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MS Code § 97-27-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-1. Adulteration of food, drugs or candy

 If any person shall manufacture, sell or keep or offer or exhibit for sale any adulterated food, or drug, as defined by law; or if any person shall manufacture, sell, or keep or offer or exhibit for sale any candy, confection, or sweetmeat, in making which any preparation of lime or other deleterious substance is used, he shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both.
MS Code § 97-27-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-3. Animals and fowl; diseased animals and fowl to be confined and segregated; burial

 Owners of cattle, horses, mules, sheep, jacks and jennets dying of charbon or glanders or anything of the fowl species dying of cholera, or hogs dying of any disease on their premises, and which fact may be known to them, are hereby required to quick lime and bury such two feet from surface of ground, or burn the same within twenty-four hours from the death thereof. Any person or persons having herds or flocks, infected with any of the diseases enumerated in this section shall be required to confine same, upon his or her premises, in a manner that will seclude them from contact with other non-infected herds or flocks. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than five dollars or more than twenty-five dollars for each offense.
MS Code § 97-27-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-5. Animals and fowl; selling, exposing or using animal with infectious disease

 If any person shall knowingly sell or offer for sale, or use or expose, or shall cause or procure to be sold or offered for sale, or used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or any other like contagious or infectious disease, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding four months; or both.
MS Code § 97-27-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-7. Animals and fowl; glandered animals to be reported to board of supervisors; destruction or quarantine of diseased animals

 If any person, being the owner or having the charge of any animal diseased with the glanders or farcy, shall not deprive the animal of life or closely confine it remote from all other animals liable to contract the disease, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be punished as provided in Section 97-41-13.   Whenever a case of glanders or farcy is reported to the president of the board of supervisors, he may employ a competent veterinary surgeon, if necessary, at the expense of the county. If such veterinary surgeon declare the animal or animals affected with the glanders or farcy the sheriff shall immediately kill the animal or animals, for which service he shall be allowed not more than two dollars for each animal destroyed, to be paid out of the county treasury. And the said board of supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered, in the discretion of said board, to allow to the owner of said animal or animals, to be paid out of the county treasury, such sum therefor as the board may deem proper. If any owner of stock, having good reason to suspect that his stock is diseased shall fail to report to the president of the board, or if any official named in this section shall fail to perform the duties herein imposed, such offender shall, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than two hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding two months or both. The board of supervisors when any animal shall have been exposed to glanders or farcy and not actually infected, may order all such animals to be quarantined until such time as the danger of contagion shall have passed, and the place where such animals are kept shall also be quarantined.
MS Code § 97-27-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-9. Beaches; bringing or leaving breakable containers or other injurious debris upon established beaches

  Whoever shall bring, put, throw, dump or leave on any established beach any cans, bottles, jars, glassware or broken glass, or any debris of any kind that might cause injury to barefoot persons using the beach, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided for in subsection (3) of this section.   For the purposes of this section, "established beach" shall include any sand beach, natural or man-made, along any natural coastline or inland lake within the State of Mississippi designated or used for public recreational purposes.   Any person who shall be found guilty of the violation of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars ($20.00) for each offense.
MS Code § 97-27-10 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-10. Definition of harmful substances

 As used in Sections 97-27-10 through 97-27-12:   "Harmful biological substance" means a bacteria, virus or other microorganism or a toxic substance derived from or produced by an organism that can be used to cause death, injury or disease in humans, animals or plants.   "Harmful biological device" means a device designed or intended to release a harmful biological substance.   "Harmful chemical substance" means a solid, liquid, or gas that through its chemical or physical properties, along or in combination with one or more other chemical substances, can be used to cause death, injury or disease in humans, animals or plants.   "Harmful chemical device" means a device that is designed or intended to release a harmful chemical substance.   "Harmful radioactive material" means material that is radioactive and that can be used to cause death, injury or disease in humans, animals or growing plants by its radioactivity.   "Harmful radioactive device" means a device that is designed or intended to release a harmful radioactive material.
MS Code § 97-27-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-11. Introduction of harmful biological substances into Mississippi prohibited; development, manufacture or possession of harmful biological substances prohibited except for authorized purposes; penalties

  It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully and knowingly import, bring or send into this state a harmful biological substance including smallpox, anthrax or any other contagious or infectious disease, with the design to unlawfully spread the same or assist in spreading the same with intent to cause harm to human, animal or plant life and it shall likewise be unlawful for any person to develop, manufacture or possess such harmful biological substances, except for purposes authorized by law.   A person convicted of subsection (1) shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), and be imprisoned not more than twenty (20) years in the State Penitentiary, or both.
MS Code § 97-27-12 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-12. Unlawful hoaxes intended to cause belief that exposure to certain harmful substances or devices has occurred; penalties; imposition of costs for individual or governmental response to unlawful hoax

