Mississippi Code
Title 41 - Public Health

Chapter 3 - State Board of Health; Local Health Boards and Officers

§ 41-3-1.1. Reconstitution of State Board of Health; qualifications, appointment, and terms of members; statement of economic interest; recusal from participation in certain matters - There is created the State Board of Health which, from...

§ 41-3-3. Oath of members - Each person appointed as a member of the State Board...

§ 41-3-5.1. Executive officer; qualifications; term of office; removal - The State Department of Health shall be headed by an...

§ 41-3-6. State Board of Health to review existing legislation pertaining to public health and to submit new legislation - It shall be the duty of the State Board of...

§ 41-3-16. Local governments and rural water systems improvements revolving loan and grant program - The Governor shall appoint a manager of a rural water...

§ 41-3-17. Power to make and publish rules and regulations - The State Board of Health is authorized to make and...

§ 41-3-18. Assessment of fees - Assessment Category 1. . . . .$ 30.00 Assessment Category...

§ 41-3-19. Report to the Governor - It is the duty of the State Board of Health...

§ 41-3-20. Repeal of Sections 41-3-1.1 through 41-3-19 - Sections 41-3-1.1, 41-3-3, 41-3-4, 41-3-5.1, 41-3-6, 41-3-15, 41-3-16, 41-3-17, 41-3-18...

§ 41-3-22. Mississippi State Public Health Laboratory named the Dr. F.E. "Ed" Thompson, Jr., Mississippi State Public Health Laboratory - The Mississippi State Public Health Laboratory, located at 570 East...

§ 41-3-37. Appointment of county health officer - A competent physician shall be appointed county health officer for...

§ 41-3-41. Duties of county health officer - It shall be the duty of the county health officer...

§ 41-3-45. Term of office of director; removal - The State Board of Health shall remove any director at...

§ 41-3-49. Powers and duties of director - The director appointed pursuant to Section 41-3-43 shall be given...

§ 41-3-51. Records and reports of director - The director appointed pursuant to Section 41-3-43 of any county...

§ 41-3-53. Maintenance of county department of health - The board of supervisors shall be authorized to make such...

§ 41-3-57. Municipal regulation of health - Any municipality may pass public health laws or ordinances and...

§ 41-3-59. Violation of health rules - Except as may otherwise be provided, any person who shall...

§ 41-3-63. "Mary D. Osborne Building" renamed the "Dr. Alton B. Cobb - Mary D. Osborne State Public Health Building." - The "Mary D. Osborne Building" located at 570 East Woodrow...

§ 41-3-65. Increase of fees for services or issuance and renewal of licenses and registrations - Except as otherwise provided by law, the State Board of...

Medical Services for Uninsured

§ 41-3-101. Provision of free medical services to those uninsured and unable to pay - The State Department of Health is authorized to contract with...

Health Action Plans

§ 41-3-201. Health action plans - The State Department of Health shall develop a voluntary protocol...

Chapter 4 - Department of Mental Health

§ 41-4-2. Purpose of chapter - The purpose of this chapter is to coordinate, develop, improve,...

§ 41-4-3. State Board of Mental Health - No more than two (2) members of the board shall...

§ 41-4-5. State Department of Mental Health - There is created the State Department of Mental Health, herein...

§ 41-4-7. Powers and duties of board - The State Board of Mental Health shall have the following...

§ 41-4-9. Advisory councils - The State Board of Mental Health is hereby authorized and...

§ 41-4-13. Purchases - All commodities, equipment and furniture purchased and supply contracts entered...

§ 41-4-17. Children's rehabilitation center excepted from state board of mental health jurisdiction - Nothing herein contained shall operate to vest the State Board...

§ 41-4-19. Transfer of funds; issuance of warrants - The board, may with the approval of the commission of...

§ 41-4-21. Fiscal procedures - For the operations of all facilities placed under the control...

§ 41-4-23. Security guards and campus police at mental health or intellectual disability facilities - It will be the duty of the director of any...

§ 41-4-25. Director of mental health facility authorized to transfer patient to another department facility - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director of a...

§ 41-4-27. Mental health crisis center in Brookhaven, Mississippi, named in honor of Senator Billy V. Harvey - The mental health crisis center located in Brookhaven, Mississippi, shall...

Chapter 5 - Governing Authorities for State Hospitals and Institutions

Board of Trustees of Mental Institutions

§ 41-5-44. Establishment of nursing home for patients with an intellectual disability - The Board of Mental Health is directed, if such is...

Chapter 7 - Hospital and Health Care Commissions

State Hospital Commission; Indigent Care Law

§ 41-7-21. Local boards of trustees may enact rules and regulations - The board of trustees for such hospital or hospitals are...

§ 41-7-35. Hospitals may not exact additional payments from patients - No hospital shall be allowed to charge, accept or retain...

§ 41-7-39. Wrongfully obtaining care, treatment or hospitalization - Any person knowingly obtaining or attempting to obtain, or any...

§ 41-7-45. Laws governing funds to apply - All sums of money that may be appropriated to carry...

Hospital Reimbursement Commission

§ 41-7-71. Declaration of policy - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the...

§ 41-7-73. State institutions enumerated - The term "state institution" or "state institutions" as used in...

§ 41-7-79. Assessment and collection of charges by state institutions - Each state institution shall have the power to assess and...

§ 41-7-87. No priority in admitting patients to institutions - No state institution shall give admission priority because of a...

§ 41-7-91. Deposit of funds - All funds collected under the provisions of Sections 41-7-71 through...

§ 41-7-95. Moneys exempted; certain sections not repealed - All moneys collected under the provisions of Section 11-7-13 of...

Health Care Commission

§ 41-7-133. Utilization of federal funds - Federal funds, if available, may be utilized to increase, expand...

§ 41-7-145. Conveyance of existing hospital facilities or other property - Any county board of supervisors or the governing authority of...

§ 41-7-149. Annual audit - The State Auditor shall make an annual audit of the...

Health Care Certificate of Need Law of 1979

§ 41-7-171. Short title - Sections 41-7-171 through 41-7-209 shall be known and may be...

§ 41-7-173. Definitions - For the purposes of Section 41-7-171 et seq., the following...

§ 41-7-175. Abolition of Health Care Commission; administration of state health planning and development agency responsibilities by State Department of Health - The State Department of Health shall be the sole and...

