{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-69-7-251","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-251","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-251","body":"As used in this article, the terms defined in this section shall have the meanings herein given to them, except where the context expressly indicates otherwise:\n\n(a) “Board” means the Mississippi Egg Marketing Board.\n\n(b) “Person” means every person, partnership, firm, company, association, corporation or legal entity engaged in the production or sale of eggs in the state.\n\n(c) “Eggs” means pullet and hen eggs only.\n\n(d) “Handler” and “dealer” means any person engaged within the state as a wholesale distributor in the business of distributing eggs in Mississippi regardless of where the eggs are produced.\n\n(e) “Producer” means any person engaged in the business of producing eggs in Mississippi, either as an owner or as an officer or stockholder of a business engaged in producing eggs in Mississippi, or any person deriving a profit from such a business.\n\n(f) “Ship” or “shipping” means to move or cause to move eggs in intrastate or interstate or foreign commerce by rail, truck, boat, airplane or any other means.\n\n(g) “Shipper” means any person engaged in shipping or causing to be shipped eggs in intrastate or interstate or foreign commerce, whether owner, agent or otherwise.\n\n(h) “Case” means a standard case of thirty (30) dozen eggs.","path":["MS Code","Title 69"],"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":"e774a8653b97b4ffeac024b4eeb20cc6519b417f12af45fff7660b0b4507e29c","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-69-7-213","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-69-7-253","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."}