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MS Code § 41-32-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 32 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts to Private Treatment Facilities|§ 41-32-7. Earlier hearing for defendant who could flee jurisdiction or cause physical harm; interim commitment

 Upon allegation in the affidavit and upon clear and convincing proof that the defendant is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or both, to the extent that if the defendant is served with process he will, in all likelihood, flee the jurisdiction of the court or physically harm himself or others, then the chancellor may, in his discretion, set the matter for hearing not more than five (5) days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, from the filing of the affidavit, and order the defendant committed and confined, without notice, until the hearing, to a chemical dependency unit, alcohol and drug unit, outpatient house or any other private facility for the treatment of chemically dependent persons.
MS Code § 41-32-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 32 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts to Private Treatment Facilities|§ 41-32-9. Appeal of commitment decision

 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.
MS Code § 41-32-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 32 - Commitment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts to Private Treatment Facilities|§ 41-32-11. Assistance of county sheriff in confining and transporting defendant

 The chancellor may order assistance by the sheriff of the county, or any other county in confining and transporting the defendant to the facility, at the expense of the committing county.
MS Code § 41-33-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium|§ 41-33-1. "Active tuberculosis" defined

 For the purposes of Sections 41-33-1 through 41-33-15, the words "active tuberculosis" shall be construed to mean that tuberculosis is present in a communicable or infectious stage as established by chest x-ray, laboratory examination of sputum or other fluids, or tissues from the patient, or other methods approved by the executive officer of the state board of health.
MS Code § 41-33-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium|§ 41-33-3. Compulsory commitment of active tuberculosis cases to hospital

 Any person who has been diagnosed as having active tuberculosis and who fails or refuses to carry out minimum precautions outlined to him in writing by the county health officer for the prevention of spread of the disease to another may be committed under duress to any hospital under contract with the state department of health providing services to the tuberculosis patients or any facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections under contract capable of adequately isolating patients with tuberculosis so long as his disease is active or until such time as it is believed by the county health officer that he will carry out suitable precautions at home to prevent spread of the disease. Any contractual agreement between the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the state department of health shall be voluntary, discretionary and mutually agreed upon by the contracting parties.
MS Code § 41-33-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium|§ 41-33-5. Request for approval of court action for commitment

 When the county health officer in any county deems that it is necessary for the protection of the public health for any person who has active tuberculosis to be committed for treatment under duress and desires to proceed with commitment, he shall present in writing to the executive officer of the state board of health a request for his approval of court action to require care. Such request shall include an outline of the facts which show the necessity of commitment.
MS Code § 41-33-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium|§ 41-33-7. Affidavit and hearing in chancery court

 Upon approval by the executive officer of the Mississippi State Board of Health, the county health officer may make affidavit and file it with the clerk of the chancery court of any county in which such person might then be found. Such affidavit shall request that such person be adjudged to be suffering from active tuberculosis and that such person be committed to and confined in any hospital under contract with the state board of health providing services to tuberculosis patients or any facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections under contract capable of adequately isolating patients with tuberculosis.   Whenever such affidavit shall be filed with the chancery clerk, the said clerk, or the chancellor of said court, shall issue a citation ordering said person alleged to be suffering from such active tuberculosis to appear and show cause why he should not be committed to and confined in a hospital for treatment of tuberculosis in Mississippi or any facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections under contract capable of adequately isolating patients with tuberculosis. At the same time that the sheriff serves the citation he shall deliver to such person a copy of the county health officer's request of approval of contemplated action and a copy of the approval of such action by the executive officer of the Mississippi State Board of Health.   The hearing shall be conducted in open court and the person alleged to be suffering from active tuberculosis shall have the privilege of counsel of his own selection. Said hearing shall be held on a day not less than five (5) days from the date of such service of citation. Provided, however, the chancellor may order the hearing at an earlier day when, in his discretion, he deems such to be in the interest of the public health.
MS Code § 41-33-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium|§ 41-33-9. Order of commitment to hospital

 If at the hearing the court shall find that the person is suffering from active tuberculosis and that his commitment is in the best interest of the public's health, an order adjudging such fact shall be entered and the clerk shall issue a writ directed to the sheriff to deliver such person to the hospital or facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections under contract ordered by the court, and such sheriff shall execute such writ and deliver such person accordingly.   The order of the court shall further provide that such person shall submit to such reasonable rules and regulations as may be found necessary for his treatment and the protection of other persons. The chancery court shall have continuing jurisdiction of such person until it is determined by the county health officer that he or she no longer threatens the public health, and if such person violates any of the provisions of the order of the court he shall be in contempt.
MS Code § 41-33-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium|§ 41-33-11. Discharge from hospital

