Mississippi Code
Title 97 - Crimes

Chapter 1 - Conspiracy, Accessories and Attempts

§ 97-1-3. Accessories before the fact - Every person who shall be an accessory to any felony,...

§ 97-1-6. Directing or causing felony to be committed by person under age of seventeen years - In addition to any other penalty and provision of law,...

§ 97-1-9. Attempt to commit offense; no conviction if offense completed - A person shall not be convicted of an assault with...

Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person

§ 97-3-1. Abduction for purposes of marriage - Every person who shall take any person over the age...

§ 97-3-3. Abortion; causing abortion or miscarriage - Said person shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the State...

§ 97-3-5. Abortion; advertisement, sale or gift of drugs or instruments - A person who sells, lends, gives away, or in any...

§ 97-3-7. Simple assault; aggravated assault; simple domestic violence; simple domestic violence third; aggravated domestic violence; aggravated domestic violence third - Upon conviction, the defendant shall be punished by a fine...

§ 97-3-13. False confinement; sending sane person to psychiatric hospital or institution - Every person or officer who maliciously sends to or confines...

§ 97-3-17. Homicide; excusable homicide - The killing of any human being by the act, procurement,...

§ 97-3-23. Homicide; death following duels fought out of state - Every person who shall, by previous appointment, agreement, or understanding...

§ 97-3-27. Homicide; killing while committing felony - The killing of a human being without malice, by the...

§ 97-3-29. Homicide; killing while committing a misdemeanor - The killing of a human being without malice, by the...

§ 97-3-31. Homicide; killing unnecessarily, while resisting effort of slain to commit felony or do unlawful act - Every person who shall unnecessarily kill another, either while resisting...

§ 97-3-33. Killing trespasser involuntarily - The involuntary killing of a human being by the act,...

§ 97-3-35. Homicide; killing without malice in the heat of passion - The killing of a human being, without malice, in the...

§ 97-3-39. Homicide; drunken doctor, etc., unintentionally causing death - If any physician or other person, while in a state...

§ 97-3-41. Homicide; overloading boat - Any person navigating any boat or vessel for gain, who...

§ 97-3-43. Homicide; ignorant or negligent management of steamboat or railroad engine - If any captain, engineer, or any other person having charge...

§ 97-3-45. Homicide; owner of dangerous animal - If the owner of a mischievous animal, knowing its propensity,...

§ 97-3-47. Homicide; all other killings - Every other killing of a human being, by the act,...

§ 97-3-49. Suicide; aiding - A person who wilfully, or in any manner, advises, encourages,...

§ 97-3-53. Kidnapping; punishment - Any person who, without lawful authority and with or without...

§ 97-3-54. Human Trafficking Act; short title - Sections 97-3-54 through 97-3-54.9 may be known and cited as...

§ 97-3-54.2. Human Trafficking Act; destruction, concealment, or confiscation of passport or other immigration document for purpose of preventing person's freedom of movement or ability to travel; penalties - Anyone who knowingly destroys, conceals, removes, confiscates or possesses, or...

§ 97-3-54.3. Human Trafficking Act; aiding, abetting, or conspiring to violate human trafficking provisions - A person who knowingly aids, abets or conspires with one...

§ 97-3-54.4. Human Trafficking Act; definitions - For the purposes of the Mississippi Human Trafficking Act the...

§ 97-3-54.5. Human Trafficking Act; use of undercover operative in detection of offense permitted - The fact that an undercover operative or law enforcement officer...

§ 97-3-55. Libel; penalty - Any person who shall be convicted of writing or publishing...

§ 97-3-57. Libel; truth as defense - In every criminal prosecution for libel it shall be lawful...

§ 97-3-59. Mayhem - Every person who, from premeditated design or with intent to...

§ 97-3-61. Poisoning with intent to kill or injure - Every person who shall mingle any poison with any food,...

§ 97-3-63. Poisoning with intent to kill; where death does not ensue - Every person who shall be convicted of having administered, or...

§ 97-3-69. Rape; "chaste character" presumed; uncorroborated testimony of victim insufficient - In the trial of all cases under the last preceding...

§ 97-3-71. Rape; assault with intent to ravish - Every person who shall be convicted of an assault with...

§ 97-3-73. Robbery; definition - Every person who shall feloniously take the personal property of...

§ 97-3-75. Robbery; penalty - Every person convicted of robbery shall be punished by imprisonment...

§ 97-3-77. Robbery; threat to injure person or relative at another time - Every person who shall feloniously take the personal property of...

§ 97-3-79. Robbery; use of deadly weapon - Every person who shall feloniously take or attempt to take...

§ 97-3-81. Robbery; threatening letter demanding money, property - Every person who shall knowingly send or deliver, or shall...

§ 97-3-83. Robbery; bonds, bills, notes, etc., cotton receipts and railroad tickets - Robbery of obligations or bonds, bill obligatory, bank bills or...

§ 97-3-85. Threats and intimidation; by letter or notice - If any person shall post, mail, deliver, or drop a...

§ 97-3-87. Threats and intimidation; whitecapping - Any person or persons who shall, by placards, or other...

§ 97-3-89. Timber, trees and saw logs; tampering with to injure or harass the owner prohibited - Any person who shall maliciously and knowingly drive, force, place,...

§ 97-3-91. Timber, trees and saw logs; penalty for tampering when injury occurs - When any person shall be physically injured in handling, sawing,...

§ 97-3-93. Timber, trees and saw logs; penalty for tampering when death results - Whenever the death of any person shall be caused by...

§ 97-3-97. Sexual battery; definitions - For purposes of Sections 97-3-95 through 97-3-103 the following words...

§ 97-3-99. Sexual battery; defense - A person is not guilty of any offense under Sections...

§ 97-3-103. Sexual battery; relationship with other criminal statutes - Sections 97-3-95 through 97-3-103 shall not be held to repeal,...

§ 97-3-113. Mississippi Carjacking Act; short title - Sections 97-3-113, 97-3-115 and 97-3-117 shall be known and may...

§ 97-3-115. Mississippi Carjacking Act; definitions - The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed...

Chapter 5 - Offenses Affecting Children

§ 97-5-1. Abandonment of child under age six - If the father or mother of any child under the...

§ 97-5-3. Desertion or nonsupport of child under age eighteen - Any parent who shall desert or wilfully neglect or refuse...

§ 97-5-5. Enticing child for concealment, prostitution or marriage - Every person who shall maliciously, willfully, or fraudulently lead, take,...

§ 97-5-7. Enticing child for employment - Any person who shall persuade, entice or decoy away from...

§ 97-5-9. Iceboxes, etc.; abandonment without removing latch prohibited - If any person shall have on his premises, or shall...

§ 97-5-11. Pool room or billiard hall; certain minors prohibited from entering - No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall...

§ 97-5-24. Sexual involvement of school employee with student; duty to report; penalties for failure to report; immunity from civil liability for report made in good faith - If any person eighteen (18) years or older who is...

§ 97-5-31. Exploitation of children; definitions - As used in Sections 97-5-33 through 97-5-37, the following words...

§ 97-5-35. Exploitation of children; penalties - Any person who violates any provision of Section 97-5-33 shall...

§ 97-5-37. Exploitation of children; other remedies - The provisions of Sections 97-5-31 through 97-5-37 are supplemental to...

§ 97-5-51. Mandatory reporting of sex crimes against minors; definitions; procedure; report contents; forensic samples; penalties - 1. By state agency rule as part of licensure of...

