Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-417 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 21 / Section 41-417
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-417
Status: in_force

Nothing in Sections 41-41-401 through 41-41-419 shall be construed as creating or recognizing a right to abortion or as altering generally accepted medical standards. It is not the intention of Sections 41-41-401 through 41-41-419 to make lawful an abortion that is otherwise unlawful. An abortion that complies with Sections 41-41-401 through 41-41-419 , but violates any other state law, is unlawful. An abortion that complies with another state law, but violates Sections 41-41-401 through 41-41-419 is unlawful.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-15 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 29-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-15
Status: in_force

The sheriff's office in each county in the state shall enforce the provisions of this article, and the sheriff is authorized and empowered to approve and register such brands and labels intended for use under the provisions of this article as may be submitted to him for that purpose and as may in his judgment conform to the requirements of this article. However, in any prosecution under this article, the fact that any brand or label involved in said prosecution has not been submitted to said sheriff's office for approval, or if submitted, has not been approved by him, shall be immaterial.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-135 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 41-135
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-135
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided by Section 41-41-141 , a physician may not perform, or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion without, before the procedure:

(a) Making a determination of the probable gestational age of the unborn child; or

(b) Possessing and relying on a determination of the probable gestational age of the unborn child made by another physician. The physician making such a determination must do so in accordance with reasonable medical judgment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-505 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-505
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-505
Status: in_force

A judge of competent jurisdiction in the circuit court district of the location where the interception of wire, oral or other communications is sought, or a circuit court district contiguous to such circuit court district, may issue an order authorizing interception of wire, oral or other communications only if the prosecutor applying for the order shows probable cause to believe that the interception will provide evidence of the commission of a felony under the Uniform Controlled Substances Law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-87-11 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 3 / Section 87-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-87-11
Status: in_force

(1) The lead agency shall have the following responsibilities in the implementation of this chapter:

(a) General administering and supervising programs and activities receiving Part C funds and the monitoring of programs and activities used by the state to carry out this chapter, whether or not such programs or activities are receiving Part C funds, to ensure that the state complies with this chapter;

(b) Identifying and coordinating all available financial resources within the state from federal, state, local and private sources;

(c) Developing procedures to ensure that services are provided to eligible children and their families in a timely manner pending the resolution of any disputes among public agencies or service providers;

(d) Ensuring effective implementation of procedural safeguards by each public agency in the state that is involved in the provision of early intervention services;

(e) Entering into formal interagency agreements that define the financial responsibility of each agency for paying for early intervention services (consistent with other state laws) and procedures for resolving intra- and interagency disputes and that include all additional components necessary to ensure meaningful cooperation;

(f) Entering into contracts with agencies within a local community which have been designated by the lead agency as being a primary service agency within the community;

(g) Developing procedures to ensure that available services are provided to eligible children and their families in a timely manner, pending the resolution of disputes among public agencies or service providers;

(h) Resolving individual disputes in accordance with the regulations;

(i) Adopting and using proper methods of administering each program including:

(i) Monitoring of agencies, institutions and organizations receiving assistance under Part C of Public Law 102-119 ;

(ii) Enforcing of any obligations imposed on those agencies providing early intervention services according to Part C of Public Law 102-119 and the standards of the state;

(iii) Providing technical assistance to agencies in the program;

(iv) Correction of deficiencies that are identified through monitoring;

(j) Establishing state policies related to how services to children eligible under this chapter and their families will be paid for under the state's early intervention system in accordance with federal regulations;

(k) Development of policies, standards and regulations necessary for implementation of the state early intervention plan that are in compliance with the federal regulations; and

(l) Provision of technical assistance to localities in the establishment and operation of local interagency coordinating councils which may also be designated as primary service agencies for an area.

(2) All participating agencies shall cooperate with the lead agency and the council in the implementation of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-57 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 43-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-57
Status: in_force

(1) In exceptional circumstances only, a perpetual care owner can make an application to the Secretary of State for an order directing the trustee to release trust principal for the extended care, maintenance or improvements to the perpetual care cemetery for which interest funds are insufficient. Before issuing such an order, the Secretary of State shall satisfy himself that the request is for a major capital expenditure that will advance the perpetual care life of the cemetery without undue risk to the solvency of the perpetual care trust fund. Consistent with this section, this shall be the only instance in which a perpetual care trust corpus may be utilized for cemetery maintenance and improvements. In the consideration of the application, the Secretary of State may require the production of any records deemed necessary and relevant to the cemetery's application for a major capital expenditure.

(2) In addition the authority provided under subsection (1) of this section, subject to the provisions of Section 19-5-105(2) or 21-19-11(7) , the board of supervisors of a county or the governing authority of a municipality also may make application to the Secretary of State for an order directing the trustee to release either accrued interest or principal of the trust fund for reimbursement to the county or municipality for the actual costs of cleanup performed by the county or municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-211 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 41-211
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-211
Status: in_force

(1) A surrogate may make a health-care decision for a patient who is an adult or emancipated minor if the patient has been determined by the primary physician to lack capacity and no agent or guardian has been appointed or the agent or guardian is not reasonably available.

(2) An adult or emancipated minor may designate any individual to act as surrogate by personally informing the supervising health-care provider. In the absence of a designation, or if the designee is not reasonably available, any member of the following classes of the patient's family who is reasonably available, in descending order of priority, may act as surrogate:

(a) The spouse, unless legally separated;

(b) An adult child;

(c) A parent; or

(d) An adult brother or sister.

(3) If none of the individuals eligible to act as surrogate under subsection (2) is reasonably available, an adult who has exhibited special care and concern for the patient, who is familiar with the patient's personal values, and who is reasonably available may act as surrogate.

(4) A surrogate shall communicate his or her assumption of authority as promptly as practicable to the members of the patient's family specified in subsection (2) who can be readily contacted.

(5) If more than one (1) member of a class assumes authority to act as surrogate, and they do not agree on a health-care decision and the supervising health-care provider is so informed, the supervising health-care provider shall comply with the decision of a majority of the members of that class who have communicated their views to the provider. If the class is evenly divided concerning the health-care decision and the supervising health-care provider is so informed, that class and all individuals having lower priority are disqualified from making the decision.

(6) A surrogate shall make a health-care decision in accordance with the patient's individual instructions, if any, and other wishes to the extent known to the surrogate. Otherwise, the surrogate shall make the decision in accordance with the surrogate's determination of the patient's best interest. In determining the patient's best interest, the surrogate shall consider the patient's personal values to the extent known to the surrogate.

(7) A health-care decision made by a surrogate for a patient is effective without judicial approval.

(8) An individual at any time may disqualify another, including a member of the individual's family, from acting as the individual's surrogate by a signed writing or by personally informing the supervising health-care provider of the disqualification.

(9) A surrogate may not be an owner, operator, or employee of a residential long-term health-care institution at which the patient is receiving care unless related to the patient by blood, marriage, or adoption, except in the case of a patient of a state-operated facility who has no person listed in subsection (2) reasonably available to act as a surrogate.

(10) A supervising health-care provider may require an individual claiming the right to act as surrogate for a patient to provide a written declaration under penalty of perjury stating facts and circumstances reasonably sufficient to establish the claimed authority.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-45 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 25 / Section 41-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-45
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section, the term “ abortion ” means the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug or any other substance or device to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant with an intention other than to increase the probability of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the child after live birth or to remove a dead fetus.

(2) No abortion shall be performed or induced in the State of Mississippi, except in the case where necessary for the preservation of the mother's life or where the pregnancy was caused by rape.

(3) For the purposes of this section, rape shall be an exception to the prohibition for an abortion only if a formal charge of rape has been filed with an appropriate law enforcement official.

(4) Any person, except the pregnant woman, who purposefully, knowingly or recklessly performs or attempts to perform or induce an abortion in the State of Mississippi, except in the case where necessary for the preservation of the mother's life or where the pregnancy was caused by rape, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-109 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 41-109
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-109
Status: in_force

(1) If a physician provides an abortion-inducing drug to another for the purpose of inducing an abortion as authorized in Section 41-41-107 :

(a) The physician shall report that action to the department; and

(b) If the physician knows that the woman who uses the abortion-inducing drug for the purpose of inducing an abortion experiences, during or after the use, an adverse event, the physician shall provide a written report of the serious event to the FDA via the Medwatch Reporting System.

(2) For the purposes of this section, “adverse event” shall be defined according to the FDA criteria given in the Medwatch Reporting System.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-41 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 73-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-41
Status: in_force

The authority is authorized to issue its bonds for the purpose of refunding any bonds of the authority then outstanding. The total amount of such refunding bonds shall be an amount sufficient to effect the refunding, and may include an amount sufficient to pay (i) the principal amount of the refunded bonds, (ii) interest accrued or to accrue to the date of maturity or the date of redemption of the bonds to be refunded which need not necessarily be on the first available redemption date, (iii) any redemption premiums to be paid thereon, (iv) any reasonable expenses incurred in connection with such refunding, and (v) any other reasonable costs deemed necessary by the authority to effect the refunding. The proceeds of such refunding bonds may be applied in the manner determined by the authority and may be placed in escrow and invested, without regard to the limitations of any law to the contrary, but not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, in the manner and on the terms determined by the authority. All such refunding bonds shall be issued and secured and shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter in the same manner and to the same extent as any other bonds issued pursuant to this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-13 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-13
Status: in_force

Any dangerous caustic or corrosive substance in a misbranded parcel, package, or container suitable for household use, that is being sold, bartered, or exchanged, or held, displayed, or offered for sale, barter, or exchange, shall be liable to be proceeded against in any court within the jurisdiction of which the same is found, and seized for confiscation by a process of libel. If such substance is condemned as misbranded, by said court, it shall be disposed of by destruction or sale, as the court may direct. If sold, the proceeds, less the actual costs and charges, shall be paid over to the state treasurer, but such substance shall not be sold contrary to the laws of the state. However, upon the payment of the costs of such proceedings and the execution and delivery of a good and sufficient bond to the effect that such substance will not be unlawfully sold or otherwise disposed of, the court may by order direct that such substance be delivered to the owner thereof. Such condemnation proceeding shall conform as near as may be to proceedings in the condemnation of any article held contrary to the laws of this state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-111 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 39-111
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-111
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to Section 41-39-115 , a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 41-39-107 may amend or revoke an anatomical gift by:

(1) A record signed by:

(A) The donor;

(B) The other person; or

(C) Subject to subsection (b), another individual acting at the direction of the donor or the other person if the donor or other person is physically unable to sign; or

(2) A later-executed document of gift that amends or revokes a previous anatomical gift or portion of an anatomical gift, either expressly or by inconsistency.

(b) A record signed pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(C) must:

(1) Be witnessed by at least two (2) adults, at least one (1) of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and

(2) State that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in paragraph (1).

(c) Subject to Section 41-39-115 , a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 41-39-107 may revoke an anatomical gift by the destruction or cancellation of the document of gift, or the portion of the document of gift used to make the gift, with the intent to revoke the gift.

(d) A donor may amend or revoke an anatomical gift that was not made in a will by any form of communication during a terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two (2) adults, at least one (1) of whom is a disinterested witness.

(e) A donor who makes an anatomical gift in a will may amend or revoke the gift in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills or as provided in subsection (a).
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-32-9 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 32-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-32-9
Status: in_force

Any person who shall be ordered to be committed to a private treatment facility as provided in this chapter, and who shall feel aggrieved at such decision, may appeal therefrom to the supreme court of this state by giving notice thereof in the manner provided by law and by furnishing a good and sufficient bond in an amount to be fixed by the chancellor, and to be approved by the clerk of said court, such bond to be conditioned to pay all costs of the proceedings and the appeal, and that said person will appear to abide the decision of the court on such appeal. On such appeal, the record shall be made and prepared as in other cases, and all of the provisions of the general law shall apply thereto except that it shall be necessary that the proper notice be given and the requisite bond furnished within five (5) days from the date of the final determination of the chancellor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-25 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 17 / Section 73-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-25
Status: in_force

Before the issuance of any bonds pursuant to this chapter, each member of the authority and the executive director, if one shall have been appointed, shall execute a surety bond in the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) issued by a surety company licensed to do business in the state. To the extent any member of the authority is already covered by a bond required by state law, such member need not obtain another bond so long as the bond required by the state law is in at least the sum specified in this section and covers the member's activities for the authority. In lieu of such bonds, the chairman of the authority may execute a blanket surety bond covering each member and the executive director of the authority. Each surety bond shall be conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the office of the member or executive director and shall be issued by a surety company authorized to transact business in the state as surety. At all times after the issuance of any surety bonds, each member and executive director shall maintain such surety bonds in full force and effect. All costs of the surety bonds shall be borne by the authority.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-27 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 14 / Section 23-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-27
Status: in_force

The State Board of Health shall have full power to isolate, quarantine or otherwise confine, intern, and treat such person afflicted with such infectious sexually transmitted disease for such time and under such restrictions as may seem proper. Said board shall have full power to pass all such rules and regulations as to the isolation, quarantine, confinement, internment and treatment as may be needful.

Any person knowingly violating any rule or regulation promulgated by the state board of health, under the authority of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by fine or imprisonment or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-85 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 59-85
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-85
Status: in_force

(1) The driver of any vehicle other than an official emergency vehicle shall not follow any moving ambulance that is engaged in an emergency medical call closer than five hundred (500) feet, or park the vehicle within two hundred (200) feet of where the ambulance has stopped and a patient is either being loaded or unloaded.

(2) Every ambulance and special use EMS vehicle shall be marked with red lights front and back and also may be marked with white and amber lights in addition to red lights.

(3) Drivers of ambulances and special use EMS vehicles shall operate in the emergency mode with warning lights and siren at all times while engaged in an emergency medical call and operating the emergency vehicle in a manner to take exceptions to the traffic laws and regulations as provided in Section 63-3-1 et seq. , so as to warn other drivers of nonemergency vehicles to yield the right-of-way of the authorized emergency vehicle. Ambulances and special use EMS vehicles may use emergency warning lights only if they are engaged in an emergency medical call and they are stopped or parked, or if they are moving and operating the vehicle in a manner so as to abide by all traffic laws and regulations as provided in Section 63-3-1 et seq. No driver of any ambulance or special use EMS vehicle shall assume any special privilege from traffic laws and regulations except when the emergency vehicle is operated in the emergency mode, with warning lights and siren, while engaged in an emergency medical call.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-35 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 17 / Section 19-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-35
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this section, the board of supervisors of each participating county in the program shall appoint one (1) member to represent its county on the regional commission in its respective region for a term of four (4) years who shall serve at the will and pleasure of the appointing board of supervisors, who may be a clerk, sheriff or deputy. In addition, the chancery clerks of the counties in each region shall select a chancery clerk or a deputy clerk to serve as a nonvoting liaison to the commission, and the sheriffs of the counties in each region shall select a sheriff or a deputy sheriff to serve as a nonvoting liaison to the commission. Any compensation of such members shall be paid by the regional commission, in its discretion, from any funds available. Each member of the commission shall attend the orientation training for new commissioners and the annual training for all commissioners held by the Department of Mental Health. The Department of Mental Health shall notify the board of supervisors when a commissioner does not attend either the orientation training or annual training. Upon notice from the Department of Mental Health that a commissioner has failed to attend the required meetings, the appointing board of supervisors shall remove the commissioner, unless the department and the commission agree to an alternate arrangement to allow the commissioner to continue to serve until the next opportunity to attend the orientation meeting and/or the annual training.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-41 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 43-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-41
Status: in_force

Any nonperpetual care cemetery, after May 6, 1958, may become a perpetual care cemetery by complying with the requirement for a perpetual care cemetery as provided in Section 41-43-31 et seq. From and after July 1, 2009, all cemeteries created shall be perpetual care cemeteries unless exempt under the provisions of Section 41-43-31 et seq.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-77 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 22 / Section 59-77
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-77
Status: in_force

Data obtained under this chapter for use in the trauma registry is for the confidential use of the Mississippi State Department of Health and the persons, public entities or private entities that participate in the collection of the trauma registry data.

