{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-15-109","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 93-15-109","heading":"Surrender of a child to the Department of Child Protection Services or a home.","body":"(1) A parent may accomplish the surrender of a child to the Department of Child Protection Services or to a home by:\n(a) Delivering the child to the Department of Child Protection Services or the home;\n(b) Executing an affidavit of a written agreement that names the child and which vests in the Department of Child Protection Services or the home the exclusive custody, care and control of the child; and\n(c) Executing a written voluntary release as set forth in Section 93-15-111(2).\n(2) If a child has been surrendered to a home or other agency operating under the laws of another state, and the child is delivered into the custody of a petitioner or home within this state, the execution of consent by the nonresident home or agency shall be sufficient.\n(3) Nothing in this section prohibits the delivery and surrender of a child to an emergency medical services provider pursuant to Sections 43-15-201 through 43-15-209.","path":["Title 93. Domestic Relations","Chapter 15. Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law"],"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":"298d755ad74e72a9a318a7352b36b096c8ea6c8a215317f6cc2439da97571a67","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-15-107","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-15-111","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."}