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Mississippi regulations: details

Copied from the Part PDF files the Mississippi Secretary of State posts on October 20, 2026. Check the official page before you rely on a rule.

What is here

Mississippi: rules of the Mississippi Administrative Code as the Part PDF files the Mississippi Secretary of State posts print them, fetched by GLO on 2026-10-20 and read by machine: GLO's reading of the publisher's files, not the official code. 15,445 rules are served as text, from 341 Parts of 82 agencies; 6,735 rules are held, each by number with its reasons, mainly rules the two readers read differently (4,398), rules whose number is printed as a head more than once (3,657), rules on pages that carry a table (1,417); 419 Part files are held whole and listed by file (358 numbered in an older grammar this release does not read, 58 notice-only, 3 scanned), so their rules are not listed one by one. Release 2 (2026-10-21) holds 54 rules that Release 1 served as text from 2026-10-21 until then: 36 whose text runs on past their Source line into a next rule whose head was printed in a form GLO's readers missed, 14 whose text ends on a cut word, and 4 that carry the file's page footer; the other 13,906 are served with the same text, nothing mended or split. These tests catch a run-on only where a Source line comes before the missed head, and a cut end only on a word a sentence cannot end on; others are not caught. Release 3 (2026-10-24) holds 55 more rules that Release 2 served as text until then: a page of theirs prints a word with one character struck through (a comma, a period or a letter under a short stroke), which the earlier test, counting a stroke only when it crosses half a word or more, did not see; the other 13,851 are served with the same text, nothing mended. The test is page-wide and also holds some rules whose mark is not a strike; a strike shorter than 1 point, or made some other way than a drawn line, is still not seen. Chapter and subchapter headings show only where their number matches the rule's own number. The text is one run of words, except a line break restored before a lettered or numbered item the page starts on a new line after a line ending in a period, semicolon or colon (Release 4, 2,194 places in 435 rules; Release 5, 217 more after a line ending in “and” or “or”, each read on its page image); the files' other line and paragraph breaks are not kept, and a hyphen and a space can stand inside a word or compound ('full- time'), as the file prints it or left by a line break, so a word search can miss it. Release 4 (2026-11-02) restores 2,194 line breaks in 435 rules, each before a lettered or numbered item, such as (a) or (ii), that the page starts on a new line after a line ending in a period, semicolon or colon. An AI model compared 30 drawn places with the page images and found each a new item; no person read them. Release 5 (2026-11-02) reads all 229 places where such an item follows a line ending in “and” or “or”: an AI model looked at each on its page image and found 219 new items, restored at 217 places in 129 rules (two of the 219 were the same place counted twice), and 10 cross-references that only wrapped, which stay run on; no person read them. An item that starts a new page is not restored. Release 5 also removes a law firm’s document number (such as 9479638.2) that six files print in the margin of every page and that had been read into the text at 95 places in 88 rules. Release 6 (2026-11-02) removes the same number from the source notes of 23 rules, where it had also been read in. Release 8 (2026-11-03) shows 354 rules held until then because their files print the Part number in a form GLO’s readers missed: 349 whose file prints its Part in capitals, in its Title line or in Roman numerals, read from the file and checked against the Secretary of State’s index, and 5 from one file that prints no Part number, whose Part is the one the Secretary of State’s index names, as each of their answers says; 14 more such rules stay held by name (9 with a short strike on a page, 2 with words struck through on a page, 1 running on past its Source line, 1 running on into a later rule whose head is printed with no space, 1 ending in the next chapter’s printed heading). Release 8 also corrects three rules that Releases 1 to 6 served with text that was not their own (30 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 2865, R. 2.6 ended in the next chapter’s printed heading; 30 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 1, R. 5.4.1 held Rule 5.4.2 whole, and 7 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 3, R. 38.6 held Rule 38.7’s head), and shows Rules 5.4.2 and 38.7 on their own; each corrected rule’s reader says what GLO cut. A rule run on into a later rule whose head is printed some other way has not been looked for. Releases 9 to 13 (2026-11-03) were built in turn and Release 13 carries them all; Releases 7 to 12 were not served on their own. They show 1,085 more rules: 839 held until then for a table on a page they span that lies outside the rule’s own lines, 211 mended and shown (a Source line, a heading or a page number cut from their words), 22 that the file prints under their own Rule heading, split from the 15 rules whose shown words carried them, and 13 from table pages whose lines are plain text. They move the Source line of 5,112 rules, 4,901 of them shown by Release 6 with the Source line inside their words, out into the Source field, and remove a printed page number, the next heading’s words or the next chapter’s heading