Mississippi Code — 45
Browse 388 sections in division 45 of the Mississippi code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 45-1-1. Repealed.
- § 45-1-2. Executive Director of Department of Public Safety to be commissioner; organization of department; Commissioner of Public Safety; statewide safety training officer; Mississippi Analysis and Information Center (MSAIC Fusion Center) established within Office of Homeland Security.
- § 45-1-3. Rule-making power of commissioner.
- § 45-1-5. Employment of administrative, clerical and other employees.
- § 45-1-6. Special contract agents authorized; powers; qualifications; form of contract; agents not considered employees of Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
- § 45-1-7. Legislators ineligible to serve.
- § 45-1-9. Repealed.
- § 45-1-11. Salaries may be paid on semi-monthly basis.
- § 45-1-12. Salaries of certain officers of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
- § 45-1-13. Use of employees in other divisions.
- § 45-1-15. Purchase of workers’ compensation insurance.
- § 45-1-17. Crime detection and medical examiner laboratory.
- § 45-1-19. Repealed.
- § 45-1-21. Department of Public Safety authorized to charge fees for services and reports.
- § 45-1-23. Payment of expenses of operating and administering department; budget; disposition of funds received.
- § 45-1-25. Director of Mississippi Forensics Laboratory; qualifications; removal.
- § 45-1-27. Director of Crime Laboratory; responsibilities and duties.
- § 45-1-29. Mississippi Forensics Laboratory; funding; fees for services.
- § 45-1-31. Mississippi Forensics Laboratory; vehicles and equipment.
- § 45-1-33. Transfer of Office of Criminal Justice Planning and Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee.
- § 45-1-35. Department of Public Safety to provide state highway accident statistics to Department of Transportation.
- § 45-1-37. Commissioner authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with bordering states for purpose of entering such state to make arrest; commissioner to require Department of Public Safety to enter into Memorandum of Understanding with county registrars for purpose of providing Mississippi Voter Identification Card.
- § 45-1-39. Repealed.
- § 45-1-41. Disposition of seized property after notice to any known owner or lienholder.
- § 45-1-43. Emergency response and vehicular pursuit policies; state, county and local mandate; training procedures; sanctions for failure to adopt.
- § 45-1-45. Implementation of Internet-based data and information sharing network for exchange and viewing of certain felony and misdemeanor information; Information Exchange Network Fund created.
- § 45-1-47. Department of Public Safety authorized to sell and replace as needed its fleet of aircraft; use of proceeds.
- § 45-1-71. Full-time fire fighters and law enforcement officers permitted to keep badges upon retirement.
- § 45-1-101. Certain retired law enforcement officers may obtain certification from Mississippi Association of Chiefs of Police to carry concealed weapon without permit.
- § 45-1-151. Blue alert program established; definitions; activation; termination of activation.
- § 45-1-161. Repealed.
- § 45-2-1. Definitions; establishment of death benefits trust fund; payments from fund; administration of fund.
- § 45-2-21. Definitions; establishment of death benefits fund; payments from fund; administration of fund; funding of expenses of Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Disability Benefits Fund; deposit of user charges and fees authorized under this section into State General Fund.
- § 45-2-31. Definitions; establishment of death benefits trust fund for directors and assistant directors of certain local emergency management organizations and coroners and deputy coroners; payments from fund; administration of fund.
- § 45-3-1. Citation of chapter.
- § 45-3-3. Definitions.
- § 45-3-5. Chief of patrol.
- § 45-3-7. Organization of Highway Safety Patrol; compensation of members.
- § 45-3-9. Qualifications of members of Highway Safety Patrol; agents of Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics employed as enforcement troopers.
- § 45-3-11. Prohibitions as to engaging in political activity and soliciting campaign contributions.
- § 45-3-13. No exemption from military service for patrolmen.
- § 45-3-15. Preference to returning veterans.
- § 45-3-17. Dismissal of patrolmen.
