The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-1
- 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
- Standing dutyOther
- Addressees
- the State Board of Health (duty to adopt rules); physicians, hospitals and medical examiners (reporting); persons generally through the rules adopted
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
(1) The State Board of Health shall adopt rules and regulations (a) defining and classifying communicable diseases and other diseases that are a danger to health based upon the characteristics of the disease; and (b) establishing reporting, monitoring and preventive procedures for those diseases.
Penalty
What it required
The Board must adopt communicable-disease rules with 'preventive procedures'; the Rules Governing Reportable Diseases and Conditions (Ex. DUT-MS-004) and the classification that names COVID-19 outbreaks a Class 1A condition are those rules; subsection (2) imposes reporting duties on attending physicians, persons in charge of hospitals and medical examiners.