 With the approval of the county health officer, the attending physician may discharge such person to home care under supervision of the county health officer in the county in which the patient expects to reside.
MS Code § 41-33-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium|§ 41-33-13. Cost of hospital care

 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.
MS Code § 41-33-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium|§ 41-33-15. Submission to medical examination

 When any county health officer has reasonable grounds to believe that any person has active tuberculosis, he shall formally request such person to submit to a medical examination.   In order to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public, it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to refuse to submit to a medical examination when the county health officer has reasonable grounds to believe that such person has active tuberculosis, and upon conviction, such person shall be fined not more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) or imprisoned not longer than thirty (30) days, or both.
MS Code § 41-34-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 34 - Health Care Practice Requirements Pertaining to Transmission of Hepatitis B and HIV|§ 41-34-1. Definitions applicable to Sections 41-34-1 through 41-34-7

 For the purposes of Sections 41-34-1 through 41-34-7 the following terms shall have the following meanings:   "Health-care provider" shall mean a person licensed by this state to provide health care or professional services as a physician, podiatrist, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, nurse practitioner, dentist, chiropractor or optometrist.   "Board" means the State Board of Medical Licensure, State Board of Dental Examiners, the Mississippi Board of Nursing, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners or the State Board of Optometry.
MS Code § 41-34-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 34 - Health Care Practice Requirements Pertaining to Transmission of Hepatitis B and HIV|§ 41-34-3. Licensing boards to establish practice requirements to protect public from transmission of Hepatitis B and HIV from health-care providers

 Each board licensing health-care providers may establish by rule and regulation practice requirements based, in part, on applicable guidelines from the Federal Centers for Disease Control which will protect the public from the transmission of the Hepatitis B Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the practice of a profession regulated by the appropriate board.
MS Code § 41-34-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 34 - Health Care Practice Requirements Pertaining to Transmission of Hepatitis B and HIV|§ 41-34-5. Licensing boards to establish procedure for licensees and applicants for license to report status as carrier of Hepatitis B and HIV

 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.
MS Code § 41-34-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 34 - Health Care Practice Requirements Pertaining to Transmission of Hepatitis B and HIV|§ 41-34-7. Confidentiality of reports of Hepatitis B or HIV carrier status

 Each report of Hepatitis B Virus carrier status or Human Immunodeficiency Virus carrier status filed in compliance with this section and each record maintained and meetings held by the boards in the course of monitoring a licensee for compliance with the practice requirements established by this section, are confidential and exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Law, Sections 25-61-1, et seq.
MS Code § 41-35-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 35 - Eye Inflammation of Young|§ 41-35-1. "Inflammation of the eyes of new born" defined

 Any inflammation, swelling or redness in either or both eyes of any infant, either apart from or together with any unnatural discharge from the eye or eyes of any such infant, independent of the nature of the infection, if any occurring, any time within two (2) weeks after birth of such infant, shall be known as "inflammation of the eyes of the new born."
MS Code § 41-35-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 35 - Eye Inflammation of Young|§ 41-35-3. Duty to make report as to any inflammation of the eyes of new born

 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.
MS Code § 41-35-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 35 - Eye Inflammation of Young|§ 41-35-5. Duties of the local health officer

 It shall be the duty of the local health officer: (1) to investigate or to have investigated each case of inflammation of the eyes of the new born as filed with him, in pursuance of the law, and any other such case as may come to his attention; (2) to report all cases of inflammation of the eyes of the new born and the result of all such investigations as the state board of health shall direct; (3) to conform to such other rules and regulations as the state board of health shall promulgate for his further guidance.
MS Code § 41-35-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 35 - Eye Inflammation of Young|§ 41-35-7. Duties of the State Board of Health

 It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health: (1) To enforce the provisions of this chapter; (2) to promulgate such rules and regulations as shall, under this chapter, be necessary for the purpose under this chapter, and such as the State Board of Health may deem necessary for the further and proper guidance of local health officers, etc.; (3) to provide for the gratuitous distribution of a scientific prophylactic for inflammation of the eyes of the new born, together with proper directions for the use and administration thereof, to all physicians and midwives as may be engaged in the practice of obstetrics or assisting at childbirth; (4) to provide, if necessary, daily inspection and prompt and gratuitous treatment to any infant whose eyes are infected with inflammation of the eyes; the State Board of Health, if necessary, shall defray the expenses of such treatment from such sums as may be appropriated for its use; (5) to publish and promulgate such further advice and information concerning the dangers of inflammation of the eyes of the new born and the necessity for prompt and effective treatment; (6) to furnish copies of this chapter to all physicians and midwives as may be engaged in the practice of obstetrics or assisting at childbirth; (7) to keep a proper record of any and all such cases of inflammation of the eyes of the new born, as shall be filed in the office of the state board of health, in pursuance with this chapter, and as may come to its attention in any way, and to constitute such record a part of the annual report to the governor and legislature; (8) to report any and all violations of this chapter as may come to its attention, to the local police, county prosecutor, or district attorney in the county wherein such violation may have been committed, and to assist such official in every way possible, such as securing necessary evidence, etc.
MS Code § 41-35-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 35 - Eye Inflammation of Young|§ 41-35-9. Duty of those in attendance at childbirth to use prophylactic in eyes of new born

