If any person shall knowingly sell or offer for sale, or use or expose, or shall cause or procure to be sold or offered for sale, or used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or any other like contagious or infectious disease, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding four months; or both.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health
§ 97-27-1. Adulteration of food, drugs or candy
§ 97-27-3. Animals and fowl; diseased animals and fowl to be confined and segregated; burial
§ 97-27-5. Animals and fowl; selling, exposing or using animal with infectious disease
§ 97-27-10. Definition of harmful substances
§ 97-27-13. Contagious diseases; smallpox patient not to go abroad
§ 97-27-15. Food sales; selling meat of animal not slaughtered, or unwholesome bread or drink
§ 97-27-17. Food sales; flour and other provisions
§ 97-27-19. Food sales; meat; sale of flesh of dead, diseased, and unclean animals; punishment
§ 97-27-21. Poisons; sale and giving away regulated
§ 97-27-23. Poisons; register to be kept; label
§ 97-27-25. Poisons; arsenic to be mixed with soot or indigo
§ 97-27-27. Poisons; arsenic or other deadly poison not to be used in embalming fluid
§ 97-27-29. Poisons; penalty for violation of certain sections