{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-57-11-5","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 57-11-5","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 57-11-5","body":"The council shall consist of fifteen (15) members from the state at large, representative of the various segments of agriculture and forestry, to be selected and appointed by the governor, and who shall serve for a term of not more than four (4) years under each appointment, which term of office shall expire at the expiration of the term of office for which the governor appointing the members was elected, without regard for the date of actual appointment of the members. Such members shall continue to serve until their successors have been appointed and duly qualified. The governor shall appoint a chairman and a vice-chairman of the council, and nine (9) members shall constitute a quorum of the members thereof.","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":"043a311ec20d18b50190eb38923a581d9daf673a679b1e8054a517af6f688052","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-57-11-39","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-57-11-61","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."}