- § 45-3-19. Regulations governing discipline, uniforms, supplies, and the like.
- § 45-3-21. Powers and duties of patrol, generally.
- § 45-3-23. Commissioner not to impose rule which impedes enforcement of traffic laws.
- § 45-3-25. Patrolman preferring traffic charge to forward abstract of court record.
- § 45-3-27. Bearing of arms; compliance with dress regulations.
- § 45-3-29. Penalty for impersonating patrolman; exception for county patrolman; exception for retired patrolman with prior authorization from commissioner.
- § 45-3-31. Uniforms, automobiles and other equipment.
- § 45-3-33. Uniforms, automobiles and other equipment; advertising for bids.
- § 45-3-35. Camera equipment for patrol cars.
- § 45-3-37. Markings on patrol cars.
- § 45-3-39. Prohibition as to personal use of cars, materials and equipment.
- § 45-3-41. Radio receiving sets may be installed in certain counties and municipalities.
- § 45-3-43. Radio substations and booster stations for use of highway safety patrol.
- § 45-3-45. Training school for patrolmen.
- § 45-3-47. Training school for patrolmen; selection program.
- § 45-3-49. Penalty for violating provisions of chapter.
- § 45-3-51. Retirants or beneficiaries of officers killed in line of duty permitted to retain one sidearm.
- § 45-3-52. Retention by officers of assigned dogs retired from service.
- § 45-3-53. Distinctive marker on cemetery memorials for Highway Safety Patrol officers killed in line of duty; markers for other officers.
- § 45-3-55. Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop “D” substation named “Robert ‘Bunky’ Huggins Substation.”
- § 45-3-57. Mississippi Department of Public Safety’s Highway Patrol District Office designated “Charles L. Young, Sr., District Office.”
- § 45-4-1. Legislative findings and intent.
- § 45-4-3. Board on Jail Officer Standards and Training; creation; membership; officers; reports.
- § 45-4-5. Powers of board.
- § 45-4-7. Office of Standards and Training to provide administrative and fiscal support.
- § 45-4-9. Certification required for employment as jail officer; exemption for certain jail officers.
- § 45-4-11. Establishment, administration and maintenance of training programs; expenditure of funds.
- § 45-4-13. Governmental entities prohibited from paying salaries of uncertified jail officers.
- § 45-5-1. Citation of chapter.
- § 45-5-3. Public policy declared.
- § 45-5-5. Establishment, supervision and purpose of law enforcement officers’ training academy; rules and regulations; director and other personnel.
- § 45-5-7. Instructors and curriculum.
- § 45-5-9. Sheriffs and mayors may appoint extra deputies and police; commissioner of public safety to judge qualifications of applicant; powers and duties of deputies; compensation and uniforms; bond.
- § 45-5-11. Appropriations; tuition fees; payment of expenses of officers attending academy; grants and donations may be accepted.
- § 45-5-13. Acceptance or rejection of applicants by director; appeals by rejected applicants.
- § 45-5-15. Duties of State Building Commission; law enforcement officers’ training academy fund.
- § 45-5-17. Construction of chapter.
- § 45-6-1. Legislative findings and intent.
- § 45-6-3. Definitions.
- § 45-6-5. Board on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Training created; appointment, terms of office, removal from office and compensation of members; officers; meetings; reports; advisors.
- § 45-6-7. Powers of board.
- § 45-6-9. Administrative and fiscal support provided by criminal justice planning commission.
- § 45-6-11. Law enforcement officer qualifications; recertification after leaving law enforcement; certification; reprimand, suspension or revocation of certification.
- § 45-6-13. Reimbursement for attending training program; professional library.
- § 45-6-15. Law Enforcement Officers Training Fund; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund.
- § 45-6-17. Noncomplying officers and officers with certificates revoked or suspended not to exercise powers; salary not to be paid.
- § 45-6-19. Continuing education requirement for municipal police chiefs and officers.
