The State Board of Health shall have full power to isolate, quarantine or otherwise confine, intern, and treat such person afflicted with such infectious sexually transmitted disease for such time and under such restrictions as may seem proper. Said board shall have full power to pass all such rules and regulations as to the isolation, quarantine, confinement, internment and treatment as may be needful.
Any person knowingly violating any rule or regulation promulgated by the state board of health, under the authority of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by fine or imprisonment or both.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 23 - Contagious and Infectious Diseases; Quarantine
§ 41-23-13. Suppression of nuisances injurious to public health
§ 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