{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-30-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-30-9","heading":"Purposes and powers.","body":"(1) A society shall operate for the benefit of members and their beneficiaries by:\n(a) Providing benefits as specified in Section 83-30-31; and\n(b) Operating for one or more social, intellectual, educational, charitable, benevolent, moral, fraternal, patriotic or religious purposes for the benefit of its members, which may also be extended to others.\nSuch purposes may be carried out directly by the society, or indirectly through subsidiary corporations or affiliated organizations.\n(2) Every society shall have the power to adopt laws and rules for the government of the society, the admission of its members, and the management of its affairs. It shall have the power to change, alter, add to or amend such laws and rules and shall have such other powers as are necessary and incidental to carrying into effect the objects and purposes of the society.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 30. Larger Fraternal Benefit Societies","Article 1. Structure and Purpose."],"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":"a508c515d7a1823651bda8bbcff67bdca9ae5777bf8c9eb805059039d5426721","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-30-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-30-11","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."}