{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-19-27-1","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 19-27-1","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 19-27-1","body":"There shall be elected for each county a surveyor who shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution and give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law and in the same manner as other county officials, in a penalty not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00).\n\nFrom and after January 1, 1984, such surveyor shall be a registered land surveyor as provided for in Sections 73-13-71 through 73-13-99 . However, this requirement shall not apply to any person who was holding the office of county surveyor by either election or appointment on December 31, 1983.","path":["MS Code","Title 19"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T20:49:39Z","sha256":"2d2fcc7d5b30d778e047d1500b4e29467463ef73a4f9478b6bd448066aa98993","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-19-25-9","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-19-27-11","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}