Miss. Code Ann. § 83-43-29

Any dentist and any other person, copartnership, association, common law trust, or corporation who violates any provision of this chapter or of any order of the state board of health, of the attorney general, or of the state auditor made pursuant thereto, or that either prevents the state board of health or the state officers to discharge any duties imposed upon them by this chapter, or fraudulently procures or attempts to procure any benefits under this chapter, or that willfully makes any false statement in any proceeding or report under the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or to be imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment. Any act or default by any corporation, association, or common law trust in violation of any provisions of the chapter, or of any order of the department made pursuant thereto shall be deemed to be the act or default of its officers or directors who participated in authorizing or effecting such act or default, or who knowingly permitted it.