Chapter 7 - Crimes Against Sovereignty or Administration of Government

§ 97-7-1. Assessment; failure or refusal to deliver by taxpayer - If any taxpayer shall refuse or wilfully neglect to deliver...

§ 97-7-3. Assessment; failure to deliver by banker - If the president, cashier, or other officer having like duties,...

§ 97-7-5. Assessment; frauds on - If any taxpayer shall wilfully render to the assessor for...

§ 97-7-7. Capitol building; not to be used for sleeping-rooms - If any person shall occupy any of the offices, apartments,...

§ 97-7-9. Capitol building; defacing - If any person shall, by any means whatsoever, wilfully injure...

§ 97-7-11. Conspiracy to defraud state; obtaining public funds fraudulently - If any person shall enter into any agreement, combination or...

§ 97-7-13. Conspiracy to defraud state; defeating or preventing prosecution of just claim due state - If any person, with intent to defraud the State of...

§ 97-7-15. Conspiracy to defraud state; each party guilty of felony when one or more conspirators act - If two or more persons, with intent to defraud the...

§ 97-7-17. Conspiracy to prevent holding a public office or discharging its duties, etc.; by use of force, etc. - If two (2) or more persons conspire to prevent, by...

§ 97-7-19. Conspiracy to prevent holding public office or discharging its duties, etc.; by use of boycott - If two (2) or more persons conspire to prevent any...

§ 97-7-29. Destroying, injuring, etc. property to hinder war efforts - Whoever intentionally destroys, impairs, injures, interferes or tampers with real...

§ 97-7-31. Destroying, injuring, etc. state or federally licensed communication systems - Whoever intentionally destroys, impairs, injures, or tampers or interferes with...

§ 97-7-33. False statements to federal authorities as to denial of constitutional rights by the state or its agents - It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to...

§ 97-7-39. Flags; desecration of national or state flag prohibited - Any person who, in any manner, for exhibition or display,...

§ 97-7-42. Fraudulent use of food coupons dispensed by state welfare department - Whoever knowingly obtains or attempts to obtain, or aids or...

§ 97-7-43. Impersonating state, county or municipal officer or employee - Whoever falsely and willfully assumes or pretends to be an...

§ 97-7-44. Impersonation of state, county, municipal or other public officer or employee prohibited; penalties - Any person who falsely and willfully assumes or pretends to...

§ 97-7-45. Legislature; preventing or attempting to prevent meetings - Every person who wilfully, and by force or fraud, prevents,...

§ 97-7-47. Legislature; disturbing proceedings - Every person who wilfully disturbs the legislature, or either of...

§ 97-7-49. Legislature; altering bills or resolutions before passage - Every person who fraudulently alters, destroys, or mutilates the draft...

§ 97-7-51. Legislature; altering bills or resolutions after passage - Every person who fraudulently alters, destroys, or mutilates the enrolled...

§ 97-7-53. Legislature; bribing or influencing member - Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe...

§ 97-7-55. Legislature; member accepting or agreeing to accept bribes - Every member of either house composing the legislature who asks,...

§ 97-7-57. Legislature; influence peddling - Every person who obtains, or seeks to obtain, money or...

§ 97-7-59. Military service; failure to report for active duty - Any officer or enlisted man of the Mississippi national guard...

§ 97-7-61. Military service; organizing military body for public drill or parade; license required - It shall be unlawful for any body of men whatsoever,...

§ 97-7-65. Timber; cutting and rafting from state lands - If any person shall be guilty of cutting or rafting...

§ 97-7-67. Treason; punishment - If any person shall levy war against this state, or...

§ 97-7-69. Treason; essential proof - A person shall not be convicted of treason unless upon...

§ 97-7-71. Advocacy of violent overthrow of constitution or government; punishment - Any person who advocates in writing or in print or...

Chapter 9 - Offenses Affecting Administration of Justice

Article 1 - In General

§ 97-9-3. Court records and public papers; stealing, concealing, destroying, etc. - The stealing and carrying away, or fraudulently withdrawing, concealing, or...

§ 97-9-5. Bribery; jurors, arbitrators, and referees accepting, and person promising them, punished - If any person drawn, summoned, chosen, or appointed as a...

§ 97-9-7. Bribery; taking reward for compounding or concealing, etc. crime punishable by death or life imprisonment - Every person having a knowledge of the actual commission of...

§ 97-9-9. Bribery; taking reward for compounding or concealing crime punishable by less than life imprisonment - Every person having a knowledge of the actual commission of...

§ 97-9-11. Champerty and maintenance; solicitation and stirring up of litigation prohibited - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, corporation,...

§ 97-9-13. Champerty and maintenance; penalty - Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 97-9-11...

§ 97-9-15. Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of party - Every person who commences or prosecutes or assists in the...

§ 97-9-17. Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of attorney representing party - Every attorney representing any person, firm, partnership, corporation, group, organization,...

§ 97-9-19. Champerty and maintenance; penalty for false affidavit - Every person or attorney who shall file a false affidavit...

§ 97-9-21. Champerty and maintenance; immunity granted witnesses compelled to testify concerning violations; penalty for failure to testify - No person shall be excused from attending or testifying or...

§ 97-9-23. Champerty and maintenance; exceptions; legislative intent - The provisions of Sections 97-9-11 through 97-9-23 shall not be...

§ 97-9-25. Escape of inmates of state institutions; aiding, abetting, etc. - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, corporation...

§ 97-9-27. Escape of prisoners; conveying articles useful for escape to felons - Every person who shall convey into the penitentiary, jail, or...

§ 97-9-29. Escape of prisoners; aiding escape of felons generally; rescuing prisoners from custody - Every person who shall, by any means whatever, aid or...

§ 97-9-31. Escape of prisoners; aiding prisoners other than felons generally; conveying article useful for escape - Every person who, by any means whatever, shall aid or...

§ 97-9-33. Escape of prisoners; aiding escapes from officers - Every person who shall aid or assist any prisoner in...

§ 97-9-35. Escape of prisoners; permitting escape - If any officer, or guard of the penitentiary, or any...

§ 97-9-37. Escape of prisoners; private persons having custody of prisoner arrested on suspicion - If any private person having a prisoner in his keeping,...

§ 97-9-39. Escape of prisoners; refusal of officer, jailer, etc., to arrest or confine; refusal to receive prisoners at jail; suffering an escape; accepting bribe to permit escape - If any sheriff, jailer, constable, marshal, or other officer, shall...

§ 97-9-41. Escape of prisoners; concealing or harboring escaped prisoner - Every person who shall knowingly conceal or harbor any prisoner...

§ 97-9-43. Escape of prisoners; escapee may be retaken after term expires and imprisoned until tried - If any convict, confined in any jail or in the...

§ 97-9-45. Escape of prisoners; penalty; willful failure to return to jail after being entrusted to leave - If any person sentenced to the Mississippi Department of Corrections...

§ 97-9-47. Escape of prisoners; penalty for penitentiary convicts serving less than life term; attempt by force or violence - Every person lawfully imprisoned in the penitentiary for any term...

§ 97-9-53. Indictments; penalty for disclosing facts relating to indictment - If a grand juror, witness, district attorney, clerk, sheriff, or...

§ 97-9-55. Intimidating judge, juror, witness, attorney, etc., or otherwise obstructing justice - If any person or persons by threats, force or abuse,...