 It shall be the duty of the physicians, midwives, or other persons in attendance upon a case of childbirth in a maternity home, hospital, public or charitable institution, in every infant immediately after birth, to use some prophylactic against inflammation of the eyes of the new born and to make record of the prophylactic used. It shall be the duty of such institution to maintain such records of cases of inflammation of the eyes of the new born as the state board of health shall direct.   It shall be the duty of a midwife in every case of childbirth under her care, immediately after birth, to use such prophylactic against inflammation of the eyes of the new born as the state board of health requires.
MS Code § 41-35-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 35 - Eye Inflammation of Young|§ 41-35-11. Violation of chapter constitutes a misdemeanor

 The failure of any person to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor. The offender shall, on conviction thereof, be fined for the first offense not to exceed Fifty Dollars $(50.00), for the second offense, not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and for the third offense and thereafter, not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for each violation. It shall be the duty of the local police, county prosecutor, or the district attorney to prosecute for all misdemeanors as herein prescribed.
MS Code § 41-36-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 36 - Determination of Death|§ 41-36-1. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Determination of Death Law.
MS Code § 41-36-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 36 - Determination of Death|§ 41-36-3. Determination of death

 An individual who has sustained either (a) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or (b) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.
MS Code § 41-37-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-1. "Autopsy" defined

 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.
MS Code § 41-37-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-3. Purposes for which autopsy may be performed

 An autopsy may be performed, as provided by this chapter, for the purpose of determining the primary and/or contributing cause of death in the interest of public health and in criminal cases.
MS Code § 41-37-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-5. Who may perform autopsy

 Only a physician duly licensed by the Mississippi State Board of Health may perform an autopsy.
MS Code § 41-37-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-7. Liability of physician performing autopsy

 A duly licensed physician authorized to perform an autopsy as provided in this chapter, and who, in good faith, complies with the provisions of this chapter in the performance of an autopsy, shall not be liable for damages on account thereof.
MS Code § 41-37-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-9. Autopsy under court order; procedure

 A circuit judge, chancellor or county judge of the county or district where a person died or where the body of such deceased person may be or where the mortal stroke or other cause of death occurred, may, in his discretion, either in term time or in vacation, order an autopsy to be performed upon the body of such deceased person (1) upon the petition of a county prosecuting attorney of the county where the person died, or where the body of such deceased person may be at the time or where the mortal stroke or other cause of death occurred, or (2) upon petition of the district attorney of the district where the person died, or where the body of such deceased person may be at the time or where the mortal stroke or other cause of death occurred. In the event that said petition is filed by the county prosecuting attorney or district attorney, it shall contain allegations that the petitioner believes, has reason to believe, or suspects that such deceased person came to his death by some criminal means or agency, or that the cause of justice would be promoted by having an autopsy performed upon the body of such deceased person. Said petition shall be sworn to and shall be filed in the court of the judge or chancellor who makes the order, and shall be docketed by the clerk as are other cases or suits. If the body of such deceased person has already been interred, the petition shall so state, and if an autopsy is ordered, the order shall order the disinterment of such body for such autopsy and shall order any lawful officer of the county where said body may be buried to employ suitable help to disinter said body and to keep it in a suitable place until said autopsy shall have been performed. If there has been no interment of the body of such deceased person, a copy of the order ordering an autopsy upon said deceased shall be served by the sheriff of the county, or any other person authorized to serve process, upon any person who may be found in charge of any funeral home where said body may be, and such funeral home shall hold said body for autopsy. If the body of such deceased person be not found in any funeral home the sheriff of the county where it may be found shall take said body and keep it in a suitable place until said autopsy shall have been performed. If an autopsy is ordered as provided in this section, the petitioner shall immediately secure the services of a qualified person to perform such autopsy.
MS Code § 41-37-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-11. Use of chemical analysis in criminal investigations

 The physician performing the autopsy in criminal investigations may obtain the services of a chemist competent to make a chemical analysis, or such services may be ordered by such judge or chancellor in term time or in vacation. The records of such chemical analysis shall be made a part of the autopsy report.
MS Code § 41-37-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 37 - Autopsies|§ 41-37-13. Autopsy report

 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.