§ 41-7-183. Functions and responsibilities - The State Department of Health shall have the duty of...

§ 41-7-185. Powers - In carrying out its functions under Section 41-7-171, et seq.,...

§ 41-7-187. Certificate of need program - The State Department of Health is hereby authorized to develop...

§ 41-7-190. Certificate of need program; limitations on ownership of beds - No corporation, foreign or domestic, partnership, individual(s) or association of...

§ 41-7-191. Certificate of need; activities for which certificate is required - 1. The county-owned hospital fully meets all applicable criteria and...

§ 41-7-202. Stay of commission proceedings pending appeal - There shall be a "stay of proceedings" of any written...

§ 41-7-205. Determination of reviewability of proposed project - An applicant proposing a project which may be governed by...

§ 41-7-207. Emergency replacement of facilities; expedited review - Notwithstanding any other provisions of Sections 41-7-171 through 41-7-209, except...

Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records

Regulation of Hospitals

§ 41-9-1. Declaration of purpose - The purpose of Sections 41-9-1 through 41-9-39 is to protect...

§ 41-9-3. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-9-1 through 41-9-35: "Hospital" means a...

§ 41-9-7. License - No person or governmental unit, acting severally or jointly with...

§ 41-9-11. Issuance and renewal of license - Upon receipt of an application for license and the license...

§ 41-9-13. Issuance of temporary licenses - The licensing agency may issue temporary licenses under Sections 41-9-1...

§ 41-9-15. Denial or revocation of license; notice, hearings and review - The licensing agency, after notice and opportunity for hearing to...

§ 41-9-17. Rules, regulations and standards - The licensing agency shall adopt, amend, promulgate and enforce such...

§ 41-9-19. Effective date of rules, regulations or standards - Any hospital which is in operation at the time of...

§ 41-9-21. Inspections and consultations - The licensing agency shall make or cause to be made...

§ 41-9-23. Information confidential - Information received by the licensing agency through filed reports, inspection,...

§ 41-9-29. Annual report of licensing agency - The licensing agency shall prepare and publish an annual report...

§ 41-9-31. Judicial review - Any applicant or licensee aggrieved by the decision of the...

§ 41-9-33. Penalties - Any person establishing, conducting, managing or operating any hospital without...

§ 41-9-35. Injunction - Notwithstanding the existence or pursuit of any other remedy, the...

Reimbursement for Trauma Care Service

§ 41-9-51. Hospitals authorized to charge patient for reasonable cost of activating trauma care services under certain circumstances; reimbursement by health-care insurer - Any hospital that reasonably activates a trauma care team in...

Hospital Records - Preparation, Preservation and Destruction

§ 41-9-61. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-9-61 through 41-9-83: "Hospital" shall have...

§ 41-9-63. Hospitals required to prepare and maintain hospital records - All hospitals, their officers or employees and medical and nursing...

§ 41-9-64. Electronic medical records containing electronic signature deemed signed - An electronic medical record or medical order containing an electronic...

§ 41-9-67. Hospital records not public records; privileged communications rule not impaired - Except as otherwise provided by law, hospital records shall not...

§ 41-9-71. Early retirement of hospital records on consent of patient and physician - Any hospital may, in its discretion, retire any hospital record...

§ 41-9-73. Retention of hospital records for longer periods - Any hospital may retain, preserve and store hospital records for...

§ 41-9-75. Abstracts of hospital records; destruction of originals - Upon retirement of any hospital record or part thereof, the...

§ 41-9-77. Reproduction of hospital records - Any hospital may, in its discretion, cause any hospital record...

§ 41-9-79. Disposition of hospital records on closing of hospital - If any hospital shall be finally closed, its hospital records...

§ 41-9-81. Business records of hospitals - The commissioners or board of trustees of any hospital owned...

§ 41-9-83. Violations; civil liability - Willful violation of the provisions of Sections 41-9-61 through 41-9-83...

Hospital Records - Use in Trials and Administrative Hearings

§ 41-9-101. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-9-101 through 41-9-119, the following terms...

§ 41-9-103. Furnishing copies of records in compliance with subpoenas - Except as hereinafter provided, when a subpoena duces tecum is...

§ 41-9-105. Sealing, identification and direction of copies - The copy of the records shall be separately enclosed in...

§ 41-9-107. Opening of sealed envelopes - Unless the sealed envelope or wrapper is returned to a...

§ 41-9-109. Affidavit of custodian as to copies; charges - The records shall be accompanied by an affidavit of a...

§ 41-9-113. Obtaining personal attendance of custodian - The personal attendance of the custodian shall be required if...

§ 41-9-115. Obtaining personal attendance of custodian and production of original record - The personal attendance of the custodian and the production of...

§ 41-9-117. Substitution of copies after introduction of records into evidence - In view of the property right of the hospital in...

§ 41-9-119. Evidence of reasonableness of medical expenses - Proof that medical, hospital, and doctor bills were paid or...

Rural Hospital Flexibility Act

§ 41-9-201. Short title - This article is entitled and may be cited as the...

§ 41-9-203. State policy - It is the policy of the State of Mississippi to...

§ 41-9-205. Definitions - When used in this article, the following definitions shall apply,...

§ 41-9-209. Designation as a critical access hospital - Any hospital is authorized to seek designation as a critical...

§ 41-9-210. Critical access hospitals authorized to bank licensed hospital acute care beds; banked beds may be relicensed without certificate of need - If a hospital seeks a new license from the department...

§ 41-9-211. Formation of a rural health network not subject to antitrust laws - In forming an integrated network and in contracting for services,...

§ 41-9-213. Rules and regulations - The department shall adopt, in accordance with Section 25-43-1 et...

§ 41-9-215. Insurance and other coverage to provide benefits for services performed by critical access hospitals - Each individual and group policy of accident and sickness insurance,...

§ 41-9-217. Additional personnel - The department is hereby authorized to hire additional personnel to...

Rural Health Availability Act

§ 41-9-301. Short title - Sections 41-9-301 through 41-9-311 shall be known and may be...

§ 41-9-303. Legislative findings - The Legislature finds and declares the following: In rural areas,...

§ 41-9-305. Definitions - For the purposes of Sections 41-9-301 through 41-9-311, the following...

§ 41-9-309. Judicial review - Any applicant aggrieved by a decision of the department under...

