Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 9-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-67
Status: in_force

Whenever any ordinance or resolution adopted by the council, or any other matter, is required to be referred to a vote of the qualified electors of any city, the council shall order a special election for the determination of the matter, to be held no less than thirty days nor more than sixty days from the making of such order, provided that there shall not be a general election to be held in such city within sixty days from the date of the order referring such matter to the judgment of the electors. In case there is to be such a general election, the matter shall be referred to and voted upon at such general election. All such special elections shall be held and conducted as other elections in such city.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-207 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 33 / 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. § 21-41-53 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 39 / Section 41-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-53
Status: in_force

All work upon the improvements authorized by Section 21-41-3 , shall be undertaken and contracts therefor, if any, shall be let and awarded in the manner provided by the law or the charter of the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 31-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-15
Status: in_force

All applicants for a position of any kind under civil service must be a citizen of the United States and an elector of the county in which he resides and must meet only such bona fide occupational residency requirements as may be determined by the municipal board of civil service commissions or the governing authority of the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 35 / Section 37-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-15
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to construct all needful improvements in the harbor; to control, guide, or deflect the current of a river; to repair and regulate public wharves and docks; to charge and collect levee rates and wharfage on firewood, lumber, timber, logs, shingles, staves, posts, laths, and other articles brought to the port of such municipality; and to set aside or lease portions of the wharf for special purposes. However, a permit to use any portion of a wharf or a lease of the same shall not be granted for a term exceeding twenty-five years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 19-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-7
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to donate a sum, not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month, to maintain a charity ward or wards in any hospital situated in the same county in which such municipality is located.

All municipalities within the several counties of this state bordering on the tidewater of the Gulf of Mexico, are hereby authorized and empowered, in the discretion of the proper authorities thereof, to appropriate such a sum of money as said authorities shall deem reasonable, to provide and maintain a charity ward or wards, in any of the hospitals in said municipalities, or, in the discretion of said authorities, to make and enter into contracts with any such hospitals for the treatment and care in such hospitals of the indigent sick of said municipalities, and to pay therefor out of the general fund of such municipalities such sum or sums, as shall be a reasonable and just compensation to said hospital.

In addition, the governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to donate and furnish free of charge lights, power and water from municipally-owned electric light and water plants to hospitals or benevolent institutions located within any such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 33-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-21
Status: in_force

The assessor shall, in the same manner and at the same time as municipal assessments are made, make an assessment of all taxable property in any added territory, and make the same a part of the assessment roll of the municipal separate school district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-133 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 29-133
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-133
Status: in_force

If any member of said fire department or police department shall become or be found to be totally disabled for the discharge of his duties as a member of said fire department or police department, mentally or physically, by reason of sickness or injury caused or sustained by reason of service or discharge of his duty in said department, after such city shall have come within the terms of this article, said disability and relief board shall order the payment and there shall be paid from said fund to said fireman or policeman each month thereafter an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of said fireman's or policeman's monthly salary, to be paid throughout such total disability for service. In passing upon the question of disability, said board shall require an examination of the applicant by the city physician or other physician or physicians as it may deem proper, and may require like examinations from time to time throughout the period of disability claimed by said fireman or policeman. If said city pays a salary to its firemen or policemen while disabled in an amount equal to the disability relief allowed under this section, said fireman or policeman shall not be entitled to any disability relief under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-27-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 27-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-15
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of such municipality shall have the power to remove any member of said commission for inefficiency or incompetency or any other cause, but the governing authority of any municipality which has created a commission under the terms of Section 21-27-13 , shall not have authority to abolish the commission, or to diminish its powers, except by a vote of a majority of the qualified electors of such municipality at a special election, duly called and held for that purpose. However, nothing herein shall limit, alter, impair or in any way change the procedure prescribed for the sale or lease of a public utility system under Section 21-27-33 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 43 / Section 45-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-7
Status: in_force

Any redevelopment project may contain a provision that municipal and county ad valorem taxes, if any, levied upon taxable property in a redevelopment project or municipal sales taxes collected within the area, or both, shall be divided according to a tax increment financing plan.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-45-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 38 / Section 45-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-13
Status: in_force

The principal, interest and premium, if any, on any tax increment bond shall be secured by a pledge of the revenues payable to the municipality pursuant to the tax increment financing plan and may also be secured, in the discretion of the municipality, by a lien on all or any part of the redevelopment project and any security by any developer pursuant to and secured by a security agreement. The proceedings under which any indebtedness is authorized or any security agreement may contain any agreement or provisions customarily contained in instruments securing such obligations, without limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions respecting the construction, maintenance and operation of buildings or other facilities or improvements of the project, the creation and maintenance of special funds, the rights and remedies available in the event of default to the debt holders or to the trustee, all as the governing body shall deem advisable; provided, however, that in making any such agreements or provisions, no municipality shall have the power to obligate itself except with respect to:

(a) The proceeds of the bonds and any property purchased with the proceeds of the bonds;

(b) Any security pledged, mortgaged or otherwise made available by a developer for the securing of bonds or other indebtedness; and

(c) No municipality shall have the power to obligate itself except with respect to the application of the revenues from the tax increments; nor shall any municipality have the power to incur a pecuniary liability or charge upon its general credit or against its taxing powers.

Tax increment financing bonds issued under the Regional Economic Development Act also may be secured as provided therein.

The proceedings authorizing any bonds and any security agreement securing bonds may provide that in the event of default in payment of the principal of or interest on such bonds, or in the performance of any agreement contained in such proceedings or security agreement, such payment and performance may be enforced by mandamus or by appointment of a receiver in equity with such powers as may be necessary to enforce the obligations thereof. No breach of any such agreement shall impose any pecuniary liability upon any municipality or any charge upon its general credit or against its taxing powers.

The trustee under any security agreement or any depository specified by such security agreement may be such persons or corporation as the governing body shall designate; provided, that they may be residents of Mississippi or nonresidents of Mississippi or incorporated under the laws of the United States or the laws of other states of the United States.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 35 / Section 37-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-17
Status: in_force

The governing authorities shall have the power to establish and maintain, and to provide for the governing and regulation of curb markets. When such municipality owns such curb market, it shall have the power to fix the rental value thereof, and the stalls and booths therein. However, no municipality shall prohibit the producer of meats and other foodstuffs from selling his produce to consumers in any quantity that seller and buyer may agree upon.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-43 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 33 / Section 33-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-43
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in Section 21-33-10 , the governing authorities of any municipality shall have the power to change assessments, after the assessment roll, or rolls, of real and personal property have been finally approved, but not after the expiration of the fiscal year in which the taxes on said assessments are due and payable. The assessments may be reduced or increased for the same reasons and in like manner, as provided by law for the reduction and/or increasing of county assessments. Such change shall not be submitted to the state tax commission for approval.

Where a reduction is sought, the governing authorities shall require the owner of the property, or his duly authorized agent or attorney, to make a suitable application or petition, and where an increase is sought the application or petition shall be made by the assessor. The governing authorities shall have the right and power to consider the application or petition and to do any and all things necessary to determine whether or not it shall be allowed, and shall adopt an order rejecting or approving the application or petition. Said authorities may adopt an order to change the assessment so as to increase or decrease the assessment to the fair value of the property, or to cause the taxes to be charged to the person or property liable therefor.

The clerk shall carefully file and preserve, as a public record, in his office, all petitions or applications, and exhibits thereto, for either an increase or decrease in assessments as herein provided, for a period of three (3) years after the expiration of the fiscal year in which such petitions or applications were filed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-71 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 9-71
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-71
Status: in_force

Any officer or employee other than the mayor and councilmen of any such city, who shall solicit or attempt to influence any person to vote for any particular candidate at any election held in such city, or who shall in any manner contribute any money, labor or other valuable thing to any person or organization for election purposes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-253 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-253
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-253
Status: in_force

(1) A town, acting through its governing body, is authorized to:

(a) Undertake a short-line railroad project, and, in conjunction therewith to acquire a short-line railroad, whether such short-line railroad relates to real property within or without the corporate limits of the town or the boundaries of the State of Mississippi, on such terms and conditions and for such considerations deemed by the governing body, in its sole determination, to be in the best interest of the public and in accordance with the premises and provisions of Section 21-27-251 and this section, and any such acquisition shall be evidenced by a resolution duly adopted and entered on the official minutes of the governing body;

(b) Implement and oversee all aspects of such short-line railroad project, including, without limitation, entering into and executing agreements with planning and development districts and private third parties for project management and consulting services associated with any and all aspects of the short-line railroad project, entering into and executing such agreements with third-party contractors for the restoration and construction of the short-line railroad and any improvements thereto, and entering into and executing such agreements with third party contractors for the maintenance of the short-line railroad, in each case as the governing body deems necessary or advisable to carry-out the short-line railroad project, whether such restoration, construction, and maintenance shall occur within or without the corporate limits of the town or the boundaries of the State of Mississippi;

(c) Enter into and execute such agreements with third-party operators for the operation of the short-line railroad that is the subject of the short-line railroad project, on such terms and conditions the governing body deems necessary, in the best interest of the public or advisable to carry-out the short-line railroad project, whether such operation shall occur within or without the corporate limits of the town or the boundaries of the State of Mississippi;

(d) Engage additional third parties and enter into such agreements reasonably necessary or required for the short-line railroad project, and to acquire, purchase, install, lease, finance, construct, own, hold, equip, control, maintain, use, operate and repair structures and equipment necessary and convenient for the planning, development, use, operation and maintenance of the short-line railroad that is the subject of the short-line railroad project, including, but not limited to, utility installations;

(e) Sell, lease, trade, exchange, encumber or otherwise dispose of the short-line railroad that is the subject of the short-line railroad project and structures and equipment related thereto to individuals, firms or corporations, public or private, for all types of utility, industrial, commercial, agricultural or other economic development uses upon such terms and conditions, for such consideration, and with such safeguards as will best promote and protect the public interest, convenience and necessity, and to execute options, rights of first refusal, deeds, leases, contracts, access or use agreements, easements and other legal instruments necessary or convenient therefor;

(f) Employ engineers, attorneys, accountants, consultants and such executive and administrative personnel and other employees or independent contractors as shall be reasonably necessary to carry-out the short-line railroad project and the duties and authority authorized by Section 21-27-251 and this section, to determine their qualifications and duties, and to establish compensation and other employment benefits as may be advisable to attract and retain proficient personnel;

(g) Buy, lease, sell, convey and do all other necessary business transactions for carrying-out the short-line railroad project and to do all acts necessary and convenient to operate and carry-out the duties of such town pursuant to such short-line railroad project;

(h) Take all actions and expend any such state, federal, or other funds of the town as necessary to carry-out any action or agreement authorized pursuant to Section 21-27-251 and this section for the short-line railroad project;

(i) Accept from any public or private agency, or from any individual, grants for or in aid of the short-line railroad project, and to receive and accept contributions from any source of money or property or other things of value to be held, used and applied only for the purposes for which such grants or contributions may be made;

(j) Apply for and accept grants and loans from the State of Mississippi, any other state, or the United States of America or any agency thereof; and, to contract with any agency of the State of Mississippi, or any state adjacent thereto, and the United States of America in furtherance of a short-line railroad project;

(k) Adopt any and all lawful resolutions, orders and/or ordinances; to execute such documents, contracts, leases, certificates and indentures; and to do and perform any and all acts and things necessary and requisite to carry-out the purposes of Section 21-27-251 and this section; and

(l) To the extent a short-line railroad project is funded in whole or in part by grants or loans from the State of Mississippi, another state and the United States of America or any agency thereof, the governing body is authorized to bind successor boards with respect to all aspects of such short-line railroad project for a term not to exceed twenty (20) years.

(2) Any short-line railroad project undertaken by a town pursuant to Section 21-27-251 and this section is in all respects for the benefit of the people of such town and the State of Mississippi and is a public purpose, and such town will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by Section 21-27-251 and this section, and any property owned or held by such town or under its jurisdiction under the provisions of Section 21-27-251 and this section shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Mississippi.

(3) The enumeration of any specific rights and powers contained in Section 21-27-251 and this section, where followed by general powers, shall not be construed in a restrictive sense, but rather in as broad and comprehensive a sense as possible to effectuate the purposes of Section 21-27-251 and this section. Nothing in Section 21-27-251 and this section should be construed to limit, restrict, or otherwise alter the duties, responsibilities, and authority of the governing body as provided under the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 and the laws of the State of Mississippi.

