{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-53-5-21","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 53-5-21","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 53-5-21","body":"Payments to the agency or agencies making the surveys authorized in Section 53-5-17 may be paid during the performance of the survey. However, the total of such payments shall not exceed ninety per cent (90%) of the estimated total cost until after the survey or surveys are finally completed and formally accepted by the governing board or boards having the survey made. Payments may be extended over the term of office of the governing board or boards having such surveys made.","path":["MS Code","Title 53"],"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":"6b74a04ecf2653117e280605f0411a943e0a06ea2dcb9c468d7b4ded67122019","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-53-5-19","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-53-5-23","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."}