{"id":"DUT-MS-008","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Mississippi","state":"MS","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 41, ch. 23)","authority":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-2","instrument":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-2","title":"Violating lawful order, life-threatening communicable diseases (felony)","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR"],"addressees":["persons generally (persons afflicted with a life-threatening communicable disease or its causative agent, including employees under isolation orders)"],"clause":"Any person who shall knowingly and willfully violate the lawful order of the county, district or state health officer where that person is afflicted with a life-threatening communicable disease or the causative agent thereof shall be guilty of a felony... shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment... for not more than five (5) years","enforcement":"Felony: fine up to $5,000, imprisonment up to five years, or both","functions":[],"notes":"A person afflicted with a life-threatening communicable disease, or carrying its causative agent, who knowingly and willfully violates a health officer\u0027s lawful order (including an isolation order) commits a felony.","sourceUrl":"https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-41-public-health/ms-code-sect-41-23-2.html","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200428142242/https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-41-public-health/ms-code-sect-41-23-2.html","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":107698,"grade":"primary","character":"order_penalty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MS","url":"/library/DUT-MS-008","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MS-008","citation":"Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 41, ch. 23), Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-2 (standing) (Ex. DUT-MS-008)","stateName":"Mississippi","related":["DUT-MS-019","DUT-MS-001","DUT-MS-004","DUT-MS-006","DUT-MS-009","DUT-MS-017"]}