Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-301 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-301
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-301
Status: in_force

(1) Any member of the Municipal Retirement System whose membership service is interrupted as a result of qualified military service within the meaning of Section 414(u)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code , and who has received the maximum service credit available under Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter, shall receive creditable service for the period of qualified military service that does not qualify as creditable service under Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter upon reentering membership service in an amount not to exceed five (5) years if:

(a) The member pays the contributions he would have made to the retirement system if he had remained in membership service for the period of qualified military service based upon his salary at the time his membership service was interrupted;

(b) The member returns to membership service within ninety (90) days of the end of his qualified military service; and

(c) The employer at the time the member's service was interrupted and to which employment the member returns pays the contribution it would have made into the retirement system for such period based on the member's salary at the time the service was interrupted.

(2) The payments required to be made in subsection (1)(a) of this section may be made over a period beginning with the date of return to membership service and not exceeding three (3) times the member's qualified military service; however, in no event shall such period exceed five (5) years.

(3) The member shall furnish proof satisfactory to the board of trustees of certification of military service showing dates of entrance into qualified service and the date of discharge as well as proof that the member has returned to active employment within the time specified.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-61 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-61
Status: in_force

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

The term “taxes” as used in Sections 21-33-55 through 21-33-61 shall include special improvement assessments or any installment thereof that may be delinquent.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 8-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-13
Status: in_force

(1) The council shall appoint a clerk of the council and deputy clerks, as necessary, who shall compile the minutes and records of its proceedings, its ordinances and resolutions as this chapter requires, and perform such duties as may be required by law.

(2) At the end of each fiscal year, the council shall cause a full and complete examination of all the books, accounts and vouchers of the municipality to be made by a competent, independent accountant or accountants who shall be appointed by the council, and the report of said examination shall be typed or printed in pamphlet form. The council shall make available a copy of said pamphlet to all persons who shall apply therefor at the office of the municipal clerk and shall cause three (3) of the printed copies of said pamphlet for each fiscal year to be substantially bound in three (3) volumes which shall be kept and preserved as a record of the clerk's office. Said pamphlets shall be published as now provided by law.

(3) If, at the beginning of the first term of office of the first city council elected by any municipality under the provisions of this chapter, the appropriations for the expenditures for the municipal government for the current fiscal year shall have been made, the council shall have power by ordinance, to revise, repeal or change said appropriations and to make additional appropriations.

(4) The authority of the council is otherwise legislative and is executed by a vote within a legally called meeting. No member of the council shall give orders to any employee or subordinate of a municipality other than the council member's personal staff. The council shall deal with the municipal departments and personnel solely through the mayor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-103 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 41 / Section 43-103
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-103
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds that:

(a) The business districts within many municipalities in the state are in a deteriorated condition;

(b) This deteriorated condition affects the economic and general welfare of the people of the State of Mississippi;

(c) Establishment of business improvement districts is an effective means for restoring and promoting business activity; and

(d) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for a process for establishing these districts.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-319 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-319
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-319
Status: in_force

Deductions made prior to retirement by the employer for employment-related fringe benefits may continue to be paid after retirement in accordance with rules and regulations established by the board of trustees if the retirement allowance payable under Section 21-29-1 et seq. , Section 21-29-101 et seq. , and Section 21-29-201 et seq. , is in an amount sufficient to cover the deductions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-259 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 29-259
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-259
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 thereafter for the full amount properly allowed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-31
Status: in_force

Any municipality issuing revenue bonds pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 shall install and maintain proper books of record and account (separate entirely from other records and accounts of such municipality), in which correct entries shall be made of all dealings or transactions of or in relation to the properties, business and affairs of the system or combined system. The governing authorities of such municipality, not later than three months after the close of any calendar, operating or fiscal year, shall cause to be prepared a balance sheet and an income and operating and surplus account showing, respectively, in reasonable detail, the financial condition of the system or combined system at the close of such preceding calendar, operating or fiscal year, and the financial operations thereof during such year. Said balance sheet and the income and operating and surplus account shall at all times during the usual business hours be open to examination and inspection by any taxpayer, user of the services furnished by the system, or any holder of bonds issued pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 , or any one acting for or on behalf of such taxpayer, user of the services of the system, or bondholder.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-203 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-203
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-203
Status: in_force

Said fund and system of relief to the fire department and/or police department shall be inaugurated in each municipality only in the following manner: each municipality desiring to create said fund and inaugurate this system of disability and relief for its firemen and/or policemen, shall call an election after giving three weeks consecutive notice in a newspaper published in said city, stating the date, purpose and time of holding said election for the electors to determine whether or not said municipality shall adopt the “disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen.” At said election the ballots used by the qualified electors shall read: “For the Disability and Relief Fund for Firemen and Policemen”, “Against the Disability and Relief Fund for Firemen and Policemen.” Said election shall be held as such other elections of like nature, and if at said election the majority of qualified electors voting thereat, shall vote against the creation of said fund and system, then the said fund and system shall not be created and said fund and system shall not be inaugurated in said municipality. Should a majority of said qualified electors voting at said election vote in favor of the creation of said fund and the operation of said system, the said fund and system shall be inaugurated by said municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-57 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 31-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-57
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the civil service commission to make suitable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 and not inconsistent with personnel rules and regulations duly adopted by the governing authorities of the municipality. Such rules and regulations shall provide in detail the manner of conducting examinations, appointments, promotions, transfers, reinstatements, demotions, suspensions and discharges, and may also provide for any other matter connected with the general subject of personnel administration, and which may be considered desirable to further carry out the general purposes of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 . It shall have the power to conduct investigations, and make reports on all matters touching the enforcement and effect of the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 , and the rules and regulations prescribed hereunder. The commission shall have the power to investigate all complaints which must be reduced to writing, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and conduct hearings.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-49 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 33-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-49
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authorities of each municipality shall furnish their tax collector a sufficient number of tax receipts, in books, printed in triplicate, in blank form, numbered serially by the printer. The clerk shall first make a record of all such receipts by numbers, and shall take the tax collector's receipt therefor, and shall thereafter, at the end of the fiscal year, credit the tax collector with all unused receipts.

Such tax receipts shall be prepared and printed so as to show the total assessment of the property on which the taxes are collected, together with a description of the property, the line and page of the assessment roll where the assessment is listed, and the amount, if any, shown as a home exemption, if the property be an exempt home. They shall show the rate of levy, separately for general current expenses and maintenance taxes, for school maintenance taxes, for bonds, interest, notes or other obligations, and the total tax levy, and the total amount of all taxes received. If the property described in the receipt be an exempt home, there shall be shown the additional amount of taxes which would have been collected had the home not been exempt, which additional amount shall be separately stated.

The said tax receipts may contain such other and additional statements as the governing authorities of the municipality may prescribe and shall generally comply with the requirements of Sections 27-41-1 through 27-41-89, Mississippi Code of 1972 , governing the installment payment of taxes.

(2) As to any real property on which taxes for any previous year were not paid, the tax collector shall give notice of the delinquent taxes by stamping on the current tax receipt the fact that previous taxes are delinquent. The tax collector shall not accept payment of current year taxes for real property which has sold for delinquent taxes until the taxpayer provides the tax collector with proof that the tax sales for such real property for the previous two (2) years have been redeemed in the chancery clerk's office. Failure of the tax collector to stamp tax receipts shall not void any tax sale. The tax collector shall have no liability for errors made in complying with the provisions of this subsection if such tax collector makes a good faith effort to comply with such provisions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-307 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-307
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-307
Status: in_force

(1) The right of a person to an annuity, a retirement allowance, or benefit, or to the return of contributions, or to any optional benefit or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of Articles 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter; the system; and the monies in the system created by such articles, are hereby exempt from any state, county or municipal ad valorem taxes, income taxes, premium taxes, privilege taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, or other taxes not so named, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, and exempt from levy and sale, garnishment, attachment or any other process whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as specifically otherwise provided in Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter effective January 1, 1988, and except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section.

(2) Any retired member or beneficiary receiving a retirement allowance or benefit under Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter may authorize the Public Employees' Retirement System to make deductions from the retirement allowance or benefit for the payment of employer or system sponsored group life or health insurance. The deductions authorized under this subsection shall be subject to rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-75 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-75
Status: in_force

After the time to redeem from the municipal tax sale has expired, or after the municipality has purchased land as provided by law, said municipality, acting through its governing authorities, shall take possession of said lands and shall endeavor to sell same as expeditiously as good business may require. However, it may lease said lands until a sale thereof can be made.

Said municipal governing authorities may lease or sell any of said lands to any person in any manner that may be prescribed by an order or resolution, which said order or resolution shall be entered in the minutes covering each particular tract of land so leased or sold, it being the intention of the legislature to vest in municipal authorities in each specific case of lease or sale the right to fix the price, terms, and conditions of each sale or lease.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-57 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-57
Status: in_force

Any mayor and board of commissioners of any city and/or any mayor and board of aldermen of any municipality in this state, are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to donate annually, out of any moneys in the municipal treasury, to be drawn by warrant thereon, a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per million of assessed valuation to the support of a local chapter of the American Red Cross, in said municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-171 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 27-171
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-171
Status: in_force

A municipality may enter into contract with any person or public agency situated wholly or partly within its metropolitan area, whether or not lying wholly or partially within its boundaries, for any of the purposes authorized by Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 . Public agencies and other persons are hereby authorized to make contracts with a municipality under which the municipality will make a sewage disposal system available to a public agency or group of public agencies or to other persons and furnish waste collection, transportation, treatment and sewage disposal services by the municipality's sewage disposal system. The contract may be upon such terms and for such period of time as the parties may agree and may provide that it will remain in effect until any bonds issued or to be issued by the municipality, and any bonds which may be issued to refund the same are paid; the contract may contain provisions to assure equitable treatment of persons or public agencies who contract with the municipality for waste collection, transportation, treatment and sewage disposal services from the same sewage disposal system; may contain provisions requiring any public agency or other person to regulate the quality and strength of waste to be handled by the sewage disposal system; shall provide the method of determining the amounts to be paid by a public agency or other person to the municipality; may provide for the sale or lease to or use of by the municipality of any sewage disposal system or any part thereof at the time owned or to be acquired by a public agency or other person; may provide that the municipality shall operate any sewage disposal system or part thereof at the time owned or to be acquired by a public agency or other person; may provide that a public agency shall have the right to continued performance of such services after the amortization of the municipality's investment in the sewage disposal system during the useful life thereof upon payments of reasonable charges therefor, reduced to take into consideration such amortization; and may contain such other provisions and requirements as the municipality and a public agency or other person may determine to be appropriate or necessary. A municipality may also provide in its contract that the municipality shall have the right to use any streets, alleys and public ways and places within the jurisdiction of a public agency or other person during the term of the contract.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-243 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 29-243
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-243
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 this article until such time as he shall submit himself to such examination.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-179 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-179
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-179
Status: in_force

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

No interest payment shall be evidenced by more than one (1) coupon and neither cancelled nor supplemental coupons shall be permitted; the lowest interest rate specified for any bonds issued shall not be less than seventy percent (70%) of the highest rate specified for the same bond issue. Such bonds shall not bear a greater overall maximum interest rate to maturity than that allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972 . Each interest rate specified in any bid must be in multiples of one-eighth of one percent ( 1 / 8 of 1%) or in multiples of one-tenth of one percent ( 1 / 10 of 1%). If serial bonds, such bonds shall mature annually, and the first maturity date thereof shall not be more than five (5) years from the date of such bonds. Such bonds shall be legal investments for trustees and other fiduciaries, and for savings banks, trust companies and insurance companies organized under the laws of the state of Mississippi. The bonds and interest coupons shall be exempt from all state, county, municipal and other taxation under the laws of the state of Mississippi. No bond issued pursuant to Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall constitute an indebtedness of a municipality within the meaning of any statutory or charter restriction or limitation upon indebtedness. Such bonds shall be sold on sealed bids at public sale in the manner provided by Section 31-19-25 , as now or hereafter amended, upon such terms as the governing authorities of the municipality may determine, not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 , but no sale shall be made at a price so low as to require the payment of interest on the money received therefor at more than that allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972 , computed with relation to the absolute maturity of the bonds, in accordance with standard tables of bond values, excluding from such computation the amount of any premium to be paid on redemption of any bonds prior to maturity. Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall be full and complete authority for the issuance of the bonds provided for herein, and no restriction or limitation otherwise prescribed by law shall apply herein, nor shall such bonds constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-139 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-139
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-139
Status: in_force

The owner of any motor vehicle operated for hire in any city or town in this state, shall before causing the same to be operated, register the said vehicle with the clerk of such municipality, in the name of the owner, with the number of motor, and number of license tag for that year. The clerk shall keep said registration in a book kept for that purpose and give a number to such vehicle, which the owner shall cause to be painted or stenciled on two sides of the said vehicle. Such number shall not be required to be changed at subsequent registrations.

