Mississippi Ordinances (2026)

Mississippi regulates beekeeping primarily for disease control through the Bureau of Plant Industry. The state Apiary Law authorizes inspections, transport certificates, and…

Mississippi's Board of Animal Health forbids any carrier from moving livestock or poultry into or through the state unless the shipment meets the Board's entry and disease-traceability…

Mississippi prohibits possession of inherently dangerous wild animals such as big cats, bears, wolves, hyenas, and primates without a state permit. The law establishes a statewide…

Mississippi treats severe neglect and hoarding-style conditions as criminal cruelty under the Dog and Cat Pet Protection Law and broader cruelty statutes. The criminal code applies…

Mississippi regulates supplemental feeding of deer and other wildlife through MDWFP rules. Feeding for hunting purposes is restricted, and feeding is banned in CWD management zones and…

Mississippi regulates the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems through its tobacco statutes, requiring buyers to be at least 21 years old under Miss. Code 97-32-9 and…

The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act sets statewide minimum buffer distances and zoning rules for licensed dispensaries, requiring at least 1,000 feet from schools, churches, and child…

Mississippi law prohibits all home cultivation of cannabis, including by registered medical cannabis patients. The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act expressly bars personal grows, and…

Commercial drone operations in Mississippi are governed primarily by FAA Part 107, with state law adding criminal restrictions on critical-infrastructure surveillance under the…

Mississippi regulates recreational drone use through state criminal statutes on voyeurism and critical-infrastructure surveillance, while federal FAA rules govern airspace. The Peeping…

Miss. Code Section 17-1-51 preempts Mississippi cities and counties from adopting local minimum wages, paid leave, or other employment-benefit mandates that exceed state or federal law.

Mississippi's Coastal Wetlands Protection Act gives the Department of Marine Resources exclusive authority to permit dredging, filling, or alteration of coastal wetlands in Hancock…

Mississippi enforces stormwater discharge regulations through the Department of Environmental Quality under the federal Clean Water Act, requiring NPDES permits for construction…

Mississippi regulates the manufacture, sale, and storage of fireworks at the state level under Title 45 Chapter 13. Permits and licenses are issued by the State Fire Marshal, and…

Mississippi regulates outdoor burning through the Mississippi Forestry Commission and Department of Environmental Quality. Burning of household refuse and yard debris is allowed with…

Mississippi regulates liquefied petroleum (LP) gas storage, installation, and dealers through the Mississippi Liquefied Compressed Gas Board under Title 75 Chapter 57, applying NFPA 58…

The Mississippi Forestry Commission has statewide authority to declare wildfire burn bans, regulate forest fire prevention, and pursue civil and criminal penalties for negligent fires…

Mississippi recognizes both a permit-based concealed carry license and permitless carry for adults legally able to possess firearms, with the Department of Public Safety administering…

Mississippi Code Section 45-9-51 broadly preempts cities and counties from regulating firearms, ammunition, components, or related items, with very narrow exceptions for public…

Mississippi permits open carry of firearms by lawful adults under its constitutional and statutory framework, and Miss. Code 45-9-51 prevents local governments from restricting open…

Miss. Code Section 45-9-101 establishes Mississippi's licensed concealed carry framework while related provisions and case law confirm that lawful adults may carry firearms in private…

Mississippi requires every mobile food unit to hold a Mississippi State Department of Health food permit, employ a certified food manager, and pass routine inspections. Local cities…

Mississippi legalizes casino gaming only within two geographic bands carved out of its general gambling ban by Miss. Code § 97-33-1: the three southernmost Gulf Coast counties…

Mississippi allows nonprofit civic, veteran, religious, and wildlife-conservation groups to run bingo and pull-tabs under the Charitable Bingo Law once the Mississippi Gaming…

Miss. Code § 97-33-1 makes it a crime to play any game "for money or other valuable thing" or to wager on any game or event: no dollar threshold, no carve-out for a private game among…

Sports wagering is legal in Mississippi only on the physical premises of a licensed casino. Mississippi Gaming Commission Rule 13-9-3.4 requires every race book or sports pool to take…

Mississippi has no general HOA assessment statute, so a standard subdivision HOA's lien and foreclosure powers come from its recorded declaration. Condominiums are different: Miss…

A member of a Mississippi association incorporated under the Nonprofit Corporation Act may inspect and copy the association's governing documents, member-meeting minutes for the past…

Mississippi has no statute capping what a homeowners association may fine a member, no required notice-and-hearing procedure before a fine is levied, and no statutory cure period. The…

Mississippi has exactly one statutory assessment lien, and it belongs to condominiums. Miss. Code Ann. § 89-9-21 lets a condominium management body turn unpaid assessments into a lien…

Mississippi law runs the opposite way from the states that limit association leasing bans. Miss. Code Ann. Sec. 89-9-19 says the covenants authorised by Sec. 89-9-17 may prescribe…

Mississippi's cottage food law is a single section, Miss. Code Ann. § 75-29-951, and it works as an exemption rather than a licence. A cottage food operation needs no food permit under…

Mississippi requires state licensing through the Department of Health for any home-based child care facility serving six or more unrelated children, with mandated staff-to-child…

