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Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-519

Sealing, custody, and destruction of applications and orders

Laws, 1989, ch. 553, § 10; repealed, Laws, 1989, ch. 553, § 19; enacted, Laws, 1992, ch. 561, § 10; reenacted without change, Laws, 2004, ch. 511, § 10, eff from and after July …

The judge shall seal each application made and order granted under this article. Custody of the applications and orders shall be wherever the judge directs. An application or order may be disclosed only upon a showing of good cause before a judge of competent jurisdiction, and may not be destroyed until at least ten (10) years after the date it is sealed. An application or order may be destroyed only by order of the judge of competent jurisdiction for the administrative judicial district in which it was made or granted.

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