read into 118 rules. Release 13 held by name 32 rules Release 6 showed (Release 19 shows 22 of them again, mended, and 10 stay held by name): 14 whose Source line prints letter-spaced and was read as single characters, 9 whose words were a line of the file’s table of contents, 5 whose words hold two Source lines, 4 whose words stop at a cross-reference the readers took for the next rule’s head. Each changed rule’s reader says what GLO did. A run-on or cut these tests do not find may remain. Releases 14 to 19 (2026-11-03) were built in turn and Release 19 carries them all; Releases 14 to 18 were not served on their own. They show 185 more rules: 131 keyed by the Title their own pages print, where no single Title stood among the shown rules of their file and Part (92 of them read on the table reader’s plain path, Title 15, Part 9); 32 mended and shown (the next page’s footer cut from a Source line, an unlabeled Source row moved out of the words, Rule numbers in the words read again as cross-references, letter-spaced citations rejoined); 5 whose words after a cross-reference printed on a line of its own are restored from the page; 4 table rules whose rows GLO’s tests found neither wrapped nor continued across a page; 9 later rules split out of the two shown rules whose words carried them (5 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 2, R. 7.0 and 30 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 2630, R. 1.1); and 4 whose page prints their Source line twice. Release 19 holds by name 56 rules whose words were a line of their file’s table of contents (46 of them held before for having no single Title), 8 table rules whose wrapped cells the table reader may split across rows, 30 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 2630, R. 1.7 (its page prints a footnote after its Source line) and 15 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 10, R. 2.2.6 (its page prints a second Source line after an unnumbered paragraph). Each rule shows its Source and History lines as its file prints them and the file's own dates; none is a finding that the rule is in force. The Secretary of State's own disclaimer says electronic versions "may not display the text of these documents exactly as the printed versions". The served rules were checked by hand on 60 drawn rules, so a field fault rarer than about 1 in 20 rules could remain unseen. Nothing here says a rule is current or in force; check the publisher's file before relying on it.
Release 19: 15,445 rules from 341 Parts of 82 agencies, copied on October 20, 2026. 363 of them come from files that print no Title number; their citation names the agency in the Title’s place, a label of our own.
Of the 22,180 rules our readers found, 6,735 are held and not shown, each with its reasons: mainly rules the two readers read differently (4,398), rules whose number is printed as a head more than once (3,657), rules on pages that carry a table (1,417). A held rule comes back as held, with its reasons and no text. Held is not absent.
Release 8 (November 3, 2026) shows 354 rules that were held before because their files print the Part number in a form our readers missed: 349 whose file prints its Part another way (in capitals, inside its Title line, or in Roman numerals), and 5 from one file that prints no Part number at all, whose Part is taken from the Secretary of State’s index and says so. 14 more such rules stay held by name, with their reasons.
Releases 9 to 13 (November 3, 2026) show 1,085 more rules: 839 held until then for a table on a page they span that lies outside the rule’s own lines, 211 mended and shown, 22 that the file prints under their own Rule heading but were read into the rule before them, and 13 from table pages whose lines are plain text. Release 13 carries them all; Releases 7 to 12 were built and checked but not served on their own. The Source line of 5,112 rules is moved out of their words into the Source field.
Releases 14 to 19 (November 3, 2026) show 185 more rules: 131 whose Title is the one their own pages print, 32 mended, 5 whose words after a cross-reference on a line of its own are restored, 4 table rules whose rows were checked unbroken, 9 later rules split out of the two rules that carried them, and 4 whose page prints their Source line twice. Release 19 carries them all; Releases 14 to 18 were built and checked but not served on their own.
419 Part files are held whole and listed by file: 358 number their rules in an older form this release does not read, 58 are short notices with no rule in them, and 3 are scans with no text to read.
Each rule shows its text after its number as one piece, its Source line and the lines printed after it, its agency and Part as the Secretary of State’s index names them, and the dates of its file. Those dates are not effective dates.
Look a rule up as 29 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 1, R. 1.1.1, or Title 29 Part 1 Rule 1.1.1. A long rule comes back in pages, and nothing is cut. 29 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 1 lists that Part’s rules: shown and held.
The text is one run of words, except a line break restored before a lettered or numbered item the page starts on a new line after a line ending in a period, semicolon or colon (Release 4, 2,194 places in 435 rules; Release 5, 217 more after a line ending in “and” or “or”, each read on its page image); the files’ other line and paragraph breaks are not kept, and a hyphen and a space can stand inside a word or compound (“full- time”), as the file prints it or left by a line break, so a word search can miss it.

