{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-32-29","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-32-29","heading":"Use of tobacco by adults on certain educational property prohibited; penalties for violation.","body":"No person shall use any tobacco product on any educational property as defined in Section 97-32-27. Any adult who violates this section shall be subject to a fine and shall be liable as follows: (a) for a first conviction, a warning; (b) for a second conviction, a fine of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00); and (c) for all subsequent convictions, a fine not to exceed One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) shall be imposed.\nAny adult found in violation of this section shall be issued a citation by a law enforcement officer, which citation shall include notice of the date, time and location for hearing before the justice court having jurisdiction where the violation is alleged to have occurred. For the purposes of this section, “subsequent convictions” are for violations committed on any educational property within the State of Mississippi.\nAnyone convicted under this article shall be recorded as being fined for a civil violation of this article and not for violating a criminal statute.\nIt is the responsibility of all law enforcement officers and law enforcement agencies of this state to ensure that the provisions of this article are enforced.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 32. Tobacco Offenses","Article 3. Mississippi Adult Tobacco Use on Educational Property Act."],"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":"24ef58518ed19123a1bd99e2c00a51d2b1d0b77bf1e6d24c368f0aad7022c9c4","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-32-27","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-32-51","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."}