Mississippi · Snapshot Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17

Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-77: Regulation of pull-tabs.

(1) No organization, distributor, manufacturer, or any representative thereof, either with knowledge or in circumstances whereunder he reasonably should have known, shall possess, display, put out for play, sell or otherwise furnish to any person any pull-tabs:
(a) In which the winning pull-tabs have not been completely and randomly distributed and mixed among all other pull-tabs in the deal;
(b) In which the location or approximate location of any of the winning pull-tabs can be determined in advance of opening the pull-tabs in any manner or by any device, including but not limited to any pattern in the manufacture, assembly, or packaging of pull-tabs by the manufacturer, by any markings on the pull-tabs or container, or by the hue of a light; or
(c) Which does not conform in any respect to these requirements as to manufacturer, assembly or packaging.
(2) A distributor shall not purchase or be furnished any pull-tabs from a manufacturer of pull-tabs unless all of the following conditions are met:
(a) The manufacturer’s label or trademark has been registered with the Mississippi Gaming Commission.
(b) Each individual pull-tab manufactured has conspicuously set forth on it the name of the manufacturer or a label or trademark which identifies its manufacturer.
(c) The pull-tab is of a type approved by the commission for use in Mississippi.

Where this section sits in the code

Title 97. Crimes
Chapter 33. Gambling and Lotteries
Charitable Bingo Law

(a) In which the winning pull-tabs have not been completely and randomly distributed and mixed among all other pull-tabs in the deal;

(b) In which the location or approximate location of any of the winning pull-tabs can be determined in advance of opening the pull-tabs in any manner or by any device, including but not limited to any pattern in the manufacture, assembly, or packaging of pull-tabs by the manufacturer, by any markings on the pull-tabs or container, or by the hue of a light; or

(2) A distributor shall not purchase or be furnished any pull-tabs from a manufacturer of pull-tabs unless all of the following conditions are met:

(a) The manufacturer’s label or trademark has been registered with the Mississippi Gaming Commission.

(b) Each individual pull-tab manufactured has conspicuously set forth on it the name of the manufacturer or a label or trademark which identifies its manufacturer.

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