{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-89-8-3","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-3","heading":"Application of chapter.","body":"(1) This chapter shall apply to, regulate and determine rights, obligations and remedies under any rental agreement entered into after July 1, 1991, wherever made, for a dwelling unit located within this state. The rights, obligations and remedies of this chapter shall be in addition to all other rights, obligations and remedies provided by law and shall not alter or abridge the rights, obligations and remedies available to residential landlords and tenants pursuant to Sections 89-7-1 through 89-7-125.\n(2) The following arrangements are not governed by this chapter:\n(a) Residence at an institution, public or private, if incidental to detention or the provision of medical, geriatric, educational, counseling, religious or similar service;\n(b) Occupancy under a contract of sale of a dwelling unit or the property of which it is a part, if the occupant is the purchaser or a person who succeeds to his interest;\n(c) Occupancy by a member of a fraternal or social organization in the portion of a structure operated for the benefit of the organization;\n(d) Transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or lodgings;\n(e) Occupancy by an owner of a condominium unit or a holder of a proprietary lease in a cooperative; or\n(f) Occupancy under a rental agreement covering premises used by the occupant primarily for agricultural purposes or when the occupant is performing agricultural labor for the owner and such premises are rented for less than fair rental value.","path":["Title 89. Real and Personal Property","Chapter 8. Residential Landlord and Tenant Act"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.89.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:48Z","sha256":"e81337a6e3caebce6e63821a6bb5d257cf2ac716fd1f80925a3e2ee6c8f7b206","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-89-8-1","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-89-8-5","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."}