{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-33-31","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 25-33-31","heading":"Compliance.","body":"(1) Failure to comply with the provisions of Sections 25-33-25 through 25-33-29 constitutes an unfair or deceptive act as provided in Section 75-24-5.\n(2) Any person who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of Sections 25-33-25 through 25-33-29 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in an amount not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).\n(3) Upon a second conviction of any person under Sections 25-33-25 through 25-33-29, the offenses being committed within a period of five (5) years, the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one (1) year or a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both.\n(4) Upon a third or subsequent conviction of any person for a violation of Sections 25-33-25 through 25-33-29, the offenses being committed within a period of five (5) years, the person shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a period not to exceed five (5) years, or fined in an amount not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both.\n(5) Criminal convictions in other jurisdictions for violations of substantially similar provisions to those contained in Sections 25-33-25 through 25-33-29 shall be counted in computing whether a violation under Sections 25-33-25 through 25-33-29 is a first, second, third or subsequent offense.","path":["Title 25. Public Officers and Employees; Public Records","Chapter 33. Notaries Public"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.25.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:52:08Z","sha256":"00010e15abd5d182d018c9a58314d27a8eb64f9cc6d4431a7d65c833bde7e132","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-33-29","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-33-33","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."}