{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-23-39","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-23-39","heading":"Preventing employment by force or violence; penalty.","body":"It shall be unlawful for any person by the use of force or violence, or threat of the use of force or violence, to prevent or to attempt to prevent any person from engaging in any lawful vocation within this state. Any person guilty of violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in the sum of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both, or in the state penitentiary not more than two (2) years.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 23. Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.97.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:07Z","sha256":"1b44b4c860c419938752eee4ed56eb309bb503c9e46fcd2bb9f4df316275ceed","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-23-37","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-23-41","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."}