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2013 Mississippi Code
Title 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 29 - CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALS AND DECENCY
IN GENERAL
§ 97-29-47 - Profanity or drunkenness in public place
MS Code § 97-29-47 (2013) What's This?
If any person shall profanely swear or curse, or use vulgar and indecent language, or be drunk in any public place, in the presence of two (2) or more persons, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($ 100.00) or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty (30) days or both.
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