Such vehicle shall be reregistered on or before the first day of February each year.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-13
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality which now owns and operates, or hereafter shall own and operate, any system or systems shall have the power and authority to create a commission to control, manage and operate such systems, or any one or more of them, which said commission shall consist of not less than three (3) nor more than five (5) commissioners, to be elected by the governing authorities of such municipality. In any municipality operating under the council-manager plan of government, such commissioners shall be selected by, and shall be under the control of, the mayor and councilmen of the municipality, and not the city or town manager. Such commissioners shall have the power, authority and duty to manage and control said system or systems and the supply of the facilities and services thereof, both within and without the limits of the municipality. Such commissioners shall be qualified electors of the municipality and shall not hold any other municipal office for honor or profit. Such commissioners shall receive such compensation as may be specified and provided by the governing authorities of said municipality; provided, however, that any commission formed for the purpose of establishing a motor vehicle transportation system for the transportation of passengers within the boundaries of the governmental unit or units concerned, and within three (3) miles thereof, may pay its commissioners from the operating budget of such commission per diem compensation in the amount provided by Section 25-3-69 for each day or fraction of a day engaged in attendance of meetings of the commission or engaged in other official duties of the commission, not to exceed forty-five (45) days in any one (1) year. The governing authorities of the municipality are hereby authorized and empowered to require such commissioners to furnish bonds for the faithful performance of their duties, in the amount as may be deemed proper, and to pay the premiums thereon from the municipal treasury or the available funds of the said system or systems. Where there are three (3) members of such commission, the term of office shall be for a period of three (3) years, and where there are four (4) members the term of office shall be for a period of four (4) years, and where there are five (5) members the term of office shall be for a period of five (5) years. However, in making the first appointment of commissioners, one (1) shall be appointed for a term of one (1) year, one (1) for a term of two (2) years, one (1) for a term of three (3) years and, where necessary, one (1) for a term of four (4) years, and one (1) for a term of five (5) years, so that thereafter the term of office of one (1) commissioner shall expire each year. Where the governing authorities of the municipality do not elect to create a commission as herein provided, then any system or systems owned and operated by the municipality shall be controlled and managed by the governing authorities of the municipality, who shall have all the power and authority conferred upon such commission.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-99 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 27-99
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-99
Status: in_force

When any of the records of which reproductions are made are declared by law, or are by their nature confidential and privileged records, then the reproduction thereof shall likewise be deemed to be confidential and privileged to the same extent as the original records.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-25 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / 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. § 21-31-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 31-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-9
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the civil service commission to make suitable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 . Such rules and regulations shall provide in detail the manner of conducting examinations, appointments, promotions, transfers, reinstatements, demotions, suspensions and discharges, and may also provide for any other matter connected with the general subject of personnel administration, and which may be considered desirable to further carry out the general purposes of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 . It shall have the power to conduct investigations, and make reports on all matters touching the enforcement and effect of the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , and the rules and regulations prescribed hereunder. The commission shall have the power to investigate all complaints which must be reduced to writing, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and conduct hearings.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 23-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-3
Status: in_force

In all municipalities having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or more, according to the latest available federal census, there shall be a municipal judge and a prosecuting attorney, who shall be appointed by the governing authorities of the municipality at the time provided for the appointment of other officers. The municipal governing authorities may appoint one (1) additional municipal judge, who shall exercise the same authority and prerogatives of the office, regardless of the presence or absence of the other municipal judge. Except as otherwise provided in Section 21-23-5 , a municipal judge shall be a qualified elector of the county in which the municipality is located and shall be an attorney at law. Such municipal judges and prosecuting attorney shall receive a salary, to be paid by the municipality, and to be fixed by the governing authorities of the municipality.

In any proceeding in which a conflict of interest arises for the prosecuting attorney, or any other reason dictates that he recuse himself, the mayor of the municipality may appoint a special prosecuting attorney for that particular proceeding. Such special prosecuting attorney shall be compensated for his services in the same manner and amount as allowed under Section 21-23-7 for appointed counsel for indigent persons.

Provided, however, the governing authorities of any municipality having a population in excess of ten thousand (10,000) persons according to the latest available federal census and situated in a county having an area in excess of nine hundred thirty-five (935) square miles and having a county court may, in their discretion, follow the provisions as set out in Section 21-23-5 for municipalities having a population of less than ten thousand (10,000).

Provided, further, the governing authorities of any municipality having a population in excess of fifty thousand (50,000) according to the latest federal decennial census may, in their discretion, provide for the appointment of not more than ten (10) municipal judges for said municipality, each of whom shall exercise the same authority and prerogatives of their office, regardless of the presence or absence of the other municipal judges.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 31-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-21
Status: in_force

The tenure of everyone holding an office, place, position or employment under the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 shall be only during good behavior. Any such person may be removed or discharged, suspended without pay, demoted or reduced in rank, or deprived of vacation privileges or other special privileges, or any combination thereof, for any of the following reasons:

Incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention of duty; dishonesty, intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public or a fellow employee, or any other act of omission or commission tending to injure the public service.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-25 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 31-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-25
Status: in_force

The fixing of the rate of compensation of every employee coming under the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 shall remain vested in those public officials authorized by law to fix the rate of such compensation, and nothing contained in said sections shall infringe upon the power and authority of any such public officials to so fix the rate of such compensation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 19-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-17
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to make regulations to protect property, health and lives and to enhance the general welfare of the community by restricting the movements of the citizens, or any group thereof, of such municipalities when there is eminent danger to the public safety because of freedom of movement thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-113 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-33-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 33-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-35
Status: in_force

The governing authorities, after having heard and determined all objections to the assessment roll, or rolls, and the assessments therein contained, shall approve the same by an order entered on the minutes. Such order shall state the grand total of the personal roll and the grand total of the land roll. In the event the municipality has added territory, the order shall recite, separately, the above totals for the municipality, for the added territory, and the grand total for the separate school district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-37 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 19-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-37
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The provisions of this section shall apply to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under the code charter, a special charter, commission form, or other form of government.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-35
Status: in_force

The mayor and councilmen shall constitute the governing body of such city or town and shall be known as the city council or the town council as the case may be. Except as limited in this chapter, the city council shall have, exercise and perform all executive, legislative and judicial powers, duties and obligations vested by law in the mayor and governing body acting for the city at the time of the adoption by such city of the council-manager form of government.

The corporate name of every such city or town shall be “The City of (name of city),” or “The Town of (name of town),” under which name the council shall exercise and perform all the corporate powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed on it or the members thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 25-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-7
Status: in_force

In all municipalities of this state maintaining a paid fire department, the personnel of which department is actively and exclusively engaged in fire duty, no member of such department, exclusive of the chief officer, shall be required to remain on active duty for an entire twenty-four hours. The personnel of such fire department shall be divided into two platoons, or shifts, one to perform duty in the daytime and the other to perform duty in the nighttime, but neither platoon, or shift, shall be required to remain on active duty in any event for more than fourteen hours per day, except in cases of urgent and extreme necessity.

Each municipality coming within the provisions of this section shall immediately submit to the Mississippi state rating bureau the set-up and organization of its fire department which will be necessary in order to comply with the provisions of this section and which can be effected without employing more than one additional fireman. Such municipality shall require of said rating bureau a ruling as to whether or not such a set-up and organization of its fire department would adversely affect the present insurance rating of such municipality; if said rating bureau in answer to such request shall give a written ruling in the affirmative the municipality requesting such ruling shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 33-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-27
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in Section 21-33-10 , it shall be the duty of the governing authorities of each municipality to correct and revise the municipal land assessment roll, including land in any added territory, in the same manner as is required of boards of supervisors in correcting and revising the county land assessment roll, as provided by general law. The clerk shall assist the governing authorities of the municipality in the revision, correction and preparation of the assessment roll, and shall do any and all things in connection therewith, and shall perform the same duties with respect to said roll as is generally required of the clerk of the board of supervisors in making the county land assessment roll.

All of the aforesaid provisions relating to the correcting and revising of the land roll shall apply to the correcting and revising of the personal roll, so far as applicable.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 33-325
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325
Status: in_force

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

Money may likewise be borrowed by the governing authorities of any municipality, as herein provided, for the purpose of paying current interest maturities on any bonded indebtedness of such municipality in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the retirement of such bonded indebtedness and the payment of any interest thereon.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 33-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-3
Status: in_force

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

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

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

It is the purpose of this section that municipal forms relating to assessment and taxes be generally uniform throughout the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-103 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 39 / Section 43-103
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-103
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds that:

(a) The business districts within many municipalities in the state are in a deteriorated condition;

(b) This deteriorated condition affects the economic and general welfare of the people of the State of Mississippi;

(c) Establishment of business improvement districts is an effective means for restoring and promoting business activity; and

(d) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for a process for establishing these districts.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-47-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 38 / Section 47-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-47-3
Status: in_force

The Delta Natural Gas District shall devote all monies, derived from any source other than the issuance of bonds for purposes authorized by the laws of the State of Mississippi, to or for the payment of all operating expenses, including such items as are normally required of utilities for sales development; to or for the payment of all bonds and interest on outstanding revenue bonds, if any, of such systems; to or for the acquisition and improvement of the system contingencies; to or for the payment of all other obligations incurred in the operation and maintenance of the systems and the furnishing of service; to or for the creation and maintenance of a cash working fund or a surplus fund to be used for replacement, extension of systems and emergencies. The balance of the revenues of the systems, as such may be determined by the directors of the district may be used for any other lawful district purpose or may be paid to the governing authorities of the municipalities of Inverness, Isola and Belzoni, in the proportion determined by vote of the directors of the district for distribution by the municipalities to the various municipal funds and used by each municipality for any municipal purpose authorized by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-23
Status: in_force

The assessor shall complete the assessment of both real and personal property and file the rolls with the municipal clerk on or before the first Monday in September. The governing authorities may, by an order entered upon their minutes, allow the assessor additional time within which to complete and file the assessment rolls. The assessor shall attach his affidavit to each roll in the form required of the county tax assessor.

