Crimes Affecting Public Health

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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), hepatitis B or hepatitis C; crime of endangerment by bodily substance; violations and penalties

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Repealed