(4) Section 21-27-251 and this section shall be deemed to be full and complete authority for the exercise of the powers herein granted, but Section 21-27-251 and this section shall not be deemed to repeal or to be in derogation of any existing law of this state whereunder projects of the character herein defined may be constructed or financed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 25-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-21
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality are hereby authorized to create, by ordinance, a fire district within or adjoining such municipality when petitioned so to do by a majority of the owners of property, either real or personal, located within such proposed fire district. After the creation of the fire district such governing authorities shall cause the ordinance creating such fire district to be published three weeks in some newspaper in such municipality, or the county in which the municipality is located, and at the next regular meeting of the governing authorities after such three weeks' publication, they shall declare such territory to be a fire district as provided by this section. Such governing authorities shall have full power to contract for laying 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.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / 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. § 21-25-25 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / 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. § 21-25-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 25-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-59
Status: in_force

After a water system has been constructed or upgraded pursuant to the provisions of Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 , the municipality which reimbursed or paid a rural water system for the cost of such construction or upgrading shall not be charged with the costs of such construction or upgrade upon its purchase of the water system. The price of such newly constructed or upgraded water system shall be reduced by an amount equal to the costs paid by the municipality to the rural water system for such construction or upgrading of the water system.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-32 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 35 / 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. § 21-33-63 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 33-63
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-63
Status: in_force

Sales for the nonpayment of municipal taxes, both ad valorem and for special improvements, shall be made by the tax collector at such place, within the corporate limits, as the governing authorities may direct. The sale of real estate for ad valorem taxes and special improvement assessments and sale of personal property shall be made upon the same notice, at the same time, and in the same manner as provided by law for sales of like property for unpaid state and county taxes.

The lists of lands sold for taxes by the municipality shall be made as required to be made by the state and county collector, and shall be filed with the municipal clerk within twenty days after the tax sale, and shall there remain, subject to redemption for the same length of time and in the same manner as prescribed for the redemption of lands sold for state and county taxes, with the same saving to infants and persons of unsound mind. Said lists shall have the same force and effect, and confer the same right and entitle the purchasers to the same remedies, as lists made for delinquent taxes by the state and county tax collector. Such title shall be subservient, however, to a title acquired under a sale for state and county taxes.

One copy of the list of land so sold shall be filed within thirty days of such sale with the chancery clerk of the county in which said municipality is located, and the chancery clerk shall file and index said list among the land records of his county, as other tax sales are listed. However, the failure of the clerk so to file such list as herein prescribed shall not affect the validity of such tax sale.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-121 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-121
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-121
Status: in_force

The disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall be a special trust fund and shall be disbursed only in the manner hereafter provided. Such fund shall be a part of the public funds of the Public Employees' Retirement System and shall be kept by the board as it is required to keep its other funds. Interest earned on said fund shall be credited to and become a part of said fund. All moneys on deposit in such funds on July 1, 1987, shall be paid over to the Board of Trustees of Public Employees' Retirement System on or before July 1, 1987.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-127 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 43-127
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-127
Status: in_force

(1) The assessment upon benefited real property pursuant to Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 shall be imposed as established in the district plan.

(2) The governing authorities of the municipality shall annually certify to the tax collector, or other officer charged with the duty of collecting taxes in the municipality, the annual installment of assessment due from each tract of land against which an assessment has been levied. The collector shall thereupon enter upon the annual tax roll of the municipality, in a separate column, the amount of the installment to be collected for each tract of land assessed, and the collector shall collect such installment at the same time he collects the annual municipal tax.

(3) All assessments levied under the provisions of Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 shall be enforced in the same manner in which the payment of other municipal taxes is enforced, and all statutes regulating the collection of other municipal taxes shall apply to the enforcement and collection of the assessments levied under the provisions of Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-20 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 19-20
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-20
Status: in_force

(1)(a) A municipality shall institute proceedings to have demolished or seized an abandoned house or building that is used for the sale or use of drugs. In addition, the governing authorities of a municipality may sell, transfer or otherwise convey or use an abandoned house or building for suitable municipal purposes. The local law enforcement authority of the municipality shall have documented proof of drug sales or use in the abandoned property before a municipality may initiate proceedings to have the property demolished or seized.

(b)(i) A municipality shall institute proceedings under this section to have an abandoned house or building demolished or seized if the governing authority of the municipality determines that the house or building is a menace to the public health and safety of the community and that it constitutes a public hazard and nuisance.

(ii) Upon the receipt of a petition requesting the municipality to demolish or seize an abandoned house or building that constitutes a public hazard and nuisance signed by a majority of the residents residing within four hundred (400) feet of the property, the governing authority of the municipality shall notify the property owner that the petition has been filed and that a date for a hearing on the petition has been set. Notice to the property owner shall be by United States mail, or if the property owner or the owner's address is unknown, publication of the notice shall be made twice each week during two (2) successive weeks in a public newspaper of the county in which the municipality is located; where there is no newspaper in the county, the notice shall be published in a newspaper having a general circulation in the state. The hearing shall be held not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days after service or completion of publication of the notice. At the hearing, the governing authority shall determine whether the property is a menace to the public health and safety of the community which constitutes a public hazard and nuisance. If the governing authority determines that the property is a public hazard and nuisance, the municipality shall institute proceedings under subsection (2) of this section to demolish or seize the abandoned house or building.

(2) The municipality shall file a petition to declare the abandoned property a public hazard and nuisance and to have the property demolished or seized with the circuit clerk of the county in which the property or some part of the property is located. All of the owners of the property involved, and any mortgagee, trustee, or other person having any interest in or lien on the property shall be made defendants to the proceedings. The circuit clerk shall present the petition to the circuit judge who, by written order directed to the circuit clerk, shall fix the time and place for the hearing of the matter in termtime or vacation. The time of the hearing shall be fixed on a date to allow sufficient time for each defendant named to be served with process, as otherwise provided by law, not less than thirty (30) days before the hearing. If a defendant or other party in interest is not served for the specified time before the date fixed, the hearing shall be continued to a day certain to allow the thirty-day period specified.

(3) Any cost incurred by a municipality under this section for demolishing or seizing abandoned property shall be paid by the owners of the property.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-53 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-53
Status: in_force

The tax collector shall collect municipal taxes during the time and in the same manner and under the same penalties as the state and county taxes are collected. He shall, where not otherwise provided, in all particulars be governed by the general revenue laws of the state, so far as applicable, in making such collections. He shall make the reports thereby required to the governing authorities. He shall receive only such commissions or compensations as may be allowed by ordinance. In no case shall he retain any commissions or compensations from his collections, but the full amount of such collections shall be paid to the municipal treasurer or depository, and his commissions or compensations 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. § 21-33-25 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 21-29-237 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 29-237
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-237
Status: in_force

Every member of said fire department and police department including its officers, but not including the governing authorities of said city on account of their relation as such to said fire department and/or police department, who are members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall come under the provisions and benefits of this article, and shall receive all benefits provided for in this article. All firemen and policemen who are employed in the said fire department or police department after adoption of a resolution by the municipality in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of Section 21-29-17 shall not become members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-145.nr2 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-27-39 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-39
Status: in_force

All municipalities owning or operating any system or systems may supply consumers residing outside of and within five (5) miles of the corporate limits of the municipality. In any county traversed by two (2) or more natural gas transmission lines and having therein two (2) or more natural gas compressor stations engaged in rendering service in interstate commerce, and wherein a natural gas transmission line of a municipality can be laid wholly in alluvial soil, where it is necessary for any municipality having a population of less than one thousand (1,000), according to the federal census of 1950, to construct a gas transmission line for a distance of more than five (5) miles but not more than eleven (11) miles from its corporate limits to the nearest point at which an adequate supply of natural gas can be obtained, and where there are not less than two hundred (200) prospective gas customers residing outside the corporate limits of such municipality but along and within one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mile of the gas transmission line so constructed by the municipality, then and in that event, the municipality may supply natural gas to such customers. Any municipality having its own natural gas transmission system in any county bordering the State of Alabama, in which U.S. Highway No. 78 and State Highway No. 25 intersect, and in which there is a publicly supported junior college, may extend its transmission lines and supply customers within the county for a distance of fifteen (15) miles from the corporate limits. Any municipality having a population of less than one thousand (1,000) people, according to the federal census of 1960, and being located in the county in which U.S. Highway 51 and U.S. Highway 82 intersect, and in the county where the main line of Illinois Central Railroad and Columbus and Greenville Railroad intersect, may construct a gas transmission line and supply customers within a four-county area for a distance of forty-five (45) miles from the corporate limits of the municipality. Any municipality having its own water distribution system, the construction or expansion of which has been financed in whole or in part by an agency of the United States government, and having a population of less than five hundred (500) persons, and located in a county in which Mississippi State Highways Number 12 and Number 429 intersect, may construct, expand and operate its water distribution system within the county or adjoining counties for a distance of fifteen (15) miles from the corporate limits. Any municipality having its own water distribution system, the construction or expansion of which has been financed in whole or in part by an agency of the United States government, and having a population of less than fifteen hundred (1500) persons, and located in a county in which Highway 15 and Highway 32 intersect and has a national forest, may construct, expand and operate its water distribution system within the county or adjoining counties for a distance of fifteen (15) miles from the corporate limits.

Any municipality having its own water distribution system and located in a county having two (2) judicial districts, and in which Mississippi Highways 17 and 35 intersect, may construct, expand and operate its water distribution system within the county or adjoining counties for a distance of fifteen (15) miles from the corporate limits. Any municipality having its own water distribution system, wherein U.S. Highway 51 and Mississippi Highway 35 intersect, and located in a county in which U.S. Highway 82 and Mississippi Highway 17 intersect, may construct, expand and operate its water distribution system within the county or adjoining counties for a distance of fifteen (15) miles from the corporate limits. Whenever such service shall be furnished to any consumer residing outside the corporate limits thereof, such consumer may not be charged at a rate greater than twice the rate charged for such services within the municipality.

Any municipality located within a county bordering the Mississippi River and in which Highways 49 and 61 intersect may acquire, construct, expand and operate its railroad transportation system for the transportation of passengers and freight for more than five (5) miles outside its corporate limits and outside the boundaries of the county in which it is located. Any municipality having a population of more than forty-five thousand (45,000) but less than forty-five thousand one hundred (45,100) according to the 1970 federal decennial census, may expand its motor vehicle transportation system for the transportation of passengers for more than five (5) miles outside its corporate limits.

Any municipality having a population of less than five hundred (500) according to the 1980 federal decennial census, being located north of U.S. Highway 82 in a county in which is located a United States Air Force base and a state-supported institution of higher learning established primarily for women, which criteria the Legislature finds to be conducive to the expansion of natural gas service to support contiguous areas of such Air Force base, may construct, own and/or operate a public utility or natural gas system and supply customers within the county for a distance of eleven (11) miles from the corporate limits.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-311 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-311
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-311
Status: in_force

When the results of the election on the question of the issuance of such bonds shall have been canvassed by the election commissioners of such municipality and certified by them to the governing authorities of such municipality, it shall be the duty of such governing authorities to determine and adjudicate whether or not three-fifths of the qualified electors who voted in such election voted in favor of the issuance of such bonds. Unless three-fifths of the qualified electors who voted in such election shall have voted in favor of the issuance of such bonds, then such bonds shall not be issued. Should three-fifths of the qualified electors who vote in such election vote in favor of the issuance of such bonds, then the governing authorities of the municipality may issue such bonds, either in whole or in part, within two years from the date of such election or within two years after the final favorable termination of any litigation affecting the issuance of such bonds, as such governing authorities shall deem best.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-143 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 29-143
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-143
Status: in_force

Any person receiving relief or benefits under the provisions of this article shall not be entitled to said benefits should such person attach himself to a paid fire department or police department in another city having a paid retirement benefit program for firemen or policemen.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 31-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-55
Status: in_force

Immediately after the appointment of the civil service commission, the commission shall organize by electing one of its members chairman. The commission shall hold regular meetings at least once each month, and such additional meetings as may be required for the proper discharge of its duties.

The commission shall appoint a secretary and a board of examiners, which board shall consist of the fire chief, the police chief, and a third member to be named by the commission, all of whom shall serve without compensation. The secretary shall keep the records and preserve all reports made to the commission, and also a record of all examinations held under the direction of the board of examiners, and perform such other duties as the commission may prescribe. The members of the board and the secretary are subject to suspension and discharge in the same manner as the commissioners.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 21-37-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 37-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-31
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality, excepting those in counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico with a population of more than 80,000, are hereby authorized and empowered to permit the placing of advertising signs upon parking meters or parking meter posts and to contract with any individual or company for the rental or lease thereof, as they may find advantageous to the municipality. The signs shall be placed in compliance with rules and regulations set out by the governing authorities of the municipality, and shall be placed in such manner so as to not obstruct the view of the street, the operation of the meters, or endanger the cars or the drivers thereof parking in front of or near the meters, or pedestrians using the sidewalks upon which the meters are located. The governing authorities shall require any person placing advertising signs upon parking meters or parking meter posts to enter into such contracts of insurance as may be necessary to protect the municipality or any person from any loss or damage caused by the presence of the advertising signs. All monies received by the municipality pursuant to the contract of lease or rental entered into shall be placed in the general fund of the city and expended for such purposes as may be authorized by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 31-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-27
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.

