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2020 Mississippi Code
Title 97 - Crimes
Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency
In General
- § 97-29-1. Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation
- § 97-29-3. Adultery and fornication; between teacher and pupil
- § 97-29-5. Adultery and fornication; between certain persons forbidden to inter-marry
- § 97-29-7. Adultery and fornication; between guardian and ward
- § 97-29-9. Adultery and fornication; going out of state to marry
- § 97-29-11. Illegitimate children; person becoming natural parent of second illegitimate child; jurisdiction
- § 97-29-13. Bigamy; definition; penalty
- § 97-29-15. Bigamy; exceptions
- § 97-29-17. Bribery; participant in professional or amateur games or other athletic contests; wrestling excepted
- § 97-29-19. Dead bodies; disinterment for sale or wantonness
- § 97-29-21. Dead bodies; buying or receiving
- § 97-29-23. Dead bodies; opening graves for certain purposes
- § 97-29-25. Desecration of cemetery; desecration of human corpse
- § 97-29-27. Incest; marriage within prohibited degrees
- § 97-29-29. Incest; persons divorced for incest not to cohabit or copulate
- § 97-29-31. Indecent exposure
- § 97-29-33. Repealed
- § 97-29-35. Repealed
- § 97-29-37 through 97-29-41. Repealed
- § 97-29-43. Polygamy; teaching of
- § 97-29-45. Obscene electronic communications
- § 97-29-47. Profanity or drunkenness in public place
- § 97-29-49. Prostitution; report to Department of Child Protection Services for suspected child sexual abuse or neglect if minor involved; immunity from prosecution if trafficked person involved
- § 97-29-51. Prostitution; misdemeanor procuring services of prostitute; felony promoting prostitution; penalties
- § 97-29-53. Repealed
- § 97-29-55. Seduction of female over age of eighteen by promised or pretended marriage
- § 97-29-57. Stallion or jack not to be kept in public view or permitted to run at large
- § 97-29-59. Unnatural intercourse
- § 97-29-61. Voyeurism; trespass by "peeping Tom"; when victim is adult; when victim is child under sixteen
- § 97-29-63. Photographing or filming another without permission where there is expectation of privacy; when victim is adult; when victim is child under sixteen
- § 97-29-65. Strip clubs prohibited within one-fourth mile of church, school, kindergarten, or courthouse
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