Any data which identifies an individual or a family unit that is collected for use in the trauma registry shall be confidential and shall not be subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-37-1 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4 / Section 37-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-37-1
Status: in_force

The term “autopsy” as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean the scientific examination of the body of a deceased person, or any portion thereof, by acceptable scientific methods and the removal and retention of parts of the body to accomplish such an examination.

The term “autopsy” as used in this chapter shall not be construed to mean the scientific dissection of the whole body as practiced in medical schools in the instruction of anatomy to medical students.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-114-1 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 114-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-114-1
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section:

(a) The term “ public facility ” means any building, gymnasium, athletic field, recreational area or park to which the public is invited, whether there is charge for admission or not.

(b) The term “ smoke ” or “ smoking ” means inhaling, exhaling, burning, carrying or otherwise possessing any lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or any other object or device of any form that contains lighted tobacco or any other smoking product.

(2) During any time that persons under eighteen (18) years of age are engaged in an organized athletic event at a public facility in Mississippi, no participant in or spectator of the athletic event shall smoke in the facility, if the facility is enclosed, or within one hundred (100) feet of the facility, if the facility is not enclosed, except as permitted under subsection (3)(c) of this section.

(3) The person, agency or entity having jurisdiction or supervision over a public facility shall not allow smoking at the facility in violation of this section, and shall use reasonable efforts to prevent smoking at the facility. The person, agency or entity may take the following steps:

(a) Posting appropriate signs informing persons that smoking is prohibited at the public facility.

(b) Securing the removal of persons who smoke at the public facility in violation of this section.

(c) Providing a designated area separate from the fields of activity, to which smoking shall be restricted.

(4) Any person who violates this section shall, upon conviction, be subject to a civil fine and shall be liable as follows:

(a) For a first conviction, a warning;

(b) For a second conviction, a fine of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00); and

(c) For all later convictions, a fine not to exceed One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00).

Anyone convicted under this section shall be recorded as being guilty of a civil penalty and not for violating a criminal statute. Any such violation shall be triable in any justice court or municipal court with proper jurisdiction.

(5) It is the responsibility of all law enforcement officers and law enforcement agencies of this state to ensure that the provisions of this section are enforced.

(6) If the actions of a person violate both this section and Section 97-32-29 , the person shall be liable only under this section or Section 97-32-29 , but not under both sections.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-31 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4 / Section 19-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-31
Status: in_force

For the purpose of authorizing the establishment of mental illness and intellectual disability facilities and services in the State of Mississippi, the boards of supervisors of one or more counties are authorized to act singularly or as a group in the selection of a regional district by spreading upon their minutes by resolution such designation in conformity with Chapter 427, Laws of 2023.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-28-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 26 / Section 28-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-28-5
Status: in_force

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 control over any episodes typical of this condition;

(b) Enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations for the dissemination of such public information, through all forms of news media, local chapters or organizations, and other persons qualified to perform such functions;

(c) Employ all necessary administrative personnel as may be provided in its budget to carry out the provisions of this chapter; and

(d) Promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-33-13 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 33-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-33-13
Status: in_force

Individuals committed under Section 41-33-9 shall be subject to the usual financial arrangement as to cost of care as is generally observed by that institution's management.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-26-9 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 21 / Section 26-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-26-9
Status: in_force

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 actions may include, but shall not be limited to:

(a) Issuing any orders either on the initiative of the director or through a designated administrative law judge or hearing officer as may be necessary to protect the public health of users of the system, including travelers; and

(b) Commencing a civil action for appropriate relief, including a restraining order or permanent or temporary injunction.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-13 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 59-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-13
Status: in_force

The board shall issue a license which shall be valid for a period of one (1) year when it determines that all the requirements of this chapter have been met.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-20-11 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4 / Section 20-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-20-11
Status: in_force

The State Department of Mental Health, the regional commissions, the Division of Medicaid, the State Department of Rehabilitation Services, the State Department of Health, the PEER Committee, and the Legislative Budget Office shall cooperate with the coordinator under sections 41-20-1 through 41-20-11 and shall allow the coordinator or his or her staff to, as it relates to the performing of his or her duties:

(a) Enter any part of the mental health system, including any facility or building used to provide mental health services;

(b) Interview any person employed by or receiving services from the respective entity; and

(c) Access services, documents, records, programs and materials as necessary to assess the status of the mental health system.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-85-1 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 25 / Section 85-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-85-1
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Mississippi Hospice Law of 1995.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-83-7 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 83-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-83-7
Status: in_force

(1) An applicant for a certificate shall:

(a) Submit an application to the department; and

(b) Pay to the department the application fee established by the department through regulation.

(2) The application shall:

(a) Be on a form and accompanied by any supporting documentation that the department requires; and

(b) Be signed and verified by the applicant.

(3) The application fee required under this section shall be sufficient to pay for the administrative cost of the certification program and any other cost associated with carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-39 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4 / Section 23-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-39
Status: in_force

The following terms when used in Sections 41-23-39 and 41-23-41 shall have the following meanings ascribed in this section:

(a) “ Emergency medical technician ” means a person licensed under Section 41-59-1 et seq. to provide emergency medical services as an emergency medical technician-ambulance, emergency medical technician- advanced, emergency medical technician-paramedic, or emergency medical technician-nurse-paramedic.

(b) “ Fire department ” means service groups (paid or volunteer) that are organized and trained for the prevention and control of loss of life and property from fire and/or other emergencies.

(c) “ Firefighter ” means an individual who is assigned to fire fighting activity and is required to respond to alarms and perform emergency actions at the location of a fire, hazardous materials or other emergency incident.

(d) “ Infectious disease ” means any condition as listed or determined by the State Department of Health that may be transmitted by an infected person.

(e) “ Licensed facility ” means hospital, nursing home, medical clinic or dialysis center, as licensed by the state to provide medical care, but shall not include a physician's office.

(f) “ Bystanding caregiver ” means any person who is unlicensed or noncertified in providing medical services or emergency medical services, who provides care or services to an injured person at the scene of an emergency before the arrival and rendering of emergency medical services by a licensed or certified emergency medical services provider.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-37-25 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 37-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-37-25
Status: in_force

An autopsy may be performed without court order by a qualified physician when authorized by (a) the decedent, during his lifetime, or (b) any of the following persons who have assumed custody of the body for the purpose of burial: a surviving spouse, either parent or any person in loco parentis, a descendant over the age of eighteen (18) years, a guardian, or the next of kin. In the absence of any of the foregoing persons any friend of the deceased who has assumed responsibility for burial, or any other person charged by law with responsibility for burial, may give such consent. If two (2) or more persons have assumed custody of the body of an adult for purposes of burial, the consent of one (1) such person shall be deemed sufficient.

In the case of a minor, however, the consent of either parent shall be deemed sufficient, unless the other parent gives written notice to the physician who is to perform the autopsy of such parent's objection thereto before the beginning of the autopsy. If neither parent has legal custody of the minor, the guardian shall have the right to authorize an autopsy. The fees provided in this chapter for autopsies in criminal investigations shall not be applicable to this section.

No autopsy shall be held under this section over the objection of the surviving spouse, or if there be no surviving spouse, of any surviving parent, or if there be neither a surviving spouse nor parent, then of any surviving child.

If the body has already been buried, consent to disinterment of the body for an autopsy without a court order shall be governed by Section 41-43-59 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-137-27 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 25 / Section 137-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-137-27
Status: in_force

(1) No later than December 31, 2022, and every December 31 thereafter, the MDOH and MDOR shall provide an annual report to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chairman of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, Chairman of the House of Representatives Public Health and Human Services Committee and the Chairmen of the Drug Policy Committees and Appropriation Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives.

(2) The MDOH and MDOR shall report every year to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chairman of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, Chairman of the House of Representatives Public Health and Human Services Committee and the Chairmen of the Drug Policy Committees and Appropriation Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the number of applications for registry identification cards received, the amount of fees, fines and taxes collected, any changes to the fees allowed to be charged under this chapter, any addition to the list of debilitating medical conditions, the number of qualifying patients and designated caregivers approved, the number of registry identification cards revoked and expenses incurred by the MDOH and MDOR. The MDOH shall not include identifying information on qualifying patients, designated caregivers or practitioners in the report.

(3) The MDOR shall provide quarterly reports for all sales of medical cannabis sold by dispensaries to registered qualified patients to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chairman of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, Chairman of the House of Representatives Public Health and Human Services Committee, and the Chairmen of the Drug Policy Committees and Appropriation Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. The MDOR shall report every year on the number of each type of medical cannabis establishments that are licensed and registered and the expenses incurred and revenues generated from the medical cannabis program to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chairman of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, Chairman of the House of Representatives Public Health and Human Services Committee, and the Chairmen of the Drug Policy Committees and Appropriation Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-245 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 19-245
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-245
Status: in_force

The Hudspeth Regional Center is designated as a state agency for carrying out the purposes of any act of the Congress of the United States of America now existing or at any time hereafter enacted pertaining to intellectual disabilities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-43 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 19-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-43
Status: in_force

Whenever it is necessary to commit and transport any eligible patient to a regional mental health or intellectual disability facility for treatment or care, the chancery clerk and sheriff shall be entitled to expenses as provided for by the laws of Mississippi for commitment and transportation to state mental institutions and transportation in the county or outside of the county to a community mental health center or other appropriate facility.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-51-31 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 51-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-51-31
Status: in_force

Violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or the rules and regulations made in pursuance thereof, is hereby made a misdemeanor, and any person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-147-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 147-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-147-5
Status: in_force

(1) This chapter shall not be construed to expand the coverage required of an insurer under Title 83 of the Mississippi Code .

(2) A health plan, third party administrator, or governmental agency may, but is not required to, provide coverage for the cost of an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device, or the cost of services related to the use of an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device under this chapter.

(3) This chapter shall not be construed to require any governmental agency to pay costs associated with the use, care, or treatment of a patient with an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device.

(4) This chapter shall not be construed to require a licensed hospital or facility to provide new or additional services, unless approved by the hospital or facility.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-35-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 35-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-35-3
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of any physician, surgeon, obstetrician, midwife, nurse, maternity home or hospital of any nature, parent, relative or other person attendant on or assisting in any way whatsoever, any infant, or the mother of any infant, at childbirth, or at any time within two (2) weeks after childbirth, knowing the condition defined in Section 41-35-1 to exist, within six (6) hours thereafter, to report such fact, as the state board of health shall direct, to the local health officer of the city, town, village, or whatever other political division there may be, within which the infant or the mother of the infant may reside.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-31 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-31
Status: in_force

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 other county or counties being members of such joint mosquito control commission shall have the right, upon written notice to the president of the board of supervisors so in default, to eliminate such default county from membership in such joint mosquito control commission.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-35 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 43-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-35
Status: in_force

All such organizations subject to the provisions of Section 41-43-31 et seq. shall be, for the purposes hereof, designated as “perpetual care cemeteries”.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-147-9 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 147-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-147-9
Status: in_force

(1) A licensing board or disciplinary subcommittee shall not revoke, fail to renew, suspend, or take any action against a health care provider's license, and based solely on the health care provider's recommendations to an eligible patient regarding access to or treatment with an individualized investigational drug, biological product or device.

(2) An entity responsible for Medicare certification shall not take action against a health care provider's Medicare certification based solely on the health care provider's recommendation that a patient have access to an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-5
Status: in_force

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 advantage in connection therewith. The expenses of surveys shall be paid, in whole or in part, by the said commission.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-19 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 59-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-19
Status: in_force

The board is authorized to provide for procedures to be utilized in acting on changes of ownership in accordance with regulations established by the board.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-47 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 3 / Section 55-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-47
Status: in_force

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 ambulance service district shall levy each year a tax of not less than one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mill on all taxable property of the county for the support and maintenance of the district or such county will not be qualified to become or remain a part of the district, with the exception that should any county desire to appropriate an equivalent sum from the general fund or other available funds of the county, as provided in Section 41-55-49 , the levying of the tax shall not be mandatory.

Should the board of directors of any air ambulance service district determine that a tax levy of less than one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mill on the properties comprising the district would be sufficient to maintain and operate the district for the forthcoming fiscal year, such determination shall, by resolution, be spread upon the minutes of the board of directors, which resolution shall recite the amount of the tax levy which would suffice. A certified copy of such resolution shall be delivered to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the counties affected thereby. When so done, the board of supervisors of the counties comprising the district may for the forthcoming year levy a tax of no less than the amount of levy declared to be sufficient in such resolution without losing their qualification as members of the district.

Any tax levy made under the provisions of this section shall be used exclusively for the support and maintenance of the district and shall be made by the boards of supervisors at the time and in the manner that other county tax levies are made. The revenue provided by this section shall not, under any circumstances, be commingled with other county funds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-33 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 17 / Section 41-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-33
Status: in_force

(1) No abortion shall be performed or induced except with the voluntary and informed consent of the woman upon whom the abortion is to be performed or induced. Except in the case of a medical emergency, consent to an abortion is voluntary and informed if and only if:

(a) The woman is told the following by the physician who is to perform or induce the abortion or by the referring physician, orally and in person, at least twenty-four (24) hours before the abortion:

(i) The name of the physician who will perform or induce the abortion;

(ii) The particular medical risks associated with the particular abortion procedure to be employed including, when medically accurate, the risks of infection, hemorrhage and breast cancer, and the danger to subsequent pregnancies and infertility;

(iii) The probable gestational age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is to be performed or induced; and

(iv) The medical risks associated with carrying her child to term.

(b) The woman is informed, by the physician or his agent, orally and in person, at least twenty-four (24) hours before the abortion:

(i) That medical assistance benefits may be available for prenatal care, childbirth and neonatal care;

(ii) That the father is liable to assist in the support of her child, even in instances in which the father has offered to pay for the abortion;

(iii) That there are available services provided by public and private agencies which provide pregnancy prevention counseling and medical referrals for obtaining pregnancy prevention medications or devices; and

(iv) That she has the right to review the printed materials described in Section 41-41-35(1)(a), (b) and (c) . The physician or his agent shall orally inform the woman that those materials have been provided by the State of Mississippi and that they describe the unborn child and list agencies that offer alternatives to abortion. If the woman chooses to view those materials, copies of them shall be furnished to her. The physician or his agent may disassociate himself or themselves from those materials, and may comment or refrain from comment on them as he chooses. The physician or his agent shall provide the woman with the printed materials described in Section 41-41-35(1)(d) .

(c) The woman certifies in writing before the abortion that the information described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section has been furnished to her, and that she has been informed of her opportunity to review the information referred to in subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of this section.

(d) Before the abortion is performed or induced, the physician who is to perform or induce the abortion receives a copy of the written certification prescribed by this section.

(2) The State Department of Health shall enforce the provisions of Sections 41-41-31 through 41-41-39 at abortion facilities, as defined in Section 41-75-1 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-83-17 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 22 / Section 83-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-83-17
Status: in_force

A private review agent may not disclose or publish individual medical records or any other confidential medical information obtained in the performance of utilization review activities without the patient's authorization or an order of a county, circuit or chancery court of Mississippi or a United States district court. Provided, however, that nothing in this chapter shall prohibit private review agents from providing information to a third party with whom the private review agent is under contract or acting on behalf of.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-91-11 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 25 / Section 91-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-91-11
Status: in_force

(1) Data obtained under this chapter directly from the medical records of a patient is for the confidential use of the department and the persons or public or private entities that the department determines are necessary to carry out the intent of this chapter. The data is privileged and may not be divulged or made public in a manner that discloses the identity of an individual whose medical records have been used for obtaining data under this chapter.

