{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-9-145","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 25-9-145","heading":"Official coercion prohibited; penalties.","body":"(1) No elected state official, elected state district official, appointed state official or member of the judiciary shall use his official authority or influence to coerce, by threat of discharge from employment or otherwise, the political action of a person or body.\n(2) Any official who violates this section shall be subject to removal from his position by proceedings initiated in the circuit court by the Office of the Attorney General, on his own motion or on relation of another; and any official so found in violation of subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor in office and imprisoned for a term not less than one (1) year or more than five (5) years or fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both. Funds appropriated for the position from which any official is removed under the provisions of this chapter shall not thereafter be used to pay the salary of such individual.","path":["Title 25. Public Officers and Employees; Public Records","Chapter 9. Statewide Personnel System","Personnel Administration System"],"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":"221f9a387dbe3a67de14243ca97ca62338c37ef97732ff7c07424572d14834bf","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-9-143","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-9-147","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."}