The purpose of this chapter is to protect and promote the public welfare by providing for the development, establishment and enforcement of certain standards in the maintenance and operation of institutions for the aged or infirm which will insure safe, sanitary and reasonably adequate care of individuals in such institutions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 43-11-3
Purpose
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 947 So. 2d 854 - Howard v. Estate of Harper Ex Rel. Harper (2006)
Most recently applied in Zumwalt v. Jones County Board of Supervisors (September 2009)
Codes, 1942, § 6964-02; Laws, 1952, ch. 384, § 2, eff from and after passage (approved April 11, 1952
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.