Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-139 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-139
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-139
Status: in_force

If any member of said fire and/or police department who has been in paid fire and/or police department service for as long as twenty (20) years before making application hereinafter mentioned, the last ten (10) years of which shall have been continuous in the city in which the application is made, shall make written application for retirement and relief, the board of disability and relief shall, without medical examination of disability, retire him from active service in said fire and/or police department. Upon such retirement from active service, said board of disability and relief shall order the payment to such retired member monthly from said fund a sum equal to fifty percent (50%) of the average monthly base salary and longevity pay received as salary by such member in the six-month period next before the filing of such application in said fire and/or police department. Such payments shall thereafter be made to said retired member for life, such payment to be known as “retired relief.”

Any member of the fire and/or police department who has been in paid fire and/or police department service for longer than twenty (20) years in a municipality shall be entitled and shall receive additional retired relief payment for life in a sum equal to one and seven-tenths percent (1- 7 / 10 %) of the same average monthly base salary and longevity pay received by such member in the six-month period next preceding the filing of said application, for each full year of service in excess of twenty (20) years' service. However, no retired relief payment to any member shall exceed sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66- 2 / 3 %) of the average monthly base salary and longevity pay received by a member for the six-month period next preceding the filing of said application.

The said board shall, when a member of the fire and/or police department reaches the age of sixty-five (65), retire him from active service in said fire and/or police department and order the payment of such funds as the member is entitled to hereunder.

Periods of time in which a member may have been inactive on account of physical or mental disability shall not be excluded in computing the twenty-year period and the ten-year period hereinbefore mentioned. Periods of time within which a member may have been absent from his employment while in active service of the Army or Navy of the United States, United States Marine Corps or the United States Coast Guard between September 16, 1940, and July 25, 1947, or while as a civil employee engaged by the Army and Navy while serving outside the continental United States shall not be excluded in computing the twenty-year period and the ten-year period hereinbefore mentioned, provided that the discharge or release of such member from the armed forces was under conditions other than dishonorable. Any member who has been retired or is voluntarily retired hereunder, or who has received relief or disability benefits hereunder, shall be required to perform such duties as then may be required of him.

Provided, however, in any city having a population of nineteen thousand (19,000) but less than twenty thousand (20,000), according to the 1970 census, the periods of time not exceeding four (4) years within which a member of the fire or police departments may have been absent from his employment while in active service in the Armed Forces of the United States, shall not be excluded in computing the twenty-year period and the ten-year period mentioned in this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-321 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 33-321
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-321
Status: in_force

Whenever there shall be on hand in any bond and interest fund an amount in excess of the amount which will be required for expenditure therefrom within the then next succeeding twelve months, the governing authorities of the municipality may use such excess amount to purchase the outstanding bonds of such municipality which are payable from such fund whenever, in the judgment of the governing authorities, the best interest of the municipality would be served thereby. When such bonds are purchased, they shall be cancelled and retired and shall not thereafter be resold or reissued.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-47-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 45 / Section 47-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-47-1
Status: in_force

The Delta Natural Gas District of Humphreys and Sunflower Counties having acquired certain funds from the operation of its systems is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to use surplus funds for further development of the district and to distribute a portion thereof to the City of Inverness, Town of Isola and the City of Belzoni, which municipalities compose the district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-29 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 27-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-29
Status: in_force

Rates charged for services furnished by any system or combined system purchased, constructed, improved, enlarged, extended or repaired under the provisions of Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any state bureau, board, commission, or other like instrumentality or agency thereof. It shall not be necessary for any municipality operating under the provisions of said sections to obtain any franchise or other permit from any state bureau, board, commission or other instrumentality thereof, in order to construct, improve, enlarge, extend or repair any system or combined system. However, billing and service disputes between the system and its customers shall be subject to review and arbitration by the Public Service Commission as provided under Section 77-3-6 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-75 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 31-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-75
Status: in_force

No person holding any office, place, position or employment subject to civil service, is under any obligation to contribute to any political fund or to render any political service to any person or party whatsoever, and no person shall be removed, reduced in grade or salary, or otherwise prejudiced for refusing so to do. No public officer, whether elected or appointed, shall discharge, promote, demote or in any manner change the official rank, employment or compensation of any person under civil service, or promise or threaten so to do, for giving or withholding, or neglecting to make any contribution of money, or service, or any other valuable thing, for any political purpose. No such employee shall engage in any political campaign as a representative of any candidate or shall engage in pernicious activities, and any person so engaging in such activities shall be subject to dismissal or demotion.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 31-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-69
Status: in_force

The tenure of everyone holding an office, place, position or employment under the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall be only during good behavior. Any such person may be removed or discharged, suspended without pay, demoted or reduced in rank, or deprived of vacation privileges or other special privileges, or any combination thereof, for any of the following reasons:

Incompetency, inefficiency or inattention of duty; dishonesty, intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public or a fellow employee; or any other act of omission or commission tending to injure the public service.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 21-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-13
Status: in_force

The City of Jackson, at all times, shall adequately staff its police department with the necessary number of law enforcement officers. The Jackson Police Department shall continue to enforce all ordinances of the City of Jackson.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-305 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 33-305
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-305
Status: in_force

Whenever bonds shall be issued for the construction or purchase of waterworks, gas, light and power plants, or distribution systems, the governing authorities of the municipality so issuing them may provide by ordinance, contract or otherwise, that such bonds shall be secured by a pledge of the revenue of the utility to be constructed or purchased with the proceeds thereof, which pledge of revenue shall be in addition to the pledge of the full faith and credit of such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-35-31.nr2 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 35 / Section 35-31.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-35-31.nr2
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authority of every municipality in the state shall have the municipal books audited annually, before the close of the next succeeding fiscal year, in accordance with procedures and reporting requirements prescribed by the State Auditor. The municipality shall pay for the audit or report out of its general fund. No advertisement shall be necessary before entering into the contract, and it shall be entered into as a private contract. The audit or report shall be made upon a uniform formula set up and promulgated by the State Auditor, as the head of the State Department of Audit, or the director thereof, appointed by him, as designated and defined in Title 7, Chapter 7, Mississippi Code of 1972, or any office or officers hereafter designated to replace or perform the duties imposed by said chapter. Two (2) copies of the audit or report shall be mailed to the said State Auditor within thirty (30) days after completion. The State Auditor, at the end of each fiscal year, shall submit to the Legislature a composite report showing any information concerning municipalities in this state that the Auditor deems pertinent and necessary to the Legislature for use in its deliberations. A synopsis of the audit or report, in a format prescribed by the State Auditor, shall be published within thirty (30) days by the governing authority of each municipality in a newspaper published in the municipality or, if no newspaper is published in a municipality, in any newspaper having a general circulation published in the county wherein the municipality is located. The publication of the audit or report may be made as provided in Section 21-17-19 . Publication shall be made one (1) time, and the governing authority of each municipality shall be authorized to pay only one-half ( 1 / 2 ) of the legal rate prescribed by law for such legal publication.

(2) It shall be the duty of the State Auditor to determine whether each municipality has complied with the requirements of subsection (1) of this section. If upon examination the State Auditor determines that a municipality has not initiated efforts to comply with the requirements of subsection (1), the State Auditor shall file a certified written notice with the clerk of the municipality notifying the governing authority of the municipality that a certificate of noncompliance will be issued to the State Tax Commission and to the Attorney General thirty (30) days immediately following the date of the filing of the notice unless within that period the municipality substantially complies with the requirements of subsection (1). If, after thirty (30) days from the giving of the notice, the municipality, in the opinion of the State Auditor, has not substantially initiated efforts to comply with the requirements of subsection (1), the State Auditor shall issue a certificate of noncompliance to the clerk of the municipality, State Tax Commission and the Attorney General. Thereafter, the State Tax Commission shall withhold from all allocations and payments to the municipality that would otherwise be payable the amount necessary to pay one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the cost of preparing the required audit or report as contracted for by the State Auditor. The cost shall be determined by the State Auditor after receiving proposals for the audit or report required in subsection (1) of this section. The State Auditor shall notify the State Tax Commission of the amount in writing, and the State Tax Commission shall transfer that amount to the State Auditor. The State Auditor is authorized to escalate, budget and expend these funds in accordance with rules and regulations of the Department of Finance and Administration consistent with the escalation of federal funds. All remaining funds shall be retained by the State Auditor to offset the costs of administering these contracts. The State Auditor shall not unreasonably delay the issuance of a written notice of cancellation of a certificate of noncompliance but shall promptly issue a written notice of cancellation of certificate of noncompliance upon an affirmative showing by the municipality that it has come into substantial compliance.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-319 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 33-319
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-319
Status: in_force

Whenever a balance shall remain of the proceeds of any bond issue after the purpose for which such bonds were issued shall have been accomplished, such balance shall forthwith be transferred to the bond and interest fund applicable to such bond issue.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-19
Status: in_force

It is not intended by this chapter to amend or repeal any existing laws by the provisions hereof, but this chapter shall be cumulative and in addition to any laws in force.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 23-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-19
Status: in_force

In enforcing the penalty prescribed for violation of all laws and ordinances in regard to parking of vehicles, it shall not be necessary to name any person in a traffic ticket issued for such violation. A traffic ticket attached to the unlawfully parked vehicle shall be sufficient to require the appearance of the operator unlawfully parking such vehicle in the municipal court at the time stated in such traffic ticket. In cases where the name of the operator of an unlawfully parked vehicle is unknown, the owner of record of the unlawfully parked vehicle shall, as a matter of law, be presumed to be the operator of such vehicle and may be charged with such violation. No arrest shall be made for failure of the operator or owner to appear in response to said traffic ticket, except on affidavit and issuance of an arrest warrant. Except in cases where an arrest warrant is issued, it shall not be necessary to enter such cases on the municipal court docket nor to enter final judgment thereon in the minute book of said court. Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-19-56, Mississippi Code of 1972 , in enforcing the penalty prescribed for violation of all laws and ordinances in regard to parking of vehicles, no person's driver's license shall be suspended or revoked.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-9
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi is hereby constituted a board, which shall be known as the Board of the General Retirement System of __________.

The governing body of a municipality may appoint a board of not more than five (5) members who shall be representative of the membership of the retirement system. Such board shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-3
Status: in_force

The state tax commission shall annually prepare forms for the personal property assessment rolls, and each two years, or annually as required, prepare forms for the real property assessment rolls. The forms so prescribed shall be printed, ruled, and headed as to be suitable for their respective purposes and to enable the municipal officers to comply with the tax laws of this state applicable to municipalities. A sample of the forms for the real and personal assessment rolls shall be sent by mail to the mayor and to the clerk of every municipality not later than the first day of October of each year.

The forms shall be so made that the respective municipalities may require such additional information, make such additions and add such further details as permitted by Sections 21-33-1 through 21-33-85 , but the general and basic arrangement of such forms shall not be changed.

The municipal authorities shall furnish their respective officers with a sufficient quantity of each of said forms, and may purchase the same or have them printed, as provided by law.

It is the purpose of this section that municipal forms relating to assessment and taxes be generally uniform throughout the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-135 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 27-135
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-135
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any driver who secures such permit and badge to transfer such badge to any other driver, or for any person to use the badge of another person while driving or operating a motor vehicle for hire.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-321 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 33-321
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-321
Status: in_force

Whenever there shall be on hand in any bond and interest fund an amount in excess of the amount which will be required for expenditure therefrom within the then next succeeding twelve months, the governing authorities of the municipality may use such excess amount to purchase the outstanding bonds of such municipality which are payable from such fund whenever, in the judgment of the governing authorities, the best interest of the municipality would be served thereby. When such bonds are purchased, they shall be cancelled and retired and shall not thereafter be resold or reissued.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-201 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-201
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-201
Status: in_force

In each city in the State of Mississippi having a population of not less than three thousand (3,000) according to the last federal census or according to any subsequent federal census, and having a regularly organized, paid fire department with equipment of the value of not less than Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) and/or regularly organized paid police department, and having not less than two (2) paid firemen and/or not less than two (2) paid policemen, whose sole employment is by such city in its fire department and for police department, there may be provided in connection with the regularly organized and maintained paid fire department and/or police department of such city a special fund known as the “disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen,” hereinafter called “said fund,” which shall exist and be maintained for the benefit of the persons hereinafter named and shall be derived, raised and administered in the manner hereinafter provided.

Said fund and system of relief, when inaugurated, shall and does create a disability and relief system to apply to the members of the regularly organized, maintained and paid fire department and/or police department of such municipality. Notwithstanding any other section of this article no such fund known as the “disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen” shall be created by any city after March 1, 1976, unless by an amendment to this article by the legislature of the State of Mississippi.

Any reference in other sections of this article to members of the fire and police department shall be defined to include only the members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen of the city.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-3-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-3-19
Status: in_force

(1) The mayor and board of aldermen shall hold regular meetings the first Tuesday of each month at such place and hour as may be fixed by ordinance, and may, on a date fixed by ordinance, hold a second regular meeting in each month at the same place established for the first regular meeting provided the second meeting shall be held at a day and hour fixed by the ordinance which shall be not less than two (2) weeks from the first day of the first regular meeting and not more than three (3) weeks from the date thereof. When a regular meeting of the mayor and board of aldermen shall fall upon a holiday, the mayor and board shall meet the following day. The mayor and board may recess either meeting from time to time to convene on a day fixed by an order of the mayor and board entered on its minutes, and may transact any business coming before it for consideration. In all cases it shall require a majority of all aldermen to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The quorum required by this section may be established by teleconference or video means as provided in Section 25-41-5(2) .

(2) The mayor and board of aldermen may, pursuant to Section 21-17-17 , set a day other than Tuesday for the holding of their regular monthly meeting.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-201 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 27-201
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-201
Status: in_force

Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 shall be known as the “Municipal and Domestic Water and Wastewater System and Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Facilities Operator's Certification Act of 1992.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-125 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 29-125
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-125
Status: in_force

The authority is vested in the board of trustees to invest such part of said fund as may not be immediately required, in investments authorized under Section 25-11-121 with the right to change said investment from time to time, and with the right and duty to convert invested funds into current funds as the same may be needed for the purpose of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 41 / Section 41-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-41
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of every municipality in the state, which have heretofore or may hereafter declare their intention of authorizing any of the special improvements enumerated in Section 21-41-3 , the cost of which is to be paid in whole or in part by the owners of property abutting to the proposed improvement, are authorized, in their discretion, to borrow money for said proposed improvement, including that portion of the cost thereof which is to be paid by the municipality and is not assessed against the property benefited, and to issue negotiable notes, certificates of indebtedness or special street improvement bonds therefor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-57 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-57
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the civil service commission to make suitable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 and not inconsistent with personnel rules and regulations duly adopted by the governing authorities of the municipality. Such rules and regulations shall provide in detail the manner of conducting examinations, appointments, promotions, transfers, reinstatements, demotions, suspensions and discharges, and may also provide for any other matter connected with the general subject of personnel administration, and which may be considered desirable to further carry out the general purposes of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 . It shall have the power to conduct investigations, and make reports on all matters touching the enforcement and effect of the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 , and the rules and regulations prescribed hereunder. The commission shall have the power to investigate all complaints which must be reduced to writing, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and conduct hearings.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 29-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-55
Status: in_force

If, at any time, any municipality now covered by this article shall change its form of government, such change shall not affect the authorized retirement system, and this article shall be applicable to such municipality notwithstanding any future change in the form of government.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 31-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-19
Status: in_force

The civil service commission shall keep a list of all members of the said police and/or fire department, and formulate methods of determining the relative qualifications of persons seeking employment in either department, and give preference to those having the best qualifications. The commission shall provide that men laid off because of curtailment of expenditures, reduction in force, and like causes, shall be the last man or men, including probationers, that have been appointed to either the fire and/or police departments, until such reductions necessary shall have been accomplished. However, in the event said department shall again be increased in number, those suspended shall be reinstated before any new appointments shall be made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-77 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-77
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-77
Status: repealed

All laws governing cities heretofore operating under another form of government, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter respecting the council-manager plan of government, shall apply to and govern such cities respectively when they shall come under the said council-manager plan. All by-laws, ordinances and resolutions lawfully passed and in force in every such city under its former organization shall remain in force until altered or repealed by the council elected under the provisions of this chapter.

