{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-31-5","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-31-5","heading":"Alcoholic preparations; unlawful to sell or keep certain preparations; exceptions.","body":"It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, to sell, barter, or give away, or keep for such purposes any sweet spirits of nitre, liquid ginger preparation, elixir of orange peel, pear extract, or any like drug, compound, bitters, elixir or preparation of any kind whatsoever, except where otherwise legalized under the laws of this state, which when drunk to excess, in the form sold, will produce intoxication, except when the same is kept, sold, bartered or given away for either medicinal, or household purposes, or for uses in cooking, baking, and purposes incidental to the treatment of disease.\nThis section shall have no effect whatsoever on the sections appearing in Chapter 1 of Title 67, Mississippi Code of 1972, cited as the “Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law” of the State of Mississippi. If there is any conflict whatsoever between this section and the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law cited hereinabove, the provisions of the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law shall be paramount.","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":"5642d62e88a25b1136caeea455ec3244c631cab603a54f44a4604b69b3fd7473","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-29-109","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-31-7","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."}