{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-11-153","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 79-11-153","heading":"Emergency powers of board of directors; notice during emergency; officers may be deemed directors during emergency; effect of emergency corporate action; emergency defined.","body":"(1) In anticipation of or during an emergency defined in subsection (4) of this section, the board of directors of a corporation may:\n(a) Modify lines of succession to accommodate the incapacity of any director, officer, employee or agent; and\n(b) Relocate the principal office, designate alternative principal offices or regional offices, or authorize the officer to do so.\n(2) During an emergency defined in subsection (4) of this section, unless emergency bylaws provide otherwise:\n(a) Notice of a meeting of the board of directors need be given only to those directors whom it is practicable to reach and may be given in any practicable manner, including by publication and radio; and\n(b) One or more officers of the corporation present at a meeting of the board of directors may be deemed to be directors for the meeting, in order of rank and within the same rank in order of seniority, as necessary to achieve a quorum.\n(3) Corporate action taken in good faith during an emergency under this section to further the ordinary affairs of the corporation:\n(a) Binds the corporation; and\n(b) May not be used to impose liability on a corporate director, officer, employee or agent.\n(4) An emergency exists for purposes of this section if a quorum of the corporation’s directors cannot readily be assembled because of some catastrophic event.","path":["Title 79. Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships","Chapter 11. Nonprofit, Nonshare Corporations and Religious Societies","Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.79.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:23Z","sha256":"590f021c7b7eab6dc34fb2390f9396680698266a182129de5f8b49ecd53246f5","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-11-151","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-11-155","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."}