Municipalities operating under a private charter, and having a different time for the assessment of property than fixed for municipalities operating under a code charter, shall provide the time when the assessor shall make and file the assessment rolls.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 39-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-7
Status: in_force

In all municipalities having a population of more than two thousand (2,000), according to the latest federal census, and in other municipalities where the governing authorities should so elect, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the municipality to keep as a record in his office a record to be styled “Docket of Claims,” in which he shall enter all demands, claims and accounts against the municipality presented to him during the month. Said docket shall provide space for the name of the claimant, the number of the claim, the amount of the claim, and on what account. All demands, claims and accounts allowed against the municipality shall be preserved by the clerk as a permanent record, and shall be numbered in such a manner as to relate to the warrants to be issued therefor, and the said warrant issued in payment of such claim shall carry on its face a reference to the number of the claim for which the said warrant is issued in payment. No order for the payment or expenditures of any funds of such municipality in payment of any indebtedness thereof shall be made in municipalities having a claim docket unless such claim is filed as herein provided. However, this provision shall not be applicable to the salaries or other compensation of officers or employees of such municipality where the amount of such salary or other compensation shall have been previously fixed by the governing authorities of the municipality in its approval of the payroll or payrolls on which the same appears, and in case of such allowance, it will be sufficient to enter on the claims docket the total of such payroll, followed by reference to the said payroll upon which such allowance may be found.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-43 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 29-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-43
Status: in_force

(1) Once a year during the first five (5) years following retirement of a member on either duty or non-duty disability retirement allowance, and once in every three-year period thereafter, the board may require any disability beneficiary who has not completed twenty (20) years' service under the terms and provisions of this article to undergo a medical examination at the place of residence of the beneficiary or other place mutually agreed upon, to be made by a physician or physicians designated by the board. Should any disability beneficiary who has not completed twenty (20) years' service under the terms and provisions of this article refuse to submit to at least one (1) medical examination in any such year by a physician or physicians designated by the board, his allowance shall be discontinued until his withdrawal of such refusal, and should his refusal continue for one (1) year, all his rights in and to any and all retirement allowances under the retirement system shall be revoked by the board.

(2) Should the examining physician or physicians report and certify to the board that a disability retirant has recovered and is able to engage in a gainful occupation, and should the board concur in such report, then the disability retirement allowance shall cease. In the case of a duty disability retirant only, upon again becoming an employee of the employer, he shall again become a member of the retirement system and the time during which he was a disability retirant shall be counted as time in the service of the employer for the purpose of service retirement.

(3) Any disability retirant, who has not completed twenty (20) years' service under this article prior to retirement, who secures gainful employment over a period of three (3) consecutive months shall not thereafter receive any disability retirement allowance and it shall be the duty of the board to revoke its order directing the payment of a retirement allowance to such person.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-3
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Words of the masculine gender shall include words of the feminine gender and vice versa, and words of the singular number in relation to persons shall include the plural number and vice versa.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-105 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 38 / Section 43-105
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-105
Status: in_force

For the purposes of Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context shall otherwise require:

(a) “District” means a business improvement district established pursuant to Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 .

(b) “District management group” means an established and independent Mississippi non-profit corporation and may also include a local Chamber of Commerce, a downtown development corporation, a Main Street Project or a department of a local municipality as determined solely by a simple majority of the property owners included in the district.

(c) “District plan” means a set of goals and strategies as collectively determined by a majority of the property owners included in the district and as incorporated within Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 .

(d) “Improvements” means any capital project constructed within the public areas, with the approval of the municipality, for any business improvement district or services established under Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 to improve the appearance or economic functioning of property located within the district including, but not limited to:

(i) Parks and related facilities;

(ii) Sidewalks, street curbing, street medians, planting areas, underground utilities, lighting standards or fountains;

(iii) Trees, shrubs, flowers or other vegetation;

(iv) Security services which may include assistance to public law enforcement through employment of private security personnel and the purchase of equipment or technology;

(v) Economic development services and assistance including, but not limited to, promotion of business, retail or industrial development developer recruitment, business recruitment, business marketing and business retention;

(vi) Parking management;

(vii) Street and sidewalk cleaning;

(viii) Recreational and/or cultural activities;

(ix) Training programs for employees of businesses within the district;

(x) Any other services, events or activities which will enhance the economic prosperity, enjoyment, appearance, image and safety of the district;

(xi) Refuse collection and disposal services;

(xii) The production and marketing of special events and festivals;

(xiii) Management of public facilities;

(xiv) Fire prevention services;

(xv) Water and sewer system enhancement;

(xvi) Drainage enhancements;

(xvii) Signage installation and removal;

(xviii) Planning studies;

(xix) Marketing studies;

(xx) Tourism development services; and

(xxi) Collective community child care centers.

(e) “Property owner” means that person or persons, entity or entities possessing a majority of the ownership interest in a piece of taxable real property.

(f) “Tax exempt properties” means properties which are exempt from certain real property taxes pursuant to Section 27-31-1 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 31-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-59
Status: in_force

The duly constituted authorities of each and every city coming within the purview of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 , shall provide the commission with suitable and convenient rooms and accommodations and cause the same to be furnished, heated and lighted and supplied with all office supplies and equipment necessary to carry on the business of the commission and with such clerical assistance as may be necessary, all of which is to be commensurate with the number of persons in each such city coming within the purview of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 . The failure upon the part of the duly constituted authorities to do so, shall be considered a violation of this section and shall be punishable as such.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-61 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 31-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-61
Status: in_force

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

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

The provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall not include any new employee who has not successfully completed all requirements necessary to earn regular or permanent status as a municipal employee.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 19-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-67
Status: in_force

The governing authority of any municipality in the state, in its discretion, is authorized to donate annually, out of any funds in the municipal treasury, to:

(a) Boys and Girls Club. Any chartered chapter of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America located within the municipality, provided that the cumulative sum of donations to all chapters within the municipality does not exceed the amount generated in the municipality by one-fourth ( 1 / 4 ) mill on all of the taxable property within the municipality, during the fiscal year in which the donations are made. Nothing in this paragraph authorizes the imposition of additional tax.

(b) Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Any chartered chapter of the YMCA located within the municipality, out of any funds in the treasury of the municipality, provided that the cumulative sum of donations to all chapters within the municipality does not exceed the amount generated in the municipality by one-fourth ( 1 / 4 ) mill on all of the taxable property within the municipality, during the fiscal year in which the donations are made. Nothing in this paragraph authorizes the imposition of additional tax.

(c) Farmers' markets. Any farmers' market that is certified by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce and operating within the municipality, not to exceed the amount that would be generated from the levy of a one-fourth ( 1 / 4 ) mill ad valorem tax upon all taxable property in the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-81 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 9-81
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-81
Status: in_force

All of the provisions of Sections 21-25-5 , 21-25-7 , and 21-29-101 through 21-29-151 , shall be applicable to any city operating under the council-manager plan as herein provided, and all rights of every policeman and fireman of any such city under the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall be unimpaired, and there shall be no interruption or change in the operation or administration of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen, and other city employees.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 13-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-3
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authorities of any municipality may provide by ordinance, order or resolution for the appropriation of monies for the operation of the municipal government, which monies shall be paid as provided for in any such ordinance, order or resolution. However, any ordinance granting a franchise or any right to use or occupy the streets, highways, bridges or public places in the municipality for any purpose, except ordinances, resolutions or other actions for the immediate and temporary preservation of the public peace, health or safety, shall be introduced in writing at a regular meeting of the governing body of such municipality and shall thereafter remain on file with the municipal clerk for public inspection for at least two (2) weeks before the final passage or adoption thereof. Upon request of one or more members of the governing authorities, any such ordinance shall be read by the clerk before a vote is taken thereon. In addition, every franchise or grant of any kind to use or occupy the street, highway, bridges, or other public places of such municipality to any interurban or street railway, railroad, gas works, water works, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telephone or telegraph system, or other public utility operating within such municipality must be approved by the passage of the ordinance granting same by a majority of the qualified electors of such municipality voting thereon at a general or special election.

(2) The vote on final passage of all municipal ordinances shall be taken by both “yeas” and “nays”, which shall be entered on the minutes by the clerk. A vote shall never be taken on any ordinance not previously reduced to writing. Upon request of one or more members of the municipal governing authorities, any ordinance shall be read by the clerk before a vote is taken thereon.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 29-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-15
Status: in_force

The clerk of said employer shall, within thirty (30) days after the effective date of the ordinance of the municipality to be passed as provided in Section 21-29-5 , prepare a statement showing the length of service of employees, prior to effective date of said ordinance, then employed by the employer and the total salaries or wages paid each in cash or warrants during the four (4) years of employment by the employer next before said effective date of said ordinance. Such facts shall, subject to correction after each employee is given ten (10) days within which to check and prove to the board any error therein, be the basis for the board to approve the issuance of prior service certificates and records and to determine the sum each prior service employee electing to come within the retirement system shall deposit in the employees' savings fund. The secretary of the board shall, upon approval of the board, issue to each employee a prior service certificate. The clerk of the employer shall have the duty of keeping all service records and all records on the various funds provided by this article. The clerk shall on or before July 1, 1987, forward all service records and funds to the Public Employees' Retirement System.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-253 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-253
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-253
Status: in_force

Any member of said fire and/or police department who ceases to be an employee thereof prior to becoming eligible for any retirement relief provided for in Section 21-29-251 may file a written application to said disability and relief board for a refund of any and all monies contributed to said fund by said member, and thereafter within one year shall receive, without interest, such monies.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-261 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-261
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-261
Status: in_force

This article shall apply to municipalities whether under private charter or existing and operating under the general statutes of the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45.nr2 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-45.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45.nr2
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

(d) If any member dies before becoming eligible to receive benefits under this article as a result of the performance of duty to the municipality, there shall be paid to the spouse or dependents designated in paragraph (b) of this section from the retirement reserve fund, an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the monthly salary of the deceased member on the date of his or her death. This amount shall be paid to the same beneficiaries and for the same period of time as those beneficiaries and periods of time set forth in paragraph (b) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-227 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-227
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-227
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 purposes of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-65 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 27-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-65
Status: in_force

If, after the governing authorities of any municipality have issued revenue bonds pursuant to the authority granted in Sections 21-27-23 and 21-27-51 , said governing authorities fail or refuse to carry out their duties with reference to setting aside the trust funds, said officers shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon trial and conviction, shall be removed from office.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-61 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-61
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality shall devote all monies of the system derived from any source other than the issuance of bonds for purposes authorized by the laws of the State of Mississippi, to or for the payment of all operating expenses, including such items as are normally required of utilities for sales development; to or for the payment of all bonds and interest on outstanding revenue bonds, if any, of such system; to or for the acquisition and improvement of the system contingencies; to or for the payment of all other obligations incurred in the operation and maintenance of the system and the furnishing of service; and to or for the creation and maintenance of a cash working fund or a surplus fund to be used for replacement, extension of systems and emergencies. The balance of any monies, including but not limited to, any which have heretofore been classified as revenues or surplus of such system, if any, may be used for any lawful, municipal purpose and may be paid to the governing authorities of the municipality for distribution to the various municipal funds or may be disbursed for such purpose by the governing authorities at their direction. The purpose of any allocation or expenditure of money made pursuant to this section shall be spread upon the minutes of the municipal governing authorities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-51 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 35 / Section 41-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-51
Status: in_force

