{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-7-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 85-7-9","heading":"Water craft; municipal dockage, wharfage, or anchorage charges.","body":"(1) There shall be a lien on all skiffs, yachts, and other water craft in favor of any municipality operating a small craft or yacht harbor or basin for dockage, wharfage or anchorage charges for space or anchorage contracted for by the water craft or its owner or agent where the charge for such space or anchorage is made for a period of time without regard to the actual time such skiff, yacht or other water craft is actually docked or anchored to the dock, wharf, or at the mooring place in the basin. Such lien shall be paramount to all other debts due and owing by such water craft, or the owner thereof, or other lien thereon, except as provided by Section 85-7-7.\n(2) The lien, by this section provided, shall be enforced as provided by Sections 85-7-31 through 85-7-53, inclusive.","path":["Title 85. Debtor-Creditor Relationship","Chapter 7. Liens","Article 1. Crops, Advances, Lumber, Timber, Foals, Calves and Water Craft.","Liens on Crops, Advances, Lumber, Timber, Foals, Calves and Water Craft"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.85.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:37Z","sha256":"ad965733df62f9439f30462c6e6254c8dd238bdd36e0a356ad8616ee5d72c398","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-7-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-85-7-31","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."}