(2) Information that may identify an individual whose medical records have been used for obtaining data under this chapter is not available for public inspection under the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.

(3) Statistical information collected under this chapter is public information.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-137-31 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 14 / Section 137-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-137-31
Status: in_force

(1) The following notifications and MDOH responses are required:

(a) A registered qualifying patient shall notify the MDOH of any change in his or her name or address, or if the registered qualifying patient ceases to have his or her diagnosed debilitating medical condition, within twenty (20) days of the change.

(b) A registered designated caregiver shall notify the MDOH of any change in his or her name or address, or if the designated caregiver becomes aware that the registered qualifying patient passed away, within twenty (20) days of the change.

(c) Before a registered qualifying patient changes his or her registered designated caregiver, the registered qualifying patient must notify the MDOH.

(d) If a cardholder loses his or her registry identification card, he or she shall notify the MDOH within ten (10) days of becoming aware that the card has been lost.

(2) Each notification that a registered qualifying patient is required to make shall instead be made by the patient's registered designated caregiver if the qualifying patient is unable to make the notification due to his or her age or medical condition.

(3) When a cardholder notifies the MDOH of any of the circumstances listed in subsection (1) of this section but remains eligible under this chapter, the MDOH shall issue the cardholder a new registry identification card within ten (10) days of receiving the updated information and a Twenty-five Dollar ($25.00) fee. If the person notifying the MDOH is a registered qualifying patient, the MDOH shall also issue his or her registered designated caregiver, if any, a new registry identification card within ten (10) days of receiving the updated information.

(4) If the registered qualifying patient's certifying practitioner notifies the patient and the MDOH in writing that either the registered qualifying patient has ceased to have a debilitating medical condition or that the practitioner no longer believes, in his or her professional opinion and within his or her scope of practice, that the patient would likely receive medical or palliative benefit from the medical use of medical cannabis to treat or alleviate the patient's debilitating medical condition or symptoms associated with the patient's debilitating medical condition, the card shall become null and void.

(5) A medical cannabis establishment shall notify the MDOH within one (1) business day of any theft or loss of medical cannabis.

(6) A medical cannabis establishment shall notify its licensing agency within one (1) business day if there is a change of ownership or closure of the entity.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-58-9 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 58-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-58-9
Status: in_force

(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) “ Mammography ” means radiography of the breast for the purpose of enabling a physician to determine the presence, size, location and extent of cancerous or potentially cancerous tissue in the breast.

(c) “ Radiography ” means the making of a film or other record of an internal structure of the body by passing x-rays or gamma rays through the body to act on film or other image receptor.

(2) The department shall adopt regulations that specify the information to be provided to patients receiving mammogram services in the written report of the mammography results that is furnished by the entity performing the mammography services directly to patients under the federal Mammography Quality Standards Act, 42 USC Section 263b . Any information that the department requires to be provided in the report shall be evidence-based, consistent with accepted medical standards, and not inconsistent with the federal Mammography Quality Standards Act or regulations promulgated under that act.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-113 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 27-113
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-113
Status: in_force

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 extermination be found, the commission shall make investigations to determine the estimated cost of a mosquito control program on the following basis:

The commission shall, as nearly as possible, ascertain the estimated number of acres of land within the county upon which rice will be planted the next following crop year. The commission shall then estimate the total cost of the poison or other control material which would be needed for the control of rice field mosquitoes on the estimated acreage to be planted, the total cost of application of the poison or other control material, and the cost of administering the program, including salaries of such personnel as may be needed for the efficient administration of the program. When such information has been obtained by the commission, it shall submit a detailed report to the board of supervisors, showing all such costs and information, and the basis for such determination. Such investigation and report shall be submitted to the board of supervisors annually thereafter so long as a mosquito control program is continued, with such annual reports being filed not later than January 1st of each year.

The board of supervisors shall, within sixty (60) days after the commission's report is filed, determine whether or not the mosquito control program described in said report is feasible or practical, considering among other factors the cost involved. If the board of supervisors finds that such a program is not feasible or practical, it shall enter an order abolishing the commission. All expenses incurred by said commission shall be paid by the board of supervisors out of the general county fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-26-8 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 26 / Section 26-8
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-26-8
Status: in_force

(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 sanitary quality or the quantity of the water supply.

(2)(a) No person shall construct or change any community public water system or nontransient, noncommunity public water system until the plans for that construction or change have been submitted to and approved by the director. Plans for the construction or change must be prepared by a professional engineer registered in this state.

(b) In addition, each applicant for a new community public water system or nontransient, noncommunity public water system shall submit an operation and maintenance plan for review and approval by the director. The plan must be approved before beginning construction.

(c) In granting any approval under this section, the director may specify any modifications, conditions or limitations as may be required for the protection of the public health and welfare.

(d) The director may also review the source of the water and the quantity of water to be withdrawn.

(e) Records of construction, including plans and descriptions of existing portions of a public water system, shall be made available to the department upon request.

(f) Each applicant for a new community public water system or nontransient, noncommunity public water system shall submit financial and managerial information as required by the public utilities staff. Following review of that information, the executive director of the public utilities staff shall certify in writing to the director the financial and managerial viability of the system if the executive director determines the system is viable. The director shall not approve the construction until that certification is received.

(g) The director shall not approve any plans for changes to an existing community public water system or nontransient, noncommunity public water system, if the director determines the changes would threaten the viability of the system or if the changes may overload the operational capabilities of the system.

(h) Those public water systems determined by the director to be appropriately providing corrosion control treatment shall effectively operate and maintain the system's water treatment facilities in order to continuously provide the optimum pH of the treated water or optimum dosage of corrosion inhibitor.

(3) Each semipublic water system shall notify the department of its location, a responsible party and the number of connections served. The department shall, to the extent practicable, take appropriate actions to ensure that records on semipublic water systems are up-to-date. The board may require water well drillers to provide information on wells drilled for use by semipublic water systems. The department shall at least annually collect a sample from each semipublic water system and shall analyze that sample at no cost to the semipublic water system for microbiological contaminants and any other contaminants deemed appropriate by the department. If the department finds levels of contaminants exceeding the Mississippi Primary Drinking Water Standards, the department shall notify the responsible party and shall provide technical assistance to the system to correct the problem. No semipublic water system shall be subject to the penalty provided under Section 41-26-31 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-69 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 21 / Section 73-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-69
Status: in_force

The state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business and all executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries and the Mississippi Public Employees' Retirement System may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds issued by the authority, and such bonds shall be authorized security for all public deposits; it being the purpose of this section to authorize any persons, firms, corporations, associations, political subdivisions, bodies and officers, public or private, to use any funds owned or controlled by them, including, but not limited to, sinking, insurance, investment, retirement, compensation, pension and trust funds, and funds held on deposit, for the purchase of any such bonds, and that any such bonds shall be authorized security for all public deposits. However, nothing contained in this chapter with regard to legal investments shall be construed as relieving any person, firm or corporation from any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-91-7 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 14 / Section 91-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-91-7
Status: in_force

(1) The board may adopt rules and regulations that the board considers necessary to implement this chapter.

(2) The board in its rules and regulations shall specify the types of information to be provided to cancer registry and the persons and entities who are required to provide such information to the cancer registry.

(3) The department may:

(a) Execute contracts that the department considers necessary;

(b) Receive the data from medical records of cases of cancer that are in the custody or under the control of clinical laboratories, hospitals, physician's offices and cancer treatment centers or other health care providers to record and analyze the data related to those diseases;

(c) Compile and publish statistical and other studies derived from the patient data obtained under this chapter to provide, in an accessible form, information that is useful to physicians, other medical personnel and the general public;

(d) Comply with requirements as necessary to obtain federal funds in the maximum amounts and most advantageous proportions possible; and

(e) Receive and use gifts made for the purpose of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-28-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 28-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-28-5
Status: in_force

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 control over any episodes typical of this condition;

(b) Enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations for the dissemination of such public information, through all forms of news media, local chapters or organizations, and other persons qualified to perform such functions;

(c) Employ all necessary administrative personnel as may be provided in its budget to carry out the provisions of this chapter; and

(d) Promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-65 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 19 / Section 73-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-65
Status: in_force

All expenses incurred by the authority in carrying out the provisions of this chapter shall be payable solely from funds provided under this chapter, and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the authority to incur indebtedness or liability on behalf of or payable by the state or any political subdivision.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-69 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 3 / Section 73-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-69
Status: in_force

The state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business and all executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries and the Mississippi Public Employees' Retirement System may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds issued by the authority, and such bonds shall be authorized security for all public deposits; it being the purpose of this section to authorize any persons, firms, corporations, associations, political subdivisions, bodies and officers, public or private, to use any funds owned or controlled by them, including, but not limited to, sinking, insurance, investment, retirement, compensation, pension and trust funds, and funds held on deposit, for the purchase of any such bonds, and that any such bonds shall be authorized security for all public deposits. However, nothing contained in this chapter with regard to legal investments shall be construed as relieving any person, firm or corporation from any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-11-107 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 11-107
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-11-107
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center shall be located and constructed on the property and in accordance with the plans and specifications previously designated for the “Crippled Children's Hospital,” or its successor the “Mississippi Hospital School for Cerebral Palsy,” at its location on Lakeland Drive in the vicinity of the Four-Year School of Medicine and University Hospital. It is intended that there shall be cooperation between the center and said Four-Year School of Medicine and University Hospital.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-47 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 14 / Section 57-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-47
Status: in_force

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 applicant shall pay to the Bureau of Vital Statistics such fee for transactions as prescribed by the State Board of Health, which fees shall be paid into the State Treasury within sixty (60) days from the receipt thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-31 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 55-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-31
Status: in_force

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 attention were provided, and that the provision of air ambulance service would be for the general welfare of the entire population of the State.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-143 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 39-143
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-143
Status: in_force

(a) If the deceased patient is medically suitable to be an organ and/or tissue donor, as determined by the procurement organization, and the donor and/or family has authorized the donation and transplantation, the donor's organs and/or tissues shall be removed for the purpose of donation and transplantation by the organ procurement organization, in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.

(b) If the deceased patient is the subject of a medical-legal death investigation, the procurement organization shall immediately notify the appropriate medical examiner that the deceased patient is medically suitable to be an organ and/or tissue donor. If the medical examiner determines that examination, analysis or autopsy of the organs and/or tissue is necessary for the medical examiner's investigation, the medical examiner may be present while the organs and/or tissues are removed for the purpose of transplantation. The physician, surgeon or technician removing the organs and/or tissues shall file with the medical examiner a report detailing the donation, which shall become part of the medical examiner's report. When requested by the medical examiner, the report shall include a biopsy or medically approved sample, as specified by the medical examiner, from the donated organs and/or tissues.

(c) In a medical-legal death investigation, decisions about organ and/or tissue donation and transplantation shall be made in accordance with a protocol established and agreed upon by majority vote of procurement organization, a certified state pathologist who shall be appointed by the Mississippi Commissioner of Public Safety, a representative from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, a representative from the Mississippi Coroners Association, an organ recipient who shall be appointed by the Governor, the Director of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, and a representative of the Mississippi Prosecutor's Association appointed by the Attorney General. The protocol shall be established so as to maximize the total number of organs and/or tissues available for donation and transplantation. Organs and/or tissues designated by virtue of this protocol shall be recovered. The protocol shall be reviewed and evaluated on an annual basis.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-75-23 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 75-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-75-23
Status: in_force

Any applicant or licensee aggrieved by the decision of the licensing agency after a hearing, may within thirty (30) days after the mailing or serving of notice of the decision as provided in Section 43-11-11, Mississippi Code of 1972 , file a notice of appeal to the chancery court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County or in the chancery court of the county in which the institution is located or proposed to be located. Such appeal shall state briefly the nature of the proceedings before the licensing agency and shall specify the order complained of. Any person or entity whose rights may be materially affected by the action of the licensing agency may appear and become a party, or the court may, upon motion, order that any such person or entity be joined as a necessary party. Upon filing of the appeal, the clerk of the chancery court shall serve notice on the licensing agency, whereupon the licensing agency shall, within sixty (60) days or such additional time as the court may allow from the service of such notice, certify with the court a copy of the record and decision, including the transcript of the hearings on which the decision is based. No new or additional evidence shall be introduced in court; the case shall be determined upon the record certified to the court. The court may sustain or dismiss the appeal, modify or vacate the order complained of in whole or in part, as the case may be; but in case the order is wholly or partly vacated, the court may also, in its discretion, remand the matter to the licensing agency for such further proceedings, not inconsistent with the court's order, as, in the opinion of the court, justice may require. The order may not be vacated or set aside, either in whole or in part, except for errors of law, unless the court finds that the order of the licensing agency is not supported by substantial evidence, is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence, is in excess of the statutory authority or jurisdiction of the licensing agency or violates any vested constitutional rights of any party involved in the appeal. Pending final disposition of the matter, the status quo of the applicant or licensee shall be preserved, except as the court otherwise orders in the public interest. Rules with respect to court costs in other cases in chancery shall apply equally to cases hereunder. Appeals in accordance with law may be had to the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi from any final judgment of the chancery court.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-34-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 34-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-34-5
Status: in_force

The boards may establish by rule and regulation requirements and procedures for a licensee and a licensure applicant to report his/her status as a carrier of the Hepatitis B Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus to the board and shall enforce such requirements and procedures.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-27 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 27-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-27
Status: in_force

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 claims to such boards of supervisors for their approval, and a county warrant shall be ordered issued, payable to the president and secretary of the joint, or combined, mosquito control commission of such counties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-149.1 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 29-149.1
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-149.1
Status: in_force

(1) This section shall be known as the “Mississippi Medical Emergency Good Samaritan Act.”

(2) As used in this section, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed:

(a) “ Drug overdose ” means an acute condition, including, but not limited to, extreme physical illness, decreased level of consciousness, respiratory depression, coma, mania, or death, resulting from the consumption or use of a controlled substance or dangerous drug in violation of this chapter or that a layperson would reasonably believe to be resulting from the consumption or use of a controlled substance or dangerous drug for which medical assistance is required.

(b) “ Drug violation ” means:

(i) A violation of Section 41-29-139 for possession of a controlled substance if the aggregate weight, including any mixture, is less than four (4) grams of a solid substance, less than twenty (20) dosage units, less than one (1) milliliter of liquid substance, or, if the substance is placed onto a secondary medium, has a combined weight of less than four (4) grams;

(ii) A violation of Section 41-29-139 for possession of thirty (30) grams or less of marijuana or ten (10) grams or less of synthetic cannabinoids; or

(iii) A violation of Section 41-29-139(d)(2) relating to possession and use of paraphernalia.

(c) “ Medical assistance ” means aid provided to a person experiencing or believed to be experiencing a drug overdose by a health care professional who is licensed, registered, or certified under the laws of this state and who, acting within the lawful scope of practice, may provide diagnosis, treatment, or emergency services relative to the overdose.

(d) “ Seeks medical assistance ” means accesses or assists in accessing the E-911 system or otherwise contacts or assists in contacting law enforcement or a poison control center or provides care to a person experiencing or believed to be experiencing a drug overdose while awaiting the arrival of medical assistance to aid the person.

(3)(a) Any person who in good faith seeks medical assistance for someone who is experiencing a drug overdose shall not be arrested, charged, or prosecuted for a drug violation if there is evidence that the person is under the influence of a controlled substance or in possession of a controlled substance as referenced in subsection (2)(b) of this section.

