2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health.
97-27-17 - Food sales; flour and other provisions.
§ 97-27-17. Food sales; flour and other provisions.
Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully sell, or hold or offer for sale, any tainted, putrid, unsound, unwholesome, unmerchantable flour, or other provisions, as sound and good; or shall practice any fraud or deception, to put off and sell any damaged, unsound, or unmerchantable provisions, shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days, or both.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 217; 1871, § 2704; 1880, § 2940; 1892, § 1263; 1906, § 1338; Hemingway's 1917, § 1072; 1930, § 1101; 1942, § 2337.
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