§ 97-9-57. Officer not to converse with juror; penalty - The sheriff, bailiff, or other officer, shall not be in...

§ 97-9-59. Perjury; definition - Every person who shall wilfully and corruptly swear, testify, or...

§ 97-9-61. Perjury; penalty - Persons convicted of perjury shall be punished by imprisonment in...

§ 97-9-63. Perjury; subornation of - Every person who shall unlawfully or corruptly procure any witness,...

§ 97-9-65. Perjury; bribery to procure - Every person who shall, by the offer of any valuable...

§ 97-9-69. Property levied on; removing without authority - Any person who shall, without authority of law, remove property...

§ 97-9-71. Property subject to seizure; refusing or failing to point out to officers - If any person shall have in his possession or under...

§ 97-9-73. Resisting or obstructing arrest; fleeing or eluding law enforcement officer in motor vehicle - It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct or...

§ 97-9-75. Resisting service of process - Any person who knowingly and wilfully opposes or resists any...

§ 97-9-77. Wills; alteration, destruction or secretion - If any person shall wilfully alter or destroy any will...

§ 97-9-79. Misdemeanor; false information - Any person who shall make or cause to be made...

Article 3 - Obstruction of Justice

§ 97-9-101. Definitions - The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed...

§ 97-9-103. Hindering prosecution or apprehension; definition of "criminal assistance." - For the purposes of this article, a person "renders criminal...

Chapter 11 - Offenses Involving Public Officials

§ 97-11-1. Alteration of records - If any clerk of any court, or public officer or...

§ 97-11-3. Attorney general and district attorney not to advise or defend criminals - If the attorney general or any district attorney shall, in...

§ 97-11-9. Bond; approving worthless official bond - If any officer shall approve any official bond, knowing or...

§ 97-11-11. Bribery; offer, promise or gift of property to candidate, officer, agent or trustee to influence his action - Every person who shall promise, offer or give to any...

§ 97-11-13. Bribery; penalty when officer, agent or trustee accepts bribe - If any officer, agent or trustee shall accept any gift,...

§ 97-11-15. Circuit clerk; penalty for failure or refusal to send up certificate of appeal - Any clerk of a circuit court who shall wilfully or...

§ 97-11-17. Clerk refusing to give certified copy of papers - If any clerk shall neglect or refuse to make out...

§ 97-11-23. Drunkenness in office - Any officer who shall be guilty of habitual drunkenness, or...

§ 97-11-25. Embezzlement; officers, trustees and public employees converting property to own use - If any state officer or any county officer, or an...

§ 97-11-27. Embezzlement; officers and public agents failing to deliver money, records, etc. to successor - If any officer or agent of this state, or of...

§ 97-11-29. Embezzlement; accounts to be kept by all public officers; false entries, false certificates, loan of public funds and fraud on the treasury - The state treasurer, auditor of public accounts, assessors and collectors...

§ 97-11-31. Embezzlement; fraud committed in public office - If any officer, or other person employed in any public...

§ 97-11-33. Extortion; collecting unauthorized fees and fees for services not actually rendered - If any judge, justice court judge, sheriff, deputy sheriff, sheriff's...

§ 97-11-35. Failure to return known offenders; purposeful avoidance of knowledge of offense - If any judge, justice court judge, constable, member of the...

§ 97-11-37. Failure to perform any duty - If any person, being sheriff, clerk of any court, constable,...

§ 97-11-39. Military officers; resigning to evade obedience to order prohibited - Any officer who shall offer to resign in order to...

§ 97-11-41. Oath of office and bond; elected officials not to exercise duties before taking oath or giving bond, as required - If any person elected to any office shall undertake to...

§ 97-11-43. Railroad fares; government officials to pay same fare as general passengers; accepting and using free pass - If any officer, state, county, district, or municipal, except the...

§ 97-11-45. Tax collector and chancery clerk; failure to perform duty in respect to duplicate tax receipts - Any tax collector who shall fail to fill up, in...

§ 97-11-47. Tax collector; failure to make settlement - Any tax collector who shall wilfully fail or refuse for...

§ 97-11-49. Tax collector; collecting privilege tax without issuing license - If any tax collector, or deputy or agent of any...

§ 97-11-51. Trustees of state institutions not to incur liability in excess of income - It shall be unlawful for the board of trustees or...

§ 97-11-53. Offer of inducements to influence public official's action on award of contracts or accomplishment of official acts - As used in this section the following words shall have...

Chapter 13 - Election Crimes

§ 97-13-1. Bribery; influencing electors or election officers - If any elector, manager, clerk or canvasser at any election,...

§ 97-13-3. Bribery; hiring canvasser to use unlawful means - If any person shall offer or give a gift, money,...

§ 97-13-5. Ballot boxes; holding election with box unlocked; reading ballot before putting in box - Any such manager who shall proceed to any election without...

§ 97-13-7. Ballot boxes; unauthorized disposal of box; giving key - Any manager of an election who, before the votes are...

§ 97-13-9. Ballots; false entries on voting lists; stuffing; removing, altering, etc. - If any manager or clerk of any election shall knowingly...

§ 97-13-13. Ballots; removal before close of polls - If any person shall take or remove any ballot from...

§ 97-13-15. Limitations on corporate contributions to political party or candidate - It shall be unlawful for any corporation, incorporated company or...

§ 97-13-17. Limitations on corporate contributions to political party or candidate; penalty - Any corporation, incorporated company or incorporated association, or agent, officer...

§ 97-13-19. Corrupt conduct, etc., by election official - If any manager, clerk, or any other officer whatever, assisting...

§ 97-13-21. Disturbing election - If any person shall unlawfully disturb any election at a...

§ 97-13-23. Failure or refusal to make return of votes cast - If any manager or returning officer shall fail or refuse...

§ 97-13-25. Registration; falsely procuring registration - Any person who shall knowingly procure his or any person's...

§ 97-13-27. Registration; neglect or misconduct by registrar - If any registrar appointed by law to register votes shall...

§ 97-13-29. Troops of armed men not to be brought near election place - It shall not be lawful for any military officer or...

§ 97-13-31. Voting; aid in preparing ballot prohibited - If any election officer or other person, except as authorized...

§ 97-13-33. Voting; dishonest decisions by managers concerning qualifications of voters - When one who offers to vote at an election shall...

§ 97-13-36. Multiple voting; penalties - Any person who shall knowingly vote at any election in...

§ 97-13-37. Intimidating, boycotting, etc., elector to procure vote - Whoever shall procure, or endeavor to procure, the vote of...

§ 97-13-41. Penalty for false entry, unauthorized revision, removal or alteration in Statewide Elections Management System or poll book - Any person who shall knowingly make a false entry, unauthorized...

§ 97-13-43. Penalty for willfully tampering with or damaging voting machine, tabulating computer or other device used in connection with election or preventing correct operation of said machine or device - Any person who willfully tampers with or damages any voting...

§ 97-13-45. Penalty for unlawfully showing ballot to another, making false statement as to inability to mark ballot, or marking ballot so as to identify voter - Any voter who shall, except as provided by law, allow...

Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways

§ 97-15-3. Highway commission members and employees; bribery - Whoever being a member of the state highway commission, or...

§ 97-15-5. Highway commission members, employees or highway contractors; conspiracy to violate contracts and defraud state - Any member of the state highway commission or any person...