Except as may be otherwise provided, where, by any provision of this chapter, notice is required to be given by publication, such publication made shall be in a newspaper published in the municipality, if there be one. If there be no newspaper published in the municipality, then such notice shall be posted for the prescribed period of time in at least five public places in the municipality, one of which shall be the city or town hall, or the place of meeting of the governing authorities, if there be no city or town hall.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-25 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 8-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-25
Status: in_force

The council of any municipality adopting the mayor-council form of government may, within its discretion, adopt an ordinance providing that the mayor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the council, a chief administrative officer to coordinate and direct the operations of the various departments and functions of municipal government; such chief administrative officer shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor and shall possess such qualifications and experience as shall be set out in the aforesaid ordinance. The said chief administrative officer shall be answerable solely to the mayor in the performance of his functions and shall be subject to dismissal at the pleasure of the mayor and shall be excluded from the coverage of any ordinance or general law providing for a civil service system in the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 31-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-67
Status: in_force

The civil service commission shall keep a list of all administrative and other employees on a monthly salary basis (firemen and policemen excepted), and formulate methods of determining the relative qualifications of persons seeking employment in any such department, and give preference to those having the best qualifications. The commission shall provide that men laid off because of a curtailment of expenditures, reduction in force, and like causes, shall be the last man or men, including probationers, that have been appointed to any such position, until such reductions necessary shall have been accomplished. However, in the event said forces shall again be increased in number, those suspended shall be reinstated before any new appointments shall be made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 15-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-31
Status: in_force

In no case shall the building inspector retain any compensation from his collections, but the full amount of such collections shall be paid into the municipal treasury and his compensation shall thereafter be paid by allowance thereof by the governing authorities of the municipality, and the issuance of warrants, as in other cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-251 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-251
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-251
Status: in_force

Any municipality which has a population in excess of twenty thousand according to the 1970 federal decennial census and which lies within any Class 1 county touching the Mississippi River, located wholly within the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District and which has an approximate land area of five hundred seventy square miles, is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to adopt the following retirement program for policemen and firemen as an alternative to the program established in Sections 21-29-245 through 21-29-249 , and which shall otherwise conform with the provisions of this article.

Any member of said fire and/or police department who has been in, and has received compensation for, fire and/or police department service for twenty years before the filing of an application as hereinafter provided, with the preceding ten years of service being continuous in the city to which application is made, may file a written application for retirement relief. Thereupon, said board of disability and relief shall retire such member from active service without a medical examination of disability and shall order the monthly payment to him from said fund of an amount equal to fifty percent of the average monthly base salary and longevity pay received as salary by him in the six-month period preceding the filing of such application. Thereafter, such payment, to be known as “retirement relief,” shall be made to such retired member for the remainder of his life.

Any member of said fire and/or police department who has been in, and has received compensation for, fire and/or police department service for more than twenty years shall be entitled to, and shall receive, additional retirement relief for the remainder of his life of an amount equal to one and seven-tenths percent of the same average monthly base salary and longevity pay received by such member as salary in the six-month period preceding the filing of such application for each full year of service in excess of twenty years. However, such retired member shall receive the additional retirement relief provided in this paragraph only for each full year of service in excess of twenty years completed after July 1, 1966. No such retired member shall receive such additional retirement relief in excess of sixty-six and two-thirds percent of the same average monthly base salary and longevity pay received as salary by him in the six-month period preceding the filing of such application, excluding such other benefits as may be hereinafter provided.

Any member of said fire and/or police department who (1) has been in, and has received compensation for, fire and/or police department service for a period equal to or greater than five years and less than twenty years, and (2) has been forced to retirement on account of age may file a written application for pro rata retirement relief. Thereupon, said disability and relief board shall retire such member from active service without a medical examination for disability and shall order the monthly payment to him from said fund of an amount equal to two and one-half percent of the average monthly base salary and longevity pay received as salary by him in the six-month period preceding the filing of such application for each full year of active service.

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 hereinbefore-mentioned time periods, except that such periods of inactivity shall be excluded in computing the aforementioned five-year pro rata eligibility period. Periods of time in which a member may have been absent from such employment on account of active service in the Army or Navy of the United States, the United States Marine Corps or the United States Coast Guard between September 16, 1940, and July 25, 1947, or while as a civil employee engaged by the Army or Navy while serving outside the continental United States shall not be excluded in computing the hereinbefore-mentioned time period except that such periods of inactivity shall be excluded in computing the aforementioned five-year pro rata eligibility period. The discharge or release of such member from such armed forces shall have been under conditions other than dishonorable. Any member who has been retired or is voluntarily retired under this section, or who has received relief or disability benefits under this section, shall be required to report such duties as required by said disability and relief board.

The disability and relief board shall, when a member of the fire and/or police department completes thirty-five years of paid employment or attains the age of sixty, whichever occurs first, retire him from active service and order the payment of such funds as the member is entitled to under the provisions of this section. However, the continued employment of any member who has not completed twenty years of service may be authorized by the governing authority of the municipality on a year-to-year basis until the employee completes twenty years of active service or reaches the age of seventy, whichever occurs first.

Any person receiving retirement relief under the provisions of this section shall no longer be entitled to said relief upon attachment with a paid fire department or police department in another city having a paid retirement relief program for policemen or firemen.

The entitlement, under the particular retirement program in operation prior to the adoption of the alternative retirement program established in this section, of a policeman or fireman thereunder to any benefits or rights thereof shall not be diminished on account of the transition by such municipalities to the alternative retirement program established by this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 21-31-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 31-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-21
Status: in_force

The tenure of everyone holding an office, place, position or employment under the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 shall be only during good behavior. Any such person may be removed or discharged, suspended without pay, demoted or reduced in rank, or deprived of vacation privileges or other special privileges, or any combination thereof, for any of the following reasons:

Incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention of duty; dishonesty, intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public or a fellow employee, or any other act of omission or commission tending to injure the public service.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / 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. § 21-8-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 21-5-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-5-13
Status: in_force

(1) Regular public meetings of the council shall be held on the first day of July after the election of the mayor and councilmen (or commissioners) that is not on a weekend, and thereafter at least twice each month, at such time as the council may by resolution provide. When a regular meeting of the council shall fall on a holiday, the council shall meet the following day.

Special meetings may be called at any time by the mayor or by two (2) councilmen. At any and all meetings of the council, a majority of all the members thereof shall constitute a quorum. The quorum required by this section may be established by teleconference or video means as provided in Section 25-41-5(2) . The affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the council shall be necessary to adopt any motion, resolution or ordinance, or to pass any measure whatever, unless a greater number is provided for in this chapter. Upon every vote taken by the council, the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded, and every motion, resolution or ordinance shall be reduced to writing before the vote is taken thereon. Upon request of one or more council members, any motion, resolution or ordinance shall be read by the clerk before the vote is taken thereon.

(2) The council may, pursuant to Section 21-17-17 , set a day other than Monday for the holding of its regular bimonthly meeting.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-38-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 38-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-38-1
Status: in_force

The purpose of this chapter is to promote the general welfare and economic development by empowering certain municipalities to (a) acquire or lease real property, whether located within or outside the corporate boundaries of such municipality, from the United States, (b) develop and use such real property, and (c) incorporate such real property. The provisions of this chapter are and shall be construed to be independent of, an alternative to and in addition to all existing laws of the state governing the authority of municipalities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-123 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 29-123
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-123
Status: in_force

All allowances made upon the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall be drawn against the fund by the board of trustees, and shall be issued only upon compliance with the rules and regulations of the board of trustees, or the board of disability and relief appeals.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-143 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-29-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-33-321 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-321
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-321
Status: in_force

Whenever there shall be on hand in any bond and interest fund an amount in excess of the amount which will be required for expenditure therefrom within the then next succeeding twelve months, the governing authorities of the municipality may use such excess amount to purchase the outstanding bonds of such municipality which are payable from such fund whenever, in the judgment of the governing authorities, the best interest of the municipality would be served thereby. When such bonds are purchased, they shall be cancelled and retired and shall not thereafter be resold or reissued.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-329 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 33-329
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-329
Status: in_force

This article shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under the code charter, the commission form of government, a special charter, or any other form of government, and regardless of whether or not the provisions of any special charter shall contain conflicting or contrary provisions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 33-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-55
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of all municipalities in this state, including private charter municipalities, are hereby authorized and empowered to cause all taxable property, whether real or personal, within the corporate limits, and liable to taxation, which from any cause has escaped taxation within the past seven (7) years, to be assessed for taxes for each year in which such property has escaped taxation. In all cases of the assessment of property under this section, the governing authorities of any municipality ordering such assessment shall fix a day for the hearing of objections to such assessment, and shall cause the municipal clerk to give to the property owner ten (10) days' written notice, by mail, if the post office address of the owner be known; if the post office address of the owner be unknown, notice shall be given by posting notice for at least ten (10) days in five (5) public places in the municipality, of the time and place for the hearing of objections to such assessment.

In the event it be discovered that the property of any railroad, or other public service corporation required by law to be assessed by the state railroad assessors, has escaped assessment and taxation for any reason, the assessor, upon his own motion, or upon request of the governing authorities of the municipality, shall notify the state railroad assessors of such fact, and state the name of the owner and the kind of property escaping assessment and taxation. The state railroad assessors shall proceed to assess such property as provided by Section 27-35-325, Mississippi Code of 1972 .

No leasehold interest in any property, real or personal, belonging to the state of Mississippi, counties, districts, municipalities or any political subdivisions, shall be subjected to ad valorem taxation for any past year on the basis of it having been omitted from the ad valorem tax rolls.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-329 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 33-329
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-329
Status: in_force

This article shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under the code charter, the commission form of government, a special charter, or any other form of government, and regardless of whether or not the provisions of any special charter shall contain conflicting or contrary provisions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-40 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 27-40
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-40
Status: in_force

(1) Any municipality having its own natural gas transmission system in any county bordering the State of Alabama in which U. S. Highway 78 and State Highway 25 intersect and in which there is a publicly supported junior college and which is authorized by Section 21-27-39, Mississippi Code of 1972 , to extend its natural gas transmission lines may, in its discretion, enter into a contract for service with any natural gas district organized under the laws of this state, any part of which is located in said county. Such municipality may use such contract in determining the amount of funds available for the repayment of any bonds issued for this purpose in accordance with law.