Mississippi has created no microenterprise home kitchen permit, and it has not carved a paid-meal exemption into its food establishment rules either. The state's retail food…

Mississippi has never enacted a statute authorising sobriety or driver licence checkpoints. The words sobriety and safety checkpoint return nothing in the Mississippi Code, and the…

Mississippi has enacted no right-to-record statute and no buffer-zone offence, and its obstruction offence contains no recording proviso either way. What makes filming and recording an…

No Mississippi statute makes it an offence to refuse to give an officer your name. A full-text search of the Mississippi Code turns up no duty-to-identify provision in Title 97 or…

Mississippi has one statutory protection against a roadside search and it is narrow. Miss. Code Ann. Section 41-137-9(4) says that possession of, or application for, a medical cannabis…

Mississippi puts golf carts and low-speed vehicles on one short track, Chapter 32 of Title 63, and the chapter's own heading says how far it reaches: operation on municipal public…

Under Mississippi Code Section 63-23-3, a motor vehicle left unattended on any public street, road, highway, or other public property for at least five days is legally abandoned. It…

Mississippi split its towing law in two. A 2024 chapter, Miss. Code Ann. Sec. 63-37-1 through Sec. 63-37-15, bans drop fees, requires posted signage and written property-owner…

Under Miss. Code section 89-8-13, a landlord evicting for nonpayment must serve written notice that the agreement will terminate if rent is not paid within 3 days. For other material…

Miss. Code section 89-8-23 requires a landlord to comply with building and housing codes 'materially affecting health and safety' and to maintain the unit, its plumbing, and its…

Mississippi imposes no just-cause eviction requirement. Under the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, landlords may terminate month-to-month tenancies with 30 days notice without…

Under Miss. Code section 89-8-19, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice before the termination date, or a week-to-week tenancy with at…

Rent control is barred at the local level in Mississippi. Miss. Code § 21-17-5(2)(h) prohibits a municipality from regulating, directly or indirectly, the amount of rent charged for…

Mississippi sets no statutory cap on a residential security deposit. Under Miss. Code § 89-8-21, a landlord must return any remaining deposit, with an itemized written notice of any…

Mississippi requires 10 years of adverse possession to gain title. Miss. Code section 15-1-13 vests 'full and complete title' in anyone who openly, actually, and continuously occupies…

Mississippi limits local zoning authority over established agricultural operations through Miss. Code Section 95-3-29 and related statutes that protect farms from later-imposed…

Mississippi's Right to Farm law at Miss. Code Section 95-3-29 protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits when surrounding land uses change after the operation…

Mississippi treats short-term rental stays like hotel rooms. Section 27-65-23 imposes a 7% state sales tax on the gross income from renting rooms to transient guests, so Airbnb and…

Every published campaign sign in Mississippi must carry a disclaimer under Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-897: the candidate's name plus an approval statement, or the name of whoever paid for…

Mississippi's 2018 auxiliary-container preemption law, Miss. Code Sections 17-1-71 through 17-1-75, bars cities and counties from regulating, banning, taxing, or charging fees on…

Mississippi's Renewable Energy Net Metering Rule requires Entergy Mississippi and Mississippi Power to offer net metering to any customer self-generating with renewables. Residential…

The William Lee Montjoy Pool Safety Act and the Mississippi Residential Code require enclosing residential and public pools with at least four-foot barriers, self-closing gates, and…

Mississippi prohibits the sale, distribution, or furnishing of tobacco, alternative nicotine, and vapor products to anyone under age 21 under Miss. Code Section 97-32-9 and related…

Mississippi has not enacted a statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vapor products, and its Title 97 Chapter 32 framework governs uniform tobacco regulation without authorizing local…

Mississippi prohibits illegal dumping and regulates solid waste disposal statewide under Title 17 Chapter 17, requiring proper disposal at permitted facilities and imposing significant…

Mississippi requires every county and municipality to provide or contract for solid waste collection service for all occupied dwellings, and residents are generally required to…

Every Mississippi county, working with its cities, must adopt a nonhazardous solid waste management plan that spells out how it will cut waste 25% through source reduction and…

Mississippi regulates extra vehicle lighting mainly by colour and by count. Miss. Code Ann. Section 63-7-19 reserves blinking, oscillating or rotating blue lights to police vehicles…

Mississippi has no dash cam statute and no windshield-mounting rule that a camera can breach. The only provision that regulates what may sit on a Mississippi windshield, Miss. Code…

Mississippi neither authorises lane splitting nor bans it by name. Nothing in the Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated ties motorcycles to lane position at all: Chapter 3's Article 13 on…

Mississippi reaches plate covers through its tag-display statute, Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-31(2)(a), and it names the hardware directly. The tag, every character on it and any legally…

Mississippi has no radar detector law. The phrase radar detector appears nowhere in the Mississippi Code, and no provision bans owning, mounting or using one in a private vehicle. What…

Mississippi never opens a studded-tire season, because it never created one. Miss. Code Ann. § 63-7-67 forbids any tire moved on a highway from carrying on its periphery a block, stud…

Mississippi sets one light transmittance figure for the whole car: every window must pass 28% or more, and the proof is a Department of Public Safety label glued to the lower left…