§ 41-9-311. Certificates of need - Nothing in this act exempts hospitals from compliance with the...

Chapter 10 - Medical Records -

Chapter 11 - State Charity Hospitals; Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center

In General

§ 41-11-7. Certain counties and municipalities authorized to make appropriations to University of Mississippi Medical Center - In all counties and municipalities whose residents use the facilities...

Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center

§ 41-11-102. Children's Rehabilitation Center transferred to University of Mississippi Medical Center, Division of Children's Rehabilitation - The administration, supervision, duties and all aspects of the Children's...

§ 41-11-103. Rules and regulations - The University of Mississippi Medical Center shall promulgate such rules,...

§ 41-11-105. Constructing, erecting, and equipping center - The state building commission is hereby authorized and empowered to...

§ 41-11-107. Location of center - The Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center shall be located and constructed...

§ 41-11-109. Transfer of center to University medical center; education of patients; eligibility for admission - When the Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center has been completed and...

§ 41-11-111. Acceptance of grants, donations and funds - The University of Mississippi Medical Center is authorized to accept...

§ 41-11-113. Declaration of intent; construction - It is the intent of Sections 41-11-101 through 41-11-113 to...

Chapter 13 - Community Hospitals

In General

§ 41-13-10. Definitions - For purposes of Sections 41-13-10 through 41-13-47, the following words...

§ 41-13-15. Community hospitals and health facilities in counties and municipalities - If the owner wishes to lease a community hospital without...

§ 41-13-19. Issuance of bonds; election - Such counties, cities and towns, supervisors districts, judicial districts and...

§ 41-13-21. Details of bonds; interest; sale - Such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness as are...

§ 41-13-24. Obtaining federal assistance - Such counties, cities and towns, supervisors districts, judicial districts and...

§ 41-13-25. Imposition of ad valorem tax; retirement of debt - The board of supervisors acting for a county, supervisors district...

§ 41-13-29. Board of trustees for county hospitals or other health facilities - Each supervisor of Supervisors Districts One and Two shall nominate...

§ 41-13-39. Trustees may establish day care centers - The board of trustees of any hospital provided for in...

§ 41-13-47. Proposed budget; reports - On or before the first Monday in September of each...

Trust to Insure Against Public Liability Claims

§ 41-13-101. Authorization of trust to insure participating hospitals against public liability claims - There is hereby authorized the establishment, maintenance, administration and operation...

§ 41-13-103. Trustees; powers; liability; investments - The trustees of trusts established pursuant to Section 41-13-101 shall...

§ 41-13-105. Liability of participating hospitals - No hospital which is a participant in such a trust,...

§ 41-13-107. Trust not subject to insurance laws - Neither the establishment of a trust under Section 41-13-101 nor...

Chapter 17 - State Mental Institutions

§ 41-17-1. Establishment of state hospitals and facilities for persons with mental illness - Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield, East Mississippi State Hospital at...

§ 41-17-3. East Mississippi State Hospital - The state psychiatric hospital and institution established at Meridian by...

§ 41-17-11. Furnishing of care for veterans - The directors of the state institutions listed in Section 41-7-73...

Chapter 19 - Facilities and Services for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Mental Illness

North Mississippi Regional Center

§ 41-19-1. Declaration of purpose - The purpose of Sections 41-19-1 through 41-19-17 is to create,...

§ 41-19-3. Location of center - The center shall be located on a site selected by...

§ 41-19-5. Construction and equipping of center - With funds provided by the legislature, by direct appropriation or...

§ 41-19-7. Management and operation of center - The center shall be administered by the State Board of...

§ 41-19-13. Reimbursement - Persons admitted to the center shall be assessed support and...

§ 41-19-15. Penalties - Any person who (1) under the provisions of Section 41-19-11,...

§ 41-19-17. Designation of North Mississippi Regional Center as state agency for carrying out federal acts pertaining to intellectual disabilities - The North Mississippi Regional Center is designated as a state...

Facilities and Services for Individuals with Mental Retardation or Mental Illness

§ 41-19-31. Board of supervisors may select regional districts - For the purpose of authorizing the establishment of mental illness...

§ 41-19-33. Regional commissions; establishment; duties and authority - For the purposes of this paragraph (x), the term "caregiver"...

§ 41-19-35. Appointment, term, and compensation of regional commission members - The board of supervisors of each participating county in the...

§ 41-19-37. Location of facilities or services in regions - The location of any mental illness and intellectual disability facilities...

§ 41-19-38. Mental health facilities subject to local zoning ordinances or regulations - Any regional mental health or intellectual disability commission established according...

§ 41-19-39. Financial support for facilities or services for individuals with mental illness or intellectual disability; tax levy - After a plan for mental illness and intellectual disability facilities...

§ 41-19-41. Commitment of patients to regional mental health or intellectual disability centers - Any regional mental health or intellectual disability facility or service...

§ 41-19-43. Expenses of chancery clerk and sheriff - Whenever it is necessary to commit and transport any eligible...

Contributions by Certain Local Governments to Nonprofit Corporations Assisting Children with Mental Retardation -

Ellisville State School

§ 41-19-103. Establishment of the Ellisville State School - The Ellisville State School established by Chapter 210, Laws of...

§ 41-19-108. Construction and equipping of certain Ellisville State School buildings and facilities - With funds provided by the Legislature, by direct appropriation or...

§ 41-19-112. Administration by State Board of Mental Health - Ellisville State School shall be administered by the State Board...

§ 41-19-114. Assessment of support and maintenance costs - Persons admitted to Ellisville State School shall be assessed support...

§ 41-19-116. Criminal offenses and penalties - Any person who (a) knowingly and unlawfully or improperly causes...

§ 41-19-118. Designation of Ellisville State School as state agency for carrying out purposes of Congressional acts pertaining to intellectual disabilities - Ellisville State School is designated as a state agency for...

§ 41-19-121. Board for director - The director of Ellisville State School may receive free lodging...

South Mississippi Regional Center

§ 41-19-141. Declaration of purpose - The purpose of Sections 41-19-141 through 41-19-157 is to create,...

§ 41-19-143. Location of center - The center shall be located on a site selected by...

§ 41-19-145. Construction and equipping of center - With funds provided by the legislature, by direct appropriation or...

§ 41-19-147. Management and operation of center - The center shall be administered by the board of trustees...

