{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-29-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-29-9","heading":"Benefits.","body":"(1) Every society transacting business under this chapter may provide for the payments of benefits upon the death of its members either within a term of years or at any time, may provide for benefits payable upon its members reaching seventy (70) years of age, may also provide for the payment of benefits in case of total and permanent disability, may provide also for the payment of benefits in the event of temporary disability, and may provide for monuments or tombstones to the memory of its deceased members and for the payment of funeral benefits.\n(2) Any society may also enter into contracts in such other forms and granting such benefits as its laws may authorize when it shall provide for the accumulation and maintenance of assets required for the payment of such benefits when valued upon an interest basis not exceeding four percent (4%) per annum and mortality standards adopted by it within the limitations provided in the statutes relating to fraternal benefit societies or, at the option of the society, in the statutes relating to life insurance companies.","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":"d616821f584ddb2553c907a23fc96a4d5baf365b40777c8daabf4eb25d42414b","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-29-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-29-11","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."}