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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 97 - CRIMES (§§ 97-1-1 — 97-47-9)
Chapter 29 - CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALS AND DECENCY (§§ 97-29-1 — 97-29-109)
IN GENERAL (§§ 97-29-1 — 97-29-65)
- Section 97-29-1 - Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation
- Section 97-29-3 - Adultery and fornication; between teacher and pupil
- Section 97-29-5 - Adultery and fornication; between certain persons forbidden to inter-marry
- Section 97-29-7 - Adultery and fornication; between guardian and ward
- Section 97-29-9 - Adultery and fornication; going out of state to marry
- Section 97-29-11 - Illegitimate children; person becoming natural parent of second illegitimate child; jurisdiction
- Section 97-29-13 - Bigamy; definition; penalty
- Section 97-29-15 - Bigamy; exceptions
- Section 97-29-17 - Bribery; participant in professional or amateur games or other athletic contests; wrestling excepted
- Section 97-29-19 - Dead bodies; disinterment for sale or wantonness
- Section 97-29-21 - Dead bodies; buying or receiving
- Section 97-29-23 - Dead bodies; opening graves for certain purposes
- Section 97-29-25 - Desecration of cemetery; desecration of human corpse
- Section 97-29-27 - Incest; marriage within prohibited degrees
- Section 97-29-29 - Incest; persons divorced for incest not to cohabit or copulate
- Section 97-29-31 - Indecent exposure
- Section 97-29-33 - [Repealed]
- Section 97-29-35 - [Repealed]
- Section 97-29-37 - through 97-29-41 - [Repealed]
- Section 97-29-43 - Polygamy; teaching of
- Section 97-29-45 - Obscene electronic communications
- Section 97-29-47 - Profanity or drunkenness in public place
- Section 97-29-49 - Prostitution; report to Department of Child Protection Services for suspected child sexual abuse or neglect if minor involved; immunity from prosecution if trafficked person involved
- Section 97-29-51 - Prostitution; misdemeanor procuring services of prostitute; felony promoting prostitution; penalties
- Section 97-29-53 - [Repealed]
- Section 97-29-55 - Seduction of female over age of eighteen by promised or pretended marriage
- Section 97-29-57 - Stallion or jack not to be kept in public view or permitted to run at large
- Section 97-29-59 - Unnatural intercourse
- Section 97-29-61 - Voyeurism; trespass by "peeping Tom"; when victim is adult; when victim is child under sixteen
- Section 97-29-63 - Photographing or filming another without permission where there is expectation of privacy; when victim is adult; when victim is child under sixteen
- Section 97-29-64 - Disclosure of intimate visual material; definitions
- Section 97-29-64.1 - Disclosure of intimate visual material; what constitutes offense; defenses; penalties
- Section 97-29-65 - Strip clubs prohibited within one-fourth mile of church, school, kindergarten, or courthouse
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