{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-95-9-3","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 95-9-3","heading":"Liability exemption for sports officials; definitions; exceptions; application of section.","body":"(1) Sports officials who officiate athletic contests at any level of competition in this state shall not be liable to any person or entity in any civil action for injuries or damages claimed to have arisen by virtue of actions or inactions related in any manner to officiating duties within the confines of the athletic facility at which the athletic contest is played.\n(2) For purposes of this section, sports officials are defined as those individuals who serve as referees, umpires, linesmen and those who serve in similar capacities but may be known by other titles and are duly registered or members of a local, state, regional or national organization which is engaged in part in providing education and training to sports officials.\n(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to grant the protection set forth to sports officials who cause injury or damage to a person or entity by actions or inactions which are intentional, willful, wanton, reckless, malicious or grossly negligent.\n(4) The provisions of this section shall apply only to actions the cause of which accrued on or after July 1, 1988.","path":["Title 95. Torts","Chapter 9. Liability Exemption for Volunteers and Sports Officials"],"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":"7e67897bee2cc50070edc1be2899841f51acb99eab3dfe9d8f47f5f7baf4f5cb","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-95-9-1","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-95-9-5","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."}