@pipeworx/mississippi-code

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Tools: 3

Mississippi Code of 1972 (Annotated) — section lookup by citation, chapter browsing by title, and topic/keyword search over official catchlines. Keyless.

Tools

• ms_code_section(citation) — the text of a section by citation ("97-3-19", "Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-19", "Section 97-3-19"). Returns the catchline, the operative statutory text, the HISTORY: line, and Joint Legislative Committee / Amendment / Cross-Reference notes when present. Case-law (JUDICIAL DECISIONS) annotations are deliberately excluded — they can run to hundreds of citations per section and are not what a caller asking “what does this statute say” wants back.
• ms_code_chapters(title) — every chapter heading and number within a title (97 is Crimes, 89 is Real and Personal Property), for browsing when you don’t have an exact citation.
• ms_code_search(query, limit?) — topic/keyword search over every section’s official CATCHLINE (not full statutory body text — see “Why no full-text search” below). Matches like North Dakota’s nd_search: IDF- weighted word overlap over a baked index, not a live upstream call.

Auth

Keyless. No signup, no login, on either side of the call.

Why no full-text search

The official LexisNexis-hosted Code (lexisnexis.com/hottopics/mscode, linked from the Secretary of State’s own site) sits behind a Cloudflare managed challenge — confirmed live: every direct request gets a “Just a moment…” interstitial page, HTTP 403, no statute text. The two common free third-party renderings, law.justia.com and codes.findlaw.com, sit behind the exact same Cloudflare challenge (confirmed live, identical “Just a moment…” body) — this is not a Lexis-specific wall, it’s a Cloudflare bot-check in front of three different vendors’ copies of the same text, so there is no “try a different mirror of the search UI” move here.

Data source

• https://unicourt.github.io/cic-code-ms/ — a GitHub Pages copy of the Mississippi Code, built by UniCourt on behalf of Public.Resource.Org from the Code’s own officially-released RTF volumes (archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018), “in the public domain, NO RIGHTS RESERVED” per that repo’s own README. One title per HTML page (gov.ms.code.title.{NN}.html, title zero-padded to 2 digits — Mississippi titles are odd numbers 1-99), fetched LIVE per ms_code_section / ms_code_chapters call — this pack proxies it, it does not ship a copy of the Code in the repo (mirror-needs-grant-proxy-does-not in the Pipeworx CLAUDE.md licence section).

  The underlying statutory TEXT is public law regardless of what any publisher’s licence says about its own rendering — enacted law carries no copyright (Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244 (1888); Veeck v. SBCCI, 293 F.3d 791 (5th Cir. 2002) (en banc)).

THE HONEST LIMIT. This source is Release 78, released 2020-07-08, generated from the Code’s 2018 printed RTF volumes. It is a static snapshot, not a continuously updated feed — amendments enacted in the 2021 through 2026 Regular Sessions are not reflected. Every response carries current_through and data_as_of: "2020-07-08" rather than defaulting to “now”, which would misrepresent six-year-old text as current law. For anything enacted after mid-2020, verify against the official LexisNexis- hosted Code or contact the Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation (Miss. Code Ann. §§ 1-1-101 to 1-1-111).

Title 79 (Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships) cannot be looked up section-by-section. Checked live across all 50 titles (2026-10-09): every other title’s section-heading tag (h3, id attribute formatted t{title}c{chapter}s{citation}) carries that id — 27,688 sections total — but Title 79’s ~700 section headings are all bare h3 tags with no id at all (reused instead for unrelated asides like editor’s notes), and the internal citation anchor it links to (e.g. href="#t79c01s79-1-1") is dangling — no element in that title’s document carries that id. ms_code_section names this explicitly (reason: "title_markup_unsupported") rather than returning an indistinguishable citation_not_found. ms_code_chapters still works for Title 79 (its chapter table of contents is intact); only section-level text extraction is blocked.

Refreshing the search index

ms_code_search reads a baked catchline index (src/ms-index-data.ts, 27,688 rows, one per section across the 49 titles whose markup supports it — see “Title 79” above), injected from KV via workers/gateway/src/pack-baked-indexes.json rather than bundled (fleet #2754: a value-imported multi-MB table loads into every gateway isolate whether or not it ever serves this pack). Rebuild it with:

node scripts/bake-index.mjs > src/ms-index-data.ts

Re-run only if unicourt.github.io/cic-code-ms publishes a release newer than 78 — every release from 72 through 78 observed on 2026-10-09 is a complete re-publication of the whole Code, not an incremental diff, so there is nothing to refresh until a new one appears.

Tools

• ms_code_section — Get the text of a section of the Mississippi Code of 1972 (Annotated) — Mississippi state law — by
• ms_code_chapters — List the chapters within a title of the Mississippi Code of 1972, by title number (“97” is Crimes, “89”
• ms_code_search — Search the Mississippi Code of 1972 BY TOPIC or keyword rather than citation — “security deposit”,