{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-33-31","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-33-31","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-33-31","body":"Any person engaged in any of the businesses covered by this article may obtain from the commissioner a grading service and/or inspection service of the products of his business and the commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to provide such service to any person applying for same. The commissioner is authorized to establish grades and quality of the carcasses, or the parts thereof, of cattle, sheep, goats, other ruminants, rabbits and poultry, but each such grade or quality shall meet the minimum standards for the like grade or quality as required by the United States Department of Agriculture. However, the commissioner may, in his discretion, establish a grade of lower quality or designation than is now recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture, but such grade and quality so established and designated shall be clearly marked and with such identification as to avoid any confusion with grades or qualities as designated by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. However, no grade or quality shall be established or designated which will permit the sale of any meat, meat-food products or poultry unfit for human consumption.","path":["MS Code","Title 75"],"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":"c16b6b92524eff33afc9e2b5c29f35df75b113c3310c7097417108a00a445dc4","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-33-3","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-33-33","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."}