2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 5 - Offenses Affecting Children.
97-5-9 - Iceboxes, etc.; abandonment without removing latch prohibited.
§ 97-5-9. Iceboxes, etc.; abandonment without removing latch prohibited.
If any person shall have on his premises, or shall suffer to be or remain upon his premises, any abandoned chest, icebox, refrigerator, or any other box-type container not in active use, any door to which has a latch or lock which automatically fastens upon the closing of such container's door, and which cannot be readily opened from the inside, he shall remove the latch or lock, or otherwise render it inoperative, and on failure to so do shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 2055.5; Laws, 1954, ch. 233; Laws, 1966, ch. 356, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved April 20, 1966).
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