State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Mississippi > Title-21 > 19 > 21-19-3§ 21-19-3. Controlling contagious or infectious diseases; establishing pesthouses.
The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to make regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious or infectious diseases; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and to enforce the same within five miles of the corporate limits; and to establish pesthouses outside the corporate limits, and to provide for the support and government of the same.
Sources: Codes, 1892, § 2950; 1906, § 3341; Hemingway's 1917, § 5838; 1930, § 2417; 1942, § 3374-132; Laws, 1950, ch. 491, § 132; Laws, 1964, ch. 496, §§ 1-4, eff from and after passage (approved March 11, 1964).
