{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-49-7","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-49-7","heading":"License required for sponsor other than insurer; fee; disclosure of business relationships; denial of license.","body":"(1) No person other than an insurer as defined herein shall act as a sponsor nor enter into any contract with an individual person or persons whereby such person or persons become subscribers to a prepaid legal services plan without first having obtained a license from the commissioner to act as sponsor of prepaid legal services in this state.\n(2) The annual license fee shall be One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00). The fee for said license shall be paid to the commissioner for the use of the state on or before March 1 of each year.\n(3) Before any licensee changes his address, he shall return his license to the commissioner who shall endorse the license indicating the change.\n(4) The person to whom the license or the renewal thereof may be issued shall file sworn answers, subject to the penalties of perjury, to such interrogatories as the commissioner may require. The commissioner shall have authority, at any time, to require the applicant to disclose fully the identity of all stockholders, partners, officers and employees, and he may, in his discretion, refuse to issue or renew a license in the name of any firm, partnership or corporation if he is not satisfied that any officer, employee, stockholder or partner thereof who may materially influence the applicant’s conduct meets the standards of this chapter.","path":["Title 83. Insurance","Chapter 49. Legal Expense Insurance"],"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":"1ee3857bd0ea8ba724f9f9b3943e38cab0470e1cd6aa466f0b88831f8967bc70","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-49-5","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-49-9","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."}