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2019 Mississippi Code
Title 21 - Municipalities
Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments
General Provisions
§ 21-21-9. Medical and hospital care for injured policemen
Universal Citation: MS Code § 21-21-9 (2019)
In all municipalities of this state maintaining a police department, the personnel of which department is actively and exclusively engaged in police duty, the governing authorities of such municipality may pay out of the general fund of said municipality reasonable hospital and medical expenses for any member of said police department on account of any occupational disease contracted or for any accident sustained by said member by reason of his service or discharge of his duty in said department. The governing authorities of such city shall be the sole judge as to whether such illness or such injury was contracted or sustained in the line of duty of any such employee, and the reasonableness of said expenses.
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