If any person holding any office, place, position or employment subject to civil service, actively participates in political activity in any primary or election in a municipality where he is employed, it shall be deemed cause for removal.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-183 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-183
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-183
Status: in_force

All bonds issued pursuant to Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall be validated as now provided by law by Sections 31-13-1 through 31-13-11 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 13-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-7
Status: in_force

The style of all municipal ordinances shall be “Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen (or other proper governing body, as the case may be) of the city (or town or village, as the case may be) of __________,”.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 31-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-13
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 shall include all full paid employees of the fire and/or police departments of each municipality coming within its purview, including the chiefs of those departments. 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 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 . The governing authorities of the municipality may, with the approval of the civil service commission, extend the benefits of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 to other full time employees of the municipality.

All incumbents and future appointees shall be subject to civil service, except, however, those appointees now and hereafter serving as extra members.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-5-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-5-9
Status: in_force

Except as limited by law, the council shall have, exercise, and perform all executive, legislative and judicial powers, duties and obligations bestowed upon governing authorities of municipalities by this title or by any other general law with regard to municipalities, except in cases of conflict between such laws and this chapter, in which case this chapter shall control. The council shall also have the power, from time to time, to create, fill or discontinue any and all offices and employments other than those created in this chapter; to increase or decrease the emoluments thereof; to make all needful rules and regulations for the government of the officers and employees of such city and to enforce a strict observance thereof, and to change the same when deemed necessary; to remove any officer or employee elected or appointed by the council, except as limited by law, and to elect or appoint a successor; to issue and sell the bonds or other obligations of such city in the amounts and in the manner provided by law; and generally to enact and enforce all ordinances and resolutions, and to make and perform all contracts for and on behalf of such city, as may be authorized by law or by the charter of such city.

The council shall also require all officers and employees handling or having the custody of any of the public funds of such city 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 Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00)), the premiums on which bonds shall be paid by the city.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 17-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-5
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authorities of every municipality of this state shall have the care, management and control of the municipal affairs and its property and finances. In addition to those powers granted by specific provisions of general law, the governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to adopt any orders, resolutions or ordinances with respect to such municipal affairs, property and finances which are not inconsistent with the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, the Mississippi Code of 1972, or any other statute or law of the State of Mississippi, and shall likewise have the power to alter, modify and repeal such orders, resolutions or ordinances. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, the powers granted to governing authorities of municipalities in this section are complete without the existence of or reference to any specific authority granted in any other statute or law of the State of Mississippi. Unless otherwise provided by law, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, the aldermen or councilmen of every municipality of this state shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in a penalty equal to five percent (5%) of the sum of all the municipal taxes shown by the assessment rolls and the levies to have been collectible in the municipality for the year immediately preceding the commencement of the term of office of said alderman or councilman; however, such bond shall not exceed One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00). For all municipalities with a population more than two thousand (2,000) according to the latest federal decennial census, the amount of the bond shall not be less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). Any taxpayer of the municipality may sue on such bond for the use of the municipality, and such taxpayer shall be liable for all costs in case his suit shall fail. No member of the city council or board of aldermen shall be surety for any other such member.

(2) Unless such actions are specifically authorized by another statute or law of the State of Mississippi, this section shall not authorize the governing authorities of municipalities to (a) levy taxes of any kind or increase the levy of any authorized tax, (b) issue bonds of any kind, (c) change the requirements, practices or procedures for municipal elections or establish any new elective office, (d) change the procedure for annexation of additional territory into the municipal boundaries, (e) change the structure or form of the municipal government, (f) permit the sale, manufacture, distribution, possession or transportation of alcoholic beverages, (g) grant any donation, or (h) without prior legislative approval, regulate, directly or indirectly, the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential property in which the municipality does not have a property interest.

(3) Nothing in this or any other section shall be construed so as to prevent any municipal governing authority from paying any municipal employee not to exceed double his ordinary rate of pay or awarding any municipal employee not to exceed double his ordinary rate of compensatory time for work performed in his capacity as a municipal employee on legal holidays. The governing authority of any municipality shall enact leave policies to ensure that a public safety employee is paid or granted compensatory time for the same number of holidays for which any other municipal employee is paid.

(4) The governing authority of any municipality, in its discretion, may expend funds to provide for training and education of newly elected or appointed municipal officials before the beginning of the term of office or employment of such officials. Any expenses incurred for such purposes may be allowed only upon prior approval of the governing authority. Any payments or reimbursements made under the provisions of this subsection may be paid only after presentation to and approval by the governing authority of the municipality.

(5) The governing authority of any municipality may lease the naming rights to municipal property to a private commercial entity.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-217 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-217
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-217
Status: in_force

(1) Any person found by the board or commission, as the case may be, or any duly designated hearing officer appointed thereby, violating any of the provisions of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 , or any rule or regulation promulgated by the board or commission hereunder, or any order issued by the board or commission in the exercise of their authority and duties hereunder, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), for each violation, such penalty to be levied and assessed by the board or commission or designated hearing officer. Appeals from such actions may be taken as provided hereinafter. Each day upon which a violation occurs shall be deemed a separate and additional violation.

In determining the amount of any monetary penalty assessed hereunder, the board or commission or duly appointed hearing officer shall consider all factors bearing upon the violation, including but not limited to, any resulting actual or probable pollution of the lands and/or waters of the state and/or endangerment to public health, and the nature and extent thereof, any violation of the terms or conditions of permits issued by the board or commission for the affected facility, and any actual or probable damage to the affected facility caused by improper operation thereof.

(2) In lieu of, or in addition to, the penalty provided in subsection (1) of this section, the board and commission shall have power to institute and maintain in the name of the state any and all proceedings necessary or appropriate to enforce the provisions of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 , rules and regulations in force pursuant hereto, and orders and operator certifications made and issued hereunder, in the appropriate circuit, chancery, county or justice court of the county in which venue may lie. The board and commission may obtain mandatory or prohibitory injunctive relief, either temporary or permanent.

(3) Any person found guilty of violating any provision of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 , upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) per day of violation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 21-31-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 31-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-7
Status: in_force

Immediately after the appointment of the civil service commission, the commission shall organize by electing one (1) of its members chairman. The commission shall hold regular meetings at least once each month, and such additional meetings as may be required for the proper discharge of its duties.

The commission shall appoint a secretary and a board of examiners, which board shall consist of the fire chief (or a person designated by the fire chief from the fire department to serve in his absence), the police chief (or a person designated by the police chief from the police department to serve in his absence), and a third member to be named by the commission, all of whom shall serve without compensation. The secretary shall keep the records and preserve all reports made to the commission, and also a record of all examinations held under the direction of the board of examiners, and perform such other duties as the commission may prescribe. The members of the board and the secretary are subject to suspension and discharge in the same manner as the commissioners.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-315 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 21-33-327 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 33-327
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-327
Status: in_force

No interest-bearing indebtedness shall hereafter be incurred by any municipality, except in the manner hereinabove provided, or as may otherwise be provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-21-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 21-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-3
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to employ, regulate and support a sufficient police force or night marshals, to define the duties thereof, and to furnish and supply all suitable and necessary equipment therefor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 31-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-5
Status: in_force

(1)(a) The members of the civil service commission shall be appointed by the city commission, shall be three (3) in number, and shall serve without compensation; however, the governing authorities of any municipality, in their discretion, may pay each of the members of the commission a sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month to compensate them for their services. No person shall be appointed a member of such commission who is not a citizen of the United States, a resident of such city for at least five (5) years immediately preceding such appointment, and an elector of the county wherein he resides. The terms of office of such commissioners shall be for six (6) years, except that the first three (3) members shall be appointed for different terms, as follows: One (1) shall serve a period of two (2) years, one (1) shall serve a period of four (4) years, and one (1) shall serve a period of six (6) years.

(b) From and after May 18, 1988, the governing authorities of any municipality organized under the provisions of Chapter 8, Title 21, Mississippi Code of 1972 , in which a civil service commission is created pursuant to Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , may increase the members of the commission to the same number of wards into which the municipality is divided and, if the commission is so expanded, the governing authorities shall appoint one (1) member of the commission from each ward. The commissioners shall serve without compensation; however, the governing authorities of any municipality, in their discretion, may pay each of the members of the commission a sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month to compensate them for their services. No person shall be appointed a member of such commission who is not a citizen of the United States, a resident of the municipality for at least five (5) years immediately preceding such appointment, and an elector of the county wherein he resides. When making initial appointments under this paragraph (b), the governing authorities may stagger the terms of such appointees provided that no initial appointment is made for a period of less than one (1) year nor more than six (6) years; thereafter, all appointments shall be for terms of six (6) years. Appointment of members of the commission by the governing authorities under this paragraph (b) shall be made by the mayor with the confirmation of an affirmative vote of a majority of the city council present and voting at any meeting.

(2) Any member of such commission may be removed from office for incompetency, incompatibility, dereliction of duty, or other good cause, by the appointing power. However, no member shall be removed until charges have been preferred in writing and a full hearing had before the appointing power. Any member being so removed shall have the right of appeal, any time within thirty (30) days thereafter, to the circuit court and may demand a jury trial; such trial shall be confined to the determination of whether the order of removal, made by the appointing power, was, or was not, made in good faith and for cause.

(3) A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-203 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 27-203
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-203
Status: in_force

For purposes of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 , the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein, unless the context shall otherwise require:

(a) “ Association ” means the Mississippi Water and Pollution Control Operator's Association, Inc.

(b) “ Board ” means the Mississippi State Board of Health.

(c) “ Commission ” means the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality.

(d) “ Community water system ” means a public water system serving piped water for human consumption to fifteen (15) or more individual service connections used by year-round consumers or regularly serving twenty-five (25) or more individual consumers year-round, including, but not limited to, any collection, pretreatment, treatment, storage and/or distribution facilities or equipment used primarily as part of, or in connection with, that system, regardless of whether or not the components are under the ownership or control of the operator of the system.

(e) “ Commercial Class I rubbish site ” means a permitted rubbish site which accepts for disposal Class I rubbish, as defined by the commission, for compensation or from more than one (1) generator.

(f) “ Nontransient, noncommunity water system ” means a public water system that is not a community water system and that regularly serves at least twenty-five (25) of the same persons over six (6) months per year.

(g) “ Operator ” means the person who directly supervises and is personally responsible for the daily operation and maintenance of a wastewater facility, community water system, nontransient, noncommunity water system or commercial nonhazardous solid waste management landfill.

(h) “ Person ” means the state or any agency or institution of the state, any municipality, political subdivision, public or private corporation, individual, partnership, association or other entity, including any officer or governing or managing body of any municipality, political subdivision, or public or private corporation, or the United States or any officer or employee of the United States.

(i) “ Pollution ” means contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any waters of the state, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity or odor of the waters, or the discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive or other substance or heat into any waters of the state.

(j) “ Wastewater facilities ” means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains, treatment plants, lagoons or any other structure, device, appurtenance or facility, whether operated individually or in any combination, used for collecting, treating and/or disposing of municipal or domestic wastewater, by either surface or underground methods, which is required to have a permit under Section 49-17-29 .

(k) “ Waters of the state ” means all waters within the jurisdiction of this state, including all streams, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, situated wholly or partly within or bordering upon the state, and such coastal waters as are within the jurisdiction of the state, except lakes, ponds or other surface waters which are wholly landlocked and privately owned.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-97 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-97
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-97
Status: in_force

Any reproduction or copy of any original record shall be deemed to be the original record for all purposes and shall be admissible as evidence in all courts or administrative agencies. A facsimile, exemplification or certified copy thereof shall, for all purposes set forth herein, be deemed to be a transcript, exemplification or certified copy of the original record.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-125 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 21-29-127 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 29-127
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-127
Status: in_force

The governing authority may immediately advance necessary moneys from the general fund to said fund to enable payments to all qualified beneficiaries to be brought into a current status. Any moneys necessarily advanced shall be paid back to the general fund from the surplus of said fund as it is allocated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-169 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 27-169
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-169
Status: in_force

A municipality is authorized to make such applications and enter into such contracts for financial assistance in comprehensive planning as may be appropriate under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as now or hereafter amended; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 ( P. L. 92-500 ); under Chapter 23 and Chapter 26, Title 33, United States Code; under Chapter 9, Title 40, United States Code and under any other relevant statutes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / 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. § 21-33-63 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-63
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-63
Status: in_force

Sales for the nonpayment of municipal taxes, both ad valorem and for special improvements, shall be made by the tax collector at such place, within the corporate limits, as the governing authorities may direct. The sale of real estate for ad valorem taxes and special improvement assessments and sale of personal property shall be made upon the same notice, at the same time, and in the same manner as provided by law for sales of like property for unpaid state and county taxes.