§ 41-19-153. Reimbursement - Persons admitted to the center shall be assessed support and...

§ 41-19-155. Penalties - Any person who: (1) under the provisions of Sections 41-19-141...

§ 41-19-157. Designation of South Mississippi Regional Center as state agency for carrying out federal acts pertaining to intellectual disabilities - The South Mississippi Regional Center is designated as a state...

Boswell Regional Center

§ 41-19-201. Declaration of purpose - The purpose of Sections 41-19-201 through 41-19-213 is to create,...

§ 41-19-203. Location, construction, equipping and administration of center - The center shall be located on the site of the...

§ 41-19-205. Eligibility for admission - A person may be deemed eligible for admission to the...

§ 41-19-207. Admission procedures - Admission of an eligible person to the center shall be...

§ 41-19-209. Reimbursement - Persons admitted to the center shall be assessed support and...

§ 41-19-211. Penalties - Any person who (a) under the provisions of Section 41-19-207,...

§ 41-19-213. Designation of Boswell Regional Center as state agency for carrying out federal acts pertaining to intellectual disabilities - The Boswell Regional Center is designated as a state agency...

Hudspeth Regional Center

§ 41-19-231. Purpose of Sections 41-19-231 through 41-19-245 - The purpose of Sections 41-19-231 through 41-19-245 is to create,...

§ 41-19-233. Site of center - The center shall be located on the site of the...

§ 41-19-235. Department of finance and administration to construct and equip necessary facilities; State board of mental health to administer center - With funds provided by the Legislature, by direct appropriation or...

§ 41-19-237. Eligibility for admission to center - A person may be deemed eligible for admission to the...

§ 41-19-239. Admission procedures - Admission of eligible persons to the center shall be as...

§ 41-19-241. Patient support and maintenance costs - Persons admitted to the center shall be assessed support and...

§ 41-19-243. Criminal offenses - Any person who (a) under the provisions of Section 41-19-237,...

§ 41-19-245. Center designated state agency - The Hudspeth Regional Center is designated as a state agency...

North Mississippi State Hospital and South Mississippi State Hospital

§ 41-19-251. North Mississippi State Hospital and South Mississippi State Hospital - The purpose of Sections 41-19-251 et seq. is to create,...

§ 41-19-253. Location sites selected by State Board of Mental Health - The facilities shall be located on sites selected by the...

§ 41-19-257. Eligibility criteria for admission to the facilities - Persons who have attained the age of eighteen (18) years,...

§ 41-19-259. Support and maintenance costs - Persons admitted to the facilities shall be assessed support and...

§ 41-19-261. Criminal penalties for certain actions in connection with the facilities or their patients - Any person who (a) under the provisions of Sections 41-19-251...

§ 41-19-263. North Mississippi State Hospital and South Mississippi State Hospital designated as state agencies - The North Mississippi State Hospital and the South Mississippi State...

Central Mississippi Residential Center

§ 41-19-271. Central Mississippi Residential Center established; purpose - The purpose of Sections 41-19-271 through 41-19-281 is to create,...

§ 41-19-273. Location and administration - The center shall be located at the old Clarke College...

§ 41-19-275. Persons served - The center shall serve persons who have attained the age...

§ 41-19-277. Support and maintenance costs - Persons admitted to the center shall be assessed support and...

§ 41-19-279. Possessing deadly weapon or explosive on grounds - Any person who knowingly brings any firearm, deadly weapon or...

§ 41-19-281. Center as state agency for carrying out purposes of Congressional acts - The center is designated as a state agency for carrying...

Specialized Treatment Facility in Harrison County -

Mississippi Adolescent Center in Brookhaven -

Chapter 21 - Individuals with Mental Illness or an Intellectual Disability

In General

§ 41-21-35. Legal settlement of persons with mental illness and persons with an intellectual disability - The rule as to the legal settlement of paupers shall...

Persons in Need of Mental Treatment

§ 41-21-61. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-21-61 through 41-21-107, unless the context...

§ 41-21-67. Person to be taken into custody; community mental health center as first point of entry for pre-evaluation screening and treatment; referral to crisis intervention team; appointment of examining physicians, or physician and psychologist,... - In any county in which a Crisis Intervention Team has...

§ 41-21-70. Development of standards for training of psychiatrists and psychologists to perform mental examinations ordered under Section 99-13-11 and MRCrP 12; publication of list of psychiatrists and psychologists so trained - The Department of Mental Health shall develop standards for the...

§ 41-21-71. Procedure after examination; release or confinement pending hearing - If, as a result of the examination, the appointed examiners...

§ 41-21-73. Procedures for hearing; evidence; witnesses; commitment; disposition and findings - Alternatives to commitment to inpatient care may include, but shall...

§ 41-21-76. Waiver of rights by respondent - The respondent in any involuntary commitment proceeding held pursuant to...

§ 41-21-77. Commitment to state hospital or Veterans Administration facility - If admission is ordered at a treatment facility, the sheriff,...

§ 41-21-79. Payment of costs - The costs incidental to the court proceedings including, but not...

§ 41-21-81. Twenty days' observation, diagnosis and treatment; notice of need for further treatment; right to hearing on need for further treatment - If at any time within twenty (20) days after admission...

§ 41-21-82. Report prior to termination of initial commitment or discharge - Prior to the termination of the initial commitment order, the...

§ 41-21-83. Hearing on need for further treatment - If a hearing is requested as provided in Section 41-21-74,...

§ 41-21-85. Payment of costs of hearing on need for further treatment - All costs of the hearing or appeal under Section 41-21-83,...

§ 41-21-88. Release of individual acquitted on the ground of insanity and ordered confined to psychiatric hospital or institution; notice of release to be given to certain individuals - A person committed pursuant to Section 99-13-7 shall not be...

§ 41-21-89. Discharge at behest of patient, attorney, relative or guardian - Nothing in Sections 41-21-61 through 41-21-107 shall preclude any patient,...

§ 41-21-91. Deportation of nonresidents - The director of the treatment facility may transport any person...

§ 41-21-93. Warrant for patient absent without authorization - If any such patient admitted or committed by a court...

§ 41-21-95. Payment of costs incurred in transporting discharged patients home or returning patients on unauthorized leave - Costs of returning a patient who has left without authorization...

§ 41-21-97. Confidentiality of hospital records and information; exceptions - The hospital records of and information pertaining to patients at...

