{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-39-8","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-39-8","heading":"Managing and closing business upon death of personal surety.","body":"If a professional bail agent who acts as a personal surety agent dies, the personal representative of the estate may contract with licensed professional bail agents, soliciting bail agents or bail enforcement agents to assist him in managing and closing the business affairs of the professional bail agent. The licensed professional bail agent, soliciting bail agent or bail enforcement agent contracted by the personal representative may, on behalf of the personal representative, present defendants in court when required, assist in the apprehension and surrender of defendants to the court, or keep defendants under necessary surveillance. Nothing herein shall give the personal representative the authority to execute and sign bail bonds in connection with judicial proceedings.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 39. Bail Bonds and Bondsmen"],"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":"92853ddc300f3679d6a69bb70ee59ac3713098837bb46776c0719524e0329d3b","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-39-5","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-39-9","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."}