{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-49-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 83-49-9","heading":"Investigation of sponsor license applicants; qualifications for license; notice of denial; hearing.","body":"Upon the filing of an application and the payment of the license fee, the commissioner shall make an investigation of each applicant and shall issue a license if he finds the applicant is qualified in accordance with this chapter. If the commissioner does not so find, he shall, within ninety (90) days after he has received such application, so notify the applicant and, at the request of the applicant, give the applicant a full hearing.\nThe commissioner shall issue or renew a license as may be applied for when he is satisfied that the person to be licensed:\n(a) Is competent and trustworthy and intends to act in good faith as a sponsor of prepaid legal services plans in this state;\n(b) Has a good business reputation and has had experience, training or education so as to be qualified to act as a sponsor of prepaid legal services plans; and\n(c) If a corporation is incorporated under the laws of this state or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state.","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":"8d3f149438b782eeb7cab0b788641b3a1783c7b8a1cf2d4a7765d696e80c87b6","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-49-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-83-49-11","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."}