The lists of lands sold for taxes by the municipality shall be made as required to be made by the state and county collector, and shall be filed with the municipal clerk within twenty days after the tax sale, and shall there remain, subject to redemption for the same length of time and in the same manner as prescribed for the redemption of lands sold for state and county taxes, with the same saving to infants and persons of unsound mind. Said lists shall have the same force and effect, and confer the same right and entitle the purchasers to the same remedies, as lists made for delinquent taxes by the state and county tax collector. Such title shall be subservient, however, to a title acquired under a sale for state and county taxes.

One copy of the list of land so sold shall be filed within thirty days of such sale with the chancery clerk of the county in which said municipality is located, and the chancery clerk shall file and index said list among the land records of his county, as other tax sales are listed. However, the failure of the clerk so to file such list as herein prescribed shall not affect the validity of such tax sale.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 45 / Section 45-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-15
Status: in_force

The proceeds from the sale of any bonds issued under authority of this chapter shall be applied only for the purpose for which the bonds were issued; provided, however, that any premium and accrued interest received in any such sale shall be applied to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds sold; and provided further, that if for the purpose for which the bonds were issued, such unneeded portion of the proceeds shall be applied to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-13
Status: in_force

The clerk, or tax collector, of every municipality shall copy from the roll or schedule filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors by the state tax commission the assessment of private car companies, and he shall determine the amount by taking the number of miles of each railroad over which the cars of any company, traveled through the respective municipalities, and the number of miles of each railroad over which the cars of any such company traveled which lies in any separate, adjacent, annexed territory constituting with a municipality a separate school district. He shall copy the assessed value per mile of each company over any railroad or railroads, operating through such municipality and separate, adjacent, annexed territory, and shall determine the assessment of each company by multiplying the valuation of each company apportioned to each mile of railroad by the number of miles of railroad over which the cars of any such company have traveled lying in such municipality or separate, adjacent, annexed territory. The assessment so determined, plus the value of any other property assessed, shall constitute the assessment of the property of the respective companies within the municipality and in the separate, adjacent, annexed territory constituting a separate school district. All such copies and assessments made as herein provided shall be placed in the hands of the municipal tax collector and be his warrant for the collection of municipal and separate school district taxes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-245 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-245
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-245
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 examinations of disability, retire him from active service in said fire and/or police department. Upon such retirement from active service said disability and relief board 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 payments 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 shall be entitled to and shall receive additional retired relief payment for life in a sum equal to one and seven-tenths percent (1.7%) of the same 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, such additional retired relief payment shall be paid only for each year served after July 1, 1966. 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, except such other additional benefits as may be hereinafter provided.

The board of disability and relief shall, when a member of the fire and/or police department completes thirty-five (35) years of paid employment, or attains the age of sixty (60), whichever occurs first, 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 under this article.

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 hereinabove mentioned. Neither shall there be excluded therefrom periods of time within which a member may have been absent from his employment while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States, or any civil employee engaged by the Armed Forces of the United States while serving outside the continental United States, in time of war during World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict, Cuban Crisis, Berlin Crisis, Vietnam Conflict, or when involuntarily called on active duty, provided that the maximum period for such creditable service shall be four (4) years unless positive proof can be furnished by such person that he was retained in the Armed Forces by cause beyond his control, and without opportunity of discharge, and 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 report such duties as then may be required of them.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-255 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-255
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-255
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 Section 21-29-241 , 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 21-29-245 , the amount of disability relief or retirement relief 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 the use of the spouse and the child, or children of the deceased member, so long as the spouse remains unmarried. If, after the marriage of the spouse, 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 or marriage of the spouse, all payments to the spouse shall cease, and after the death of any child or children of the deceased, all payments to the child or children shall cease. If the deceased member is not survived by a spouse or child or children, 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. 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 to the members of the fire and/or police department, and the amount of payments 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 any member of the fire or police department dies while a member of the fire department or police department, and the member has not less than five (5) years' service with the department, there shall be paid from the firemen's and policemen's disability and relief fund the following benefits:

(a) 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 six-month period next preceding his or her death; and

(b) For each full year of active service in excess of twenty (20) years' service, an additional payment 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 the member in the six-month period next preceding his or her death (provided that no such payment 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 his or her death) to the spouse of the deceased member for the use of the spouse and the child or children of the deceased member, so long as the spouse remains unmarried and if, after the marriage of the spouse, 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, and after the death or marriage 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 a 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, or if there is no dependent father or mother surviving the deceased member, the payments shall continue to be made to the dependent sister or sisters of the deceased member, or dependent incurable children, so long as the beneficiary or beneficiaries remain unmarried. Upon the death or marriage of any such sisters, all payments shall cease to her.

(2) For purposes of this section:

(a) “ Dependent ” means wholly dependent.

(b) “ Child ” or “ children ” means:

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

(ii) Children of the deceased member 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. § 21-9-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 9-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-67
Status: in_force

Whenever any ordinance or resolution adopted by the council, or any other matter, is required to be referred to a vote of the qualified electors of any city, the council shall order a special election for the determination of the matter, to be held no less than thirty days nor more than sixty days from the making of such order, provided that there shall not be a general election to be held in such city within sixty days from the date of the order referring such matter to the judgment of the electors. In case there is to be such a general election, the matter shall be referred to and voted upon at such general election. All such special elections shall be held and conducted as other elections in such city.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-301 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 33-301
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-301
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality are authorized to issue negotiable bonds of the municipality to raise money for the following purposes:

(a) Erecting municipal buildings, armories, auditoriums, community centers, gymnasiums and athletic stadiums, preparing and equipping athletic fields, and purchasing buildings or land therefor, and for repairing, improving, adorning and equipping the same, and for erecting, equipping and furnishing of buildings to be used as a municipal or civic arts center;

(b) Erecting or purchasing waterworks, gas, electric and other public utility plants or distribution systems or franchises, and repairing, improving and extending the same;

(c) Purchasing or constructing, repairing, improving and equipping buildings for public libraries and for purchasing land, equipment and books therefor, whether the title to same be vested in the municipality issuing such bonds or in some subdivision of the state government other than the municipality, or jointly in such municipality and other such subdivision;

(d) Establishing sanitary, storm, drainage or sewerage systems, and repairing, improving and extending the same;

(e) Protecting a municipality, its streets and sidewalks from overflow, caving banks and other like dangers;

(f) Constructing, improving or paving streets, sidewalks, driveways, parkways, walkways or public parking facilities, and purchasing land therefor;

(g) Purchasing land for parks, cemeteries and public playgrounds, and improving, equipping and adorning the same, including the constructing, repairing and equipping of swimming pools and other recreational facilities;

(h) Constructing bridges and culverts;

(i) Constructing, repairing and improving wharves, docks, harbors and appurtenant facilities, and purchasing land therefor;

(j) Constructing, repairing and improving public slaughterhouses, markets, pest houses, workhouses, hospitals, houses of correction, reformatories and jails in the corporate limits, or within three (3) miles of the corporate limits, and purchasing land therefor;

(k) Altering or changing the channels of streams and water courses to control, deflect or guide the current thereof;

(l) Purchasing fire-fighting equipment and apparatus, and providing housing for same, and purchasing land therefor;

(m) Purchasing or renting voting machines and any other election equipment needed in elections held in the municipality;

(n) Assisting the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, the Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management of the Governor's Office of General Services, or any other state agency in acquiring a site for, constructing suitable buildings and runways and equipping an airport for the university or other state-supported four-year college, now or hereafter in existence, in or near which the municipality is located, within not more than ten (10) miles of the municipality;

(o) Acquiring and improving existing mass transit system; however, no municipal governing authorities shall authorize any bonds to be issued for the acquiring and improving of an existing mass transit system unless an election be conducted in said municipality in the same manner provided for general and special elections, and a majority of the qualified electors of the municipality participating in said election approve the bond issuance for the acquiring and improving of an existing mass transit system;

(p) Purchasing machinery and equipment which have an expected useful life in excess of ten (10) years. The life of such bonds shall not exceed the expected useful life of such machinery and equipment. Machinery and equipment shall not include any motor vehicle weighing less than twelve thousand (12,000) pounds;

(q) A project for which a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been obtained by the municipality pursuant to the Regional Economic Development Act.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-217 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 21-33-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-1
Status: in_force

All lands and other taxable property subject to assessment, held by any person within the municipality, or in added territory, on the first day of January, shall be assessed, and ad valorem taxes thereon levied and collected for the ensuing year, excepting motor vehicles as defined by the “Motor Vehicle Ad Valorem Tax Law of 1958,” Sections 27-51-1 through 27-51-49, Mississippi Code of 1972 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-113 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-113
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-113
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 of 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. § 21-27-187 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 27-187
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-187
Status: in_force

All bonds issued under Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall be and are hereby exempt from inclusion in debts in determining whether additional bonds may be issued by such municipality and are declared to be legal and authorized investments for banks, savings banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, insurance companies, fiduciaries, trustees and for the sinking fund of municipalities, towns, villages, school districts or any other political corporation or subdivision of the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 8-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-23
Status: in_force

(1) The municipality may have a department of administration and such other departments as the council may establish by ordinance. All of the administrative functions, powers and duties of the municipality shall be allocated and assigned among and within such departments.

(2) Each department shall be headed by a director, who shall be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by an affirmative vote of a majority of the council present and voting at any such meeting. Each director shall serve during the term of office of the mayor appointing him and until the appointment and qualification of the director's successor not exceeding the limitation period provided in Section 21-15-41 .

(3) The mayor may, in his discretion, remove the director of any department. Directors of departments shall be excluded from the coverage of any ordinance or general law providing for a civil service system in the municipality; provided, however, all individuals serving as heads of departments at the time of the municipality's adoption of the mayor-council form as described in this chapter shall continue to be covered by the provisions of the civil service system in effect at the time the mayor-council form is adopted.

(4) Directors of departments shall appoint subordinate officers and employees within their respective departments and may, with approval of the mayor, remove such officers and employees subject to the provisions of any ordinance establishing a civil service system where that system is effective in the municipality, or other general law; provided, however, that the council may provide by ordinance for the appointment and removal of specific boards or commissions by the mayor.

(5) Whenever the city council is authorized by any provision of general law to appoint the members of any board, authority or commission, such power of appointment shall be deemed to vest in the mayor with the confirmation of an affirmative vote of a majority of the council present and voting at any meeting.

(6) The council shall also 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. § 21-15-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 15-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-21
Status: in_force

The clerk shall be the auditor of the municipality. He shall keep a record, in which he shall enter and preserve accounts of each particular fund, and the accounts of each municipal officer. The treasurer or depository shall not receive money from any source until the same has been reported to the clerk and audited and a receipt warrant issued therefor. All fines and forfeitures shall be reported by the officer collecting the same immediately after such collection, and be paid into the treasury. The record of the auditor shall be subject to inspection by the taxpayers of the municipality at any time during business hours.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 29-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-17
Status: in_force

The membership of the retirement system shall be composed as follows:

(a) All persons who become employees after the date fixed in the ordinance of the governing body for the retirement system to go into effect shall become members of the retirement system on the expiration of two (2) months from date of employment; however, persons who have reached the age of forty (40) years who have not had prior service or membership service which may be reinstated as hereinafter provided shall not be members of the retirement system.

(b) All persons who are employees of the municipality, and who are members of the general municipal employees' retirement system shall come under the provisions and benefits of this article and shall receive all benefits provided for in this article. The municipality shall each month deduct from the total compensation of each member not less than seven percent (7%) nor more than ten percent (10%) of the amount thereof, and put the amounts deducted in the employees' savings 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 municipality determines that the avails of a 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.

(c) In lieu of the other provisions of this article, any municipality operating under the provisions of this article on March 1, 1976, may, by a resolution duly adopted and entered upon its minutes, enter into an agreement with the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi whereby all new firemen and policemen employed or reemployed after the effective date of such agreement shall be included in the provisions of such agreement for retirement purposes to the same extent as are other employees covered by the Public Employees' Retirement System.