(b) Any person who is experiencing a drug overdose and, in good faith, seeks medical assistance or is the subject of a request for medical assistance shall not be arrested, charged, or prosecuted for a drug violation if there is evidence that the person is under the influence of a controlled substance or in possession of a controlled substance as referenced in subsection (2)(b) of this section.

(c) A person shall also not be subject to, if related to the seeking of medical assistance:

(i) Penalties for a violation of a permanent or temporary protective order or restraining order;

(ii) Sanctions for a violation of a condition of pretrial release, condition of probation, or condition of parole based on a drug violation; or

(iii) Forfeiture of property pursuant to Section 41-29-153 or 41-29-176 for a drug violation, except that prima facie contraband shall be subject to forfeiture.

(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed:

(a) To limit the admissibility of any evidence in connection with the investigation or prosecution of a crime with regard to a defendant who does not qualify for the protections of subsection (3) of this section or with regard to other crimes committed by a person who otherwise qualifies for protection pursuant to subsection (3) of this section;

(b) To limit any seizure of evidence or contraband otherwise permitted by law; and

(c) To limit or abridge the authority of a law enforcement officer to detain or take into custody a person in the course of an investigation or to effectuate an arrest for any offense except as provided in subsection (3) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-535 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 29-535
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-535
Status: in_force

This article shall not apply to a person who is a subscriber to a telephone operated by a communication common carrier and who intercepts a communication on a telephone to which he subscribes. This article shall not apply to persons who are members of the household of the subscriber who intercept communications on a telephone in the home of the subscriber.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-37-13 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 37-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-37-13
Status: in_force

In all cases where an autopsy is performed as provided in Section 41-37-9 , the person making said autopsy shall file a report, in duplicate, of said autopsy with the circuit clerk of the county where the death is being investigated. Such circuit clerk shall keep and preserve said report and make it available to the district attorney, county prosecuting attorney, grand jury, coroner, and to the accused.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-65 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 59-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-65
Status: in_force

Either a public or private ambulance service licensed and regulated by the State Board of Health desiring to offer such a membership subscription program shall make application for permit to conduct and implement such program to the State Board of Health. The application shall be made upon forms in accordance with procedures established by the board and shall contain the following:

(a) The name and address of the owner of the ambulance service;

(b) The name in which the applicant is doing business;

(c) The location and description of the place or places from which the ambulance service operates;

(d) The places or areas in which the ambulance service intends to conduct and operate a membership subscription program; and

(e) Such other information as the board shall deem necessary.

Each application for a permit shall be accompanied by a permit fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), which shall be paid to the board. The permit shall be issued to expire the next ensuing December 31. The permit issued under this section may be renewed upon payment of a renewal fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), which shall be paid to the board. Renewal of any permit issued under this section shall require conformance with all requirements of this chapter. Any increase in the fee charged by the board under this section shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-103 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 23-103
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-103
Status: in_force

The state board of health shall counsel all females found after testing to be nonimmune to rubella as to the risks and benefits of immunization and as to the associated risks of birth defects in pregnancies occurring within ninety (90) days of vaccination.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-25 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 73-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-25
Status: in_force

Before the issuance of any bonds pursuant to this chapter, each member of the authority and the executive director, if one shall have been appointed, shall execute a surety bond in the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) issued by a surety company licensed to do business in the state. To the extent any member of the authority is already covered by a bond required by state law, such member need not obtain another bond so long as the bond required by the state law is in at least the sum specified in this section and covers the member's activities for the authority. In lieu of such bonds, the chairman of the authority may execute a blanket surety bond covering each member and the executive director of the authority. Each surety bond shall be conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the office of the member or executive director and shall be issued by a surety company authorized to transact business in the state as surety. At all times after the issuance of any surety bonds, each member and executive director shall maintain such surety bonds in full force and effect. All costs of the surety bonds shall be borne by the authority.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-213 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 41-213
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-213
Status: in_force

(1) A guardian shall comply with the ward's individual instructions and may not revoke the ward's advance health-care directive unless the appointing court expressly so authorizes.

(2) Absent a court order to the contrary, a health-care decision of an agent takes precedence over that of a guardian.

(3) A health-care decision made by a guardian for the ward is effective without judicial approval.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-1 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 21 / Section 55-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-1
Status: in_force

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, may own, maintain, and operate a public ambulance service as a governmental function, fix and collect charges therefor, and adopt, promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the operation of said service. Any political subdivision, or parts thereof, acting hereunder may contract and otherwise cooperate with any department or agency of the United States Government or the State of Mississippi, or any county, city, town, or supervisors district of the same, or other counties of the State of Mississippi in carrying out any of the powers herein conferred or otherwise effectuating the purposes of Sections 41-55-1 through 41-55-11 and in so doing accept gifts, money, and other property of whatever kind.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 19 / Section 23-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-5
Status: in_force

The State Department of Health shall have the authority to investigate and control the causes of epidemic, infectious and other disease affecting the public health, including the authority to establish, maintain and enforce isolation and quarantine, and in pursuance thereof, to exercise such physical control over property and individuals as the department may find necessary for the protection of the public health. The State Department of Health is further authorized and empowered to require the temporary detainment of individuals for disease control purposes based upon violation of any order of the State Health Officer. For the purpose of enforcing such orders of the State Health Officer, persons employed by the department as investigators shall have general arrest powers. All law enforcement officers are authorized and directed to assist in the enforcement of such orders of the State Health Officer.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-3
Status: in_force

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 expenses actually incurred by him in the attendance of meetings of said commissions shall be allowed and paid.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-21-85 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 3 / Section 21-85
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-21-85
Status: in_force

All costs of the hearing or appeal under Section 41-21-83 , including, but not limited to, costs of all writs, notices, petitions, appeals, and attorney's fees and transportation of the patient to and from the place of the hearing shall be borne by the treatment facility in those instances where the patient is indigent, provided that if the patient is not indigent, all costs shall be taxed to the patient.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-79 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 59-79
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-59-79
Status: in_force

Any person desiring certification as a medical first responder shall apply to the board using forms prescribed by the board. Each application for a medical first responder certificate shall be accompanied by a certificate fee to be fixed by the board, which shall be paid to the board. Any increase in the fee charged by the board under this section shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65 . Upon the successful completion of the board's approved medical first responder training program, the board shall make a determination of the applicant's qualifications as a medical first responder as set forth in the regulations promulgated by the board, and shall issue a medical first responder certificate to the applicant.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-13-39 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 3 / Section 13-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-13-39
Status: in_force

The board of trustees of any hospital provided for in Sections 41-13-27 through 41-13-31 shall have full authority in its discretion to operate a child care center for the benefit of its employees and other personnel. Such child care center shall be operated as an integral part of the hospital and, if not located on the premises dedicated for hospital purposes, shall be located on such other real property, whether or not adjacent to the hospital premises, that may be purchased, leased or otherwise provided as in the case of hospitals and other related facilities, by the governing authorities of the counties, cities and towns, supervisors districts or election districts jointly or separately interested in the operation of the hospital. If such child care centers be leased, the rental therefor shall be paid from hospital funds, and the hospital board of trustees may in its discretion make charges to its employees and other personnel for child care services. In the event that child care centers shall hereafter be subject to licensure by an agency of the State of Mississippi other than the licensing agency for hospitals, child care centers established hereunder shall nevertheless be subject to inspection, approval and licensure by the hospital licensing agency.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-527 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 29-527
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-527
Status: in_force

(1) Within thirty (30) days after the date an order or the last extension, if any, expires or after the denial of an order, the issuing or denying judge shall report to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts:

(a) The fact that an order or extension was applied for;

(b) The kind of order or extension applied for;

(c) The fact that the order or extension was granted as applied for, was modified or was denied;

(d) The period of interceptions authorized by the order and the number and duration of any extensions of the order;

(e) The offense specified in the order or application or extension;

(f) The identity of the officer making the request and the prosecutor making the application; and

(g) The nature of the facilities from which or the place where communications were to be intercepted.

(2) In January of each year each prosecutor shall report to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts the following information for the preceding calendar year:

(a) The information required by subsection (1) of this section with respect to each application for an order or extension made;

(b) A general description of the interceptions made under each order or extension, including the approximate nature and frequency of incriminating communications intercepted, the approximate nature and frequency of order communications intercepted, the approximate number of persons whose communications were intercepted, and the approximate nature, amount and cost of the manpower and other resources used in the interceptions;

(c) The number of arrests resulting from interceptions made under each order or extension and the offenses for which arrests were made;

(d) The number of trials resulting from interceptions;

(e) The number of motions to suppress made with respect to interceptions and the number granted or denied;

(f) The number of convictions resulting from interceptions, the offenses for which the convictions were obtained, and a general assessment of the importance of the interceptions; and

(g) The information required by paragraphs (b) through (f) of this subsection with respect to orders or extensions obtained.

(3) Any judge or prosecutor required to file a report with the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall forward a copy of such report to the director. On or before January 5 of each year the director shall submit to the Mississippi Administrative Office of Courts a report of all intercepts, as defined in this subsection and as required by federal law which relates to statistical data only, conducted pursuant to this article and terminated during the preceding calendar year. Such report shall include:

(a) The report of judges and prosecuting attorneys forwarded to the director as required by this section;

(b) The number of Bureau of Narcotics personnel authorized to possess, install or operate electronic, mechanical or other devices;

(c) The number of Bureau of Narcotics and other law enforcement personnel who participated or engaged in the seizure of intercepts pursuant to this article during the preceding calendar year; and

(d) The total cost to the Bureau of Narcotics of all activities and procedures relating to the seizure of intercepts during the preceding calendar year, including costs of equipment, manpower and expenses incurred as compensation for use of facilities or technical assistance provided by the bureau.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-83-15 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4 / Section 83-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-83-15
Status: in_force

The department shall establish reporting requirements to:

(a) Evaluate the effectiveness of private review agents; and

(b) Determine if the utilization review programs are in compliance with the provisions of this section and applicable regulations.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-9 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 41-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-9
Status: in_force

In addition to all other remedies available at law or in equity, any court having a clerk or any judge thereof may, in either term time or vacation, upon presentation of the written advice or certificate of one or more duly licensed physicians that there is an immediate or imminent necessity for medical or surgical treatment or procedures for an adult of unsound mind or a minor, summarily consent to or order and direct such surgical or medical treatment or procedures for the adult of unsound mind or minor, provided that:

(a)(i) The surrogate for such adult of unsound mind or minor has refused or declined to do so and there is no other person known to be immediately available who is so authorized, empowered, willing or capacitated to so consent; or

(ii) There is no person available to be designated as a surrogate; and

(b) There has been filed with or there is presented to such court or judge an application for a writ of habeas corpus as to such person, a pleading respecting the custody or care of such person, an application for appointment of a guardian or conservator for such person, a pleading seeking the adjudication of such person as a non compos mentis, drug addict, habitual drunkard or neglected child, or some other instrument or pleading otherwise invoking the aid or jurisdiction of said court or judge or the state, as parens patriae or otherwise, concerning the welfare of such person. Any subsequent dismissal, nonsuit, removal, transfer, overruling or denial of such original application, instrument or pleading, or denial of jurisdiction of the court or judge over the subject matter or necessary parties, shall not retroactively revoke, rescind or invalidate any prior consent.

The reasonable expense of an adult of unsound mind or a minor in thus obtaining such surgical or medical treatment or procedures shall be borne by his estate or any person liable at law for his necessities or, if they are unable to pay, by the county of residence or settlement of the person receiving such surgical or medical care.

Upon request of the attending physician or other interested person, it shall be the duty of any district attorney or county attorney to give his assistance in the presentation of any such medical advice or certificate and in obtaining the consent or order of a judge or court of proper jurisdiction.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-117 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 41-117
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-117
Status: in_force

Any provision of Sections 41-41-101 through 41-41-117 that is held to be invalid or unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed so as to give it the maximum effect permitted by law, unless the holding is one of utter invalidity or unenforceability, in which event the provision shall be deemed severable from Sections 41-41-101 through 41-41-117 and shall not affect the remainder of Sections 41-41-101 through 41-41-117 or the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other dissimilar circumstances.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 25 / Section 43-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-3
Status: in_force

When any donation or bequest is made by any person, company or corporation, of money or property to be used for the maintenance and preservation of any private or family cemetery or burying ground, and no trustee be appointed by such person, company or corporation, or if appointed, the trustee should die, resign, or otherwise become incompetent, the chancellor, on petition of any person having, or feeling, any interest therein, may, in vacation or in term-time, appoint a trustee to administer the trust on such terms as he may deem proper. If a trustee shall improperly administer the trust, he may be removed by the chancellor and another appointed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-26-23 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 26-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-26-23
Status: in_force

(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 monies from any available public or private source, including fees, proceeds and grants. The department shall expend or utilize monies in the fund to pay all reasonable direct and indirect costs of water quality analysis and related activities as required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended. Monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall be retained in the fund for use in the succeeding fiscal year. Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, if the annual fees collected exceed the cost of administering the water quality analysis program in that fiscal year, the excess shall be applied to the cost of administering the program in the succeeding fiscal year. In the succeeding fiscal year, the total to be collected from fees shall be reduced by the excess retained in the fund and the assessment rates shall be adjusted proportionately.

(2) The department annually shall assess and collect fees for water quality analysis and related activities as required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, which shall not exceed Three Dollars ($3.00) per connection or Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00) per system, whichever is less. Any increase in the fees charged by the department under this subsection shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65 . The department annually shall adopt by rule, in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Law and following a public hearing, a fee schedule to cover all reasonable direct and indirect costs of water quality analysis and related activities as required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended. In adopting a fee schedule, the department shall consider the recommendations of the advisory committee created in this section, if those recommendations are made in a timely manner as provided.

(3) An advisory committee is created to study the program needs and costs for the implementation of the water quality analysis program and to conduct an annual review of the needs and costs of administering that program. The annual review shall include an independent recommendation on an equitable fee schedule for the succeeding fiscal year. Each annual review report shall be due to the department by May 1. The advisory committee shall consist of one (1) member appointed by the Mississippi Rural Water Association, one (1) member appointed by the Mississippi Municipal Association, one (1) member appointed by the Mississippi Association of Supervisors and one (1) member appointed by the Mississippi Water and Pollution Control Operators Association, Inc.

(4) All suppliers of water for which water quality analysis and related activities as required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, are performed by the State Department of Health shall pay the water quality analysis fee within forty-five (45) days following receipt of an invoice from the department. In the discretion of the department, any supplier of water required to pay the fee shall be liable for a penalty equal to a maximum of two (2) times the amount of fees due and payable plus an amount necessary to reimburse the costs of delinquent fee collection for failure to pay the fee within ninety (90) days following the receipt of the invoice. Any person making sales to customers of water for residential, noncommercial or nonagricultural use and who recovers the fee required by this section or any portion thereof from any customer shall indicate on each statement rendered to customers that these fees are for water quality analyses required by the federal government under the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended.

(5) There is created within the Drinking Water Quality Analysis Fund an equipment capital expenditure account, hereinafter referred to as the “account.” The department may transfer any excess fees, not exceeding ten percent (10%) of the total fees assessed under this section, to the account. The balance in the account shall not exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00). Funds in the account shall be used by the department, as appropriated by the Legislature, to defray the costs of purchasing new equipment or repairing existing equipment for the analysis of drinking water.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-93-9 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 3 / Section 93-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-93-9
Status: in_force

(1) The department may accept grants, services and property from the federal government, foundations, organizations, medical schools and other entities as may be available for the purposes of fulfilling the obligations of this program.

