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Mississippi Code 1972 (2024)
Title 97 - CRIMES (§§ 97-1-1 — 97-47-9)
Chapter 27 - CRIMES AFFECTING PUBLIC HEALTH (§§ 97-27-1 — 97-27-35)
- Section 97-27-1 - Adulteration of food, drugs or candy
- Section 97-27-3 - Animals and fowl; diseased animals and fowl to be confined and segregated; burial
- Section 97-27-5 - Animals and fowl; selling, exposing or using animal with infectious disease
- Section 97-27-7 - Animals and fowl; glandered animals to be reported to board of supervisors; destruction or quarantine of diseased animals
- Section 97-27-9 - Beaches; bringing or leaving breakable containers or other injurious debris upon established beaches
- Section 97-27-10 - Definition of harmful substances
- Section 97-27-11 - Introduction of harmful biological substances into Mississippi prohibited; development, manufacture or possession of harmful biological substances prohibited except for authorized purposes; penalties
- Section 97-27-12 - Unlawful hoaxes intended to cause belief that exposure to certain harmful substances or devices has occurred; penalties; imposition of costs for individual or governmental response to unlawful hoax
- Section 97-27-13 - Contagious diseases; smallpox patient not to go abroad
- Section 97-27-14 - Contagious diseases; causing exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Section 97-27-15 - Food sales; selling meat of animal not slaughtered, or unwholesome bread or drink
- Section 97-27-17 - Food sales; flour and other provisions
- Section 97-27-19 - Food sales; meat; sale of flesh of dead, diseased, and unclean animals; punishment
- Section 97-27-21 - Poisons; sale and giving away regulated
- Section 97-27-23 - Poisons; register to be kept; label
- Section 97-27-25 - Poisons; arsenic to be mixed with soot or indigo
- Section 97-27-27 - Poisons; arsenic or other deadly poison not to be used in embalming fluid
- Section 97-27-29 - Poisons; penalty for violation of certain sections
- Section 97-27-31 - Poisons; not to be sold to minors
- Section 97-27-33 - Poisons; inhalation of toxic vapors from model glue; unlawful glue sales to minors
- Section 97-27-35 - [Repealed]
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