§ 97-15-11. Highway contractors, materialmen, etc.; collusion to raise prices - It shall be unlawful for any contractors, material dealers, individuals,...

§ 97-15-15. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; charging excessive toll - Any keeper of any public ferry, toll-bridge, or causeway, who...

§ 97-15-17. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; failure to give bond; suffering bridge, etc. to be out of order - If any owner or keeper of a public ferry, toll-bridge,...

§ 97-15-19. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; unreasonable detention of person - If any person shall be unreasonably detained, at any time,...

§ 97-15-21. Levees; breaking enclosures; depositing trash, etc., or storing commodities; damaging - If any person shall willfully cut, break down, remove, destroy...

§ 97-15-23. Levees; disfiguring, etc., or excavating dirt or sand on levee right-of-way - If any person or persons shall willfully cut into, mutilate...

§ 97-15-25. Levees; maliciously cutting, destroying, etc. - If any person shall wilfully or maliciously cut, break, injure,...

§ 97-15-27. Levees; hunting or engaging in target practice upon mainline levee structure or right-of-way - If any person shall hunt or engage in target practice...

§ 97-15-31. Littering highways, streets, sidewalks, etc. with tacks, glass or other damaging objects - It shall be unlawful for any person, or corporation acting...

§ 97-15-33. Obstructing, injuring, destroying bridge, causeway or ferry - If any person shall wilfully obstruct, break, injure, or destroy...

§ 97-15-35. Obstructing or injuring plank-road, covered, or other roads - If any person shall wantonly or negligently obstruct or injure...

§ 97-15-37. Obstructing public highway - If any person shall fell any bush or tree into...

§ 97-15-39. Obstructing waterways; felling tree or bush into stream or canal or obstructing in any way - If any person shall fell any bush or tree into...

§ 97-15-41. Obstructing waterways; felling trees in excess of six inches in diameter into running stream - It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person,...

§ 97-15-43. Obstructing waterways; navigable channel - If any captain or master of a vessel, or any...

§ 97-15-45. Obstructing waterways; permanently obstructing navigable waters - If any person shall, in any manner, permanently obstruct any...

§ 97-15-47. Road overseers; refusing or neglecting duty - All overseers of roads who shall refuse or neglect to...

§ 97-15-49. Road overseers; suffering road to remain out of repair - If any person shall suffer any public road of which...

§ 97-15-51. Corporation convicted for failure to keep road, etc., in repair; consequences of failure to pay fine - When a corporation shall be convicted, on indictment for a...

Chapter 17 - Crimes Against Property

In General

§ 97-17-5. Arson; second degree; other buildings or structures - Any person who wilfully and maliciously sets fire to or...

§ 97-17-7. Arson; third degree; personal property - Any person who wilfully and maliciously sets fire to or...

§ 97-17-11. Arson; insured property - Any person who wilfully and with intent to injure or...

§ 97-17-14. Aggravated assault upon fire fighter, law enforcement officer or emergency medical personnel by injury-causing arson - Any person or persons who willfully, feloniously and maliciously set...

§ 97-17-15. Boundary landmarks; altering or destroying - If any person shall knowingly cut, fell, alter, remove, or...

§ 97-17-17. Brands of saw-logs; altering or defacing - If any person shall knowingly and wilfully alter or deface...

§ 97-17-25. Burglary; breaking out of dwelling - Every person who, being in the dwelling house of another,...

§ 97-17-29. Burglary; breaking inner door of dwelling by one lawfully in house - Every person who, being lawfully in the dwelling house of...

§ 97-17-31. Burglary; dwelling house defined - Every building joined to, immediately connected with, or being part...

§ 97-17-35. Burglary; possession of burglar's tools - It is unlawful for any person to have in his...

§ 97-17-37. Burglary; with explosives - Any person, who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and...

§ 97-17-39. Penalties for injuring, destroying or defacing certain cemetery property, public buildings, schools or churches, or property thereof - If any person, by any means whatever, shall willfully or...

§ 97-17-45. Larceny; stealing bond, note, bill, securities, etc.; proof of value - If any person shall steal any bond, covenant, note, bank-bill,...

§ 97-17-47. Larceny; severing crops, or parts of improvements or enclosures - If any person shall sever from the soil of another...

§ 97-17-49. Larceny; shearing wool from dead sheep - If any person shall shear or take off in any...

§ 97-17-51. Larceny; stealing dog - Every person who shall feloniously steal, take and carry away...

§ 97-17-55. Larceny; stealing milk from cow - Any person who shall milk the cow of another, knowingly,...

§ 97-17-61. Larceny; taking and carrying away certain animals or motor vehicles not amounting to larceny - Any person who shall, without the consent of the owner...

§ 97-17-63. Larceny; tenants in common - Any tenant in common of personal property, or person who...

§ 97-17-71. Receiving stolen property; definitions; scrap metal dealers and other purchasers to keep records of purchases of metal property; content of records; metal property to be held separate and identifiable from other purchases for not less tha... - Such records shall be maintained by the scrap metal dealer...

§ 97-17-73. Removing agricultural products subject to lien from premises where produced - Any person who, with notice of an employer's, employee's, laborer's,...

§ 97-17-75. Removing personal property subject to lien from county, or selling same - Any person who shall remove, or cause to be removed,...

§ 97-17-77. Removing personal property subject to lien out of state - If any person shall move, or cause to be removed,...

§ 97-17-79. Trees; boxing pine trees - If any person shall box for turpentine, or cut or...

§ 97-17-81. Trees; cutting or rafting upon lands of another - If any person shall cut or raft any cypress, pine,...

§ 97-17-83. Trees; injuring or destroying shade or ornamental tree - If any person shall wilfully injure or destroy any shade...

§ 97-17-84. Penalty for removal of "sea oats" or "uniola paniculata" from shores - Any person who removes a plant commonly known as "sea...

§ 97-17-85. Trespass; going upon inclosed land of another - Except as otherwise provided in Section 73-13-103, if any person...

§ 97-17-89. Trespass; destruction or carrying away of vegetation, etc. not amounting to larceny - Any person who shall enter upon the closed or unenclosed...

§ 97-17-91. Trespass; defacing, altering or destroying notices posted on land - Any person who shall deface, remove, alter or destroy any...

§ 97-17-95. Trespass; entry on premises where atomic machinery, rockets and other dangerous devices are manufactured, etc. - It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully enter...

Larceny of Consigned Motor Fuel

§ 97-17-201. Definition of consigned motor fuel - As used in Sections 97-17-201 through 97-17-207, the term "consigned...

§ 97-17-205. Taking consigned motor fuels without consent of consignor and in violation of written consignment agreement - It shall be unlawful for any person to take, use,...

§ 97-17-207. Penalties - A person who violates Sections 97-17-201 through 97-17-207 shall be...

Chapter 19 - False Pretenses and Cheats

§ 97-19-5. Citation of Sections 97-19-5 through 97-19-29 - Sections 97-19-5 through 97-19-29 shall be known as the "Mississippi...

§ 97-19-7. Credit cards; construction of provisions - Sections 97-19-5 through 97-19-29 shall not be construed so as...

§ 97-19-9. Credit cards; definitions - The following words and phrases as used in Sections 97-19-5...

§ 97-19-11. Credit cards; procuring issuance by false statements - Any person who makes or causes to be made either...

§ 97-19-13. Credit cards; acquisition by theft or artifice; unlawful sales and purchases; receipt of cards issued in another's name - A person who takes a credit card from the person,...

