{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-81-14-203","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 81-14-203","heading":"Civil penalties; state savings banks.","body":"(1) Except as otherwise provided in this article, any savings bank which is found to have violated any provision of this article may be ordered to pay a civil penalty not to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00). Any savings bank which is found to have violated or failed to comply with any cease and desist order issued under the authority of this article may be ordered to pay a civil penalty not to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00) for each day that the violation or failure to comply continues.\n(2) To enforce the provisions of this section, the commissioner is authorized to assess such penalty and to appear in a court of competent jurisdiction and to move the court to order payment of the penalty. Prior to the assessment of the penalty, a hearing shall be held by the commissioner.\n(3) Nothing in this section shall prevent anyone damaged by a state savings bank from bringing a separate cause of action in a court of competent jurisdiction.","path":["Title 81. Banks and Financial Institutions","Chapter 14. Savings Bank Law","Article 5. Enforcement."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.81.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:28Z","sha256":"2a5cb48d918e88f27db2e36bd10abcb9841683d6c09c57c71d46d152573f40ec","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-81-14-201","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-81-14-205","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."}