{"id":"DUT-MS-006","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Mississippi","state":"MS","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 41, ch. 23, Contagious and Infectious Diseases); State Department of Health and State Health Officer as the officers empowered","authority":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-5","instrument":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-5","title":"Investigation and control authority: epidemic, infectious and other disease; isolation and quarantine; physical control over property and individuals; detainment; arrest powers","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","CLOSE","GATH"],"addressees":["persons generally; owners or persons in control of property; all law enforcement officers (directed to assist)"],"clause":"The State Department of Health shall have the authority to investigate and control the causes of epidemic, infectious and other disease... including the authority to establish, maintain and enforce isolation and quarantine, and in pursuance thereof, to exercise such physical control over property and individuals as the department may find necessary for the protection of the public health.","enforcement":"Detainment and arrest under this section and § 41-3-15(12) (Ex. DUT-MS-001); felony under § 41-23-2 (Ex. DUT-MS-008)","functions":[],"notes":"The Department controls epidemics by isolation, quarantine and \u0027such physical control over property and individuals as the department may find necessary\u0027; it may detain persons who violate a State Health Officer order; its investigators \u0027shall have general arrest powers\u0027; \u0027All law enforcement officers are authorized and directed to assist in the enforcement of such orders of the State Health Officer.\u0027 Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-41-public-health/ms-code-sect-41-23-5.html","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200509175025/https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-41-public-health/ms-code-sect-41-23-5.html","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":107365,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-MS","url":"/library/DUT-MS-006","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MS-006","citation":"Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 41, ch. 23, Contagious and Infectious Diseases); State Department of Health and State Health Officer as the officers empowered, Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-5 (standing) (Ex. DUT-MS-006)","stateName":"Mississippi","related":["DUT-MS-007","DUT-MS-001","MS-039","DUT-MS-008","DUT-MS-017","DUT-MS-019"]}