{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-31-23","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-31-23","heading":"Manufacturing or distilling unlawful; possession of still.","body":"It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to own or control or have in his or its possession any distillery commonly called a still or any integral part thereof. But it shall not be unlawful to own or have in possession a distillery or still in the following circumstances:\n(a) Where the same is used exclusively for the distillation of rosin products;\n(b) Where the same is used exclusively for the distillation of water;\n(c) Where the same is kept and lawfully used in any laboratory;\n(d) Where the same is in the possession of any officers of the law, to be disposed of according to law;\n(e) Where the person or corporation can prove that the same is in his or its possession for the purpose of being delivered up to an officer of the law to be disposed of according to law;\n(f) Where the same is used exclusively for the distillation of ethyl alcohol to be used solely for fuel purposes.\nAny person guilty of violating this section shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction shall be confined in the state penitentiary not less than one (1) year, nor more than three (3) years for his first offense, and for his second offense he shall be confined in the state penitentiary not less than five (5), nor more than ten (10) years.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 31. Intoxicating Beverage Offenses"],"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":"beeefeb5cf46d3d7c24241480055239333893c3bdbf2b3155ba136e094b39102","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-31-21","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-31-25","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."}