§ 41-21-99. Continued care of patients - The director shall obtain all the available facts relative to...

§ 41-21-101. Admissions and commitments not adjudication of incompetency - No admission or commitment to a treatment facility under Sections...

§ 41-21-104. Continuing jurisdiction of court over person committed to inpatient or outpatient treatment for one year after treatment completed; recommitment - The court shall have continuing jurisdiction over a person committed...

§ 41-21-107. Criminal offenses - Any person who conspires unlawfully to cause, or unlawfully causes,...

§ 41-21-109. Rehabilitation facilities for adolescents with mental illness or with an intellectual disability; establishment - Those facilities shall be on property owned by the Department...

Crisis Intervention Teams

§ 41-21-131. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-21-131 through 41-21-143, the following terms...

Crisis Intervention Mental Health Fund

§ 41-21-151. Crisis Intervention Mental Health Fund created; purpose; distribution of monies from fund; fund to be a continuing fund; components of fund - There is created in the State Treasury a special interest-bearing...

Screening, Testing, and Investigation by State Board of Health -

Chapter 22 - Hemophilia

§ 41-22-1. Definitions - The words and terms as used in this chapter have...

§ 41-22-3. Program for care and treatment of sufferers - The State Board of Health is authorized to establish a...

§ 41-22-5. Authority of state board of health - The board is authorized to:

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 - Any person who shall knowingly and willfully violate the lawful...

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

§ 41-23-13. Suppression of nuisances injurious to public health - The State Board of Health, when informed by a county...

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

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

§ 41-23-30. Confidential testing for and treatment of sexually transmitted disease - County health departments shall provide testing for and treatment of...

§ 41-23-31. Donations to state board of health - Any town, city or county is hereby authorized to make...

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

§ 41-23-37. Immunization practices for control of vaccine preventable diseases; school attendance by unvaccinated children - Whenever indicated, the state health officer shall specify such immunization...

§ 41-23-39. Definitions applicable to Section 41-23-41 - The following terms when used in Sections 41-23-39 and 41-23-41...

§ 41-23-41. Emergency service provider notice of exposure to blood or body fluids; licensed facility duties regarding infectious disease - If, in the course of providing emergency services to any...

§ 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 - The State Department of Health shall prepare written educational information...

§ 41-23-47. Preparation of statewide Hepatitis C Virus plan - Not later than January 1, 2006, the State Department of...

Rubella Screening, Counseling and Vaccination

§ 41-23-101. Rubella screening tests - The state board of health is hereby authorized to offer...

§ 41-23-103. Counseling as to risks and benefits of rubella immunization - The state board of health shall counsel all females found...

§ 41-23-105. Civil immunity for persons performing rubella tests, counseling and vaccinations - Neither the state board of health nor any physician or...

School-located Influenza Vaccination Programs -

Chapter 24 - Sickle Cell Testing Program

§ 41-24-1. Establishment of testing program for sickle cell anemia or sickle cell trait - The state board of health is hereby authorized and empowered...

§ 41-24-3. Persons who may be tested - In order to accomplish a program of testing for the...

§ 41-24-5. Distribution of educational materials - The state board of health is hereby authorized and empowered...

Chapter 25 - Disinfection and Sanitation of Buildings and Premises

§ 41-25-1. State Board of Health empowered to make rules and regulations concerning disinfection and sanitation - The State Board of Health shall have authority to make...

§ 41-25-3. Assessment of fees - The board shall assess a fee in the following amount...

§ 41-25-13. Sanitary code for house trailers, house trailer camps, and tourist camps - The state board of health shall have the power to...

Chapter 26 - Mississippi Safe Drinking Water Act of 1997

In General

§ 41-26-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and cited as the "Mississippi...

§ 41-26-3. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have...

§ 41-26-7. Powers and duties of director - In addition to any other duties required by law, the...

§ 41-26-9. Action by director when contaminant is present in or likely to enter public water system - The director, upon receipt of information that a contaminant which...

§ 41-26-11. Plan for provision of safe drinking water under emergency circumstances - The director shall develop an adequate plan for the provision...

§ 41-26-15. Prohibited acts - The following acts and the causing of these acts are...

§ 41-26-21. Final order; cost bonds; appeal - Following the hearing, the presiding official shall enter an order...

Community Public Water System -

Chapter 27 - Mosquito Control

Article 1 - County Mosquito Control Commissions

§ 41-27-1. County mosquito control commission authorized - The county board of supervisors in any county of this...

§ 41-27-3. Director of State Board of Health to be member - The state health officer shall be a member ex-officio of...

§ 41-27-5. Duties of State Board of Health - The State Board of Health, or its representative, shall, upon...

§ 41-27-7. Outside aid may be accepted - The county board of supervisors and the county mosquito control...

§ 41-27-9. Powers of commission - Every such county mosquito control commission shall have the power...

§ 41-27-11. Plans and estimates of cost to be filed annually - Each county mosquito control commission shall, on or before the...

§ 41-27-13. Source of funds - The county board of supervisors of each county, or other...

§ 41-27-15. How funds are to be expended - The moneys so raised, or so much thereof as may...

§ 41-27-17. Annual report to be filed - It shall be the duty of each county mosquito control...

§ 41-27-19. Two counties may act jointly - Two or more counties may combine for the purpose of...

§ 41-27-21. Fiscal management where two or more counties act jointly - When two or more counties act jointly under the mosquito...

§ 41-27-23. Boards of supervisors to indicate amount of funds to be applied to control work; notice to other counties; withdrawal by dissatisfied county - The board of supervisors of each county so combined in...

§ 41-27-25. Approval and allowance for payment of expenses and claims; forwarding of copies of minute entries of approved claims - On or before the first day of each month following...

§ 41-27-27. Submission of list of claims to boards of supervisors; issuance of county warrants - Upon receipt of a certified copy of such approved list...

§ 41-27-29. Duties of county mosquito control commissions and joint mosquito control commission - Each county mosquito control commission and the joint mosquito control...

§ 41-27-31. Elimination of county in default from membership of joint mosquito control commission - In event a county being a member of such joint...

§ 41-27-33. Existing laws not affected - Nothing in this article shall be construed to alter, amend,...

Article 3 - Rice Field Mosquito Control Law

§ 41-27-101. Declaration of purpose - This article is passed with the knowledge and in recognition...