The territorial limits of every such city shall remain the same as under its former organization. All rights and property of every description, which were vested in every such city under its former organization, shall vest in the same under the organization contemplated by the council-manager plan of government. No right or liability, either in favor of or against such city, and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be affected by such change, unless otherwise provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-171 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 27-171
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-171
Status: in_force

A municipality may enter into contract with any person or public agency situated wholly or partly within its metropolitan area, whether or not lying wholly or partially within its boundaries, for any of the purposes authorized by Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 . Public agencies and other persons are hereby authorized to make contracts with a municipality under which the municipality will make a sewage disposal system available to a public agency or group of public agencies or to other persons and furnish waste collection, transportation, treatment and sewage disposal services by the municipality's sewage disposal system. The contract may be upon such terms and for such period of time as the parties may agree and may provide that it will remain in effect until any bonds issued or to be issued by the municipality, and any bonds which may be issued to refund the same are paid; the contract may contain provisions to assure equitable treatment of persons or public agencies who contract with the municipality for waste collection, transportation, treatment and sewage disposal services from the same sewage disposal system; may contain provisions requiring any public agency or other person to regulate the quality and strength of waste to be handled by the sewage disposal system; shall provide the method of determining the amounts to be paid by a public agency or other person to the municipality; may provide for the sale or lease to or use of by the municipality of any sewage disposal system or any part thereof at the time owned or to be acquired by a public agency or other person; may provide that the municipality shall operate any sewage disposal system or part thereof at the time owned or to be acquired by a public agency or other person; may provide that a public agency shall have the right to continued performance of such services after the amortization of the municipality's investment in the sewage disposal system during the useful life thereof upon payments of reasonable charges therefor, reduced to take into consideration such amortization; and may contain such other provisions and requirements as the municipality and a public agency or other person may determine to be appropriate or necessary. A municipality may also provide in its contract that the municipality shall have the right to use any streets, alleys and public ways and places within the jurisdiction of a public agency or other person during the term of the contract.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 31-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-69
Status: in_force

The tenure of everyone holding an office, place, position or employment under the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall be only during good behavior. Any such person may be removed or discharged, suspended without pay, demoted or reduced in rank, or deprived of vacation privileges or other special privileges, or any combination thereof, for any of the following reasons:

Incompetency, inefficiency or inattention of duty; dishonesty, intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public or a fellow employee; or any other act of omission or commission tending to injure the public service.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-101 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-101
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this section, in every city of the State of Mississippi having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or more, according to the last federal census, or any subsequent federal census, and in which there is a paid police department and/or fire department, it shall be the duty of the governing authorities of said municipality to create and maintain a fund known as the “disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen,” hereafter to be known as “said fund,” which shall be maintained for the benefit of the persons hereinafter named, and shall be derived, raised and administered in the manner provided in this article, except no such fund known as the “disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen” shall be created by any municipality after March 1, 1976, unless approved by an amendment to this article by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi. Further, no new members may be joined by the fund after July 1, 1987, and all new employees of the police department and/or fire department of any municipality having such funds shall become members of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi after July 1, 1987.

Any reference in other sections of this article to members of the fire or police department shall be defined to include only the members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen of the municipality. The fund for each municipality shall be separately administered.

This section and Sections 21-29-103 through 21-29-151 shall not apply to any municipality wherein the qualified electors of such municipality shall have elected on or before August 6, 1940, pursuant to the then applicable law, not to have such municipality come within the provisions of Sections 21-29-101 to 21-29-151 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-117 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 29-117
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-117
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided for in subsection (2) of this section, the governing authority of said municipality, at the time the levy is made for other municipal taxes, shall annually levy a tax on the taxable property within the said municipality, and the proceeds therefrom shall be forwarded on or before the twentieth of the following month to the Public Employees' Retirement System. The levy made, and the deductions from the salaries of members, shall be in an amount sufficient, but not more than the amount necessary, to make the system actuarially sound by July 1, 2000, as certified to the municipality by the board. Such tax shall be in addition to any limits set forth in Sections 27-39-301 through 27-39-311 , and shall not be included in the ten percent (10%) limitation on increases under Section 27-39-321 , nor shall any tax increase exceed one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mill per year; however, if any levy to pay debt service on bonds issued under Section 31-25-21 as described in subsection (2) of this section is reduced for any year as a result of payment of the bonds or otherwise, the levy under this subsection (1) for such year may be increased by an amount, in addition to the one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mill otherwise authorized, not to exceed the reduction for such year in the millage levied to pay debt service on the bonds.

(2) In addition to, or in lieu of, the method of funding provided for in subsection (1) of this section, the municipality may fund or assist in funding the retirement system through the use of revenue bonds issued pursuant to Section 31-25-21 . Any tax levied to service the debt on such bonds shall not be included in the ten percent (10%) limitation on increases under Section 27-39-321 .

(3) In addition, all gifts and donations made by any persons or corporations or by other appropriate levy, and all funds which the municipality may receive from insurance companies as provided for in this article shall be placed in said fund.

(4) In addition, such municipality shall each month deduct from the salary of each member of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen not less than seven percent (7%) nor more than ten percent (10%) of the amount thereof and put the amount deducted into said fund. Any increase to an amount in excess of seven percent (7%) shall be in increments of not more than one percent (1%) per annum. No increase from the deduction of seven percent (7%) shall be made unless the board determines that the avails of the tax levy of three (3) mills, when combined with the avails of the deduction of seven percent (7%), is insufficient to keep the system actuarially sound.

(5) The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System, when any municipality has enacted an enabling ordinance as provided in Sections 21-29-5 and 21-29-101 , upon a finding that either the municipal employees' retirement system or the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen is not funded in an actuarially sound manner which is spread upon the minutes of the board, may by order provide that the revenue or a portion thereof produced by the levy authorized for one system be diverted to fund the less actuarially sound system within the same municipality. No transfer may be made of funds from one municipality to another.

(6) The municipality and the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System may enter into such contracts and agreements as are deemed necessary to implement the provisions of this section, including, but not limited to, contracts and agreements addressing the use, application and investment of proceeds of bonds issued under Section 31-25-21 and earnings thereon and the relative rights and obligations of the municipality and the Public Employees' Retirement System during the period that the bonds are outstanding and thereafter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-51 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-51
Status: in_force

Any municipality which shall have issued bonds pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 , all or any portion of which shall at any time hereafter remain outstanding and unpaid, is hereby authorized, in connection with the issuance of additional bonds hereunder, to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of taking up, paying and redeeming all such outstanding and unpaid bonds. Such refunding bonds and such additional bonds may be authorized and issued separately or may be consolidated into one issue. Such outstanding and unpaid bonds may be refunded without notice and without an election thereon, and such additional bonds may be refunded without notice and without an election except as provided in Section 21-27-43 . The proceeds of any such consolidated bonds shall be used to take up, pay and redeem all of such outstanding and unpaid bonds, at their redemption price, and the balance of such proceeds shall be used and expended for the purposes for which the additional bonds were authorized to be issued. In the event any such outstanding bonds, by the terms thereof, shall be redeemable prior to maturity at the option of such municipality, then such option of redemption shall be exercised in the manner provided in such bonds, and the refunding bonds shall not be issued or delivered more than two calendar months in advance of the date upon which such outstanding bonds shall have been called for redemption. In the event that such outstanding bonds, by the terms thereof, be not so redeemable prior to maturity, then the refunding bonds shall not be issued, except concurrently with the surrender and cancellation of a like amount of the bonds to be refunded thereby. All bonds issued under the provisions of this section shall have like incidents and shall be payable from the same source or sources and the payment thereof shall be secured in like manner as are bonds issued pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 . In lieu of selling such portion of such consolidated bonds, as may be required to provide for the redemption of such outstanding bonds, such consolidated bonds may be issued and delivered in exchange for and upon surrender and cancellation of a like amount of the bonds to be refunded thereby.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-44 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-44
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-44
Status: in_force

The municipal governing authorities of any municipality shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to execute contracts and agreements with, and to appropriate, contribute and donate to, or expend budgeted funds for, local economic development organizations and designated Main Street programs.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-11
Status: in_force

The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this article are hereby vested in the board, the members of which shall serve without compensation except as otherwise provided by law. The board shall organize and adopt such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary and promptly do such things as may properly be done.

The board shall have, in addition to all others, the following rights, powers and duties:

(a) It shall keep minutes of its proceedings which shall be open to public inspection;

(b) Fix a time for regular meetings and provide for the means of calling special meetings;

(c) A majority of all of the board members present shall constitute a quorum for transaction of the affairs of the board;

(d) To hear, consider and pass upon all applications coming before it and order payments as provided by this article, and the board may hear witnesses and administer oaths, appoint hearing officers and make decisions in all matters properly before said board;

(e) It shall have full power to invest and reinvest the funds of the retirement system under the provisions of Section 25-11-121 . Moreover, said board shall have full power to order the custodian of securities and funds hereafter designated to hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer and dispose of any of the securities and investments in which any of the funds created herein shall have been invested, as well as the proceeds of said investments and all moneys belonging to said funds. The funds held by the board may be commingled with other Public Employees' Retirement System investments for the most advantageous investments;

(f) It shall annually determine and allow interest on each individual account in the employees' saving fund based on the average percentage of interest earned from investment or deposit of all funds of the retirement system. However, the interest to be credited to such individual accounts shall not exceed one percent (1%) per annum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-235 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-235
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-235
Status: in_force

Any fire insurance company, subject to the tax mentioned in Section 21-29-229 , which shall fail to make a report or statement required therein after thirty days demand therefor by the commissioner of insurance, shall forfeit to said fund the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the commissioner for the use of such municipality, and the commissioner shall have the right to revoke the license of such company.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 38 / Section 39-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-21
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality, upon the receipt or recovery of any lost, stolen, abandoned or misplaced personal property by the marshal, police or other officers of such municipality, shall cause to be posted, in three (3) public places in the municipality, notice that such property has been received or recovered. Such notice shall contain an accurate and detailed description of such property and, if the governing authorities are advised as to who owns such property, a copy of such notice shall be mailed to such person or persons in addition to being posted as herein required. The owner of such property may recover the same by filing a claim with the governing authorities of the municipality and establishing his right thereto. The governing authorities may require bond of the person claiming the property before delivering same to him. Parties having adverse claims to said property may proceed according to law as now provided by statutes.

If no person claims the property within one hundred twenty (120) days from the date the notice provided for above is given, the governing authorities of the municipality shall cause the same to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash after first posting notice of such sale in three (3) public places in the municipality at least ten (10) days preceding the date of such sale. The notice shall contain a detailed and accurate description of the property to be sold and shall be addressed to the unknown owners or other persons interested in the property to be sold. The notice shall also set forth the date, time and place such sale is to be conducted and shall designate the person who is to make the sale, which person shall be some official designated by the governing authorities of the municipality.

However, lost, stolen, abandoned or misplaced motor vehicles and bicycles may be sold in the manner provided in the preceding paragraph after the expiration of ninety (90) days from their receipt or recovery by the officers of a municipality.

The person or officer designated and making the sale of such property shall promptly upon completion of the sale deliver to the clerk of the municipality a copy of the notice authorizing the sale, a list of the property sold, the amount paid for each item, the person to whom each item was sold, and all monies received from such sale, whereupon, the clerk shall deposit the monies in the general fund of the municipality and shall file the information concerning the sale among the other records of his office.

If, within ninety (90) days after date of the sale provided for above, any person claims to be the owner of the property sold, the governing authorities shall, upon satisfactory proof of ownership, pay to such person the amount for which such property was sold, and the governing authorities of the municipality may require of such person a bond in such cases as they may deem advisable. No action shall be maintained against a municipality or any of its officers or employees or the purchaser at the sale for any property sold hereunder or the proceeds therefrom after the expiration of ninety (90) days from the date of the sale as herein authorized.

A municipality may deduct wrecker and storage fees, not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), from the amount returned to the owner after the sale of property by the municipality. However, a municipality may not deduct wrecker and storage fees from the amount returned to the owner if the owner can prove the property was stolen and notifies the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 17-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-13
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 21-17-9 and 21-17-11 , shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under a code charter, special charter, or the commission form of government, except in cases of conflict between the provisions of such sections and the provisions of the special charter of a municipality, or the law governing the commission form of government, in which cases of conflict the provisions of the special charter or the statutes relative to the commission form of government shall control.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 9-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-21
Status: in_force

In a city in which the council-manager plan of government is in effect under the provisions of this chapter, no city official or employee shall be elected by the voters except members of the council and the mayor. All other officials and employees shall be appointed as hereinafter provided.

The city council shall require all officers and employees handling or having the custody of any of the public funds of such municipality to give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in an amount to be determined by the council (which shall not be less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00)), the premium on which bonds shall be paid by the city.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-261 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-261
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-261
Status: in_force

This article shall apply to municipalities whether under private charter or existing and operating under the general statutes of the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-207 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 33-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-207
Status: in_force

(a) The mayor and board of aldermen or other governing authority of any municipality desiring to avail itself of the provisions of the City Utility Tax Law shall adopt an ordinance declaring its intention to have the utility tax imposed at the specified rate for the benefit of such municipality effective on and after a date fixed in the ordinance which must be at least thirty (30) days later and on the first day of a month. A certified copy of this ordinance shall be immediately forwarded to the Chairman of the State Tax Commission. The municipal authorities shall have a copy of the ordinance published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in at least one (1) newspaper published in the municipality and having a general circulation therein. The first publication shall be not less than twenty-eight (28) days prior to the levying date fixed in such ordinance, and the last publication shall be made not less than seven (7) days prior to such date. If no newspaper is published in the municipality, then notice shall be given by publishing the ordinance for the required time in some newspaper published in the same or an adjoining county having a general circulation in the municipality. A copy of the ordinance shall also be posted at three (3) public places in the municipality for a period of at least twenty-one (21) days during the time of its publication in a newspaper. The publication of the ordinance may be made as provided in Section 21-17-19 . Proof of publication must also be furnished to the Chairman of the State Tax Commission.

(b) If more than twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of the municipality having no city utility tax shall file with the clerk of the municipality within twenty-one (21) days after adoption of the ordinance of intent to qualify for the collection of the tax, a petition requesting an election on the question of the levy of such tax, then and in that event such tax levy shall not be made unless authorized by a majority of the votes cast at an election to be called and held for that purpose. Notice of such election shall be given, the election shall be held and the result thereof determined in the manner provided in Title 21, Chapter 11, of the Mississippi Code of 1972 . In the event of an election resulting in favor of the levy or where no election is required, the governing authorities shall adopt another ordinance qualifying for the collection of the tax provided in the City Utility Tax Law, and shall set the first of a month following the date of such adoption as the effective date of the tax levy. A certified copy of this ordinance together with the result of the election, if any, shall be immediately furnished the Chairman of the State Tax Commission. Upon receipt of the certified ordinance and other official notice from the municipality, the chairman shall notify the utilities in such municipality which are affected by the City Utility Tax Law, and take the necessary action to collect the tax. The first payment of the tax after its adoption shall be on all receipts of the utility derived from all billings made fifteen (15) days after the effective date of said adoption.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-47-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 45 / Section 47-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-47-5
Status: in_force

The district shall be authorized to convey the assets of the district to any suitable public utility qualified to operate same, authorized for such service by the State of Mississippi, and regulated by the regulatory agencies of the State of Mississippi. The sale price shall be such as shall be agreed upon between the district and the purchasing utility. The purchase price shall be used as follows:

(a) First, the retirement of all bonds of the district.

(b) The payment of all debts or obligations of the district.

