{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-57-1-373","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 57-1-373","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 57-1-373","body":"(1) No business, enterprise or other entity that is, or has ever been, criminally convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of intentionally hiring illegal immigrants that develops or is located in a ‘project‘ as defined in Section 57-75-5(f)(xx) shall be eligible to receive:\n\n(a) Any funds provided or derived from the issuance of any bonds under Sections 1 through 7 of Chapter 2, Laws of 2006, First Extraordinary Session; 1\n\n(b) Any loan, grant or other form of assistance that may be made available under Sections 1 through 7 of Chapter 2, Laws of 2006, First Extraordinary Session; or\n\n(c) Any funds, tax credit or other form of assistance that may be made available as an incentive payment under Sections 1 through 7 of Chapter 2, Laws of 2006, First Extraordinary Session.\n\n(2) If a business, enterprise or other entity that develops or is located in a ‘project‘ as defined in Section 57-75-5(f)(xx) has received funds or assistance as described in paragraphs (a) through (c) of subsection (1) of this section, and thereafter is convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of intentionally hiring illegal immigrants, then the business, enterprise or other entity shall repay the full amount of the funds or assistance received. The repayment shall be certified by the State Treasurer, who shall deposit such amounts into the specific special fund in the State Treasury from which the funds were awarded, or, in the case of incentive payments under Sections 57-28-1 through 57-28-5 , into the State General Fund.","path":["MS Code","Title 57"],"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":"d11555c99d4d785eec2072075c9450b7b30f1598d4990e001369087808311b39","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-57-1-371","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-57-1-39","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."}