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Publications Title General Laws of Mississippi Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated Mississippi Administrative Bulletin Mississippi Administrative Code Mississippi Appellate Decisions - Appeals Mississippi Appellate Decisions - Supreme

Official Status

(Notes)

No No Yes Yes No No
Administrative Procedures Act Rules provide that “[t]he title of the official legal bulletin published by the Secretary of State pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act is the Mississippi Administrative Bulletin” and that “[t]he Mississippi Administrative Bulletin is an electronic publication and is published via the Mississippi Secretary of State’s website: www.sos.ms.gov.” Administrative Procedures Act Rules provide that “[t]he title of the official legal codification published pursuant to Section 25-43-2.101(5) shall be The Mississippi Administrative Code” and that “[t]he Mississippi Administrative Code is an electronic publication and is published on the Mississippi Secretary of State’s website: www.sos.ms.gov.”

Authentication

(Notes)

No No No No No No

Online Preservation

(Notes)

Yes No No No No No
Available on Secretary of State’s website for five years; after five years, will be maintained in a practical medium

Permanent Public Access

(Notes)

No No Yes No No No
Available on Secretary of State’s website for five years; after five years, will be maintained in a practical medium Current practice has opinions available back to 1996. Current practice has opinions available back to 1996.

Copyright Claimed

(Notes)

Yes Yes No Yes No No
Miss. Code Ann. § 1-1-9

Subsection 2 of the statute provides that “[a]ll parts of any act passed by the Mississippi Legislature, or of any code published or authorized to be published by the Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation, including, without limitation, catchlines or frontal analyses; numbers assigned to sections, articles, chapters and titles; historical citations or source lines; editor's notes; amendment notes; cross references; annotations; and summaries of judicial decisions and Attorney General's opinions, shall become and remain the exclusive property of the State of Mississippi, to be used only as the joint committee may direct.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 1-1-9

Subsection 1 of the statute provides that “[c]opyrights of the Mississippi Code of 1972 and the notes, annotations, and indexes thereof, shall be taken by and in the name of the publishers of the compilation who shall thereafter promptly assign the same to the State of Mississippi and be owned by it.” Subsection 2 provides that “[a]ll parts of any act passed by the Mississippi Legislature, or of any code published or authorized to be published by the Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation, including, without limitation, catchlines or frontal analyses; numbers assigned to sections, articles, chapters and titles; historical citations or source lines; editor's notes; amendment notes; cross references; annotations; and summaries of judicial decisions and Attorney General's opinions, shall become and remain the exclusive property of the State of Mississippi, to be used only as the joint committee may direct.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 25-43-2.101

Subsection 6 of the statute provides that “[c]opyrights of the Mississippi Administrative Code, including, but not limited to, cross references, tables of cases, notes of decisions, tables of contents, indices, source notes, authority notes, numerical lists and codification guides, other than the actual text of rules or regulations, shall be taken by and in the name of the publishers of said compilation. Such publishers shall thereafter promptly assign the same to the State of Mississippi and said copyright shall be owned by the state.”
UELMA Adopted No
Universal Citation Adopted With regard to case law, Rule 28(f)(3) of the Mississippi Rules of Appellate Procedure provides, “Quotations from cases and authorities appearing in the text of the brief shall be cited in one of the following ways: (i) preceded or followed by a reference to the book and page in the Southern Reporter and/or the Mississippi Reports where the quotation appears (e.g., Smith v. Jones, 699 So. 2d 100, 102 (Miss. 1997)); or (ii) in cases decided from and after July 1, 1997, preceded or followed by a reference to the case number assigned by the Clerk’s Office and paragraph number where the quotation appears (e.g., Smith v. Jones, 95-KA-01234-SCT (¶1) (Miss. 1997)); or (iii) in cases decided from and after July 1, 1997, preceded or followed by a reference to the book and paragraph number in the Southern Reporter where the quotation appears (e.g., Smith v. Jones, 699 So. 2d 100 (¶1) (Miss. 1997)); or (iv) in cases decided prior to July 1, 1997, preceded or followed by a reference to the case number assigned by the Clerk’s Office and paragraph number where the quotation appears when the case is added to the Court’s Internet web site in the new format, i.e., with paragraph numbers (e.g., Smith v. Jones, 93-CA-05678-SCT (¶1) (Miss. 1995)); or (v) preceded or followed by a parallel citation using both the book citation and the case number citation.”



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