Bill Text: MS HB258 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Institutions for aged or infirm; increase penalties for establishing or operating without a license.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-06 - Died In Committee [HB258 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2012-HB258-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2012 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representatives Buck (72nd), Coleman (65th), Buck (5th), Gardner, Smith (27th)
House Bill 258
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-11-25, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE PENALTIES FOR ESTABLISHING, CONDUCTING, MANAGING OR OPERATING AN INSTITUTION FOR THE AGED OR INFIRM WITHOUT A LICENSE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 43-11-25, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
43-11-25. Any person establishing, conducting, managing or operating an institution for the aged or infirm without a license under this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisoned for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for the first offense. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, the defendant shall be guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned for not less than one (1) year nor more than five (5) years and shall be fined not less than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) nor more than Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00).
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012.
