Mississippi Code
In General
§ 41-23-2. Penalties for violating health department orders with respect to life-threatening communicable diseases

Any person who shall knowingly and willfully violate the lawful order of the county, district or state health officer where that person is afflicted with a life-threatening communicable disease or the causative agent thereof shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than five (5) years, or by both.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 41 - Public Health

Chapter 23 - Contagious and Infectious Diseases; Quarantine

In General

§ 41-23-2. Penalties for violating health department orders with respect to life-threatening communicable diseases

§ 41-23-5. Authority of State Department of Health to investigate diseases; authority to temporarily detain individuals for disease control purposes under certain circumstances

§ 41-23-13. Suppression of nuisances injurious to public health

§ 41-23-27. Powers of State Board of Health as to persons afflicted with infectious sexually transmitted disease

§ 41-23-29. Inspection and examination of person suspected of being afflicted with infectious sexually transmitted disease

§ 41-23-30. Confidential testing for and treatment of sexually transmitted disease

§ 41-23-31. Donations to state board of health

§ 41-23-33. State Board of Health may call upon the federal government

§ 41-23-37. Immunization practices for control of vaccine preventable diseases; school attendance by unvaccinated children

§ 41-23-39. Definitions applicable to Section 41-23-41

§ 41-23-41. Emergency service provider notice of exposure to blood or body fluids; licensed facility duties regarding infectious disease

§ 41-23-45. Department of Health to provide educational material on availability of vaccines for meningitis and hepatitis A and B to public universities and colleges for distribution to students

§ 41-23-47. Preparation of statewide Hepatitis C Virus plan