Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 24 - Mental Health
Part 1 - Policies of the Mississippi Board of Mental Health
Chapter 9 - Personnel
Subchapter 1 - Fingerprinting and Background Checks
Rule 24-1-9.1.6 - Fingerprint/Affidavit

All persons employed prior to July 1, 2002, shall either be fingerprinted or sign an affidavit stating that he/she has not been convicted of or pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to a felony of possession or sale of drugs, murder, manslaughter, armed robbery, rape, sexual battery, any sex offense listed in Section 45-33-23(f), child abuse, arson, grand larceny, burglary, gratification of lust, aggravated assault, or felonious abuse and/or battery of a vulnerable adult, or that any such conviction or plea was reversed on appeal or a pardon was granted for the conviction or plea. If it is later determined that the person actually had been convicted or pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to any of the offenses listed previously, and the conviction or pleas has not been reversed on appeal or a pardon has not been granted for the conviction or plea, disciplinary action will be taken which may lead to termination and the person referred for appropriate penalties provided by law.

Miss Code Ann. § 41-4-1 et seq. and § 41-4-7.