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2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency.
- 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- 97-29-33 - Repealed.
- 97-29-35 - Repealed.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 Repealed.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.
- 97-29-51 - Prostitution; procuring females; accepting money, etc. from prostitute.
- 97-29-53 - Prostitution; penalty.
- 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".
- 97-29-63 - Photographing or filming another without permission where there is expectation of privacy.
- 97-29-65 - Strip clubs prohibited within one-fourth mile of church, school, kindergarten, or courthouse.
- 97-29-101 - Distribution or wholesale distribution of obscene materials or performances; character and reputation as evidence; prosecutor's bond.
- 97-29-103 - Definitions.
- 97-29-105 - Distribution or wholesale distribution of unlawful sexual devices; prosecutor's bond.
- 97-29-107 - Exemptions from application of Sections 97-29-101 through 97-29-109; procedure for claiming exemption; defenses.
- 97-29-109 - Penalties.
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