Chapter 19 - HEALTH, SAFETY, AND WELFARE
- Section 21-19-1 - General powers of municipal governing authorities; collection and disposal of garbage and rubbish
- Section 21-19-2 - Development of billing and collection system; defraying costs; increase in ad valorem tax; notice; joint and several liability of generator and property owner; liens
- Section 21-19-3 - Controlling contagious or infectious diseases; establishing pesthouses
- Section 21-19-5 - Establishing hospitals, workhouses, and houses of correction
- Section 21-19-7 - Donating to hospitals and benevolent institutions
- Section 21-19-9 - Controlling running of animals at large; establishment of city pounds; cooperative agreements
- Section 21-19-11 - Determination that property or parcel of land is menace; authorized municipal employee may make the determination that property or parcel of land is menace under certain circumstances; notification to property owner; hearing; cleaning private property; cost and penalty as assessment against property; appeal; cleaning certain perpetual care cemetery property; application for reimbursement for costs of cleanup from perpetual care cemetery trust fund
- Section 21-19-12 - Lien amnesty for nonprofits and others interested in developing blighted real estate
- Section 21-19-13 - Changes of streams and bridges; clean drainage ditches and prevent erosion; levying taxes to pay for authorized works
- Section 21-19-15 - Enacting police regulations
- Section 21-19-17 - Restricting movements of individuals where public safety is endangered
- Section 21-19-19 - Regulating blind-tigers and disreputable places and practices
- Section 21-19-20 - Proceedings to demolish or seize abandoned houses or buildings used for sale or use of drugs or constituting public hazard or nuisance; authority to sell, transfer, convey or use abandoned houses or buildings for suitable municipal purposes
- Section 21-19-21 - Enacting fire regulations
- Section 21-19-23 - Entering mutual assistance pacts with other municipalities
- Section 21-19-25 - Adoption, amendment and revision of building and other codes
- Section 21-19-27 - Compelling erection of barriers
- Section 21-19-29 - Regulating ingress and egress of buildings
- Section 21-19-31 - Regulation of public places, depots and common carriers
- Section 21-19-33 - Regulations of circuses, shows, theaters, and other amusements
- Section 21-19-35 - Regulation of transient vendors and photographers; power of counties and municipalities; application of county and municipal ordinances
- Section 21-19-37 - Regulation of "going-out-of-business" sales, "fire" sales, and similar sales
- Section 21-19-39 - Adoption of ordinances regulating sale at retail of goods and services on Sunday
- Section 21-19-41 - Contributing to support of federal food stamp program
- Section 21-19-43 - Encouraging establishment of industry
- Section 21-19-44 - Supporting certain local economic development organizations
- Section 21-19-44.1 - Donating to Main Street Project, Incorporated
- Section 21-19-45 - Donating to nonprofit civic and development corporations by certain municipalities
- Section 21-19-46 - Donating to Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
- Section 21-19-47 - Donating to support bands and orchestras
- Section 21-19-49 - Appropriation of funds or conveyance of buildings and property to school districts by local governments; contracts for provision of additional police protection for schools; off-duty law enforcement officers authorized to use public uniforms and equipment for school security purposes; municipalities authorized to donate to public school districts for certain purposes
- Section 21-19-51 - Donating to fair associations
- Section 21-19-53 - Donating to support historical museums by certain municipalities
- Section 21-19-55 - Donating to patriotic organizations
- Section 21-19-57 - Donating to American Red Cross
- Section 21-19-58 - Donating to Mississippi Burn Care Fund
- Section 21-19-59 - Donating to state colleges or universities for support of airport by certain municipalities
- Section 21-19-61 - Advertising of municipal activities by certain municipalities
- Section 21-19-63 - Requiring maps of subdivisions to be furnished and approved; effect of dedication; easement declared abandoned
- Section 21-19-65 - Matching funds for social and community service programs
- Section 21-19-67 - Annual donations to chartered chapters of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America or the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), or to certain certified farmers' markets located within the municipality
- Section 21-19-69 - Donating to support certified farmers' market