{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-76-7","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-7","heading":"Mississippi Gaming Commission created; members of commission; qualifications.","body":"(1) [Repealed]\n(2) From and after October 1, 1993, the Mississippi Gaming Commission, consisting of three (3) members, is hereby created.\n(3) (a) Each member of the commission shall be:\n(i) A citizen of the United States; and\n(ii) A resident of the State of Mississippi.\n(b) One (1) member of the commission shall have been a resident for not less than five (5) years of a county in which gaming is authorized at the time of appointment.\n(4) No member of the Legislature, no person holding any elective office, nor any officer or official of any political party shall be eligible to appointment to the commission.\n(5) It is the intention of the Legislature that the commission shall be composed of the most qualified persons available, preferably no two (2) of whom shall be of the same profession or major field of industry; but no person actively engaged or having a direct pecuniary interest in gaming activities shall be a member of the commission.","path":["Title 75. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments","Chapter 76. Mississippi Gaming Control Act","Mississippi Gaming Commission; Executive Director"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.75.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:13Z","sha256":"d5bcf22c17f1ce749bb31d291cea6bb1aa430f3e89e6ff9325b57ecd65c7f50b","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-76-5","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-76-9","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."}