43-31-31 - Certain dead to be buried by corporate authorities. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 43-31-31. Certain dead to be buried by corporate authorities.
 

The municipal authorities of every city, town, and village shall bury all strangers found dead within their limits, or found floating in any waters at a point adjoining their limits, and all expenses or charges shall be chargeable to the county; and an accurate account thereof shall be reported to the board of supervisors, who shall allow the same, and order it to be paid out of the county treasury; but the boards of supervisors may fix maximum charges for such burials. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 23, art. 15; 1871, § 1988; 1880, § 636; 1892, § 3146; 1906, § 3569; Hemingway's 1917, § 6186; 1930, § 5709; 1942, § 7360.