{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-70-1","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 27-70-1","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 27-70-1","body":"The purpose of this chapter is to:\n\n(a) Prevent nonsettling manufacturers from undermining this state's policy of discouraging underage smoking by offering cigarettes at prices that are substantially below the prices of cigarettes of other manufacturers;\n\n(b) Protect the tobacco settlement agreement, and funding, which has been reduced because of the growth of sales of nonsettling-manufacturer cigarettes, for programs that are funded wholly or partly by payments to this state under the tobacco settlement agreement and recoup for this state settlement payment revenue lost because of sales of nonsettling-manufacturer cigarettes;\n\n(c) Provide funding to enforce and administer this chapter and any legislation relating to nonsettling manufacturers; and\n\n(d) Provide funding for any other purpose the Legislature determines.","path":["MS Code","Title 27"],"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":"3cabe6d6e46134da9a039170246af0f57f03df6ec76b2d2f16f7c2837406cf55","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-69-9","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-27-70-19","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."}