- § 45-6-21. Motorcycle Officers Training Program Fund created; funding of expenses of Motorcycle Officers Training Program; deposit of user charges and fees authorized under this section into State General Fund.
- § 45-7-1. Counties may employ men to enforce road laws.
- § 45-7-3. Duties of patrol officers; uniforms.
- § 45-7-5. Compensation; transportation.
- § 45-7-21. Employment of patrol officers.
- § 45-7-23. Duties of patrol officers; uniforms.
- § 45-7-25. Radio equipment.
- § 45-7-27. Compensation of patrol officers; transportation; bond.
- § 45-7-29. Powers to be additional and supplemental.
- § 45-7-41. Employment of patrol officers.
- § 45-7-43. Duties of patrol officers.
- § 45-7-45. Compensation; transportation; uniforms; equipment.
- § 45-7-47. Powers to be additional and supplemental.
- § 45-9-1-45-9-17. Repealed.
- § 45-9-19. Repealed.
- § 45-9-31. Medical personnel required to report injuries from gunshots, knifings, and hunting or boating accidents.
- § 45-9-51. Prohibition against adoption of certain ordinances.
- § 45-9-53. Exceptions; procedure for challenging ordinances; county or municipal programs to purchase weapons from citizens.
- § 45-9-55. Employer not permitted to prohibit transportation or storage of firearms on employer property; exceptions; certain immunity for employer.
- § 45-9-57. Regulation by county of discharge of any firearm within platted subdivision.
- § 45-9-101. License to carry stun gun, concealed pistol or revolver; license fees; exemptions; no license required to carry pistol or revolver in purse, briefcase, fully enclosed case, etc.
- § 45-9-103. Federal firearm reporting.
- § 45-9-131. Purchase of sidearm by retiring law enforcement officer or spouse of law enforcement officer killed in line of duty.
- § 45-9-133. Retention of sidearm by retiring law enforcement officer of Mississippi Department of Transportation.
- § 45-9-151. Docket of deadly weapons seized.
- § 45-9-171. Mississippi Church Protection Act; security program requirements.
- § 45-10-1. Definition.
- § 45-10-3. Prohibition; penalty.
- § 45-10-5. Exception.
- § 45-10-7. Enforcement.
- § 45-11-1. Commissioner of Insurance as State Fire Marshal; appointment of State Chief Deputy Fire Marshal; qualifications, powers and duties; records of fires investigated; appointment of State Chief Assistant Deputy Fire Marshal.
- § 45-11-2. Establishment and maintenance of registry of fire damages; provision of information by insurance companies and public agencies; promulgation of rules.
- § 45-11-3. Proceedings in regard to dangerous or hazardous inflammable condition existing in building; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund.
- § 45-11-5. Tax on gross premium receipts of fire insurance policies to defray expenses of office of state chief deputy fire marshal and state fire academy; additional funding for municipal fire protection fund and county volunteer fire department fund; defrayal of agency expenses by appropriation from General Fund; deposit of monies into State General Fund.
- § 45-11-7. State fire academy; executive director; division of fire services development; defrayal of agency expenses by appropriation from General Fund; deposit of monies into State General Fund.
- § 45-11-8. State Fire Academy Advisory Board.
- § 45-11-9. Fire Safety Education Division created; Commissioner of Insurance to administer; development of fire safety education program; rules and regulations.
- § 45-11-21. Duty of hotel and lodging house keepers to provide means of escape.
- § 45-11-23. Duty of hotel and lodging house keeper to post notice.
- § 45-11-25. Certain hotels and lodging houses to be provided with iron balconies and stairs.
- § 45-11-27. Public halls, hotels shall provide stair rail.
- § 45-11-29. Fire detectors required for hotels and lodging houses.
- § 45-11-31. Repealed.
- § 45-11-33. Hotel and lodging house keepers to give alarm.
- § 45-11-35. Construction requirements for hotels and lodging houses.