(2) The department shall seek any federal waiver or waivers that may be necessary to maximize funds from the federal government to implement this program.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-61-67 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 21 / Section 61-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-61-67
Status: in_force

(1) In any case of death where the body is or has been buried without investigation by a medical examiner as to the cause and manner of death, or where sufficient cause develops for further investigation after a body has been buried as determined by a medical examiner, the State Medical Examiner shall authorize an investigation and send a report of the investigation with recommendations to the appropriate district attorney. The district attorney may forward the report to the circuit court having jurisdiction of the matter and petition the court for disinterment. The circuit judge may order that the body be exhumed and that an autopsy be performed by the State Medical Examiner. A report of the autopsy and other pathological studies shall be delivered to the judge. However, in cases of suspected homicide, the State Medical Examiner shall be able to authorize disinterment for the purposes of autopsy. The cost of the exhumation, autopsy, transportation and disposition of the body shall be paid by the county for which the service is provided.

(2) Any person may petition the circuit court for an order of exhumation. Upon a showing of sufficient cause, the court may order the body exhumed. The cost incurred shall be assigned to the petitioner.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-2 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 22 / Section 23-2
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-2
Status: in_force

Any person who shall knowingly and willfully violate the lawful order of the county, district or state health officer where that person is afflicted with a life-threatening communicable disease or the causative agent thereof shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than five (5) years, or by both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-121-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 121-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-121-3
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds and declares that:

(a) There are a multitude of professional degrees using the term “doctor,” including Medical Doctor (M.D.); Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.); Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.); Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (D.P.M.); Doctor of Optometry (O.D.); Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.); Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.); Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.); and other designations which may be used by health care practitioners.

(b) Choosing a health care provider is one of the most important decisions a patient makes, which should be supported by full disclosure from their health care provider. There are differences regarding the training and qualifications required to earn the professional degrees described in and subject to this chapter. These differences often concern the training and skills necessary to correctly detect, diagnose, prevent and treat serious health care conditions.

(c) There is a compelling state interest in patients being promptly and clearly informed of the actual training and qualifications of their health care practitioners who provide health care services. This chapter aims to provide public protection against potentially misleading and deceptive health care advertising that cause patients to have undue expectations regarding their medical treatments and outcomes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-307 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 29-307
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-307
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 41-29-301 through 41-29-311 restricting the possessing and having control of narcotic drugs shall not apply to common carriers or to warehousemen, while engaged in lawful transporting or storing such drugs, or to any employee of the same acting within the scope of his employment; or to public officers or employees in the performance of their official duties requiring possession or control of narcotic drugs; or to temporary incidental possession by employees or agents of persons lawfully entitled to possession, or by persons whose possession is for the purpose of aiding public officers in performing their official duties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-67-15 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 67-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-67-15
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall limit the authority of a municipality or board of supervisors to adopt similar ordinances which may be, in whole or in part, more restrictive than this chapter, and in those cases the more restrictive ordinances will govern. The department shall not approve any system that does not comply with an ordinance adopted by a municipality or board of supervisors under the authority of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-30-21 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 17 / Section 30-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-30-21
Status: in_force

Any person may voluntarily apply for treatment for alcoholism, drug addiction, substance dependency or drug dependency, directly to any approved public or private treatment facility. If the patient is a minor or an incompetent, the application for voluntary inpatient, intermediate, or outpatient treatment, and the request for discharge from an inpatient institution, shall be made by his parent, legal guardian, or other representative.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-83-25 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 3 / Section 83-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-83-25
Status: in_force

(1) Every health insurance plan proposing to issue or deliver a health insurance policy or contract or administer a health benefit program which provides for the coverage of hospital and medical benefits and the utilization review of those benefits shall:

(a) Have a certificate in accordance with this chapter; or

(b) Contract with a private review agent who has a certificate in accordance with this chapter.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, for claims where the medical necessity of the provision of a covered benefit is disputed, a health service plan that does not meet the requirements of subsection (1) of this section shall pay any person or hospital entitled to reimbursement under the policy or contract.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-127-1 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 127-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-127-1
Status: in_force

Subject to the limitations of the license under which the individual is practicing, a health care practitioner licensed in this state may prescribe, dispense, or administer drugs or medical supplies, or otherwise provide treatment recommendations to a patient after having performed an appropriate examination of the patient either in person or by the use of instrumentation and diagnostic equipment through which images and medical records may be transmitted electronically. Treatment recommendations made via electronic means, including issuing a prescription via electronic means, shall be held to the same standards of appropriate practice as those in traditional provider-patient settings.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-115 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 39-115
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-115
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) and subject to subsection (f), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor, a person other than the donor is barred from making, amending, or revoking an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part if the donor made an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-109 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-111 .

(b) A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-111 is not a refusal and does not bar another person specified in Section 41-39-107 or 41-39-117 from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-109 or 41-39-119 .

(c) If a person other than the donor makes an unrevoked anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-109 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-111 , another person may not make, amend, or revoke the gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-119 .

(d) A revocation of an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part under Section 41-39-111 by a person other than the donor does not bar another person from making an anatomical gift of the body or part under Section 41-39-109 or 41-39-119 .

(e) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 41-39-107 , an anatomical gift of a part is neither a refusal to give another part nor a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of another part at a later time by the donor or another person.

(f) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 41-39-107 , an anatomical gift of a part for one or more of the purposes set forth in Section 41-39-107 is not a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of the part for any of the other purposes by the donor or any other person under Section 41-39-109 or 41-39-119 .

(g) If a donor who is an unemancipated minor dies, a parent of the donor who is reasonably available may revoke or amend an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part.

(h) If an unemancipated minor who signed a refusal dies, a parent of the minor who is reasonably available may revoke the minor's refusal.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-125-19 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 125-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-125-19
Status: in_force

(1) To carry out the intention of the Legislature to provide safe and sanitary facilities and healthful programs, the licensing agency shall adopt and publish rules to implement the provisions of this chapter, which shall include reasonable and fair standards. Any conflict between these standards and those that may be set forth in local, county or city ordinances shall be resolved in favor of those having statewide effect. Those standards shall relate to:

(a) The assurance that PPEC services are family centered and provide individualized medical, developmental and family training services.

(b) The maintenance of PPEC centers, based upon the size of the structure and number of children, relating to plumbing, heating, lighting, ventilation and other building conditions, including adequate space, which will ensure the health, safety, comfort and protection from fire of the children served.

(c) The appropriate provisions of the most recent edition of the “Life Safety Code” shall be applied.

(d) The number and qualifications of all personnel who have responsibility for the care of the children served.

(e) All sanitary conditions within the PPEC center and its surroundings, including water supply, sewage disposal, food handling and general hygiene, and maintenance thereof, which will ensure the health and comfort of children served.

(f) Programs and basic services promoting and maintaining the health and development of the children served and meeting the training needs of the children's parents or legal guardians.

(g) Supportive, contracted, other operational and transportation services.

(h) Maintenance of appropriate medical records, data and information relative to the children and programs. Those records shall be maintained in the facility for inspection by the agency.

(2) The licensing agency shall adopt rules to ensure that:

(a) No child attends a PPEC center for more than twelve (12) hours within a twenty-four-hour period.

(b) No PPEC center provides services other than those provided to medically or technologically dependent children.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-85-13 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 22 / Section 85-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-85-13
Status: in_force

(1) The department may deny, revoke or suspend a license.

(2) Any of the following actions by a hospice program or any of its employees shall be grounds for action by the department against a hospice program:

(a) A violation of the provisions of this chapter or of any standard or rule promulgated hereunder.

(b) An intentional or negligent act materially affecting the health or safety of a patient.

(3) If, three (3) months after the date of obtaining a license, or at any time thereafter, a hospice does not have in operation the home-care component of hospice care, the department shall immediately revoke the license of such hospice.

(4) If, twelve (12) months after the date of obtaining a license, or at any time thereafter, a hospice does not have in operation the outpatient and homelike inpatient components of hospice care, the department shall immediately revoke the license of such hospice.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-33 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 41-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-33
Status: in_force

(1) No abortion shall be performed or induced except with the voluntary and informed consent of the woman upon whom the abortion is to be performed or induced. Except in the case of a medical emergency, consent to an abortion is voluntary and informed if and only if:

(a) The woman is told the following by the physician who is to perform or induce the abortion or by the referring physician, orally and in person, at least twenty-four (24) hours before the abortion:

(i) The name of the physician who will perform or induce the abortion;

(ii) The particular medical risks associated with the particular abortion procedure to be employed including, when medically accurate, the risks of infection, hemorrhage and breast cancer, and the danger to subsequent pregnancies and infertility;

(iii) The probable gestational age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is to be performed or induced; and

(iv) The medical risks associated with carrying her child to term.

(b) The woman is informed, by the physician or his agent, orally and in person, at least twenty-four (24) hours before the abortion:

(i) That medical assistance benefits may be available for prenatal care, childbirth and neonatal care;

(ii) That the father is liable to assist in the support of her child, even in instances in which the father has offered to pay for the abortion;

(iii) That there are available services provided by public and private agencies which provide pregnancy prevention counseling and medical referrals for obtaining pregnancy prevention medications or devices; and

(iv) That she has the right to review the printed materials described in Section 41-41-35(1)(a), (b) and (c) . The physician or his agent shall orally inform the woman that those materials have been provided by the State of Mississippi and that they describe the unborn child and list agencies that offer alternatives to abortion. If the woman chooses to view those materials, copies of them shall be furnished to her. The physician or his agent may disassociate himself or themselves from those materials, and may comment or refrain from comment on them as he chooses. The physician or his agent shall provide the woman with the printed materials described in Section 41-41-35(1)(d) .

(c) The woman certifies in writing before the abortion that the information described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section has been furnished to her, and that she has been informed of her opportunity to review the information referred to in subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of this section.

(d) Before the abortion is performed or induced, the physician who is to perform or induce the abortion receives a copy of the written certification prescribed by this section.

(2) The State Department of Health shall enforce the provisions of Sections 41-41-31 through 41-41-39 at abortion facilities, as defined in Section 41-75-1 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-9-64 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-64
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-9-64
Status: in_force

An electronic medical record or medical order containing an electronic signature is considered to be signed as a matter of law, if the electronic signature is affixed or verified in conformity with a reasonable security procedure for the purpose of verification of electronic signatures.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-1 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 73-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-1
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Mississippi Hospital Equipment and Facilities Authority Act.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-16 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 41-16
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-16
Status: in_force

A hospital or physician, and employees of such hospital or physician, may conduct an acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody test or appropriate tests for any other infectious diseases without specific consent for such tests if the hospital or physician determines that the test is necessary for diagnostic purposes to provide appropriate care or treatment to the person to be tested, or in order to protect the health and safety of other patients or persons providing care and treatment to the person to be tested. The person who is to be tested shall be informed of the nature of the test which is to be conducted.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-157 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 41-157
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-157
Status: in_force

(1) Civil and criminal penalties for violations of Sections 41-41-151 through 41-41-169 may be imposed under the following priority:

(a) Injunctive relief;

(b) Civil cause of action; and

(c) Criminal action.

(2) A cause of action for injunctive relief against a person who has performed or attempted to perform a dismemberment abortion in violation of Section 41-41-155 may be maintained as a priority action by:

(a) A woman upon whom such a dismemberment abortion was performed or attempted to be performed;

(b) A person who is the spouse, parent or guardian of, or a current or former licensed health care provider of, a woman upon whom such a dismemberment abortion was performed or attempted to be performed; or

(c) A prosecuting attorney with appropriate jurisdiction.

(3) The injunction shall prevent the defendant from performing or attempting to perform further dismemberment abortions in violation of Section 41-41-155 in this state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-53 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 14 / Section 73-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-53
Status: in_force

Any pledge made by the authority shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. The revenue, money or properties so pledged and thereafter received by the authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof. Neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created need be recorded.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 19-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-3
Status: in_force

The center shall be located on a site selected by the Board of Trustees of Mental Institutions and approved by the Mississippi State Building Commission. The center, however, shall be located as near as possible to an urban area or institution having adequate medical and hospital facilities and shall embrace sufficient land for such agricultural activities as the board may deem necessary for the operation of the center.

Out of funds provided therefor by the Legislature or from any sources, the building commission is hereby authorized to purchase or acquire the necessary land for the location of the center; or the commission may acquire the land by gift, deed, transfer, or other legitimate means; or the center may be located on land belonging to the state or one of its political subdivisions. However, any such land selected shall be transferred or deeded to the State of Mississippi for the sole use of the Board of Trustees of Mental Institutions in carrying out the provisions of Sections 41-19-1 through 41-19-17 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-24-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 24-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-24-3
Status: in_force

In order to accomplish a program of testing for the disease or condition known as sickle cell anemia and/or sickle cell trait which will be most effective and efficient throughout the state, the state board of health may, by rule or regulation, require testing of only those persons who, because of race, ethnic group or other reasons are determined to be particularly susceptible to the condition.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-321 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 25 / Section 29-321
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-321
Status: in_force

The Mississippi State Department of Health shall create and offer training for first responders that meets the following criteria:

(a) The course content must include:

(i) The signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose;

(ii) The protocols and procedures for administration of an opioid antagonist;

(iii) The signs and symptoms of an adverse reaction to an opioid antagonist;

(iv) The protocols and procedures to stabilize the patient if an adverse response occurs;

(v) The procedures for storage, transport and security of the opioid antagonist.

(b) The method of opioid antagonist administration being taught.

(c) Training will be overseen by a physician or pharmacist licensed in this state.

(d) Subject to the oversight required in paragraph (c) of this section, training may be provided by the employer of the first responder.

(e) First responders trained to possess and administer opioid antagonists must be retrained at least every three (3) years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-227 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 41-227
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-227
Status: in_force

(1) Sections 41-41-201 through 41-41-229 do not create a presumption concerning the intention of an individual who has not made or who has revoked an advance health-care directive.

(2) Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of health care in accordance with Sections 41-41-201 through 41-41-229 does not for any purpose constitute a suicide or homicide or legally impair or invalidate a policy of insurance or an annuity providing a death benefit, notwithstanding any term of the policy or annuity to the contrary.

(3) Sections 41-41-201 through 41-41-229 do not authorize mercy killing, assisted suicide, euthanasia, or the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of health care, to the extent prohibited by other statutes of this state.

(4) Sections 41-41-201 through 41-41-229 do not authorize or require a health-care provider or institution to provide health care contrary to generally accepted health-care standards applicable to the health-care provider or institution.

(5) Sections 41-41-201 through 41-41-229 do not authorize an agent or surrogate to consent to the admission of an individual to a mental health-care institution unless the individual's written advance health-care directive expressly so provides.

(6) Sections 41-41-201 through 41-41-229 do not affect other statutes of this state governing treatment for mental illness of an individual involuntarily committed to a mental health-care institution.

(7) Sections 41-41-201 through 41-41-229 do not apply to Sections 41-41-31 through 41-41-39 , which govern the performance of abortions, or Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63 , which govern the performance of abortions upon minors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-233 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 17 / Section 19-233
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-233
Status: in_force

The center shall be located on the site of the Mississippi State Hospital previously known as the Whitfield Annex.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-107-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 107-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-107-3
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(a) “ Health care service ” means any phase of patient medical care, treatment or procedure, including, but not limited to, the following: patient referral, counseling, therapy, testing, diagnosis or prognosis, research, instruction, prescribing, dispensing or administering any device, drug, or medication, surgery, or any other care or treatment rendered by health care providers or health care institutions.

(b) “ Health care provider ” means any individual who may be asked to participate in any way in a health care service, including, but not limited to: a physician, physician's assistant, nurse, nurses' aide, medical assistant, hospital employee, clinic employee, nursing home employee, pharmacist, pharmacy employee, researcher, medical or nursing school faculty, student or employee, counselor, social worker or any professional, paraprofessional, or any other person who furnishes, or assists in the furnishing of, a health care procedure.