§ 41-27-103. County mosquito control commission created - When, in any county of this state other than a...

§ 41-27-105. Members; vacancy - There shall be three (3) members of the county mosquito...

§ 41-27-107. General powers of commission - When the county mosquito control commission has been created and...

§ 41-27-109. Meeting; officers; bonds - The first meeting of the county mosquito control commission shall...

§ 41-27-111. Compensation - The two (2) members of the county mosquito control commission...

§ 41-27-113. Commission to investigate feasibility of rice field mosquito control plan; report thereon - The county mosquito control commission shall, immediately after the organizational...

§ 41-27-115. Board of supervisors may require permit for rice production - If the board of supervisors finds that a mosquito control...

§ 41-27-117. Application for permit - The permits and applications therefor, shall be in a form...

§ 41-27-119. Office facilities for commission; expenses; employees - The board of supervisors shall furnish office facilities for the...

§ 41-27-121. Other powers of commission - The county mosquito control commission shall have the right to...

§ 41-27-123. Penalty for failure to comply with provisions of article - Any person, firm, association or corporation, engaging in the planting...

§ 41-27-125. Criminal penalty - Anyone willfully refusing to comply with this article shall be...

§ 41-27-127. Funds for carrying on program; tax on property - If the cost of the mosquito control program for any...

§ 41-27-129. Cooperating with state or federal agency - The board of supervisors and the county mosquito control commission...

§ 41-27-131. Funds shall be placed in special fund in county depository - All funds used for a mosquito control program shall be...

§ 41-27-133. Commission may be abolished and program terminated - At any time the board of supervisors, in its discretion,...

Chapter 28 - Diabetes

§ 41-28-1. Definitions - The words and terms as used in this chapter shall...

§ 41-28-3. Program of public education and awareness of symptoms and care and treatment of diabetes to be established - The State Board of Health is authorized to establish a...

§ 41-28-5. General duties of state board of health - The board is authorized to: Assist in the development and...

Chapter 29 - Poisons, Drugs and Other Controlled Substances

Article 1 - Caustic Poisons

§ 41-29-1. Short title - This article may be cited as the Mississippi Caustic Poison...

§ 41-29-3. Declaration of purpose - The distribution and/or sale of certain dangerous, caustic or corrosive...

§ 41-29-5. "Dangerous caustic or corrosive substance" defined - The term "dangerous caustic or corrosive substance" means each and...

§ 41-29-7. "Misbranded parcel, package, or container" defined - The term "misbranded parcel, package, or container" means a retail...

§ 41-29-9. Prohibited acts; guaranty; exceptions - No person shall sell, barter, or exchange, or receive, hold,...

§ 41-29-11. Penalties - Any person violating the provisions of Section 41-29-9 shall, upon...

§ 41-29-13. Confiscation - Any dangerous caustic or corrosive substance in a misbranded parcel,...

§ 41-29-15. Sheriff's duties - The sheriff's office in each county in the state shall...

§ 41-29-17. Duties of district attorney, county attorney and justice of the peace - Every district attorney, county attorney or justice of the peace,...

Article 3 - Uniform Controlled Substances Law

§ 41-29-101. Title of article - This article is to be known as the Uniform Controlled...

§ 41-29-103. Purpose - The purpose of this article is to make, wherever possible,...

§ 41-29-105. Definitions - The following words and phrases, as used in this article,...

§ 41-29-107. Bureau of narcotics; composition; qualifications; dismissal - During the period of the first twelve (12) months after...

§ 41-29-109. Cooperation with bureau of narcotics - The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics shall have the full cooperation...

§ 41-29-110. Bureau of narcotics work program - The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics is hereby authorized and empowered...

§ 41-29-112. Special contract agents or investigators - Such contracts shall not be public records and shall not...

§ 41-29-113. Schedule I of controlled substances - SCHEDULE I Schedule I consists of the drugs and other...

§ 41-29-115. Schedule II of controlled substances - The controlled substances listed in this section, by whatever official...

§ 41-29-117. Schedule III of controlled substances - The controlled substances listed in this section are included in...

§ 41-29-119. Schedule IV of controlled substances - The controlled substances listed in this section are included in...

§ 41-29-121. Schedule V of controlled substances - SCHEDULE V Schedule V consists of the drugs and other...

§ 41-29-122. Exempt chemical preparations and mixtures - Any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity...

§ 41-29-123. Revision and republication of schedules - The board shall revise and republish the schedules set out...

§ 41-29-125. Rules and regulations relative to registration and control of manufacture, distribution and dispensing of controlled substances; delivery of Schedule II controlled substance by mail or other shipment to be made only to persons eighteen o... - An agent or employee of any registered manufacturer, distributor or...

§ 41-29-127. Registration; factors considered - The state board of pharmacy shall register an applicant to...

§ 41-29-129. Revocation and suspension of registration - A registration to manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance...

§ 41-29-133. Records and inventories - Persons registered to manufacture, distribute or dispense controlled substances under...

§ 41-29-135. Order forms - Controlled substances in Schedules I and II of Sections 41-29-113...

§ 41-29-137. Prescriptions - (1) Except when dispensed directly by a practitioner, other than...

§ 41-29-138. Applicability of avoirdupois system of weights - The avoirdupois system of weights shall be the system by...

§ 41-29-139. Prohibited acts; penalties - Transfer and possession with intent to transfer.Except as authorized by...

§ 41-29-140. Fines and penalties; violation of Section 41-29-139 - Except as otherwise authorized by the Uniform Controlled Substances Law,...

§ 41-29-141. Prohibited acts B; penalties - It is unlawful for any person: Any person who violates...

§ 41-29-143. Prohibited acts C; penalties - It is unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally: Any...

§ 41-29-145. Distribution to persons under age twenty-one - Any person twenty-one (21) years of age or over who...

§ 41-29-147. Second and subsequent offenses - Except as otherwise provided in Section 41-29-142, any person convicted...

§ 41-29-149. Suspended sentences; eligibility for parole; resentencing - Regardless of the penalties provided heretofore for the violation of...

§ 41-29-150. Participation in drug rehabilitation programs; probation; expunction of record upon application to court - Any person convicted under Section 41-29-139 may be required, in...

§ 41-29-151. Penalties to be additional; barring of prosecutions - Any penalty imposed for violation of this article is in...

