Mississippi Code
Title 41 - Public Health

§ 41-39-5. Disposition of unclaimed dead bodies - Any physician, hospital, funeral director, embalmer, coroner or other person...

§ 41-39-7. Bodies of deceased hospital patients to be turned over to educational institutions in certain cases - Upon the request of the Secretary of the State Board...

§ 41-39-9. Contracts for donation of parts of human bodies - It is hereby declared lawful for any person eighteen (18)...

Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)

§ 41-39-101. Short title - Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 may be cited as the Revised...

§ 41-39-103. Definitions - In Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149: Authorized to make health care...

§ 41-39-105. Applicability - Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 apply to an anatomical gift or...

§ 41-39-107. Who may make anatomical gift before donor's death - Subject to Section 41-39-115, an anatomical gift of a donor's...

§ 41-39-109. Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death - A donor may make an anatomical gift: A donor or...

§ 41-39-111. Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death - Subject to Section 41-39-115, a donor or other person authorized...

§ 41-39-113. Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal - An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of...

§ 41-39-115. Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation - Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) and subject to...

§ 41-39-117. Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part - Subject to subsections (b) and (c) and unless barred by...

§ 41-39-119. Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part - A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section...

§ 41-39-121. Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift - An anatomical gift may be made to the following persons...

§ 41-39-123. Search and notification - The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an...

§ 41-39-125. Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine - A document of gift need not be delivered during the...

§ 41-39-127. Rights and duties of procurement organization and others - When a hospital refers an individual at or near death...

§ 41-39-129. Coordination of procurement and use - Each hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or...

§ 41-39-131. Sale or purchase of parts prohibited - Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a person that,...

§ 41-39-133. Other prohibited acts - A person that, in order to obtain a financial gain,...

§ 41-39-135. Immunity - Any person who, in good faith and acting in reliance...

§ 41-39-137. Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity - A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance...

§ 41-39-139. Donor registry - The Mississippi Department of Public Safety may establish or contract...

§ 41-39-141. Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive - In this section: If a prospective donor has a declaration...

§ 41-39-143. Notification of medical examiner if deceased patient is subject of medical-legal death investigation - If the deceased patient is medically suitable to be an...

§ 41-39-145. Uniformity of application and construction - In applying and construing Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149, consideration must...

§ 41-39-147. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act - Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 modify, limit, and supersede the Electronic...

Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents

In General

§ 41-41-1. Blood banking and transfusion procedures constitute services rather than sales; maximum usable life span of blood - The procurement, processing, storage, distribution and/or use of whole blood,...

§ 41-41-7. Implied consent to medical treatment where emergency exists - In addition to any other instances in which a consent...

§ 41-41-9. Court may consent to or order medical treatment; allocation of treatment expenses - In addition to all other remedies available at law or...

§ 41-41-11. Waiver of medical privilege - Any person authorized and empowered to consent to surgical or...

§ 41-41-13. Physician or nurse practitioner treating minor for venereal disease need not obtain parental consent - Any physician, duly licensed to practice medicine in the State...

§ 41-41-16. Health-care providers conducting tests for infectious diseases without consent of patient - A hospital or physician, and employees of such hospital or...

Performance of Abortion; Consent

§ 41-41-31. Definitions - The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed...

§ 41-41-37. Physician to inform woman of medical emergency - When a medical emergency compels the performance or induction of...

§ 41-41-39. Violation of provisions as misdemeanor - Anyone who purposefully, knowingly or recklessly performs or attempts to...

§ 41-41-45. Abortion prohibited; exceptions - [From and after ten days following the date of publication...

Performance of Abortions Upon Minors; Consent

§ 41-41-51. Definitions - For purposes of Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63, the following definitions...

§ 41-41-57. Exception for medical emergency - Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63 shall not apply when, in the...

§ 41-41-59. Violation of provisions as prima facie evidence of physician's unprofessional conduct - If a physician performs an abortion in violation of the...

§ 41-41-63. Severability of provisions - If any provision, word, phrase or clause of Sections 41-41-51...

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

§ 41-41-71. Short title - Sections 41-41-71 through 41-41-73 may be cited as the Partial-Birth...

Abortion Complication Reporting Act

§ 41-41-75. Short Title - Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80 shall be known and may be...

§ 41-41-76. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80: "Abortion" has the...

§ 41-41-79. Liability - Willful violation of the provisions of Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80...

§ 41-41-80. Severability - The provisions of Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80 are declared to...

Public Funding of Abortions

§ 41-41-91. Use of public funds for abortions prohibited; exceptions - Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no...

Federal Abortion-Mandate Opt-Out Act

§ 41-41-95. Title - Sections 41-41-95 through 41-41-99 may be known and cited as...

Women's Health Defense Act of 2013

§ 41-41-101. Short title - Sections 41-41-101 through 41-41-117 may be known and cited as...

§ 41-41-105. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-41-101 through 41-41-117, the following terms...

§ 41-41-117. Severability - Any provision of Sections 41-41-101 through 41-41-117 that is held...

Women's Health Protection and Preborn Pain Act

§ 41-41-131. Short title - Sections 41-41-131 through 41-41-145 may be cited as the Women's...

§ 41-41-133. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-41-131 through 41-41-145: "Abortion" means the...

§ 41-41-135. Performing or inducing or attempting to perform or induce abortion before physician determines probable gestational age prohibited - Except as otherwise provided by Section 41-41-141, a physician may...

