{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-49-15-78","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 49-15-78","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 49-15-78","body":"(1)(a) It is unlawful for a person to use a gill net, trammel net, entanglement net, or like contrivances for the taking of finfish in marine waters within one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mile of the shoreline.\n\n(b) For the purposes of this section, the phrase “ like contrivances ” means any net that is similar in form, function, purpose or use to a gill net, trammel net or entanglement net.\n\n(c) It is unlawful for a person to use a haul seine net for the taking of fish in marine waters within one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mile of the shoreline of Cat Island.\n\n(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to hand seines, cast nets or brill nets.\n\n(2) A violation of this section is punishable by the penalties provided in Section 49-15-100 .","path":["MS Code","Title 49"],"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":"dc7d8fa902a72be7c119ade7af3ad5a20e19aedb994e6c02b83c8cf11636b70a","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-49-15-77","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-49-15-79","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."}