Any person or persons who shall violate any rule, regulation or order of the State Board of Health relative to recording, reporting or filing information for the Bureau of Vital Statistics, or who shall willfully neglect or refuse to perform any duties imposed upon them by said orders, or who shall furnish false information for the purpose of making incorrect records for said bureau, or who shall willfully furnish false information to said bureau for the purpose of establishing a false identity, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or suffer both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Structure Mississippi Code
§ 41-57-3. State registrar of vital records; safeguarding of records
§ 41-57-5. State may be divided into registration districts
§ 41-57-7. Board of health to formulate a system for gathering statistics
§ 41-57-9. Certificates of registrar to be prima facie evidence
§ 41-57-11. Payment for birth and death certificates
§ 41-57-15. Board of supervisors may appropriate funds for perfecting registration of records
§ 41-57-19. Proceedings to adjudicate true date of birth of person whose birth was not registered
§ 41-57-25. Birth certificate furnished free to armed forces volunteer