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Mississippi Statutes, Title 41

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Title 41, Public Health

102 chapters · 1,225 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 411,225 Ch 29, Poisons, Drugs and Other Controlled …109 Ch 41, Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents96 Ch 9, Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Re…61 Ch 19, Facilities and Services for Individu…61 Ch 21, Individuals with Mental Illness or a…49 Ch 59, Emergency Medical Services44 Ch 73, Hospital Equipment and Facilities Au…38 Ch 7, Hospital and Health Care Commissions35 Ch 27, Mosquito Control34 Ch 137, Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act34 Ch 3, State Board of Health; Local Health …33 Ch 39, Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts32 Ch 26, Safe Drinking Water25 Ch 67, Mississippi Individual On-Site Waste…25

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Miss. Code Ann. § 41-51-33 Injunctive relief
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The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi may bring an action in the name of the people of the State of Mississippi to enjoin the continued operation of any disposal or rendering plant found to be operating within this state for which no license has been obtained under thi…
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-51-5 Definitions
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(a) For purposes of this chapter, the words and terms used herein shall have ascribed to them the following meanings:(a) The term “disposal plant,” or “rendering plant,” or “plant” shall apply to and include any plant and all equipment thereof described or referred to in any sect…
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-51-7 Persons, matters or vocations not affected by chapter
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(a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to or affect any of the following persons, matters, or vocations, to wit:(a) Any persons legally engaged in the course of slaughtering, butchering, manufacturing, or selling, in any manner, any animal flesh and products, where suc…
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-51-9 Powers and duties of the commissioner
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The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations for the orderly administration and enforcement of this chapter, not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, and shall spread same upon the minutes to be kept in his office. The commissioner shall prescribe and supply the n…

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Miss. Code Ann. § 41-53-1 Rabies inoculation of dogs and cats required

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Every person in the State of Mississippi who owns, or has in his or her possession, any dog or cat of the age of three (3) months or over shall have said dog or cat inoculated (vaccinated) against rabies as provided herein with the recommended dosage of an anti-rabic virus (vacci…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-53-11 Dogs running at large

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(1) It shall be lawful and it shall be their duty for any sheriff, conservation officer or peace officer of a county or municipality to kill any dog above the age of three (3) months found running at large on whose neck there is no such collar and tag. No action shall be maintain…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-53-13 Penalties

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The failure or refusal of any person to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor, and the offender shall, on conviction thereof, be fined for the first offense in a sum not to exceed Five Dollars ($5.00) and for the second offense in a sum …

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-53-5 Who may administer virus

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All inoculations (vaccinations) done in accordance with this chapter must be done by either a licensed veterinarian or other competent person granted a permit to administer virus (vaccine) by the state board of health.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-53-7 Tags

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It shall be the duty of the manufacturer or manufacturers contracted with to furnish virus (vaccine) to furnish with each ampoule (dose) of virus (vaccine), a suitable metal tag approved by the state board of health, which may be securely bradded to the collar of the dog inoculat…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-53-9 Certificate of inoculation; records

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All persons administering virus (vaccine) in accordance with this chapter shall furnish the owner of each dog or cat inoculated (vaccinated) a certificate of inoculation (vaccination) for each dog or cat inoculated (vaccinated) indicating the breed of each dog or cat inoculated (…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-1 Maintenance and operation of public ambulance service by political entities

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The board of supervisors of any county and the governing authorities of any city, town, or any political subdivision thereof, either separately or acting in conjunction, in their discretion and upon finding that adequate public ambulance service would not otherwise be available, …

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-2 Defrayal of cost of public ambulance service

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The board of supervisors of counties having a population of not more than twenty-two thousand (22,000) nor less than fifteen thousand (15,000) as shown by the 1970 federal census and having an assessed valuation in excess of Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000.00) in 1970 and bei…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-3 Joint service by counties and municipalities; contracts, apportionment of ownership of property and costs of operation

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In acting jointly the board of supervisors of any such county acting for the county or supervisors district of the county, and the governing authorities of any city or town, acting for the city or town, are hereby authorized and empowered to contract with each other, for and on b…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-31 Legislative declaration

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It is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination that deaths from highway traffic accidents have reached an alarming rate, that ambulance service is not readily available to many rural outposts in the state, that many deaths could be prevented if prompt medical atte…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-33 Establishment of air ambulance service districts authorized; boundaries