§ 41-41-137. Performing or inducing or attempting to perform or induce abortion if probable gestational age is determined to be twenty or more weeks prohibited - Except as otherwise provided by Section 41-41-141, a person may...

§ 41-41-147. Relation to other Mississippi laws regulating or restricting abortions - Sections 41-41-131 through 41-41-145 may not be construed to repeal,...

Mississippi Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act

§ 41-41-151. Short title - Sections 41-41-151 through 41-41-169 may be cited as the "Mississippi...

§ 41-41-153. Definitions - For the purposes of Sections 41-41-151 through 41-41-169, the following...

§ 41-41-163. Criminal penalty - Only in the event a judgment is rendered in favor...

§ 41-41-165. Protection of privacy in court proceedings - In every civil, criminal, or administrative proceeding or action brought...

§ 41-41-167. Construction - Nothing in Sections 41-41-151 through 41-41-169 shall be construed as...

§ 41-41-169. Severability - If any one or more provisions, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses,...

Gestational Age Act

§ 41-41-191. Gestational Age Act; legislative findings and purpose; definitions; abortion limited to fifteen weeks' gestation; exceptions; requisite report; reporting forms; professional sanctions; civil penalties; additional enforcement; constructio... - 1. Between five(5) and six (6) weeks' gestation, an unborn...

Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act

§ 41-41-201. Short title - Sections 41-41-201 through 41-41-229 may be cited as the "Uniform...

§ 41-41-203. Definitions - For purposes of Chapter 41 of Title 41, Mississippi Code...

§ 41-41-205. Individual instructions; power of attorney; decisions by primary physician; agents; guardians; validity - Click to view "State of County of On this day...

§ 41-41-209. Form for Advance Health-Care Directive - The following form may be used to create an Advance...

§ 41-41-217. Rights to disclosure of medical and health-care information - Unless otherwise specified in an advance health-care directive, a person...

§ 41-41-225. Copies have same effect as originals - A copy of a written advance health-care directive, revocation of...

§ 41-41-229. Equitable relief; Rules of Civil Procedure applicable - On petition of a patient, the patient's agent, guardian, or...

Mississippi Physician Order for Sustaining Treatment (POST) Act

§ 41-41-301. Short title - Sections 41-41-301 through 41-41-303 shall be known and may be...

§ 41-41-302. Physician order for sustaining treatment - The physician order for sustaining treatment form shall begin with...

Chapter 42 - Family Planning

§ 41-42-1. Title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 41-42-3. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter and as used herein:...

§ 41-42-5. Power and authority of State Board of Health - The State Board of Health is authorized to receive and...

§ 41-42-7. Furnishing contraceptive supplies and information to minors - Contraceptive supplies and information may be furnished by physicians to...

Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds

In General

§ 41-43-1. Regulation of cemeteries in the vicinity of hospitals; private family cemeteries - Any realty used for burial purposes in violation of this...

§ 41-43-3. Appointment of trustee for private or family cemetery or burying ground - When any donation or bequest is made by any person,...

Cemetery Law

§ 41-43-31. Title - Sections 41-43-31 through 41-43-53 may be cited as the "Cemetery...

§ 41-43-33. Who is subject to cemetery law - Any person, partnership, corporation or other organization organized or engaging...

§ 41-43-35. Designation of cemetery organizations as perpetual care cemeteries - All such organizations subject to the provisions of Section 41-43-31...

§ 41-43-37. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; establishment of irrevocable perpetual care trust fund; registration system for perpetual care cemeteries - For any sale of a lot for an earth burial,...

§ 41-43-38. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; accounting and reporting requirements; penalties for failure to timely file requisite accountings, records, reports or notices; sale or transfer of perpetual care cemetery; audits; procedure if perpet... - For each day that the report and accounting required by...

§ 41-43-39. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; procedure by existing organizations - Any such organization, subject to the provisions of Sections 41-43-31...

§ 41-43-40. Perpetual care cemetery to maintain up-to-date record of persons buried in cemetery or entombed in mausoleum or columbarium; contents - Every perpetual care cemetery shall maintain continuously and at all...

§ 41-43-41. Nonperpetual care cemetery may become perpetual care cemetery; all cemeteries created after July 1, 2009, to be perpetual care cemeteries unless exempt - Any nonperpetual care cemetery, after May 6, 1958, may become...

§ 41-43-43. Nonperpetual care cemeteries to call attention to such fact in all sales contracts and deeds - All nonperpetual care cemeteries shall have printed at the top...

§ 41-43-45. Lots sold to public to be free from liens; sale or transfer of lots by purchaser - All lots and grave spaces offered for sale to the...

§ 41-43-47. Cemetery rules and regulations - The owner of any cemetery may make and enforce reasonable...

§ 41-43-51. Rule against perpetuities inapplicable to perpetual care funds - The rule against perpetuities shall not be applicable to perpetual...

§ 41-43-55. Business records of all perpetual care cemeteries to be available for inspection and examination by Secretary of State; inspection of cemetery sites - The business records of any perpetual care cemetery, whether registered...

§ 41-43-57. Application for release of trust principal for certain purposes under exceptional circumstances - In exceptional circumstances only, a perpetual care owner can make...

Chapter 49 - Regulation of Hotels and Innkeepers

§ 41-49-1. Chapter to be enforced by State Board of Health - It shall be the duty of the Mississippi State Board...

§ 41-49-3. "Hotel" defined - The term "hotel" shall mean and include any entity or...

§ 41-49-5. Premises to be kept in clean and sanitary condition - It shall be the duty of every keeper, manager or...