(2) Said natural gas district may enter into a contract with said municipality to the extent of such municipality's authorization under Section 21-27-39, Mississippi Code of 1972 , for the construction of gas transmission lines within such district and for supplying the customers within such district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-47
Status: in_force

Any municipality having outstanding bonds issued pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 shall maintain rates for all the services and facilities afforded by any system, the revenues of which are pledged to the payment of such bonds, which rates shall be sufficient at all times to maintain an interest and bond redemption fund sufficient to pay the interest on and principal of such bonds as and when the same become due and payable and, if so provided in the ordinance authorizing such bonds, to accumulate a reserve in such fund, and to provide for the payment of such cost of operation and maintenance as may be necessary to keep such system at all times in good repair and working order. Such rates shall be fixed by separate ordinance precedent to or at the time of the issuance of such bonds and shall be revised from time to time so as to produce the amounts necessary to provide for the foregoing. Bonds issued pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 to acquire or improve a system shall be secured by a pledge of an amount of the gross revenues of such system sufficient to maintain such an interest and bond redemption fund. However, if there are then outstanding bonds to the payment of which the revenues of a system have been previously pledged, then, until said outstanding bonds have been retired, bonds issued to improve such system shall be secured by a pledge of the revenues of the system in such an amount only after deductions have been made for servicing the said outstanding bonds and for maintaining and operating the system. Notwithstanding the above provisions, all revenue bonds issued for a specific utility may be issued on an equivalent basis, provided that each and every ordinance authorizing each and every bond issued shall clearly state the basis on which future revenue bond issues shall be provided for in order to place them on an equivalent basis with prior issues.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 19-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-41
Status: in_force

Municipalities within the State of Mississippi are hereby authorized to contribute funds to the support of the federal food stamp program, operated under the direction of the United States Department of Agriculture, and administered in the State of Mississippi by the state department of public welfare. Contributions to the support of the federal food stamp program may be made by municipalities from general funds or from the proceeds of municipal sales taxes. However, no municipality shall establish a federal food stamp program where the county in which said municipality is situated has such a program in operation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-179 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 27-179
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-179
Status: in_force

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

No interest payment shall be evidenced by more than one (1) coupon and neither cancelled nor supplemental coupons shall be permitted; the lowest interest rate specified for any bonds issued shall not be less than seventy percent (70%) of the highest rate specified for the same bond issue. Such bonds shall not bear a greater overall maximum interest rate to maturity than that allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972 . Each interest rate specified in any bid must be in multiples of one-eighth of one percent ( 1 / 8 of 1%) or in multiples of one-tenth of one percent ( 1 / 10 of 1%). If serial bonds, such bonds shall mature annually, and the first maturity date thereof shall not be more than five (5) years from the date of such bonds. Such bonds shall be legal investments for trustees and other fiduciaries, and for savings banks, trust companies and insurance companies organized under the laws of the state of Mississippi. The bonds and interest coupons shall be exempt from all state, county, municipal and other taxation under the laws of the state of Mississippi. No bond issued pursuant to Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall constitute an indebtedness of a municipality within the meaning of any statutory or charter restriction or limitation upon indebtedness. Such bonds shall be sold on sealed bids at public sale in the manner provided by Section 31-19-25 , as now or hereafter amended, upon such terms as the governing authorities of the municipality may determine, not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 , but no sale shall be made at a price so low as to require the payment of interest on the money received therefor at more than that allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972 , computed with relation to the absolute maturity of the bonds, in accordance with standard tables of bond values, excluding from such computation the amount of any premium to be paid on redemption of any bonds prior to maturity. Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall be full and complete authority for the issuance of the bonds provided for herein, and no restriction or limitation otherwise prescribed by law shall apply herein, nor shall such bonds constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-44 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-44
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-44
Status: in_force

The municipal governing authorities of any municipality shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to execute contracts and agreements with, and to appropriate, contribute and donate to, or expend budgeted funds for, local economic development organizations and designated Main Street programs.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-101 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 29-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-101
Status: in_force

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

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

This section and Sections 21-29-103 through 21-29-151 shall not apply to any municipality wherein the qualified electors of such municipality shall have elected on or before August 6, 1940, pursuant to the then applicable law, not to have such municipality come within the provisions of Sections 21-29-101 to 21-29-151 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-3
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality in which there is located a port of entry, in any county which has created a county port authority, may, in their discretion and by ordinance, extend the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 to all full-paid employees in all departments of such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 21-33-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 33-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47
Status: in_force

(1) When the governing authorities of any municipality shall have made the levy of municipal taxes by resolution, or for any other taxing district of which the municipality is a part by resolution, the clerk of the municipality shall thereupon immediately certify the same to the tax collector of the municipality, or such other taxing district of which the municipality may be a part.

(2) When a resolution levying ad valorem taxes has been finally adopted by the governing authorities of any municipality embracing, in whole or in part, any other taxing district of which such municipality is a part, the clerk of such municipality shall immediately certify a copy of such resolution to the State Tax Commission, as the law directs. The clerk shall have the resolution of the governing authorities making the levy printed within two (2) weeks after it is entered on the minutes of such governing authorities, and he shall furnish any taxpayer with a copy thereof, upon request. If a newspaper is published within such municipality, then such resolution shall be published in its entirety, at least one, within ten (10) days after its adoption. Instead of publishing the resolution in its entirety, the publication of the resolution may be made as provided in Section 21-17-19 . If no newspaper be published within such municipality, then a copy of such resolution, in its entirety, shall be posted by such municipal clerk in at least three (3) public places in such municipality, within ten (10) days after its adoption.

(3) The clerk shall be liable on his bond for any damages sustained by his failure to comply with the requirements of this section. However, failure to thus publish or post the same shall not affect the validity of the levy.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-79 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 33-79
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-79
Status: in_force

The tax collectors of all municipalities are hereby authorized to refund erroneously-paid privilege or ad valorem taxes paid such municipalities. An applicant for such refunds shall submit application to the tax collector of any such municipality, and if such claim be found by the tax collector to be due, and is allowed, then the tax collector of said municipality shall issue a warrant to the claimant and deduct the proper amounts from his next settlement.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-79 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-29-121 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 21-27-185 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-185
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-185
Status: in_force

Proceeds from the sale of bonds may be invested, pending their use, in such certificates of deposit as are specified in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or the trust indenture securing them, and the earnings on such investments applied as provided in such resolution or trust indenture.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 9-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-55
Status: in_force

If at the beginning of the first term of office of the first city council elected by any city under the provisions of this chapter, the appropriations for the expenditures for the city government for the current fiscal year shall have been made, the council shall have power, by ordinance, to revise, to repeal, or change said appropriations and to make additional appropriations.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-1
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this title any municipality in this state having a population, according to the 1940 official federal census exceeding 8,000, but not exceeding 9,600, and operating under “code charter” as defined by chapter 3 of this title, may as hereinafter set forth, change its form of government to a plan of government hereby designated as the “council form” in order to place in the council of any municipality, operating under such form, full and complete executive and legislative powers over its entire municipal affairs.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 33-325
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325
Status: in_force

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

Money may likewise be borrowed by the governing authorities of any municipality, as herein provided, for the purpose of paying current interest maturities on any bonded indebtedness of such municipality in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the retirement of such bonded indebtedness and the payment of any interest thereon.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-221 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-221
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-221
Status: in_force

The ad valorem tax provided for in Section 21-29-219 shall be stopped by the municipality whenever the interest from the relief fund shall be sufficient to pay all disabilities and relief which are a charge against said fund and future requirements as determined by the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi. However, when the board of trustees determines that interest from said fund is insufficient to meet the charges of disability or relief, then said municipality shall reinstate said tax for the purpose of building up the relief fund until such time as the fund is actuarially sound, as determined by the Board of Trustees.

The board of trustees, for each municipality with a disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen, shall have prepared an actuarial study of the fund at least every four (4) years and report the findings to the Legislature of the State of Mississippi. The first study shall be filed with the Legislature in January 1980.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-211 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-211
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-211
Status: in_force

(1) It is unlawful to operate or cause to be operated any wastewater facility or community water system covered under Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 unless the operator of that facility or system holds a current certificate of competency issued by the board or commission, as provided by Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 , in a classification corresponding to the classification of the facility or system. After July 1, 1998, it shall be unlawful to operate or cause to be operated any nontransient, noncommunity water system covered under Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 , unless the operator of that system holds a current certificate of competency issued by the board. If an operator is lost due to illness, death, resignation, discharge or other legitimate cause, the owner or president of the governing board of the facility or system shall immediately notify either the board or commission, as the case may be. The facility or system may continue to operate without a certified operator on an interim basis for a period not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days, except for good cause shown upon petition to the responsible agency. The board or the commission, as the case may be, may grant, upon petition of the facility or system, an extension of the interim operating period not to exceed an additional one hundred eighty (180) days for good cause shown.

(2) It is unlawful to operate or cause to be operated any commercial nonhazardous solid waste management landfill permitted under Section 49-17-29 unless the operator of that facility holds a current certificate of competency issued by the commission, as provided by Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 . However, in the event of the loss of an operator due to illness, death, resignation, discharge or other legitimate cause, notice shall be immediately given to the commission and the continued operation of the facility without a certified operator may proceed on an interim basis for a period not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days, except for good cause shown upon petition to the commission.

(3) After June 30, 2005, it is unlawful to operate or cause to be operated any commercial Class I rubbish site, unless the operator of that facility holds a certificate of competency issued by the commission under Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 . However, in the event of the loss of an operator due to illness, death, resignation, discharge or other legitimate cause, notice shall be immediately given to the commission and the continued operation of the facility without a certified operator may proceed on an interim basis for a period not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days, except for good cause shown upon petition to the commission.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 7-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-13
Status: in_force

The powers and duties heretofore conferred upon the mayor of municipalities by law are hereby conferred upon and charged to the council. The mayor, or in his absence the vice-mayor, shall (a) as chairman preside at all meetings of the council, and shall have veto power, in writing, giving his reasons therefor, of any measure passed by the council, although a measure vetoed may be adopted notwithstanding, if two-thirds of the council vote therefor; (b) represent the municipality in all functions political, social or economic, but he shall in no wise bind the municipality, other than as he may be specifically authorized or delegated to do by the council, as reflected by its orders, resolutions or ordinances; (c) execute for and on behalf of the council, all documents or instruments of writing, of whatever kind and character, under the seal of the municipality, when necessary or required; and (d) act for the municipality as directed by the council, in any manner and for any purpose which by any statute or law, because of its particular wording or meaning, provides for individual action of the mayor rather than body action of the council, wherein and whereby such right of action could not be properly or consistently exercised by the latter, all to the end that any such municipality coming under the provisions of this chapter shall not be denied any of the rights and privileges which any such municipality would enjoy except for the provisions of this chapter. The council shall fix the amount of compensation of the mayor and vice-mayor, for their additional duties as such, which compensation shall be in addition to their compensation as councilmen.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-33-45 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 33-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-45
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of each municipality of this state shall, either at their regular meeting in September of each year or not later than ten (10) days after the final approval of the assessment rolls, levy the municipal ad valorem taxes for the fiscal year next succeeding, and shall, by resolution, fix the tax rate or levy for the municipality and for any other taxing districts of which the municipality may be a part. The rates or levies for the municipality or for any such taxing district shall be expressed in mills or a decimal fraction of a mill, which tax rates, or levies, shall determine the ad valorem taxes to be collected upon each dollar of valuation upon the assessment rolls of the municipality for municipal taxes, and to be collected upon each dollar of valuation as shown upon the assessment rolls of the municipality for each such taxing district, except as to such values as may be exempt, in whole or in part, from certain tax rates or levies. If the rates or levies for the municipality or taxing district are an increase from the previous fiscal year, then the proposed rate or levy increase shall be advertised in accordance with Section 27-39-203 .

In making the levy of taxes, the governing authorities shall specify in such resolution the levy for each purpose as follows:

(a) For general revenue purposes and for general improvements, as authorized by Section 27-39-307 .