§ 97-19-15. Credit cards; controlling card as security for debt - Any person, who, with intent to defraud the issuer, a...

§ 97-19-17. Credit cards; forgery - Every person who, with intent to defraud a purported cardholder,...

§ 97-19-19. Credit cards; signing with intent to defraud - Any person other than the cardholder or a person authorized...

§ 97-19-23. Credit cards; furnishing things of value on forged or unlawfully obtained card; failing to give value represented as given - Any person or any agent of said person who is...

§ 97-19-25. Credit cards; possession of incomplete cards or plates and devices for their reproduction - Any person other than the cardholder or one authorized by...

§ 97-19-27. Credit cards; receipt of things of value in violation of law - Any person who receives money, goods, property, services, or anything...

§ 97-19-29. Credit cards; penalty for violation of Sections 97-19-5 through 97-19-29 - Except as otherwise provided in Section 97-19-21, any person who...

§ 97-19-33. False personation; personating another to marry, become bail or surety, confess judgment, acknowledge recorded instrument, or act in suit - Every person who shall falsely represent or personate another, and...

§ 97-19-35. False personation; personating another to receive money or property - Every person who shall falsely represent or personate another, and,...

§ 97-19-37. False personation; masquerading as deaf person - No person in this state shall engage in the business...

§ 97-19-41. Obtaining signature or thing of value with intent to defraud; penalty for using false negotiable instrument - If the false token by which any money, personal property,...

§ 97-19-43. Patriotic and fraternal organizations; unauthorized use of membership buttons, insignia, etc. - Any person not being a member of the Confederate Veterans,...

§ 97-19-45. Producing child with intent to intercept inheritance - Every person who shall fraudulently produce an infant, falsely pretending...

§ 97-19-47. Receiving deposits when bank is insolvent - The officers or employees of any bank or branch bank...

§ 97-19-49. Registering animal falsely; giving false pedigree - If any person shall, by any false pretense whatever, obtain...

§ 97-19-51. Selling property previously sold or encumbered - If any person shall sell, barter, or exchange or mortgage,...

§ 97-19-53. Substituting child to deceive parent or guardian - Every person to whom an infant, under the age of...

§ 97-19-57. Bad checks, electronically converted checks, electronic commercial debits; presumption of fraudulent intent; notice that check or electronic fund transfer has not been paid; notice returned undelivered as evidence of intent to defraud; tr... - "STATE OF_______________ COUNTY OF_______________ _______________ , being first duly sworn...

§ 97-19-61. Bad checks, electronically converted check, electronic commercial debit; when notice need not be given - Such notice as is provided for in Section 97-19-57 is...

§ 97-19-65. Bad checks, electronically converted checks, electronic commercial debits; each violation constitutes a separate offense - Each making, drawing, issuing, uttering, delivering, or initiation of any...

§ 97-19-69. Bad checks, electronically converted checks, electronic commercial debits; non-liability for causing arrest or imprisonment of drawer - In the event of the existence of prima facie evidence...

§ 97-19-79. District attorney to file court complaint upon failure of accused to make restitution - If, after receiving notice as provided for by subsection (3)...

§ 97-19-81. Right of lender to add fee to amount of loan when payment on loan made with bad check - When an entity that is authorized by the laws of...

Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting

Article 1 - General Provisions

§ 97-21-1. Account books kept in public offices - Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall make any...

§ 97-21-3. Account books kept by corporations - Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall make any...

§ 97-21-5. Certain instruments deemed writings - Every instrument, partly written and partly printed, or wholly printed,...

§ 97-21-7. Certificate of acknowledgment or proof of deeds and other recordable instruments - If any officer authorized to take the proof or acknowledgment...

§ 97-21-9. Certificate or public security, share in public stock or indorsement thereof - Every person who shall be convicted of having forged, counterfeited,...

§ 97-21-11. Coin operated machines; use or sale of slug or other device - Any person who shall operate or cause to be operated,...

§ 97-21-13. Counterfeiting: currency or treasury notes of United States - Every person who shall be convicted of having counterfeited any...

§ 97-21-15. Counterfeiting: currency of foreign countries - Every person who shall be convicted of having counterfeited currency...

§ 97-21-17. Counterfeiting: possession of counterfeit currency with intention to utter - Every person who shall have in his possession any counterfeit...

§ 97-21-19. Corporate evidences of debt signed by pretended officer - The false making, forging, or counterfeiting of any evidence of...

§ 97-21-21. Destruction, erasure, or obliteration of writing deemed forgery - The total erasure, obliteration, or destruction of any instrument of...

§ 97-21-23. Engraving or possessing plate for printing bank check, note or other evidence of debt; possessing impressions made from such plate - Every person who shall be convicted of having made or...

§ 97-21-25. Engraving or possessing plate for printing bank check, note or other evidence of debt; when plate deemed imitation of genuine instrument - Every plate specified in Section 97-21-23, shall be deemed to...

§ 97-21-27. Intent to defraud - Whenever, by any of the provisions of this chapter, an...

§ 97-21-29. Making and uttering instrument in own name under pretense that it is act of another of same name - If any person shall, with intent to injure or defraud,...

§ 97-21-31. Parts of several genuine instruments connected to make one instrument - When different parts of several genuine instruments shall be so...

§ 97-21-35. Pleadings, process and other court papers, licenses, or written instruments generally - Every person who, with the intent to injure or defraud,...

§ 97-21-37. Possession of counterfeit bank notes or other instrument with intention to utter - Every person who shall have in his possession any forged,...

§ 97-21-39. Railroad tickets; definition - The words "railroad passenger ticket," as used in Sections 97-21-41...

§ 97-21-41. Railroad tickets; making or altering - Every person who shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit any...

§ 97-21-43. Railroad tickets; possession of forged or altered tickets - Every person who shall sell or offer to sell, or...

§ 97-21-45. Record of will or other instrument constituting evidence, judgment or decree of court, or return on process - Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall falsely alter,...

§ 97-21-47. Seal of state and other government and corporate seals or their impressions - Every person who shall forge or counterfeit the great seal...

§ 97-21-49. Selling or offering to sell counterfeit notes or other evidence of debt, etc. - Every person who shall be convicted of having sold, exchanged,...

§ 97-21-51. Unauthorized use or signing of another's name to telegram, petition or related communication - If any person shall wilfully and falsely, or fraudulently forge,...

§ 97-21-59. Uttering counterfeit instrument or coin - Every person who shall be convicted of having uttered or...

§ 97-21-61. Warrants on state treasury, United States treasury, or county, city, town or village treasury - If any person shall falsely or fraudulently make, forge, or...

§ 97-21-63. Will, deed, certificate of acknowledgment or proof of recordable instrument - Every person who shall be convicted of having forged, counterfeited,...

Article 2 - Forfeiture of Property for Violations of Trademark and Recordings Laws -

Chapter 23 - Offenses Affecting Trade, Business and Professions

§ 97-23-1. False advertising and misrepresentation of nature of business - However, this section shall in nowise affect or prohibit a...

§ 97-23-3. Advertising; untrue, deceptive, or misleading - Any person who, with intent to sell or in any...

§ 97-23-5. Advertising; pulling down advertisements - If any person shall pull down any advertisement authorized by...

§ 97-23-7. Cotton; fraudulent packing - If any person shall fraudulently pack or bale any cotton,...