§ 41-49-7. Copy of chapter to be posted in all hotels and inns - A copy of Sections 41-49-1 through 41-49-5, 41-49-9, shall be...

§ 41-49-9. Penalty - Any owner, manager or person in charge of a hotel...

Chapter 51 - Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal or Rendering Plants

§ 41-51-1. Short title - This chapter may be cited as The Animal and Poultry...

§ 41-51-3. Declaration of public policy - It is hereby declared to be the public policy of...

§ 41-51-5. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter, the words and terms used...

§ 41-51-7. Persons, matters or vocations not affected by chapter - Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to or affect...

§ 41-51-9. Powers and duties of the commissioner - The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations for the orderly...

§ 41-51-11. Regulation of transportation and storage - All poultry and meats and their component parts or products...

§ 41-51-13. Application for license to operate plant; fees - It shall be the duty of every person operating a...

§ 41-51-15. Inspection of plant; issuance and term of licenses - Upon receipt of such application, the commissioner, or some person...

§ 41-51-17. Additional inspections of non-complying applicants; fees therefor - Whenever the commissioner, by his first inspection of the applicant's...

§ 41-51-19. Location of plants - No new plant shall be located or constructed, or any...

§ 41-51-21. When plant may be deemed suitable or sanitary - No disposal plant or rendering plant shall be deemed a...

§ 41-51-23. Annual inspection of plant - The commissioner, in person or by anyone authorized by him,...

§ 41-51-25. Proceedings to suspend or revoke license - The commissioner shall have power to suspend for any fixed...

§ 41-51-27. Recorded hearing - Any licensee or other interested person, aggrieved by a decision...

§ 41-51-29. Appeals - Any licensee or other person, aggrieved by any final decision...

§ 41-51-31. Penalties - Violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or...

§ 41-51-33. Injunctive relief - The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi may bring...

Chapter 53 - Rabies Control in Dogs and Cats

§ 41-53-1. Rabies inoculation of dogs and cats required - Every person in the State of Mississippi who owns, or...

§ 41-53-5. Who may administer virus - All inoculations (vaccinations) done in accordance with this chapter must...

§ 41-53-7. Tags - It shall be the duty of the manufacturer or manufacturers...

§ 41-53-9. Certificate of inoculation; records - All persons administering virus (vaccine) in accordance with this chapter...

§ 41-53-13. Penalties - The failure or refusal of any person to comply with...

Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service

Public Ambulance Services by Governmental Entities

§ 41-55-1. Maintenance and operation of public ambulance service by political entities - The board of supervisors of any county and the governing...

§ 41-55-2. Defrayal of cost of public ambulance service - The board of supervisors of counties having a population of...

§ 41-55-3. Joint service by counties and municipalities; contracts, apportionment of ownership of property and costs of operation - In acting jointly the board of supervisors of any such...

§ 41-55-5. Casualty and liability insurance in connection with ambulance service; partial waiver of immunity - The governing authority of or for any such political subdivision...

§ 41-55-7. Effect of existence of adequate private ambulance service; public subsidies - If there is in operation an adequate privately run ambulance...

§ 41-55-9. Maintenance and operation of ambulance service by certain hospitals - In addition to other authority specifically conferred on it or...

Air Ambulance Service Districts

§ 41-55-31. Legislative declaration - It is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination...

§ 41-55-33. Establishment of air ambulance service districts authorized; boundaries - The boards of supervisors of two or more counties are...

§ 41-55-35. Publication of notice of intention; election - Notice of the intention to create an air ambulance service...

§ 41-55-37. Board of directors established; qualifications and term - When the Governor shall have received at least two (2)...

§ 41-55-39. Oath of office - Each director of an air ambulance service district shall take...

§ 41-55-41. Compensation - If compensation is to be paid to any member of...

§ 41-55-43. Officers; bond - The board of directors of an air ambulance service district...

§ 41-55-47. Funds for support and maintenance of district - The board of supervisors of any county of the state...

§ 41-55-49. Payment to district of tax avails or appropriations; advances for preliminary expenses - The board of supervisors of each county becoming a member...

§ 41-55-51. Acceptance of funds from public or private sources; repayment - The board of directors of an air ambulance service district...

§ 41-55-53. Deposit of funds - All funds of an air ambulance service district shall be...

§ 41-55-55. Additional counties may join - After an air ambulance service district has been formed, any...

§ 41-55-57. Rates for services - The rates for services hereunder shall be determined by the...

Chapter 57 - Vital Statistics

Bureau Established

§ 41-57-1. Bureau of vital statistics established - A bureau of vital statistics shall be established by the...

§ 41-57-2. Certain persons not entitled to access to records - Records in the possession of the Mississippi Department of Health,...

Births and Deaths

§ 41-57-3. State registrar of vital records; safeguarding of records - The secretary of the State Board of Health shall appoint...

§ 41-57-5. State may be divided into registration districts - The State Board of Health may divide the state into...

§ 41-57-7. Board of health to formulate a system for gathering statistics - The State Board of Health shall formulate and promulgate rules...

§ 41-57-9. Certificates of registrar to be prima facie evidence - Any copy of the records of birth, sickness or death,...

§ 41-57-11. Payment for birth and death certificates - However, any local registrar shall receive only Fifty Cents (50¢)...

§ 41-57-15. Board of supervisors may appropriate funds for perfecting registration of records - The board of supervisors of any county may appropriate additional...

