{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-29-23","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-29-23","heading":"Powers retained.","body":"Any society now engaged in transacting business in this state may exercise all of the rights conferred hereby and all of the rights, powers, and privileges now exercised or possessed by it under its charter or articles of incorporation not inconsistent with this chapter, if incorporated. Any such domestic society may, upon filing notice thereof with the commissioner of insurance, be deemed from and after the date of filing such notice to be fully organized under the provisions of this chapter or, if it be a voluntary association, it may incorporate hereunder. No society already organized shall be required to reincorporate hereunder, and any such society may amend its articles of incorporation from time to time in the manner provided therein or in its constitution and laws. All such amendments shall be filed with the commissioner of insurance and shall become operative upon such filing, unless a later time be provided in such amendments or in its articles of incorporation, constitution, or laws.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 29. Fraternal Societies"],"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":"c58baf56e71c2347b693a71304882774d945491f1e66ad49c4632aa3ada088a5","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-29-21","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-29-25","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."}