{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-93-5","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-93-5","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this chapter:\n(a) “Business” means any commercial or professional activity.\n(b) “Fictitious business name” means any name under which an entity transacts business in this state, other than (i) the entity’s legal name, or (ii) a fictitious name adopted by a foreign entity under Title 79, Mississippi Code of 1972, because its legal name is unavailable.\n(c) “Entity” means any corporation; limited liability company; partnership; limited partnership; limited liability partnership; sole proprietorship; firm; enterprise; franchise; association; organization; holding company; self-employed individual; joint-stock company; receivership; trust; other legal entity or undertaking organized for economic gain; nonprofit corporation; association or organization receiving public funds; or other such entity.","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":"98e24456416a593bf53994662ddcd83a274815a8ae714b9540ed31a2f7bee6cf","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-93-3","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-93-7","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."}