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§ 3-3-57. State military history museum

The Mississippi Military Department’s Armed Forces Museum is hereby designated as Mississippi’s official state military history museum. The museum will henceforth be named “Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.”

§ 3-3-61. “Vietnam Veterans Day” designated

In recognition of the service, courage and sacrifice of those valiant men and women of the United States Armed Forces who served during the Vietnam Conflict, March 29th of each year is designated as Vietnam Veterans Day in Mississippi.

§ 3-3-39. State dance

The dance known as the square dance is hereby designated and adopted as the American folk dance of the State of Mississippi.

§ 3-3-41. Mississippi Coat of Arms

The Mississippi Coat-of-Arms shall have the following design: a shield, blue in color, with an eagle upon it with extended pinions, holding in the right talon a palm branch and bundle of arrows in the left, with the word “Mississippi” above the eagle; the lettering on the shield and the eagle to be in gold; […]

§ 3-3-42. The Great Seal of the State of Mississippi

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to procure the official seal of this state as described in this section. The center of the seal shall have an eagle displayed proper, holding an olive branch in his dexter talon and a bundle of three (3) arrows in his sinister talon. The shield […]

§ 3-3-42.1. Replacement of older version of state seal

All state agencies shall continue to use stationery and other supplies having the great seal thereon as it existed before July 1, 2014, until such stationery and other supplies are depleted. The great seal as it existed before July 1, 2014, affixed on any public buildings, property or any other item shall remain thereon until […]

§ 3-3-43. State toy

The Teddy Bear is designated the state toy of Mississippi, in recognition of the Mississippi connection to the origin of the Teddy Bear. The connection is that on November 14, 1902, during a hunting expedition led by distinguished Mississippian Holt Collier in Smedes, Mississippi, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a small, exhausted black bear. […]

§ 3-3-45. State soil

Natchez silt loam (coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic, Typic Eutrudepts) is hereby designated as the official state soil of Mississippi.