The governing authority of any municipality shall have the power to restrain, prohibit and suppress blind-tigers, bucket-shops, slaughterhouses, houses of prostitution, disreputable houses, hotels and motels renting rooms on an hourly basis, games and gambling houses and rooms, dance houses and rooms, keno rooms, and all kinds of indecency and other disorderly practices, and disturbance of the peace, and to provide for the punishment of the persons engaged therein.Codes, 1892, § 2951; 1906, § 3342; Hemingway's 1917, § 5839; 1930, § 2418; 1942, § 3374-133; Laws, 1950, ch. 491, § 133; Laws, 1986, ch. 302, § 2; Laws, 2005, ch. 416, § 1, eff. 7/1/2005.
Mississippi Legal Code