- § 45-11-37. Doors to open outwardly.
- § 45-11-39. Egress in case of fire.
- § 45-11-41. School buildings to have certain fire escapes.
- § 45-11-43. County superintendent to furnish plans and approve construction.
- § 45-11-45. Places of public amusement; how constructed.
- § 45-11-47. Public eating places or places of public amusement to provide exits; penalties for violation.
- § 45-11-49. Penalties on hotel and lodging house keepers.
- § 45-11-51. Penalty for giving public amusements in house not properly constructed.
- § 45-11-53. Penalty for erection of building in disregard of requirements.
- § 45-11-55. Every day’s omission a separate offense.
- § 45-11-71. Sellers of burglar bars to public to comply with standard building code.
- § 45-11-73. State fire marshal to promulgate rules and regulations; exceptions.
- § 45-11-75. Penalty for violation.
- § 45-11-81. Definitions.
- § 45-11-83. Labeling required.
- § 45-11-85. Offenses; construction of section.
- § 45-11-87. Workmen not liable.
- § 45-11-89. Penalties.
- § 45-11-101. Promulgation; buildings to which code applies; plans for construction of private correctional facilities housing state inmates to be submitted to State Fire Marshal’s office to ensure compliance with Mississippi Fire Prevention Code; examination of local fire prevention codes.
- § 45-11-103. Standards; deviation from standards; automatic sprinkler systems.
- § 45-11-105. Enforcement of code by State Fire Marshal; Deputy Fire Marshals to have status of law enforcement officer; rules and regulations; cost of fire safety inspections; exceptions for state buildings.
- § 45-11-107. Application of Sections 45-11-101 through 45-11-111.
- § 45-11-109. Actions or proceedings to remedy prohibited acts.
- § 45-11-111. Penalties.
- § 45-11-201. Legislative findings and intent; minimum standards for training.
- § 45-11-203. Employment of persons not completing training standards prohibited; training standards.
- § 45-11-251. Board established; members; terms; qualifications; officers.
- § 45-11-253. Functions, powers, and duties of Board.
- § 45-11-281. Notification by hospital and certain licensed facilities; burn injury defined; notice contents; reporting requirement if investigation conducted after notification; report of burn injury-related death; confidentiality.
- § 45-11-301. Owners of certain buildings required to attach truss construction emblem to building; emblem requirements; exemptions; contractor performing work on certain buildings to be responsible for proper attachment of emblem.
- § 45-12-1. Short title [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-3. Definitions [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-5. Test method and performance standard [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-7. Certification and product change [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-9. Marking of cigarette packaging [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-11. Penalties [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-13. Implementation [For effective date, see Editor’s note; for contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-15. Inspection [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-17. Cigarette Fire Safety Standard and Firefighter Protection Fund [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-19. Sale outside of Mississippi [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-12-21. Preemption.
- § 45-12-23. Local regulation [For contingent repeal of this section, see § 45-12-21].
- § 45-13-1. Manufacture, sale, possession, etc., of dangerous items prohibited; common fireworks; paper caps.
- § 45-13-3. Sale, display, possession regulated; labeling.
- § 45-13-5. Additional items excepted from article.
- § 45-13-7. Storage; signs; fire extinguishing equipment; original packages.
- § 45-13-9. Dates when sales prohibited; sales to children; unlawful to explode or ignite in certain places.
- § 45-13-11. Permits for exhibitions; storage of items held for exhibitions.
- § 45-13-13. Rights of municipal governing bodies and county boards of supervisors unaffected by this article.
- § 45-13-15. Violations.
- § 45-13-101. Seller to keep records; when sale of explosives unlawful.
- § 45-13-103. Sales of explosives to be reported; regulation by municipalities.
- § 45-13-105. Penalties for failure to report sale of explosives.
- § 45-13-107. Safekeeping of explosives.
- § 45-13-109. Reports of importation of explosives; fees; penalties.
