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MS Code § 41-37-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-15. Fees of physician and chemist

 The physician performing the autopsy shall be paid a fee not exceeding the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), which sum shall be paid out of the treasury of the county in the interest of which the autopsy was ordered, upon the allowance and warrant of the board of supervisors of such county. If the physician performing the autopsy is a qualified pathologist, such fee may be increased to Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00).   A chemist whose services are used pursuant to Section 41-37-11 may be paid a fee not to exceed Sixty Dollars ($60.00) for such chemical analysis. The fee of said chemist for such analysis shall be paid in like manner as that of the autopsy physician.
MS Code § 41-37-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-17. Payment of disinterment expenses

 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.
MS Code § 41-37-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-19. Admissibility of evidence obtained through autopsy in civil case

 No evidence obtained through any autopsy performed under the provisions of Section 41-37-9 shall be admitted over the objection of any party in the trial of any civil cause before a court or commission of this state.
MS Code § 41-37-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-21. Physician or chemist may be subpoenaed in criminal case

 The physician performing the autopsy or the chemist performing such analysis in criminal investigations may be subpoenaed as a witness in any such criminal case. If subpoenaed as a prosecution witness, he shall be paid a fee of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per day as an expert witness for each day while in attendance at the trial, and in addition thereto he shall be paid Seven Cents (7¢) per mile for travel from his home to the location of the trial and return. The fees herein provided for shall be paid to prosecution witnesses as otherwise provided for by law for the payment of such witness fees. If subpoenaed as a witness by the defense, such physician or chemist may collect a fee from the defendant not to exceed that prescribed hereunder for prosecution witnesses.
MS Code § 41-37-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-23. Autopsy may be ordered on petition of certain health officials

 The executive officer of the Mississippi State Board of Health or a county health officer may petition in like manner as is provided in Section 41-37-9 a circuit judge, chancellor, or county judge in any county in which a person dies or where the body of such deceased person may be, and such circuit judge, chancellor, or county judge may order an autopsy to be performed upon the body of such deceased person in the interest of public health and welfare in cases where the cause of death is not known and cannot be determined with reasonable certainty without an autopsy and when it would appear to such judge or chancellor by such petition and evidence in support thereof that death may have been due to communicable disease or contagious disease or to poison, foreign substance, radiation or for any other reason exact knowledge as to which would be of benefit to the public health and welfare. In such cases the same fees as specified in criminal investigations to the autopsy physician and chemist shall be allowed by the board of supervisors out of the general fund of the county in which such petition is filed, except that no fee shall be allowed and paid to any physician or chemist who is a regular salaried employee of the state or county. A copy of the report of the autopsy physician and chemist in such cases shall be filed with the clerk of the court in which such order was entered, with the county health officer of such county and with the executive officer of the state board of health.
MS Code § 41-37-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-25. Autopsy may be performed when consent thereto is given

 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 shall 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 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 or more persons have assumed custody of the body of an adult for purposes of burial, the consent of one 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 prior to the commencement of the autopsy. In the event that 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.
MS Code § 41-42-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 42 - Family Planning|§ 41-42-1. Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Family Planning Law of 1972.
MS Code § 41-42-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 42 - Family Planning|§ 41-42-3. Definitions

 For the purposes of this chapter and as used herein:   "Board" means the Mississippi State Board of Health;   "Physician" means any doctor of medicine duly licensed to practice his profession in Mississippi or the state in which he resides and lawfully practicing his profession;   "Contraceptive procedures" means any medically accepted procedure designed to prevent conception;   "Contraceptive supplies" means those medically approved items designed to prevent conception through chemical, mechanical, or other means.
MS Code § 41-42-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 42 - Family Planning|§ 41-42-5. Power and authority of State Board of Health

 The State Board of Health is authorized to receive and disburse such funds as may become available to it for family planning programs to any organization, public or private, engaged in providing contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information. Any family planning program administered by the board may be developed in consultation and coordination with other family planning agencies in this state.   The board is hereby authorized to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this chapter.   The board may provide for the dissemination of medically acceptable contraceptive information and supplies by duly authorized persons in state and county health and welfare departments and in medical facilities at institutions of higher learning.
MS Code § 41-42-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 42 - Family Planning|§ 41-42-7. Furnishing contraceptive supplies and information to minors

 Contraceptive supplies and information may be furnished by physicians to any minor who is a parent, or who is married, or who has the consent of his or her parent or legal guardian, or who has been referred for such service by another physician, a clergyman, a family planning clinic, a school or institution of higher learning, or any agency or instrumentality of this state or any subdivision thereof.
MS Code § 41-49-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 49 - Regulation of Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 41-49-1. Chapter to be enforced by State Board of Health

 It shall be the duty of the Mississippi State Board of Health to enforce the provisions of this chapter. In order to discharge its powers and duties under this statute, the board may promulgate such rules and regulations as are reasonable and necessary.
MS Code § 41-49-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 49 - Regulation of Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 41-49-3. "Hotel" defined