§ 41-57-19. Proceedings to adjudicate true date of birth of person whose birth was not registered - Any person who was born in the State of Mississippi...

§ 41-57-21. Proceedings to correct incomplete birth certificate or birth certificate having incorrect first name, middle name, place or sex - Where there has been a bona fide effort to register...

§ 41-57-25. Birth certificate furnished free to armed forces volunteer - Any person who is volunteering for one of the armed...

§ 41-57-26. Death certificate of person who was an honorably discharged U.S. Armed Forces veteran or who was killed or died during active duty service furnished without charge - The Office of Vital Records Registration shall furnish up to...

§ 41-57-27. Penalty - Any person or persons who shall violate any rule, regulation...

Marriages

§ 41-57-43. State registrar of vital statistics; safeguarding of records - It shall be the duty of the state registrar of...

§ 41-57-47. Certificates of registrar to be prima facie evidence - Any copy of the records of marriages, when properly certified...

§ 41-57-57. Circuit clerks to compile data on marriages - In order to secure records of marriages and births in...

§ 41-57-59. Penalty - Any person or persons who shall violate any of the...

Chapter 58 - Medical Radiation Technology

§ 41-58-1. Definitions - As used in this chapter: "Department" means the Mississippi State...

Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services

General Provisions

§ 41-59-1. Title - This chapter shall be cited as the "Emergency Medical Services...

§ 41-59-3. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...

§ 41-59-5. Establishment and administration of program - After the Mississippi Burn Center established at the University of...

§ 41-59-7. Advisory council - The terms of the advisory council members shall begin on...

§ 41-59-9. License and permit required - From and after October 1, 1974, no person, firm, corporation,...

§ 41-59-11. Application for license - Application for license shall be made to the board by...

§ 41-59-13. Issuance of license - The board shall issue a license which shall be valid...

§ 41-59-15. Periodic inspections - Subsequent to issuance of any license, the board shall cause...

§ 41-59-19. Changes of ownership - The board is authorized to provide for procedures to be...

§ 41-59-21. Licensee to conform with local laws or regulations - The issuance of a license shall not be construed to...

§ 41-59-27. Insurance - There shall be at all times in force and effect...

§ 41-59-29. Personnel required for transporting patients - From and after January 1, 1976, every ambulance, except those...

§ 41-59-31. Emergency medical technicians; training program - The board shall develop an emergency medical technicians training program...

§ 41-59-37. Temporary ambulance attendant's permit - The board may, in its discretion, issue a temporary ambulance...

§ 41-59-39. Standards for invalid vehicles - The board, after consultation with the emergency medical services advisory...

§ 41-59-41. Records - Each licensee of an ambulance service shall maintain accurate records...

§ 41-59-43. Exemptions - The following are exempted from the provisions of this chapter:...

§ 41-59-45. Penalties; injunctive relief - It shall not be considered a violation of this Chapter...

§ 41-59-47. Options of counties and municipalities as to participation - The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all counties...

§ 41-59-49. Appeal from decision of board - Any person, firm, corporation, association, county, municipality or metropolitan government...

§ 41-59-51. Districts; authority to establish - A special subdivision to be known as an emergency medical...

§ 41-59-53. Districts; procedure for establishing - The boards of supervisors and the municipal governing authorities which...

§ 41-59-55. Districts; administration - Any emergency medical service district created pursuant to this chapter...

§ 41-59-57. Districts; power to receive and expend funds - The emergency medical service districts authorized under this chapter are...

§ 41-59-63. Membership subscription programs for prepaid ambulance service not to constitute insurance - The solicitation of membership subscriptions, the acceptance of membership applications,...

§ 41-59-65. Application for permit to conduct membership subscription program; fees; renewals - Either a public or private ambulance service licensed and regulated...

§ 41-59-67. Requirements for issuance of permit; reserve fund; ambulance service to pay cost of collection of judgment against fund - The issuance of a permit to conduct and implement a...

§ 41-59-69. Annual report of ambulance service conducting subscription program - Annual reports shall be filed with the State Board of...

§ 41-59-71. Methods of soliciting members; license not required - Solicitation of membership in the subscription program may be made...

§ 41-59-77. Trauma registry data confidential and not subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in civil actions - Data obtained under this chapter for use in the trauma...

§ 41-59-79. Certification of first responders by State Board of Health - Any person desiring certification as a medical first responder shall...

§ 41-59-81. Promulgation of rules and regulations governing first responder basic life support - Rules and regulations promulgated under this authority shall, as a...

EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact

§ 41-59-101. EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact - The EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact is enacted into law...

§ 41-59-103. "State EMS Authority" defined - The term "State EMS Authority," as referred to in Section...

Chapter 60 - Emergency Medical Technicians - Paramedics - Use of Automated External Defibrillator

In General

§ 41-60-11. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-59-29 through 41-59-37 and Sections 41-60-11...

§ 41-60-13. Promulgation of rules and regulations by State Board of Health - The Mississippi State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate...

Use of Automated External Defibrillator in Cases of Sudden Cardiac Death

§ 41-60-31. Definitions - As used in Sections 41-60-31 through 41-60-35. "AED" means an...

§ 41-60-33. Requirements and training for use of automated external defibrillator - Any person may use an automated external defibrillator for the...

§ 41-60-35. Individual authorized to use automated external defibrillator not limited from practicing other authorized health occupations - An individual may use an AED if all of the...