(c) The balance shall be deposited in banks or other financial institutions authorized to receive deposits of such funds by the laws of the State of Mississippi. Such deposits shall be made in accordance with, and shall be secured as required by, the laws of the State of Mississippi. Preference may be given to such institutions as may be located within the counties of Humphreys or Sunflower. Such deposit or deposits, and interest thereon, may be used as set out in Section 21-47-3 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-61 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 31-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-61
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall include all administrative and other employees on a monthly salary basis. All appointments to and promotions in said departments shall be made solely on merit, efficiency and fitness which may be ascertained by open competitive examination and impartial investigation. No person shall be reinstated in, or transferred, suspended or discharged from, any place, position or employment contrary to the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 .

All incumbents and future appointees shall be subject to civil service, except, however, those appointees now and hereafter serving as extra members, which employees shall be subject to removal for replacement by any person now or hereafter serving in the armed services; or, if temporarily employed, the commission shall have authority to so determine and replace with a new employee who shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 .

The provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall not include any new employee who has not successfully completed all requirements necessary to earn regular or permanent status as a municipal employee.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-27
Status: in_force

The municipal authorities of any city or town, in this state, in addition to the authority now conferred upon them by Section 21-15-25 , may in their discretion employ a firm of attorneys to represent them as their regular attorneys on the same terms, conditions and compensation as now provided for employment of an attorney as their regular attorney. However, there shall not be an attorney and a firm of attorneys employed at the same time as the regular attorney for such municipal authorities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-311 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-311
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-311
Status: in_force

Any municipality providing benefits under Articles 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter may provide the following additional optional benefits:

(a) Refunds of member contributions to the estate of the deceased at the time of death when the deceased does not have eligible beneficiaries.

(b) Benefits to dependent children through the age of twenty-three (23) when the dependent child or children are full-time college students.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-73 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 33-73
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-73
Status: in_force

Any municipality in the state having a tax lien for special improvements or any other tax lien upon property located therein is hereby authorized, when the said property is offered for sale by the state and county for state and county taxes due thereon, to purchase at such tax sale the property upon which it holds said special improvement lien, and shall be authorized to pay the amount of its bid therefor.

Whenever property upon which any municipality in this state holds a lien has already been sold for state and county taxes, the municipality may redeem the tax sale the same as other lien holders in the state, and authority for municipalities to so thus redeem is hereby granted.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-65 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-65
Status: in_force

If, from any cause, a sale of any land for municipal taxes, both ad valorem and for special improvements, or any installment thereof, that may be delinquent, which is liable to such sale shall not be made at the time appointed by law for such sale, it may be sold thereafter, in the same or a subsequent year, at any time designated therefor by order of the governing authorities of the municipality in which such land may be situated. Notice of a sale so ordered shall be given by advertising it in the manner prescribed by law for the sale of land for state and county taxes, and the sale shall be made at the same place and be subject to all the provisions of law applicable to such sales made at the time appointed by law. Lists of lands sold to the municipality and to individuals shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the municipality within the same relative period of time after the sale as is allowed by law for filing such lists after tax sales made at the regular time, and the clerk shall at once record them. Such lists shall be as valid and have the same effect and be subject to all the provisions of the law applicable to such lists made of lands sold at the regular sale for taxes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 9-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-5
Status: in_force

As soon as the returns of any election held hereunder for the adoption of the council-manager plan have been certified, and if a majority of the votes cast at such election were in favor of the council-manager form of government, the mayor of such city shall immediately certify to the secretary of state that such city, by special election, has adopted the council-manager form of government provided for herein, which certificate shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the secretary of state. Such form of government shall then become effective on the third Tuesday after said adoption.

In case it shall appear by said election returns that a majority of the votes cast at such election were in favor of the existing form of government, then the mayor and councilmen or aldermen shall dismiss the petition, in which case no similar petition or ordinance shall be filed for a period of two years from the date of such order dismissing the petition, but nothing short of such election shall preclude the filing of such petition and the holding of another election at any time.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-29 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 25-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-29
Status: in_force

The said governing authorities shall have power to declare an extension of such service to any adjacent territory, within or adjoining such municipality, upon petition of a majority of the property owners in such proposed added territory. In like manner, upon petition of a majority of the property owners residing therein, such fire districts may be abandoned and discontinued by the governing authorities of the municipalities involved.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-11
Status: in_force

The duly constituted authorities of each and every city coming within the purview of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , shall provide the commission with suitable and convenient rooms and accommodations and cause the same to be furnished, heated and lighted and supplied with all office supplies and equipment necessary to carry on the business of the commission and with such clerical assistance as may be necessary, all of which is to be commensurate with the number of persons in each such city coming within the purview of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 . The failure upon the part of the duly constituted authorities to do so shall be considered a violation of this section and shall be punishable as such.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-115 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 41 / Section 43-115
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-115
Status: in_force

All property owners of record in the proposed district as of the date of initial notice given as provided in Section 21-43-111 , shall be eligible to participate in the process to approve or reject the district plan and the proposed assessment for properties in the district. Votes of property owners within the proposed district shall be weighted in proportion to the amount of the assessment against properties in the district; provided, however, that in no case shall the total number of votes assigned to any one such property owner, through common ownership of property, be equal to more than one-third ( 1 / 3 ) of the total number of votes which may be cast.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 25-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-5
Status: in_force

The fire departments, including the apparatus and all vehicles of such departments, are hereby authorized to use the roads, highways, streets and alleys outside the corporate limits of such municipalities owning and operating such fire fighting and fire prevention equipment, for the purpose of aiding in the extinguishing and prevention of fires or in the alleviating of damages or injuries caused by tornadoes or other casualties in locations outside the corporate limits of such municipalities. For the purpose of expediting the extinguishment or prevention of fires and of aiding in the rescue of persons or preventing other damage to either persons or property in such locations outside the corporate limits of such municipalities or in cities, towns, or villages located and situated beyond the corporate limits of such municipalities owning such equipment, such fire departments are hereby extended the right of way, or priority in use, over the public roads, highways, streets and alleys of the state and counties whether such roads, highways, streets or alleys are maintained by the state, counties, cities, towns, or villages.

To further effectuate and put into force and effect the purposes of this section, such municipalities owning and operating said equipment are hereby declared free of any liability on account of injury to persons or damage to property in going to and from such locations outside the corporate limits when engaged in the extinguishing and prevention of fires or in the alleviating of damages or injuries caused by tornadoes or other casualties, it being the purpose of this section that such municipalities aiding other municipalities or residents of the State of Mississippi located outside the corporate limits of such municipalities shall be entitled to all the benefits and immunities, both from civil and criminal prosecution, as are now enjoyed by such municipalities within their own respective corporate limits. This section shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 15-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-23
Status: in_force

Every city in the State of Mississippi, whether operating under a code charter, a special charter, or commission form of government, acting through its governing authorities, is hereby authorized and empowered, by resolution or ordinance duly adopted, to appoint one or more deputy city clerks, each of whom shall have all of the power and authority that is vested in the city clerk of such city. Such governing authorities shall have the right to pay such salary to such deputy city clerk, or clerks, as may be fixed in the resolution or ordinance appointing such deputy city clerk, but not exceeding the salary paid to the city clerk.

Every deputy city clerk so appointed shall serve at the will and pleasure of said governing authorities and may be removed at any time at the pleasure of such municipal governing authorities, and upon such removal all salaries or fees of such deputy city clerk shall thereupon cease.

Every deputy city clerk, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the same oath required of the city clerk. The appointment of said deputy city clerk, with the certificate of the oath, shall be filed and preserved in the office of the clerk of the governing authorities of such city. Such deputy city clerk shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in an amount to be determined by the governing authority (which shall be not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00)).
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 7-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-3
Status: in_force

All of the provisions of law applicable to municipalities operating under “code charter” as aforesaid, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, shall apply fully to the form of government to be established hereunder. However, such cities coming under the council form shall not be included in those classes of cities set forth in Section 21-29-151 , unless and until the council shall have adopted a resolution setting forth their intention to come under Sections 21-29-101 through 21-29-151 . All provisions of law vesting rights, privileges and powers in and charging with duties the mayor and/or board of aldermen are hereby specifically vested in the council of municipalities which shall operate under the provisions of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 21-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-11
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality having a population in excess of 140,000 people by virtue of the 1960 census are hereby authorized to purchase insurance coverage to protect members of the police force working under the direction of the municipal authorities, against any suit or claims growing out of any action of such policemen guilty of false arrest, false imprisonment, false or improper service of process, malicious prosecution or any other claim resulting from such officers' performance of official duties.

Such municipal authorities shall have the right to pay, out of the general fund of such municipality any premiums which may become due on the aforesaid insurance policies.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-317 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-317
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-317
Status: in_force

(1)(a) Notwithstanding any provisions of Articles 1, 3 and 5 of this chapter to the contrary, the maximum annual retirement allowance attributable to the employer contributions payable by the system to a member under Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter shall be subject to the limitations set forth in Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code and any regulations issued thereunder as applicable to governmental plans as the term is defined under Section 414(d) of the Internal Revenue Code .

(b) The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System is authorized to provide by rule or regulation for the payment of benefits as provided under Articles 1, 3 and 5 of this chapter to members or beneficiaries of a municipal employees retirement fund or disability and relief fund at a time and under circumstances not otherwise provided for in this chapter to the extent that the payment is required to maintain the municipal employees retirement fund or disability and relief fund as a qualified retirement plan for purposes of federal income tax laws.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this plan, all distributions from this plan shall conform to the regulations issued under Section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code , applicable to governmental plans, as defined in Section 414(d) of the Internal Revenue Code , including the incidental death benefit provisions of Section 401(a)(9)(G) of the Internal Revenue Code . Further, such regulations shall override any plan provision that is inconsistent with Section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code .

(3) The actuarial assumptions used to convert a retirement allowance from the normal form of payment to an optional form of payment shall be an appendix to Article 7 of this chapter and subject to approval by the board of directors based upon certification by the actuary.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this plan, the maximum compensation that can be considered for all plan purposes shall not be greater than that allowed under Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code .

(5) In the event of the termination of one or more of the retirement plans established pursuant to Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter, all members of the plan or system as of the date of termination of the system shall be deemed to have a vested right to benefits to the extent and in the same manner that rights would be vested under the laws existing as of the date of termination of the system; however, any member, who because of a termination of the system has not fulfilled the requirements for length of service, shall be entitled to compensation as of the date that such member would otherwise be eligible, with such compensation to be computed on the basis of time actually a member of the service and compensation actually earned during the time a member, in the manner now provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 27-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-31
Status: in_force

Any municipality issuing revenue bonds pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 shall install and maintain proper books of record and account (separate entirely from other records and accounts of such municipality), in which correct entries shall be made of all dealings or transactions of or in relation to the properties, business and affairs of the system or combined system. The governing authorities of such municipality, not later than three months after the close of any calendar, operating or fiscal year, shall cause to be prepared a balance sheet and an income and operating and surplus account showing, respectively, in reasonable detail, the financial condition of the system or combined system at the close of such preceding calendar, operating or fiscal year, and the financial operations thereof during such year. Said balance sheet and the income and operating and surplus account shall at all times during the usual business hours be open to examination and inspection by any taxpayer, user of the services furnished by the system, or any holder of bonds issued pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 , or any one acting for or on behalf of such taxpayer, user of the services of the system, or bondholder.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-61 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 33-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-61
Status: in_force

The owner, or any person for him with his consent, or any person interested in the land sold for taxes, shall have two years from the date of sale in which to redeem such real property from such sale, redemption to be made by paying the taxes, damages and costs, as provided by law for the redemption of land from tax sales, saving, however, to infants and persons of unsound mind, whose real property may be sold for taxes, the right to redeem the same within two years after attaining full age or being restored to sanity, from the municipality or any purchaser thereof, on the basis herein prescribed, and on their paying the value of any permanent improvements on the land made after the expiration of two years from the date of sale of the real property for taxes. Upon such payment to the clerk of the municipality, he shall execute to the person redeeming the real property a release of all claim or title of the municipality or purchaser to such real property, which said release shall be attested by the seal of the municipality, and shall be entitled to be recorded without acknowledgment, as deeds are recorded. Said release when so executed and attested shall operate as a quitclaim on the part of the municipality or purchaser of any right or title under said tax sale.

The term “taxes” as used in Sections 21-33-55 through 21-33-61 shall include special improvement assessments or any installment thereof that may be delinquent.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-167 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 27-167
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-167
Status: in_force

A municipality shall have the power and right to acquire and to own, maintain, use and operate any and all property of any kind, real, personal or mixed, or any interest therein within or without the boundaries of its metropolitan area necessary or convenient to the exercise of the purposes of and the powers granted by Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 . Within any unincorporated portion of its metropolitan area, a municipality may acquire such property by exercise of the power of eminent domain as provided in Chapter 27, Title 11, Mississippi Code of 1972 . Prior to the exercise of the power of eminent domain within any unincorporated portion of its metropolitan area, a municipality shall seek and obtain a written agreement with the public agency or other person having local jurisdiction of such area for the acquisition of such property. The written agreement provided for herein for the exercise of the power of eminent domain shall be spread upon the minutes of said public agency or person as defined herein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-25 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 33-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-25
Status: in_force

The failure of the assessor to certify and swear to his assessment roll, or to return it on the day named for its return, or his failure to do any other act with respect to the roll, shall not affect the validity of the assessment, if it is corrected, revised, and approved by the municipal authorities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 31-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-19
Status: in_force

The civil service commission shall keep a list of all members of the said police and/or fire department, and formulate methods of determining the relative qualifications of persons seeking employment in either department, and give preference to those having the best qualifications. The commission shall provide that men laid off because of curtailment of expenditures, reduction in force, and like causes, shall be the last man or men, including probationers, that have been appointed to either the fire and/or police departments, until such reductions necessary shall have been accomplished. However, in the event said department shall again be increased in number, those suspended shall be reinstated before any new appointments shall be made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-1-37 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-1-37
Status: in_force

If the municipality or any other interested person who was a party to the proceedings in the chancery court be aggrieved by the decree of the chancellor, then such municipality or other person may prosecute an appeal therefrom within the time and in the manner and with like effect as is provided in Section 21-1-21 in the case of appeals from the decree of the chancellor with regard to the creation of a municipal corporation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 19-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-9
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to prevent or regulate the running at large of animals of all kinds, and to cause such as may be running at large to be impounded and sold to discharge the costs and penalties provided for the violation of such regulations and the expense of impounding and keeping and selling the same; to regulate and provide for the taxing of owners and harborers of dogs, and to destroy dogs running at large, unless such dogs have proper identification indicating that said dogs have been vaccinated for rabies; and to provide for the erection of all needful pens, pounds and buildings for the use of the municipality, within or without the municipal limits, and to appoint and confirm keepers thereof, and to establish and enforce rules governing the same.

The governing authorities of municipalities may enter into pacts, agreements or contracts with other municipalities to provide for cooperation in the use or erection of all pens, pounds and buildings to prevent or regulate the running at large of animals of all kinds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 25-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-55
Status: in_force

Any agreement made under the provisions of Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 shall specify the following:

(a) Its duration.

(b) Its purpose or purposes.

(c) The precise organization, composition, nature and powers of any separate legal or administrative entity created thereby; the specific citation of statutory authority vested in each of the governing authorities of the municipality and rural water association which are to be a party to the agreement.

(d) The manner of financing, staffing and supplying the joint or cooperative undertaking and of establishing and maintaining a budget therefore; provided, that the treasurer and the disbursing officer of either the municipality or the association, or both, shall be designated in the agreement to receive, disburse and account for all funds of the joint undertaking as a part of the duties of the officer or officers.

(e) The permissible method or methods to be employed in accomplishing the partial or complete termination or amendment of the agreement and for disposing of property upon such partial or complete termination or amendment.

(f) The provision for administration, through a joint board or other appropriate means, of the joint or cooperative undertaking in the event that the agreement does not or may not establish a separate administrative body or legal entity to conduct the joint or cooperative undertaking. In the case of a joint board, both the governing authorities of the municipality and the rural water association shall be represented.

(g) The manner of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property used in the joint or cooperative undertaking in the event that the agreement does not or may not establish a separate administrative body or legal entity to conduct the joint or cooperative undertaking.