 The term "hotel" shall mean and include any entity or individual engaged in the business of furnishing or providing one or more rooms intended or designed for dwelling, lodging or sleeping purposes that at any one time will accommodate transient guests and that are known to the trade as such and includes every building or other structure kept, used, maintained or advertised as, or held out to the public to be, a place where sleeping accommodations are supplied for pay or other consideration to transient guests regardless of the number of rooms, units, suites or cabins available, excluding nursing homes or institutions for the aged or infirm as defined in Section 43-11-1.
MS Code § 41-49-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 49 - Regulation of Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 41-49-5. Premises to be kept in clean and sanitary condition

 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.
MS Code § 41-49-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 49 - Regulation of Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 41-49-7. Copy of chapter to be posted in all hotels and inns

 A copy of Sections 41-49-1 through 41-49-5, 41-49-9, shall be posted and kept posted in a conspicuous place in the general office or lobby, provided for the use of guests and patrons of every public inn and hotel.
MS Code § 41-49-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 49 - Regulation of Hotels and Innkeepers|§ 41-49-9. Penalty

 Any owner, manager or person in charge of a hotel who shall fail, neglect or refuse to comply with any of Sections 41-49-1 through 41-49-7, or with any applicable rules or regulations of the state board of health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Each day's failure, neglect or refusal shall constitute a separate offense, and may be punished as such.
MS Code § 41-51-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 51 - Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal or Rendering Plants|§ 41-51-1. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as The Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal Law of 1964.
MS Code § 41-51-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 51 - Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal or Rendering Plants|§ 41-51-3. Declaration of public policy

 It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the State of Mississippi, acting through its legislature, to control and regulate the transportation over the highways of this state and the disposal of poultry by-products, slaughter house offal and wastes, and meat processing plant bones, meat scraps, fats, and all otherwise inedible meats and meat products, and the carcasses of dead animals, not slaughtered and intended for human food, to the end that the spread of poultry and animal diseases in this state shall be controlled and also that the public health and welfare of the citizens of this state shall be conserved and protected against dangers, annoyances and nuisances that might arise from such poultry by-products and carcasses or from such transportation and disposal thereof, if the same be not regulated by law. This chapter is designed to effectuate such purposes and public policy, through the exercise of the police powers of the state. This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect such policy and to promote such objects.
MS Code § 41-51-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 51 - Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal or Rendering Plants|§ 41-51-5. Definitions

 For purposes of this chapter, the words and terms used herein shall have ascribed to them the following meanings:   The term "disposal plant," or "rendering plant," or "plant" shall apply to and include any plant and all equipment thereof described or referred to in any section of this chapter that is constructed and intended to be operated for the disposal of poultry by-products, slaughter house offal and wastes, and meat processing plant bones, meat scraps, fats, and all otherwise inedible meats and meat products, the bodies of dead animals or parts thereof or excrements therefrom, by means of burying or burning or cooking or otherwise processing, whether for the purpose of producing or manufacturing by-products or otherwise. Such a term shall also include all substations of any such plant that are used in connection with such business solely for the temporary disposal or storage of such poultry by-products, dead bodies or parts thereof or excrements therefrom pending final delivery thereof to any such disposal plant or rendering plant, and shall also include all vehicles and equipment thereof used in Mississippi for the transportation of such bodies or parts thereof or excrements therefrom, bones, meat scraps, fats, and otherwise inedible meats and meat products to such plant for their disposal therein in the manner herein prescribed.   The term "dead animals" shall mean the carcasses of dead animals, parts thereof or excrements therefrom.   The word "person" shall include individuals, partnerships, corporations, associations and any other legal entities recognized by law.   The term "poultry by-products" shall mean heads, feet, viscera, blood and feathers.   The term "slaughter house offal and wastes" shall mean heads, feet, viscera, blood and any associated material therewith.   The word "commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of agriculture and commerce, or his duly authorized deputies.
MS Code § 41-51-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 51 - Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal or Rendering Plants|§ 41-51-7. Persons, matters or vocations not affected by chapter

 Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to or affect any of the following persons, matters, or vocations, to wit:   Any persons legally engaged in the course of slaughtering, butchering, manufacturing, or selling, in any manner, any animal flesh and products, where such animals are killed for the purpose of being used solely for human consumption, or any persons engaged in transporting and disposing of the dead bodies of any such animals so killed or of any parts or products thereof to any persons solely for such purpose and use.   Any person transporting, disposing of, or selling the hides or skins of animals, or tanning such hides or skins for himself or other persons.   Any bodies of dead game, birds, fish, reptiles, or small animals of any kind, such as dogs, cats and small game.   Slaughter houses and poultry processing plants which are engaged in the processing of animals or poultry for human consumption and which are operating a rendering plant under the supervision of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce or the United States Department of Agriculture for the purpose of disposing of the waste and by-products from such plants only.   Any governmental agency, collecting, transporting, or disposing of the bodies of any dead animals in any manner.   Any person slaughtering animals on his own premises for the manufacture of pet foods, provided the products of same are not transported from his own premises until canned or packaged and properly labeled.   No provisions of any other laws or ordinances regulating any of the persons, matters or vocations aforesaid shall be affected or repealed by this chapter.
MS Code § 41-51-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 51 - Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal or Rendering Plants|§ 41-51-9. Powers and duties of the commissioner