Chapter 61 - State Medical Examiner

Mississippi Medical Examiner Act of 1986

§ 41-61-51. Short title - Sections 41-61-51 through 41-61-79 shall be known and cited as...

§ 41-61-53. Definitions - For the purposes of Sections 41-61-51 through 41-61-79, the following...

§ 41-61-59. Report of death to medical examiner; investigation of death; compensation of chief medical examiner or investigator - [Effective from and after January 1, 2020, this section will...

§ 41-61-75. Fees; expert witness; expenses; SIDS/Child Death Scene Investigation reports - [Effective from and after January 1, 2020, this section will...

§ 41-61-77. Central office for Mississippi Forensics Laboratory and State Medical Examiner; use of private facilities for investigating deaths; personnel; pathologists - The facilities of the central and district offices and their...

Chapter 63 - Evaluation and Review of Professional Health Services Providers

§ 41-63-5. Immunity from liability of furnishers of medical or dental information and of members of review committees for action taken - No physician, dentist, pharmacist, nurse, hospital, organization or institution furnishing...

§ 41-63-7. Confidentiality of names of patients studied - The identity of any person whose condition or treatment has...

§ 41-63-21. Accreditation and quality assurance materials of health-care organizations; definition; confidentiality of materials generally - The term "accreditation and quality assurance materials" as used in...

§ 41-63-23. Accreditation and quality assurance materials of health-care organizations; discovery or introduction into evidence in civil actions; admissibility of testimony relating to preparation, evaluation or review of materials; admissibility of... - Accreditation and quality assurance materials, as defined in Sections 41-63-21...

§ 41-63-25. Accreditation and quality assurance materials of health-care organizations; use of materials in proceedings relating to restriction or revocation of physician's license - The provisions of Section 41-63-23 shall not apply in any...

§ 41-63-27. Construction of Sections 41-63-21 through 41-63-29 with Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure and Evidence - It is not the intent of Sections 41-63-21 through 41-63-29...

§ 41-63-29. Effect and purpose of Sections 41-63-21 through 41-63-29 - The provisions of Sections 41-63-21 through 41-63-29, including the confidentiality...

Chapter 67 - Mississippi Individual On-Site Wastewater Disposal System Law

General Provisions

§ 41-67-2. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have...

§ 41-67-3. Duties and responsibilities - Any system proposed for authorization in accordance with performance standards...

§ 41-67-12. Assessment of fees - Any increase in the fee charged by the department under...

§ 41-67-15. Authority of municipalities and boards of supervisors to adopt more restrictive ordinances not impaired; Department of Health prohibited from approving system that does not comply with more restrictive ordinances - Nothing in this chapter shall limit the authority of a...

§ 41-67-19. Demonstrable competence of agents; implementing chapter; completion of department's certification training - Each authorized agent of the department implementing this chapter shall...

§ 41-67-23. Inspection by Department where Department approval requested - The department or its authorized representative may enter onto property...

§ 41-67-27. Registration required for manufacturers of individual on-site wastewater disposal system components to operate or do business in state; penalties - A person may not operate a business in or do...

§ 41-67-29. Appeals - Any person who is aggrieved by any final decision of...

§ 41-67-31. Repeal of Sections 41-67-1 through 41-67-29 and Sections 41-67-33 through 41-67-41 - Sections 41-67-1 through 41-67-29 and Sections 41-67-33 through 41-67-41 shall...

Wastewater Advisory Board -

Chapter 71 - Home Health Agencies

§ 41-71-1. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

§ 41-71-3. License required to operate home health agency - No person or other legal entity acting alone or in...

§ 41-71-5. Application for license; fee - An application for a license shall be made to the...

§ 41-71-7. Terms and conditions of license; renewal - Upon receipt of an application for a license and the...

§ 41-71-9. Denial, suspension or revocation of license; notice and hearing; procedure; costs - The licensing agency, after notice and opportunity for a hearing...

§ 41-71-11. Appeal - Any applicant or licensee aggrieved by the decision of the...

§ 41-71-13. Rules, regulations and standards - The licensing agency shall adopt, amend, promulgate and enforce rules,...

§ 41-71-15. Compliance by existing agencies - Any home health agency which is in operation on July...

§ 41-71-17. Inspections and investigations - The licensing agency shall make or cause to be made...

§ 41-71-19. Confidentiality of information - Information received by the licensing agency through filed reports, inspection,...

§ 41-71-21. Penalty for violations; injunction - Any person or persons or other entity or entities establishing,...

Chapter 73 - Hospital Equipment and Facilities Authority Act

§ 41-73-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 41-73-3. Legislative findings; declaration of public purpose - The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:

§ 41-73-5. Definitions - When used in this act, unless the context requires a...

§ 41-73-9. Terms of members of authority; vacancies; removal; oath - Three (3) members shall be appointed for an initial term...

§ 41-73-11. Officers of authority; per diem and expenses of members - The chairman of the authority shall be elected from the...

§ 41-73-13. Quorum; vote required for action - The powers of the authority shall be vested in the...

§ 41-73-15. Regular and called meetings - Regular meetings of the members of the authority shall be...

§ 41-73-17. Executive director; duties; contracting for administrative services; payment; secretary; duties - The members of the authority may appoint an executive director...

§ 41-73-19. Additional officers, agents or employees - The authority may employ legal counsel, technical experts and such...

§ 41-73-21. Conflict of interest of member, employee or agent; disclosure required; effect of disclosure - Any member, employee or agent of the authority who has,...

§ 41-73-23. State office or position not forfeited by virtue of authority membership or service - Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, no officer or...