§ 41-29-153. Forfeitures - The following are subject to forfeiture: A. No conveyance used...

§ 41-29-154. Disposition of seized controlled substances and paraphernalia - Any controlled substance or paraphernalia seized under the authority of...

§ 41-29-155. Injunctions - The trial courts of this state shall have jurisdiction to...

§ 41-29-157. Administrative inspection warrants and search warrants - Except as otherwise provided in Section 41-29-107.1, issuance and execution...

§ 41-29-159. Powers of enforcement personnel; duty of certain individuals to notify Bureau of Narcotics of death caused by drug overdose - Any officer or employee of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics,...

§ 41-29-160. Payments to informers; disposition of moneys expended for purchase of controlled substances - The director is authorized to pay any person such sum...

§ 41-29-161. Bonds of bureau officers and employees - Any officer or employee of the Mississippi Bureau of Drug...

§ 41-29-163. Judicial review of final determinations, findings and conclusions - All final determinations, findings and conclusions of the board, the...

§ 41-29-165. Judicial review of convictions and orders - Any person being aggrieved by any conviction or order of...

§ 41-29-167. Cooperative arrangements - The State Board of Medical Licensure, the Mississippi Bureau of...

§ 41-29-169. Drug abuse education programs - The Mississippi Bureau of Drug Enforcement and state board of...

§ 41-29-171. Research programs on misuse and abuse of controlled substances - The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the State Board of Pharmacy,...

§ 41-29-173. Effect of Uniform Controlled Substances Law on pending proceedings - Prosecutions for any violations under prior laws shall not be...

§ 41-29-175. Continuation of regulations - Any orders and rules promulgated under any law affected by...

§ 41-29-176.1. Prosecution of cases involving seized property - The seizing law enforcement agency shall within thirty (30) days...

§ 41-29-181. Procedure for disposition of seized property; order directing disposition by bureau of narcotics - If the criminal case is initiated by an officer of...

§ 41-29-183. Procedure for disposition of seized property; exclusiveness of remedy - Except as otherwise provided in Section 41-29-107.1, the forfeiture procedure...

§ 41-29-185. Disposition of forfeited property transferred pursuant to federal property sharing provisions - One hundred percent (100%) of any seized and forfeited property...

§ 41-29-189. Drug Evidence Disposition Fund created; purpose; sources of funds - There is created in the State Treasury a special fund...

§ 41-29-191. Collection of unused prescription pills and drugs brought to drug task force main office from residential sources - On the first Monday of each month, each drug task...

Article 5 - Other Narcotic Drug Regulations

§ 41-29-301. License required - No person shall manufacture, compound, mix, cultivate, grow or by...

§ 41-29-303. Requirements for license - No license shall be issued under Section 41-29-301 unless and...

§ 41-29-305. Who may prescribe, administer, dispense, mix or otherwise prepare narcotic drugs - A physician or a dentist, in good faith and in...

§ 41-29-307. Transportation and storage of narcotic drugs - The provisions of Sections 41-29-301 through 41-29-311 restricting the possessing...

§ 41-29-309. Nuisances - Any store, shop, warehouse, dwelling house, building, vehicle, boat, aircraft,...

§ 41-29-311. Suspension or revocation of license or registration - On the conviction of any physician, dentist, veterinarian, manufacturer, wholesaler,...

§ 41-29-313. Purchase, possession, transfer, manufacture or distribution of listed chemical or drug with intent to unlawfully manufacture controlled substance prohibited; possession of anhydtrous ammonia in unauthorized container constitutes prima fa... - 1. A retail distributor of the drug products described in...

§ 41-29-321. Opioid antagonist administration training for first responders - The Mississippi State Department of Health shall create and offer...

Article 7 - Interception of Wire or Oral Communications

§ 41-29-501. Definitions - As used in this article, the following terms shall have...

§ 41-29-503. Admissibility of evidence obtained in violation of this article - The contents of an intercepted wire, oral or other communication...

§ 41-29-505. Judicial order authorizing interception of communications - A judge of competent jurisdiction in the circuit court district...

§ 41-29-509. Procedures for obtaining court order authorizing interception of communication - Prior to submitting a request for an order authorizing interception...

§ 41-29-519. Sealing, custody, and destruction of applications and orders - The judge shall seal each application made and order granted...

§ 41-29-521. Penalty for violating Section 41-29-517 or 41-29-519 - A violation of Section 41-29-517 or 41-29-519 shall be punished...

§ 41-29-531. Exceptions to civil liability for violation of this article - This article shall not apply to: An operator of a...

§ 41-29-535. Applicability of article - This article shall not apply to a person who is...

Article 9 - Pen Register -

Chapter 30 - Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Control and Treatment

§ 41-30-1. Title - This chapter shall be cited as the "Comprehensive Alcoholism and...

§ 41-30-3. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have...

§ 41-30-5. Division of alcohol and drug misuse; qualifications of director - There is hereby created a division of alcohol and drug...

§ 41-30-7. General duties of division - The division shall have the following duties: To formulate, develop...

§ 41-30-11. Statewide plan; use of local and private facilities; acceptance and expenditures of gifts, grants, etc. - The division, subject to applicable provisions of law, may arrange...

§ 41-30-13. Statewide plan; approval or certification of facilities - The division shall approve or certify all private and public...

§ 41-30-15. Rules and regulations - The division shall adopt, amend, promulgate and enforce such rules...

§ 41-30-17. Inspections - The division shall periodically inspect all approved facilities at reasonable...

§ 41-30-19. Treatment of public intoxicated offenders in lieu of execution of sentence - The judge of any court, before whom appears an individual...

§ 41-30-21. Voluntary submission to treatment for alcoholism or drug dependency; application - Any person may voluntarily apply for treatment for alcoholism, drug...

§ 41-30-23. Voluntary submission to treatment; admission and duration of in-patient treatment - The administrator in charge of any approved public or private...

§ 41-30-25. After-care treatment and assistance - Upon his or her discharge from, or upon leaving, an...

§ 41-30-29. Supplemental nature of provisions for emergency involuntary commitment - The provisions of subsections (3) and (4) of Section 41-30-27...

§ 41-30-31. Involuntary commitment exceeding five days - Involuntary commitment of an individual to an approved public or...

§ 41-30-35. Charge against person treated and his estate - Reasonable charges and expenses for the care, maintenance and treatment...