(b) For school purposes, including all maintenance levies, whether made against the property within such municipality, or within any taxing district embraced in such municipality, as authorized by Section 27-39-307 and Section 37-57-3 et seq.

(c) For municipal bonds and interest thereon, for school bonds and interest thereon, separately for municipal-wide bonds and for the bonds of each school district.

(d) For municipal-wide bonds and interest thereon, other than for school bonds.

(e) For loans, notes or any other obligation, and the interest thereon, if permitted by law.

(f) For special improvement or special benefit levies, as now authorized by law.

(g) For any other purpose for which a levy is lawfully made. If any municipal-wide levy is made for any general or special purpose under the provisions of any law other than Section 27-39-307 each such levy shall be separately stated in the resolution, and the law authorizing same shall be expressly stated therein.

If the governing authorities of any municipality shall not levy the municipal taxes and the district taxes at its regular September meeting, such governing authorities shall levy the same at an adjourned or special meeting not later than ten (10) days after the final approval of the assessment rolls. However, that if such levy be not made on or before September 15 then road and bridge privilege tax license plates may be issued by the tax collector or Department of Revenue, as the case may be, for motor vehicles as defined in the Motor Vehicle Ad Valorem Tax Law of 1958 ( Section 27-51-1 et seq. ), without collecting or requiring proof of payment of municipal ad valorem taxes until such levy is duly certified to him, and for twenty-four (24) hours thereafter.

In the case of a municipality operating under a special or private charter providing for or authorizing the assessment, levying and collection of ad valorem taxes prior to October in each year, ad valorem taxes for such municipality shall be levied at the time prescribed or authorized by such special or private charter, unless the governing authority of such municipality by resolution adopted and spread of record in its minutes elect to levy ad valorem taxes at the time prescribed hereinbefore in this section. In any event, however, all ad valorem taxes levied by any municipality in this state, shall be levied in the manner required herein regardless of the time when such taxes are levied.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-143 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / 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. § 21-27-205 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-205
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-205
Status: in_force

(1) The board shall classify all municipal and domestic water collection, storage, treatment and/or distribution systems actually used or intended for use as community water systems or nontransient, noncommunity water systems according to size, type, character of water to be treated, number of service connections, and other physical conditions affecting the operation and maintenance of those systems, and also according to the degree of skill, knowledge, training and experience required of the operators of those systems to ensure competent, efficient operation and maintenance of such systems and protection of public health.

(2) The commission shall classify all municipal and domestic wastewater facilities according to size, type, character of wastewater to be treated, and other physical conditions affecting the operation and maintenance of the facilities, and also according to the degree of skill, knowledge, training and experience required of the operators of the facilities to ensure competent, efficient operation and maintenance of the facilities and prevention of pollution of waters of the state.

(3) The commission shall establish reciprocal certification arrangements with other states and private companies that establish training and certification programs for operators of commercial nonhazardous solid waste management landfills that meet or exceed the requirements of the commercial nonhazardous solid waste management landfill operator training and certification program established by the commission.

(4) The commission may establish reciprocal certification arrangements with other states and private companies that establish training and certification programs for operators of commercial Class I rubbish sites that meet or exceed the requirements of the commercial Class I rubbish site operator training and certification program established by the commission.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 21-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-1
Status: in_force

The marshal or chief of police shall be the chief law enforcement officer of the municipality and shall have control and supervision of all police officers employed by said municipality. The marshal or chief of police shall be an ex officio constable within the boundaries of the municipality, and he shall perform such other duties as shall be required of him by proper ordinance. Before performing any of the duties of his office, the marshal or chief of police shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in an amount to be determined by the municipal governing authority (which shall be not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00)). The premium upon said bond shall be paid from the municipal treasury. If any marshal or chief of police shall fail to perform any of the duties of his office, it shall be the duty of the district attorney or county attorney upon receiving notice thereof to immediately file quo warranto proceedings against such official.

The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under a code charter, special charter, or the commission form of government, except in cases of conflict between the provisions of this section and the provisions of the special charter of a municipality, or the law governing the commission form of government, in which case of conflict the provisions of the special charter or the statutes relative to the commission form of government shall control.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-63 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 19-63
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-63
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities may provide that any person desiring to subdivide a tract of land within the corporate limits shall submit a map and plat of such subdivision, and a correct abstract of title of the land platted, to said governing authorities, to be approved by them before the same shall be filed for record in the land records of the county. Where the municipality has adopted an ordinance so providing, no such map or plat of any such subdivision shall be recorded by the chancery clerk unless same has been approved by said governing authorities. In all cases where a map or plat of the subdivision is submitted to the governing authorities of a municipality, and is by them approved, all streets, roads, alleys and other public ways set forth and shown on said map or plat shall be thereby dedicated to the public use, and shall not be used otherwise unless and until said map or plat is vacated in the manner provided by law, notwithstanding that said streets, roads, alleys or other public ways have not been actually opened for the use of the public. If any easement dedicated pursuant to the provisions of this section for a street, road, alley or other public purpose is determined to be not needed for the public purpose, the easement may be declared abandoned, and ownership of the fee underlying the easement shall revert, regardless of the date of dedication, to the adjoining property owner or owners at the time of abandonment. Ownership of the easement shall extend to the centerline of said abandoned street, road or public way. Such abandonment and reversion shall not affect any private easements which might exist.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-37-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / 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. § 21-31-73 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-73
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-73
Status: in_force

The fixing of the rate of compensation of every employee coming under the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall remain vested in those public officials authorized by law to fix the rate of such compensation, and nothing contained in said sections shall infringe upon the power and authority of any such public officials to so fix the rate of such compensation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 13-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-19
Status: in_force

All offenses under the penal laws of this state which are misdemeanors, together with the penalty provided for violation thereof, are hereby made, without further action of the municipal authorities, criminal offenses against the municipality in whose corporate limits the offenses may have been committed to the same effect as though such offenses were made offenses against the municipality by separate ordinance in each case. However, for such misdemeanor, any penalty of incarceration is hereby limited to no more than six (6) months in jail, and any fine is hereby limited to a maximum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each such violation in any case tried without a jury. Judgments for fines, costs, forfeitures and other penalties imposed by municipal courts may be enrolled by filing a certified copy of the record with the clerk of any circuit court and execution may be had thereon as provided by law for other judgments.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-141 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 29-141
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-141
Status: in_force

Any member of the fire and/or police department who ceases to be an employee before becoming eligible to receive either a service or disability allowance, as provided by this article, may file a request in writing with the board of disability and relief for a refund of all sums contributed by him to the fund, which sums shall be paid to him, without interest, within one year of the filing of the request.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 39 / Section 45-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-5
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be construed as cumulative authority to other existing laws relating to the powers of municipalities to undertake and carry out slum clearance and redevelopment work. Any municipality engaged in slum clearance or redevelopment work through a redevelopment project within the boundaries of the municipality may provide for financing to defray the cost, in whole or in part, of the same as hereinafter provided. Insofar as this chapter is inconsistent with any other law, this chapter shall be controlling.

Any municipality may accept grants or other financial assistance from the state or federal government, or any other entity, to defray the cost, in whole or in part, of any activity consistent with the purposes of this chapter.

Any municipality may enter into agreements with any developer whereby the developer will agree to construct, operate and maintain buildings or other facilities or improvements included within such projects as are provided in a redevelopment plan.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 27-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-59
Status: in_force

Nothing in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 shall be construed to prohibit the municipality from appropriating and using any part of its available income or revenues derived from any source other than from the operation of such system or combined system in paying any immediate expenses of operation and/or maintenance of any such system or combined system. Nothing in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 shall be construed, however, to require the municipality to do so.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-95 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-95
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-95
Status: in_force

Any municipality or public utility commission desiring to reproduce by microfilm, photograph, photostat or other process, the records of municipal system or systems under the authority granted in Section 21-27-93 are authorized and vested with the authority to purchase or acquire any equipment, materials and supplies necessary therefor, or to contract for the reproducing of said records in accordance with Section 31-7-1 et seq. Any such contract shall not exceed a period of twelve (12) months.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 33-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-23
Status: in_force

The assessor shall complete the assessment of both real and personal property and file the rolls with the municipal clerk on or before the first Monday in September. The governing authorities may, by an order entered upon their minutes, allow the assessor additional time within which to complete and file the assessment rolls. The assessor shall attach his affidavit to each roll in the form required of the county tax assessor.

Municipalities operating under a private charter, and having a different time for the assessment of property than fixed for municipalities operating under a code charter, shall provide the time when the assessor shall make and file the assessment rolls.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-73 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 31-73
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-73
Status: in_force

The fixing of the rate of compensation of every employee coming under the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 shall remain vested in those public officials authorized by law to fix the rate of such compensation, and nothing contained in said sections shall infringe upon the power and authority of any such public officials to so fix the rate of such compensation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-229 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-229
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-229
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System, as soon as it is decided that such city shall come within the terms of this article, shall notify the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Mississippi that such city is operating within such terms. The commissioner shall notify all insurance companies, which shall include mutual, interinsurer, and reciprocal associations or companies, transacting the business of fire and lightning insurance in the State of Mississippi, of the fact that such city is operating within such terms. In the event that any such insurance company writes or has written any insurance in said municipality, the rates of said insurance company being based in any way upon the efficiency and equipment of the fire department of said municipality, such company shall be notified that at the time that foreign insurance companies are required to report to the State Tax Commission the premiums charged or received in Mississippi, then such company, whether foreign or domestic, shall truly report to the State Tax Commission at the same time as reports on the general tax on premiums are made as provided in Section 27-15-107 , sending a duplicate of such report to such board of trustees, the amount of premiums charged by said company for fire and lightning insurance on property situated in such city within the period covered by the report made to the State Tax Commission for purposes of taxation of such state, less premiums returned to policyholder and cancellations on account of policies not taken. It is the legislative intent that said report of premiums shall include and cover all premiums charged or received within said period, less returned premiums and cancellations as aforesaid in connection with the insurance of property situated in such city, which are reported for the purposes of taxation by said state. Such report for the purposes of this section shall not include premiums contracted for prior to such time as the commissioner shall have notified the company that such city is within the terms and purposes of this article. Said premiums so required to be reported shall be and they are hereby taxed to the extent of one-half of one percent ( 1 / 2 of 1%) of said premiums, after deducting said returned premiums and cancellations, which tax shall be paid to the State Tax Commission by the insurance company at the same time that the general tax on premiums is paid to the State Tax Commission as provided in Section 27-15-107 . The insurance company paying the same shall notify the State Tax Commission of the name of the city responsible for the maintenance of such fire department and system, and, at the same time, shall give such city duplicate notice of the amount paid to the State Tax Commission. The State Tax Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to collect such taxes in the same manner and by the same means that he is required and empowered to collect other taxes imposed upon insurance premiums.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-11
Status: in_force

It shall be lawful for any number, not less than twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of any municipality, by petition, to propose an amendment or amendments to the charter of such municipality not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the United States, or the Constitution of this state. The said amendment or amendments shall be published for three (3) weeks prior to a special election in a newspaper published in the municipality, if there be one, and if not, by posting for said time in at least three (3) public places therein. The publication of the amendment or amendments may be made as provided in Section 21-17-19 . If such election results in favor of any such amendment or amendments, then the amendment or amendments shall be submitted to the Governor, as is provided in Section 21-17-9 , and the procedure therein outlined shall be followed, except that it shall not be necessary to republish such amendment or amendments, or resubmit such amendment or amendments for approval of the qualified electors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-65 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 31-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-65
Status: in_force