§ 97-23-9. Cotton; seed-cotton not sold at night - Any person who shall buy, sell, or exchange or receive...

§ 97-23-11. Cotton; scalage; deductions from true weight of bale prohibited - If any purchaser or weigher of cotton shall deduct from...

§ 97-23-13. Cotton; scalage; purchasers of cotton to account for actual weight - If any purchaser of cotton shall fail to account to...

§ 97-23-15. Cottonseed meal; adulterated meal to be branded - It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to...

§ 97-23-19. Embezzlement; by agents, bailees, trustees, servants and persons generally - If any person shall embezzle or fraudulently secrete, conceal, or...

§ 97-23-21. Embezzlement; evidence of debt negotiable by delivery but not delivered - Every officer, clerk, agent, or other person mentioned in Section...

§ 97-23-23. Embezzlement; buying or receiving embezzled goods - Every person who shall buy or in any way receive...

§ 97-23-25. Embezzlement; property held in trust or received on contract - If any person shall fraudulently appropriate personal property or money...

§ 97-23-27. Embezzlement; property borrowed or hired - The fraudulent appropriation of certain specific property by one to...

§ 97-23-29. Enticing away servant or lessee without written consent; provisions applicable to minors - If any person shall wilfully interfere with, entice away, or...

§ 97-23-31. Insurance; acting as agent for company not complying with law - Any person who shall do or perform any of the...

§ 97-23-33. Interference with exercise of lawful trade or calling by printing or distributing of matter, etc. - If any person shall wilfully and maliciously print, circulate or...

§ 97-23-35. Newspapers and periodicals to print names of their editors - Newspapers and periodicals published in this state, for regular distribution...

§ 97-23-37. Oleomargarine and other imitation food to be branded - A person who sells or manufactures, exposes or offers for...

§ 97-23-39. Preventing employment by force or violence; penalty - It shall be unlawful for any person by the use...

§ 97-23-41. Preventing employment by force or violence; conspiracy - It shall be unlawful for any two or more persons...

§ 97-23-43. Profession; practicing without license - If any person shall practice as an attorney and counsellor-at-law,...

§ 97-23-55. Storage battery; unlawful to deface rental battery - It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or...

§ 97-23-57. Storage battery; unlawful to sell or give away rental battery - It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, dispose...

§ 97-23-59. Storage battery; unlawful to retain or recharge rental battery - It shall be unlawful for any person to retain in...

§ 97-23-61. Storage battery; penalty - Any person violating any of the provisions of any one...

§ 97-23-83. Threats or coercion to prevent lawful conduct of business - If any person shall in any manner threaten with bodily...

§ 97-23-85. Unlawful restraint of trade; boycott; civil liability - If two (2) or more persons conspire to prevent another...

§ 97-23-87. Unauthorized copying or sale of recordings - Any person convicted of a first violation of this subsection...

§ 97-23-94.1. Punishment for violation of Section 97-23-94 - Any person aged eighteen (18) years or older who encourages,...

§ 97-23-95. Shoplifting; detention of suspect for questioning without incurring civil liability - If any person shall commit or attempt to commit the...

§ 97-23-96. Civil remedy for shoplifting violations; written demand prior to commencing civil proceedings; recovery from parents or legal guardians of minors; costs - Nothing in this section shall in any way be construed...

§ 97-23-97. Scalping of admission tickets at college events held on state property - It shall be unlawful for any admission ticket to any...

§ 97-23-99. Giving away of merchandise by employee without authorization of merchant - It shall be unlawful for any employee of a merchant...

§ 97-23-101. Laundering of monetary instruments; offense; penalties; effect of federal conviction - 2. With intent to engage in conduct constituting a violation...

Chapter 25 - Offenses Affecting Railroads, Public Utilities and Carriers

§ 97-25-3. Meters; tampering with electric, gas or water meters - Whoever, intentionally, by any means or device, prevents electric current,...

§ 97-25-5. Railroads; destroying crossing-sign, gate or warning-signals - If any person shall willfully obliterate, injure or destroy any...

§ 97-25-7. Railroads; driving vehicle or livestock on track - Any person who shall ride, drive any vehicle, drive any...

§ 97-25-9. Railroads; embezzlement of tickets - If any officer, agent, clerk, or employee of any railroad...

§ 97-25-11. Railroads; stealing tickets - If any person shall steal any passenger railroad-ticket or tickets...

§ 97-25-13. Railroads; intoxication of engineer or conductor - If any person, while on duty in charge of a...

§ 97-25-15. Railroads; jumping on or off cars in motion - If any person, other than passengers or employees engaged in...

§ 97-25-17. Railroads; leaving switch open or improperly placed - If any brakeman, switchman, or other person in charge of...

§ 97-25-19. Railroads; locomotive to be stopped before entering or crossing track of another company - If any person shall run, or cause to be run,...

§ 97-25-21. Railroads; obstructing or injuring - If any person shall wantonly or negligently obstruct or injure...

§ 97-25-23. Railroads; obstructing or injuring; derailing cars - If any person shall wantonly or maliciously injure, or place...

§ 97-25-25. Railroads; seizing and running locomotive - If any person shall unlawfully seize upon any locomotive and...

§ 97-25-27. Railroads; signaling or unlawfully interfering with train - If any person, without authority and in the absence of...

§ 97-25-29. Railroads; stealing a ride - Any person who shall ride on any engine, tender, car...

§ 97-25-31. Railroads; stealing animal killed or wounded by railroad - Any person other than the owner thereof or the agents...

§ 97-25-33. Railroads; not to destroy or bury animal killed by train until report made - If any person or corporation operating a railroad shall bury...

§ 97-25-35. Railroads; stealing or interfering with communications or signaling equipment - If any person shall maliciously remove, take, steal, change or...

§ 97-25-37. Railroads; stopping or standing at crossing - It shall be unlawful for any locomotive or train of...

§ 97-25-39. Railroads; uncoupling locomotives and cars by persons not employed by railroad - If any person, not being employed on any railroad, shall...

§ 97-25-41. Railroads; wilfully shooting from or on moving train - If any person shall wilfully shoot any firearms on or...

§ 97-25-43. Railroads, public utilities, and carriers; conspiracy to impede - If two (2) or more persons shall wilfully or maliciously...

§ 97-25-45. Railroads, public utilities, and carriers; obstructing or impeding by intimidation, force or violence - If any person shall unlawfully obstruct or impede by any...

§ 97-25-47. Railroad trains, buses, trucks, motor vehicles, depots, stations, and other transportation facilities; wilfully shooting or throwing at - If any person or persons shall wilfully shoot any firearms...

§ 97-25-51. Telegraphs and telephones; governmental messages - If any telegraph company, or an officer, agent, operator, or...

§ 97-25-55. Aircraft piracy; boarding aircraft with dangerous or deadly weapon or instrument - Any person who, in the commission of such intimidation, threat,...

§ 97-25-57. Nuclear sabotage - Any person who shall, by any act or omission, (a)...

Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health

§ 97-27-1. Adulteration of food, drugs or candy - If any person shall manufacture, sell or keep or offer...

§ 97-27-3. Animals and fowl; diseased animals and fowl to be confined and segregated; burial - Owners of cattle, horses, mules, sheep, jacks and jennets dying...

§ 97-27-5. Animals and fowl; selling, exposing or using animal with infectious disease - If any person shall knowingly sell or offer for sale,...

