The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Miss. Code Ann. § 45-17-9
- 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
- persons generally; every business within a municipality under a civil-emergency order
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
Municipalities may provide by ordinance that any person violating the provisions of orders issued by the chief administrative officer pursuant to this authorization during a proclaimed civil emergency be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or six (6) months imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Penalty
Misdemeanor: fine up to $300, imprisonment up to six months, or both
What it required
Violation of a mayor's civil-emergency order is a misdemeanor where the municipality so provides by ordinance; Jackson so provided (Jackson Code § 86-1) and recited § 45-17-9 in every COVID-19 proclamation, including the Amended Safe Recovery Jackson Executive Order in force through the third quarter of 2021 (Ex. MS-060).