{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-71-5-521","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 71-5-521","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 71-5-521","body":"To hear and decide appealed claims, the board of review shall appoint one or more impartial appeal tribunals consisting in each case of either a referee, who shall be selected in accordance with Section 71-5-121 , or a body consisting of three (3) members, one (1) of whom shall be a referee, who shall serve as chairman, one (1) of whom shall be a representative of employers, and the other of whom shall serve as a representative of employees. Each of the latter two (2) members shall serve at the pleasure of the board of review and be paid a fee of not more than twenty dollars ($20.00) per day for active service on such tribunals, plus necessary expenses. Referees shall be paid such salary or per diem as may be determined by the commission, and such expenses as may be allowed by the commission. No person shall participate on behalf of the commission or the board of review in any case in which he is an interested party. The board of review may designate alternates to serve in the absence or disqualification of any member of an appeal tribunal. The chairman shall act alone in the absence or disqualification of any other member and his alternates. In no case shall the hearings proceed unless the chairman of the appeal tribunal is present.","path":["MS Code","Title 71"],"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":"a6f58c11a6c48e388f84cff32538df350f54ee3ee6fe73f188ab6b6a267effff","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-71-5-519","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-71-5-523","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."}