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2015 Mississippi Code
Title 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 27 - CRIMES AFFECTING PUBLIC HEALTH
§ 97-27-5 - Animals and fowl; selling, exposing or using animal with infectious disease

MS Code § 97-27-5 (2015) What's This?

If any person shall knowingly sell or offer for sale, or use or expose, or shall cause or procure to be sold or offered for sale, or used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or any other like contagious or infectious disease, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding four months; or both.

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