(d) No new member may be joined after July 1, 1987, and all new employees of the municipality who are employed after July 1, 1987, shall be covered by the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-69
Status: repealed

The repeal heretofore of any law authorizing a municipality to borrow money and issue bonds to acquire or improve any system shall not affect the validity of any bonds issued or contracts entered into under the provisions of any such repealed laws.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-37 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 33-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-37
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in Section 21-33-10 , if the board of municipal authorities shall fail to hold any meeting for the equalization of assessment rolls or for hearing objections to assessments or if the board fails to give the proper notice to the taxpayers, it shall immediately proceed to give the required notice and to hold the necessary meetings and do the necessary things in connection with the completion of the assessment roll. When the notice has been given as required by law, the board shall proceed to deal with the rolls with all the powers and duties as are now prescribed by law, except as to the time. If the board fails to hold any meeting, or give any notice, or to perform any other duty in reference to the assessment rolls, at the time required by law, such duty shall be performed at a later date upon the giving of legal and proper notice to the persons affected.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-79 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 9-79
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-79
Status: in_force

All of the provisions of the civil service laws applying to any city adopting the council-manager plan of government, at the time of such adoption shall continue to apply in full force and effect to such city after adoption of such council-manager plan of government. The civil service commission existing and operating under the former plan of government shall continue to operate without interruption or impairment under the council-manager form of government. All rights, privileges, and advantages of all employees coming under the civil service laws, applying to said city at the time of adoption shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no wise be impaired, altered or changed by such adoption. After the election and taking of office of the councilmen and mayor under the council-manager plan of government, all functions and duties of every nature that would have otherwise been performed by the council under the commission form of government in relation to such civil service laws shall thereafter be exercised and performed by the city council under the council-manager plan of government, except that all appointments of employees coming under the provisions of such civil service laws shall be made, subject to such civil service laws, by the city manager, but all appointments made prior to the change to the council-manager plan shall remain in full force and effect.

The city manager is expressly excluded from coming under the terms and provisions of the civil service laws herein mentioned and is expressly excluded from the employees therein included.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-137 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-137
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-137
Status: in_force

In all matters involving the disability or sickness of a member of such fire and/or police department, such member shall submit himself to physical and mental examination when and as required by said disability and relief board of said governing authorities. A failure or refusal so to do shall suspend the benefits of Sections 21-29-133 and 21-29-135 , until such time as he shall submit himself to such examination.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-3-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-3-3
Status: in_force

The elective officers of all municipalities operating under a code charter shall be the mayor, the aldermen, municipal judge, the marshal or chief of police, the tax collector and the tax assessor. From and after July 1, 2017, the governing authorities of the municipality shall appoint a city or town clerk who shall likewise serve as an officer of the municipality. However, the governing authorities of the municipality shall have the power, by ordinance, to combine the office of clerk or marshal with the office of tax collector and/or tax assessor. Such governing authorities shall have the further power to provide that all or any of such officers, except those of mayor and aldermen, shall be appointive, in which case the marshal or chief of police, the tax collector, the tax assessor, and the city or town clerk, or such of such officers as may be made appointive, shall be appointed by the governing authorities. Any action taken by the governing authorities to make any of such offices appointive shall be by ordinance of such municipality, and no such ordinance shall be adopted within ninety (90) days prior to any regular general election for the election of municipal officers. No such ordinance shall become effective during the term of office of any officer whose office shall be affected thereby. If any such office is made appointive, the person appointed thereto shall hold office at the pleasure of the governing authorities and may be discharged by such governing authorities at any time, either with or without cause, and it shall be discretionary with the governing authorities whether or not to require such person appointed thereto to reside within the corporate limits of the municipality in order to hold such office.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 31-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-5
Status: in_force

(1)(a) The members of the civil service commission shall be appointed by the city commission, shall be three (3) in number, and shall serve without compensation; however, the governing authorities of any municipality, in their discretion, may pay each of the members of the commission a sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month to compensate them for their services. No person shall be appointed a member of such commission who is not a citizen of the United States, a resident of such city for at least five (5) years immediately preceding such appointment, and an elector of the county wherein he resides. The terms of office of such commissioners shall be for six (6) years, except that the first three (3) members shall be appointed for different terms, as follows: One (1) shall serve a period of two (2) years, one (1) shall serve a period of four (4) years, and one (1) shall serve a period of six (6) years.

(b) From and after May 18, 1988, the governing authorities of any municipality organized under the provisions of Chapter 8, Title 21, Mississippi Code of 1972 , in which a civil service commission is created pursuant to Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , may increase the members of the commission to the same number of wards into which the municipality is divided and, if the commission is so expanded, the governing authorities shall appoint one (1) member of the commission from each ward. The commissioners shall serve without compensation; however, the governing authorities of any municipality, in their discretion, may pay each of the members of the commission a sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month to compensate them for their services. No person shall be appointed a member of such commission who is not a citizen of the United States, a resident of the municipality for at least five (5) years immediately preceding such appointment, and an elector of the county wherein he resides. When making initial appointments under this paragraph (b), the governing authorities may stagger the terms of such appointees provided that no initial appointment is made for a period of less than one (1) year nor more than six (6) years; thereafter, all appointments shall be for terms of six (6) years. Appointment of members of the commission by the governing authorities under this paragraph (b) shall be made by the mayor with the confirmation of an affirmative vote of a majority of the city council present and voting at any meeting.

(2) Any member of such commission may be removed from office for incompetency, incompatibility, dereliction of duty, or other good cause, by the appointing power. However, no member shall be removed until charges have been preferred in writing and a full hearing had before the appointing power. Any member being so removed shall have the right of appeal, any time within thirty (30) days thereafter, to the circuit court and may demand a jury trial; such trial shall be confined to the determination of whether the order of removal, made by the appointing power, was, or was not, made in good faith and for cause.

(3) A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-129 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-129
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-129
Status: in_force

Every member of said fire department and police department including its officers, but not including the governing authorities of said city on account of their relation as such to said fire department and/or police department, who are members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall come under the provisions and benefits of this article and shall receive all benefits provided for in this article. All firemen and policemen who are employed in the said fire department or police department after adoption of a resolution by the municipality in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of Section 21-29-17 shall not become members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen.

However, in any municipality having a population of not less than twenty-eight thousand (28,000) and not more than thirty thousand (30,000) according to the 1960 decennial census and located in a county having an assessed valuation in 1969 of not less than Eighty-five Million Dollars ($85,000,000.00) and not more than Ninety Million Dollars ($90,000,000.00), any former member of the fire or police department with thirteen (13) or more consecutive and paid years longevity retirement benefits in the retirement system, who remains in public service of such municipality in an elected capacity which includes ex officio chief of police or fire department, such elected public service shall be credited under this article, when the member pays into the system all employer and employee contributions with any interest or earnings thereon based upon the salary he received during the last six (6) months of his employment as a fireman or policeman prior to his becoming an elected official, and his retirement benefits shall be computed upon the salary so received.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-43 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-43
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in Section 21-33-10 , the governing authorities of any municipality shall have the power to change assessments, after the assessment roll, or rolls, of real and personal property have been finally approved, but not after the expiration of the fiscal year in which the taxes on said assessments are due and payable. The assessments may be reduced or increased for the same reasons and in like manner, as provided by law for the reduction and/or increasing of county assessments. Such change shall not be submitted to the state tax commission for approval.

Where a reduction is sought, the governing authorities shall require the owner of the property, or his duly authorized agent or attorney, to make a suitable application or petition, and where an increase is sought the application or petition shall be made by the assessor. The governing authorities shall have the right and power to consider the application or petition and to do any and all things necessary to determine whether or not it shall be allowed, and shall adopt an order rejecting or approving the application or petition. Said authorities may adopt an order to change the assessment so as to increase or decrease the assessment to the fair value of the property, or to cause the taxes to be charged to the person or property liable therefor.

The clerk shall carefully file and preserve, as a public record, in his office, all petitions or applications, and exhibits thereto, for either an increase or decrease in assessments as herein provided, for a period of three (3) years after the expiration of the fiscal year in which such petitions or applications were filed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-43 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 19-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-43
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to aid and encourage the establishment of manufactures and other new enterprises mentioned in Section 27-31-101, Mississippi Code of 1972 , and gas works, water works, and cooperative rural electrification associations, but not railroads, within the corporate limits of municipalities, by exempting all tangible property used in or necessary to the operation thereof for such purposes from municipal taxation for a period not exceeding ten years as authorized by Sections 27-31-101 and 27-31-115, Mississippi Code of 1972 , and as authorized by Section 192 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 31-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-27
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.

If any person holding any office, place, position or employment subject to civil service, actively participates in political activity in any primary or election in a municipality where he is employed, it shall be deemed cause for removal.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-43 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 33-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-43
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in Section 21-33-10 , the governing authorities of any municipality shall have the power to change assessments, after the assessment roll, or rolls, of real and personal property have been finally approved, but not after the expiration of the fiscal year in which the taxes on said assessments are due and payable. The assessments may be reduced or increased for the same reasons and in like manner, as provided by law for the reduction and/or increasing of county assessments. Such change shall not be submitted to the state tax commission for approval.

Where a reduction is sought, the governing authorities shall require the owner of the property, or his duly authorized agent or attorney, to make a suitable application or petition, and where an increase is sought the application or petition shall be made by the assessor. The governing authorities shall have the right and power to consider the application or petition and to do any and all things necessary to determine whether or not it shall be allowed, and shall adopt an order rejecting or approving the application or petition. Said authorities may adopt an order to change the assessment so as to increase or decrease the assessment to the fair value of the property, or to cause the taxes to be charged to the person or property liable therefor.

The clerk shall carefully file and preserve, as a public record, in his office, all petitions or applications, and exhibits thereto, for either an increase or decrease in assessments as herein provided, for a period of three (3) years after the expiration of the fiscal year in which such petitions or applications were filed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-33 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-33
Status: in_force

All municipalities of the state are hereby empowered and authorized, if they so desire, to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any or all electric, water, gas or other municipally-owned public utility systems or properties on such terms and conditions, and with such safeguards as will best promote and protect the public interest. Said municipal corporations are empowered and authorized to transfer title to said public utility properties by warranty deed, bill of sale, contract, or lease, in the manner provided by law. However, notice of intention to make such sale, lease, or disposition of any such system, setting out the price and other general terms and conditions of such proposed sale, lease, or disposition shall be given by publication, once a week for three consecutive weeks in a legal newspaper published in such municipality, and if no such newspaper be published in said municipality, then in some newspaper having a general circulation in such municipality. After ten days from the last publication of such notice, the system may be disposed of, unless within ten days after the last publication of such notice a petition signed by not less than twenty per centum of the qualified voters of such municipality be filed, objecting to and protesting against such sale, lease, or disposition, in which event the same shall not be made unless submitted to a special election ordered for the purpose of determining whether a majority of those voting in such election shall vote for or against such sale, lease, or other disposition. Such election shall be ordered to be held not less than forty days after the date of the last notice of the proposed sale, lease or disposition. Notice of such election, stating the purpose of election, shall be published once each week for three consecutive weeks next preceding the time set for holding said election in such newspaper as herein provided. The laws governing special municipal elections shall govern the ordering and conduct of said election.

The ballots provided shall have plainly written or printed thereon the words “shall the waterworks, electric, or gas (as the case may be) system be sold, leased, or disposed of (as the case may be)” and below said words shall be suitably placed on separate lines, the words “yes” and “no,” so that the voter may indicate the way he desires to vote on the question submitted.

If a majority of those voting in said election shall vote in favor of such sale, lease, or disposition, then the proper officer of the municipality may proceed to sell, lease or dispose of such system in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the notice of proposed intention to sell, lease or dispose of such system, as herein provided. If such election is determined against such sale, lease or disposition of such system, then such system shall not be sold, leased or disposed of, but shall remain the property of the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-20 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 23-20
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-20
Status: in_force

Upon conviction of any person of a misdemeanor in a municipal court of this state, the municipal court judge shall be authorized, in his discretion, to sentence such person to:

(a) A period of time in jail to be served either on weekends only;

(b) Other periods of time during the week wherein such offender may not be engaged in gainful employment; or

(c) A specified number of days in jail with a provision for the release of such offender for the purpose of engaging in gainful employment at such times as the offender is actually gainfully employed, whether self-employed or otherwise.

