{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-7-57","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-7-57","heading":"Legislature; influence peddling.","body":"Every person who obtains, or seeks to obtain, money or other thing of value from another person upon a pretense, claim or representation that he can or will improperly influence, in any manner, the action of any member of the legislature or officer thereof, in regard to any vote or legislative matter, shall be guilty of felony, and, upon conviction, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding 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":"96c750d4d7a9cd53fe9f44a4aef8b9dac9d6d47c4b3aab3acbac9e87b00a19e4","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-7-55","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-7-59","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."}