laws of Legislature to judges of United States - The Secretary of State shall, in the same manner, further...
§ 1-5-11. Publication of volumes of general, local and private laws and journals for sale; disposition of proceeds - The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide for...
§ 1-5-17. University law school to have books for exchange - The dean of the law school of the University of...
§ 1-5-19. Publication and distribution of journals and laws - The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide for...
§ 1-5-21. Sale of excess volumes - The Secretary of State may sell the volumes of the...
§ 1-5-25. To receive certain books from the sheriffs and distribute them - The Secretary of State shall receive from the several sheriffs...