Title 41, Public Health

(1) There is created in the State Treasury a fund to be designated as the “Drinking Water Quality Analysis Fund.” The fund shall be treated as a special trust fund. Interest earned on the principal in the fund shall be credited by the Treasurer to the fund. The fund may receive m…

(1) (a) There is created in the State Treasury a fund to be designated as the “Public Water System Assistance Fund.” The fund shall contain two (2) accounts, designated as the “Public Water System Technical Assistance Account” and the “Public Water Systems Bond Operations Account…

(a) For purposes of Sections 41-26-1 through 41-26-31, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:(a) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or the administrator’s designee…

(1) If the director finds any person guilty of a violation of Sections 41-26-1 through 41-26-31, any rule or regulation or written order of the director or any condition or limitation of an approval, the director may assess and levy a civil penalty of not more than Twenty-five Th…

(1) In addition to any other duties required by law, the board shall have the following powers and duties concerning safe drinking water:(a) To establish policies, requirements or standards governing the source, collection, distribution, purification, treatment and storage of wat…

(1) The board may adopt rules and regulations governing public water systems, but those rules and regulations shall, except as expressly required by law, be no more stringent or extensive in scope, coverage and effect than regulations promulgated by the United States Environmenta…

(a) In addition to any other duties required by law, the director shall have the following powers and duties concerning safe drinking water:(a) To exercise general supervision over the administration and enforcement of Sections 41-26-1 through 41-26-31 and applicable rules and re…

(1) The director shall exercise general supervision over the construction and operation of public water systems throughout the state. The general supervision shall include all of the features of construction and operation of public water systems which do or may affect the sanitar…

(a) The director, upon receipt of information that a contaminant which is present in or is likely to enter a public water system may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health, may take any actions deemed necessary to protect the public health. The acti…

The county board of supervisors in any county of this state may, with the approval of the state health officer, appoint three (3) persons who will constitute a board of commissioners of said county to be known as “The County Mosquito Control Commission,” (inserting the name of th…

Each county mosquito control commission shall, on or before the first day of November in each and every year, file with the state health officer a detailed estimate of the moneys required for the ensuing year, and a plan of the work to be done and the methods to be employed. The …

The county board of supervisors of each county, or other body having control of the finances thereof, may include the amount of money, approved by the County Mosquito Control Commission and the State Health Officer, annually in the general fund levy.

The moneys so raised, or so much thereof as may be required, may be paid from time to time for the operations, work, materials and labor of the county mosquito control commission, duly signed and approved by the president and secretary thereof by order of the board of supervisors…

It shall be the duty of each county mosquito control commission annually, on or before the 20th day of January in each year, to submit to the state health officer and the county board of supervisors in its respective county, a report setting forth the amount of moneys expended du…

Two or more counties may combine for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article in the respective counties, each county retaining all rights set forth in this article. The commissioners in the counties combined may enter into agreement to employ for purposes of ec…

When two or more counties act jointly under the mosquito control provisions of this article, especially under the provisions of Section 41-27-19, the fiscal control thereof, including the apportionment of funds and the payment of expenses in connection with such work, shall be ma…

The board of supervisors of each county so combined in such joint agreement shall, at the time of making and approving the budget of such county for the ensuing year, clearly state the amount of funds to be applied to mosquito control work under the authority of such joint agreem…

On or before the first day of each month following such agreement, and as long as the agreement remains in effect, the county mosquito control commission for each of the counties in such joint agreement shall meet and approve and allow for payment of all expenses, including salar…

Upon receipt of a certified copy of such approved list of claims and expenses, and at the time when other claims are considered by the several boards of supervisors of the counties in such agreement, the clerks of such boards of supervisors shall submit such list of approved clai…

(a) Each county mosquito control commission and the joint mosquito control commission shall be subject to and perform the following:(a) Upon receipt of the county warrant from each of the cooperating counties, the president and secretary of the joint commission shall cause said w…

The state health officer shall be a member ex-officio of each county mosquito control commission and shall co-operate with them for the effective carrying out of their plans and work. The said state health officer shall serve without compensation, except that the necessary expens…

In event a county being a member of such joint mosquito control commission shall fail or refuse, within a reasonable time, to issue and deliver to the president of such joint mosquito control commission a valid warrant in payment of its proportionate part of such expenses, the ot…

Nothing in this article shall be construed to alter, amend, modify, or repeal any statute conferring upon state or local boards of health any powers or duties in connection with the extermination of mosquitoes in this state, but this article shall be construed to be supplementary…

The State Board of Health, or its representative, shall, upon request of a county mosquito control commission, furnish the said commission with such surveys, maps, information, and advice as may be available for the prosecution of the work, or, as in its opinion, will be of advan…

The county board of supervisors and the county mosquito control commission, may with the approval of the state health officer receive and accept any aid whatsoever from any source calculated to further the success of a plan or plans based on this article.

