Mississippi Code
Title 43 - Public Welfare
Chapter 31 - Poor Persons

§ 43-31-1. Jurisdiction; county homes - The board of supervisors of each county shall have the...

§ 43-31-3. Purchase land and erect buildings - The board of supervisors may purchase, in the name of...

§ 43-31-5. May sell or exchange the property - The board of supervisors may, when deemed proper, sell or...

§ 43-31-7. Rules for government of county home - The board of supervisors shall prescribe such rules as it...

§ 43-31-9. Pauper employed in labor - The board of supervisors may cause the superintendent of the...

§ 43-31-11. Relief until removal - The board of supervisors, and, in case of emergency, the...

§ 43-31-12. Transferred - Transferred by Laws, 1993, ch. 512, § 1. [Laws, 1993,...

§ 43-31-13. Claims allowed - The board of supervisors may allow, as far as be...

§ 43-31-15. Tax for support of poor - The board of supervisors shall annually assess and cause to...

§ 43-31-17. Obligations not incurred except by authority of the board - Money shall not be disbursed from the county treasury for...

§ 43-31-19. Settlement of paupers - To entitle any pauper to be supported by the county,...

§ 43-31-21. Duty of each supervisor - Whenever any member of the board of supervisors shall ascertain...

§ 43-31-23. Support of pauper for his labor - The board of supervisors may, with the consent of the...

§ 43-31-25. Certain relatives bound to support pauper; liability of deceased pauper's estate - The father and grandfather, the mother and grandmother, and brothers...

§ 43-31-27. Strolling paupers removed and, if sick, relieved - The members of the board of supervisors shall prevent the...

§ 43-31-29. Relief of those not entitled to a settlement; burial of strangers; indigent burial policy; board adjudication of person as pauper; board authorized to contribute funds or pay full cost of burial - The board of supervisors of any county shall also relieve,...

§ 43-31-31. Certain dead to be buried by corporate authorities - The municipal authorities of every city, town, and village shall...

§ 43-31-33. Children of seven years of age or older not allowed at the county home - It shall be unlawful for any superintendent of a county...

§ 43-31-35. Bond required of commanders of vessels bringing into state certain persons who may require support and care - If any person commanding a ship, vessel, steamboat, or other...

§ 43-31-37. Master of vessel landing alien passengers - When any ship, vessel, or steamboat shall arrive at any...

§ 43-31-39. Distribution of federal surplus food commodities to needy - The boards of supervisors of the several counties of Mississippi...