Miss. Code Ann. § 7-1-561
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Miss. Code Ann. § 7-1-561
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It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Governor's commission to execute to its fullest capacity the following tenets as stated in Presidential Executive Order 12345 of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports:
(a) Enlist the active support and assistance of individual citizens, civic groups, private enterprise, voluntary organizations and others in an effort to promote and improve the fitness of all Mississippians through regular participation in physical fitness and sports activities.
(b) Initiate programs to inform the general public of the importance of exercise and the link which exists between regular physical activity and such qualities as good health and effective performance.
(c) Strengthen coordination of federal services and programs relating to physical fitness and sports participation and invite appropriate federal agencies to participate in an interagency committee to coordinate physical fitness and sports activities of the federal establishment.
(d) Encourage state agencies and local governments to emphasize the importance of regular physical and sports participation.
(e) Seek to advance the physical fitness of children, youth, adults and senior citizens by systematically encouraging the development of community recreation, physical fitness and sports participation programs.
(f) Develop cooperative programs with medical, dental and other similar professional societies to encourage the implementation of sound physical fitness practices and sports medicine services.
(g) Stimulate and encourage research in the areas of sports medicine, physical fitness and sports performance.
(h) Assist educational agencies at all levels in developing high quality, innovative health and physical education programs which emphasize the importance of exercise for good health.
(i) Assist recreation agencies and state sports governing bodies at all levels in developing “sports for all” programs which emphasize the value of sports to physical, mental and emotional fitness.
(j) Assist business, industry, government and labor organizations in establishing sound physical fitness programs to elevate employee fitness and to reduce the financial and human costs resulting from physical inactivity.
(a) Enlist the active support and assistance of individual citizens, civic groups, private enterprise, voluntary organizations and others in an effort to promote and improve the fitness of all Mississippians through regular participation in physical fitness and sports activities.
(b) Initiate programs to inform the general public of the importance of exercise and the link which exists between regular physical activity and such qualities as good health and effective performance.
(c) Strengthen coordination of federal services and programs relating to physical fitness and sports participation and invite appropriate federal agencies to participate in an interagency committee to coordinate physical fitness and sports activities of the federal establishment.
(d) Encourage state agencies and local governments to emphasize the importance of regular physical and sports participation.
(e) Seek to advance the physical fitness of children, youth, adults and senior citizens by systematically encouraging the development of community recreation, physical fitness and sports participation programs.
(f) Develop cooperative programs with medical, dental and other similar professional societies to encourage the implementation of sound physical fitness practices and sports medicine services.
(g) Stimulate and encourage research in the areas of sports medicine, physical fitness and sports performance.
(h) Assist educational agencies at all levels in developing high quality, innovative health and physical education programs which emphasize the importance of exercise for good health.
(i) Assist recreation agencies and state sports governing bodies at all levels in developing “sports for all” programs which emphasize the value of sports to physical, mental and emotional fitness.
(j) Assist business, industry, government and labor organizations in establishing sound physical fitness programs to elevate employee fitness and to reduce the financial and human costs resulting from physical inactivity.
Status: in_force
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