{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-19-155","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-155","heading":"Purchase of license tags or plates by commission; disposition of proceeds of sale generally.","body":"The license or number tag herein provided for shall be purchased by the License Tag Commission, composed of the Governor, Commissioner of Revenue, Attorney General and the State Treasurer, upon competitive bids, after having given three (3) weeks’ notice of the time and place of purchase, by publishing said notice in at least three (3) newspapers, at least one (1) of which shall be published in the State of Mississippi, for a period of three (3) weeks prior to the date of purchase. The successful bidder shall enter into a bond with some surety company, authorized to do business in the state, as surety thereon, payable to the State of Mississippi, in a sum equal to the amount of his contract, conditioned for the faithful and prompt carrying out of said bid, and, in the event of the failure to comply with the terms of said contract, the amount of said bond shall be forfeited as liquidated damages and may be recovered by the Attorney General in any appropriate action. The License Tag Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to renegotiate any contract entered into for the purchase of license tags in order to obtain any other or additional tags necessitated by the passage of this article.\nAll monies received by the Department of Revenue as registration or tag fees, either from the tax collectors, or from licenses issued by the Department of Revenue, shall be paid into the State Treasury on the same day in which such funds are collected by the Department of Revenue.","path":["Title 27. Taxation and Finance","Chapter 19. Motor Vehicle Privilege and Excise Taxes","Article 1. Motor Vehicle Privilege Taxes."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.27.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17; absent from the newer snapshot, which serves other sections of this chapter, so it may since have been repealed or amended","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:52:13Z","sha256":"f6d27de695ae334f79edf8af68adeeb26d6627320cdf9a5e30a1894ff643b78b","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-19-153","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-19-156","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."}