{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-11-153","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 93-11-153","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in Sections 93-11-151 through 93-11-163, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein:\n(a) “Licensing entity” or “entity” means any entity specified in Title 73, Professions and Vocations, of the Mississippi Code, and includes the Mississippi Department of Public Safety with respect to driver’s licenses, the Mississippi State Tax Commission with respect to licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages and other licenses or registration authorizing a person to engage in a business, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks with respect to hunting and fishing licenses, and any other state agency that issues a license authorizing a person to engage in a business, occupation or profession. For the purposes of this article, the Supreme Court shall be considered to be the licensing entity for attorneys.\n(b) “License” means a license, certificate, permit, credential, registration, or any other authorization issued by a licensing entity that allows a person to engage in a business, occupation or profession, to operate a motor vehicle, to sell alcoholic beverages, or to hunt and fish.\n(c) “Licensee” means any person holding a license issued by a licensing entity.\n(d) “Order for support” means any judgment or order that provides for payments of a sum certain for the support of a child, whether it is temporary or final, and includes, but is not limited to, an order for reimbursement for public assistance or an order for making periodic payments on a support arrearage, or a sum certain due for a support arrearage.\n(e) “Out of compliance with an order for support” means that the obligor is at least thirty (30) days in arrears or delinquent in making payments in full for current support, or in making periodic payments on a support arrearage.\n(f) “Department” means the Mississippi Department of Human Services.\n(g) “Division” means the division within the department that is charged with the state administration of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.\n(h) “Delinquency” means any payments of a sum certain ordered by any court to be paid by a noncustodial parent for the support of a child that have remained unpaid for at least thirty (30) days after payment is due. Delinquency shall also include payments of a sum certain ordered by any court to be paid for maintenance of a spouse that have remained unpaid for at least thirty (30) days.","path":["Title 93. Domestic Relations","Chapter 11. Enforcement of Support of Dependents","Suspension of State-Issued Licenses, Permits or Registrations for Noncompliance with Child Support Order"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.93.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:58Z","sha256":"51c21a8fe6200bf70ce395f079342fd7bd457cb0d4027eb61fcc5eae63df6b48","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-11-151","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-11-155","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."}