It shall be the duty of the county health officer to visit, without notice of his intention to do so, all mills, canneries, workshops, factories, or manufacturing establishments employing child labor within his county at least twice each year, or oftener if requested by the sheriff, and to promptly report to the sheriff any unsanitary condition of the premises, any child or children afflicted with infectious, contagious, or communicable diseases, or whose physical condition renders such child or children incapacitated to perform the work required of them. The sheriff shall promptly remove such child or children from such mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment, and order the premises put in sanitary condition. The judgment of the county health officer as to the physical condition of the children and the sanitary condition of the premises shall be final and conclusive.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 1 - Employer and Employee
§ 71-1-1. Occupational health and safety program
§ 71-1-17. Children under fourteen not to work in mills or factories
§ 71-1-19. Child labor in accord with school attendance
§ 71-1-21. Regulating hours of labor
§ 71-1-23. Sheriff to enforce law
§ 71-1-25. County health officer to inspect
§ 71-1-27. Misdemeanor to fail or refuse to obey order of officer
§ 71-1-29. Misdemeanor to violate child labor laws
§ 71-1-31. Certain canneries excepted
§ 71-1-37. Discounting trade checks prohibited
§ 71-1-39. Trade checks must be paid in cash
§ 71-1-41. Employee trust plan
§ 71-1-43. Income or principal of employee trust plan not to be encumbered
§ 71-1-45. Assignment or pledge of wages
§ 71-1-47. Denial or abridgment of work