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The boards of supervisors of two or more counties are hereby authorized to act jointly in the establishment of an air ambulance service district by spreading upon their minutes by resolution their intention to create the district. The boundaries of the districts as they are estab…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-35 Publication of notice of intention; election

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Notice of the intention to create an air ambulance service district shall be published at least three (3) times during a period of twenty-one (21) days in one (1) newspaper circulated in the county in which shall be stated the counties cooperating to create the district, the date…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-37 Board of directors established; qualifications and term

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When the Governor shall have received at least two (2) such resolutions from any one (1) air ambulance service district, he shall within five (5) days appoint from the district-at-large his one (1) member of the board of directors of the district. Thereafter the board of supervis…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-39 Oath of office

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Each director of an air ambulance service district shall take and subscribe to the general oath of office, required by Section 268 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi, before a chancery clerk that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office, which oath shall…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-41 Compensation

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If compensation is to be paid to any member of the board of directors of an air ambulance service district, it shall be paid by the district from any funds available. In no event shall such compensation exceed the sum of Twenty-two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($22.50) per day.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-43 Officers; bond

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The board of directors of an air ambulance service district shall annually elect from its number a president and a vice president of the district, and such other officers as in the judgment of the board are necessary. The president shall be the chief executive officer of the dist…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-45 Powers of district

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(1) Any air ambulance service district, through its board of directors, is hereby empowered:(a) To develop, in conjunction with the head of any federal and/or state agency as may be involved, a plan for air ambulance services to persons within or without the district, including c…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-47 Funds for support and maintenance of district

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The board of supervisors of any county of the state which becomes a part of an air ambulance service district may levy a county-wide tax for the support and maintenance of the district in an amount not to exceed one (1) mill. Any county which desires to become a part of an air am…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-49 Payment to district of tax avails or appropriations; advances for preliminary expenses

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The board of supervisors of each county becoming a member of an air ambulance service district shall annually, on or before March 15 of each year beginning with the calendar year in which the district is created, pay or cause to be paid to the depository of the district the total…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-5 Casualty and liability insurance in connection with ambulance service; partial waiver of immunity

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The governing authority of or for any such political subdivision or part thereof shall have further power and authority to obtain insurance against casualty to the property used or useful in such public ambulance service.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-51 Acceptance of funds from public or private sources; repayment

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The board of directors of an air ambulance service district is hereby authorized and empowered to accept grants, loans, gifts, bequests or funding from any source, public or private, that the granting agency has authority to provide, but in no circumstances shall the acceptance o…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-53 Deposit of funds

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All funds of an air ambulance service district shall be deposited in the bank or banks located within the district qualified as county or state depositories which the board of directors of the district desire to utilize.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-55 Additional counties may join

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After an air ambulance service district has been formed, any other county within the same highway patrol district or any county lying immediately adjacent to the district may join the district by the same procedure as if it were initiating the district, including the appointment …

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-57 Rates for services

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The rates for services hereunder shall be determined by the board of directors with regard to what is reasonable in the individual air ambulance service district.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-7 Effect of existence of adequate private ambulance service; public subsidies

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If there is in operation an adequate privately run ambulance service, then the governing authorities are hereby prohibited from contracting for ambulance services to be run by the public body. The governing authorities may, however, subsidize such existing privately run ambulance…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-71 Nonemergency medical transportation; permit; standards for operation of nonemergency medical transportation service; exemption from permitting requirement

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(1) As used in this section, the following terms shall be defined as provided in this subsection:(a) “Department” means the State Department of Health.(b) “Nonemergency medical transportation” or “NEMT” means transportation services provided to an individual who is not experienci…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-9 Maintenance and operation of ambulance service by certain hospitals

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In addition to other authority specifically conferred on it or arising by necessary implication, the board of commissioners or board of trustees of any hospital owned separately or jointly by one or more of such counties, cities, towns, or supervisors districts of the same or oth…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-1 Bureau of vital statistics established

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A bureau of vital statistics shall be established by the State Board of Health, which shall provide an adequate system for the registration of births and deaths and preservation of vital statistics on forms prescribed by said Board of Health, and which shall provide adequate meth…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-11 Payment for birth and death certificates

