As Amended
SEC. 1-1-9. Copyright; use of code material.
(1) Copyrights 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 said compilation who shall thereafter promptly assign the same to the State of Mississippi and be owned by it.
(2) From and after July 1, 1998, all parts of any act passed by the Mississippi Legislature, or of any code published or authorized to be published by the joint committee, including statute text, regulation text, catchlines, historical citations, numbers of sections, articles, chapters and titles, frontal analyses, revisor's notes and editor's notes, shall become and remain the exclusive property of the State of Mississippi, to be used only as the joint committee may direct.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 8; Laws, 1942, ch. 318. Laws, 1996, ch. 502, Sec. 8, eff from and after passage (approved April 11, 1996)