{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-19-65","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-19-65","heading":"Dividends.","body":"No stock company shall make a dividend, either in cash or stock certificates, except from its actual net surplus computed as required by law in its annual statements. Nor shall any company which has ceased to do new business of insurance divide any portion of its assets, except surplus, to its stockholders until it shall have performed or cancelled its policy obligations.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 19. Domestic Companies","General Provisions"],"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":"99ab9bfd4107f1277e00e1bb21bfda3a325e0d704a3890842fc205dbd45f9c71","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-19-63","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-19-67","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."}