{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-19-3","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 79-19-3","heading":"Definitions; nature of associations; short title.","body":"As used in this chapter:\n(a) The term “agricultural product” shall include horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, live stock, poultry, bee and any other farm products;\n(b) The term “member” shall include actual members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in associations organized with capital stock;\n(c) The term “association” means any association organized under this chapter; and\n(d) The term “person” shall include individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations and associations.\nAssociations organized hereunder shall be deemed nonprofit, inasmuch as they are not organized to make profits for themselves, as such, or for their members, as such, but only for their members as producers.\nThis chapter shall be referred to as the “Cooperative Marketing Law and Cooperative Live Stock and Poultry Raising Law.”","path":["Title 79. Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships","Chapter 19. Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Associations"],"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":"336c37a409f993f8540ff912f3a4f3342f0c0a5f37a984d33bd45c77d8469d72","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-19-1","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-79-19-5","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."}