{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-95-3-21","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 95-3-21","heading":"County attorney; duty; procedure.","body":"In case the existence of such nuisance is established in a criminal proceeding, under existing laws, it shall be the duty of the county attorney or district attorney to proceed promptly under this chapter to enforce the provisions and penalties thereof, and the finding of the defendant guilty in such criminal proceedings, unless reversed or set aside, shall be conclusive as against such defendant as to the existence of the nuisance. All moneys collected under this chapter shall be paid into the county treasury. The proceeds of the sale of the personal property, as provided in Section 95-3-15, shall be applied in payment of the costs of the action and abatement, including the complainant’s costs, or so much of such proceeds as may be necessary, except as otherwise provided by law.","path":["Title 95. Torts","Chapter 3. Nuisances"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.95.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:02Z","sha256":"74cd8248a4d3ad58863521452927675d613c223e6735c1a51fb9ec6f2542a886","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-95-3-19","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-95-3-23","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."}