  It shall be unlawful for any person to commit an act intended to cause another person or persons to falsely believe that said person or persons have been exposed to a harmful biological substance, harmful biological device, harmful chemical substance, harmful chemical device, harmful radioactive material or harmful radioactive device.   Any person convicted of subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not more than five (5) years or shall be fined not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both.   In addition to any such imprisonment and/or fine which may be imposed upon a violation of subsection (1) of this section, the court shall also order that any person convicted for such violation shall reimburse any individual or governmental agency for the expenses incurred as a result of the violation.
MS Code § 97-27-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-13. Contagious diseases; smallpox patient not to go abroad

 A person having recently had the smallpox shall not, until after having obtained a certificate of the attending physician, and of his person qualified to give such certificate, of his recovery, or other being perfectly clean in his person and clothes, remove from the place where he shall have had the smallpox, to go abroad in the company of other persons who have not had the disease, or go into any public road or highway where travelers usually pass, without retiring out of the same or giving notice on the approach of any passenger, or go into any public place, or into any railroad car or coach, or upon any steamboat, under the penalty of one hundred dollars fine, or thirty days imprisonment in the county jail, or both.
MS Code § 97-27-14 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-14. Contagious diseases; causing exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B or hepatitis C; crime of endangerment by bodily substance; violations and penalties

  It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly expose another person to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B or hepatitis C. Prior knowledge and willing consent to the exposure is a defense to a charge brought under this paragraph. A violation of this subsection shall be a felony.     A person commits the crime of endangerment by bodily substance if the person attempts to cause or knowingly causes a corrections employee, a visitor to a correctional facility or another prisoner or offender to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces or saliva.   As used in this subsection, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly requires otherwise:   "Corrections employee" means a person who is an employee or contracted employee of a subcontractor of a department or agency responsible for operating a jail, prison, correctional facility or a person who is assigned to work in a jail, prison or correctional facility.   "Offender" means a person who is in the custody of the Department of Corrections.   "Prisoner" means a person confined in a county or city jail.     A violation of this subsection is a misdemeanor unless the person violating this section knows that he is infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B or hepatitis C, in which case it is a felony.     Any person convicted of a felony violation of this section shall be imprisoned for not less than three (3) years nor more than ten (10) years and a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both.   Any person guilty of a misdemeanor violation of this section shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for up to one (1) year and may be fined One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both.   The provisions of this section shall be in addition to any other provisions of law for which the actions described in this section may be prosecuted.
MS Code § 97-27-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-15. Food sales; selling meat of animal not slaughtered, or unwholesome bread or drink

 Any butcher or other person who shall knowingly sell the flesh of any animal dying otherwise than by slaughter, or slaughtered when diseased, or any baker, brewer, distiller, or other person, who shall knowingly sell unwholesome bread or drink, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than five years nor less than one year.
MS Code § 97-27-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-17. Food sales; flour and other provisions

 Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully sell, or hold or offer for sale, any tainted, putrid, unsound, unwholesome, unmerchantable flour, or other provisions, as sound and good; or shall practice any fraud or deception, to put off and sell any damaged, unsound, or unmerchantable provisions, shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days, or both.
MS Code § 97-27-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-19. Food sales; meat; sale of flesh of dead, diseased, and unclean animals; punishment

 If any person shall sell or offer for sale as human food, the flesh of any animal which shall have died a natural death, or been killed or injured by any accident; or shall sell, or offer for sale, or ship for sale, as human food, the flesh of any diseased animal, or of any dog, cat, or other like unclean animal, such person shall be fined, on conviction, not less than one hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than thirty days.
MS Code § 97-27-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-21. Poisons; sale and giving away regulated

 It shall not be lawful for any apothecary, druggist, or other person to sell or give away any article belonging to the class of medicines usually denominated poisons, except in compliance with Sections 97-27-23 and 97-27-25.
MS Code § 97-27-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-23. Poisons; register to be kept; label

 Every druggist, apothecary, or other person, who shall sell or give away except on the written prescription of a physician, any article of medicine belonging to the class usually known as poisons, shall be required to register in a book kept for that purpose, the name, place of residence, age, sex, and color of the person obtaining such poison, the quantity sold, the purpose for which it was required, the day and date on which it was obtained, and the name and place of abode of the person for whom the article is intended; and he shall carefully mark the word "poison" upon the label or wrapper of each package.
MS Code § 97-27-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-25. Poisons; arsenic to be mixed with soot or indigo

 A druggist, apothecary, or other person shall not sell or give away, except to physicians, any quantity of arsenic less than one pound without first mixing soot or indigo therewith in the proportion of one ounce of soot or half an ounce of indigo to the pound of arsenic.
MS Code § 97-27-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-27. Poisons; arsenic or other deadly poison not to be used in embalming fluid

