Mississippi

§ 41-3-1. Repealed.

§ 41-3-1.1. Reconstitution of State Board of Health; qualifications, appointment, and terms of members; statement of economic interest; recusal from participation in certain matters [Repealed effective July 1, 2021].

§ 41-3-3. Oath of members [Repealed effective July 1, 2021].

§ 41-3-4. Chairman and vice-chairman; meetings; automatic termination of members’ terms of office for nonattendance; compensation [Repealed effective July 1, 2021].

§ 41-3-5. Repealed.

§ 41-3-5.1. Executive officer; qualifications; term of office; removal [Repealed effective July 1, 2021].

§ 41-3-6. State Board of Health to review existing legislation pertaining to public health and to submit new legislation [Repealed effective July 1, 2021].

§ 41-3-7. Repealed.

§§ 41-3-9 and 41-3-11. Repealed.

§ 41-3-13. Findings; WISEWOMAN and WISEMAN pilot programs established to reduce the incidences of certain chronic diseases among Mississippians through education, prevention and early screening and detection.

§ 41-3-15. General powers, duties and authority of State Board of Health; certain specific powers of State Department of Health; general powers and duties of executive director; establishment of office of rural health [Repealed effective July 1, 2020; Repealed effective July 1, 2021; see Editor’s note].

§ 41-3-16. Local governments and rural water systems improvements revolving loan and grant program [Repealed effective July 1, 2021].

§ 41-3-17. Power to make and publish rules and regulations [Repealed effective July 1, 2021].

§ 41-3-18. Assessment of fees [Repealed effective July 1, 2020; Repealed effective July 1, 2021; See Editor’s note].

§ 41-3-19. Report to the Governor [Repealed effective July 1, 2021].

§ 41-3-20. Repeal of Sections 41-3-1.1 through 41-3-19.

§ 41-3-21. Mississippi Public Health Laboratory created; powers and duties.

§ 41-3-22. Mississippi State Public Health Laboratory named the Dr. F.E. “Ed” Thompson, Jr., Mississippi State Public Health Laboratory.

§ 41-3-23. Mississippi Public Health Laboratory Fund established; use of other funds to support Mississippi Public Health Laboratory authorized.

§§ 41-3-25 through 41-3-29. Repealed.

§ 41-3-30. Repealed.

§§ 41-3-31 through 41-3-35. Repealed.

§ 41-3-37. Appointment of county health officer.

§ 41-3-39. Repealed.

§ 41-3-41. Duties of county health officer.

§ 41-3-43. County department of health; director.

§ 41-3-45. Term of office of director; removal.

§ 41-3-47. Repealed.

§ 41-3-49. Powers and duties of director.

§ 41-3-51. Records and reports of director.

§ 41-3-53. Maintenance of county department of health.

§ 41-3-55. Repealed.

§ 41-3-57. Municipal regulation of health.

§ 41-3-59. Violation of health rules.

§ 41-3-61. Legislative findings about patient-centered medical homes; State Board of Health to adopt guidelines applicable to physician practices, nurse practitioner practices and physician assistant practices that incorporate principles of patient-centered medical home.

§ 41-3-63. “Mary D. Osborne Building” renamed the “Dr. Alton B. Cobb — Mary D. Osborne State Public Health Building.”

§ 41-3-65. Increase of fees for services or issuance and renewal of licenses and registrations [Repealed effective July 1, 2020].

§§ 41-11-1 through 41-11-5. Repealed.

§ 41-11-7. Certain counties and municipalities authorized to make appropriations to University of Mississippi Medical Center.

§ 41-11-9. Repealed.

§ 41-11-11. Closure of Kuhn Memorial State Hospital, South Mississippi State Hospital, and Matty Hersee Hospital; procedures.

§§ 41-13-1 through 41-13-9. Repealed.

§ 41-13-10. Definitions.

§ 41-13-11. Community hospital liability and insurance.

§ 41-13-13. Repealed.

§ 41-13-15. Community hospitals and health facilities in counties and municipalities.

§ 41-13-16. Repealed.

§ 41-13-17. Repealed.

§ 41-13-19. Issuance of bonds; election.

§ 41-13-21. Details of bonds; interest; sale.

§ 41-13-23. Levy of ad valorem tax or pledge of revenues to pay bonds.

§ 41-13-24. Obtaining federal assistance.

§ 41-13-25. Imposition of ad valorem tax; retirement of debt.

§ 41-13-27. Repealed.

§ 41-13-29. Board of trustees for county hospitals or other health facilities.

§§ 41-13-31 and 41-13-33. Repealed.

§ 41-13-35. General powers and duties of trustees; bonds; prohibited acts or behavior of trustees, individual trustee, or agent or servant of trustee.

§ 41-13-36. Employment of administrator; administrator’s powers and duties.

§ 41-13-37. Repealed.

§ 41-13-38. Provisions of certain loans by hospital; financial assistance to nonprofit groups.

§ 41-13-39. Trustees may establish day care centers.

§ 41-13-41. Repealed.

§§ 41-13-43 and 41-13-45. Repealed.

§ 41-13-47. Proposed budget; reports.

§ 41-13-49. Definitions of terms used in this section and Section 41-13-51; applicability of this section and Section 41-13-51; retirement plan administrator to provide certain information to the public, plan participants and plan beneficiaries.

§ 41-13-51. Contents of summary plan description, annual disclosure of financial and actuarial status, and annual report.

§ 41-13-53. Benefits with respect to ownership and operation of hospitals organized under other laws.

§§ 41-21-1 through 41-21-29. Repealed.

