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MS Code § 97-39-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 39 - Dueling|§ 97-39-11. Fighting in public place with deadly weapon, or seconding such a fight; penalty

 If any person shall be guilty of fighting in any city, town, village, or other public place, and shall in such fight use any rifle, shotgun, sword, sword-cane, pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, dirk-knife, or any other deadly weapon, or if any person shall be second or aid in such fight, the person so offending shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned not less than three months; and if any person shall be killed in such fight, the person so killing the other may be prosecuted and convicted as in other cases of murder.
MS Code § 97-41-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-1. Living creatures not to be cruelly treated

 Except as otherwise provided in Section 97-41-16 for a dog or cat, if any person shall intentionally or with criminal negligence override, overdrive, overload, torture, torment, unjustifiably injure, deprive of necessary sustenance, food, or drink; or cruelly beat or needlessly mutilate; or cause or procure to be overridden, overdriven, overloaded, tortured, unjustifiably injured, tormented, or deprived of necessary sustenance, food or drink; or to be cruelly beaten or needlessly mutilated or killed, any living creature, every such offender shall, for every offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
MS Code § 97-41-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-3. Authority to kill injured, neglected, etc. animals other than dogs or cats; authorization to euthanize injured, diseased, etc. dog or cat under certain circumstances; immunity of persons acting in good faith and without malice pursuant to section

  Any sheriff, constable, policeman, or agent of a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals may kill, or cause to be killed, any animal other than a dog or cat found neglected or abandoned, if in the opinion of three (3) respectable citizens it is injured or diseased past recovery, or by age has become useless.     After all reasonable attempts have been made to locate the legal owner of a dog or cat that is found maimed, wounded, injured or diseased, the dog or cat may be euthanized, or caused to be euthanized, by:   A law enforcement officer;   A veterinarian licensed in Mississippi;   An employee of an agency or department of a political subdivision that is charged with the control or welfare of dogs or cats within the subdivision; or   An employee or agent of an organization that has the purpose of protecting the welfare of or preventing cruelty to dogs or cats and that possesses nonprofit status under the United States Internal Revenue Code.     The provisions of this subsection (2) shall not be construed to prevent the immediate euthanasia by the persons enumerated in this subsection or by any other person, if it is necessary to prevent unrelievable suffering of the dog or cat.     Any person acting in good faith and without malice pursuant to this section shall be immune from civil and criminal liability for that action.
MS Code § 97-41-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-5. Carrying creature other than dog or cat in a cruel manner

 If any person shall carry, or cause to be carried by hand or in or upon any vehicle or other conveyance, any creature other than a dog or cat in a cruel or inhuman manner, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
MS Code § 97-41-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-7. Confining creatures other than dogs or cats without food or water

 If any person shall confine, or cause to be confined, in any stable, lot, or other place, any living creature other than a dog or cat, without supplying the same during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome food and water, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
MS Code § 97-41-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-9. Failure of owner or custodian to provide sustenance to creatures other than dogs or cats

 If any person be the owner or have the custody of any living creature other than a dog or cat and unjustifiably neglect or refuse to furnish it necessary sustenance, food, or drink, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
MS Code § 97-41-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-11. Fighting animals or cocks

 Any person who shall keep or use, or in any way be connected with or interested in the management of, or shall receive money for the admission of any person to, any place kept or used for the purpose of fighting any bear, cock or other creature, except a dog, or of tormenting or torturing the same, and every person who shall encourage, aid, or assist therein, or who shall permit or suffer any place to be so kept or used, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. It shall be the duty of any policeman or other officer of the law, county or municipal, to enter into any such place kept for such purpose, and to arrest each and every person concerned or participating therein.
MS Code § 97-41-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-13. Penalty for violating certain sections

 Any person who shall violate any of Sections 97-41-3 to 97-41-11, or Section 97-27-7 on the subject of cruelty to animals shall, on conviction, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than one hundred days or both.
MS Code § 97-41-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-15. Malicious or mischievous injury to livestock; penalty; restitution

