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2020 Mississippi Code
Title 41 - Public Health
Chapter 33 - Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Tuberculosis Sanatorium
§ 41-33-15. Submission to medical examination
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MS Code § 41-33-15 (2020)
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When any county health officer has reasonable grounds to believe that any person has active tuberculosis, he shall formally request such person to submit to a medical examination.
In order to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public, it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to refuse to submit to a medical examination when the county health officer has reasonable grounds to believe that such person has active tuberculosis, and upon conviction, such person shall be fined not more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) or imprisoned not longer than thirty (30) days, or both.
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