Every such county mosquito control commission shall have the power to eliminate all breeding and producing places of mosquitoes within the county where it is appointed, and to do and perform all acts and to carry out all plans which in its opinion and judgment may be necessary or…

This article is passed with the knowledge and in recognition of the fact that the cultivation of rice systematically breeds a mosquito known as the “rice field mosquito,” and that in areas where rice is produced within the State of Mississippi, such mosquitoes have become a nuisa…

When, in any county of this state other than a county bordering on the Mississippi Sound or Gulf of Mexico, a petition, signed by fifty (50) or more qualified electors of such county, shall be presented to the board of supervisors of such county, requesting that a county mosquito…

There shall be three (3) members of the county mosquito control commission composed of the county agricultural extension agent, the county health officer and a rice producer. The county agricultural extension agent and the county health officer shall serve as permanent members by…

When the county mosquito control commission has been created and the members thereof appointed and qualified, the members of the commission and their successors are hereby created and empowered as a body politic, with the power to sue and be sued, to use a common seal, to make by…

The first meeting of the county mosquito control commission shall be held at the time, date and place designated in the order of the board of supervisors creating same. The temporary chairman named by the board of supervisors shall preside at such meeting until a president and se…

The two (2) members of the county mosquito control commission who serve by virtue of their office shall serve without compensation. The appointed member of the commission shall serve without compensation except that the necessary expenses for actual attendance of the meetings of …

The county mosquito control commission shall, immediately after the organizational meeting, make an investigation to ascertain and determine a feasible method for the control and extermination of rice field mosquitoes within the county. If a feasible method of control and extermi…

If the board of supervisors finds that a mosquito control program is feasible and practical, it shall enter an order requiring all persons, firms, associations and corporations who are to engage in planting or producing rice for the following crop year to obtain permits for such …

The permits and applications therefor, shall be in a form prescribed by the board of supervisors. Each applicant shall, on or before March 31st of each year, make application for said permit at the office of the tax collector of said county. Such application shall include the nam…

The board of supervisors shall furnish office facilities for the commission, and shall pay all expenses of the commission, including reimbursement for expenses per diem, and salaries of employees, out of the funds obtained from the sale of permits. The tax collector of any county…

The county mosquito control commission shall have the right to employ such individuals as are necessary, and to purchase such equipment as shall be necessary, for the application of poison or other mosquito control material to the lands within the county to be planted in rice. Th…

(1) Any person, firm, association or corporation, engaging in the planting or producing of rice, who fails to comply with the provisions of this article where a county mosquito control program is in effect, shall be penalized as follows:(1) Five percent (5%) penalty, on total cos…

Anyone willfully refusing to comply with this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than fifteen (15) …

If the cost of the mosquito control program for any year exceeds the estimated cost and if the program funds become exhausted, then the board of supervisors may transfer from the general county fund, sufficient money to complete the program for such year. Such board may borrow mo…

The board of supervisors and the county mosquito control commission are hereby authorized and empowered to accept funds from any state or federal agency and to cooperate with any state or federal agency in carrying out the provisions of this article.

All funds used for a mosquito control program shall be placed in a special fund in the county depository and shall be paid out by the county auditor on order of the board of supervisors. The board of supervisors shall not order such funds paid except on orders signed by a majorit…

At any time the board of supervisors, in its discretion, may decide that a county mosquito control program is not feasible or that the need therefor no longer exists, in such event, the board of supervisors by order spread upon its minutes may abolish the county mosquito control …

(a) The words and terms as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings:(a) “State health officer” shall mean the state health officer of the state board of health, or his designated representative.(b) “Board” shall mean the state board of health. (a) “State health offi…

The State Board of Health is authorized to establish a program of public education and awareness of the symptoms and care and treatment of persons suffering from diabetes. The program shall be designed to disseminate information to the public, to the medical and paramedical commu…

(a) The board is authorized to:(a) Assist in the development and expansion of educational programs for persons suffering from diabetes, including self-administration, prevention and home care and other medical and dental procedures and techniques designed to provide maximum contr…