21-19-3 - Controlling contagious or infectious diseases; establishing pesthouses. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 21-19-3. Controlling contagious or infectious diseases; establishing pesthouses.
 

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to make regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious or infectious diseases; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and to enforce the same within five miles of the corporate limits; and to establish pesthouses outside the corporate limits, and to provide for the support and government of the same. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1892, § 2950; 1906, § 3341; Hemingway's 1917, § 5838; 1930, § 2417; 1942, § 3374-132; Laws,  1950, ch. 491, § 132; Laws, 1964, ch. 496, §§ 1-4, eff from and after passage (approved March 11, 1964).