§ 41-73-25. Surety bonds of members and executive director; blanket bond authorized; conditions of bonds; costs - Before the issuance of any bonds pursuant to this chapter,...

§ 41-73-27. Powers of authority - The authority is hereby granted all powers necessary or appropriate...

§ 41-73-29. Duties of authority - The authority shall have the following duties:

§ 41-73-31. Additional powers; providing hospital equipment or hospital facilities for use in hospitals in state - In addition to the other powers and duties of the...

§ 41-73-33. Security requirements with respect to hospital equipment or hospital facilities lease, installment purchase contract, or loan agreement - The authority shall require that each participating hospital institution agree...

§ 41-73-35. Authority may issue bonds; purposes; authorization; issuance - The authority is hereby authorized to issue, sell and deliver...

§ 41-73-39. Disposition of proceeds; administrative expenses - The proceeds of the bonds of each issue shall be...

§ 41-73-41. Refunding bonds authorized - The authority is authorized to issue its bonds for the...

§ 41-73-43. Trust indentures - The bonds may be secured by a trust indenture by...

§ 41-73-45. Contracts with bond holders; contents - Any bond resolution or related trust agreement, trust indenture, indenture...

§ 41-73-47. Community hospitals may contract with authority for financing or refinancing of hospital equipment or facilities; payments as operating expenses; priority; security interests in hospital facilities and equipment; maximum principal amount... - The commissioners or board of trustees of any hospital owned...

§ 41-73-49. Bonds to be general obligation bonds; additional security authorized - Except as may otherwise be expressly provided by the authority,...

§ 41-73-51. Authority's bonds do not obligate state; neither faith and credit nor taxing power of state or subdivisions pledged - No bonds issued by the authority under this chapter shall...

§ 41-73-53. Pledges - Any pledge made by the authority shall be valid and...

§ 41-73-55. Repurchase of bonds; cancellation - The authority, subject to such agreements with bondholders as may...

§ 41-73-57. Bonds are negotiable instruments, subject to registration provisions of bonds - Whether or not the bonds are in the form and...

§ 41-73-59. Immunity from liability - Neither the members of the authority nor any other person...

§ 41-73-61. Funds and accounts - The authority may create and establish such funds and accounts...

§ 41-73-63. Deposits; checks; security for deposits - All moneys of the authority, except as otherwise authorized or...

§ 41-73-65. Payment of expenses of authority; state and political subdivisions to be held harmless - All expenses incurred by the authority in carrying out the...

§ 41-73-67. Property of authority as public property; tax exemption; assets to go to state upon dissolution of authority - All property acquired or held by the authority under this...

§ 41-73-69. Bonds of authority as legal investments and as security for public deposits - The state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions...

§ 41-73-71. Annual report of authority - The authority shall, following the close of each fiscal year,...

§ 41-73-73. State officers and agencies to cooperate with authority - All state officers and all state agencies may render such...

§ 41-73-75. Chapter cumulative and supplemental as to powers of authority; bonds exempt from other laws governing issuance of bonds - Neither Sections 41-73-1 through 41-73-73 nor anything contained in Sections...

Chapter 75 - Ambulatory Surgical Facilities

§ 41-75-1. Definitions - For the purpose of this chapter: "Ambulatory surgical facility" means...

§ 41-75-3. Purpose of chapter - The purpose of this chapter is to protect and promote...

§ 41-75-5. License required - No person as defined in Section 41-7-173, acting severally or...

§ 41-75-7. Application for license; fee - An application for a license shall be made to the...

§ 41-75-9. Issuance of license; renewal and fee; transferability; posting - Upon receipt of an application for license and the license...

§ 41-75-11. Denial, suspension or revocation of license; grounds; procedure - The licensing agency after notice and opportunity for a hearing...

§ 41-75-13. Promulgation of rules, regulations and standards - The licensing agency shall adopt, amend, promulgate and enforce rules,...

§ 41-75-15. Conformity with rules, regulations or standards promulgated subsequent to start of operations - Any ambulatory surgical facility which is in operation at the...

§ 41-75-16. Time limitation for abortion facility to comply with rules, regulations, or minimum standards - Any abortion facility which is in operation at the time...

§ 41-75-17. Investigations and inspections - The licensing agency shall make or cause to be made...

§ 41-75-18. Reports by abortion facility - Each abortion facility shall report monthly to the State Department...

§ 41-75-19. Confidentiality of certain information - Information received by the licensing agency through filed reports, inspection,...

§ 41-75-21. Annual reports - The licensing agency shall prepare and publish an annual report...

§ 41-75-23. Appeal from denial, suspension or revocation of license; procedure - Any applicant or licensee aggrieved by the decision of the...

§ 41-75-25. Penalty for violation of chapter - Any person or persons or other entity or entities establishing,...

Chapter 77 - Licensing of Birthing Centers

§ 41-77-1. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter: "Birthing center" shall mean a...

§ 41-77-3. Declaration of purpose - The purpose of this chapter is to protect and promote...

§ 41-77-5. Requirement of license - No person as defined in Section 41-7-173(p), Mississippi Code of...

§ 41-77-7. Requirement of agreement with hospital - No license shall be issued to a "birthing center" until...

§ 41-77-9. Application for license; fee - An application for a license shall be made to the...

§ 41-77-11. Rules, regulations, and standards - The licensing agency shall adopt, amend, promulgate and enforce rules,...

