Mississippi Code Title 45. Public Safety and Good Order § 45-21-13

In order that the state board of health may establish criteria for implementing the pertinent health and safety regulations and that certification may be granted with a sufficient degree of certainty as to the probable number of people that will be in attendance at such event, no tickets of admission thereto shall be distributed or sold seventy-two (72) hours prior to the commencement of such event; provided, however, that tickets of admission may be distributed or sold within such seventy-two-hour period as specifically established by the state board of health in the certification or as approved, in writing, by the local board of health, if such additional sale or distribution of tickets can be permitted within the pertinent health and safety regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 45-21-11.