For the benefit of the public service and to prevent delay, injury, or interruption therein by reason of the enactment of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 , all persons holding a position as an administrative or other employee (firemen and policemen excepted) of any such municipality coming under the provisions of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 , who shall have served continuously in such positions for a period of at least the preceding six months, are hereby declared eligible for permanent appointment under civil service to the offices, positions or employments which they shall then hold, respectively, without examination or other act on their part, and not on probation, and every such person is hereby automatically adopted and inducted permanently into civil service, into such office, place, position or employment which such person then holds as completely and effectually to all intents and purposes as if said person had been permanently appointed thereto under civil service after examination and investigation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 31-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-59
Status: in_force

The duly constituted authorities of each and every city coming within the purview of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 , shall provide the commission with suitable and convenient rooms and accommodations and cause the same to be furnished, heated and lighted and supplied with all office supplies and equipment necessary to carry on the business of the commission and with such clerical assistance as may be necessary, all of which is to be commensurate with the number of persons in each such city coming within the purview of Sections 21-31-51 through 21-31-75 . The failure upon the part of the duly constituted authorities to do so, shall be considered a violation of this section and shall be punishable as such.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 15-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-35
Status: in_force

The Legislature declares that records containing information essential to the operation of government and to the protection of the rights and interests of persons should be protected against the destructive effect of all forms of disaster, whether fire, flood, storm, earthquake, explosion or other, and whether such occurrence is caused by an act of nature or man, including an enemy of the United States. It is, therefore, necessary to adopt special provisions for the preservation of essential records of municipalities, and this section shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. However, it is the express intention of this section that the provisions herein contained are not mandatory but are permissive only and shall authorize preservation of records as herein contemplated within the discretion of the governing authorities of the municipalities of the state and in accordance with a records control schedule approved by the Local Government Records Committee as provided in Section 25-60-1 .

The governing authorities of any municipality within the state, regardless of the form of government under which they operate, are each hereby authorized and empowered in their discretion to make or cause to be made a copy or copies of the records of such municipality, or any portion thereof, deemed by such governing authority to be an essential record necessary to the operation of government in an emergency created by disaster or containing information necessary to protect the rights and interests of persons or to establish and affirm the powers and duties of government in the resumption of operations after the destruction or damage of the original records. Such copies shall be made in accordance with standards established by the Department of Archives and History.

The governing authorities of such municipalities are authorized and empowered in their discretion to make and enter into contracts and agreements with any person, firm or corporation to make and prepare such copy or copies of records, and to provide for and enter into contracts concerning the safekeeping and preservation of such copy or copies at points of storage approved by the Local Government Records Committee as required in Section 25-60-1 , at a location other than the legally designated or customary location and deposit of the original of such records.

In the event that the original record or records shall have been destroyed, any such photographic or photostatic copy or reproduction shall be deemed to be an original record for all purposes and shall be treated as an original record in all courts or administrative agencies for the purpose of its admissibility in evidence. An enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of court.

The governing authorities of any municipality within the state, regardless of the form of government under which they operate, are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to appropriate and expend monies out of the available funds of such municipality for the purposes of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-49 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-49
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authorities of each municipality shall furnish their tax collector a sufficient number of tax receipts, in books, printed in triplicate, in blank form, numbered serially by the printer. The clerk shall first make a record of all such receipts by numbers, and shall take the tax collector's receipt therefor, and shall thereafter, at the end of the fiscal year, credit the tax collector with all unused receipts.

Such tax receipts shall be prepared and printed so as to show the total assessment of the property on which the taxes are collected, together with a description of the property, the line and page of the assessment roll where the assessment is listed, and the amount, if any, shown as a home exemption, if the property be an exempt home. They shall show the rate of levy, separately for general current expenses and maintenance taxes, for school maintenance taxes, for bonds, interest, notes or other obligations, and the total tax levy, and the total amount of all taxes received. If the property described in the receipt be an exempt home, there shall be shown the additional amount of taxes which would have been collected had the home not been exempt, which additional amount shall be separately stated.

The said tax receipts may contain such other and additional statements as the governing authorities of the municipality may prescribe and shall generally comply with the requirements of Sections 27-41-1 through 27-41-89, Mississippi Code of 1972 , governing the installment payment of taxes.

(2) As to any real property on which taxes for any previous year were not paid, the tax collector shall give notice of the delinquent taxes by stamping on the current tax receipt the fact that previous taxes are delinquent. The tax collector shall not accept payment of current year taxes for real property which has sold for delinquent taxes until the taxpayer provides the tax collector with proof that the tax sales for such real property for the previous two (2) years have been redeemed in the chancery clerk's office. Failure of the tax collector to stamp tax receipts shall not void any tax sale. The tax collector shall have no liability for errors made in complying with the provisions of this subsection if such tax collector makes a good faith effort to comply with such provisions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 33-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47
Status: in_force

(1) When the governing authorities of any municipality shall have made the levy of municipal taxes by resolution, or for any other taxing district of which the municipality is a part by resolution, the clerk of the municipality shall thereupon immediately certify the same to the tax collector of the municipality, or such other taxing district of which the municipality may be a part.

(2) When a resolution levying ad valorem taxes has been finally adopted by the governing authorities of any municipality embracing, in whole or in part, any other taxing district of which such municipality is a part, the clerk of such municipality shall immediately certify a copy of such resolution to the State Tax Commission, as the law directs. The clerk shall have the resolution of the governing authorities making the levy printed within two (2) weeks after it is entered on the minutes of such governing authorities, and he shall furnish any taxpayer with a copy thereof, upon request. If a newspaper is published within such municipality, then such resolution shall be published in its entirety, at least one, within ten (10) days after its adoption. Instead of publishing the resolution in its entirety, the publication of the resolution may be made as provided in Section 21-17-19 . If no newspaper be published within such municipality, then a copy of such resolution, in its entirety, shall be posted by such municipal clerk in at least three (3) public places in such municipality, within ten (10) days after its adoption.

(3) The clerk shall be liable on his bond for any damages sustained by his failure to comply with the requirements of this section. However, failure to thus publish or post the same shall not affect the validity of the levy.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-319 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-319
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-319
Status: in_force

Deductions made prior to retirement by the employer for employment-related fringe benefits may continue to be paid after retirement in accordance with rules and regulations established by the board of trustees if the retirement allowance payable under Section 21-29-1 et seq. , Section 21-29-101 et seq. , and Section 21-29-201 et seq. , is in an amount sufficient to cover the deductions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-247 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-247
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-247
Status: in_force

(1) From and after January 1, 1971, all persons receiving retirement benefits under Section 21-29-245 , or becoming eligible for retirement benefits under Section 21-29-245 , and retiring or to be retired from service in a municipality having an assessed valuation of at least Three Hundred Forty Million Dollars $340,000,000.00, according to the 1967 compiled assessment rolls, shall receive in addition to all benefits set forth in Section 21-29-245 the following percentage increases as may be determined by the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government under the following formula:

In any calendar year following 1970 in which the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government for January exceeds the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government for the previous January, the pension payments beginning with March of the current year shall be increased in an amount equal to the percentage increase determined by the increase in the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government.

The accumulated percentage increases provided under this subsection (1) that may be developed by increases in the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government shall not exceed twelve percent (12%).

(2) From and after January 1, 2002, all persons receiving retirement benefits or disability retirement benefits under Section 21-29-241 or 21-29-245 or becoming eligible for retirement benefits or disability retirement benefits under Section 21-29-241 or 21-29-245 and retiring or to be retired from service in a municipality having an assessed valuation of at least Three Hundred Forty Million Dollars ($340,000,000.00), according to the 1967 complied assessment rolls, who are receiving a cost-of-living increase provided under subsection (1) of this section or Chapter 869, Local and Private Laws of 1992, as the case may be, that is equal to an accumulated percentage increase of twelve percent (12%) of the amount of the retirement benefits, shall receive the following cost-of-living increases: In addition to all benefits provided under Section 21-29-241 or 21-29-245 , and the cost-of-living increases provided under subsection (1) of this section or Chapter 869, Local and Private Laws of 1992, as the case may be, those persons shall receive the following percentage increases as may be determined by the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government under the following formula:

In any calendar year in which a person is eligible for cost-of-living increases under this subsection (2) in which the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government for January exceeds the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government for the previous January, the pension payments beginning with March of the current year shall be increased in an amount equal to the percentage increase determined by the increase in the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government.

The accumulated percentage increases provided under this subsection (2) that may be developed by increases in the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government shall not exceed seven and one-half percent (7- 1 / 2 %).

(3) Any person who is receiving minimum monthly benefits under Chapter 898, Local and Private Laws of 1987, shall receive in addition to all benefits provided under Chapter 898, Local and Private Laws of 1987, the following percentage increases as may be determined by the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government under the following formula:

In any calendar year following 2001 in which the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government for January exceeds the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government for the previous January, the pension payments beginning with March of the current year shall be increased in an amount equal to the percentage increase determined by the increase in the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government.

The accumulated percentage increases provided under this subsection (3) that may be developed by increases in the cost-of-living index as set by the United States government shall not exceed seven and one-half percent (7- 1 / 2 %).

(4) The cost-of-living increases authorized under subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall not be provided unless the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen of any municipality to which this section applies:

(a) Is actuarially sound, as shown by the most recent actuarial study required by Section 21-29-221 ; and

(b) Will remain actuarially sound if the cost-of-living increases are provided, as shown by a certified statement from the actuarial firm that prepared the most recent actuarial study.

(5) The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall provide the cost-of-living increases authorized under subsections (2) and (3) of this section to the persons authorized and entitled to receive them, after all of the following conditions have been met:

(a) The governing authorities of any municipality to which this section applies must adopt a resolution to provide for the cost-of-living increases, and transmit the resolution to the board of trustees;

(b) The advisory board on the disability and relief fund provided for in Section 21-29-207 must adopt a resolution supporting the providing of the cost-of-living increases, and transmit the resolution to the board of trustees; and

