{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-53-9-85","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 53-9-85","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 53-9-85","body":"(1) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as affecting in any way the right of any person to enforce or protect, under applicable law, that person's interest in water resources affected by a surface coal mining operation.\n\n(2) The operator of a surface coal mine shall replace the water supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains all or part of that person's supply of water for domestic, agricultural, industrial or other legitimate use from an underground or surface source where the supply has been affected by contamination, diminution or interruption proximately resulting from the surface coal mining or reclamation operation.","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":"30de0a315f26837db15567531244a684df4623d01f4181cc093709bfb5128154","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-53-9-83","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-53-9-87","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."}