§ 41-30-37. Right of private facility to payment for services - Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter, no approved...

Chapter 31 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts for Treatment

§ 41-31-1. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases...

§ 41-31-7. Appeals - Any person who shall be ordered to be committed to...

§ 41-31-9. Enforcement of orders - The chancellor shall have the power to order the issuance...

§ 41-31-11. Transferring of patients; written notification of transfer to committing court - The medical director of the Mississippi State Hospital or the...

§ 41-31-13. Probation and discharge - Any person committed to the custody of the Mississippi State...

§ 41-31-15. Costs of commitment and support - The provisions of the law with respect to the costs...

§ 41-31-17. Rights as citizens; confidentiality of records - No person who is committed to the Mississippi State Hospital...

§ 41-31-18. Continuing jurisdiction of court over person committed to inpatient or outpatient treatment for one year after treatment completed; recommitment - The court shall have continuing jurisdiction over a person committed...

§ 41-31-19. Commitment proceedings for persons with mental illness committed under this chapter - The medical director of the hospital may bring commitment proceedings...

§ 41-31-21. Refusal of admittance to certain persons - If in the opinion of the medical director of the...

§ 41-31-23. Providing alcoholic beverages to persons in custody of institution - Any person who shall give, sell, deliver, or otherwise provide...

Chapter 32 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts to Private Treatment Facilities

§ 41-32-1. Scope of chapter; involuntary commitment upon judgment of chancery court - The provisions of this chapter shall be supplemental to the...

§ 41-32-3. Filing Uniform Alcohol and Drug Commitment Affidavit for judgment of committal - Any interested person may file a Uniform Alcohol and Drug...

§ 41-32-7. Earlier hearing for defendant who could flee jurisdiction or cause physical harm; interim commitment - Upon allegation in the affidavit and upon clear and convincing...

§ 41-32-9. Appeal of commitment decision - Any person who shall be ordered to be committed to...

§ 41-32-11. Assistance of county sheriff in confining and transporting defendant - The chancellor may order assistance by the sheriff of the...

Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium

§ 41-33-1. "Active tuberculosis" defined - For the purposes of Sections 41-33-1 through 41-33-15, the words...

§ 41-33-3. Compulsory commitment of active tuberculosis cases to hospital - Any person who has been diagnosed as having active tuberculosis...

§ 41-33-5. Request for approval of court action for commitment - When the county health officer in any county deems that...

§ 41-33-7. Affidavit and hearing in chancery court - Upon approval by the executive officer of the Mississippi State...

§ 41-33-9. Order of commitment to hospital - If at the hearing the court shall find that the...

§ 41-33-11. Discharge from hospital - With the approval of the county health officer, the attending...

§ 41-33-13. Cost of hospital care - Individuals committed under Section 41-33-9 shall be subject to the...

§ 41-33-15. Submission to medical examination - When any county health officer has reasonable grounds to believe...

Chapter 34 - Health Care Practice Requirements Pertaining to Transmission of Hepatitis B and HIV

§ 41-34-1. Definitions applicable to Sections 41-34-1 through 41-34-7 - For the purposes of Sections 41-34-1 through 41-34-7 the following...

§ 41-34-3. Licensing boards to establish practice requirements to protect public from transmission of Hepatitis B and HIV from health-care providers - Each board licensing health-care providers may establish by rule and...

§ 41-34-5. Licensing boards to establish procedure for licensees and applicants for license to report status as carrier of Hepatitis B and HIV - The boards may establish by rule and regulation requirements and...

§ 41-34-7. Confidentiality of reports of Hepatitis B or HIV carrier status - Each report of Hepatitis B Virus carrier status or Human...

Chapter 35 - Eye Inflammation of Young

§ 41-35-1. "Inflammation of the eyes of new born" defined - Any inflammation, swelling or redness in either or both eyes...

§ 41-35-3. Duty to make report as to any inflammation of the eyes of new born - It shall be the duty of any physician, surgeon, obstetrician,...

§ 41-35-5. Duties of the local health officer - It shall be the duty of the local health officer:...

§ 41-35-7. Duties of the State Board of Health - It shall be the duty of the State Board of...

§ 41-35-9. Duty of those in attendance at childbirth to use prophylactic in eyes of new born - It shall be the duty of the physicians, midwives, or...

§ 41-35-11. Violation of chapter constitutes a misdemeanor - The failure of any person to comply with any of...

Chapter 36 - Determination of Death

§ 41-36-1. Short title - This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Determination of...

§ 41-36-3. Determination of death - An individual who has sustained either (a) irreversible cessation of...

Chapter 37 - Autopsies

§ 41-37-1. "Autopsy" defined - The term "autopsy" as used in this chapter shall be...

§ 41-37-3. Purposes for which autopsy may be performed - An autopsy may be performed, as provided by this chapter,...

§ 41-37-5. Who may perform autopsy - Only a physician duly licensed by the Mississippi State Board...

§ 41-37-7. Liability of physician performing autopsy - A duly licensed physician authorized to perform an autopsy as...

§ 41-37-9. Autopsy under court order; procedure - A circuit judge, chancellor or county judge of the county...

§ 41-37-11. Use of chemical analysis in criminal investigations - The physician performing the autopsy in criminal investigations may obtain...

§ 41-37-13. Autopsy report - In all cases where an autopsy is performed as provided...

§ 41-37-15. Fees of physician and chemist - The physician performing the autopsy shall be paid a fee...

§ 41-37-17. Payment of disinterment expenses - In cases where the disinterment of a body is ordered,...

§ 41-37-19. Admissibility of evidence obtained through autopsy in civil case - No evidence obtained through any autopsy performed under the provisions...

§ 41-37-21. Physician or chemist may be subpoenaed in criminal case - The physician performing the autopsy or the chemist performing such...

§ 41-37-23. Autopsy may be ordered on petition of certain health officials - The executive officer of the Mississippi State Board of Health...

§ 41-37-25. Autopsy may be performed when consent thereto is given - An autopsy may be performed without court order by a...

Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts

In General

§ 41-39-1. Disposition of tissue or external member of human body and dead fetus - Any physician removing or otherwise acquiring any tissue of the...

§ 41-39-3. Regulations for disposition of dead foetus acquired by hospital or midwife - The State Board of Health may provide by rules and...

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