{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-3-52","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-52","heading":"Prohibition against selling, buying, offering to sell and offering to buy child or unborn child; penalties.","body":"(1) Selling, buying, offering to sell and offering to buy a child or an unborn child is prohibited and, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00), imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed ten (10) years, or both.\n(2) This section shall not be construed so as to prohibit any payment to an entity licensed for child placing or as otherwise authorized under Section 43-15-117.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 3. Crimes Against the Person"],"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":"91b88218c011cb04dde1932c9e4433368f38ba840eb78dd924efea0f62088c82","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-3-51","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-3-53","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."}