(h) Any other necessary and proper matters.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-61 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 31-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-61
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall include all administrative and other employees on a monthly salary basis. All appointments to and promotions in said departments shall be made solely on merit, efficiency and fitness which may be ascertained by open competitive examination and impartial investigation. No person shall be reinstated in, or transferred, suspended or discharged from, any place, position or employment contrary to the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 .

All incumbents and future appointees shall be subject to civil service, except, however, those appointees now and hereafter serving as extra members, which employees shall be subject to removal for replacement by any person now or hereafter serving in the armed services; or, if temporarily employed, the commission shall have authority to so determine and replace with a new employee who shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 .

The provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall not include any new employee who has not successfully completed all requirements necessary to earn regular or permanent status as a municipal employee.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-315 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 33-315
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-315
Status: in_force

All serial bonds issued by a municipality shall mature annually, with all maturities not longer than twenty (20) years, with not less than one-fiftieth ( 1 / 50 ) of the total issue to mature each year during the first five (5) years of the life of such bonds, not less than one-twenty-fifth ( 1 / 25 ) of the total issue to mature each year during the succeeding ten-year period of the life of such bonds, and the remainder to be amortized, as to principal and interest, into approximately equal annual payments, one (1) payment to mature each year for the remaining life of such bonds. However, in cases where bonds shall be issued or dated subsequent to the date fixed for making the municipal tax levy in the year in which such bonds are to be issued, the first maturity date of not less than one-fiftieth ( 1 / 50 ) of the total issue, may be fixed for any period not exceeding two (2) years from the date of the bonds with the same schedule of subsequent maturities as hereinabove set forth. Such bonds shall not bear a greater overall maximum interest rate to maturity than that allowed in Section 75-17-101, Mississippi Code of 1972 . No bond shall bear more than one (1) rate of interest. Each bond shall bear interest from its date to its stated maturity date at the interest rate specified in the bid. All bonds of the same maturity shall bear the same rate of interest from date to maturity. All interest accruing on such bonds so issued shall be payable semiannually or annually, except that the first interest coupon attached to any such bond may be for any period not exceeding one (1) year.

No interest payment shall be evidenced by more than one (1) coupon and neither cancelled nor supplemental coupons shall be permitted. The lowest interest rate specified for any bonds issued shall not be less than seventy percent (70%) of the highest interest rate specified for the same bond issue. The interest rate of any one (1) interest coupon shall not exceed the maximum interest rate allowed on such bonds.

Each interest rate specified in any bid must be in multiples of one-eighth of one percent ( 1 / 8 of 1%) or in multiples of one-tenth of one percent ( 1 / 10 of 1%). The denomination, form, and place, or places, of payment of such bonds shall be fixed in the resolution or ordinance of the governing authorities issuing such bonds. Such bonds shall be executed by the manual or facsimile signature of the mayor and clerk of such municipality, with the seal of the municipality affixed thereto. At least one (1) signature on each bond shall be a manual signature, as specified in the resolution. The coupons may bear only the facsimile signatures of such mayor and clerk. No bonds shall be issued and sold under the provisions of this article for less than par and accrued interest.

Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, any municipality may issue a single-term bond payable annually which amortizes as described herein, complies with the other requirements described herein, and with a final maturity not longer than twenty (20) years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-35
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality which have sold or which may hereafter sell any utility system owned by such municipality, may use the proceeds of the sale of such system, or any part thereof, for the purpose of retiring and paying off any of the public debt of the municipality, and they may purchase the outstanding bonds or other obligations of the said municipality at such price, whether above or below par, as they may consider fair and reasonable. The said governing authorities may, in their discretion, invest the said funds, or any part thereof, derived from the sale of the said system or systems in any of the securities now eligible for purchase by public sinking funds of municipalities, at such price, whether above or below par, as they may determine to be fair and reasonable.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 23-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-5
Status: in_force

In any municipality having a population of less than ten thousand (10,000) according to the latest available federal census, it shall be discretionary with the governing authorities of the municipality as to whether or not a municipal judge or a prosecuting attorney, or both, shall be appointed. If the authorities of any municipality having a population of less than twenty thousand (20,000) according to the latest available federal census appoint a municipal judge, he shall be an attorney licensed in the State of Mississippi or a justice court judge of the county in which the municipality is located. The mayor or mayor pro tempore shall not serve as a municipal judge.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 33-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-17
Status: in_force

The assessor shall correctly add, and show the total of each and every column on each page in the land roll, and shall carry the result thereof to the recapitulation on a page, or pages, in the back of the roll, and shall show in the recapitulation the total assessment of land in the municipality, including all elements of value thereof. He shall show in the recapitulation the total of each and every column in the entire roll.

If the municipality has added territory, the assessor shall, on separate pages, make an assessment of said lands and a recapitulation thereof, in the manner provided for recapitulations of the county assessment roll. He shall then make a grand recapitulation, showing all the above enumerated totals, separately, for the municipality, the added territory, and for the entire separate school district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 7-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-9
Status: in_force

(1) Regular public meetings of the council shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January after the election of the members of the council and monthly thereafter on the first Tuesday in each month. When a regular meeting of the council shall fall upon a holiday, the council shall meet the following day. Special meetings may be called at any time by the mayor or by three (3) members of the council. At any and all meetings of the council, five (5) members thereof shall constitute a quorum. The quorum required by this section may be established by teleconference or video means as provided in Section 25-41-5(2) . The affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the quorum at any meeting shall be necessary to adopt any motion, resolution, or ordinance or to pass any measure whatever unless otherwise provided in this chapter. Upon every vote taken by the council the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded and every motion, resolution, or ordinance shall be reduced to writing before the vote is taken thereon. Upon request of one or more council members, any motion, resolution or ordinance shall be read by the clerk before the vote is taken thereon.

(2) The council may, pursuant to Section 21-17-17 , set a day other than Tuesday for the holding of its regular monthly meeting.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-315 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-315
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-315
Status: in_force

Any active member who previously received a refund under either Article 1, 3 or 5 and who was reemployed and again became a contributing member of the applicable retirement system may repay all amounts previously received as a refund, together with regular interest at the rate as determined by the board, covering the period from the date of refund to the date of repayment. Upon such repayment, the active member shall again receive credit for the entire period of creditable service that was forfeited upon the receipt of the refund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-101 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-101
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality not operating with a public utility commission, is hereby authorized to pay all expenses incurred in reproducing such records and in making provision for the preservation, retention and storage of such reproductions from the general fund of such municipality. A municipal public utility commission shall pay for the same from the earnings of the municipally-owned utility or utilities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-131 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-131
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-131
Status: in_force

No person may drive or operate motor vehicles for hire in any city or town in this state unless he shall first have been licensed so to do as follows: he shall make application to the mayor of such municipality in writing, accompanied by a statement of some reputable citizen thereof, that the applicant is over the age of eighteen (18) years, an experienced driver, of good moral character, and physically and mentally capacitated to drive and operate such motor vehicle. The mayor shall place such application before the board of aldermen, or other governing authorities, whereupon inquiry may be made by such governing authorities into the moral character and mental and physical fitness of the applicant. If the permit shall be granted the applicant shall receive a certificate of such permit, signed by the mayor, together with an identification badge, and the name of the municipality thereon, and which shall be worn so that the same will be displayed while engaged in or about such occupation. The governing authorities of the municipality may require the applicant to give a reasonable bond, of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), to guarantee the faithful observance of the law as well as the rules and regulations which may be prescribed by the said municipality, and they may also require a reasonable fee, for such permit and badge. In the event the governing authority of such municipality refuse to grant such permit to an applicant, an appeal may be taken to the circuit court, in the manner provided by law for appealing from other orders of the governing authorities of municipalities, and the questions to be tried upon appeal will be as to the age and experience and the moral, mental and physical fitness of the said applicant to pursue such vocation in such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-131 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 27-131
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-131
Status: in_force

No person may drive or operate motor vehicles for hire in any city or town in this state unless he shall first have been licensed so to do as follows: he shall make application to the mayor of such municipality in writing, accompanied by a statement of some reputable citizen thereof, that the applicant is over the age of eighteen (18) years, an experienced driver, of good moral character, and physically and mentally capacitated to drive and operate such motor vehicle. The mayor shall place such application before the board of aldermen, or other governing authorities, whereupon inquiry may be made by such governing authorities into the moral character and mental and physical fitness of the applicant. If the permit shall be granted the applicant shall receive a certificate of such permit, signed by the mayor, together with an identification badge, and the name of the municipality thereon, and which shall be worn so that the same will be displayed while engaged in or about such occupation. The governing authorities of the municipality may require the applicant to give a reasonable bond, of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), to guarantee the faithful observance of the law as well as the rules and regulations which may be prescribed by the said municipality, and they may also require a reasonable fee, for such permit and badge. In the event the governing authority of such municipality refuse to grant such permit to an applicant, an appeal may be taken to the circuit court, in the manner provided by law for appealing from other orders of the governing authorities of municipalities, and the questions to be tried upon appeal will be as to the age and experience and the moral, mental and physical fitness of the said applicant to pursue such vocation in such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-33 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 33-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-33
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in Section 21-33-10 , the governing authorities of each municipality shall hold a meeting at the city hall, or at such other place as their regular meetings are held, on the date specified in the notice required by Section 21-33-29 , to hear objections to the real and personal rolls and the assessments therein contained. The governing authorities shall hear and determine all objections, and shall sit from day to day until the same shall have been disposed of, and all proper corrections made. The proceedings shall, in all respects, conform to the requirements of law governing such meetings of the county board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 31-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-3
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality in which there is located a port of entry, in any county which has created a county port authority, may, in their discretion and by ordinance, extend the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 to all full-paid employees in all departments of such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-117 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-117
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-117
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided for in subsection (2) of this section, the governing authority of said municipality, at the time the levy is made for other municipal taxes, shall annually levy a tax on the taxable property within the said municipality, and the proceeds therefrom shall be forwarded on or before the twentieth of the following month to the Public Employees' Retirement System. The levy made, and the deductions from the salaries of members, shall be in an amount sufficient, but not more than the amount necessary, to make the system actuarially sound by July 1, 2000, as certified to the municipality by the board. Such tax shall be in addition to any limits set forth in Sections 27-39-301 through 27-39-311 , and shall not be included in the ten percent (10%) limitation on increases under Section 27-39-321 , nor shall any tax increase exceed one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mill per year; however, if any levy to pay debt service on bonds issued under Section 31-25-21 as described in subsection (2) of this section is reduced for any year as a result of payment of the bonds or otherwise, the levy under this subsection (1) for such year may be increased by an amount, in addition to the one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mill otherwise authorized, not to exceed the reduction for such year in the millage levied to pay debt service on the bonds.

(2) In addition to, or in lieu of, the method of funding provided for in subsection (1) of this section, the municipality may fund or assist in funding the retirement system through the use of revenue bonds issued pursuant to Section 31-25-21 . Any tax levied to service the debt on such bonds shall not be included in the ten percent (10%) limitation on increases under Section 27-39-321 .

(3) In addition, all gifts and donations made by any persons or corporations or by other appropriate levy, and all funds which the municipality may receive from insurance companies as provided for in this article shall be placed in said fund.

(4) In addition, such municipality shall each month deduct from the salary of each member of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen not less than seven percent (7%) nor more than ten percent (10%) of the amount thereof and put the amount deducted into said fund. Any increase to an amount in excess of seven percent (7%) shall be in increments of not more than one percent (1%) per annum. No increase from the deduction of seven percent (7%) shall be made unless the board determines that the avails of the tax levy of three (3) mills, when combined with the avails of the deduction of seven percent (7%), is insufficient to keep the system actuarially sound.

(5) The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System, when any municipality has enacted an enabling ordinance as provided in Sections 21-29-5 and 21-29-101 , upon a finding that either the municipal employees' retirement system or the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen is not funded in an actuarially sound manner which is spread upon the minutes of the board, may by order provide that the revenue or a portion thereof produced by the levy authorized for one system be diverted to fund the less actuarially sound system within the same municipality. No transfer may be made of funds from one municipality to another.

(6) The municipality and the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System may enter into such contracts and agreements as are deemed necessary to implement the provisions of this section, including, but not limited to, contracts and agreements addressing the use, application and investment of proceeds of bonds issued under Section 31-25-21 and earnings thereon and the relative rights and obligations of the municipality and the Public Employees' Retirement System during the period that the bonds are outstanding and thereafter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-63 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-63
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-63
Status: in_force

Nothing in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 shall be construed as authorizing any municipality to impair or commit a breach of the obligation of any valid lien or contract created or entered into by it, the intention hereof being to authorize the pledging, setting aside and segregation of gross revenue only where consistent with outstanding obligations of such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-45 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-45
Status: in_force

(1) Any municipality in the state having a population of less than five hundred according to the 1960 decennial census and being situated in a county bordering the State of Tennessee and having a 1960 population in excess of fifteen thousand but less than twenty thousand, and any municipality having a population according to the 1960 federal decennial census in excess of two thousand but less than two thousand two hundred and being in a county bordering the Pearl River and having an area in excess of eight hundred twenty-five square miles, and all municipalities located in counties with two judicial districts in which municipalities Mississippi Highway 35 runs and which have a population according to the latest available federal census in excess of three hundred forty-two but less than one thousand, acting by and through the mayor and board of aldermen, is authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to pay a sum not to exceed Two Hundred Twenty-Five Dollars ($225.00) per month to any nonprofit civic and development corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Mississippi for the purposes set forth herein.

(2) The funds shall be expended by said nonprofit corporation for the purpose of building, equipping, maintaining and operating a community park, a community house, tennis courts, bowling lanes, lakes, golf courses and swimming pools, for the acquisition of land and facilities to be used for the aforesaid purposes, for the purchase of land and the making of improvements thereon for industrial development, and for other public purposes, and for the repayment of loans secured for the purposes set forth herein.

(3) This section, without reference to any other statutes, shall be full and complete authority to expend the money for the purposes enumerated herein, and all powers necessary to be exercised by the mayor and board of aldermen in order to carry out the purposes of this section are herein expressly conferred on said mayor and board.

(4) The mayor and board of aldermen are further authorized and empowered to adopt any and all lawful resolutions, orders, and/or ordinances, and to do and perform any and all acts and things necessary and requisite to carry out the purposes of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-43 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 8-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-43
Status: repealed

In the event a municipality adopts the mayor-council form of government as hereinabove set out, all statutes in conflict with the provisions of such form of government as set out in this chapter are hereby repealed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-239 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-239
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-239
Status: in_force

The Public Employees' Retirement System shall keep a record of service of the members of the fire department and police department, which record shall show the history of employment of each member of said fire department and police department. Said record shall be written up fully at the time such city comes within the terms of this article, and it shall thereafter be kept entered up fully and correctly. All records currently maintained by the municipality's affected membership shall be forwarded to the Public Employees' Retirement System not later than July 1, 1987. Any additional changes shall be forwarded to the Public Employees' Retirement System as made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-12 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 23-12
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-12
Status: in_force

(1) Every person appointed as clerk of the municipal court shall be required annually to attend and complete a comprehensive course of training and education conducted or approved by the Mississippi Judicial College of the University of Mississippi Law Center. Attendance shall be required beginning with the first training seminar conducted after said clerk is appointed.

(2) The Mississippi Judicial College of the University of Mississippi Law Center shall prepare and conduct a course of training and education for municipal court clerks of the state. The course shall consist of at least twelve (12) hours of training per year. After completion of the first year's requirement, a maximum of six (6) hours training, over and above the required twelve (12) hours, may be carried forward from the previous year. The content of the course of training and when and where it is to be conducted shall be determined by the judicial college. A certificate of completion shall be furnished to those municipal court clerks who complete such course, and each certificate shall be made a permanent record of the minutes of the board of aldermen or city council in the municipality from which the municipal clerk is appointed.

(3) Upon the failure of any person appointed as clerk of the municipal court to file the certificate of completion as provided in subsection (2) of this section, within the first year of appointment, such person shall then not be allowed to carry out any of the duties of the office of clerk of the municipal court and shall not be entitled to compensation for the period of time during which such certificate remains unfiled.