 A druggist, apothecary, or other person shall not sell or give away any embalming fluid for embalming the dead, which contains arsenic or other deadly poisons; nor shall any embalmer use any fluid containing arsenic or other deadly poison in embalming the dead.
MS Code § 97-27-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-29. Poisons; penalty for violation of certain sections

 Any person who shall violate the provisions of Sections 97-27-23, 97-27-25, or 97-27-27, on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or confined in the county jail thirty days, or both.
MS Code § 97-27-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-31. Poisons; not to be sold to minors

 A druggist, apothecary, or other person shall not sell or give away any poison to any minor, and for so doing he shall be punished as for a misdemeanor.
MS Code § 97-27-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health|§ 97-27-33. Poisons; inhalation of toxic vapors from model glue; unlawful glue sales to minors

  It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally smell or inhale the fumes of any type of model glue for the purpose of causing a condition of, or inducing symptoms of, intoxication, elation, euphoria, dizziness, excitement, irrational behavior, exhilaration, paralysis, stupefaction, or dulling of the senses or nervous system; or for the purpose of, in any manner, changing, distorting or disturbing the audio, visual or mental processes.   As used in this section, the term "model glue" shall mean any glue or cement of the type commonly used in the building of model airplanes, boats and automobiles and which contains one or more of the following volatile solvents: (a) toluol, (b) hexane, (c) trichlorethylene, (d) acetone, (e) toluene, (f) ethyl acetate, (g) methyl ethyl ketone, (h) trichlorochthane, (i) isopropanol, (j) methyl isobutyl ketone, (k) methyl cellosolve acetate, (l) cyclohexanone, or (m) any other solvent, material, substance, chemical or combination thereof having the property of releasing toxic vapors.   It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise transfer possession of any type of model glue to any minor for any purpose whatsoever, unless the minor receiving possession of the model glue is the child or ward of and under the lawful custody of such person.   Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned for not more than ninety (90) days, or both, for each such offense.
MS Code § 97-31-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-5. Alcoholic preparations; unlawful to sell or keep certain preparations; exceptions

 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, to sell, barter, or give away, or keep for such purposes any sweet spirits of nitre, liquid ginger preparation, elixir of orange peel, pear extract, or any like drug, compound, bitters, elixir or preparation of any kind whatsoever, except where otherwise legalized under the laws of this state, which when drunk to excess, in the form sold, will produce intoxication, except when the same is kept, sold, bartered or given away for either medicinal, or household purposes, or for uses in cooking, baking, and purposes incidental to the treatment of disease.   This section shall have no effect whatsoever on the sections appearing in Chapter 1 of Title 67, Mississippi Code of 1972, cited as the "Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law" of the State of Mississippi. If there is any conflict whatsoever between this section and the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law cited hereinabove, the provisions of the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law shall be paramount.
MS Code § 97-31-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-7. Alcoholic preparations; permit to solicit or take orders

 No person, firm or corporation, or any association whatsoever, except traveling salesmen engaged in selling exclusively to wholesale and retail merchants shall sell, barter or give away or keep for such purposes, or solicit or take orders therefor, any of the preparations, compounds, bitters, elixirs or extracts mentioned in Section 97-31-5, until a permit so to do shall be granted by the mayor and board of aldermen or mayor and councilmen of any incorporated city, town or village within which said business is or may be proposed to be carried on, or the board of supervisors of the county if the same is or proposed to be carried on without corporate limits of any city, town or village. Such permits may be granted by said authorities upon written application of the person, firm or corporation desiring to deal in such preparation, and the permit, if granted, shall be in writing, shall be spread at large upon the minutes of the proceedings of the mayor and board of aldermen or councilmen or the board of supervisors, as the case may be, giving the name of the dealer, or dealers, the preparation or commodities which it covers, and shall be for a period of one year from the date of its being granted. The granting of a permit to any person, firm or corporation, to barter, sell, give away, keep for sale, or solicit orders for the sale of same shall be in the discretion of the mayor and board of aldermen or councilmen or the board of supervisors, as the case may be, and they shall likewise have full authority and power, in their discretion, to revoke the same.
MS Code § 97-31-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-9. Alcoholic preparations; record of purchases required

 Every person, firm, or corporation, selling, bartering or giving away, keeping for sale or soliciting orders for any of the preparations mentioned in Sections 97-31-5 and 97-31-7 shall keep a complete record of such preparations so purchased, including invoice or freight bill, which record shall be open to the inspection of any member of the mayor and board of aldermen or councilmen or the board of supervisors, as the case may be, or any peace officer of the state.
MS Code § 97-31-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-11. Ginger preparations; extracts

 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to have, control or possess in this state, or to transport from place to place in the state, or to bring into the state, any liquid ginger preparation, which might be used as an intoxicating beverage, elixir of orange peel, or pear extract by whatever name designated, whether intended for personal use or otherwise.   Any person, firm, corporation or association, violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, for each violation.