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MS Code § 97-31-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-15. Delivery of alcohol or wine to person other than consignee; affidavit required; penalty for false affidavit

 It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express company, corporation or other common carrier, or any officer, agent or employee of any of them, or any other person, to deliver any of the alcohol or wine mentioned in this chapter, when transported into or delivered into this state other than to consignees, provided that in any case where the consignee is unable on account of sickness of himself or family, to appear in person and sign for such liquor, the consignee may by written order or authority, authorize some reputable person to sign and receive same for him. In no case shall any delivery be made of a consignment or package of such alcohol or wine as aforesaid without first having such consignee or his lawful agent as aforesaid, sign and deliver to the person in whose charge such consignment or package may be for delivery, a written statement in substance as follows:   "I hereby state that my name is ; that my postoffice address is Mississippi; that I am more than twenty-one years of age; that I am the consignee to whom the package containing of alcohol or wine (as it may be) was consigned at on the day of 2 to be used for (set out the use for which they are to be used). I will not use this liquor in violation of any law of this state. Signed and dated at , Miss., this day of 2. Consignee. By , Agent of the consignee."   Click to view   In no case shall any railroad company, express company, corporation or common carrier or person, or agent of such railroad company, express company, corporation or other common carrier, or person, be liable for damages for not delivering such alcohol or wine or package containing the same until such statement is executed and delivered as herein provided.   Any person who shall make the statement provided in this section, knowing the same to be false, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, in the discretion of the court.
MS Code § 97-31-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-17. Denatured alcohol

 Nothing in this chapter shall affect or limit the manufacturing or shipping or receiving of wood or denatured alcohol which cannot be used for beverage purposes, and which can only be used for scientific or mechanical purposes.
MS Code § 97-31-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-19. Law officers may store confiscated liquors, stills, etc.; consumption of liquor prohibited

 It shall be lawful under this chapter for any officer of the law to store in a public building where appropriate any liquors, stills, vehicles, or other appliances used for violating this chapter and taken by him or by authority of law and placed in his keeping, until such time as the court may order the same to be sold or destroyed, or until such time as the law requires the sale or destruction of them, or any of them. But such officer in charge or possession of such liquors shall not drink or consume any of them, nor shall he permit any other person to drink or consume them, or any of them, nor shall it be permissible for any person to use, consume, or give away or allow any of said liquors to be given away or used or consumed for any purpose, and any officer, or other person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished as provided herein, and any officer convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be removed from his office in addition.
MS Code § 97-31-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-21. Manufacturing or distilling unlawful; making wine at home permitted; penalties

 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, or distill any vinous, malt, spirituous, or intoxicating liquor or drink which if drunk to excess will produce intoxication. But this statute shall not prohibit citizens of this state from making wine from grapes or berries grown in this state, at their respective homes and using and consuming the same in the home where made, by the family residing therein and dispensing same to guests within said home. Any person convicted of violating this section shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction thereof shall serve a term in the state penitentiary of not less than one year, nor more than three years for the first offense under this section, and for the second or any subsequent conviction under this section such person shall serve a term of not less than five years, nor more than ten years in the state penitentiary.
MS Code § 97-31-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-23. Manufacturing or distilling unlawful; possession of still

 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to own or control or have in his or its possession any distillery commonly called a still or any integral part thereof. But it shall not be unlawful to own or have in possession a distillery or still in the following circumstances:   Where the same is used exclusively for the distillation of rosin products;   Where the same is used exclusively for the distillation of water;   Where the same is kept and lawfully used in any laboratory;   Where the same is in the possession of any officers of the law, to be disposed of according to law;   Where the person or corporation can prove that the same is in his or its possession for the purpose of being delivered up to an officer of the law to be disposed of according to law;   Where the same is used exclusively for the distillation of ethyl alcohol to be used solely for fuel purposes.   Any person guilty of violating this section shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction shall be confined in the state penitentiary not less than one (1) year, nor more than three (3) years for his first offense, and for his second offense he shall be confined in the state penitentiary not less than five (5), nor more than ten (10) years.
MS Code § 97-31-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-25. Patent medicines

 The sale or giving away of any proprietary or patent medicine by whatsoever name called, which, if drunk to excess, will produce intoxication, shall be deemed and held to be a sale of intoxicating liquors, unless there shall be a printed label attached to each bottle or other receptacle containing the same, a facsimile of a certificate issued by the commissioner of internal revenue of the United States to the effect that such medicine has been examined by him or under his direction and that it does not contain such percentage of alcohol as to make the sale of same unlawful without an internal revenue license for the sale of liquors.
MS Code § 97-31-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-27. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; penalties

 If any person shall sell or barter, or give away or keep or have in his possession, except as authorized in this chapter, any vinous, alcoholic, malt, intoxicating or spirituous liquor, or intoxicating bitters or drinks, which if drunk to excess will produce intoxication, such person, and all others who may have owned or had any interest at the time in the liquors, bitters or drinks sold or bartered, or kept or in possession contrary to law, shall on conviction, be punished as follows:   By a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one week nor more than three months, or both, for the first conviction under this section.   By a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and by imprisonment in the county jail not less than sixty days, nor more than six months, for the second conviction for violating this section.   By imprisonment in the state penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years for conviction the third time under this section for the violation thereof after having been twice convicted of its violation.
MS Code § 97-31-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-29. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; agent or assistant of seller or buyer punished