(c) “ Health care institution ” means any public or private organization, corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, association, agency, network, joint venture, or other entity that is involved in providing health care services, including, but not limited to: hospitals, clinics, medical centers, ambulatory surgical centers, private physician's offices, pharmacies, nursing homes, university medical schools and nursing schools, medical training facilities, or other institutions or locations where health care procedures are provided to any person.

(d) “ Health care payer ” means any entity or employer that contracts for, pays for, or arranges for the payment of, in whole or in part, a health care service, including, but not limited to, health maintenance organizations, health plans, insurance companies or management services organizations.

(e) “ Employer ” means any individual or entity that pays for or provides health benefits or health insurance coverage as a benefit to its employees, whether through a third party, a health maintenance organization, a program of self-insurance, or some other means.

(f) “ Participate ” in a health care service means to counsel, advise, provide, perform, assist in, refer for, admit for purposes of providing, or participate in providing, any health care service or any form of such service.

(g) “ Pay ” or “ payment ” means pay, contract for, or otherwise arrange for the payment of, in whole or in part.

(h) “ Conscience ” means the religious, moral or ethical principles held by a health care provider, the health care institution or health care payer. For purposes of this chapter a health care institution or health care payer's conscience shall be determined by reference to its existing or proposed religious, moral or ethical guidelines, mission statement, constitution, bylaws, articles of incorporation, regulations or other relevant documents.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-125-7 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 125-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-125-7
Status: in_force

(1) Separate licenses are required for PPEC centers maintained on separate premises, even though they are operated under the same management. Separate licenses are not required for separate buildings on the same grounds.

(2) An applicant or licensee shall pay a fee for each license application and annual license renewal under this chapter and applicable rules. The amount of the fee shall be Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for each licensed bed in the PPEC, with a minimum fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and a maximum fee of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). Any increase in the fee charged by the licensing agency under this subsection shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65 .

(3) County-operated or municipally operated PPEC centers applying for licensure under this chapter are exempt from the payment of license fees.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 21 / Section 27-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-5
Status: in_force

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 advantage in connection therewith. The expenses of surveys shall be paid, in whole or in part, by the said commission.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-30-35 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 30-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-30-35
Status: in_force

Reasonable charges and expenses for the care, maintenance and treatment of alcoholics in any approved public treatment facility under any provision of this chapter shall be a lawful charge against the person and estate of said alcoholic.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-26-21 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 26-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-26-21
Status: in_force

Following the hearing, the presiding official shall enter an order which shall become a final order of the director, unless the petitioner or other interested person appearing at the hearing, shall, within ten (10) days after the date of the final order was made, appeal to the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County or the chancery court of the county of the situs, in whole or in part. The petitioner or other interested person shall give a cost bond with sufficient sureties, payable to the state in the sum of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), to be fixed in the order appealed from. The cost bond shall be filed with and approved by the director, who shall certify the bond, together with a certified copy of the record of the hearing in the matter, to the chancery court, which shall be the record of the cause. Except as provided in this section, an appeal to the chancery court as provided in this section shall not stay the execution of a final order of the director.

Any person who is aggrieved by any final order or other decision issued under this section may, within ten (10) days after the date of that order or decision, petition the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County or the chancery court of the county of the situs, in whole or in part, for an appeal with supersedeas. The chancellor shall grant a hearing on that petition. Upon good cause shown, the chancellor may grant the appeal with supersedeas. The appellant shall be required to post a bond with sufficient sureties according to law in an amount to be determined by the chancellor. Appeals shall be considered only upon the record as made at the hearing before the presiding official. The chancery court shall always be deemed open for hearing of appeals and the chancellor may hear the appeal in termtime or in vacation at any place in the chancellor's district. The appeal shall have precedence over all civil cases, except election contests. The chancery court shall review all questions of law and of fact. If no prejudicial error is found, the matter shall be affirmed and remanded to the director for enforcement. If a prejudicial error is found, the matter shall be reversed and the chancery court shall remand the matter to the director for appropriate action as may be indicated or necessary under the circumstances. Appeals may be taken from the chancery court to the Supreme Court in the manner as now required by law, but if a supersedeas is desired by the party appealing to the chancery court, that party may apply for the supersedeas to the chancellor, who shall award a writ of supersedeas, without additional bond, if in the chancellor's judgment material damage is not likely to result. If material damage is likely to result, the chancellor shall require a supersedeas bond as deemed proper, which shall be liable to the state for any damage.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-137.1 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-137.1
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-137.1
Status: in_force

The medical director of a licensed hospice, in his or her discretion, may prescribe controlled substances for a patient of the hospice for terminal disease pain without having an in-person face-to-face visit with the patient before issuing the prescription. The provisions of this section supersede the provisions of any rule or regulation of a licensing agency to the contrary.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-154 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-154
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-154
Status: in_force

Any controlled substance or paraphernalia seized under the authority of this article or any other law of Mississippi or of the United States, shall be destroyed, adulterated and disposed of or otherwise rendered harmless and disposed of, upon written authorization of the director, Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Revenue or the State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, as applicable, after such substance or paraphernalia has served its usefulness as evidence or after such substance or paraphernalia is no longer useful for training or demonstration purposes.

A record of the disposition of such substances and paraphernalia and the method of destruction or adulteration employed along with the names of witnesses to such destruction or adulteration shall be retained by the director.

No substance or paraphernalia shall be disposed of, destroyed or rendered harmless under the authority of this section without an order from the director, Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Revenue or the State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, as applicable, and without at least two (2) officers or agents of the bureau present as witnesses.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-14-31 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 14-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-14-31
Status: repealed

(1) The Mississippi Department of Health shall establish and administer the COVID-19 Hospital Expanded Capacity Program for the purpose of providing funds to hospitals that increased treatment capacity related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program shall make grants to hospitals as a reimbursement for expenses incurred during the period beginning on March 3, 2021, through December 31, 2023, in the following manner:

(a) Funds shall first be expended for the reimbursement to hospitals for the creation of ICU beds at a maximum amount of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) per bed. If the reimbursement for allowable expenditures submitted by all hospitals exceeds the amount of funds appropriated to this program, then the Department of Health shall allocate the reimbursement to each hospital per ICU bed created.

(b) After such reimbursement is made in paragraph (a) of this subsection, any remaining funds shall be used to reimburse hospitals for the creation of negative pressure beds at a maximum amount of Fifty Thousand dollars ($50,000.00) per bed. If the reimbursement for allowable expenditures submitted by all hospitals exceeds the amount of funds appropriated to this program, then the Department of Health shall allocate the reimbursement to each hospital per negative pressure bed created.

(2) The Department of Health shall:

(a) Promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the purposes of this section.

(b) Require all applications for grants to be filed no later than December 31, 2023.

(c) Require recipients of funds under this program to certify that the reimbursement for the creation of the intensive care units or negative pressure room is for allowable expenditures under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021, Public Law 117-2 , which amends Title VI of the Social Security Act; and its implementing guidelines, guidance, rules, regulations and/or other criteria, as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, by the United States Department of the Treasury.

(d) Certify to the Department of Finance and Administration that each expenditure of the funds appropriated to the office under this section is in compliance with the guidelines, guidance, rules, regulations and/or other criteria, as may be amended from time to time, of the United States Department of the Treasury regarding the use of monies from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund in Section 9901 of ARPA.

(3) The department shall not:

(a) Reimburse hospitals for funds expended by the “Mississippi ICU Infrastructure Act,” Sections 41-14-1 through 41-14-11 .

(b) Reimburse hospitals for professional fees expended in the creation of the beds.

(4) The Department of Health may retain up to One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) of the funds appropriated to the program established in this section to pay reasonable expenses incurred in the administration of the program.

(5) The department shall operate and administer the grant program from funds appropriated by the Legislature from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Funds.

(6) The Department of Health shall submit to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee before October 1 of each year an annual report containing, at a minimum, the number of submitted applications, the amount of grant funds awarded to each hospital for both ICU beds and negative pressure beds, and the number of ICU beds and negative pressure beds that were provided a reimbursement.

(7) This section shall stand repealed on July 1, 2026.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-77-23 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 77-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-77-23
Status: in_force

Any person or persons or other entity or entities establishing, managing or operating a “birthing center” or conducting the business of a “birthing center” without the required license, or which otherwise violate any of the provisions of this chapter or the Mississippi Health Care Commission Law of 1979, as amended, or the rules, regulations or standards promulgated in furtherance of any law in which the commission has authority therefor, shall be subject to the penalties and sanctions of Section 41-7-209, Mississippi Code of 1972 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-30-35 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 30-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-30-35
Status: in_force

Reasonable charges and expenses for the care, maintenance and treatment of alcoholics in any approved public treatment facility under any provision of this chapter shall be a lawful charge against the person and estate of said alcoholic.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-76 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 17 / Section 41-76
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-76
Status: in_force

As used in Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80 :

(a) “ Abortion ” has the meaning as defined in Section 41-41-31 .

(b) “ Medical treatment ” means, but is not limited to, hospitalization, laboratory tests, surgery or prescription of drugs.

(c) “ Department ” means the State Department of Health.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-61-69 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 19 / Section 61-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-61-69
Status: in_force

(1) No person knowing or having reason to know that a death may be under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner shall embalm, bury or cremate the body without the permission of the medical examiner. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months in the county jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(2) A dead body shall not be cremated or buried at sea unless a medical examiner certifies that he has been informed of or inquired into the cause and the manner of death and has the opinion that no further examination is necessary. This subsection shall not apply to deaths occurring less than twenty-four (24) hours after birth or to death of patient resulting only from natural disease and occurring in a licensed hospital unless the death falls within the jurisdiction of the medical examiner. The State Medical Examiner shall be authorized to adopt rules creating additional exceptions to this subsection. For making this certification, the medical examiner or his deputy shall be entitled to charge a fee of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), to be paid by the applicant, unless such medical examiner or his deputy has filed a written report of such death as provided in Section 41-61-73, Mississippi Code of 1972 , and received a fee therefor paid by the county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-149 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 29-149
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-149
Status: in_force

(a) Regardless of the penalties provided heretofore for the violation of any section or portion of this article, the judge of the court of jurisdiction of any defendant may, in his discretion, suspend such penalty, penalties, or portions thereof, for any person charged with a first offense.

(b) A person convicted under this article or under any prior law superseded by this article for a violation of the law regarding controlled substances shall be eligible for parole just as in any other criminal conviction as provided by Section 47-7-3 .

(c) Any person who was convicted and/or who is still serving a sentence in the Mississippi State Penitentiary for a first offense under any prior law superseded by this article, may petition the court of original jurisdiction for resentencing under the provisions of this article.

(d) Any person previously indicted under a prior law for violation of any law regarding controlled substances but not yet sentenced shall be sentenced under the provisions of this article provided that the sentence imposed is not greater than that provided under said prior law.

(e) For the purposes of the sentencing provisions of this article, a first offense shall be deemed to be and include any offense, offenses, act or acts prohibited by said law, or any prior law superseded by said law, committed prior to a first indictment under said law or under prior law superseded by said law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-21-201 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-201
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-21-201
Status: in_force

(1) The State Department of Health shall establish, maintain and carry out a comprehensive newborn screening program designed to detect hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria (PKU), hemoglobinopathy, congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), galactosemia, any other conditions listed on the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP), and such other conditions as specified by the State Board of Health. The State Board of Health shall ensure that each condition listed on the RUSP is included in the comprehensive newborn screening program within three (3) years after being added to the RUSP and shall adopt any rules and regulations necessary to accomplish the program. If the department does not include a RUSP-listed condition in the comprehensive newborn screening program within three (3) years, the department shall provide a report on the status and reasons for the delay to the House and Senate Public Health Committees once a year after the three-year period.

(2) The State Board of Health shall determine and specify the conditions that will be included in the comprehensive newborn screening program in addition to those conditions named in subsection (1) of this section and any other conditions listed on the RUSP, upon the advice and recommendations of a genetics advisory committee. The advisory committee shall be appointed by the Executive Director of the State Department of Health, and shall include at least two (2) pediatricians and one (1) consumer representative from a family that has experience with a newborn infant with an abnormal screening test. The State Department of Health shall maintain a list of each of the conditions included in the comprehensive newborn screening program, which shall be made available to physicians and other health care providers who are required to provide for newborn screening testing under Section 41-21-203 .

(3) The State Department of Health shall develop information materials about newborn screening tests that are available, which may be used by physicians and other health care providers to inform pregnant women and parents.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-49 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 23-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-49
Status: in_force

(1) As used in Sections 41-23-49 and 43-23-51 , the following words and phrases have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(a) “ Immunity passport ” means a document, digital record, or software application indicating that a person has immunity to COVID-19, either through vaccination or infection and recovery.

(b) “ COVID-19 vaccination status ” means an indication of whether a person has received one or more doses of a vaccine for COVID-19.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for:

(a) A state agency, public official, state institution of higher learning, public community or junior college, county, municipality or other political subdivision of the state to refuse, withhold from, or deny to a person any local or state services, goods, facilities, advantages, privileges, licensing, educational opportunities, health care access, or employment opportunities based on the person's COVID-19 vaccination status or whether the person has an immunity passport;

(b) A state agency, public official, state institution of higher learning, public community or junior college, county, municipality or other political subdivision of the state to refuse employment to a person, to bar a person from employment, or to discriminate against a person in compensation or in a term, condition, or privilege of employment based on the person's COVID-19 vaccination status or whether the person has an immunity passport; or

(c) A state agency, public official, state institution of higher learning, public community or junior college, county, municipality or other political subdivision of the state to exclude, limit, segregate, refuse to serve, or otherwise discriminate against a person based on the person's COVID-19 vaccination status or whether the person has an immunity passport.

(3) Children attending any school, kindergarten or similar type of facility intended for the instruction of children, either public or private, shall not be required to receive a vaccine for COVID-19 as a condition of attendance.

(4)(a) A state agency, public official, state institution of higher learning, public community or junior college, county, municipality or other political subdivision of the state does not unlawfully discriminate under this section if they recommend that an employee receive a vaccine for COVID-19.

(b) A health care facility does not unlawfully discriminate under Sections 41-23-49 and 43-23-51 if it:

(i) Asks an employee to volunteer the employee's COVID-19 vaccination status for the purpose of determining whether the health care facility should implement reasonable accommodation measures to protect the safety and health of employees, patients, visitors, and other persons from COVID-19. A health care facility may consider an employee to be unvaccinated if the employee declines to provide the employee's COVID-19 vaccination status to the health care facility for purposes of determining whether reasonable accommodation measures should be implemented; or

(ii) Implements reasonable accommodation measures for employees, patients, visitors, and other persons who are not vaccinated for COVID-19 to protect the safety and health of employees, patients, visitors, and other persons from COVID-19.

(5) An employee of any public or private employer who has a sincerely held religious objection to receiving a vaccine for COVID-19 shall not be required to receive a vaccine for COVID-19.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-137-7 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 137-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-137-7
Status: in_force

(1) The MDOH shall have the ultimate authority for oversight of the administration of the medical cannabis program, and the MDOH shall coordinate the activities of the MDOH and MDOR under the provisions of this chapter in order to best effectuate the purpose and intent of this chapter.

(2) The MDOH may contract with other governmental agencies and public or private third parties to assist the MDOH with carrying out any of the responsibilities delegated to the MDOH under this section. However, the MDOH shall be ultimately responsible for the performance of any responsibilities that are exercised by any agency or third party with which the MDOH has contracted under the authority of this subsection.

(3) The MDOH shall be responsible for:

(a) The licensing, oversight and inspection of cannabis testing facilities and cannabis research facilities;

(b) The licensing of cannabis cultivation facilities, cannabis processing facilities, cannabis transportation entities and cannabis disposal entities;

(c) The application and licensing of registry identification cards for qualifying patients and designated caregivers;

(d) The registering of practitioners in accordance with this chapter; and

(e) The selection, certification and oversight of the statewide seed-to-sale tracking system as provided for in Section 41-137-11 .

