The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-3-15 as amended by Senate Bill 2311, 2020 Regular Session (approved July 8, 2020; effective July 1, 2020)
- Issued
- 2020-07-08 July 8, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-01 (this print); the quoted powers predate 2020 (read as 2020-07-01)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since July 1, 2020 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; employers; owners or persons in control of premises and food establishments
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
(4) The State Board of Health shall have authority:... (c) To direct and control sanitary and quarantine measures for dealing with all diseases within the state possible to suppress same and prevent their spread.
Penalty
What it required
Confirms that the powers quoted in Ex. DUT-MS-001 were in force in identical words in 2020; S.B. 2311 amended § 41-3-15 only as to the Board's fee authority. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval note111 pages; enrolled bill 'As Sent to Governor'; the Legislature's Report of All Measures records '07/08 Approved by Governor'.