{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-7-55","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-7-55","heading":"Legislature; member accepting or agreeing to accept bribes.","body":"Every member of either house composing the legislature who asks, receives, or agrees to receive any bribe, upon any understanding, express or implied, that his official vote, opinion, judgment, or action shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in any particular manner or upon any particular side of any question or matter upon which he may be required to act in his official capacity, or gives or offers or promises to give any official vote in consideration that another member of the legislature shall give any such vote, either upon the same or another question, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than ten years.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 7. Crimes Against Sovereignty or Administration of Government"],"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":"234312ee585aa0bca819c2877280a78df543c21eb7e2cb72c4d819934fcbdb4c","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-7-53","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-7-57","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."}