(4) After August 1, 2015, and each year thereafter, the Administrative Office of Courts shall notify the judicial college of the name of any municipal court clerk who has not complied with the requirements of Section 9-1-46 . The Mississippi Judicial College shall not provide such clerk with a certificate of completion of course work until such time that the Administrative Office of Courts has reported that the clerk is in compliance with the requirements of Section 9-1-46 . Further, the Administrative Office of Courts shall report the names of all noncompliant clerks to the State Auditor and to the mayor of the municipality that employs the clerk.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-181 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 27-181
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-181
Status: in_force

While any such bonds are outstanding, it shall be the duty of the governing body of the municipality to fix, maintain and collect rates and charges for services furnished or made available by the sewage disposal system, adequate to pay maintenance and operation costs of the expenses allocable to the sewage disposal system, payment of principal of and interest on such bonds, and to provide and maintain the funds created by the resolution authorizing the bonds. Interest to accrue on the bonds and administrative expenses to estimated date when the sewage disposal system will become revenue producing and reserve funds created by the resolution authorizing the bonds may be set aside out of bond proceeds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-145.nr2 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-145.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-145.nr2
Status: in_force

(1) If any member of the fire or police department dies in active service, or dies in inactive service on account of disability approved for disability relief under the provisions of Section 21-29-133 , as a result of injury received while in the discharge of duty in the service of the fire department or police department, or dies as a result of sickness or disease, due to the discharge of duty while in service as a member of the fire or police department, or if the member dies while entitled to relief after retirement under Section 21-29-139 , the amount of disability relief or retirement being paid, or which should have been properly paid, shall continue to be paid from the fund to the spouse of the deceased member for life for the use of the spouse and the child or children of the deceased member. If the deceased member is not survived by a spouse, but there remains a child or children of the deceased member, the payments shall continue to be made to a parent or lawful custodian of the child or children without the necessity of appointment as guardian for the benefit of the child or children. After the death of the spouse, all payments to the spouse shall cease, and after the death of any child or children of the deceased member, all payments to the child or children shall cease. If the deceased member is not survived by spouse or child or children, but is survived by a father, mother or an unmarried sister dependent upon him or her, the payments shall continue to be made to the dependent father or mother or both, so long as each lives. If there is no dependent father or mother surviving the deceased member, the payments shall continue to be made to the unmarried dependent sister or sisters of the deceased member, so long as the beneficiary or beneficiaries remain unmarried. Upon the death or marriage of any such sister, all payments shall cease to her. Payments to dependents under this section are for services rendered by the members of the fire and/or police department, and the amount of payment is within the discretion of the board of disability and relief, but in no event shall the amount payable under this section be in excess of the amount that would have been payable as disability and relief to a member of the department. If the father, mother or sisters are not wholly dependent, then they shall not receive any amount in excess of the difference between the income of the father, mother, sister or sisters, and the amount that the deceased member would have been entitled to.

(2) For the purposes of this section:

(a) “ Dependent ” means wholly dependent upon the deceased member at the time of his or her death.

(b) “ Child ” or “ children ” means:

(i) Children of the deceased member under the age of eighteen (18);

(ii) Children of the deceased member who are eighteen (18) years of age or older who have not yet reached their twenty-third birthday and are pursuing a full-time education; or

(iii) Children of the deceased member who, though eighteen (18) years of age or older, are wholly dependent upon the deceased member and incapable of self-support by reason of mental or physical disability.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-229 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-229
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-229
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System, as soon as it is decided that such city shall come within the terms of this article, shall notify the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Mississippi that such city is operating within such terms. The commissioner shall notify all insurance companies, which shall include mutual, interinsurer, and reciprocal associations or companies, transacting the business of fire and lightning insurance in the State of Mississippi, of the fact that such city is operating within such terms. In the event that any such insurance company writes or has written any insurance in said municipality, the rates of said insurance company being based in any way upon the efficiency and equipment of the fire department of said municipality, such company shall be notified that at the time that foreign insurance companies are required to report to the State Tax Commission the premiums charged or received in Mississippi, then such company, whether foreign or domestic, shall truly report to the State Tax Commission at the same time as reports on the general tax on premiums are made as provided in Section 27-15-107 , sending a duplicate of such report to such board of trustees, the amount of premiums charged by said company for fire and lightning insurance on property situated in such city within the period covered by the report made to the State Tax Commission for purposes of taxation of such state, less premiums returned to policyholder and cancellations on account of policies not taken. It is the legislative intent that said report of premiums shall include and cover all premiums charged or received within said period, less returned premiums and cancellations as aforesaid in connection with the insurance of property situated in such city, which are reported for the purposes of taxation by said state. Such report for the purposes of this section shall not include premiums contracted for prior to such time as the commissioner shall have notified the company that such city is within the terms and purposes of this article. Said premiums so required to be reported shall be and they are hereby taxed to the extent of one-half of one percent ( 1 / 2 of 1%) of said premiums, after deducting said returned premiums and cancellations, which tax shall be paid to the State Tax Commission by the insurance company at the same time that the general tax on premiums is paid to the State Tax Commission as provided in Section 27-15-107 . The insurance company paying the same shall notify the State Tax Commission of the name of the city responsible for the maintenance of such fire department and system, and, at the same time, shall give such city duplicate notice of the amount paid to the State Tax Commission. The State Tax Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to collect such taxes in the same manner and by the same means that he is required and empowered to collect other taxes imposed upon insurance premiums.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-145.nr2 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-145.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-145.nr2
Status: in_force

(1) If any member of the fire or police department dies in active service, or dies in inactive service on account of disability approved for disability relief under the provisions of Section 21-29-133 , as a result of injury received while in the discharge of duty in the service of the fire department or police department, or dies as a result of sickness or disease, due to the discharge of duty while in service as a member of the fire or police department, or if the member dies while entitled to relief after retirement under Section 21-29-139 , the amount of disability relief or retirement being paid, or which should have been properly paid, shall continue to be paid from the fund to the spouse of the deceased member for life for the use of the spouse and the child or children of the deceased member. If the deceased member is not survived by a spouse, but there remains a child or children of the deceased member, the payments shall continue to be made to a parent or lawful custodian of the child or children without the necessity of appointment as guardian for the benefit of the child or children. After the death of the spouse, all payments to the spouse shall cease, and after the death of any child or children of the deceased member, all payments to the child or children shall cease. If the deceased member is not survived by spouse or child or children, but is survived by a father, mother or an unmarried sister dependent upon him or her, the payments shall continue to be made to the dependent father or mother or both, so long as each lives. If there is no dependent father or mother surviving the deceased member, the payments shall continue to be made to the unmarried dependent sister or sisters of the deceased member, so long as the beneficiary or beneficiaries remain unmarried. Upon the death or marriage of any such sister, all payments shall cease to her. Payments to dependents under this section are for services rendered by the members of the fire and/or police department, and the amount of payment is within the discretion of the board of disability and relief, but in no event shall the amount payable under this section be in excess of the amount that would have been payable as disability and relief to a member of the department. If the father, mother or sisters are not wholly dependent, then they shall not receive any amount in excess of the difference between the income of the father, mother, sister or sisters, and the amount that the deceased member would have been entitled to.

(2) For the purposes of this section:

(a) “ Dependent ” means wholly dependent upon the deceased member at the time of his or her death.

(b) “ Child ” or “ children ” means:

(i) Children of the deceased member under the age of eighteen (18);

(ii) Children of the deceased member who are eighteen (18) years of age or older who have not yet reached their twenty-third birthday and are pursuing a full-time education; or

(iii) Children of the deceased member who, though eighteen (18) years of age or older, are wholly dependent upon the deceased member and incapable of self-support by reason of mental or physical disability.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-3
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases when used in this article, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:

(a) “Retirement system” shall mean a retirement system as authorized by this article;

(b) “Board” shall mean the retirement board provided for in this article to administer the retirement system;

(c) “Municipality” shall mean any city, as defined by Section 21-1-1 which has a population of twenty-one thousand (21,000), or more;

(d) “Governing body” shall mean the legislative body, board or commission of any municipality, as defined in subsection (c) of this section;

(e) “Employer” shall mean a municipality, as defined in subsection (c) of this section, which has elected, as by this article provided, to provide a retirement system;

(f) “Employee” shall mean all administrative and other employees on a monthly salary basis, excepting policemen, firemen, and school teachers;

(g) “Member” shall mean any municipal employee included in the membership of the retirement system;

(h) “Beneficiary” shall mean any person in receipt of an annuity, pension, or retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this article;

(i) “Compensation” shall mean the remuneration paid the employee in cash or warrant out of public funds in return for his services to the employer, plus the monetary value, as determined by the governing body, of whatever living quarters or other thing of monetary value the employer furnishes him in return for his services. Compensation in addition to an employee's base salary that is paid to the employee at the time of his retirement for unused accumulated annual leave, sick leave or both, pursuant to the vacation and sick leave policies of the employer, shall be excluded from the calculation of compensation under this article;

(j) “Accumulated contributions” shall mean the sum of all amounts deducted from the compensation of a member and credited to his individual account in the employees' savings fund, together with interest thereon as by this article provided;

(k) “Service” shall mean time spent as an employee of one (1) employer, the time spent in the employ of one (1) employer under this article not being transferable nor to be considered by any other employer under this article. Service shall not include any unused accumulated annual leave, sick leave or both that any employee has at the time of his retirement pursuant to the vacation and sick leave policies of the employer;

(l) “Prior service” shall mean time spent in the employ of an employer, under this article, prior to the effective date of the retirement system; provided, the time spent in the employ of one (1) employer under this article may not be transferable nor considered by any other employer under this article.

Words of the masculine gender shall include words of the feminine gender and vice versa, and words of the singular number in relation to persons shall include the plural number and vice versa.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-45 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 9-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-45
Status: in_force

The council may, by ordinance, create new departments and offices as shall appear proper but only on recommendation of the city manager, and shall likewise fix the powers and duties and number of employees and compensation therefor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-73 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 33-73
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-73
Status: in_force

Any municipality in the state having a tax lien for special improvements or any other tax lien upon property located therein is hereby authorized, when the said property is offered for sale by the state and county for state and county taxes due thereon, to purchase at such tax sale the property upon which it holds said special improvement lien, and shall be authorized to pay the amount of its bid therefor.

Whenever property upon which any municipality in this state holds a lien has already been sold for state and county taxes, the municipality may redeem the tax sale the same as other lien holders in the state, and authority for municipalities to so thus redeem is hereby granted.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 41-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-27
Status: in_force

All assessments levied under the provisions of this chapter and the annual installments thereof shall become delinquent at the same time municipal ad valorem taxes become delinquent. Delinquent installments shall be collected in the same manner and at the same time delinquent ad valorem taxes are collected. Said delinquent installments shall bear the same penalties as those provided for delinquent taxes, and the penalties shall be upon the installment, or installments then delinquent. When any installment of the assessment shall become delinquent, if the property is sold for the non-payment of said delinquent installment, it shall be sold in the manner that property is sold for the non-payment of delinquent ad valorem taxes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-89 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-89
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-89
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality having a population of less than one thousand, according to the last federal census, shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to assess, levy and collect an additional ad valorem tax on all of the taxable property in such municipality of not exceeding two mills on the dollar for street maintenance, upkeep and construction purposes, and/or an additional ad valorem tax on all of the taxable property in such municipality of not exceeding two mills on the dollar for cemetery improvement, upkeep and maintenance purposes, which said taxes shall be in addition to all other taxes now authorized by law. However, such taxes shall not be levied unless and until the levy thereof has been approved by a majority of the qualified voters of such municipality voting in an election to be held for such purpose, notice of which election shall be given in some newspaper having a general circulation in such municipality not less than twenty nor more than thirty days prior to such election; one publication of such notice shall be sufficient. No consideration for homestead exemption refunds shall be considered in connection with the assessment and levy provided herein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-207 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 27-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-207
Status: in_force

Both the board and commission may adopt, modify, repeal and promulgate, after due notice and hearing, and may make exceptions to and grant exemptions and variances from and may enforce those rules, regulations and procedures as are necessary or appropriate to effectuate the duties and responsibilities of these agencies arising under Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 . The rules, regulations and procedures shall include, but not be limited to, the following: criteria for classifying municipal and domestic community water systems, nontransient, noncommunity water systems and wastewater facilities; qualifications for operators of community water systems, nontransient, noncommunity water systems and wastewater facilities; certification of operators of commercial Class I rubbish sites; procedures for examining or testing applicants for operator certificates; procedures and fees for issuing, reissuing, modifying, revoking or terminating operator certificates; and reciprocal certification of operators certified in other states having certification requirements not less stringent than those established by the board and commission. Any increase in the fees charged by the board under this section shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-59
Status: in_force

In all cases where property situated within a municipality has been sold for delinquent taxes, if it shall afterward appear to the governing authorities of such municipality that such sale was void on account of an insufficient or erroneous description, or for other cause, the governing authorities of such municipality may, by resolution entered upon their minutes, declare such sale to be void and thereby relinquish the title or claim of the municipality acquired under or by virtue of such void sale. In such event the governing authorities of such municipality shall be authorized and empowered to cause such property to be properly and legally assessed for each of the years for which such taxes have not been paid, and shall be authorized and empowered to change, revise, correct and revalue such property for each of the years for which such taxes have not been paid, and shall be authorized and empowered to enter a proper order directing that such assessments be changed, revised and corrected, and to cause such changed, revised and corrected assessments to be entered upon the assessment roll in force for the year in which such order is entered. In all such cases notice of such change and correction in the assessment, or of such new assessment, shall be given to the property owner in the manner provided by law, and in such notice a date shall be fixed for hearing objections to such assessment. Such notice may be waived, however, by the property owner. All objections to such changes or new assessments shall be heard at the time designated therefor in such notice, and the governing authorities of such municipality shall then be authorized to enter an order approving such assessments and making the same final, and such property may be sold for such taxes, if necessary, in accordance with law.

This section and Section 21-33-57 shall also apply to all cases of void sales of property for taxes, and the governing authorities, in all cases where a tax sale is void from any cause, may proceed to cause a legal sale to be made, and to cause property to be assessed in all cases after a void sale where assessment may have become necessary, and to cause sale to be made, if necessary, by complying with Sections 21-33-55 and 21-33-57 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-17
Status: in_force

For the benefit of the public service and to prevent delay, injury, or interruption therein by reason of the enactment of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , all persons holding a position in the fire and/or police departments, including the chief thereof, of any such municipality coming under the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , who shall have served continuously in such positions for a period of at least the preceding six months, are hereby declared eligible for permanent appointment under civil service to the offices, positions or employments which they shall then hold, respectively, without examination or other act on their part, and not on probation, and every such person is hereby automatically adopted and inducted permanently into civil service, into such office, place, position or employment which such person then holds as completely and effectually to all intents and purposes as if such person had been permanently appointed thereto under civil service after examination and investigation. However, those persons who have previously left their positions to participate in the armed forces of the United States shall have preference in reemployment and enjoy the rights and privileges of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 as if their services had not been terminated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 15-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-23
Status: in_force

Every city in the State of Mississippi, whether operating under a code charter, a special charter, or commission form of government, acting through its governing authorities, is hereby authorized and empowered, by resolution or ordinance duly adopted, to appoint one or more deputy city clerks, each of whom shall have all of the power and authority that is vested in the city clerk of such city. Such governing authorities shall have the right to pay such salary to such deputy city clerk, or clerks, as may be fixed in the resolution or ordinance appointing such deputy city clerk, but not exceeding the salary paid to the city clerk.

Every deputy city clerk so appointed shall serve at the will and pleasure of said governing authorities and may be removed at any time at the pleasure of such municipal governing authorities, and upon such removal all salaries or fees of such deputy city clerk shall thereupon cease.