  Any person who shall maliciously, either out of a spirit of revenge or wanton cruelty, or who shall mischievously kill, maim or wound, or injure any livestock, or cause any person to do the same, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction, shall be committed to the custody of the State Department of Corrections for not less than twelve (12) months nor more than five years, and fined an amount not less than One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00), nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00).   In addition to any such fine or imprisonment which may be imposed, the court shall order that restitution be made to the owner of any animal listed in subsection (1) of this section. The measure for restitution in money shall be the current replacement value of such loss and/or the actual veterinarian fees, special supplies, loss of income and other costs incurred as a result of actions in violation of subsection (1) of this section.   For purposes of this section, the term "livestock" shall mean horses, cattle, swine, sheep and other domestic animals produced for profit.
MS Code § 97-41-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-17. Poisons; administering to animals

 Every person who shall willfully and unlawfully administer any poison to any horse, mare, colt, mule, jack, jennet, cattle, deer, dog, cat, hog, sheep, chicken, duck, goose, turkey, pea-fowl, guinea-fowl, or partridge, or shall maliciously expose any poison substance with intent that the same should be taken or swallowed by any horse, mare, colt, mule, jack, jennet, cattle, dog, cat, hog, sheep, chicken, duck, goose, turkey, pea-fowl, guinea-fowl, or partridge, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary not exceeding three (3) years, or in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year, and by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
MS Code § 97-41-18 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-18. Prohibition against intentionally conducting fight between canine and hog; exceptions; penalties

  For the purposes of this section, "hog" means a pig, swine or boar.   It is unlawful for any person to organize or conduct any commercial event commonly referred to as a "catch" wherein there is a display of combat or fighting among one or more domestic or feral canines and feral or domestic hogs and in which it is intended or reasonably foreseeable that the canines or hogs would be injured, maimed, mutilated or killed.   It is unlawful for any person to organize, conduct or financially or materially support any event prohibited by this section.   The provisions of this section shall not apply to any competitive event in which canines trained for hunting or herding activities are released in an open or enclosed area to locate and corner hogs, commonly referred to as a "bay event," and in which competitive points are deducted if a hog is caught and held.   The provisions of this section shall not apply to the lawful hunting of hogs with canines or the use of canines for the management, farming or herding of hogs which are livestock or the private training of canines for the purposes enumerated in this subsection provided that such training is conducted for the field using accepted dog handling and training practices and is not in violation of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section.   Any person convicted under the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both.
MS Code § 97-41-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Cruelty to Animals|§ 97-41-23. Injury and killing of public service animals; penalties

  It is unlawful for any person to willfully and maliciously taunt, torment, tease, beat, strike, or to administer, expose or inject any desensitizing drugs, chemicals or substance to any public service animal. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and be imprisoned not more than five (5) days, or both.   Any person who, without just cause, purposely kills or injures any public service animal is guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) and be imprisoned not more than five (5) years, or both.   For purposes of this section, the term "public service animal" means any animal trained and used to assist a law enforcement agency, public safety entity or search and rescue agency.   A conviction and imposition of a sentence under this section does not prevent a conviction and imposition of a sentence under Section 97-41-16 pertaining to the offenses of simple or aggravated cruelty to a dog or cat, or under any other applicable provision of law.   Any person guilty of violating subsection (2) of this section shall also be required to make restitution to the law enforcement agency or owner aggrieved thereby.   The provisions of this section shall not apply to the lawful practice of veterinary medicine.
MS Code § 97-43-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO)|§ 97-43-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act."
MS Code § 97-43-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO)|§ 97-43-3. Definitions