 If any person shall act as agent or assistant of either the seller or purchaser, in effecting the sale of any liquor, bitters or drinks, the sale of which is forbidden under this chapter, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days, or both.
MS Code § 97-31-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-31. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; connivance by owner, occupant, etc. of house or boat where liquor kept

 Every owner, lessee, sub-lessee, or occupant of any boat, house, outhouse, or other building, or tenement in which the liquors described in Section 97-31-27 are unlawfully kept, sold, bartered, or given away, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, if he shall connive therein, directly or indirectly, in any manner, or shall fail to give information thereof when he knows of the same, or of circumstances indicating the same, to some conservator of the peace. Proof of an unlawful keeping of such liquors, or of an unlawful sale, barter, or giving away thereof, in such building, shall constitute presumptive evidence of a violation of this section by any owner, lessee, sub-lessee, or occupant who has not given the information herein required. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than one week nor more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 97-31-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-33. Sale, possession, etc. of intoxicating beverages prohibited; exceptions; records to be kept by carrier; exceptions may be relied upon as defense

 Nothing in this chapter shall make it unlawful:   For any minister or priest of any religious sect or denomination in actual charge of a church, religious order or congregation to order, purchase, and have shipped, transported and delivered, wine for sacramental purposes, nor for any common carrier to ship, transport, carry or deliver wine for said purposes to any such minister or priest, nor for any such minister or priest to have, receive, control or possess wine for sacramental purposes, but the said wine shall remain in the possession of such minister or priest save when the wine is being administered in the sacramental service or in the service in commemoration of the Lord's Supper.   For any practicing physician, who is the sole proprietor of a drugstore, any licensed druggist, wholesale druggist, pharmacist, manufacturer, college, medical or pharmaceutical college, public or charity hospital, or state institution or chemists or bacteriologists, to order, purchase and have shipped and delivered, or to have, receive and possess, nor for any common carrier to transport, ship and deliver to any of said persons, firms, corporations or institutions grain or pure alcohol for any purpose now permitted by the laws of the state, to any such person, college, hospital, or institution, and to be used only for medicinal, mechanical, and scientific purposes not contravening in any way the prohibition laws of this state. Nor for any dentist to order, purchase, nor for any dentist to have, control, receive and possess alcohol as is herein provided in the case of a physician.   But, records shall be kept by the carrier, or delivering party, of such wines for sacramental purposes, and of all such alcohol and statement thereof shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court as provided by law.   The exceptions defined in this section may be relied upon as a defense and the burden of establishing the same shall be upon the person claiming the benefits thereof.
MS Code § 97-31-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-35. Sale, possession, or use of alcoholic beverages within facilities; employee knowledge; punishment for violations

  It is unlawful for any person to sell within, bring to, or be in possession of, in any correctional facility or convict camp within the state or any county, municipal or other jail within the state, except as authorized by this chapter, any alcoholic beverage including any vinous, spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquor, or intoxicating drinks which if drunk to excess will produce intoxication.   It is unlawful for any person who is the keeper or officer in charge of the facility, camp or jail, or who is employed in or about the facility, camp or jail to knowingly permit any alcoholic beverage to be sold, possessed or used therein contrary to law.   Any person who violates the provisions of this section and is convicted shall be fined up to Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and be punished by imprisonment for not less than two (2) years, nor more than five (5) years; and that person will not be eligible for probation, parole, suspension of sentence, earned time allowance or other reduction of sentence.
MS Code § 97-31-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-37. Sale of alcohol by druggists; certain sales by retail and wholesale druggists permitted

 Any licensed retail druggist in this state may sell in the manner herein set out pure alcohol for medicinal purposes only; grain alcohol to chemists and bacteriologists actually engaged in scientific work and for the purpose of being used only in such work; and wine to be used for sacramental purposes only; provided that the wholesale druggists domiciled and doing business in this state may sell pure alcohol in quantities not less than one gallon to licensed retail druggists, and to licensed and practicing physicians, and to public or charity hospitals, and to medical or pharmaceutical colleges, but all wholesale druggists shall make and preserve for two years after such sales a complete record of sales of alcohol which shall at all times be open for inspection to any conservator of the peace of the county; and provided further, that nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the manufacture or sale of wood and denatured alcohol for art, scientific and mechanical purposes. A person shall not be deemed a licensed retail druggist within the meaning of this section by reason of being a licensed physician or pharmacist.
MS Code § 97-31-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-39. Sale of alcohol by druggists; medicinal purposes; physician's certificate

