{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-93-31","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-93-31","heading":"Penalty for fraudulent filings.","body":"Any person who shall knowingly and willfully procure the registration of a fictitious business name or apply for registration of a fictitious business name under the provisions of this chapter by knowingly making any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, orally or in writing, or by any other fraudulent means, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).","path":["Title 75. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments","Chapter 93. Fictitious Business Name Registration Act"],"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":"f03eca899ae368aca18873316d79a27a88dabe992bca18b0ec82a0eb940b6382","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-93-29","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-95-1","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."}