In addition, the court may, in its discretion, sentence any convicted person to split periods of incarceration; and the court shall not be required to order such offender to serve a sentence of imprisonment all in one period but may suspend the sentence from time to time.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-17
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided, all candidates for mayor and councilmen, or any of them, to be voted for at any general or special municipal election, shall be nominated by party primary election, and no other name or names shall be placed on the official ballot at such general or special election than those selected in the manner prescribed herein. Such primary election or elections, shall be held not less than ten, nor more than thirty days, preceding the general or special election, and such primary election or elections shall be held and conducted in the manner as near as may be as is provided by law for state and county primary elections.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-44.1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 19-44.1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-44.1
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality in this state are authorized, in their discretion, to contribute, donate or appropriate annually out of any money in the treasury of the municipality, to the municipality's nonprofit corporation known as Main Street Project, Incorporated, for any economic development program or endeavor of the corporation, for the development of the municipality's central business district or for any lawful purpose of the municipality. Further, the governing authorities are authorized, in their discretion, to execute contracts and agreements and to expend municipal funds in support of any project sponsored by the corporation, the municipality or any other nonprofit corporation engaged in local economic development.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 13-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-15
Status: in_force

The municipality may from time to time authorize the revision and codification of the ordinances, and their publication in pamphlet or book form. When so revised, arranged, classified and codified, said book or pamphlet may be adopted by ordinance as the official code of ordinances of the municipality without compliance with the requirements pertaining to the passage of ordinances. Such official code of ordinances may be amended by section or sections in the manner provided in this chapter. The municipality may cause to be published in connection therewith the laws relating to municipalities, with such annotations of supreme court decisions thereon as may be proper, and such forms and instructions as it shall deem advisable. The whole may be preceded by a historical sketch of the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-169 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-169
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-169
Status: in_force

A municipality is authorized to make such applications and enter into such contracts for financial assistance in comprehensive planning as may be appropriate under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as now or hereafter amended; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 ( P. L. 92-500 ); under Chapter 23 and Chapter 26, Title 33, United States Code; under Chapter 9, Title 40, United States Code and under any other relevant statutes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-219 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 27-219
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-219
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever the board or commission or an employee thereof has reason to believe that a violation of any provision of a regulation or of any order of the board or commission has occurred, the board or commission may cause a written complaint to be served upon the alleged violator or violators. The complaint shall specify the provisions of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 or regulation or order alleged to have been violated and the facts alleged to constitute a violation thereof, and shall require that the alleged violator appear before the board or commission, or any duly designated hearing officer appointed thereby, at a time and place specified in the notice and answer the charges complained of. The time of appearance before the board or commission or designated hearing officer shall be not less than thirty (30) days from the date of the service of the complaint.

(2) The board or commission or designated hearing officer shall afford an opportunity for a fair hearing to the alleged violator or violators at the time and place specified in the complaint. On the basis of the evidence produced at the hearing, the board or commission or designated hearing officer shall make findings of fact and conclusions of law and enter such order as in its opinion will best further the purposes of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 and shall give written notice of such order to the alleged violator, and the board or commission or designated hearing officer may assess such penalties as hereinbefore provided.

(3) Except as otherwise expressly provided, any notice or other instrument issued by or under authority of the board or commission or designated hearing officer may be served on any person affected thereby personally or by publication, and proof of such service may be made in like manner as in case of service of a summons in a civil action, such proof to be filed in the office of the board or commission; or such service may be made by mailing a copy of the notice, order or other instrument by certified mail, directed to the person affected at his last known post office address as shown by the files or records of the board or commission, and proof thereof may be made by the affidavit of the person who did the mailing, filed in the office of the board or commission.

(4) In conducting the hearings provided in this section, any member of the board or commission, or the chief administrative officer thereof, or the duly designated hearing officer, shall have the authority to issue subpoenas to appear and give testimony, to produce records, or both, and in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a notice of hearing or subpoena issued hereunder, the circuit court shall have jurisdiction upon application of the board or commission or its representative to issue an order requiring obedience to the hearing notice or subpoena of the board or commission or designated hearing officer. Any failure to obey such court order may be punished by such court as contempt thereof. Any member of the board or commission, or the chief administrative officer thereof, or the designated hearing officer, may administer oaths. A verbatim record of the hearing shall be made. Witnesses who are subpoenaed shall receive the same fees and mileage as in civil actions.

(5) Any person aggrieved by the decision of the board or commission to issue, deny, modify or revoke any operator certification hereunder shall be entitled to a full hearing before the board or commission or duly designated hearing officer appointed thereby in the same manner as provided hereinabove, and appeals from such actions shall be in the same manner as provided hereinafter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-313 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 33-313
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-313
Status: in_force

All bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be lithographed or engraved, and printed in two (2) or more colors, to prevent counterfeiting, and shall be in such denominations as shall be specified by the governing authorities of the municipality. Such bonds shall be registered as issued, be numbered in a regular series from one (1) upward, and every such bond shall specify on its face the purpose for which it was issued and the total amount authorized to be issued, and shall be made payable to bearer. Interest shall be evidenced by proper coupons thereto attached. The governing authorities of such municipality shall annually levy a special tax upon all of the taxable property within the municipality, which shall be sufficient to provide for the payment of the principal of and the interest on such bonds according to the terms thereof.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, bonds referred to hereinabove may be issued pursuant to the supplemental powers and authorizations conferred by the provisions of the Registered Bond Act, being Sections 31-21-1 through 31-21-7 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-41
Status: in_force

Upon retirement for nonduty disability as provided in Section 21-29-39 , a member shall receive for each year's active service one-fortieth ( 1 / 40 ) of the average monthly salary or compensation received by such member from the employer in the four-year or two-year period, as the case may be, next preceding the injury or illness causing such disability.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-118 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 21-29-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-33-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / 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. § 21-9-63 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-63
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-63
Status: in_force

The salary of the mayor, councilmen and all officers and assistants holding any office created by this chapter or by ordinance shall be paid in monthly installments on the first business day of each month, and the salaries or wages of all other employees of such city shall be paid at such periods as may be fixed by the council. No salaries or wages shall be paid to any officer or employee of such city until after the same shall have been earned.

Every officer or assistant, other than the mayor and councilmen, shall receive such salary or compensation as the council shall by ordinance, provide, and the salary compensation of all other employees of such city shall be fixed by the council from time to time, as occasion may demand.

The city council of any city operating under the provisions of this chapter shall have the power and authority to provide for and pay to any member of the police department or fire department of such city additional compensation for services and duties performed by any such member over and above the usual and regular number of days and hours per week or month ordinarily worked by such member. Any additional compensation so paid shall be computed on the basis of the compensation regularly paid to such members of the police or fire department. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to relieve any such member of the police department or fire department from being subject to call for duty on a twenty-four hour basis whether or not additional compensation is paid.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-201 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 33-201
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-201
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the City Utility Tax Law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-209 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 29-209
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-209
Status: in_force

The board shall fix a time for regular meetings in its minutes and it shall keep minutes of its meetings, which shall be public records. Special meetings may be held upon the call of the chairman of the board or any two (2) members thereof, upon twenty-four (24) hours' written notice, stating the purpose of the meeting, or at any time when all members are present.

The board shall have the duty and power to promptly hear and pass upon all applications of firemen and/or policemen or of beneficiaries of deceased firemen and of deceased policemen for participation in the benefits of said fund. Said board may hear witnesses, administer oaths, find facts, and make decisions in all matters properly before said board, which decisions shall be final except upon appeals in the way hereafter set forth. Said board shall order payments made according to the facts found and the provisions of this article, which payments shall be made as far as funds may be available. The board may invest the funds as provided in Section 25-11-121 , and such funds may be commingled with other system funds for the most advantageous investments; however, each fund shall have separate accounting status.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 37-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-23
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to establish and construct municipal parking facilities for motor vehicles belonging to members of the general public, and to rent, lease, purchase, or otherwise acquire the necessary lands and property for the establishment or construction of such facilities, in any manner now authorized by law for the acquisition of land and property for public purposes. All acts and things heretofore done and performed by any municipality of this state in the securing, establishing and construction of public parking lots within the limits of said municipality are hereby ratified and confirmed.

Such municipal governing authorities are empowered to operate and prescribe rules, regulations and rates for the use and operation of such parking facility. Such municipal governing authorities are empowered to employ, fix, and pay the compensation of necessary operating personnel. Such municipal governing authorities are empowered to rent, lease, or sell such facility at such price, but in no case at less than an amount sufficient to repay the cost thereof to the municipality, and on such terms as may be reasonable, but in no case at less than amounts sufficient to service and retire any bonds or notes issued in connection therewith, and conditioned that it shall continue for a specified period of time to be operated as a parking facility for the use of the public, subject to such rules, regulations and rates as may be prescribed by the municipality. No commercial enterprise activities other than the parking of motor vehicles shall be authorized by any municipality on the property comprising any part of such parking facilities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 33-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-5
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of each municipality shall prescribe by order the form of the land assessment roll, adhering to the basic form prescribed by the state tax commission which shall be similar to the form prescribed for and used by county tax assessors for the assessment of municipal lands. When a municipality has added territory, the roll used for the assessment of lands in such added territory shall be generally in the form of the roll used in the assessment of such lands by the county, and be on sheets of the same size.

The land roll shall contain space or columns for the name of the owner, for the name of the subdivision, survey or addition, for block and lot numbers and, if required, for the section, township and range. It shall contain a column to show the value of any buildings, structures or improvements, and separately a column to show the value of the lands, and the total value.

In addition to the columns above specified, the governing authorities may provide columns to show the number of the tax receipt, the amount of ad valorem taxes collected, and the amounts collected for any special improvement or improvements.

Municipalities using accounting machines equipment may adopt such forms as may be required for the use of such equipment, provided that the information required herein is substantially set forth on said forms.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-175 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-175
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-175
Status: in_force

Any public agency having taxing powers, other than a county or a municipality as herein defined, is authorized to levy a special ad valorem tax not to exceed four (4) mills upon all taxable property within its geographical limits to pay all or a portion of the payments to be made by that public agency under a contract between the public agency and a municipality and if the contract as authorized by the governing body of the public agency so provides, then the contract shall constitute an obligation against the taxing power of the public agency to the extent therein provided. The special ad valorem tax millage authorized by Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall not be reimbursable by the state under the provisions otherwise made for reimbursements under the homestead exemption laws.

The proceeds derived from two (2) mills of the levy authorized herein shall be included in the ten percent (10%) increase limitation under Section 27-39-321 , and the proceeds derived from any additional millage levied hereunder in excess of two (2) mills shall be excluded from such limitation for the first year of such additional levy and shall be included within such limitation in any year thereafter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-129 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 43 / Section 43-129
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-129
Status: in_force

The proceeds of any assessment imposed pursuant to an approved district plan shall be disbursed by the tax collector to the designated district management group on an agreed to scheduled basis. A business improvement district may operate on the calendar year or on the same fiscal year as that of the municipality. None of the proceeds collected pursuant to Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 shall be used for any purposes other than those set forth in the initially approved or amended district plan. Improvements provided by a district using district funds may be undertaken only when the service, events, project or activity undertaken is not for the sole benefit of any particular property owner or other private party.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 31-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-55
Status: in_force

Immediately after the appointment of the civil service commission, the commission shall organize by electing one of its members chairman. The commission shall hold regular meetings at least once each month, and such additional meetings as may be required for the proper discharge of its duties.

The commission shall appoint a secretary and a board of examiners, which board shall consist of the fire chief, the police chief, and a third member to be named by the commission, all of whom shall serve without compensation. The secretary shall keep the records and preserve all reports made to the commission, and also a record of all examinations held under the direction of the board of examiners, and perform such other duties as the commission may prescribe. The members of the board and the secretary are subject to suspension and discharge in the same manner as the commissioners.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-133 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-133
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-133
Status: in_force

No certificate or permit shall be issued by any municipality to the owner or operator of any motor vehicle owned or operated for hire in any city or town in this state, unless and until such owner or operator shall have filed with, and the same has been approved by, the governing authorities of the municipality, an insurance policy, or certificates of insurance in lieu thereof, issued by some insurance company authorized to transact business in this state, or bond or bonds, to be approved by the said governing authorities of the municipality, in an amount required by an ordinance of said municipality, conditioned to pay any final judgment against said owner or operator for personal injuries or property damages resulting from or arising out of the use, maintenance, or operation of the said motor vehicle. The amount of the insurance policy or bond required under this section on any motor vehicle of any such owner or operator shall in no case be less than ten thousand dollars for the death or injury to any one person, and subject to said limit for one person, twenty thousand dollars total public liability for any one accident and ten thousand dollars for property damage.

The insurance policy or bond, filed with the municipality as required by this section, shall contain a provision or indorsement to the effect that the same shall not be cancelled for any cause by either party thereto unless and until ten days' written notice thereof shall have been given to the said municipality.

In any action, whether in law or in equity, against any owner or operator, operating under the provisions of this section, the insurer, insurance company, or obligor in the policy of insurance or bond given by such owner or operator in compliance with this section, shall not be joined as a party to such suit and shall not be a proper party thereto, except as hereinafter provided.