§ 41-77-13. Disclosure of information - Information received by the licensing agency through filed reports, inspection...

§ 41-77-15. Time for compliance by centers already in operation - Any "birthing center" which is in operation at the time...

§ 41-77-17. Inspections and investigations - The licensing agency shall make or cause to be made...

§ 41-77-19. Denial, suspension, or revocation of license; procedures - The licensing agency, after notice and opportunity for a hearing...

§ 41-77-21. Appeal procedures - Any applicant or licensee aggrieved by the decision of the...

§ 41-77-23. Penalties for violations - Any person or persons or other entity or entities establishing,...

§ 41-77-25. Issuance, renewal, and posting of licenses - Upon receipt of an application for license and the license...

Chapter 79 - Health Problems of School Children

School Nurse Intervention Program

§ 41-79-1. Legislative findings - The Legislature finds that health problems often are not prevented...

§ 41-79-3. Authorization to implement regulations - The State Board of Health, after consultation with the State...

Head Lice

§ 41-79-21. Notification by school officials of recurrent head lice - If a student in any public elementary or secondary school...

Prevention of Unintended Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections -

Chapter 81 - Perinatal Health Care

§ 41-81-1. Authorization for regionalized service system - The State Department of Health is authorized to coordinate the...

§ 41-81-3. Contracts with and grants to health-care providers - The State Department of Health is authorized to enter into...

Chapter 83 - Utilization Review of Availability of Hospital Resources and Medical Services

§ 41-83-1. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following terms shall be...

§ 41-83-5. Certificate requirement for general in-house utilization review; exemptions - No certificate is required for those private review agents conducting...

§ 41-83-9. Submission of information in conjunction with application - In conjunction with the application, the private review agent shall...

§ 41-83-15. Reporting requirements to evaluate and determine compliance - The department shall establish reporting requirements to: Evaluate the effectiveness...

§ 41-83-17. Disclosure or publication of information; consent or authorization; court order - A private review agent may not disclose or publish individual...

§ 41-83-19. Penalties for violations - A person who violates any provision of this chapter or...

§ 41-83-21. Certification of need of immediate hospital care; prima facie evidence - Notwithstanding language to the contrary elsewhere contained herein, if a...

§ 41-83-23. Judicial review; other remedies - Any person aggrieved by a final decision of the department...

§ 41-83-29. Group or blanket health insurance policies; certificate requirement; contract with private review agent - Any health insurer proposing to issue or deliver in this...

§ 41-83-31. Adverse determination to patient or health-care provider; discussion of reasons; denial of third party reimbursement or precertification; evaluation by trained specialist - Any program of utilization review with regard to hospital, medical...

Chapter 85 - Mississippi Hospice Law of 1995

§ 41-85-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 41-85-3. Definitions - When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

§ 41-85-9. Inspections and investigations - Any duly authorized officer or employee of the department shall...

§ 41-85-17. Components or modes of hospice programs - Each hospice program shall consist of at least three (3)...

§ 41-85-21. Recordkeeping requirements - An up-to-date, interdisciplinary record of care being given and patient...

§ 41-85-23. Disclosure of information received through hospice program - Information received by persons employed by, or providing services to,...

Chapter 86 - Mississippi Children's Health Care Insurance Program Act

§ 41-86-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known as and may be cited...

§ 41-86-5. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall have...

§ 41-86-7. Establishment of insurance program; funding - There is established a Children's Health Insurance Program in Mississippi,...

§ 41-86-9. Transfer of health insurance program from State and School Employees Health Insurance Management Board to the Division of Medicaid - On January 1, 2013, the Mississippi Children's Health Insurance Program...

§ 41-86-15. Eligibility for benefits - Persons eligible to receive covered benefits under this chapter shall...

Chapter 87 - Early Intervention Act for Infants and Toddlers

§ 41-87-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 41-87-3. Legislative findings - The Legislature finds that there is an urgent and substantial...

§ 41-87-5. Definitions - Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions in this...

§ 41-87-15. Additional federal and state funding to be used to supplement and increase existing funding - Any federal funds made available to the state through Part...

§ 41-87-17. Implementation of early intervention program - Full implementation of the early intervention system according to the...

§ 41-87-19. Review of budgets and policies of participating agencies; financial responsibility - The lead agency shall review the proposed budgets and policies...

Chapter 88 - Mississippi Child Immunization Act of 1994

§ 41-88-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

Chapter 89 - Infant Mortality Reduction

Infant Mortality Task Force -

Infant Mortality Reduction Collaborative -

Chapter 90 - Hearing Impairment of Infants and Toddlers

§ 41-90-3. Legislative findings - Based on information from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the...

§ 41-90-7. Appointment of advisory committee - The State Health Officer shall appoint an advisory committee of...

Chapter 91 - Central Cancer Registry

§ 41-91-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 41-91-3. Definitions - The following words shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless...

§ 41-91-9. Department to publish reports with other cancer reporting organizations and research institutions - The department, in cooperation with other cancer reporting organizations and...

§ 41-91-13. Persons exempt from civil or criminal liability for furnishing information - The following persons who act in compliance with this chapter...

§ 41-91-15. Penalties for failure to provide, or for misuse of, information - Any person or entity who fails to provide the information...

Chapter 93 - Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Act

§ 41-93-1. Short title - This chapter may be cited as the "Osteoporosis Prevention and...

§ 41-93-3. Purposes of chapter - The purposes of this chapter are: To create a statewide...