Every deputy city clerk, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the same oath required of the city clerk. The appointment of said deputy city clerk, with the certificate of the oath, shall be filed and preserved in the office of the clerk of the governing authorities of such city. Such deputy city clerk shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in an amount to be determined by the governing authority (which shall be not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00)).
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 43 / Section 45-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-1
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the “Tax Increment Financing Act.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 25-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-11
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality having a population in excess of 140,000 people by virtue of the 1960 census are hereby authorized to purchase insurance coverage to protect firemen working under the direction of the municipal authorities, against any suit or claims growing out of any action of such firemen guilty of false arrest, false imprisonment, false or improper service of process, malicious prosecution or any other claim resulting from such officers' performance of official duties.

Such municipal authorities shall have the right to pay out of the general fund of such municipality any premiums which may become due on the aforesaid insurance policies.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-32 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 37-32
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-32
Status: in_force

A municipality, by ordinance duly spread upon its minutes, may delegate to an appropriate private enterprise with whom the municipality contracts all or part of the authority to enforce any ordinance concerning the regulation of parking within the confines of the municipality or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, penalties for violations, deadlines for the payment of fines and late payment penalties for fines not paid when due. The delegating ordinance may also provide that a summons or parking citation for the violation may be issued by a uniformed law enforcement officer, uniformed law enforcement employee or by uniformed personnel employed by the delegate serving under contract with the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-99 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-99
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-99
Status: in_force

When any of the records of which reproductions are made are declared by law, or are by their nature confidential and privileged records, then the reproduction thereof shall likewise be deemed to be confidential and privileged to the same extent as the original records.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 38 / Section 43-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-7
Status: in_force

A parking and business improvement area may be established whenever the governing authority of any municipality shall by resolution establish such an area. The resolution shall contain the following information:

(a) description of the boundaries of the proposed area;

(b) the time and place of a hearing to be held to consider establishment of an area;

(c) the proposed uses to which the additional revenue shall be put; and

(d) the initial rate of increase, or additional levy, of the license privilege tax, with a breakdown by class of business if such classification is to be used.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-207 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-207
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi shall organize itself into a body to be known as the “Board of Disability and Relief of the City of __________.”

In each municipality there shall be a board to serve in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System with respect to matters concerning the disability and relief fund. Such board shall consist of five (5) members as follows: two (2) shall be elected by the membership of the police department, two (2) shall be elected by the membership of the fire department and the mayor or his designee shall be an ex officio member. Retired members of the police department and fire department may participate in elections to choose members of the board, and such retired members are also eligible to serve on the board. The term of elected members shall be for four (4) years, and any vacancy in the elected membership shall be filled in the same manner as the original membership was selected.

The members of the board shall receive no compensation or pay from the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen for the discharge of their duties, except as otherwise provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-1
Status: in_force

No municipality shall have the power to grant to any person, firm or corporation any exclusive franchise or any exclusive right to use or occupy the streets, highways, bridges, or public places in such municipality for any purpose. No municipality shall grant, renew, or extend any such franchise, privilege or right, without compensation or for any longer period than twenty-five years.

The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under a code charter, special charter, or the commission form of government, except in cases of conflict between the provisions of this section and the provisions of the special charter of a municipality, or the law governing the commission form of government, in which cases of conflict the provisions of the special charter or the statutes relative to the commission form of government shall control.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 17-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-19
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever a municipality is required by law to publish in a newspaper any public measure or amendment thereto, the substance of the public measure or amendment thereto may be printed in lieu of the full text of the public measure or amendment thereto, as provided in this Section. Such a public measure shall include, but shall not be limited to, an ordinance, resolution, amendment to a municipal charter or annual audit. The provisions of this section shall not apply to publication of the annual budget or amendments thereto; such publication shall be made as provided in Chapter 35, Title 21, Mississippi Code of 1972 .

(2) The substance of the public measure or amendment thereto shall be an explanatory statement summarizing the full text of the public measure or amendment thereto, in which the chief purpose of the measure is explained in clear and unambiguous language. Such statement shall be prepared by the governing authorities of the municipality, and shall not exceed three hundred (300) words in length to the extent practicable.

(3) During the entire time of the publication of the explanatory statement in a newspaper, a copy of the full text of the public measure or amendment thereto shall be posted by the clerk of the municipality (a) at the city hall, (b) at the main public library in the municipality, or at the courthouse in the judicial district or county in which the municipality is located; and in addition, the clerk shall post such copy at least at one (1) other public place in the municipality. The clerk shall furnish any resident of the municipality a copy of the full text of the public measure or amendment thereto upon request, and this shall be stated in the publication of the explanatory statement.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-201 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-201
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-201
Status: in_force

Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 shall be known as the “Municipal and Domestic Water and Wastewater System and Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Facilities Operator's Certification Act of 1992.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-17
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to make regulations to protect property, health and lives and to enhance the general welfare of the community by restricting the movements of the citizens, or any group thereof, of such municipalities when there is eminent danger to the public safety because of freedom of movement thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-69
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-41-2 , where lands are offered for sale for unpaid municipal taxes or special improvement taxes or municipal separate school district taxes, and a person will not bid therefor the amount of taxes, damages, and costs due, the same shall be struck off to the municipality and otherwise, where applicable, dealt with as lands are which are sold to the state for delinquent state and county taxes. The governing authorities shall be authorized to pay the state and county taxes on lands thus acquired by the municipality, and to collect the money thus paid, with the same damages and interest allowed individuals in similar cases under the general revenue laws of the state thereon from the date of such payment, upon the redemption of the lands from the municipal sale.

Where lands have heretofore been, or may hereafter be struck off to a municipality for unpaid municipal taxes or special improvement taxes or municipal separate school districts taxes, and such lands have also been sold or struck off to an individual or to the state for unpaid state, county, or taxing district taxes, the governing authorities of such municipality are hereby authorized to redeem such lands from the sale for delinquent state, county, or taxing district taxes by paying to the chancery clerk of the county where such lands are situated the amount necessary to redeem same and to collect the money thus paid, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the date of such payment, upon the redemption of such lands from the municipal sale. Such lands may be redeemed from the municipal sale for unpaid municipal taxes or special improvement taxes by the owner or other person interested in such lands, including the person to whom such lands were struck off or sold at the sale for state, county, or taxing district taxes.

When lands have heretofore or may hereafter be struck off to a municipality for unpaid municipal taxes or special improvement taxes or municipal separate school district taxes, and the title to such lands has matured or may hereafter mature in the state by virtue of a sale for unpaid state, county, or taxing district taxes, the governing authorities of such municipality may purchase said lands from the state at a price to be agreed upon by the Secretary of State, Governor, or other lawful authority. Upon payment of such amounts into the State Treasury, the state's title to said lands shall be conveyed to the said municipality by a patent, or patents, executed and delivered as provided by law in cases of sales of state lands to individuals.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-117 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-117
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-117
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided for in subsection (2) of this section, the governing authority of said municipality, at the time the levy is made for other municipal taxes, shall annually levy a tax on the taxable property within the said municipality, and the proceeds therefrom shall be forwarded on or before the twentieth of the following month to the Public Employees' Retirement System. The levy made, and the deductions from the salaries of members, shall be in an amount sufficient, but not more than the amount necessary, to make the system actuarially sound by July 1, 2000, as certified to the municipality by the board. Such tax shall be in addition to any limits set forth in Sections 27-39-301 through 27-39-311 , and shall not be included in the ten percent (10%) limitation on increases under Section 27-39-321 , nor shall any tax increase exceed one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mill per year; however, if any levy to pay debt service on bonds issued under Section 31-25-21 as described in subsection (2) of this section is reduced for any year as a result of payment of the bonds or otherwise, the levy under this subsection (1) for such year may be increased by an amount, in addition to the one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mill otherwise authorized, not to exceed the reduction for such year in the millage levied to pay debt service on the bonds.

(2) In addition to, or in lieu of, the method of funding provided for in subsection (1) of this section, the municipality may fund or assist in funding the retirement system through the use of revenue bonds issued pursuant to Section 31-25-21 . Any tax levied to service the debt on such bonds shall not be included in the ten percent (10%) limitation on increases under Section 27-39-321 .

(3) In addition, all gifts and donations made by any persons or corporations or by other appropriate levy, and all funds which the municipality may receive from insurance companies as provided for in this article shall be placed in said fund.

(4) In addition, such municipality shall each month deduct from the salary of each member of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen not less than seven percent (7%) nor more than ten percent (10%) of the amount thereof and put the amount deducted into said fund. Any increase to an amount in excess of seven percent (7%) shall be in increments of not more than one percent (1%) per annum. No increase from the deduction of seven percent (7%) shall be made unless the board determines that the avails of the tax levy of three (3) mills, when combined with the avails of the deduction of seven percent (7%), is insufficient to keep the system actuarially sound.

(5) The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System, when any municipality has enacted an enabling ordinance as provided in Sections 21-29-5 and 21-29-101 , upon a finding that either the municipal employees' retirement system or the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen is not funded in an actuarially sound manner which is spread upon the minutes of the board, may by order provide that the revenue or a portion thereof produced by the levy authorized for one system be diverted to fund the less actuarially sound system within the same municipality. No transfer may be made of funds from one municipality to another.

(6) The municipality and the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System may enter into such contracts and agreements as are deemed necessary to implement the provisions of this section, including, but not limited to, contracts and agreements addressing the use, application and investment of proceeds of bonds issued under Section 31-25-21 and earnings thereon and the relative rights and obligations of the municipality and the Public Employees' Retirement System during the period that the bonds are outstanding and thereafter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45
Status: in_force

Upon proper application to the general retirement board, the benefits to dependents of deceased members and retirants shall be paid as follows:

(a) If any member dies for causes other than the performance of duty in the service of the municipality before completing five (5) years' service, there shall be paid to his or her designated beneficiary or his or her legal representative, if no beneficiary has been designated, from the employees' savings fund the sum equal to the amount accumulated in his or her individual account.

(b) If any member dies who has not had less than five (5) and not more than twenty (20) years' service with the municipality, there shall be paid to the spouse, from the retirement reserve fund, for each year's active service, not to exceed a period of twenty (20) years, one-fortieth ( 1 / 40 ) of the average monthly salary or compensation received by the member in the four-year or two-year period, as the case may be, next preceding the death, for the use of the spouse and the child or children of the deceased member under the age of eighteen (18) years, so long as the spouse remains unmarried. If, after the marriage of the spouse, there remains a child or children of the deceased member under the age of eighteen (18) years, the payments shall continue to be made to a parent or lawful custodian of the child or children without the necessity of appointment as guardian for the benefit of the child or children, so long as the child or children are under the age of eighteen (18) years. After the death or marriage of the spouse, all payments to the spouse shall cease, and after the death or attainment of eighteen (18) years of any child or children of the deceased, all payments to the child or children over eighteen (18) years of age shall cease. If the deceased member is not survived by a spouse or child or children under the age of eighteen (18) years, but is survived by a father or a mother dependent upon him or her, the payments shall continue to be made to the dependent father or mother, or both, so long as each lives. The word “ dependent ,” as used in this section, shall mean “wholly dependent,” as determined by the retirement board.

(c) If any member dies after having completed twenty (20) years' service as required by Section 21-29-31 , or if any retirant dies, there shall be paid from the retirement reserve fund to the spouse or the dependents designated in paragraph (b) of this section, the amount of benefits or retirement pay equal to the sum being paid to the deceased member or retirant, or which would have been paid to the deceased member or retirant if he or she had applied for benefits under this section, on the date of his or her death.

(d) If any member dies before becoming eligible to receive benefits under this article as a result of the performance of duty to the municipality, there shall be paid to the spouse or dependents designated in paragraph (b) of this section from the retirement reserve fund, an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the monthly salary of the deceased member on the date of his or her death. This amount shall be paid to the same beneficiaries and for the same period of time as those beneficiaries and periods of time set forth in paragraph (b) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-177 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-177
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-177
Status: in_force

Whenever a public agency and a municipality shall have executed a contract under Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 and the payments thereunder are to be made either wholly or partly from the revenues of the public agency's waterworks system, water supply system, treatment facility, sewerage system or sewage disposal system or from both systems or a combination of both systems, the duty is hereby imposed on the public agency to establish and maintain and from time to time to adjust the rates charged by the public agency for the services of such system or systems, to the end that the revenues therefrom together with any taxes levied in support thereof will be sufficient at all times to pay: (a) the expense of operating and maintaining such system; (b) all of the public agency's obligations to the municipality under the contract; and (c) all of the public agency's obligations under and in connection with revenue bonds theretofore issued, or which may be issued thereafter secured by revenues of such system or systems. The contract may require the use of consulting engineers and financial experts to advise the public agency whether and when such rates are to be adjusted.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 25-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-1
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to appoint a fire marshal, who may be the mayor, or any member of the governing authority of the municipality, or the city or town marshal. The fire marshal shall have the power to remove and keep away from the vicinity of any fire all idle and suspicious persons lurking near the same. He shall have the power to compel any person present to aid in the extinguishment of such fire or the preservation of property exposed to the danger of such fire and to aid in preventing goods from being purloined thereat. He shall also have such powers and duties as may be prescribed by ordinance.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-179 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 27-179
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-179
Status: in_force

For the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, enlarging, extending and repairing a sewage disposal system or sewage disposal systems, a municipality is authorized to issue bonds payable from and secured by a pledge of all or any part of revenues under any contract or contracts it enters into under Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 and from all or any part of any revenues derived from the operation of the waterworks system, water supply system, treatment facility, sewerage system or sewage disposal system and pledged for such purpose by the municipality. Said bonds shall be in such form and denomination as prescribed by the governing body of the municipality. Such bonds may be serial or term; redeemable, with or without premium, or nonredeemable; registered or coupon bonds with registration privileges as to either principal and interest; principal only or both; shall bear interest at a rate or rates to be determined pursuant to the sale of the bonds; and shall be payable at such time or times and shall mature at such time or times not exceeding the said estimated life of the contemplated system or improvement, but in no event exceeding thirty (30) years from their date, and at such place or places as shall be prescribed in the bond resolution authorizing their issuance; provided, however, that any bond issue to be awarded and sold to the United States of America or any agency thereof shall mature at such time or times, not to exceed thirty-five (35) years, as shall be prescribed in the ordinance authorizing their issuance. Any provisions of the general laws to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds and interest coupons issued pursuant to the authority of Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall possess all the qualities of negotiable instruments. The bonds and the interest coupons shall be executed in such manner and shall be substantially in the form prescribed in the authorizing resolution. In case any of the officers whose signatures or countersignatures appear on the bonds or interest coupons shall cease to be such officers before delivery of such bonds, such signatures or countersignatures shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if they had remained in office until such delivery. No bond shall bear more than one (1) rate of interest; each bond shall bear interest from its date to its stated maturity date at the interest rate specified in the bid; all bonds of the same maturity shall bear the same rate of interest from date to maturity; all interest accruing on such bonds so issued shall be payable semiannually or annually, except that the first interest coupon attached to any such bond may be for any period not exceeding one (1) year.