 The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations for the orderly administration and enforcement of this chapter, not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, and shall spread same upon the minutes to be kept in his office. The commissioner shall prescribe and supply the necessary and proper forms to be used in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.   The commissioner shall also obtain and keep in his office a minute book which shall be plainly identified as a record of the things had and done in carrying out the administration of this chapter, and for the proper recordation of the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder. Every licensee shall be furnished a copy of such rules and regulations when a license is issued. No amendment to a rule or regulation containing a penalty for the violation thereof shall become effective in less than thirty (30) days from the date of such amendment, and the date of such amendment must be spread upon the minutes of the commission.
MS Code § 41-51-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 51 - Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal or Rendering Plants|§ 41-51-11. Regulation of transportation and storage

 All poultry and meats and their component parts or products having physical characteristics of an edible product or capable of being used for or diverted to human food, and all poultry and meats and their products which have become unsound, unwholesome, or any other way unfit for human food including any rendered or unrendered grease, tallow or other fats, or the carcass or parts of carcass of any other animal or poultry which is unfit for human consumption shall not be transported or stored within the State of Mississippi until and unless the same shall have been decharacterized, denatured or otherwise destroyed for human food purposes. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the safe and proper handling of these poultry and animal parts or products in the interest of public health. The commissioner shall exercise the police powers of the state in the search, seizure, confiscation and destruction in the investigation and prosecution of violations of this section.
MS Code § 41-51-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 51 - Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal or Rendering Plants|§ 41-51-13. Application for license to operate plant; fees

 It shall be the duty of every person operating a disposal plant or rendering plant to apply to the commissioner for a license to operate such establishment, and no person shall engage in this state in the business of operating such a disposal plant or rendering plant without first having obtained for each such disposal plant so operated by him, or in his behalf, a license pursuant to this chapter.   Said commissioner shall keep a record of all applications for licenses, showing all issued, denied or revoked by him and such other facts as he may prescribe. The application for a license shall be made on a form to be supplied by the commissioner, and shall show the location of each establishment and the name and address of the owner and the name and address of the lessor or lessee. Such application shall also set forth the particular method or methods which the applicant intends to employ, or is employing, in the transportation and in the disposal or processing of poultry by-products or the bodies of such dead animals; the number and location of all substations he desires to operate, if any; the number and kind of vehicles he will use; and such other essential information thereto as the commissioner, by his rules and regulations, may require.   The application shall have attached thereto the affidavit of the person applying for the licensing that the facts set forth therein are true and correct.   Such application shall be accompanied by an initial fee of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for each disposal plant or rendering plant, Five Dollars ($5.00) for each substation operated in conjunction therewith, and Five Dollars ($5.00) for each vehicle unit used in transportation of the poultry by-products, bodies of dead animals and products of said rendering operation. Like fees shall be paid to the commissioner annually for each renewal thereof. All fees collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited in the general fund in the state treasury.
MS Code § 41-51-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 51 - Animal and Poultry By-Products Disposal or Rendering Plants|§ 41-51-15. Inspection of plant; issuance and term of licenses

 Upon receipt of such application, the commissioner, or some person appointed and designated by him, shall, within thirty (30) days, inspect the plant, and the locality where such applicant is conducting or proposes to conduct such business, and shall ascertain whether such applicant is a responsible and suitable person, financially and otherwise, to be entrusted with a license to conduct such business and that such applicant has fulfilled and complied with the requirements of all the sections of this chapter and of the rules and regulations authorized in this chapter relating to such business.   If such commissioner shall find that such applicant is such a responsible and suitable person to conduct such business, and that the plant of such applicant, and the methods of operation thereof comply with all the provisions of this chapter and with the rules and regulations authorized in this chapter, and that such business is located in a place permitted by this chapter, he shall thereupon issue to such applicant a certificate to that effect.   All licenses and certificates issued under this chapter shall remain effective until and unless voluntarily surrendered, or suspended or revoked, as provided in this chapter, conditioned, however, upon payment to the commissioner on or before July 15th subsequent to the year of issuance, of the required total annual license fee, which payment shall operate, without further application, to continue such licenses and certificates in full effect during each year for which such license fee shall be paid, unless sooner surrendered or suspended or revoked.