The state psychiatric hospital and institution established at Meridian by the Act of March 8, 1882, shall continue to exist as a body politic and corporate, under the name of the “East Mississippi State Hospital,” with all the privileges conferred and the duties enjoined by law. It may hold and use, as required by law, all the property, real and personal, belonging to or that may be given to it for the purposes of its establishment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-17-3
East Mississippi State Hospital
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Spencer Ivy v. East Mississippi State Hospital (2016)
Most recently applied in 218 So. 3d 1176 - Bedford Care Center of Marion, LLC v. Cenither Nicholson (January 2017)
Codes, 1892, § 1624; 1906, § 1799; Hemingway’s 1917, § 4492; 1930, § 4565; 1942, § 6897; Laws, 1928, ch. 141; Laws, 2008, ch. 442, § 14, eff from and after July 1, 2008.
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