{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-17-503","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-17-503","heading":"Posing as public adjuster prohibited; penalties.","body":"(1) No person shall act as or hold himself out to be a public adjuster in this state unless he is licensed therefor by the commissioner, except that an individual, who is undergoing education and training as a public adjuster under the direction and supervision of a licensed public adjuster for a period not exceeding twelve (12) months may act as a public adjuster without having a public adjuster’s license, if at the beginning of such training period, the name of such trainee has been registered as such with the commissioner.\n(2) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by confinement in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and confinement.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 17. Insurance Agents, Solicitors, or Adjusters","Article 11. Licensing of Public Adjusters."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.83.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:33Z","sha256":"e8dab8eaf425722dd37331603844620507ec9258bde95e91b6b086e0dfa4f053","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-17-501","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-17-505","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."}