§ 97-27-7. Animals and fowl; glandered animals to be reported to board of supervisors; destruction or quarantine of diseased animals - If any person, being the owner or having the charge...

§ 97-27-10. Definition of harmful substances - As used in Sections 97-27-10 through 97-27-12: "Harmful biological substance"...

§ 97-27-13. Contagious diseases; smallpox patient not to go abroad - A person having recently had the smallpox shall not, until...

§ 97-27-15. Food sales; selling meat of animal not slaughtered, or unwholesome bread or drink - Any butcher or other person who shall knowingly sell the...

§ 97-27-17. Food sales; flour and other provisions - Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully sell, or hold...

§ 97-27-19. Food sales; meat; sale of flesh of dead, diseased, and unclean animals; punishment - If any person shall sell or offer for sale as...

§ 97-27-21. Poisons; sale and giving away regulated - It shall not be lawful for any apothecary, druggist, or...

§ 97-27-23. Poisons; register to be kept; label - Every druggist, apothecary, or other person, who shall sell or...

§ 97-27-25. Poisons; arsenic to be mixed with soot or indigo - A druggist, apothecary, or other person shall not sell or...

§ 97-27-27. Poisons; arsenic or other deadly poison not to be used in embalming fluid - A druggist, apothecary, or other person shall not sell or...

§ 97-27-29. Poisons; penalty for violation of certain sections - Any person who shall violate the provisions of Sections 97-27-23,...

§ 97-27-31. Poisons; not to be sold to minors - A druggist, apothecary, or other person shall not sell or...

Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency

In General

§ 97-29-1. Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation - If any man and woman shall unlawfully cohabit, whether in...

§ 97-29-3. Adultery and fornication; between teacher and pupil - If any teacher and any pupil under eighteen (18) years...

§ 97-29-5. Adultery and fornication; between certain persons forbidden to inter-marry - Persons being within the degrees within which marriages are prohibited...

§ 97-29-7. Adultery and fornication; between guardian and ward - If any guardian and ward of such guardian, not being...

§ 97-29-9. Adultery and fornication; going out of state to marry - If any persons, citizens or residents of this state, who...

§ 97-29-13. Bigamy; definition; penalty - Every person having a husband or wife living, who shall...

§ 97-29-15. Bigamy; exceptions - Section 97-29-13 shall not extend to any person whose husband...

§ 97-29-19. Dead bodies; disinterment for sale or wantonness - Every person who shall remove the dead body of any...

§ 97-29-21. Dead bodies; buying or receiving - Every person who shall purchase or receive the dead body...

§ 97-29-23. Dead bodies; opening graves for certain purposes - Every person who shall open a grave or other place...

§ 97-29-27. Incest; marriage within prohibited degrees - If any person shall marry within the degrees prohibited by...

§ 97-29-29. Incest; persons divorced for incest not to cohabit or copulate - If persons divorced for incest shall, after such divorce, cohabit...

§ 97-29-31. Indecent exposure - A person who willfully and lewdly exposes his person, or...

§ 97-29-43. Polygamy; teaching of - If any person shall teach another the doctrines, principles, or...

§ 97-29-47. Profanity or drunkenness in public place - If any person shall profanely swear or curse, or use...

§ 97-29-55. Seduction of female over age of eighteen by promised or pretended marriage - If any person shall obtain carnal knowledge of any woman,...

§ 97-29-57. Stallion or jack not to be kept in public view or permitted to run at large - A person shall not keep a stallion or jack nearer...

§ 97-29-59. Unnatural intercourse - Every person who shall be convicted of the detestable and...

§ 97-29-65. Strip clubs prohibited within one-fourth mile of church, school, kindergarten, or courthouse - It shall be unlawful to locate within one-fourth (1/4) of...

Obscene Materials, Performances and Devices

§ 97-29-101. Distribution or wholesale distribution of obscene materials or performances; character and reputation as evidence; prosecutor's bond - A person commits the offense of distributing obscene materials or...

§ 97-29-105. Distribution or wholesale distribution of unlawful sexual devices; prosecutor's bond - A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices...

§ 97-29-109. Penalties - Any person, except one who wholesale distributes, who violates Section...

Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses

§ 97-31-5. Alcoholic preparations; unlawful to sell or keep certain preparations; exceptions - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or...

§ 97-31-7. Alcoholic preparations; permit to solicit or take orders - No person, firm or corporation, or any association whatsoever, except...

§ 97-31-9. Alcoholic preparations; record of purchases required - Every person, firm, or corporation, selling, bartering or giving away,...

§ 97-31-11. Ginger preparations; extracts - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or...

§ 97-31-15. Delivery of alcohol or wine to person other than consignee; affidavit required; penalty for false affidavit - It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express company,...

§ 97-31-17. Denatured alcohol - Nothing in this chapter shall affect or limit the manufacturing...

§ 97-31-19. Law officers may store confiscated liquors, stills, etc.; consumption of liquor prohibited - It shall be lawful under this chapter for any officer...

§ 97-31-21. Manufacturing or distilling unlawful; making wine at home permitted; penalties - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation...

§ 97-31-23. Manufacturing or distilling unlawful; possession of still - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation...

§ 97-31-25. Patent medicines - The sale or giving away of any proprietary or patent...

§ 97-31-27. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; penalties - If any person shall sell or barter, or give away...

§ 97-31-29. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; agent or assistant of seller or buyer punished - If any person shall act as agent or assistant of...

§ 97-31-31. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; connivance by owner, occupant, etc. of house or boat where liquor kept - Every owner, lessee, sub-lessee, or occupant of any boat, house,...

§ 97-31-33. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; exceptions; records to be kept by carrier; exceptions may be relied upon as defense - Nothing in this chapter shall make it unlawful: For any...

§ 97-31-37. Sale of alcohol by druggists; certain sales by retail and wholesale druggists permitted - Any licensed retail druggist in this state may sell in...

§ 97-31-39. Sale of alcohol by druggists; medicinal purposes; physician's certificate - No sale of pure alcohol for medicinal purposes shall be...

§ 97-31-41. Sale of alcohol by druggists; wine for sacramental purposes - It shall be unlawful to sell wine for sacramental purposes...

§ 97-31-43. Sale of alcohol by druggists; statement of sales or prescriptions to be filed with circuit clerk; filing fee - All statements or prescriptions required by this chapter shall be...

§ 97-31-45. Sale of alcohol by druggists; penalties for certain violations - Any physician who signs or issues any prescription containing any...

§ 97-31-47. Transportation of intoxicating liquors into or within state unlawful - It shall be unlawful for any transportation company, or any...

§ 97-31-49. Solicitation of orders for liquors, etc. unlawful - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation...

§ 97-31-51. Witnesses; immunity from prosecution granted; penalty for refusing to testify - No person shall be excused from attending and testifying before...

§ 97-31-53. Penalty for violations where punishment not specifically prescribed - Any person, firm or corporation convicted of violating any part...

Chapter 32 - Tobacco Offenses

Article 1 - Mississippi Juvenile Tobacco Access Prevention Act

§ 97-32-1. Short title - This article shall be known and cited as "The Mississippi...

§ 97-32-2. Legislative intent; supersedes local laws, ordinances and regulations - It is the intent of the Legislature that enforcement of...

§ 97-32-3. Definitions - For the purposes of this article: "Dealer" means every person,...

§ 97-32-5. Prohibition of the sale or transfer of tobacco products to persons under 18 years of age - It shall be unlawful for any person, or retailer, to...