§§ 41-21-31 and 41-21-33. Repealed.

§ 41-21-35. Legal settlement of persons with mental illness and persons with an intellectual disability.

§§ 41-21-37 through 41-21-41. Repealed.

§§ 41-21-43 and 41-21-45. Repealed.

§ 41-23-1. Rules and regulations; physicians, health-care facilities, and correctional facilities to report cases of communicable and other dangerous diseases; penalties.

§ 41-23-2. Penalties for violating health department orders with respect to life-threatening communicable diseases.

§ 41-23-3. Repealed.

§ 41-23-5. Authority of State Department of Health to investigate diseases; authority to temporarily detain individuals for disease control purposes under certain circumstances.

§§ 41-23-7 through 41-23-11. Repealed.

§ 41-23-13. Suppression of nuisances injurious to public health.

§§ 41-23-15 through 41-23-25. Repealed.

§ 41-23-27. Powers of State Board of Health as to persons afflicted with infectious sexually transmitted disease.

§ 41-23-29. Inspection and examination of person suspected of being afflicted with infectious sexually transmitted disease.

§ 41-23-30. Confidential testing for and treatment of sexually transmitted disease.

§ 41-23-31. Donations to state board of health.

§ 41-23-33. State Board of Health may call upon the federal government.

§ 41-23-35. Repealed.

§ 41-23-37. Immunization practices for control of vaccine preventable diseases; school attendance by unvaccinated children.

§ 41-23-39. Definitions applicable to Section 41-23-41.

§ 41-23-41. Emergency service provider notice of exposure to blood or body fluids; licensed facility duties regarding infectious disease.

§ 41-23-43. Vaccination program for first responders who may be exposed to infectious diseases when sent to bioterrorism or disaster locations; definitions; participation in program; exemptions; vaccine shortages; notification of program; administration of vaccination program; program dependant upon receipt of federal funding.

§ 41-23-45. Department of Health to provide educational material on availability of vaccines for meningitis and hepatitis A and B to public universities and colleges for distribution to students.

§ 41-23-47. Preparation of statewide Hepatitis C Virus plan.

§ 41-26-1. Short title.

§ 41-26-2. Legislative purpose and intent.

§ 41-26-3. Definitions.

§ 41-26-5. Mississippi Primary Drinking Water Regulations.

§ 41-26-6. Adoption of rules and regulations governing public water systems.

§ 41-26-7. Powers and duties of director.

§ 41-26-8. Requirements for construction and operation of public water systems; role of director.

§ 41-26-9. Action by director when contaminant is present in or likely to enter public water system.

§ 41-26-11. Plan for provision of safe drinking water under emergency circumstances.

§ 41-26-13. Notices of noncompliance, failure to perform monitoring, variances, and exemptions.

§ 41-26-14. Cross connection control program; legislative intent; adoption of regulations; certain cross connections designated as low hazard; requirements and deadlines for high hazard and low hazard cross connections; inspections; discontinuance of service for violations; local ordinances regulating cross connections or backflow preventer devices may not be more stringent than provisions of this section.

§ 41-26-15. Prohibited acts.

§ 41-26-17. Violation of chapter—complaint.

§ 41-26-19. Powers of director; hearings under chapter.

§ 41-26-21. Final order; cost bonds; appeal.

§ 41-26-23. Establishment of Drinking Water Quality Analysis Fund [Repealed effective July 1, 2020].

§ 41-26-25. Creation of Public Water System Assistance Fund.

§ 41-26-31. Enforcement of chapter; civil penalties.

§ 41-39-1. Disposition of tissue or external member of human body and dead fetus.

§ 41-39-3. Regulations for disposition of dead foetus acquired by hospital or midwife.

§ 41-39-5. Disposition of unclaimed dead bodies.

§ 41-39-7. Bodies of deceased hospital patients to be turned over to educational institutions in certain cases.

§ 41-39-9. Contracts for donation of parts of human bodies.

§ 41-39-11. Use of chemical analysis in criminal investigations.

§ 41-39-13. Tags on bodies of persons with infectious or communicable diseases.

§ 41-39-15. Repealed.

§ 41-41-1. Blood banking and transfusion procedures constitute services rather than sales; maximum usable life span of blood.

§ 41-41-3. Consent for surgical or medical treatment or procedures on unemancipated minors.

§ 41-41-5. Repealed.

§ 41-41-7. Implied consent to medical treatment where emergency exists.

§ 41-41-9. Court may consent to or order medical treatment; allocation of treatment expenses.

§ 41-41-11. Waiver of medical privilege.

§ 41-41-13. Physician or nurse practitioner treating minor for venereal disease need not obtain parental consent.

§ 41-41-14. Physician treating minor for mental or emotional problems resulting from alcohol or drugs need not obtain parental consent.

§ 41-41-15. Donations of blood by minors.

§ 41-41-16. Health-care providers conducting tests for infectious diseases without consent of patient.

§ 41-41-17. Authorized consent to participate in research conducted in accordance with federal law.

§ 41-43-1. Regulation of cemeteries in the vicinity of hospitals; private family cemeteries.

§ 41-43-3. Appointment of trustee for private or family cemetery or burying ground.

§ 41-43-5. Use of vacant portions of lots by not-for-profit cemetery permitted under certain circumstances; notice to potential living heirs of original purchaser; recordkeeping.

§ 41-43-7. Penalty for violation of chapter; appeal.

§§ 41-60-1 through 41-60-9. Repealed.

§ 41-60-11. Definitions.

§ 41-60-13. Promulgation of rules and regulations by State Board of Health.