§ 41-93-5. Powers of State Department of Health - The State Department of Health may: Add sufficient qualified staff...

Chapter 99 - Qualified Health Center Grant Program

§ 41-99-1. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter: "Mississippi qualified health center" means...

§ 41-99-3. Establishment of Qualified Health Center Grant Program; purpose; administration by Department of Health - The Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program is established, under...

§ 41-99-7. Creation of fund for disbursements of grants - There is created a special fund in the State Treasury...

Chapter 101 - Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention and Management

§ 41-101-3. Council may be established as nonprofit corporation; Department of Health may execute contracts with council for development and implementation of obesity prevention and management programs; Statewide Obesity Prevention and Management Fun... - The contractmay include any additional provisions that the State Department...

Chapter 103 - Task Force on Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention -

Chapter 107 - Health Care Rights of Conscience

§ 41-107-1. Title - This chapter may be known and cited as the "Mississippi...

§ 41-107-3. Definitions - As used in this chapter: "Health-care service" means any phase...

§ 41-107-13. Severability - The provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable,...

Chapter 111 - Child Death Review Panel

§ 41-111-3. Mandatory reporting of child fatality or near fatality; mandatory reporters; reporting procedure and contents; confidentiality of reports; reporter immunity; penalties - Confidentiality.Reports made under this section are not public records. Reports...

Chapter 112 - Maternal Mortality Review Committee -

Chapter 113 - Tobacco Education, Prevention and Cessation Program

§ 41-113-7. Duties of Office of Tobacco Control - The Office of Tobacco Control shall perform the following duties,...

Chapter 114 - Restrictions on Tobacco Use in Public Facilities

§ 41-114-1. Use of tobacco by participant or spectator when persons under eighteen years of age are engaged in organized athletic event at public facility prohibited; exceptions, enforcement penalties - Anyone convicted under this section shall be recorded as being...

Chapter 115 - Tanning Facilities -

Chapter 117 - Nurse-Family Partnership Pilot Program -

Chapter 119 - Health Information Technology Act

§ 41-119-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 41-119-3. Mississippi Health Information Network to be public-private partnership for benefit of citizens of Mississippi - The Mississippi Health Information Network is a public-private partnership for...

§ 41-119-5. Mississippi Health Information Network created; board of directors membership, terms, bylaws - Initial terms shall expire on June 30 of the appropriate...

§ 41-119-15. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall...

§ 41-119-19. Legislative Audit Committee to make certain reports regarding development of electronic health information - The Legislative Audit Committee (PEER) shall develop and make a...

§ 41-119-21. Repeal of Sections 41-119-1 through 41-119-21 - Sections 41-119-1 through 41-119-21 shall stand repealed on July 1,...

Chapter 121 - Requirements for Advertisements for Health Care Services

§ 41-121-1. Title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 41-121-3. Purpose - The Legislature finds and declares that: There are a multitude...

§ 41-121-5. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter: "Advertisement" means any communication...

§ 41-121-11. Repeal of this chapter - Sections 41-121-1 through 41-121-9 shall stand repealed on July 1,...

Chapter 123 - Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce

§ 41-123-1. Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce established; purpose, staffing, duties - There is established the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce within...

§ 41-123-5. Powers and duties of Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce - The Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce shall have the following...

§ 41-123-11. Residency programs established with state financial support to accept students from accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools - Any residency program established with state financial support must at...

§ 41-123-13. Funding for operation of Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce - Funding for the operation of the Office of Mississippi Physician...

Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)

§ 41-125-1. Legislative intent - It is the intent of the Legislature to develop, establish,...

§ 41-125-3. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following terms shall be...

§ 41-125-9. Application for license; zoning - In addition to any other information in the application that...

§ 41-125-11. Background screening - The licensing agency shall require criminal record background screening and...

§ 41-125-17. Closing of a PPEC center - Whenever a PPEC center voluntarily discontinues operation, it shall, at...

§ 41-125-21. Construction and renovation; requirements - The requirements for the construction or renovation of a PPEC...

§ 41-125-23. Penalty for violation - Any person who violates any provisions of this chapter is...

Chapter 127 - Telemedicine Services

§ 41-127-1. Licensed health care practitioners authorized to provide health care services via electronic means; standards of practice - Subject to the limitations of the license under which the...

Chapter 129 - Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Program Act -

Chapter 131 - Right to Try Act

§ 41-131-1. Right to try act; definitions; availability of investigational drug, biological product, or device; insurance coverage; action against health care provider's license or Medicare certification prohibited; limitation of liability; severabil... - 1. Patient; 2. Parent, if the patient is a minor;...

Chapter 133 - Lay Caregivers for Hospital Patients

§ 41-133-1. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter: "Aftercare" means any assistance...

§ 41-133-5. Notification to designated lay caregiver of patient's discharge - If a patient or the patient's legal guardian has designated...

§ 41-133-7. Providing information about aftercare to patient and designated lay caregiver - If a patient or patient's legal guardian has designated a...

§ 41-133-11. Use of state or federal funds for payment to lay caregiver prohibited - No state or federal funds shall be used for payment...

Chapter 135 - Support and Promotion of Breast-Feeding in Mississippi

§ 41-135-3. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases...

§ 41-135-9. Preparation of video about importance of breast-feeding infants for presentation in certain Department of Health offices and other state agencies - The State Department of Health shall prepare a video in...

<< Previous

Next >>

Mississippi Code Title 41 - Public Health

Mississippi Code
Title 41 - Public Health