As Amended
SEC. 97-27-11. Contagious diseases; importation to spread by inoculation.
If any person shall wilfully and knowingly import or bring into this state, or into any county thereof, from another county, the smallpox, or any other contagious or infectious disease or matter thereof, with the design to spread the same by inoculation or otherwise, or shall inoculate, or procure inoculation, for said diseases, or any or either of them, after such disease may have been introduced, except as provided by law, the person so offending shall, on conviction, be fined not more than two thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not more than one year in the county jail or both.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 64; 1871, Sec. 2719; 1880, Sec. 2760; 1892, Sec. 1008; 1906, Sec. 1085; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 811; 1930, Sec. 834; 1942, Sec. 2060.