No interest payment shall be evidenced by more than one (1) coupon and neither cancelled nor supplemental coupons shall be permitted; the lowest interest rate specified for any bonds issued shall not be less than seventy percent (70%) of the highest rate specified for the same bond issue. Such bonds shall not bear a greater overall maximum interest rate to maturity than that allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972 . Each interest rate specified in any bid must be in multiples of one-eighth of one percent ( 1 / 8 of 1%) or in multiples of one-tenth of one percent ( 1 / 10 of 1%). If serial bonds, such bonds shall mature annually, and the first maturity date thereof shall not be more than five (5) years from the date of such bonds. Such bonds shall be legal investments for trustees and other fiduciaries, and for savings banks, trust companies and insurance companies organized under the laws of the state of Mississippi. The bonds and interest coupons shall be exempt from all state, county, municipal and other taxation under the laws of the state of Mississippi. No bond issued pursuant to Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall constitute an indebtedness of a municipality within the meaning of any statutory or charter restriction or limitation upon indebtedness. Such bonds shall be sold on sealed bids at public sale in the manner provided by Section 31-19-25 , as now or hereafter amended, upon such terms as the governing authorities of the municipality may determine, not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 , but no sale shall be made at a price so low as to require the payment of interest on the money received therefor at more than that allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972 , computed with relation to the absolute maturity of the bonds, in accordance with standard tables of bond values, excluding from such computation the amount of any premium to be paid on redemption of any bonds prior to maturity. Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall be full and complete authority for the issuance of the bonds provided for herein, and no restriction or limitation otherwise prescribed by law shall apply herein, nor shall such bonds constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-319 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 33-319
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-319
Status: in_force

Whenever a balance shall remain of the proceeds of any bond issue after the purpose for which such bonds were issued shall have been accomplished, such balance shall forthwith be transferred to the bond and interest fund applicable to such bond issue.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 31-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-17
Status: in_force

For the benefit of the public service and to prevent delay, injury, or interruption therein by reason of the enactment of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , all persons holding a position in the fire and/or police departments, including the chief thereof, of any such municipality coming under the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , who shall have served continuously in such positions for a period of at least the preceding six months, are hereby declared eligible for permanent appointment under civil service to the offices, positions or employments which they shall then hold, respectively, without examination or other act on their part, and not on probation, and every such person is hereby automatically adopted and inducted permanently into civil service, into such office, place, position or employment which such person then holds as completely and effectually to all intents and purposes as if such person had been permanently appointed thereto under civil service after examination and investigation. However, those persons who have previously left their positions to participate in the armed forces of the United States shall have preference in reemployment and enjoy the rights and privileges of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 as if their services had not been terminated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-31
Status: in_force

After the expiration of four (4) years from the effective date of an employer's operation under this article, any member who has been an employee of the employer, to whom application is made, for twenty (20) years or more, whether continuous or not, provided the last seven (7) years of which service shall have been continuous, may retire upon his written application to the board setting forth at what time, not less than thirty (30) nor more than ninety (90) days subsequent to the filing thereof, he desires to be retired. The board shall grant him the benefits under Section 21-29-33 to which he is entitled because of the service retirement. It shall be mandatory that any member retire after he attains the age of seventy (70) years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-235 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-235
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-235
Status: in_force

Any fire insurance company, subject to the tax mentioned in Section 21-29-229 , which shall fail to make a report or statement required therein after thirty days demand therefor by the commissioner of insurance, shall forfeit to said fund the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the commissioner for the use of such municipality, and the commissioner shall have the right to revoke the license of such company.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-37 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 19-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-37
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality within this state are hereby authorized and empowered to adopt ordinances in the manner now provided by law to regulate the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise within the corporate limits of such municipality, subject to the provisions hereinafter named.

Such governing body is hereby authorized and empowered to enact an ordinance requiring any person, firm, or corporation desiring to conduct a sale commonly known as bankruptcy, insolvent, liquidation, assignee's, receiver's, trustee's, adjuster's, wholesale, manufacturer's, or closing-out sale, or a sale of goods damaged by fire, smoke, or water, or otherwise, to file with such governing authorities a petition for the privilege of conducting such sale, showing:

(a) the nature of the sale and the length of time required by the petitioner for conducting said sale;

(b) whether or not it is the purpose of said petitioner to replenish his stock of goods, wares, and merchandise during the course of the sale, and to what extent it is proposed to replenish said stock;

(c) the place of sale and approximate value of goods to be sold.

Such governing authorities may provide for a privilege tax in any sum not in excess of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for the privilege of conducting such sale, and may provide that such privilege tax shall be good and valid only for the conduct of a sale of goods in the manner and at the time and place set forth and prescribed in the application for the privilege of conducting such sale.

Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed to authorize and empower municipal governing authorities to enact any ordinances to prevent or to interfere with any sale made by a trustee under a deed of trust or an assignment, or by sheriffs, constables, or other public or court officials, or by any other person or persons acting under the authority and/or direction of any court in the course of official duty, or by any duly licensed bona fide merchant of such municipality conducting a seasonal or special sale ordinarily conducted by merchants, or by any bona fide merchant who is closing out his stock of goods and advertises such sale to that effect, or by a bona fide merchant whose own stock of goods has been damaged by fire, smoke, water, or otherwise, and who advertises as such.

Such municipal governing authorities may, by ordinance, prescribe penalties for the violation of such ordinance and may make such violation of said ordinances punishable in the manner provided by law for the punishment of misdemeanors.

The provisions of this section shall apply to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under the code charter, a special charter, commission form, or other form of government.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-118 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-118
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-118
Status: in_force

The Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi is hereby authorized to deduct two percent (2%) of all tax levied hereunder and paid into the “disability and relief fund” for firemen and policemen to be transferred to the expense fund of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi to defray the cost of administering this fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 41 / Section 43-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-11
Status: in_force

Whenever a hearing is held under this chapter, the governing authority of any municipality shall hear all protests and receive evidence for or against the proposed action; rule upon all protests which determination shall be final; and may continue the hearing from time to time. Proceedings shall terminate if protest is made by businesses in the proposed area which pay a majority of the taxes within the area under the general business privilege license tax.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 23-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-19
Status: in_force

In enforcing the penalty prescribed for violation of all laws and ordinances in regard to parking of vehicles, it shall not be necessary to name any person in a traffic ticket issued for such violation. A traffic ticket attached to the unlawfully parked vehicle shall be sufficient to require the appearance of the operator unlawfully parking such vehicle in the municipal court at the time stated in such traffic ticket. In cases where the name of the operator of an unlawfully parked vehicle is unknown, the owner of record of the unlawfully parked vehicle shall, as a matter of law, be presumed to be the operator of such vehicle and may be charged with such violation. No arrest shall be made for failure of the operator or owner to appear in response to said traffic ticket, except on affidavit and issuance of an arrest warrant. Except in cases where an arrest warrant is issued, it shall not be necessary to enter such cases on the municipal court docket nor to enter final judgment thereon in the minute book of said court. Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-19-56, Mississippi Code of 1972 , in enforcing the penalty prescribed for violation of all laws and ordinances in regard to parking of vehicles, no person's driver's license shall be suspended or revoked.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 31-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-59
Status: in_force

The duly constituted authorities of each and every city coming within the purview of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 , shall provide the commission with suitable and convenient rooms and accommodations and cause the same to be furnished, heated and lighted and supplied with all office supplies and equipment necessary to carry on the business of the commission and with such clerical assistance as may be necessary, all of which is to be commensurate with the number of persons in each such city coming within the purview of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 . The failure upon the part of the duly constituted authorities to do so, shall be considered a violation of this section and shall be punishable as such.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-33 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-33
Status: in_force

The minutes of every municipality must be adopted and approved by a majority of all the members of the governing body of the municipality at the next regular meeting or within thirty (30) days of the meeting thereof, whichever occurs first. Upon such approval, said minutes shall have the legal effect of being valid from and after the date of the meeting. The governing body may by ordinance designate that the minutes be approved by the mayor.

It shall not be necessary for each ordinance to be signed so long as it appears on the minutes of the municipality, which minutes shall have been signed by the mayor or a majority of the governing body of the municipality and certified by the municipal clerk.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-215 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 29-215
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-215
Status: in_force

The commissioner of insurance, the attorney general, and the secretary of state of the State of Mississippi, shall be and are constituted a body to be known as the “board of disability and relief appeals,” with full duty and power to hear, consider and determine all matters brought before it on appeal from decisions of the boards of disability and relief. Determinations by said appeal board shall be final.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-329 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 33-329
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-329
Status: in_force

This article shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under the code charter, the commission form of government, a special charter, or any other form of government, and regardless of whether or not the provisions of any special charter shall contain conflicting or contrary provisions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-131 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 41 / Section 43-131
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-131
Status: in_force

The initial authorization for any business improvement district shall be for ten (10) years. During the last twelve (12) months of the tenth year of the authorization, a new district plan must be developed which meets all of the initial requirements of the district plan plus reauthorizes the district for another ten (10) years. Reauthorization requires the same approval process as initial establishment and authorization of the district. Should the district fail to receive reauthorization from the affected property owners in the district, the business improvement district will cease to exist at the conclusion of the most recently approved ten-year period or as soon thereafter as any outstanding indebtedness is satisfied. The ability to reauthorize rests solely with the affected property owners in the district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 15-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-19
Status: in_force

In addition to the claims docket provided for in Section 21-39-7 the clerk shall keep a record of permanent construction to be styled “Municipal Docket,” upon which he shall enter each subject, other than claims and accounts, to be acted upon by the governing authorities at the next meeting. After each meeting he shall make up such docket for the next regular meeting, and he shall examine the statutes of the state and the ordinances of the municipality to ascertain the subjects required or proper to be acted upon at the following meeting, and shall docket all such matters. He shall keep all such other records as may be provided for by ordinance, and shall file in his office and preserve all records pertaining to the business of the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-203 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 33-203
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-203
Status: in_force

In addition to the taxes now or hereafter provided by law, there is hereby levied upon, assessed to and shall be collected from all telephone or communication utilities as defined by Section 77-3-1, Mississippi Code of 1972 and regulated under said Section 77-3-1 , an additional tax of two per cent of the gross amount of revenue made and collected on local business from customers within the corporate limits of any municipality of the State of Mississippi, which qualifies as provided by the City Utility Tax Law. Such public utility shall add to the sales price of its service the amount of any tax due under the provisions of the City Utility Tax Law to the extent that such tax was not included as a part of the cost of furnishing services in the fixing of the rates and charges for such service by the Mississippi Public Service Commission. The tax levied herein shall not apply to the cash receipts collected through coin boxes or other mechanical devices where it is impracticable to render periodic statements and thereby add the tax to the sales price of its service.

Any such public utility which pays any municipality of the State of Mississippi the compensation provided for in municipal franchises or levied and provided for by Section 77-3-17, Mississippi Code of 1972 , shall be exempt from the tax herein imposed and from the provisions of the City Utility Tax Law. In addition, any such public utility which makes payment of the tax imposed herein shall not be required to make payments, if any, which may be required under the terms of said Section 77-3-17 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 35 / Section 39-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-15
Status: in_force

If any member of the governing body of a municipality shall knowingly vote for the payment of any claim not authorized by law, he shall be subject to indictment and, upon conviction, be fined by a sum not exceeding double the amount of such unlawful claim or appropriation, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-23
Status: in_force

Any municipality may:

(a) Borrow money and issue revenue bonds therefor solely for the purposes specified in this section and by the procedure provided in Sections 21-27-41 through 21-27-69 .

Money may be borrowed and bonds issued by any municipality of the State of Mississippi, as defined in Section 21-27-11 , to acquire or improve any waterworks system, water supply system, sewerage system, sewage disposal system, garbage disposal system, rubbish disposal system or incinerators, gas producing system, gas generating system, gas transmission system, or gas distribution system, electric generating, transmission or distribution system, railroad transportation system for passengers and freight, or motor vehicle transportation system, including any combination of any or all of those systems into one (1) system, within or without the corporate limits thereof, for the purpose of supplying the municipality and the persons and corporations, both public and private, whether within or without its corporate limits, with the services and facilities afforded by the system, provided that water, electric energy, or gas afforded by any system or systems may be supplied to such ultimate consumers thereof by sale thereof to the owners or operators of a distribution system for resale to the public. Any municipality which shall borrow money and issue revenue bonds to provide funds with which to acquire a gas transmission system, if necessary in order to reach and obtain a source of supply of gas for the municipality, may extend or construct its gas transmission line into an adjoining state, and may use and expend part of the proceeds of such issue of revenue bonds for the purpose.

(b) To assume all indebtedness for any system or systems which may be acquired under the provisions of this section as all or part of the consideration for the acquisition of such system or systems and to issue its revenue bonds in exchange for the bonds or notes evidencing the indebtedness.

(c) To acquire or improve any system which it is authorized to borrow money and issue revenue bonds under subsection (a) of this section to acquire or improve; and to make contracts in furtherance thereof or in connection therewith.

(d) To own, operate and maintain any such system or combination of any and all of said systems into one (1) system.

(e) To establish, maintain and collect rates for the facilities and services offered by any such system; provided that if there is a combination of systems into one or more systems, the municipality establishing the same shall be and is empowered to establish, maintain and collect rates for any and all of the services or for any combination thereof, and the municipality may discontinue any or all of the services upon any failure to promptly pay the charges fixed for the services. The rates so fixed for services rendered by any system or combination thereof may be charged for all services rendered thereby, regardless of whether the services may have been previously rendered without rates or charges therefor by the previously existing waterworks system, water supply system, sewerage system, sewage disposal system, garbage disposal system, rubbish disposal system or incinerators, gas producing system, gas generating system, gas transmission system, or gas distribution system, electric generating, transmission or distribution system, which shall have been merged into the combined system. Any such municipality may pledge for the payment of any bonds issued to acquire or improve any such combined system, or to refund any bonds previously issued to acquire or improve any such combined system or to acquire or improve any system merged with such combined system, the revenues to be derived from the operation of such combined system, including the charges authorized to be imposed by this section.

A municipality may authorize a municipally owned utility to make early payment of the utility's bills to its electricity suppliers which offer early payment discounts to the municipally owned utility. The municipality may immediately refund to a customer of the municipally owned utility his or her deposit for municipal utility services after the municipal utility has determined that payment for all services and any other obligations which the customer may have incurred in regard to the municipal utility has been made.

If the revenues of any previously existing system being merged into a combined system are subject to a prior lien, the revenues and the expenses of any previously existing system shall be accounted for separately to the extent necessary to satisfy the covenants relating to the prior lien for so long as the indebtedness secured by the revenues shall remain outstanding. Only surplus revenues remaining after the satisfaction of all covenants relating to the outstanding indebtedness may be pledged to the retirement of any indebtedness to be secured by the revenues of a combined system. The existence of the outstanding indebtedness shall not, in and of itself, prevent the combining of systems as herein provided, so long as the prior lien on the revenues of any previously existing system is fully satisfied from the revenues of the previously existing system.

(f) To acquire property, real or personal, which may be necessary to effectuate the powers conferred by this section. The municipality may purchase electric transmission line materials, electric distribution system substation equipment, transformer equipment, and all other appliances, apparatus, machinery, equipment and appurtenances necessary for the sale of electricity, such as utility vehicles and fencing, from the surplus inventory of the Tennessee Valley Authority or any other similar agency of the federal government and electric power associations. These purchases by the municipality shall be exempt from the public bid requirements prescribed in Sections 31-7-12 and 31-7-13 . If the power of eminent domain is exercised, it shall be exercised in the manner provided by Sections 11-27-1 through 11-27-51 .

(g) To enter into contract with the United States of America or any agency thereof, under the provisions of acts of the Congress of the United States, to aid or encourage public works and the regulations made in pursuance thereof, for the sale of bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of Sections 21-27-41 through 21-27-69 or for the acceptance of a grant to aid such municipality in acquiring or improving any such system; and the contracts may contain terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by and between the municipality and the United States of America or any agency thereof, or any purchaser of the bonds.

(h) To adopt the ordinances and resolutions and to do all things and perform all acts necessary, proper or desirable to effectuate the full intent and purpose of Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 , including processing, marketing, custom processing, sale and resale of materials processed through any facility under its jurisdiction.

(i) To borrow from the Mississippi Development Bank in order to fund the advance purchase of energy for its gas producing, generating, transmission or distribution system or its electric generating, transmission or distribution system.