(4) Unless otherwise provided herein, the MDOR shall be responsible for the licensing, inspection and oversight of medical cannabis dispensaries.

(5) The MDOR and MDOH shall accept applications for and award licenses according to their respective duties as provided for in this chapter, subject to the following:

(a) After one hundred twenty (120) days from February 2, 2022, the MDOH shall begin accepting applications, registering and licensing registry identification cards and practitioners.

(b) After one hundred twenty (120) days from February 2, 2022, the MDOH shall begin licensing and registering cannabis cultivation facilities, cannabis processing facilities, cannabis testing facilities, cannabis research facilities, cannabis disposal entities and cannabis transportation entities. After one hundred fifty (150) days from February 2, 2022, the MDOR shall issue licenses for medical cannabis dispensaries as provided for in this chapter within thirty (30) days of receipt of the application from an applicant or within thirty (30) days after the initial one-hundred-fifty-day period, whichever is the later date.

(6) The MDOR and MDOH shall issue a registration certificate and a random ten-digit alphanumeric identification number to each licensed medical cannabis establishment, as applicable.

(7) After one hundred twenty (120) days from February 2, 2022, the MDOH shall issue licenses according to their respective duties as provided for in this chapter within thirty (30) days of receipt of the application from an applicant or within thirty (30) days after the initial one-hundred-twenty-day period, whichever is the later date. After one hundred fifty (150) days from February 2, 2022, the MDOR shall issue licenses according to their respective duties as provided for in this chapter within thirty (30) days of receipt of the application from an applicant or within thirty (30) days after the initial one-hundred-fifty-day period, whichever is the later date.

(8) It is the intent of the Legislature that the MDOH and MDOR and any other state agency, as needed, shall cooperate and collaborate together to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.

(9)(a) Subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection, the Department of Public Safety shall not be involved in or have any role regarding the administration, regulation or oversight of the medical cannabis program established under this chapter; however, this provision does not prohibit the department from carrying out any law enforcement activities that a law enforcement agency may exercise under this chapter or that the department may exercise under the authority of any other law.

(b) The Department of Public Safety may assist the MDOH in conducting background checks of individuals as required under this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-30-27 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 30-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-30-27
Status: in_force

(1)(a) A person may be admitted to an approved public or private treatment facility for emergency care and treatment upon a decree of the chancery court accepting an application for admission thereto accompanied by the certificate of two (2) licensed physicians. The application shall be to the chancery court of the county of such person's residence and may be made by any one (1) of the following: Either certifying physician, the patient's spouse or guardian, any relative of the patient, or any other person responsible for health, safety or welfare of all or part of the citizens within said chancery court's territorial jurisdiction. The application shall state facts to support the need for immediate commitment, including factual allegations showing that the person to be committed has threatened, attempted or actually inflicted physical harm upon himself or another. The physicians' certificates shall state that they examined the person within two (2) days of the certificate date and shall set out the facts to support the physicians' conclusion that the person is an alcoholic or drug addict who has lost the power of self-control with respect to the use of alcoholic beverages or habit-forming drugs and that unless immediately committed he is likely to inflict physical harm upon himself or others. A hearing on such applications shall be heard by the chancery court in term time or in vacation, and the hearing shall be held in the presence of the person sought to be admitted unless he fail or refuse to attend. Notice of the hearing shall be given to the person sought to be admitted, as soon as practicable after the examination by the certifying physicians, and the person sought to be admitted shall have an opportunity to be represented by counsel, and shall be entitled to have compulsory process for the attendance of witnesses.

(b) For the purpose of this section, the term “drug addict” shall have the meaning ascribed to it by Section 41-31-1(d) .

(2) The chancery judge may refuse an application if in his opinion the application and certificate fail to sustain the grounds for commitment. Upon acceptance of the application after hearing thereon and decree sustaining the application by the judge, the person shall be transported to the facility by a peace officer, health officer, the applicant for commitment, the patient's spouse or the patient's guardian. The person shall be retained at the facility that admitted him, or be transferred to any other appropriate treatment resource, until discharged pursuant to subsection (3).

(3) The attending physician shall discharge any person committed pursuant to this section when he determines that the grounds for commitment no longer exist, but no person committed pursuant to this section shall be retained in any facility for more than five (5) days.

(4) The application filed pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall also contain an affidavit for involuntary commitment pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 31, Mississippi Code of 1972 . If the application for emergency involuntary commitment is accepted under subsection (2) of this section, the chancery judge shall order a hearing on the affidavit for commitment pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 31, Mississippi Code of 1972 , to be held on the fifth day of such involuntary emergency commitment, the provisions of Section 41-31-5 regarding the time of hearing to the contrary notwithstanding; provided, however, that at the time of such involuntary commitment the alleged alcoholic or drug addict shall be served with a citation to appear at said hearing and shall have an opportunity to be represented by counsel.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-139 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 21 / Section 39-139
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-139
Status: in_force

(a) The Mississippi Department of Public Safety may establish or contract for the establishment of a donor registry.

(b) The Mississippi Department of Public Safety shall cooperate with a person that administers any donor registry that this state establishes, contracts for, or recognizes for the purpose of transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donor's making, amendment to, or revocation of an anatomical gift.

(c) A donor registry must:

(1) Allow a donor or other person authorized under Section 41-39-107 to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift;

(2) Be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; and

(3) Be accessible for purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) seven (7) days a week on a twenty-four-hour basis.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f), personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or person that made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift.

(e) This section does not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the state. Any such registry must comply with subsections (c) and (d).

(f) At the time that a person is renewing his or her driver's license, the Department of Public Safety shall ask the person if he or she would like to be a donor. If the answer is yes, the department shall inform the prospective donor that his or her decision to be a donor cannot be revoked, changed or contested after his or her death by the donor's next of kin or by any other person, and shall ask the person if he or she desires information about the person's decision to be a donor to be sent to another person or persons. If the answer is yes, the department shall obtain the name and mailing address of the person or persons designated by the prospective donor, and the donor registry shall send the information about the prospective donor's decision to the designated person or persons as requested.

(g) The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks may also participate in the donor registry in accordance with this section and Section 49-7-21 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-122 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-122
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-122
Status: in_force

Any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of a controlled substance and is listed as an exempt substance in 21 C.F.R., Section 1308.22 , shall be exempted from the provisions of the Uniform Controlled Substances Law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-75 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 25 / Section 41-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-75
Status: in_force

Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80 shall be known and may be cited as the Abortion Complication Reporting Act.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-87-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 87-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-87-3
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds that there is an urgent and substantial need to develop and implement a statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency system of early intervention services, which is family centered and community based, for all eligible infants and toddlers and their families.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-131 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 41-131
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-131
Status: in_force

Sections 41-41-131 through 41-41-145 may be cited as the Women's Health Protection and Preborn Pain Act.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-71-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 71-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-71-5
Status: in_force

An application for a license shall be made to the licensing agency upon forms provided by the agency and shall contain such information as the agency shall require, which may include affirmative evidence of ability to comply with such reasonable standards, rules and regulations as are lawfully prescribed under this chapter. A license fee of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), payable to the licensing agency, shall be submitted with each application. Any increase in the fee charged by the licensing agency under this section shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-29 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 73-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-29
Status: in_force

The authority shall have the following duties:

(1) To invest any funds not needed for immediate disbursement, including any funds held in reserve, in one or more of the following:

(a) Obligations of any municipality or the state or the United States of America;

(b) Obligations the principal and interest of which are guaranteed by the state or the United States of America;

(c) Obligations of any corporation wholly owned by the United States of America;

(d) Obligations of any corporation sponsored by the United States of America which are or may become eligible as collateral for advances to member banks as determined by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System;

(e) Certificates or any other evidence of ownership interest in obligations of or obligations unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America or in specified portions thereof, which may consist of the principal thereof or the interest thereon;

(f) Certificates of deposit or time deposits of qualified depositories of the state as approved by the State Depository Commission, secured in such manner, if any, as the authority shall determine;

(g) Contracts for the purchase and sale of obligations of the type specified in items (a) through (e) above;

(h) Repurchase agreements secured by obligations specified in items (a) through (e) above; or

(i) Money market funds, the assets of which are required to be invested in obligations specified in items (a) through (f) above;

(j) Any investments authorized for the investment of funds of certain hospitals pursuant to Section 27-105-365 .

(2) To fix, revise from time to time, charge and collect fees and other charges, as the authority determines to be reasonable, in connection with its loans, leases, sales, advances, insurance, commitments and servicing;

(3) To cooperate with and exchange services, personnel and information with any federal, state or local governmental agency;

(4) To sell, at public or private sale, with or without public bidding, any loan or other obligation held by the authority;

(5) To adopt rules and regulations which enhance the probability that hospital institutions will use for such purposes all bond proceeds which are available to finance hospital equipment and hospital facilities; and

(6) To do any act necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted by this chapter or reasonably implied from it.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 24 / Section 57-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-5
Status: in_force

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. § 41-135-1 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 25 / Section 135-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-135-1
Status: in_force

(1) The Legislature of the State of Mississippi acknowledges that extensive research demonstrates the wide-ranging and compelling benefits of breast-feeding for infants, mothers, families and communities, including:

(a) Numerous health benefits to the child, such as lower incidences of SIDS, childhood obesity, asthma, allergies and diabetes as well as increased intelligence and parental attachment;

(b) Numerous health benefits to the mother, such as decreased rates of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, postpartum hemorrhage, and reduced rates of obesity through increased postpartum weight loss; and

(c) Significant economic and social benefits to the state, such as reduced health care costs, and reduced employee absenteeism for care attributable to child illness as well as direct saving to families, as the United States Surgeon General estimates that the average family can save between One Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) and One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) during a baby's first year of life through breastfeeding.

(2) The Legislature also recognizes, despite these numerous benefits, that Mississippi has one of the lowest breast-feeding rates in the country and acknowledges that mothers in Mississippi face many barriers to breastfeeding. One (1) of these barriers is education, which many studies and reports have found to be a significant obstacle that inhibits the practice of breast-feeding. Many mothers are ill-informed about the benefits of breast-feeding and their rights as a breast-feeding mother.

(3) Therefore, the Legislature declares the intent of this chapter is to inform mothers about the benefits of breast-feeding and their rights as a breast-feeding mother in order to promote increased rates of breast-feeding in Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-34 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 41-34
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-34
Status: in_force

(1) Before the performance of an abortion, as defined in Section 41-41-45 , the physician who is to perform the abortion, or a qualified person assisting the physician, shall:

(a) Perform fetal ultrasound imaging and auscultation of fetal heart tone services on the patient undergoing the abortion;

(b) Offer to provide the patient with an opportunity to view the active ultrasound image of the unborn child and hear the heartbeat of the unborn child if the heartbeat is audible;

(c) Offer to provide the patient with a physical picture of the ultrasound image of the unborn child;

(d) Obtain the patient's signature on a certification form stating that the patient has been given the opportunity to view the active ultrasound image and hear the heartbeat of the unborn child if the heartbeat is audible, and that she has been offered a physical picture of the ultrasound image; and

(e) Retain a copy of the signed certification form in the patient's medical record.

(2) The State Department of Health shall enforce the requirements of this section.

(3) An ultrasound image must be of a quality consistent with standard medical practice in the community, shall contain the dimensions of the unborn child and shall accurately portray the presence of external members and internal organs, if present or viewable, of the unborn child.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-411 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 9 / Section 41-411
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-411
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who intentionally or knowingly violates the prohibitions in Section 41-41-407(1) and/or (2) shall be guilty of a felony and shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the custody of the Department of Corrections not less than one (1) nor more than ten (10) years.

(2) A woman upon whom an abortion is performed, induced, or attempted in violation of this section shall not be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit any violation of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-85-13 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 23 / Section 85-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-85-13
Status: in_force

(1) The department may deny, revoke or suspend a license.

(2) Any of the following actions by a hospice program or any of its employees shall be grounds for action by the department against a hospice program:

(a) A violation of the provisions of this chapter or of any standard or rule promulgated hereunder.

(b) An intentional or negligent act materially affecting the health or safety of a patient.

(3) If, three (3) months after the date of obtaining a license, or at any time thereafter, a hospice does not have in operation the home-care component of hospice care, the department shall immediately revoke the license of such hospice.

(4) If, twelve (12) months after the date of obtaining a license, or at any time thereafter, a hospice does not have in operation the outpatient and homelike inpatient components of hospice care, the department shall immediately revoke the license of such hospice.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-7 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 17 / Section 41-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-7
Status: in_force

In addition to any other instances in which a consent is excused or implied at law, a consent to surgical or medical treatment or procedures, suggested, recommended, prescribed or directed by a duly licensed physician, will be implied where an emergency exists if there has been no protest or refusal of consent by a person authorized and empowered to consent or, if so, there has been a subsequent change in the condition of the person affected that is material and morbid, and there is no one immediately available who is authorized, empowered, willing and capacitated to consent. For the purposes hereof, an emergency is defined as a situation wherein, in competent medical judgment, the proposed surgical or medical treatment or procedures are immediately or imminently necessary and any delay occasioned by an attempt to obtain a consent would reasonably jeopardize the life, health or limb of the person affected, or would reasonably result in disfigurement or impairment of faculties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-21 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-21
Status: in_force

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 made as provided in Sections 41-27-23 through 41-27-31 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-123-9 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 123-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-123-9
Status: in_force

(1) Hospitals, other entities and/or residency programs must adhere to the policies and practices as stipulated by the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce to continue receiving state financial support under this chapter.

(2) Hospitals, other entities and/or residency programs may receive state financial support that may be provided by the office pursuant to this chapter. Any financial support awarded by the office must be used for only the creation or support of a residency or fellowship's operational expenses, or the recipient will be liable for repayment of any financial support received under this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-91-13 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 91-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-91-13
Status: in_force

The following persons who act in compliance with this chapter are not civilly or criminally liable for furnishing the information required hereunder:

(a) A hospital, clinical laboratory, cancer treatment center or other health care facility;

(b) An administrator, officer or employee of a hospital, clinical laboratory, cancer treatment center or other health care facility; and

(c) A physician or employee of a physician.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-14 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 25 / Section 57-14
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-14
Status: in_force

(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 this state shall be furnished to the local registrar of vital records at the time of filing the certificate of birth, but such information shall not appear on the portion of the certificate to be issued as a certified copy. Such information shall be sent to the Office of Vital Records Registration of the State Department of Health along with the certificate of birth and shall be retained by the office. The information shall not be disclosed to any person except as authorized by paragraph (2) of this section or as allowed by Section 41-57-2 .

(2) The Office of Vital Records Registration shall make available to the Division of Child Support Enforcement of the Mississippi Department of Human Services information concerning the names and social security numbers of the parents obtained under the requirements of paragraph (1) for the use in establishing paternity or enforcing child support obligations. Information obtained by the Division of Child Support Enforcement under this section may be used in any action or proceeding before any court, administrative tribunal, or other proceeding for the purpose of establishing paternity, establishing a child support obligation, collecting child support or locating persons owing such an obligation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-13 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 19-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-19-13
Status: in_force

Persons admitted to the center shall be assessed support and maintenance costs in accordance with the provisions of the state reimbursement laws as they apply to other state institutions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-14-7 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 14-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-14-7
Status: in_force

(1) There is created a special fund in the State Treasury, to be known as the “ICU Infrastructure Fund,” from which the awards authorized under the ICU Infrastructure Program shall be disbursed by the Department of Health.