- § 45-14-1. Short title.
- § 45-14-3. Legislative declaration of policy.
- § 45-14-5. Definitions.
- § 45-14-7. State board of health to administer statewide radiation protection program; creation and duties of state radiation advisory council.
- § 45-14-9. Radiation advisory council; membership; meetings; quorum; compensation of members.
- § 45-14-11. General powers of state board of health.
- § 45-14-13. Licensing and registration of persons to deal with sources of radiation, installations, or equipment utilizing such sources.
- § 45-14-15. Inspections by state board of health; training and education programs; agreements with federal and state governments.
- § 45-14-17. Attorney General shall counsel persons against whom tort claims arise for their assistance during an emergency.
- § 45-14-19. Records to be kept by persons possessing or using sources of radiation; furnishing employees their personnel exposure records.
- § 45-14-21. Refusal to grant license or registration; suspension, revocation or amendment of license or registration; emergency orders.
- § 45-14-23. Emergency impounding of sources of radiation.
- § 45-14-25. Transportation of radioactive materials.
- § 45-14-27. Liability for state coordination of decontamination of radiation accidents or perpetual maintenance and custody of radioactive materials.
- § 45-14-29. Bond, insurance or other security of persons dealing in radioactive materials.
- § 45-14-31. Fees for radiological health services [Repealed effective July 1, 2020].
- § 45-14-33. Unlawful acts.
- § 45-14-35. Local ordinances, resolutions and regulations relating to sources of radiation are not superseded.
- § 45-14-37. Penalties.
- § 45-14-39. Report to air and water pollution control commission as to waters containing radioactive materials.
- § 45-14-41. No state jurisdiction over federally licensed and regulated nuclear powered steam electric generating plants.
- § 45-14-51. Short title.
- § 45-14-53. Legislative purpose.
- § 45-14-55. Definitions.
- § 45-14-57. Permits for transportation.
- § 45-14-59. Application for permit; liability insurance; save harmless provision.
- § 45-14-61. Permit fee.
- § 45-14-63. Notice of shipment.
- § 45-14-65. Training program for public safety officials.
- § 45-14-67. Powers and duties of state board of health.
- § 45-14-69. Penalties.
- § 45-15-1. Definitions.
- § 45-15-3. Activities performed in close proximity to high voltage overhead lines; precautions.
- § 45-15-5. Activities performed in close proximity to high voltage overhead lines; employees.
- § 45-15-7. Certain methods not to be employed in obtaining the required ten-foot clearance.
- § 45-15-9. Performance of work in closer proximity to high voltage lines than permitted; notice to utility; arrangements for deterring contact with lines; binding arbitration.
- § 45-15-11. Safety requirements and procedures required to operate crane, derrick, hoisting equipment, or similar apparatus which can be brought within ten feet of lines.
- § 45-15-13. Violation of chapter; application of chapter.
- § 45-15-15. Severability clause.
- § 45-17-1. Imposition of curfews during civil emergencies; definitions.
- § 45-17-3. Proclamation of emergency.
- § 45-17-5. Curfew order to state times and places applicable; maximum duration.
- § 45-17-7. Acts and activities which may be prohibited during emergency.
- § 45-17-9. Violations of orders may be declared misdemeanors; penalties.
- § 45-17-11. Persons to whom curfew does not apply.
- § 45-17-13. Repealed.
- § 45-18-1. Citation.
- § 45-18-3. Authorization of execution of compact; terms of compact.
- § 45-19-51-45-19-65. Repealed.
- § 45-21-1. Rock festival defined.
- § 45-21-3. Permit to be obtained from sheriff.
- § 45-21-5. Permit to be obtained from sheriff; conditions of issuance.
- § 45-21-7. Amenability to lawsuit.
- § 45-21-9. Sheriff to obtain additional surety bond.
- § 45-21-11. Health and safety regulations; approval of state board of health.
