{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-27-39","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 99-27-39","heading":"Payment by liquor dealers of penalty to state, county, or municipality.","body":"Any person who may sell or give away malt, vinous or spirituous liquors unlawfully, or who shall allow the same to be sold or given away at his place of business, for any purpose whatever, or shall knowingly permit any person not interested in or connected with such business to keep and drink or give away at such place of business any vinous, malt or spirituous liquors, shall be subject to pay to the state, county, city, town or village, where the offense is committed, each, the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00). The state, county, city, town or village, or any taxpayer of the state, county, city, town or village in the name thereof, or the state tax commission, or any tax collector within the county acting for them, may sue for and recover civilly, either jointly or separately, each said sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00); and such civil suit may be commenced by attachment without bond.","path":["Title 99. Criminal Procedure","Chapter 27. Proceedings for Intoxicating Beverage Offenses"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.99.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:13Z","sha256":"0b3d7936d5c9a9dea3b3b2026540726bc9afbd69de8b21069d9131ae7c000277","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-27-37","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-27-41","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."}