The insurer, insurance company, or obligor, in any policy of insurance or bond filed in compliance with this section, shall be obligated to pay any final judgment obtained against such owner or operator as herein provided, regardless of the solvency, insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, of such owner or operator. In the event that the insured shall abandon his permit and leave the state, a claimant asserting his claim within the provisions of said insurance policy or bond may file suit against the insurer or insurance company or obligor issuing such insurance policy or executing such bond in a court of competent jurisdiction without the necessity of making the insured a party to said suit.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 9-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-11
Status: in_force

All elections held either for the adoption of the council-manager plan of government or for its discontinuance or repeal, shall be held and conducted in accordance with the general laws for the holding of municipal elections.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-44.1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-44.1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-44.1
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality in this state are authorized, in their discretion, to contribute, donate or appropriate annually out of any money in the treasury of the municipality, to the municipality's nonprofit corporation known as Main Street Project, Incorporated, for any economic development program or endeavor of the corporation, for the development of the municipality's central business district or for any lawful purpose of the municipality. Further, the governing authorities are authorized, in their discretion, to execute contracts and agreements and to expend municipal funds in support of any project sponsored by the corporation, the municipality or any other nonprofit corporation engaged in local economic development.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 19-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-7
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to donate a sum, not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month, to maintain a charity ward or wards in any hospital situated in the same county in which such municipality is located.

All municipalities within the several counties of this state bordering on the tidewater of the Gulf of Mexico, are hereby authorized and empowered, in the discretion of the proper authorities thereof, to appropriate such a sum of money as said authorities shall deem reasonable, to provide and maintain a charity ward or wards, in any of the hospitals in said municipalities, or, in the discretion of said authorities, to make and enter into contracts with any such hospitals for the treatment and care in such hospitals of the indigent sick of said municipalities, and to pay therefor out of the general fund of such municipalities such sum or sums, as shall be a reasonable and just compensation to said hospital.

In addition, the governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to donate and furnish free of charge lights, power and water from municipally-owned electric light and water plants to hospitals or benevolent institutions located within any such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-303 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-303
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-303
Status: in_force

No municipality shall hereafter issue bonds secured by a pledge of its full faith and credit for the purposes authorized by law in an amount which, when added to the then outstanding bonded indebtedness of such municipality, shall exceed either (a) fifteen percent (15%) of the assessed value of the taxable property within such municipality, according to the last completed assessment for taxation, or (b) ten percent (10%) of the assessment upon which taxes were levied for its fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, whichever is greater. In computing such indebtedness, there may be deducted all bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, heretofore or hereafter issued, for school, water, sewerage systems, gas, and light and power purposes and for the construction of special improvements primarily chargeable to the property benefited, or for the purpose of paying the municipality's proportion of any betterment program, a portion of which is primarily chargeable to the property benefited. However, in no case shall any municipality contract any indebtedness which, when added to all of the outstanding general obligation indebtedness, both bonded and floating, shall exceed either (a) twenty percent (20%) of the assessed value of all taxable property within such municipality according to the last completed assessment for taxation or (b) fifteen percent (15%) of the assessment upon which taxes were levied for its fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, whichever is greater. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to contract obligations in any form heretofore or hereafter incurred by any municipality which are subject to annual appropriations therefor, or to bonds heretofore issued by any municipality for school purposes, or to contract obligations in any form heretofore or hereafter incurred by any municipality which are payable exclusively from the revenues of any municipally owned utility, or to bonds issued by any municipality under the provisions of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51 , or to any special assessment improvement bonds issued by any municipality under the provisions of Sections 21-41-1 through 21-41-53 , or to any indebtedness incurred under Section 55-23-8 , or to any indebtedness incurred through a loan to a municipality under Section 57-75-11(tt) in connection with a project defined in Section 57-75-5(f)(xxvii) .

All bonds issued prior to July 1, 1990, pursuant to this chapter by any municipality for the purpose of the constructing, replacing, renovating or improving wastewater collection and treatment facilities in order to comply with an administrative order of the Mississippi Department of Natural Resources issued pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and amendments thereto, are hereby exempt from the limitation imposed by this section if the governing body of the municipality adopts an order, resolution or ordinance to the effect that the rates paid by the users of such facilities shall be increased to the extent necessary to provide sufficient funds for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as each respectively becomes due and payable as well as the necessary expenses in connection with the operation and maintenance of such facilities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 8-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-17
Status: in_force

(1) The mayor shall enforce the charter and ordinances of the municipality and all general laws applicable thereto. He shall annually report to the council and the public on the work of the previous year and on the condition and requirements of the municipal government and shall, from time to time, make such recommendations for action by the council as he may deem in the public interest. He shall supervise all of the departments of the municipal government and shall require each department to make an annual report and such other reports of its work as he may deem desirable. No member of the council shall give orders to any employee or subordinate of a municipality other than the council member's personal staff.

(2) Ordinances adopted by the council shall be submitted to the mayor and he shall, within ten (10) days (not including Saturdays, Sundays or holidays) after receiving any ordinance, either approve the ordinance by affixing his signature thereto or return it to the council by delivering it to the clerk of the council together with a statement setting forth his objections thereto or to any item or part thereof. No ordinance or any item or part thereof shall take effect without the mayor's approval, unless the mayor fails to return an ordinance to the council prior to the next council meeting, but no later than fifteen (15) days (not including Saturdays, Sundays or holidays) after it has been presented to him or unless the council upon reconsideration thereof not later than the tenth day (not including Saturdays, Sundays or holidays) following its return by the mayor, shall, by a vote of two-thirds ( 2 / 3 ) of the members present and voting resolve to override the mayor's veto.

(3) The mayor may attend meetings of the council and may take part in discussions of the council but shall have no vote except in the case of a tie on the question of filling a vacancy in the council, in which case he may cast the deciding vote.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 33-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-15
Status: in_force

The assessor shall assess all the lands in the municipality which he serves, and all the land in any separate territory outside the municipality, but in the separate school district. He shall enter the assessments on the roll and he shall commence the assessment with the lowest number of squares or blocks and lots or other subdivisions, and proceeding in numerical order with all the lots in a square or block, and all the squares in the municipality, until complete. Any lands not platted, and not divided into lots, shall be assessed according to the section, township, and range, in the same manner as required of the county tax assessor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-149 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-149
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-149
Status: in_force

Should said fund at any time be insufficient to make all payments properly payable therefrom, the beneficiaries shall not file any suit against said city, its governing authorities, or said disability and relief board, but the amounts available shall be properly prorated until such time as funds may be sufficient to make all payments payable thereafter for the full amount properly allowed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 21-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-5
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality in the state are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to purchase by negotiation or otherwise, any breed of dogs suitable for law enforcement purposes, and pay for same out of the proceeds derived from tax levies made for their support and maintenance. Said dogs may be furnished to the police or police department of said municipality to be used by them in the enforcement of the laws of said municipality and the State of Mississippi. The governing authorities may also appropriate and pay monthly such amounts as may be necessary to maintain and care for said law enforcement dogs.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-83 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-83
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-83
Status: in_force

Any person, firm, or corporation aggrieved by the action of the governing authorities of any municipality under Sections 21-33-1 through 21-33-85 shall have the right of appeal to the circuit court of the county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 19-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-47
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to appropriate funds each year in the amount that they may deem advisable, to be paid out of the treasury of such municipalities, toward aiding, supporting and maintaining a band or concert orchestra for the amusement and entertainment of the citizens of such municipalities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-137 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-137
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-137
Status: in_force

In all matters involving the disability or sickness of a member of such fire and/or police department, such member shall submit himself to physical and mental examination when and as required by said disability and relief board of said governing authorities. A failure or refusal so to do shall suspend the benefits of Sections 21-29-133 and 21-29-135 , until such time as he shall submit himself to such examination.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-5-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-5-17
Status: in_force

The mayor and councilmen (or commissioners) shall have an office in the city hall, and shall have regular office hours each day, except Sundays and legal holidays, which said office hours shall be fixed by ordinance.

It shall be the duty of the mayor and councilmen to efficiently and economically administer every department of the city government, and they shall devote as much of their time to the business of the city as shall be necessary to accomplish that result. The council shall, by resolution, fix the hours of service of all other officers and employees.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 31-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-5
Status: in_force

(1)(a) The members of the civil service commission shall be appointed by the city commission, shall be three (3) in number, and shall serve without compensation; however, the governing authorities of any municipality, in their discretion, may pay each of the members of the commission a sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month to compensate them for their services. No person shall be appointed a member of such commission who is not a citizen of the United States, a resident of such city for at least five (5) years immediately preceding such appointment, and an elector of the county wherein he resides. The terms of office of such commissioners shall be for six (6) years, except that the first three (3) members shall be appointed for different terms, as follows: One (1) shall serve a period of two (2) years, one (1) shall serve a period of four (4) years, and one (1) shall serve a period of six (6) years.

(b) From and after May 18, 1988, the governing authorities of any municipality organized under the provisions of Chapter 8, Title 21, Mississippi Code of 1972 , in which a civil service commission is created pursuant to Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , may increase the members of the commission to the same number of wards into which the municipality is divided and, if the commission is so expanded, the governing authorities shall appoint one (1) member of the commission from each ward. The commissioners shall serve without compensation; however, the governing authorities of any municipality, in their discretion, may pay each of the members of the commission a sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month to compensate them for their services. No person shall be appointed a member of such commission who is not a citizen of the United States, a resident of the municipality for at least five (5) years immediately preceding such appointment, and an elector of the county wherein he resides. When making initial appointments under this paragraph (b), the governing authorities may stagger the terms of such appointees provided that no initial appointment is made for a period of less than one (1) year nor more than six (6) years; thereafter, all appointments shall be for terms of six (6) years. Appointment of members of the commission by the governing authorities under this paragraph (b) shall be made by the mayor with the confirmation of an affirmative vote of a majority of the city council present and voting at any meeting.

(2) Any member of such commission may be removed from office for incompetency, incompatibility, dereliction of duty, or other good cause, by the appointing power. However, no member shall be removed until charges have been preferred in writing and a full hearing had before the appointing power. Any member being so removed shall have the right of appeal, any time within thirty (30) days thereafter, to the circuit court and may demand a jury trial; such trial shall be confined to the determination of whether the order of removal, made by the appointing power, was, or was not, made in good faith and for cause.

(3) A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-305 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-29-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-21
Status: in_force

Should any member cease to be an employee before becoming eligible to receive either a service or disability retirement allowance as provided by this article, for reasons other than becoming a beneficiary or his death, he thereafter, at any time while not a member of the system, may request in writing, of the board a refund to him of his accumulated contributions, whereupon one hundred percent (100%) of his accumulated contributions then credited to his individual account in the employees' savings fund, less and except all interest credited to his individual account, shall be refunded to him within one (1) year from the filing of the request. However, from the date of separation of any employee, no further interest shall be credited to his individual account in said fund by the board unless and until such employee again becomes a member of the retirement system.

Should any former member, who has accumulated contributions remaining in the employees' savings fund, die, or any member die before his retirement becomes effective, one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of his accumulated contributions standing to his credit in the employees' savings fund, including the accumulated interest therein at the rate of one percent (1%) per annum, at the time of his death shall be paid to such person or persons as shall have been nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the board. If there be no such designated person or persons, then one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of his accumulated contributions shall be paid to his legal representative. However, such payments shall be postponed, at the discretion of the board, for not more than eighteen (18) months.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 21-33-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 33-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-1
Status: in_force

All lands and other taxable property subject to assessment, held by any person within the municipality, or in added territory, on the first day of January, shall be assessed, and ad valorem taxes thereon levied and collected for the ensuing year, excepting motor vehicles as defined by the “Motor Vehicle Ad Valorem Tax Law of 1958,” Sections 27-51-1 through 27-51-49, Mississippi Code of 1972 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 29-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-47
Status: in_force

Appeal may be taken from any decision of the board by any member of the system or other person entitled to the benefits under this article to the chancery court. However, no appeal may be taken from any finding or decision of the board after the expiration of one year from the date of the finding or decision.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 41-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-7
Status: in_force

At said meeting provided for by Section 21-41-5 , or at a time and place to which same may be adjourned, any person aggrieved may appear in person, by attorney or by petition, and may object to or protest against said improvement or any part thereof. The governing authorities shall consider the objections and protests, if any, and may confirm, amend, modify or rescind the resolution of necessity, and shall determine whether said improvement shall be made and how the cost thereof shall be paid. The determination of such governing authorities shall be final and conclusive. However, if a majority of property owners owning more than fifty per cent of the front footage of the property involved and actually residing on property owned by them and included within that part of any street, avenue, or the like, ordered to be specially improved, or otherwise actually occupying property owned by them and included within that area shall file a protest, then the improvement shall not be made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-25-53 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 25-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-53
Status: in_force

(1) No interlocal agreement made under Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 shall be entered into by any municipality or rural water association without the approval by resolution on the minutes of the governing authorities of the municipality and the rural water association.