§ 97-32-7. Retail sales clerks; notification and agreement; penalties for violations - "I understand that state and federal law prohibit the sale...

§ 97-32-9. Juvenile purchase, possession and consumption of tobacco - No person under eighteen (18) years of age shall purchase...

§ 97-32-11. Point of sale warning signs - Point of sale warning signs are required, and each seller...

§ 97-32-13. Juvenile misrepresentation of age - Any person under the age of eighteen (18) years who...

§ 97-32-15. Vending machine tobacco sales; location - It shall be unlawful for any person to sell tobacco...

§ 97-32-17. Prohibition on the distribution of tobacco products other than in sealed packages - No retailer shall distribute tobacco products other than cigars and...

§ 97-32-19. Transfers of tobacco products from distributors or wholesalers to retailers - No distributor or wholesaler of tobacco products shall sell, distribute,...

§ 97-32-21. Unannounced inspections - The Office of the Attorney General or local law enforcement...

§ 97-32-23. Confidentiality - It shall be unlawful to publish the name or identity...

Article 3 - Mississippi Adult Tobacco Use on Educational Property Act

§ 97-32-25. Short title - This article shall be known and cited as "Mississippi Adult...

§ 97-32-29. Use of tobacco by adults on certain educational property prohibited; penalties for violation - No person shall use any tobacco product on any educational...

Article 5 - Distribution of Alternative Nicotine Products to Minors

§ 97-32-51. Distribution of alternative nicotine products to minors prohibited; definitions; penalties; verification of purchaser's age - 1. An electronic cigarette; or 2. Any other product that...

Chapter 33 - Gambling and Lotteries

In General

§ 97-33-1. Betting, gaming or wagering; exception from prohibition; penalty - Except as otherwise provided in Section 97-33-8, if any person...

§ 97-33-3. Gambling; penalties on certain officers; penalty for use of public money - If a judge of any court, or a justice court...

§ 97-33-5. Gambling; additional fine against winning gambler for amount won - In a prosecution for gambling or gaming, in addition to...

§ 97-33-9. Gambling; keeping, exhibiting, etc. games or gaming tables; exceptions; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - Except as otherwise provided in Section 97-33-8, if any person...

§ 97-33-11. Gambling; clubs not to have interest in gaming; each member fined; grand jury investigation; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - It shall not be lawful for any association of persons...

§ 97-33-13. Gambling; building owners, lessees, etc. not to permit gambling; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - Any owner, lessee, or occupant of any outhouse or other...

§ 97-33-15. Gambling; hotel, tavern and boarding-house keepers to inform on gamblers - If any guest or other person shall play at any...

§ 97-33-19. Gambling; money and appliances forfeited; penalty for resisting seizure - Any person or persons who shall oppose the seizure of...

§ 97-33-21. Gambling; gambling with minor; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - Any person of full age who shall bet any money...

§ 97-33-23. Gambling; gambling with minor knowing him to be under-age; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - Any person of full age who shall bet any money...

§ 97-33-25. Gambling; pool-selling; exceptions - If any person shall sell or buy, either directly or...

§ 97-33-27. Gambling; betting on horse or yacht race or shooting match; exceptions - If any person shall bet on a horse race or...

§ 97-33-29. Gambling; laws remedial, not penal - All laws made or to be made for the suppression...

§ 97-33-31. Lotteries; penalty for putting on; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - If any person, in order to raise money for himself...

§ 97-33-33. Lotteries; advertising prohibited; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - If any person shall in any way advertise any lottery...

§ 97-33-35. Lotteries; advertising prohibited; publication or circulation of newspapers; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - If any newspaper published or circulated in this state shall...

§ 97-33-37. Lotteries; advertising prohibited; sale of newspapers; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - If any newsdealer or other person shall, directly or indirectly,...

§ 97-33-39. Lotteries; sale of tickets; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - If any person shall sell, or offer or expose for...

§ 97-33-41. Lotteries; buying tickets in state prohibited; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - If any person shall buy in this state any lottery...

§ 97-33-43. Lotteries; railroads; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - If any railroad company shall suffer or permit the sale...

§ 97-33-45. Lotteries; steamboats; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - If the owner or owners of any steamboat shall suffer...

§ 97-33-47. Lotteries; acting as agent for; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - If any person shall act as agent for any lottery...

§ 97-33-49. Raffles; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law - Except as otherwise provided in Section 97-33-51, if any person,...

Charitable Bingo Law

§ 97-33-50. Short title - The provisions of Sections 97-33-51 through 97-33-81, 97-33-101 through 97-33-109,...

§ 97-33-53. Definitions - As used in Sections 97-33-51 through 97-33-203, the following words...

§ 97-33-61. Notice and hearing prerequisites to denial of license; judicial review - No license shall be revoked by the commission until after...

§ 97-33-63. - The commission shall control all bingo games held, operated or...

§ 97-33-101. Funding of expenses of Charitable Bingo Law; deposit of user charges and fees authorized under this section into State General Fund - From and after July 1, 2016, the expenses of the...

§ 97-33-105. Commission personnel not to have interest in organization conducting bingo or manufacturing or distributing supplies or equipment - Neither the director nor any employee of the commission shall...

§ 97-33-107. Functions, duties, and responsibilities of Commission - In connection with its regulation of charitable bingo games, the...

Fantasy Contest Act

§ 97-33-301. Short title - Sections 97-33-301 through 97-33-317 shall be known as the "Fantasy...

§ 97-33-303. Definitions - As used in Sections 97-33-301 through 97-33-317, the following terms...

§ 97-33-305. Procedures to be implemented by fantasy contest operator; annual third-party independent audit to insure compliance with section - 1. Three percent (3%) of all entries; or 2. One...

§ 97-33-309. Civil penalty for violation - A person, firm, corporation, association, agent or employee violating the...

§ 97-33-311. Applicability of Gaming Control Act to fantasy contests - The Gaming Control Act shall not apply to fantasy contests,...

Chapter 35 - Crimes Against Public Peace and Safety

§ 97-35-9. Disturbance by explosions, noises or offensive conduct - A person who wilfully disturbs the peace of any family...

§ 97-35-11. Disturbance by abusive language or indecent exposure; exception - Any person who enters the dwelling house of another, or...

§ 97-35-13. Disturbance in public place - Any person who shall enter any public place of business...

§ 97-35-17. Disturbance of worship; proceedings and penalty - If any person shall wilfully disturb any congregation of persons...

§ 97-35-21. Lighthouse property and navigation lights; destroying, extinguishing, etc. - Every person who shall wilfully break into, deface or destroy...

§ 97-35-45. False alarm of fire - It shall be unlawful for any person to report a...

§ 97-35-47. False reporting of crime - It shall be unlawful for any person to report a...

§ 97-35-51. Obstructing access to emergency assistance; penalties - Any person who verbally or physically obstructs, prevents, or hinders...

Chapter 37 - Weapons and Explosives

General Provisions

§ 97-37-7. Deadly weapons; persons permitted to carry weapons; bond; permit to carry weapon; grounds for denying application for permit; required weapons training course; reciprocal agreements - For purposes of this subsection (2), the following words shall...

§ 97-37-9. Deadly weapons; defenses against indictment for carrying deadly weapon - Any person indicted or charged for a violation of Section...

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Mississippi Code Title 97 - Crimes

Mississippi Code
Title 97 - Crimes