How we checked it

Two separate readers, written with no shared code, read every file, each with a different PDF library. A rule is shown only where both agree on its number, its text and its Source line.
Where the two differed only in spaces, a third, separate program read the file, and the rule is shown only if that program found the first reader’s words in the same order (2,706 rules).
A rule is held when its page carries a table, an image or struck-through words (even one struck character), when the readers differ, when its number is printed twice or out of order, when its file prints no Part number or a different one, or when its Source line runs very long.
A rule is also held when, after its Source line, its text holds another rule’s head (the next rule’s head was printed in a form our readers missed), when it ends on a word a sentence cannot end on, with another rule after it, or when it carries the file’s page footer.
Before release, we drew 60 shown rules at random, in three draws of 20, and read each one against the publisher’s file. The first two draws found faults (heading labels shown on the wrong rule, words struck through in the file); every rule showing one was then corrected or held. The third draw matched in full.
For Release 8, an AI model read 60 rules drawn from those to be shown for the first time against the page images, in three draws of 20; the first two draws each found one fault, and that rule and every rule like it is held by name; the third matched in full. The five corrected or new rules were each read whole against their pages.
For Releases 9 to 13, an AI model read rules drawn from each release’s changes against the page images: Release 9 in three draws of 20 (54 of 60 matched; each fault found was held by name or mended, and the third draw matched in full), Releases 10, 11 and 12 in one draw each (25, 20 and 13 rules, all matched). The table reader’s two draws found faults, so its table rows are held by name; Release 13 shows only the 13 rules whose lines are plain text and whose reads matched.
For Releases 14 to 19, an AI model read rules against the page images: Release 14 in two draws of 20 (the first found two table-of-contents lines read as rules, now held by name; the second matched in full), Release 15 in two draws of 20 (the first found three Source faults, each class now held by name; the second matched in full), Release 16 in one draw of 20, Release 17 all 5 of its rules, Release 18 its 13 rules and its 2 changed rules, and Release 19 all 4 of its rules, each matched.
One AI system wrote the readers, ran every check and made every reading and ruling, with no second reader.

What it can't tell you

Whether a rule is in force, valid or current, or is good law.
When a rule took effect. The file’s dates are when the PDF was made and when the server last changed it; the Source line is the publisher’s own record.
What the held rules say, or what the Part files held whole hold.
Whether anything changed after the files were copied. The Secretary of State’s own disclaimer says electronic versions “may not display the text of these documents exactly as the printed versions”.

Known gaps

6,735 rules are held, not shown; the largest group is rules the two readers read differently (4,398).
Releases 1 to 6, served from October 21, 2026 until Release 13 replaced them on November 3, 2026, showed three rules with text that was not their own: one ended in the next chapter’s heading, and two held a later rule’s head or text (Rules 5.4.2 and 38.7, which had no entry of their own). Release 13 corrects them (Release 8’s corrections) and shows those two rules on their own. A rule run on into a later rule whose head is printed some other way has not been looked for.
Releases 1 to 6 also showed 4,901 rules with their Source line inside their words and an empty Source field, 96 rules with a printed page number, the next heading’s words or the next chapter’s heading read into them, and 14 rules with 21 later rules inside them. Release 13 corrects them and shows those later rules on their own. It holds by name 32 rules Release 6 showed: 14 whose Source line prints letter-spaced and was read as single characters, 9 whose words were a line of the file’s table of contents, 5 whose words hold two Source lines, 4 whose words stop at a cross-reference the readers took for the next rule’s head. Releases 6 to 13 showed two rules (5 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 2, R. 7.0 and 30 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 2630, R. 1.1) with 10 later rules’ words inside them; Release 19 shows 9 of those rules on their own and holds one by name (30 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 2630, R. 1.7), and shows 22 of the 32 rules Release 6 showed and Release 13 held, mended.
Release 2, served on October 21, 2026 until Release 3 replaced it on October 24, showed 55 rules on pages that print a word with one character struck through (a letter or a mark under a short stroke), so their text kept a character the agency struck. Release 3 holds them by name. The test is page-wide, so some held rules carry a mark that is not a strike; a strike shorter than 1 point, or made some other way than a drawn line, is still not seen.
Release 1, served on October 21, 2026 until Release 2 replaced it the same day, showed 54 rules whose text ran on past their Source line into the next rule, ended cut short, or carried the file’s page footer. Release 2 holds them by name; a run-on with no Source line before the missed head, or a cut end on another word, is not caught.
419 Part files are held whole, so their rules are not listed one by one.
The rules were read by machine and checked by hand on 60 drawn rules, so a fault rarer than about 1 in 20 rules could remain unseen.
Keyword search reads only the shown rules. Held rules have no text here and never match.

Notes you may see on an entry

A held rule: “GLO holds this rule and does not show its text, because its two readers or the release check did not clear it. Its reasons are listed by name.”
A Part file held whole: “GLO does not read this Part file’s rules one by one in this release. It is listed by file with its reason.”
A rule not in this copy: “Not in this copy of Mississippi’s regulations, neither shown nor held. That never means the rule does not exist.”

Nothing here is legal advice or a judgment that a rule is in force. Full counts for software: the defect_floor field on every Mississippi result (source=ms).