2017 Mississippi Code
Title 21 - Municipalities
Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare
§ 21-19-21. Enacting fire regulations

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to establish fire limits, and to regulate, restrain, or prohibit the erection of buildings made of sheet iron, wood, or any combustible material, within such limits as may be prescribed by ordinance, and to provide for the removal of the same at the expense of the owner thereof when erected contrary to the ordinances of the municipality. Such authorities shall have the power to regulate and prevent the storing of green hides and the carrying on of manufactures dangerous in causing or producing fires, injurious to health, or obnoxious or offensive to the inhabitants. Such authorities shall have the power to regulate the storage of powder, pitch, turpentine, resin, hemp, hay, cotton, and all other combustible and inflammable materials, and the storage of lumber in yards or on lots within the fire limits or as may be prescribed by ordinance. Such authorities shall have the power to regulate the use of lights and candles in stables, shops, and other places. Such authorities shall have the power to remove or prevent the construction of any fireplace, chimney, stove, oven, boiler, kettle, or any apparatus used in any house, building, manufactory, or business which may be dangerous in causing or producing fires. Such authorities shall have the power to direct the safe construction of deposits for ashes. Such authorities shall have the power to enter into and examine all dwelling houses, lots, yards, inclosures, and buildings of every description as well as other places, in order to ascertain whether any of them are in a dangerous state. Such authorities shall have the power to take down and remove buildings, walls, and superstructures that may become insecure or dangerous, and to require the owner of insecure or dangerous buildings, walls, and other erections to remove or render the same secure and safe at the cost of the owner of such property. Such authorities shall have the power to regulate and prescribe the manner and order the building of party, parapet, and fire-walls and party-fences, and to regulate and prescribe the construction and building of chimneys, smokestacks, and smoke and hot-air flues.