MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 47-5-137. Use of offenders as servants prohibited; exception.

Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the use of offenders as servants, gardeners, chauffeurs, cooks, baby-sitters or domestic workers of any nature by an employee of the correctional system or by any other person in an individual household is hereby prohibited; provided, however, that the commissioner may use offenders for such work on the grounds of a facility of the correctional system.

SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 7960; Laws, 1964, ch. 378, Sec. 40; 1974, ch. 539, Sec. 26; 1976, ch. 440, Sec. 66; reenacted, 1981, ch. 465, Sec. 72; reenacted, 1984, ch. 471, Sec. 64; reenacted, 1986, ch. 413, Sec. 64, eff from and after passage (approved March 28, 1986). Laws, 1996, ch. 547, Sec. 3, eff from and after passage (approved April 13, 1996)


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