If there is in operation an adequate privately run ambulance service, then the governing authorities are hereby prohibited from contracting for ambulance services to be run by the public body. The governing authorities may, however, subsidize such existing privately run ambulance service, in their discretion, if they deem necessary to keep such service in operation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-55-7
Effect of existence of adequate private ambulance service; public subsidies
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Cook v. BD. OF SUP'RS OF LOWNDES COUNTY (1990)
Most recently applied in Malone v. Leake County Board of Supervisors (March 2003)
Codes, 1942, § 2997-25; Laws, 1968, ch. 290, § 5, eff from and after passage (approved July 19, 1968
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