 No sale of pure alcohol for medicinal purposes shall be made except upon the written prescription of a licensed and practicing physician of this state, who, before writing such prescription shall have made an actual examination of the patient for whom the prescription is issued, which prescription shall be dated and signed by the physician and shall be in substantially the following form:   "State of Mississippi, County, I a regularly licensed and practicing physician under the laws of this state, do hereby certify that I have examined a patient in my charge, and hereby prescribe for the use of said patient of pure alcohol, and I certify that the use thereof is necessary to alleviate or cure the illness or disease from which such patient is suffering. Dated " , M. D.   Click to view   No prescription shall be filled hereunder except upon the day upon which it is issued or the following day, and no more than half a pint of alcohol shall be furnished on any one prescription, and when such prescription is filled it shall not be refilled, but shall be delivered to the druggist filling the same, and at the end of the month in which the same is filed shall be filed by such druggist in the office of the circuit clerk of the county. In towns having a population of 1,000 or more the physician's prescription shall not be filled at any drug store of which he is the proprietor, or in which he has a financial interest, either as partner, stockholder, or otherwise.   Any person purchasing alcohol for any purpose set out in this section, for which a prescription is not required herein, shall first sign a written or printed statement properly dated and deliver the same to the druggist, stating his name, residence and occupation, and the purpose for which he intends to use said alcohol.
MS Code § 97-31-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-41. Sale of alcohol by druggists; wine for sacramental purposes

 It shall be unlawful to sell wine for sacramental purposes except to a minister, pastor, priest, or officer of a regularly organized church or religious congregation, and before such a sale is made, the person desiring to make such purchase shall sign and deliver to the druggist a written or printed statement giving his name, residence, and the name and location of the church for which the wine is purchased, and shall certify that it is purchased in good faith to be used only for sacramental purposes.
MS Code § 97-31-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-43. Sale of alcohol by druggists; statement of sales or prescriptions to be filed with circuit clerk; filing fee

 All statements or prescriptions required by this chapter shall be delivered at the end of the month in which they were given or within five days thereafter to the circuit clerk of the county in which the sale was made and shall be filed and preserved by the circuit clerk in his office for a period of not less than two years, and shall moreover be promptly listed and indexed in a book kept for that purpose, which shall show the name of the druggist making the sale, the name of the purchaser, the date of the statement or prescription and the quantity of alcohol purchased. The original statement or prescription with the certificate of the circuit clerk endorsed thereon, showing that it has been registered, or a certified copy of such record, shall be prima facie evidence in any prosecution, suit or proceeding of the facts recited therein. The circuit clerk for filing and registering each statement or prescription, shall be entitled to a fee of ten cents, which shall be paid by the druggist filing the same.
MS Code § 97-31-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-45. Sale of alcohol by druggists; penalties for certain violations

 Any physician who signs or issues any prescription containing any false statement; any druggist who shall sell any alcohol or shall fill any prescription for alcohol in anywise other than herein allowed, or shall refill any prescription for alcohol or who shall fail to file a prescription filled by him in the office of the circuit clerk within the time prescribed; any person who shall obtain alcohol or wine for any purpose authorized herein and who shall convert the same to any other use; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than one week, or more than three months, or both. But in no case of a conviction of any person for an offense under this section committed after a conviction and punishment for a former offense hereunder, shall the punishment be less than a fine of one hundred dollars nor more than provided in this section, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than sixty days nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.
MS Code § 97-31-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-47. Transportation of intoxicating liquors into or within state unlawful

 It shall be unlawful for any transportation company, or any agent, employee, or officer of such company, or any other person, or corporation to transport into or deliver in this state in any manner or by any means any spirituous, vinous, malt, or other intoxicating liquors or drinks, or for any such person, company, or corporation to transport any spirituous, malt, vinous, or intoxicating liquors or drinks from one place within this state to another place within the state, or from one (1) point within this state to any point without the state, except in cases where this chapter or Section 67-9-1 authorizes the transportation.
MS Code § 97-31-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-49. Solicitation of orders for liquors, etc. unlawful

 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation in this state, in person, by letter, circular, or other printed or written matter, or in any other manner, to solicit or take order in this state for any liquors, bitters or drinks prohibited by the laws of this state to be sold, bartered, or otherwise disposed of. The inhibition of this section shall apply to such liquors, bitters and drinks, whether the parties intend that the same shall be shipped into this state from outside of the state, or from one point in this state to another point in this state. If such order be in writing, parol evidence thereof is admissible without producing or accounting for the absence of the original; and the taking or soliciting of such orders is within the inhibition of this section, although the orders are subject to approval by some other person, and no part of the price is paid, nor any part of the goods is delivered when the order is taken.
MS Code § 97-31-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-51. Witnesses; immunity from prosecution granted; penalty for refusing to testify

 No person shall be excused from attending and testifying before a grand jury, or before any court, or in any cause or proceeding, criminal or otherwise, based upon or growing out of any alleged violation of this chapter, or any amendment thereof, on the ground and for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him, may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted or subject to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing, concerning which he may testify, or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the grand jury, or any court; provided, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for perjury in so testifying. Any person who shall neglect or refuse to so attend or testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce books or other documentary evidence, if in his power to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or by both such fines and imprisonment.
MS Code § 97-31-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 31 - Intoxicating Beverage Offenses|§ 97-31-53. Penalty for violations where punishment not specifically prescribed

 Any person, firm or corporation convicted of violating any part of this chapter for which there is not prescribed specifically the punishment for such violation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not longer than six months, or both.