The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-2
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (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
- Quarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally (persons afflicted with a life-threatening communicable disease or its causative agent, including employees under isolation orders)
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
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
Penalty
Felony: fine up to $5,000, imprisonment up to five years, or both
What it required
A person afflicted with a life-threatening communicable disease, or carrying its causative agent, who knowingly and willfully violates a health officer's lawful order (including an isolation order) commits a felony.
Retrieval note2 pages. MSDH's isolation directive of Aug. 25, 2021 is Ex. DUT-MS-019.