{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-17-27","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 79-17-27","heading":"Charges for expenses and creating reserve.","body":"Such incorporated association may make charges to its members and deductions from the proceeds of their products for services rendered to them for the purpose of paying the expenses of operation and the maintenance and development of such association, and for the creation and maintenance of reserves for the purpose of paying expenses, retiring obligations, acquiring, maintaining and operating property necessary or useful in carrying out the purposes of this chapter and for caring for contingencies, and such reserves may be used or distributed as may be deemed proper by the board of directors under the bylaws; and such corporation may make patronage dividends or distributions to its members and may do any and all things not unlawful in carrying out the purposes of this chapter, and shall have and enjoy all the rights, privileges and immunities of other corporations not inconsistent with this chapter.","path":["Title 79. Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships","Chapter 17. Agricultural Associations; Conversion to Corporate Form"],"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":"bd3e40358acb10885dc2db79ff26364cc1239d7fcd517ecce4de34fda92b4a21","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-17-25","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-17-29","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."}