 The following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein unless the context requires otherwise:   "Racketeering activity" means to commit, to attempt to commit, to conspire to commit, or to solicit, coerce or intimidate another person to commit any crime which is chargeable under the following provisions of the Mississippi Code of 1972:    Section 97-19-71, which relates to fraud in connection with any state or federally funded assistance programs.   Section 75-71-735, which relates to violations of the Mississippi Securities Act.   Sections 45-13-105, 45-13-109, 97-37-23 and 97-37-25, which relate to unlawful possession, use and transportation of explosives.   Sections 97-3-19 and 97-3-21, which relate to murder.   Section 97-3-7(2), which relates to aggravated assaults.   Section 97-3-53, which relates to kidnapping.   Sections 97-3-73 through 97-3-83, which relate to robbery.   Sections 97-17-23 through 97-17-37, which relate to burglary.   Sections 97-17-1 through 97-17-13, which relate to arson.   Sections 97-29-49 and 97-29-51, which relate to prostitution.   Sections 97-5-5 and 97-5-31 through 97-5-37, which relate to the exploitation of children and enticing children for concealment, prostitution or marriage.   Section 41-29-139, which relates to violations of the Uniform Controlled Substances Law; provided, however, that in order to be classified as "racketeering activity," such offense must be punishable by imprisonment for more than one (1) year.   Sections 97-21-1 through 97-21-63, which relate to forgery and counterfeiting.   Sections 97-9-1 through 97-9-77, which relate to offenses affecting administration of justice.   Sections 97-33-1 through 97-33-49, which relate to gambling and lotteries.   Section 97-3-54 et seq., which relate to human trafficking.    "Unlawful debt" means money or any other thing of value constituting principal or interest of a debt which is legally unenforceable, in whole or in part, because the debt was incurred or contracted in gambling activity in violation of state law or in the business of lending money at a rate usurious under state law, where the usurious rate is at least twice the enforceable rate.   "Enterprise" means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, union or other legal entity, or any association or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity. It includes illicit as well as licit enterprises and governmental, as well as other, entities.   "Pattern of racketeering activity" means engaging in at least two (2) incidents of racketeering conduct that have the same or similar intents, results, accomplices, victims, or methods of commission or otherwise are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and are not isolated incidents, provided at least one (1) of such incidents occurred after the effective date of this chapter and that the last of such incidents occurred within five (5) years after a prior incident of racketeering conduct.
MS Code § 97-43-3.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO)|§ 97-43-3.1. Organized theft or fraud enterprise

  It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct, organize, supervise or manage, directly or indirectly, an organized theft or fraud enterprise. Organized theft or fraud enterprise applies to conduct proscribed in the following provisions:   Section 97-23-93, which relates to shoplifting;   Sections 97-45-3 and 97-45-5, which relate to computer fraud;   Section 97-45-19, which relates to fraudulent use of identity;   Section 97-9-79, which relates to false information;   Section 97-19-83, which relates to fraud by mail or other means of communication;   Section 97-19-85, which relates to the fraudulent use of a social security number, credit card or debit card number or other identifying information; and   Section 97-45-19, which relates to obtaining personal identity information of another person without authorization.     It shall be unlawful for any person who has, with criminal intent, received any proceeds or services derived, directly or indirectly, from an organized theft or fraud enterprise.   For the purposes of this section, an "organized theft or fraud enterprise" means any association of two (2) or more persons who engage in the conduct of or are associated for the purpose of effectuating the transfer or sale of merchandise, services or information that has a pecuniary value that causes a loss to the victim.   The value of the merchandise or services or the pecuniary loss involved in a violation of this section may be aggregated in determining the grade of the offense where the acts or conduct constituting a violation were committed pursuant to one (1) scheme or course of conduct, whether from the same person or several persons, or were committed in furtherance of or in conjunction with an organized theft or fraud enterprise.   Any person convicted under this section shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony and punished by a term of imprisonment of not more than twenty (20) years or fined not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), or both.
MS Code § 97-43-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO)|§ 97-43-5. Prohibited activities

  It is unlawful for any person who has with criminal intent received any proceeds derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of racketeering activity or through the collection of an unlawful debt to use or invest, whether directly or indirectly, any part of such proceeds or the proceeds derived from the investment or use thereof, in the acquisition of any title to, or any right, interest, or equity in, real property or in the establishment or operation of any enterprise.   It is unlawful for any person, through a pattern of racketeering activity or through the collection of an unlawful debt, to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of any enterprise or real property.   It is unlawful for any person employed by, or associated with, any enterprise to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in such enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity or the collection of an unlawful debt.   It is unlawful for any person to conspire to violate any of the provisions of subsections (1), (2) or (3) of this section.
MS Code § 97-43-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO)|§ 97-43-7. Penalties

