{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-33-1-29","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 33-1-29","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 33-1-29","body":"The organized militia of the State of Mississippi, also known as the Mississippi National Guard, may elect by proper action to come within the provision of the Mississippi Workmen's Compensation Law, and in such event shall notify the workmen's compensation commission of such action. After having made such an election, the said Mississippi National Guard may be a self-insurer without the requirement of paying the registration fee as required by Section 71-3-101 of the Workmen's Compensation Law and without the requirement of filing a self-insurer bond; and may make payment of compensation benefits from any appropriations or funds available to the Mississippi Military Department or any subdivision thereof, provided that such benefits shall be paid only for injuries sustained as a direct result of active military service for the State of Mississippi by direction of an executive order of the Governor of the State of Mississippi. For the purpose of determining the average weekly wages of the person entitled to benefits herein, said wages shall be computed on the basis of his earnings in civilian life or on the basis of his current military pay, whichever shall be greater.","path":["MS Code","Title 33"],"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":"7bb2dbed8d60ef0faadea12ba032a8fb88ca1d264fd154b9a2c609ac42304b36","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-33-1-27","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-33-1-3","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."}