Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 5 - Office of Health Informatics
Subpart 85 - Public Health Statistics
Chapter 3 - Registration of Live Births
Subchapter 5 - Birth Occurrence Reports
Rule 15-5-85-3.5.1

On the first day of each month, each institution which accepts patients for delivery shall make a report to the Office of Vital Records, on forms prescribed by the Department of Health, giving a complete list of births occurring in or enroute to the institution during the preceding month. For those births which occurred enroute to the institution, a notation shall be made on the report. If there were no births at the institution during the month, a report shall be submitted showing that there were none.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-1; Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-7