{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-9-601","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 77-9-601","heading":"Only chartered express companies to do business of common carriers.","body":"It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, whether residents or non-residents of this state, or any partnership, association or society of persons, resident or non-resident in this state, except express companies duly chartered as such by the laws of this state or some other state of the United States, to engage in the business of a common carrier by express over or upon any railroad or railroads or steamboat within this state. However, nothing herein contained shall apply to the carrying by express goods shipped from points without this state to points within this state, or from points within this state to points without this state, or through or across this state.","path":["Title 77. Public Utilities and Carriers","Chapter 9. Railroads and Other Common Carriers","Article 5. Express Companies."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.77.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:18Z","sha256":"9332177438b3158d0bb0a5efd6d3a43bc53854023f117f5e4f20c82a71e52bb0","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-9-531","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-9-603","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."}