The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Miss. Code Ann. §§ 41-3-15 and 41-23-5 as reprinted in H.B. 612, 2022 Reg. Sess., §§ 1-2
- Issued
- 2022-02-01 Feb. 1, 2022
- Effective
- standing (read as 2022-02-01)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Feb. 1, 2022 (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 closureQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; owners or persons in control of property
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
The State Department of Health is further authorized and empowered to require the temporary detainment of individuals for disease control purposes based upon violation of any order of the State Health Officer.... All law enforcement officers are authorized and directed to assist in the enforcement of such orders of the State Health Officer.
Penalty
What it required
Confirms, in the Legislature's own 2022 print, the text of § 41-23-5 saved as Ex. DUT-MS-006; the bill's only proposed addition ('The State Health Officer shall not release an order unless it has been approved by the Governor') is identified by the bill's title and did not become law. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval note15 pages. Identical bills were introduced in 2023 and 2024 (H.B. 619, H.B. 1093, H.B. 684, H.B. 1509) and died, which records that the Legislature left the State Health Officer's order-making authority as it stood.