(j) Enter into an interlocal agreement in accordance with Section 21-27-75 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 25-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-23
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality are hereby authorized, when petitioned so to do by the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning or the board of trustees of a community or junior college district, to create, by ordinance, a fire district encompassing the area adjoining such municipality on which a part or all of a State Institution of Higher Learning or a community college is located, after the creation of which such governing authorities and the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning or the board of trustees of the affected community or junior college district shall have full power to contract for laying of water mains and any other pipes or connections to the water mains to be used in said fire district, and for the establishment and maintenance of fire service therein. However, no such governing authority shall have the power either to promulgate or enforce any charge, rule or regulation upon said district without first having received the ratification and consent of the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning or the board of trustees of the affected community or junior college district as reflected by the minutes of said trustees.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-161 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-161
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-161
Status: in_force

Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 are for the purpose of authorizing a cooperative effort by public agencies for the safe and economical construction and operation of systems for the collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of wastes, including sewerage systems and sewage disposal systems, in order to prevent and control the pollution of the waters in this state. Said sections may be cited as the “Metropolitan Area Waste Disposal Act.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-25 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 25-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-25
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any two or more municipalities may, in their discretion, contract to create a consolidated fire district, which shall consist of the whole, or a part, of the territory of such municipalities joining therein. Such contract entered into by the governing authorities of such municipalities shall embrace all of the essential terms, and shall state the amount to be contributed by each participating municipality, and the control and operation of same. An ordinance containing the contract as to control of equipment, supervision of the district, and the amount of money to be contributed by each municipality, shall be passed by the governing authorities of all participating municipalities in the same form and substance. Such ordinance shall be duly published as now required by law, and shall go into effect unless twenty per cent of the qualified electors of one of the participating municipalities shall petition against same and file said petition with the proper clerk on or before the next regular meeting of said governing authorities, to be held not less than fifteen days thereafter. If such petition be duly filed, said governing authorities may either cancel said prior ordinance or order an election on said question. Said ordinance shall go into effect immediately if a majority of the qualified electors voting in said election vote therefor; otherwise, said ordinance shall remain void and of no effect, and no like ordinance shall be passed within four years thereafter.

Such consolidated fire district shall be given a name, and the supervision of protecting said district shall be vested in the governing authorities of the municipality decided upon and stated in the ordinance creating the consolidated fire district. The governing authorities of the municipalities in a consolidated fire district created under the provisions of this section shall have the same powers and duties as the governing authorities in any other fire district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-139 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-139
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-139
Status: in_force

If any member of said fire and/or police department who has been in paid fire and/or police department service for as long as twenty (20) years before making application hereinafter mentioned, the last ten (10) years of which shall have been continuous in the city in which the application is made, shall make written application for retirement and relief, the board of disability and relief shall, without medical examination of disability, retire him from active service in said fire and/or police department. Upon such retirement from active service, said board of disability and relief shall order the payment to such retired member monthly from said fund a sum equal to fifty percent (50%) of the average monthly base salary and longevity pay received as salary by such member in the six-month period next before the filing of such application in said fire and/or police department. Such payments shall thereafter be made to said retired member for life, such payment to be known as “retired relief.”

Any member of the fire and/or police department who has been in paid fire and/or police department service for longer than twenty (20) years in a municipality shall be entitled and shall receive additional retired relief payment for life in a sum equal to one and seven-tenths percent (1- 7 / 10 %) of the same average monthly base salary and longevity pay received by such member in the six-month period next preceding the filing of said application, for each full year of service in excess of twenty (20) years' service. However, no retired relief payment to any member shall exceed sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66- 2 / 3 %) of the average monthly base salary and longevity pay received by a member for the six-month period next preceding the filing of said application.

The said board shall, when a member of the fire and/or police department reaches the age of sixty-five (65), retire him from active service in said fire and/or police department and order the payment of such funds as the member is entitled to hereunder.

Periods of time in which a member may have been inactive on account of physical or mental disability shall not be excluded in computing the twenty-year period and the ten-year period hereinbefore mentioned. Periods of time within which a member may have been absent from his employment while in active service of the Army or Navy of the United States, United States Marine Corps or the United States Coast Guard between September 16, 1940, and July 25, 1947, or while as a civil employee engaged by the Army and Navy while serving outside the continental United States shall not be excluded in computing the twenty-year period and the ten-year period hereinbefore mentioned, provided that the discharge or release of such member from the armed forces was under conditions other than dishonorable. Any member who has been retired or is voluntarily retired hereunder, or who has received relief or disability benefits hereunder, shall be required to perform such duties as then may be required of him.

Provided, however, in any city having a population of nineteen thousand (19,000) but less than twenty thousand (20,000), according to the 1970 census, the periods of time not exceeding four (4) years within which a member of the fire or police departments may have been absent from his employment while in active service in the Armed Forces of the United States, shall not be excluded in computing the twenty-year period and the ten-year period mentioned in this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 27-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-59
Status: in_force

Nothing in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 shall be construed to prohibit the municipality from appropriating and using any part of its available income or revenues derived from any source other than from the operation of such system or combined system in paying any immediate expenses of operation and/or maintenance of any such system or combined system. Nothing in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 shall be construed, however, to require the municipality to do so.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 9-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-59
Status: in_force

The council is authorized to provide by ordinance for the division of the wards, or if there be no wards, for the division of the municipality, into such number of voting precincts as may be necessary, each as nearly as possible containing the same number of qualified electors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45.nr2 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 29-45.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45.nr2
Status: in_force

Upon proper application to the general retirement board, the benefits to dependents of deceased members and retirants shall be paid as follows:

(a) If any member dies for causes other than the performance of duty in the service of the municipality before completing five (5) years' service, there shall be paid to his or her designated beneficiary or his or her legal representative, if no beneficiary has been designated, from the employees' savings fund the sum equal to the amount accumulated in his or her individual account.

(b) If any member dies who has not had less than five (5) and not more than twenty (20) years' service with the municipality, there shall be paid to the spouse, from the retirement reserve fund, for each year's active service, not to exceed a period of twenty (20) years, one-fortieth ( 1 / 40 ) of the average monthly salary or compensation received by the member in the four-year or two-year period, as the case may be, next preceding the death, for the use of the spouse and the child or children of the deceased member under the age of eighteen (18) years, so long as the spouse lives. If, after the death of the spouse, there remains a child or children of the deceased member under the age of eighteen (18) years, the payments shall continue to be made to a parent or lawful custodian of the child or children without the necessity of appointment as guardian for the benefit of the child or children, so long as the child or children are under the age of eighteen (18) years. After the death of the spouse, all payments to the spouse shall cease, and after the death or attainment of eighteen (18) years of any child or children of the deceased member, all payments to the child or children over eighteen (18) years of age shall cease. If the deceased member is not survived by a spouse, child or children under the age of eighteen (18) years, but is survived by a father or a mother dependent upon him or her, the payments shall continue to be made to the dependent father or mother, or both, so long as each lives. The word “ dependent ,” as used in this section, shall mean “wholly dependent,” as determined by the retirement board.

(c) If any member dies after having completed twenty (20) years' service as required by Section 21-29-31 , or if any retirant dies, there shall be paid from the retirement reserve fund to the spouse or the dependents designated in paragraph (b) of this section, the amount of benefits or retirement pay equal to the sum being paid to the deceased member or retirant, or which would have been paid to the deceased member or retirant if he or she had applied for benefits under this section, on the date of his or her death.

(d) If any member dies before becoming eligible to receive benefits under this article as a result of the performance of duty to the municipality, there shall be paid to the spouse or dependents designated in paragraph (b) of this section from the retirement reserve fund, an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the monthly salary of the deceased member on the date of his or her death. This amount shall be paid to the same beneficiaries and for the same period of time as those beneficiaries and periods of time set forth in paragraph (b) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 13-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-19
Status: in_force

All offenses under the penal laws of this state which are misdemeanors, together with the penalty provided for violation thereof, are hereby made, without further action of the municipal authorities, criminal offenses against the municipality in whose corporate limits the offenses may have been committed to the same effect as though such offenses were made offenses against the municipality by separate ordinance in each case. However, for such misdemeanor, any penalty of incarceration is hereby limited to no more than six (6) months in jail, and any fine is hereby limited to a maximum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each such violation in any case tried without a jury. Judgments for fines, costs, forfeitures and other penalties imposed by municipal courts may be enrolled by filing a certified copy of the record with the clerk of any circuit court and execution may be had thereon as provided by law for other judgments.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 33-325
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality of this state shall have the power and authority to borrow money for the current expenses of such municipality in anticipation of the ad valorem taxes to be collected for the then current fiscal year. The governing authority of the municipality may borrow such money, as hereinbefore provided, from any available fund in the municipal treasury, or from any other source, and such loan shall be repaid in the manner herein provided. The money so borrowed shall bear interest at a rate not greater than that allowed in Section 75-17-105, Mississippi Code of 1972 , and shall be repaid not later than the following March 15, out of the first moneys collected by reason of the tax levy in anticipation of which such money is borrowed, and such money shall be used for no other purpose than the payment of the current expenses of such municipality. The amount borrowed under the provisions of this section shall in no event exceed fifty percent (50%) of the anticipated, but then uncollected, revenue to be produced by the then current tax levy, or levies, against which such money is borrowed. In borrowing money under the provisions hereof, it shall not be necessary to publish notice of intention so to do or to secure the consent of the qualified electors, either by election or otherwise. Such borrowing may be authorized by resolution of the governing authorities and may be evidenced by a negotiable note, or notes, signed and executed in such form as may be prescribed in such resolution. Money may be borrowed in anticipation of ad valorem taxes under the provisions of this section, regardless of whether or not such borrowing shall create an indebtedness in excess of statutory limitations.

Money may likewise be borrowed by the governing authorities of any municipality, as herein provided, for the purpose of paying current interest maturities on any bonded indebtedness of such municipality in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the retirement of such bonded indebtedness and the payment of any interest thereon.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-57 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 25-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-57
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality entering into an interlocal agreement with a rural water association operating within the corporate limits of the municipality pursuant to Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 may incur bonded and floating indebtedness, including general obligation indebtedness as authorized by Sections 21-33-301 through 21-33-329 and may appropriate funds for the purpose and in the manner prescribed by law without regard to whether the activities and improvements authorized under Section 21-25-51 to be financed by such debt or appropriation are within or without the corporate limits of the municipality. The governing authorities of the municipality may sell, lease, grant or otherwise supply goods and services to the rural water association which is a party to the interlocal agreement or the administrative body or legal entity created to operate the joint or cooperative undertaking.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-77 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 33-77
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-77
Status: in_force

When any municipality shall buy in property for delinquent taxes, such municipality is hereby authorized to issue notes, bonds, or certificates of indebtedness for the amount of the tax, for a period of time not to exceed one year after the period provided for the redemption of such land and, in addition to pledging the full faith, credit, and resources of the municipality therefor, such municipality may pledge the taxes and damages from delinquent tax sales thereon. When said notes, bonds, or certificates of indebtedness are so issued, all funds collected on said delinquent taxes and damages, or the sale of the property, in the event the title ripens in the municipality, shall be set aside as a special or trust fund for the retirement of said notes, bonds, or certificates of indebtedness. The rate of interest of said notes, bonds, or certificates of indebtedness not to exceed six per centum per annum. The authority implied and granted in this section shall apply also to the boards of trustees in municipal separate school districts, by and with the consent of the governing authorities of such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-313 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-313
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-313
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of Articles 1, 3 or 5, in the computation of membership service or prior service under the provisions of Articles 1, 3 and 5, the following schedule shall govern: ten (10) or more months of service during any fiscal year shall constitute a year of service; seven (7) months to nine (9) months, inclusive, three-quarters ( 3 / 4 ) of a year of service; four (4) months to six (6) months, inclusive, one-half ( 1 / 2 ) year of service; one (1) month to three (3) months, inclusive, one-quarter ( 1 / 4 ) of a year of service.

Benefits payable under the provisions of Articles 1, 3 and 5 that previously were made on the basis of full years of creditable service shall be computed on the basis of the fractional years of service as provided in this section beginning July 1, 1991.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 15-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-31
Status: in_force

In no case shall the building inspector retain any compensation from his collections, but the full amount of such collections shall be paid into the municipal treasury and his compensation shall thereafter be paid by allowance thereof by the governing authorities of the municipality, and the issuance of warrants, as in other cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-217 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-217
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-217
Status: in_force

Any applicant for benefits of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen, or any two (2) active members of said fire department, or any two (2) active members of said police department, being aggrieved at the decision or order of the board of trustees, may file with the board of trustees and with said board of disability and relief appeals duplicate copies of a petition for a rehearing of the matter in which such decision or order was made. Within thirty (30) days thereafter the board of trustees shall file with said appeal board, true copies of all papers and documents which were before it, all evidence of record before it and a statement of all evidence heard by it and not of record, all certified to be true and correct, whereupon said appeal board shall fix a time for hearing and shall give the board of trustees and the petitioner or petitioners for appeal notice of said such time for hearing. When the matter shall come on for hearing said appeal board shall have before it all papers, statements, matters and things certified to it by the board of trustees, as well as such additional evidence and documents as it may hear and receive and upon all of the same shall hear, consider and decide said matter fully and finally according to this article and the facts. Said appeal board may cause witnesses to be sworn by any one (1) of its members, or by any other authority competent to administer oaths. Said appeal board may meet for all purposes at any time in the State of Mississippi when all are present, or upon the call of two (2) members thereof. Said appeal board shall certify its decision to the board of trustees, and such decision or order shall be final and binding and said fund shall be disbursed according thereto. Any suit or other action affecting said fund shall be by or against the board of trustees as custodian of said fund and shall be filed in the Chancery Court of Hinds County.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-220 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 29-220
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-220
Status: in_force

The Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi is hereby authorized to deduct two percent (2%) of all tax levied hereunder and paid into the “disability and relief fund” for firemen and policemen to be transferred to the expense fund of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi to defray the cost of administering this fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 31-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-69
Status: in_force

The tenure of everyone holding an office, place, position or employment under the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall be only during good behavior. Any such person may be removed or discharged, suspended without pay, demoted or reduced in rank, or deprived of vacation privileges or other special privileges, or any combination thereof, for any of the following reasons:

Incompetency, inefficiency or inattention of duty; dishonesty, intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public or a fellow employee; or any other act of omission or commission tending to injure the public service.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 33-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-69
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-41-2 , where lands are offered for sale for unpaid municipal taxes or special improvement taxes or municipal separate school district taxes, and a person will not bid therefor the amount of taxes, damages, and costs due, the same shall be struck off to the municipality and otherwise, where applicable, dealt with as lands are which are sold to the state for delinquent state and county taxes. The governing authorities shall be authorized to pay the state and county taxes on lands thus acquired by the municipality, and to collect the money thus paid, with the same damages and interest allowed individuals in similar cases under the general revenue laws of the state thereon from the date of such payment, upon the redemption of the lands from the municipal sale.

Where lands have heretofore been, or may hereafter be struck off to a municipality for unpaid municipal taxes or special improvement taxes or municipal separate school districts taxes, and such lands have also been sold or struck off to an individual or to the state for unpaid state, county, or taxing district taxes, the governing authorities of such municipality are hereby authorized to redeem such lands from the sale for delinquent state, county, or taxing district taxes by paying to the chancery clerk of the county where such lands are situated the amount necessary to redeem same and to collect the money thus paid, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the date of such payment, upon the redemption of such lands from the municipal sale. Such lands may be redeemed from the municipal sale for unpaid municipal taxes or special improvement taxes by the owner or other person interested in such lands, including the person to whom such lands were struck off or sold at the sale for state, county, or taxing district taxes.

When lands have heretofore or may hereafter be struck off to a municipality for unpaid municipal taxes or special improvement taxes or municipal separate school district taxes, and the title to such lands has matured or may hereafter mature in the state by virtue of a sale for unpaid state, county, or taxing district taxes, the governing authorities of such municipality may purchase said lands from the state at a price to be agreed upon by the Secretary of State, Governor, or other lawful authority. Upon payment of such amounts into the State Treasury, the state's title to said lands shall be conveyed to the said municipality by a patent, or patents, executed and delivered as provided by law in cases of sales of state lands to individuals.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-321 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 33 / Section 33-321
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-321
Status: in_force

Whenever there shall be on hand in any bond and interest fund an amount in excess of the amount which will be required for expenditure therefrom within the then next succeeding twelve months, the governing authorities of the municipality may use such excess amount to purchase the outstanding bonds of such municipality which are payable from such fund whenever, in the judgment of the governing authorities, the best interest of the municipality would be served thereby. When such bonds are purchased, they shall be cancelled and retired and shall not thereafter be resold or reissued.