- § 45-21-13. Restriction as to sale of tickets.
- § 45-21-15. Inspection of site; notification of noncompliance.
- § 45-21-17. Revocation of permit.
- § 45-21-19. Penalties.
- § 45-21-21. Recovery or other disposition of bond.
- § 45-23-1. Title.
- § 45-23-3. Application.
- § 45-23-5. Definitions.
- § 45-23-7. Repealed.
- § 45-23-9. Rules and regulations.
- § 45-23-11. Prohibition against nonconforming installation or operation; special permit.
- § 45-23-13. Maximum allowable pressure.
- § 45-23-15. Exemptions.
- § 45-23-17. Chief inspector; qualifications.
- § 45-23-19. Chief inspector; duties and powers.
- § 45-23-21. Deputy inspectors; inspection service; special inspectors.
- § 45-23-23. Examination for inspectors [Repealed effective July 1, 2020].
- § 45-23-25. Suspension or revocation of inspector’s license.
- § 45-23-27. Replacement of lost or destroyed license.
- § 45-23-29. Inspectors’ bonds.
- § 45-23-31. Access to premises.
- § 45-23-33. Inspection requirements.
- § 45-23-35. Who may make required inspections.
- § 45-23-37. Hydrostatic tests.
- § 45-23-39. Inspection during construction.
- § 45-23-41. Procedure in general by companies employing special inspectors; exemption [Repealed effective July 1, 2020].
- § 45-23-43. Procedure by companies covered by owner or user inspection service meeting statutory requirements.
- § 45-23-45. Statement by company covered by owner or user inspection service; filing fee [Repealed effective July 1, 2020].
- § 45-23-47. Invalidation of inspection certificate upon termination of insurance.
- § 45-23-49. Suspension of inspection certificate.
- § 45-23-51. Violations; penalties.
- § 45-23-53. Fees where inspection made by chief inspector or his deputy [Repealed effective July 1, 2020].
- § 45-23-55. Boiler and pressure vessel safety fund.
- § 45-23-57. Appeal to board.
- § 45-23-59. Review of board action.
- § 45-23-61. Legislative power of city, town, or other governmental subdivision.
- § 45-25-1-45-25-21. Repealed.
- § 45-27-1. Legislative findings and declaration of purpose.
- § 45-27-3. Definitions.
- § 45-27-5. Mississippi Justice Information System established; director; personnel.
- § 45-27-7. Duties and functions of the Justice Information Center.
- § 45-27-8. Mississippi Justice Information Center authorized to charge fees for services and reports.
- § 45-27-9. Submission of data to center by criminal justice agencies; center to promptly purge records upon receipt of lawful expunction order; random review of certain agencies' or clerks' records by PEER committee; new or upgraded computerized records management systems to be formatted to Department of Justice approved format; implementation of incident-based reporting system within law enforcement agencies.
- § 45-27-11. Review or challenge of criminal offender records; correction of errors in records.
- § 45-27-12. Dissemination of certain criminal history record information for noncriminal justice purposes.
- § 45-27-13. Penalties.
- § 45-27-15. Provisions to be controlling; juvenile offenders; maintenance and dissemination of more detailed information.
- § 45-27-17. Counties, municipalities and users of network authorized to pay pro rata cost of justice information center.
- § 45-27-19. Exemption of records.
- § 45-27-21. Database of all expunction and nonadjudication orders created; accessibility to database.
- § 45-31-1-45-31-19. Repealed.
- § 45-33-1-45-33-19. Repealed.
- § 45-33-21. Legislative findings and declaration of purpose.
- § 45-33-23. Definitions.
- § 45-33-25. Registration with Mississippi Department of Public Safety of persons convicted of or acquitted by reason of insanity of registrable offenses residing, employed or attending school in Mississippi; registration information; prohibition against registered sex offenders living within specified distance of schools, certain child care facilities or agencies or playgrounds or other recreational facilities utilized by children.