(2)(a) All monies shall be disbursed from the fund created in subsection (1) of this section in compliance with the guidelines, guidance, rules, regulations or other criteria, as may be amended from time to time, of the United States Department of the Treasury regarding the use of monies from the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by the CARES Act. However, unexpended amounts of any monies unrelated to the Coronavirus Relief Fund, whether appropriated by the Legislature or donated by any public or private entity, remaining in the funds at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the Budget Contingency Fund or the State General Fund, and any investment earnings or interest earned on amounts in the program fund shall be deposited to the credit of the ICU Infrastructure Fund; and

(b) If on December 15, 2020, there are unexpended Coronavirus Relief Fund monies remaining in the fund created in this section, those funds shall be transferred into the Unemployment Compensation Fund no later than December 30, 2020.

(3) The use of funds allocated under this program shall be subject to audit by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Inspector General and the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor. Each person receiving funds under these programs found to be fully or partially noncompliant with the requirements in sections 41-14-1 through 41-14-11 shall return to the state all or a portion of the funds received.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-141-9 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 141-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-141-9
Status: in_force

(1) Any violation of Section 41-141-5 by a physician or other health care professional shall be considered outside the applicable standard of care and is unprofessional conduct. A physician who violates Section 41-141-5 shall have his or her license to practice medicine in the State of Mississippi revoked pursuant to action taken by the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure. A nonphysician healthcare professional who violates Section 41-141-5 shall have his or her license to practice their healthcare profession in the State of Mississippi revoked pursuant to action taken by the applicable licensing entity.

(2) A person may assert an actual or threatened violation of this chapter as a claim or defense in a judicial or administrative proceeding and obtain compensatory damages, punitive damages, injunctive relief, declaratory relief, or any other appropriate relief. Such claim may be brought against any facility, individual or entity causing or contributing to a violation of this chapter.

(3)(a) A person must bring a claim for a violation of this chapter no later than thirty (30) years after the day the cause of action accrues.

(b) A person under eighteen (18) years of age may bring an action throughout their minority through a parent or next friend, and may bring an action in their own name upon reaching majority at any time from that point until thirty (30) years after reaching the age of majority.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an action under this chapter may be commenced, and relief may be granted, in a judicial proceeding without regard to whether the person commencing the action has sought or exhausted available administrative remedies.

(5) In any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of this chapter, a prevailing party who establishes a violation of this chapter shall recover reasonable attorney's fees.

(6)(a) The Attorney General shall bring an action to enforce compliance with this chapter.

(b) This chapter does not deny, impair, or otherwise affect any right or authority of the Attorney General, the State of Mississippi, or any agency, officer, or employee of the state, acting under any law other than this chapter, to institute or intervene in any proceeding.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 39-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-3
Status: in_force

The State Board of Health may provide by rules and regulations for the disposition of any dead foetus acquired by any hospital or by any midwife or person acting as a midwife, such disposition to be in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 41-39-1 except that the waiting period for such disposition may be waived.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-75-29 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 20 / Section 75-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-75-29
Status: in_force

(1) If unforeseen complications arise prior to or during an abortion facility procedure, the patient shall be transferred to the nearest hospital.

(2) Each abortion facility shall make arrangements with a local ambulance service, duly licensed by the State of Mississippi, for the transport of emergency patients to a hospital and provide documentation to the department of proof of such arrangements.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-171 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-171
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-171
Status: in_force

(a) The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the State Board of Pharmacy, the State Board of Medical Licensure, the State Board of Dental Examiners, the Mississippi Board of Nursing and the State Board of Optometry shall encourage research on misuse and abuse of controlled substances. In connection with the research, and in furtherance of the enforcement of this article they may:

(1) Establish methods to assess accurately the effects of controlled substances and identify and characterize those with potential for abuse;

(2) Make studies and undertake programs of research to:

(A) Develop new or improved approaches, techniques, systems, equipment and devices to strengthen the enforcement of this article;

(B) Determine patterns of misuse and abuse of controlled substances and the social effects thereof; and

(C) Improve methods for preventing, predicting, understanding and dealing with the misuse and abuse of controlled substances;

(3) Enter into contracts with public agencies, institutions of higher education, and private organizations or individuals for the purpose of conducting research, demonstrations, or special projects which bear directly on misuse and abuse of controlled substances.

(b) The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and the State Board of Education may enter into contracts for educational and research activities without performance bonds.

(c) The board may authorize the possession and distribution of controlled substances by persons engaged in research. Persons who obtain this authorization are exempt from state prosecution for possession and distribution of controlled substances to the extent of the authorization.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-9 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 14 / Section 29-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-9
Status: in_force

No person shall sell, barter, or exchange, or receive, hold, pack, or display, or offer for sale, barter, or exchange, in the State of Mississippi, any dangerous caustic or corrosive substance, in a misbranded parcel, package, or container, said parcel, package, or container being designed for household use. However, household products for cleaning and washing purposes, subject to this article, and labeled in accordance therewith, may be sold, offered for sale, held for sale and distributed in this state by any dealer, wholesale or retail.

No person shall be liable to prosecution and conviction under this article when he establishes a guaranty bearing the signature and address of a vendor residing in the United States from whom he purchased the dangerous caustic or corrosive substance, to the effect that such substance is not misbranded within the meaning of this article. No person in this state shall give any such guaranty when such dangerous caustic or corrosive substance is in fact misbranded within the meaning of this article.

This article is not to be construed as applying to any substance, subject to this article, sold at wholesale or retail for use by a retail druggist in filling, or in dispensing in pursuance of a prescription by a physician, dentist or veterinarian, or for use by or under the direction of a physician, dentist or veterinarian, or for use by a chemist in the practice or teaching of his profession, or for any industrial or professional use or for use in any of the arts and sciences.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-147-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 14 / Section 147-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-147-3
Status: in_force

(1) A manufacturer operating within an eligible facility and pursuant to all applicable FWA laws and regulations may make available an individualized investigative treatment and an eligible patient may request an individualized investigational drug, biological product or device from an eligible facility or manufacturer operating within an eligible facility under this chapter. This chapter does not require that a manufacturer make available an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device to an eligible patient.

(2) An eligible facility or manufacturer operating within an eligible facility may do all of the following:

(a) Provide an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device to an eligible patient without receiving compensation; and

(b) Require an eligible patient to pay the costs of, or the costs associated with, the manufacture of the investigational drug, biological product, or device.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-3 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4 / Section 27-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-27-3
Status: in_force

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 expenses actually incurred by him in the attendance of meetings of said commissions shall be allowed and paid.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-127 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 13 / Section 39-127
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-127
Status: in_force

(a) When a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization shall make a reasonable search of the records of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety and any donor registry that it knows exists for the geographical area in which the individual resides to ascertain whether the individual has made an anatomical gift.

(b) A procurement organization must be allowed reasonable access to information in the records of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety to ascertain whether an individual at or near death is a donor.

(c) When a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization may conduct any reasonable examination necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part that is or could be the subject of an anatomical gift for transplantation, therapy, research, or education from a donor or a prospective donor. The organ procurement organizations, tissue bank, or eye bank, or hospital medical professionals under the direction thereof, may perform any and all tests to evaluate the deceased as a potential donor and any invasive procedures on the deceased body in order to preserve the potential donor's organs. During the examination period, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the part may not be withdrawn unless the hospital or procurement organization knows that the individual expressed a contrary intent. The procurement organization representative shall initiate the consent process with reasonable discretion and sensitivity to the family's circumstances, values and beliefs.

(d) Unless prohibited by law other than Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 , at any time after a donor's death, the person to which a part passes under Section 41-39-121 may conduct any reasonable examination necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the body or part for its intended purpose.

(e) Unless prohibited by law other than Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 , an examination under subsection (c) or (d) may include an examination of all medical and dental records of the donor or prospective donor.

(f) Upon the death of a minor who was a donor or had signed a refusal, unless a procurement organization knows the minor is emancipated, the procurement organization shall conduct a reasonable search for the parents of the minor and provide the parents with an opportunity to revoke or amend the anatomical gift or revoke the refusal.

(g) Upon referral by a hospital under subsection (a), a procurement organization shall make a reasonable search for any person listed in Section 41-39-117 having priority to make an anatomical gift on behalf of a prospective donor. If a procurement organization receives information that an anatomical gift to any other person was made, amended, or revoked, it shall promptly advise the other person of all relevant information.

(h) Subject to Sections 41-39-121(i) and 41-39-143 , the rights of the person to which a part passes under Section 41-39-121 are superior to the rights of all others with respect to the part. The person may accept or reject an anatomical gift in whole or in part. Subject to the terms of the document of gift and Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 , a person that accepts an anatomical gift of an entire body may allow embalming, burial or cremation, and use of remains in a funeral service. If the gift is of a part, the person to which the part passes under Section 41-39-121 , upon the death of the donor and before embalming, burial, or cremation, shall cause the part to be removed without unnecessary mutilation.

(i) Neither the physician who attends the decedent at death nor the physician who determines the time of the decedent's death may participate in the procedures for removing or transplanting a part from the decedent.

(j) A physician or technician may remove a donated part from the body of a donor that the physician or technician is qualified to remove.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-123-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 4 / Section 123-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-123-5
Status: in_force

The Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce shall have the following powers and duties, at a minimum:

(a) Developing the administrative policy for the advisory board and the office;

(b) Developing and implementing strategies and activities for the office and for the implementation of an evolving strategic plan to provide for the physician workforce needs of Mississippi. In developing these strategies, the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce and the advisory board shall seek the input of various organizations and entities including the Mississippi State Medical Association, the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians, the Mississippi Chapters of the American College of Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American College of OB-GYN, the Mississippi Medical and Surgical Association, and the Mississippi Osteopathic Medicine Association;

(c) Establishing a budget to support the activities of the office and periodically reviewing and if appropriate, revising, that budget to meet its mission; and

(d) Reviewing the activities of the office and guiding the office in accomplishing the strategic goal of providing Mississippi's physician workforce needs.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-2 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 3 / Section 55-2
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-2
Status: in_force

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 being traversed by Interstate Highway No. 55, may, in the discretion of the board, set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the general fund to be used solely for defraying the cost of providing public ambulance service as authorized by Sections 41-55-1 through 41-55-11 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-49-5 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 17 / Section 49-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-49-5
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of every keeper, manager or person in charge of the conduct of any hotel or inn in this state to keep all of the rooms used in connection with such hotel, or provided for the use of guests, in clean and sanitary condition; and to provide each guest with effective protection against flies, mosquitoes and other vermin.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-47 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 10 / Section 73-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-47
Status: in_force

The commissioners or board of trustees of any hospital owned or operated separately or jointly by one or more counties, cities, towns, supervisors districts or election districts, or combination thereof, organized and existing pursuant to Section 41-13-1 et seq. , are hereby authorized to enter into a lease, installment purchase contract, sale agreement or loan agreement with the authority and/or with any participating hospital institution, in connection with the financing, refinancing or receiving reimbursement for all or any part of the cost of hospital equipment or hospital facilities, or in order to sell or borrow against receivables, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to document any payment obligation or debt thereby acquired by executing one or more notes, bonds or other written evidences of obligation or indebtedness, to secure any such payment obligation or debt by entering into one or more security agreements, indentures or other written pledges of collateral rights or security interests in hospital equipment, hospital facilities or in the revenues of a hospital institution, and to enter into contracts in connection with guarantees and letters of credit issued to secure obligations incurred under such lease, installment purchase contract, sale agreement or loan agreement. Any payments due under such lease, installment purchase contract, sale agreement or loan agreement, and any obligation incurred under such guarantee or letter of credit may be secured by a pledge of the revenues of the participating hospital institution and such pledge, if made, may be on a parity with or subordinate to any present or future indebtedness of the hospital or of the political subdivision or subdivisions which own the participating hospital institution, all as shall be provided in the contract between the authority and the participating hospital. If required to qualify for any program whereby such payments of the participating hospital institution or obligations of the authority backed in whole or in part by such payments will be secured or guaranteed directly or indirectly by the Federal Housing Administration, the Farmers Home Administration or any other agency or instrumentality of the United States Government, the owner or owners of the participating hospital institution may enter into one or more mortgages, deeds of trust or other instruments to grant a security interest in a hospital facility, or any part thereof, or in hospital equipment. No existing indebtedness may be refunded, refinanced or otherwise retired in advance of the due date of such indebtedness pursuant to this section unless such refunding, refinancing or retirement of such indebtedness will result in a net savings to the hospital incurring such indebtedness. Any indebtedness or liability incurred pursuant to this section shall not constitute indebtedness for the purpose of any statutory limitation of indebtedness. Except with regard to refundings or refinancings of existing indebtedness and with regard to obligations subject to unilateral termination by a hospital institution on at least an annual basis, for none of which any such consent shall be required, no payment obligation or debt shall be entered into under authority of this section unless each owner of a hospital institution first has given its written consent to the maximum principal amount of obligation or debt that may be incurred and the maximum time for payment thereof, neither of which maximums may be exceeded.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-311 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-311
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-29-311
Status: in_force

On the conviction of any physician, dentist, veterinarian, manufacturer, wholesaler, or apothecary of a violation of any of the provisions of Sections 41-29-301 through 41-29-309 , in any court of competent jurisdiction, the clerk of said court shall send a certified copy of the indictment, affidavit, information, and of the rules, verdict and sentence to the board or officer, by whom the convicted defendant has been licensed to practice his or her profession or to carry on his or her business. Such board or officer may in its or his discretion suspend or revoke the license or registration of the convicted defendant to practice his or her profession or to carry on his or her business. On the application of any such convicted defendant whose license or registration has been suspended or revoked, upon proper showing and for good cause, said board or officer may reinstate such license or registration.

Any court of competent jurisdiction in which such a defendant is convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of Sections 41-29-301 through 41-29-309 shall have the power in its discretion to suspend or revoke the license or registration of the convicted defendant and may thereafter, upon proper showing and for good cause reinstate such license or registration.

No board or officer shall reinstate any such license or registration where the same shall have been suspended or revoked by a court of competent jurisdiction; no court shall reinstate any license of such a convicted defendant which has been revoked by the board or officer by whom the convicted defendant was licensed to practice his or her profession or to carry on his or her business except upon a proceeding brought in a court of competent jurisdiction for the purpose of setting aside or restraining such suspension or revocation of license.

This section shall not apply wherever any board is already, under existing statutes, vested with authority to suspend or revoke license because of violation of any federal law regulating the use or disposition of narcotics.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-71-21 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 17 / Section 71-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-71-21
Status: in_force

Any person or persons or other entity or entities establishing, managing or operating a home health agency or conducting the business of a home health agency without the required license, or which otherwise violate any of the provisions of this chapter or the rules, regulations or standards promulgated and established in furtherance of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each offense. Each day of a continuing violation shall be considered a separate offense. The licensing agency may seek injunctive relief in the event it deems such action necessary after consulting with the state attorney general.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-35 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 11 / Section 73-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-73-35
Status: in_force

The authority is hereby authorized to issue, sell and deliver its bonds in accordance with the terms of this act, for any of its corporate purposes.

Bonds shall be authorized by a resolution or resolutions of the authority adopted as provided by this act; provided, that any such resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds may delegate to an officer or officers of the authority the power to issue such bonds from time to time and to fix the details of any such issues of bonds by an appropriate certificate of such authorized officer.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-37-17 — MS Code / Title 41 / Chapter 7 / Section 37-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-37-17
Status: in_force

In cases where the disinterment of a body is ordered, the sheriff shall be reimbursed for all expenses incurred by him, which sum shall be paid out of the treasury of the county where the deceased came to his death, upon the allowance and warrant of the board of supervisors of such county. Said board of supervisors shall order payment of the same on the itemized claim of such sheriff.