(2) No power, authority and responsibility may be exercised under Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 by the governing authorities of any municipality or rural water association which it would not have authority to exercise otherwise pursuant to the law controlling such municipality or association.

(3) Any power, authority or responsibility exercised or capable of being exercised by the governing authorities of any municipality of this state may be exercised and carried out jointly with the governing authorities of any rural water association.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 9-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-19
Status: in_force

At all elections held to choose a mayor and councilmen, or any of them, the choice of the person or persons voting shall be indicated and the ballots shall be marked in like manner as is provided by law for general state and county elections.

The poll managers at all special and general elections for mayor and councilmen, or any of them, shall immediately, upon the closing of the polls, count the ballots and ascertain the number of votes cast in each voting precinct for each of the candidates and make return thereof to the municipal election commissioners. On the day following any special or general election, the municipal election commissioners shall canvass the returns so received from all the voting precincts, and shall within six (6) business days after such special or general election, deliver to each person receiving the highest number of votes a certificate of election. If it shall appear by the returns that any two (2) candidates for mayor or councilmen, have received an equal number of votes, the election shall be decided by a toss of a coin or by lot, fairly and publicly drawn under the direction of the election commissioners, with the aid of a friend of each such candidates, and a certificate of election shall be given accordingly.

The election commissioners shall, within ten (10) business days after any special or general election, certify to the Secretary of State the name or names of the person or persons elected at such special or general election, and the Secretary of State shall, immediately upon receiving such certificates, deliver the same to the Governor, who shall immediately issue commissions to the persons mentioned in certificate.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-49 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 19-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-49
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authority of any municipality or the board of supervisors of any county are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate money or dedicate and convey municipally-owned buildings and property or county-owned buildings and property, as the case may be, to the school district or districts situated within that municipality or county for the purpose of erecting, purchasing or otherwise providing the school building or a site for such school building of such school district, in cases where the governing authority or board of supervisors are of the opinion that the location of such school building within the corporate limits of the municipality or the county, or in close proximity thereto, will be of special benefit to the inhabitants of the municipality or county.

(2) Municipalities, municipal police departments and the sheriffs' departments may contract with the school board of any school district to provide additional Law Enforcement Officers Training Academy-certified police protection to said school district on such terms and for such reimbursement as the school district and the entity may agree in their discretion.

(3)(a) The governing authority of any municipality or the board of supervisors of any county may allow off-duty municipal or county law enforcement officers who are hired individually for security purposes by the school district or districts within that municipality or county to use municipal or county law enforcement uniforms and equipment, which includes vehicles, during such off-duty employment.

(b) If the person or entity, and the person's or entity's insurer, fails or refuses to endorse, indemnify and hold harmless the employing jurisdiction, the employing jurisdiction shall not approve the use of the official vehicle of the employing jurisdiction for private security services.

(4) The governing authority of any municipality, in its discretion, may donate funds, equipment or in-kind services to any school district located within the boundaries of the municipality to assist the voluntary character development or public service programs of that school district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-119 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 43 / Section 43-119
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-119
Status: in_force

A district plan shall be deemed adopted and ready for implementation upon written ballot approval by sixty percent (60%) of the participating eligible property owners in the district. Reauthorization of the district plan or modification of boundaries shall also be subject to written ballot approval by sixty percent (60%) of the participating eligible property owners.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-205 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-205
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-205
Status: in_force

Whenever the said fund shall be created, and a system of disability and relief for firemen and/or policemen inaugurated in any municipality, at any time upon the petition of not less than twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of said municipality addressed to the said officers composing the governing board of said municipality, requesting an election to determine whether said municipality shall continue to operate under the provisions of this article, the said governing board of said municipality shall order an election to determine said question. Notice of the election shall be given and conduct of the election shall be had as is provided in Section 21-29-203 . If at said election a majority of the qualified electors of said municipality shall vote against the continuance of operation of said municipality under the provisions of this article, the said governing board of said municipality shall at the next regular meeting thereof held after said election order the abolition and discontinuance of said system. The said fund and the said system, however, shall continue as to members of the paid fire department and/or police department of said municipality already in service and entitled to participation in said fund. The said system shall be worked out in said municipality to its end as to said members of the paid fire department and/or police department, but no new members entering the service of the fire and/or police department of said municipality shall be taken into or embraced within said system. If at said election a majority of the qualified electors of said municipality shall not vote for a discontinuance of said system in said municipality, no other election in said regard shall be held therein within a period of one (1) year thereafter. 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.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-111 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 43 / Section 43-111
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-111
Status: in_force

Notice shall be given to the municipality in which the district is to be established when an effort is begun by a contiguous group of non-residentially zoned local property owners to form a business improvement district. Upon delivery of a petition to the clerk of the municipality, signed by at least twenty percent (20%) of the property owners in an area proposing to establish a business improvement district, efforts can begin to form a business improvement district pursuant to Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-23
Status: in_force

(1) The Department of Revenue shall administer the Municipal Court Collections Payment Program. The purpose of the program shall be to provide support for salaries of municipal court personnel, for the purchase, operation and maintenance of software and equipment, for facility planning and improvement, and for other expenses incurred for the purpose of collecting fines and assessments within the municipal court system. Monies appropriated by the Legislature to the Department of Revenue for the purposes of funding the Municipal Court Collections Payment Program shall be expended by the department to each participating municipality based upon that municipality's deposits in the Treasury of the monies received under the provisions of Section 99-19-73 .

(2) The Department of Revenue shall promulgate rules and procedures relating to the disbursement of monies to participating municipalities. The department shall promulgate rules and procedures to ensure that the municipal court system of a participating municipality practices proper and effective collection procedures for the collection of fines and other assessments. If a municipality uses its own employees to collect delinquent fines and other assessments owed to the municipality, then it may use monies from the fund to defray the costs associated with these collection actions. In addition, the governing authority of a participating municipality shall contract with a private attorney or private collection agent or agency to collect delinquent criminal fines and other assessments as provided in Section 21-17-1(6) in order to qualify.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-33 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 33 / 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. § 21-27-219 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-219
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-219
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever the board or commission or an employee thereof has reason to believe that a violation of any provision of a regulation or of any order of the board or commission has occurred, the board or commission may cause a written complaint to be served upon the alleged violator or violators. The complaint shall specify the provisions of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 or regulation or order alleged to have been violated and the facts alleged to constitute a violation thereof, and shall require that the alleged violator appear before the board or commission, or any duly designated hearing officer appointed thereby, at a time and place specified in the notice and answer the charges complained of. The time of appearance before the board or commission or designated hearing officer shall be not less than thirty (30) days from the date of the service of the complaint.

(2) The board or commission or designated hearing officer shall afford an opportunity for a fair hearing to the alleged violator or violators at the time and place specified in the complaint. On the basis of the evidence produced at the hearing, the board or commission or designated hearing officer shall make findings of fact and conclusions of law and enter such order as in its opinion will best further the purposes of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 and shall give written notice of such order to the alleged violator, and the board or commission or designated hearing officer may assess such penalties as hereinbefore provided.

(3) Except as otherwise expressly provided, any notice or other instrument issued by or under authority of the board or commission or designated hearing officer may be served on any person affected thereby personally or by publication, and proof of such service may be made in like manner as in case of service of a summons in a civil action, such proof to be filed in the office of the board or commission; or such service may be made by mailing a copy of the notice, order or other instrument by certified mail, directed to the person affected at his last known post office address as shown by the files or records of the board or commission, and proof thereof may be made by the affidavit of the person who did the mailing, filed in the office of the board or commission.

(4) In conducting the hearings provided in this section, any member of the board or commission, or the chief administrative officer thereof, or the duly designated hearing officer, shall have the authority to issue subpoenas to appear and give testimony, to produce records, or both, and in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a notice of hearing or subpoena issued hereunder, the circuit court shall have jurisdiction upon application of the board or commission or its representative to issue an order requiring obedience to the hearing notice or subpoena of the board or commission or designated hearing officer. Any failure to obey such court order may be punished by such court as contempt thereof. Any member of the board or commission, or the chief administrative officer thereof, or the designated hearing officer, may administer oaths. A verbatim record of the hearing shall be made. Witnesses who are subpoenaed shall receive the same fees and mileage as in civil actions.

(5) Any person aggrieved by the decision of the board or commission to issue, deny, modify or revoke any operator certification hereunder shall be entitled to a full hearing before the board or commission or duly designated hearing officer appointed thereby in the same manner as provided hereinabove, and appeals from such actions shall be in the same manner as provided hereinafter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-20 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 23-20
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-20
Status: in_force

Upon conviction of any person of a misdemeanor in a municipal court of this state, the municipal court judge shall be authorized, in his discretion, to sentence such person to:

(a) A period of time in jail to be served either on weekends only;

(b) Other periods of time during the week wherein such offender may not be engaged in gainful employment; or

(c) A specified number of days in jail with a provision for the release of such offender for the purpose of engaging in gainful employment at such times as the offender is actually gainfully employed, whether self-employed or otherwise.

In addition, the court may, in its discretion, sentence any convicted person to split periods of incarceration; and the court shall not be required to order such offender to serve a sentence of imprisonment all in one period but may suspend the sentence from time to time.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 21-29-129 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 29-129
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-129
Status: in_force

Every member of said fire department and police department including its officers, but not including the governing authorities of said city on account of their relation as such to said fire department and/or police department, who are members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall come under the provisions and benefits of this article and shall receive all benefits provided for in this article. All firemen and policemen who are employed in the said fire department or police department after adoption of a resolution by the municipality in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of Section 21-29-17 shall not become members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen.

However, in any municipality having a population of not less than twenty-eight thousand (28,000) and not more than thirty thousand (30,000) according to the 1960 decennial census and located in a county having an assessed valuation in 1969 of not less than Eighty-five Million Dollars ($85,000,000.00) and not more than Ninety Million Dollars ($90,000,000.00), any former member of the fire or police department with thirteen (13) or more consecutive and paid years longevity retirement benefits in the retirement system, who remains in public service of such municipality in an elected capacity which includes ex officio chief of police or fire department, such elected public service shall be credited under this article, when the member pays into the system all employer and employee contributions with any interest or earnings thereon based upon the salary he received during the last six (6) months of his employment as a fireman or policeman prior to his becoming an elected official, and his retirement benefits shall be computed upon the salary so received.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / 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. § 21-27-201 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 21-27-141 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 27-141
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-141
Status: in_force

(1) Any person or persons who may violate any of the provisions of Sections 21-27-131 , 21-27-135 , 21-27-137 , or 21-27-139 , shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction shall be fined not more than $50.00 or thirty days in jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(2) Failure of any owner or operator to comply with any of the requirements of Section 21-27-133 shall be cause for the revocation or suspension of his permit, or a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 21-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-7
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to pay the expenses of any municipal peace or police officer which said officer incurs in attending any recognized training school for peace and law enforcement officers. Such governing authorities are further authorized and empowered to pay the salaries of such municipal peace and police officers during the time when such officers are attending such training schools. This section shall also apply to any other municipal officer or employee attending any recognized training school beneficial to his particular employment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 39 / Section 41-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-1
Status: in_force

Any municipality of this state may, by its governing authorities, cause the local improvements designated in Section 21-41-3 to be made, wholly or in part, at the cost of the property owners benefited thereby, by levying and collecting special assessments as provided in this chapter, and may finance such local improvements in the manner provided in this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-209 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 33-209
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-209
Status: in_force

Any qualified municipality wishing to discontinue the collection of the city utility tax may do so by an action of the mayor and board of aldermen or other governing authority adopting an ordinance to that effect. Such ordinance shall be effective after the last day of a month and the tax levy shall not apply to sales made on and after said date. A copy of the ordinance shall be furnished to the chairman of the state tax commission at least seven days prior to its effective date.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-51 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-51
Status: in_force

(1) There is hereby created a civil service commission to administer a civil service system in every municipality described in subsection (2) of this section which has administrative and other employees employed on a monthly basis.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply to:

(a) Any municipality, operating under a commission form of government, and having a population of more than twenty-one thousand, according to the federal census of 1950; and

(b) Any municipality located in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, and having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than twenty thousand, according to the federal census of 1950.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 21-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-41
Status: in_force

All wage and disability payments, pension payments, damage to equipment and clothing, medical expense, and expenses of travel, food, and lodging shall be paid by the municipality regularly employing such law enforcement officer. Upon making such payments, the municipality that furnished the services shall, when it so requests, be reimbursed by the municipality whose authorized official requested the services out of which the payments arose. Each such municipality is hereby expressly authorized to make such payments and reimbursements notwithstanding any provision in its charter or ordinances to the contrary.