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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 97 - Crimes » Chapter 27 - Crimes Affecting Public Health

§ 97-27-1. Adulteration of food, drugs or candy

If any person shall manufacture, sell or keep or offer or exhibit for sale any adulterated food, or drug, as defined by law; or if any person shall manufacture, sell, or keep or offer or exhibit for sale any candy, confection, or sweetmeat, in making which any preparation of lime or other deleterious substance is […]

§ 97-27-10. Definition of harmful substances

As used in Sections 97-27-10 through 97-27-12: “Harmful biological substance” means a bacteria, virus or other microorganism or a toxic substance derived from or produced by an organism that can be used to cause death, injury or disease in humans, animals or plants. “Harmful biological device” means a device designed or intended to release a […]

§ 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

It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully and knowingly import, bring or send into this state a harmful biological substance including smallpox, anthrax or any other contagious or infectious disease, with the design to unlawfully spread the same or assist in spreading the same with intent to cause harm to human, animal or […]

§ 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

It shall be unlawful for any person to commit an act intended to cause another person or persons to falsely believe that said person or persons have been exposed to a harmful biological substance, harmful biological device, harmful chemical substance, harmful chemical device, harmful radioactive material or harmful radioactive device. Any person convicted of subsection […]

§ 97-27-13. Contagious diseases; smallpox patient not to go abroad

A person having recently had the smallpox shall not, until after having obtained a certificate of the attending physician, and of his person qualified to give such certificate, of his recovery, or other being perfectly clean in his person and clothes, remove from the place where he shall have had the smallpox, to go abroad […]

§ 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

It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly expose another person to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B or hepatitis C. Prior knowledge and willing consent to the exposure is a defense to a charge brought under this paragraph. A violation of this subsection shall be a felony. A person commits the crime of […]

§ 97-27-17. Food sales; flour and other provisions

Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully sell, or hold or offer for sale, any tainted, putrid, unsound, unwholesome, unmerchantable flour, or other provisions, as sound and good; or shall practice any fraud or deception, to put off and sell any damaged, unsound, or unmerchantable provisions, shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding […]

§ 97-27-21. Poisons; sale and giving away regulated

It shall not be lawful for any apothecary, druggist, or other person to sell or give away any article belonging to the class of medicines usually denominated poisons, except in compliance with Sections 97-27-23 and 97-27-25.

§ 97-27-23. Poisons; register to be kept; label

Every druggist, apothecary, or other person, who shall sell or give away except on the written prescription of a physician, any article of medicine belonging to the class usually known as poisons, shall be required to register in a book kept for that purpose, the name, place of residence, age, sex, and color of the […]

§ 97-27-25. Poisons; arsenic to be mixed with soot or indigo

A druggist, apothecary, or other person shall not sell or give away, except to physicians, any quantity of arsenic less than one pound without first mixing soot or indigo therewith in the proportion of one ounce of soot or half an ounce of indigo to the pound of arsenic.