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(1) Each local registrar shall be paid the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) for each birth and each death certificate properly made out, and in the manner and on the form required by the State Board of Health. Such sum shall be paid by the board of supervisors of the county in which the…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-13 Corrections and amendments to death certificates; lists of deaths to be furnished to county registrar and county election commissioners

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(1) Death certificate errors in the recording of personal information of the deceased may be corrected by affidavit of the informant and the funeral director of the funeral home that disposed of the body. Items in the medical certification or of a medical nature may be amended up…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-14 Social security numbers of parents required to file birth certificate

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(1) If the mother was married at the time of either conception or birth, or at any time between conception and birth, the name of the husband shall be entered on the certificate of birth as the father of the child. The social security number of each parent of a child born within …

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-15 Board of supervisors may appropriate funds for perfecting registration of records

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The board of supervisors of any county may appropriate additional funds, not to exceed Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per month, to be used under the direction of the State Board of Health, in perfecting the registration of vital records.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-19 Proceedings to adjudicate true date of birth of person whose birth was not registered

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Any person who was born in the State of Mississippi and whose birth has not been registered and who is unable to secure the proof now required by the registrar of births to register the same, may file a petition under oath in the chancery court of the county of the residence of t…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-2 Certain persons not entitled to access to records

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Records in the possession of the Mississippi Department of Health, bureau of vital statistics, which would be of no legitimate and tangible interest to a person making a request for access to such records, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act …

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-21 Proceedings to correct incomplete birth certificate or birth certificate having incorrect first name, middle name, place or sex

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Where there has been a bona fide effort to register a birth and the certificate thereof on file with the office of vital records does not divulge all of the information required by said certificate, or such certificate contains an incorrect first name, middle name, or sex, then t…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-23 Proceedings to correct birth certificate containing major deficiencies

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(1) Any petition, bill of complaint or other proceeding filed in the chancery court to: (a) change the date of birth by two (2) or more days, (b) change the surname of a child, (c) change the surname of either or both parents, (d) change the birthplace of the child because of an …

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-25 Birth certificate furnished free to armed forces volunteer

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Any person who is volunteering for one of the armed forces of the United States is entitled to a certified copy of his birth certificate from the State Board of Health immediately upon application and at no expense to the applicant or his recruiting officer.

Miss. Code Ann. § 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

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The Office of Vital Records Registration shall furnish up to five (5) certified copies of the death certificate of any deceased person who was an honorably discharged veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States or who was killed or died while serving on active duty in the Ar…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-27 Penalty

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Any person or persons who shall violate any rule, regulation or order of the State Board of Health relative to recording, reporting or filing information for the Bureau of Vital Statistics, or who shall willfully neglect or refuse to perform any duties imposed upon them by said o…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-3 State registrar of vital records; safeguarding of records

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The secretary of the State Board of Health shall appoint the state registrar of vital records in accordance with classification standards of education and experience. It shall be his duty to carry into effect the rules, regulations and orders of the State Board of Health that are…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-31 Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth issued upon request of parent; parents to be notified of availability of and procedure for obtaining certificate; contents of certificate

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(1) As used in this section, the following terms shall be defined as provided in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(a) “Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth” means a birth certificate issued to record and memorialize the birth of a stillborn child.(b) “S…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-43 State registrar of vital statistics; safeguarding of records

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It shall be the duty of the state registrar of vital statistics, in addition to the duties now required of him by law, to carry into effect the provisions of law relating to registration of marriages and the rules, regulations and orders of the State Board of Health which may be …

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-47 Certificates of registrar to be prima facie evidence

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Any copy of the records of marriages, when properly certified by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics to be a true copy thereof, shall be taken and received as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in all courts of this state. For any such certified copy, the applic…

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-48 Statistical record of marriage; completion; filing; recording fee

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(1) For each marriage performed in this state, a record entitled “Statistical Record of Marriage” shall be filed with the office of vital records registration of the State Board of Health by the circuit clerk who issued the marriage license and shall be registered if it has been …

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-5 State may be divided into registration districts

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The State Board of Health may divide the state into registration districts to provide vital statistics, defining and designating the boundaries thereof and appointing local registrars in each district.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-57 Circuit clerks to compile data on marriages

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In order to secure records of marriages and births in the several counties in this state from the earliest records down to the present time, the State Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to make contract with the circuit clerks or others of this state to compile fo…