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Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-27

Powers of State Board of Health as to persons afflicted with infectious sexually transmitted disease

Codes, Hemingway’s 1921 Supp. §§ 4884b, 4884d; 1930, §§ 4922, 4924; 1942, §§ 7078, 7080; Laws, 1918, ch. 194; Laws, 1983, ch. 522, § 5, eff from and after July 1, 1983.

The State Board of Health shall have full power to isolate, quarantine or otherwise confine, intern, and treat such person afflicted with such infectious sexually transmitted disease for such time and under such restrictions as may seem proper. Said board shall have full power to pass all such rules and regulations as to the isolation, quarantine, confinement, internment and treatment as may be needful.

Any person knowingly violating any rule or regulation promulgated by the state board of health, under the authority of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by fine or imprisonment or both.

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