  Any person convicted of engaging in activity in violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) or imprisoned not more than twenty (20) years, or both.   In lieu of a fine otherwise authorized by law, any person convicted of engaging in conduct in violation of the provisions of this chapter, through which he derived pecuniary value, or by which he caused personal injury or property damage or other loss, may be sentenced to pay a fine that does not exceed three (3) times the gross value gained or three (3) times the gross loss caused, whichever is the greater, plus court costs and the costs of investigation and prosecution, reasonably incurred.   The court shall hold a hearing to determine the amount of the fine authorized by subsection (2) of this section.   For the purposes of subsection (2) of this section, "pecuniary value" means:   Anything of value in the form of money, a negotiable instrument, or a commercial interest or anything else the primary significance of which is economic advantage; or   Any other property or service that has a value in excess of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).
MS Code § 97-44-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 44 - Mississippi Streetgang Act|§ 97-44-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known as the "Mississippi Streetgang Act."
MS Code § 97-44-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 44 - Mississippi Streetgang Act|§ 97-44-5. Cause of action

  A civil cause of action is hereby created in favor of any public authority expending money, allocating or reallocating police, firefighting, emergency or other personnel or resources, or otherwise incurring any loss, deprivation or injury, or sustaining any damage, impairment or harm whatsoever, proximately caused by any criminal activity.   The cause of action created by this chapter shall lie against:   Any streetgang in whose name, for whose benefit, on whose behalf or under whose direction the act was committed; and   Any gang officer or director who causes, orders, suggests, authorizes, consents to, agrees to, requests, acquiesces in or ratifies any such act; and   Any gang member who, in the furtherance of or in connection with, any gang-related activity, commits any such act; and   Any gang officer, director, leader or member.     The cause of action authorized by this chapter shall be brought by the Attorney General, the district attorney or attorneys, or the county attorney, or by his or their respective designees. This cause of action shall be in addition to any other civil or criminal proceeding authorized by the laws of this state or by federal law, and shall not be construed as requiring the prosecutor to elect a civil, rather than criminal, remedy, or as replacing any other cause of action. Liability of the gang, its officers, directors, leaders and members shall be joint and several subject only to the apportionment and allocation of punitive damage authorized under Section 97-44-13.
MS Code § 97-44-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 44 - Mississippi Streetgang Act|§ 97-44-7. Filing of complaint

  An action may be commenced under this chapter by the filing of a complaint as in civil cases.   A complaint filed under this chapter, and all other ancillary or collateral matters arising therefrom, including matter relating to discovery, motions, trial and the perfection or execution of judgments shall be subject to the Rules of Civil Procedure, except as may be otherwise provided in this chapter, or except as the court may otherwise order upon motion of the prosecutor in matters relating to immunity or the physical safety of witnesses.   The complaint shall name the Attorney General or his designee, if a complainant, each complaining district attorney or his designee, each complaining county attorney, and the public authority represented by him or by them.   The complaint shall also name as defendants the gang, all known gang officers, and any gang members specifically identified or alleged in the complaint as having participated in a gang-related criminal activity. The complaint may also name, as a class of defendants, all unknown gang members.   When, at any point prior to trial, other specific gang officers or members become known, the complaint may be amended to include any such person as a named defendant.   Any individual who suffers any injury under the provisions of this chapter shall have the right to file a civil action in his or her name.
MS Code § 97-44-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 44 - Mississippi Streetgang Act|§ 97-44-9. Venue

  In an action brought under this chapter, venue shall lie in any county where an act charged in the complaint as part of a gang-related criminal activity was committed.   It shall not be necessary for all offenses necessary to establishing a criminal activity to have occurred in any one county where the district attorneys or county attorneys of several counties, or their designees, each complaining of any offense, elected to join in a complaint. In such instance, it shall be sufficient that the complaint, taken as a whole, alleges a gang-related criminal activity, and each count of any such joint complaint shall be considered as cumulative to other counts for purposes of alleging or demonstrating such an activity.   Where an activity is alleged to have been committed or to have occurred in more than one county, the district attorney or county attorney of each such county, or their designees, may join their several causes of action in a single complaint, which may be filed in any such county agreed to by or among them, but no such joinder shall be had without the consent of the district attorney or county attorney having jurisdiction over each offense alleged as part of the activity.