(c) The board of trustees must receive the resolutions from the governing authorities and the advisory board, and receive the most recent actuarial study of the disability and relief fund and the certified statement from the actuarial firm that the disability and relief fund will remain actuarially sound if the cost-of-living increases are provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 19-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-69
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality of this state, in their discretion, may donate annually out of any money in the municipal treasury, such sums as deemed advisable to support any farmers' market that is certified by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce and operating within the municipality, not to exceed the amount that would be generated from the levy of a one-fourth ( 1 / 4 ) mill ad valorem tax upon all taxable property in the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 27-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-13
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality which now owns and operates, or hereafter shall own and operate, any system or systems shall have the power and authority to create a commission to control, manage and operate such systems, or any one or more of them, which said commission shall consist of not less than three (3) nor more than five (5) commissioners, to be elected by the governing authorities of such municipality. In any municipality operating under the council-manager plan of government, such commissioners shall be selected by, and shall be under the control of, the mayor and councilmen of the municipality, and not the city or town manager. Such commissioners shall have the power, authority and duty to manage and control said system or systems and the supply of the facilities and services thereof, both within and without the limits of the municipality. Such commissioners shall be qualified electors of the municipality and shall not hold any other municipal office for honor or profit. Such commissioners shall receive such compensation as may be specified and provided by the governing authorities of said municipality; provided, however, that any commission formed for the purpose of establishing a motor vehicle transportation system for the transportation of passengers within the boundaries of the governmental unit or units concerned, and within three (3) miles thereof, may pay its commissioners from the operating budget of such commission per diem compensation in the amount provided by Section 25-3-69 for each day or fraction of a day engaged in attendance of meetings of the commission or engaged in other official duties of the commission, not to exceed forty-five (45) days in any one (1) year. The governing authorities of the municipality are hereby authorized and empowered to require such commissioners to furnish bonds for the faithful performance of their duties, in the amount as may be deemed proper, and to pay the premiums thereon from the municipal treasury or the available funds of the said system or systems. Where there are three (3) members of such commission, the term of office shall be for a period of three (3) years, and where there are four (4) members the term of office shall be for a period of four (4) years, and where there are five (5) members the term of office shall be for a period of five (5) years. However, in making the first appointment of commissioners, one (1) shall be appointed for a term of one (1) year, one (1) for a term of two (2) years, one (1) for a term of three (3) years and, where necessary, one (1) for a term of four (4) years, and one (1) for a term of five (5) years, so that thereafter the term of office of one (1) commissioner shall expire each year. Where the governing authorities of the municipality do not elect to create a commission as herein provided, then any system or systems owned and operated by the municipality shall be controlled and managed by the governing authorities of the municipality, who shall have all the power and authority conferred upon such commission.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 13-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-9
Status: repealed

An ordinance shall not contain more than one (1) subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. An ordinance shall be amended by section or sections, and the original section or sections shall thereby be repealed. Each amendment to a section or sections of an ordinance shall have a title which clearly indicates the subject matter or matters of the amendment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-315 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-315
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-315
Status: in_force

Any active member who previously received a refund under either Article 1, 3 or 5 and who was reemployed and again became a contributing member of the applicable retirement system may repay all amounts previously received as a refund, together with regular interest at the rate as determined by the board, covering the period from the date of refund to the date of repayment. Upon such repayment, the active member shall again receive credit for the entire period of creditable service that was forfeited upon the receipt of the refund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-53 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 27-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-53
Status: in_force

The holder of any bond or any interest coupon issued pursuant to the authority granted in Sections 21-27-23 and 21-27-51 may, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceedings at law or in equity, enforce and compel performance by the appropriate official or officials of the municipality of any or all acts and duties to be performed by such municipality under the provisions of Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 and the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bond or interest coupon. If there be any default in the payment of the interest on and principal of any of said bonds, any court having jurisdiction in the proper action may, upon petition of the holder of any of such bonds, appoint a receiver to administer and operate the system with power to fix rates and collect charges sufficient to provide for the payment of all bonds outstanding to the payment of which the revenues of such system are pledged and to pay the expenses of operating and maintaining such system and to apply the revenues of such system, all in conformity with the provisions of Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 and of the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / 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. § 21-33-319 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-319
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-319
Status: in_force

Whenever a balance shall remain of the proceeds of any bond issue after the purpose for which such bonds were issued shall have been accomplished, such balance shall forthwith be transferred to the bond and interest fund applicable to such bond issue.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 33-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47
Status: in_force

(1) When the governing authorities of any municipality shall have made the levy of municipal taxes by resolution, or for any other taxing district of which the municipality is a part by resolution, the clerk of the municipality shall thereupon immediately certify the same to the tax collector of the municipality, or such other taxing district of which the municipality may be a part.

(2) When a resolution levying ad valorem taxes has been finally adopted by the governing authorities of any municipality embracing, in whole or in part, any other taxing district of which such municipality is a part, the clerk of such municipality shall immediately certify a copy of such resolution to the State Tax Commission, as the law directs. The clerk shall have the resolution of the governing authorities making the levy printed within two (2) weeks after it is entered on the minutes of such governing authorities, and he shall furnish any taxpayer with a copy thereof, upon request. If a newspaper is published within such municipality, then such resolution shall be published in its entirety, at least one, within ten (10) days after its adoption. Instead of publishing the resolution in its entirety, the publication of the resolution may be made as provided in Section 21-17-19 . If no newspaper be published within such municipality, then a copy of such resolution, in its entirety, shall be posted by such municipal clerk in at least three (3) public places in such municipality, within ten (10) days after its adoption.

(3) The clerk shall be liable on his bond for any damages sustained by his failure to comply with the requirements of this section. However, failure to thus publish or post the same shall not affect the validity of the levy.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 33-325
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325
Status: in_force

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

Money may likewise be borrowed by the governing authorities of any municipality, as herein provided, for the purpose of paying current interest maturities on any bonded indebtedness of such municipality in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the retirement of such bonded indebtedness and the payment of any interest thereon.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-207 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-207
Status: in_force

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

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

The members of the board shall receive no compensation or pay from the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen for the discharge of their duties, except as otherwise provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-38 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-38
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-38
Status: in_force

Before any person appointed to the position of municipal clerk, city manager, municipal administrator or municipal chief administrative officer enters upon the discharge of his duties, he shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in an amount to be determined by the municipal governing authority (which shall not be less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00)).
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-1
Status: in_force

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

The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under a code charter, special charter, or the commission form of government, except in cases of conflict between the provisions of this section and the provisions of the special charter of a municipality, or the law governing the commission form of government, in which cases of conflict the provisions of the special charter or the statutes relative to the commission form of government shall control.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-149 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 21-31-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 31-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-67
Status: in_force

The civil service commission shall keep a list of all administrative and other employees on a monthly salary basis (firemen and policemen excepted), and formulate methods of determining the relative qualifications of persons seeking employment in any such department, and give preference to those having the best qualifications. The commission shall provide that men laid off because of a curtailment of expenditures, reduction in force, and like causes, shall be the last man or men, including probationers, that have been appointed to any such position, until such reductions necessary shall have been accomplished. However, in the event said forces shall again be increased in number, those suspended shall be reinstated before any new appointments shall be made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-57 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-57
Status: in_force

The property owner affected by any assessment made under Section 21-33-55 shall have thirty (30) days within which to pay the taxes after the approval of assessment. After the expiration of thirty (30) days, if the taxes shall not have been paid, it shall be the duty of the governing authorities of the municipality to designate a time for sale. Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-41-2 , the sale shall be made according to the law governing the sale of property for taxes, and lists shall be filed as required by law as in other cases of sales for taxes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-79 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / 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. § 21-43-115 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 38 / Section 43-115
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-115
Status: in_force

All property owners of record in the proposed district as of the date of initial notice given as provided in Section 21-43-111 , shall be eligible to participate in the process to approve or reject the district plan and the proposed assessment for properties in the district. Votes of property owners within the proposed district shall be weighted in proportion to the amount of the assessment against properties in the district; provided, however, that in no case shall the total number of votes assigned to any one such property owner, through common ownership of property, be equal to more than one-third ( 1 / 3 ) of the total number of votes which may be cast.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-207 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-29-257 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 29-257
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-257
Status: in_force

No part of said fund to which any of said firemen or policemen shall be entitled, or which may be payable or ordered paid to him shall be seized, attached, assigned or levied upon by any writ of attachment, garnishment, execution, sequestration or other like process or writ.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-121 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / 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. § 21-31-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-33-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-17
Status: in_force

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

If the municipality has added territory, the assessor shall, on separate pages, make an assessment of said lands and a recapitulation thereof, in the manner provided for recapitulations of the county assessment roll. He shall then make a grand recapitulation, showing all the above enumerated totals, separately, for the municipality, the added territory, and for the entire separate school district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-221 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-221
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-221
Status: in_force

The ad valorem tax provided for in Section 21-29-219 shall be stopped by the municipality whenever the interest from the relief fund shall be sufficient to pay all disabilities and relief which are a charge against said fund and future requirements as determined by the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi. However, when the board of trustees determines that interest from said fund is insufficient to meet the charges of disability or relief, then said municipality shall reinstate said tax for the purpose of building up the relief fund until such time as the fund is actuarially sound, as determined by the Board of Trustees.

The board of trustees, for each municipality with a disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen, shall have prepared an actuarial study of the fund at least every four (4) years and report the findings to the Legislature of the State of Mississippi. The first study shall be filed with the Legislature in January 1980.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 27-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-67
Status: in_force

Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 , being necessary for and to secure the public health, safety, convenience and welfare of the municipalities of the State of Mississippi, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof.

The powers conferred by Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 shall be in addition to the powers conferred by any other law, general, special or local, and such sections shall, without reference to any other statute or to any charter, be deemed full authority to purchase or improve and to own and operate the authorized revenue producing systems, to fix, maintain, and to collect rates for the facilities afforded by such systems, to issue and to sell the authorized bonds, and shall be construed as an additional and alternative method therefor, any provisions of the general laws of the state or of any charter to the contrary notwithstanding.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 33-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-23
Status: in_force

The assessor shall complete the assessment of both real and personal property and file the rolls with the municipal clerk on or before the first Monday in September. The governing authorities may, by an order entered upon their minutes, allow the assessor additional time within which to complete and file the assessment rolls. The assessor shall attach his affidavit to each roll in the form required of the county tax assessor.

Municipalities operating under a private charter, and having a different time for the assessment of property than fixed for municipalities operating under a code charter, shall provide the time when the assessor shall make and file the assessment rolls.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-201 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 21-1-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-1-15
Status: in_force

After the filing of said petition, and upon request therefor by the petitioners, the chancellor shall set a day certain, either in term time or in vacation, for the hearing of such petition and notice shall be given to all persons interested in, affected by, or having objections to the proposed incorporation, that the hearing on the petition will be held on the day fixed by the chancellor and that all such persons will have the right to appear and enter their objections, if any, to the proposed incorporation. The said notice shall be given by publication thereof in some newspaper published or having a general circulation in the territory proposed to be incorporated once each week for three consecutive weeks, and by posting a copy of such notice in three or more public places in such territory. The first publication of such notice and the posted notice shall be made at least thirty days prior to the day fixed for the hearing of said petition, and such notice shall contain a full description of the territory proposed to be incorporated. However, if any of the territory proposed to be incorporated is located within three miles of the boundaries of an existing municipality, then such existing municipality shall be made a party defendant to such petition and shall be served with process in the manner provided by law, which process shall be served at least thirty days prior to the date set for the hearing.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-33 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-33
Status: in_force

Upon retirement from service as provided in Section 21-29-31 a member shall receive a service retirement allowance for the remainder of his life, payable monthly, which allowance shall be a sum equal to fifty percent (50%) of his average monthly salary for the last four (4) years of service immediately prior to retirement; provided, however, that upon retirement from service in any municipality having a commission form of government on March 31, 1948, as provided in Section 21-29-5 and having a separate firemen and policemen retirement system and having a population not in excess of 48,000 according to the 1980 decennial census, which municipality has established a retirement system according to the provisions of this chapter, the service retirement allowance shall be based upon the average monthly salary for the last two (2) years of service immediately prior to retirement. Any member who has been in paid service for longer than twenty (20) years shall be entitled to receive additional payments for life in a sum equal to one and seven-tenths percent (1.7%) of the average monthly salary received by such member in the two-year period next preceding the filing of said application for each full year of service in excess of twenty (20) years' service. However, no retired payment to any member shall exceed sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66- 2 / 3 %) of the average monthly salary received by a member for the four-year or two-year period, as the case may be, next preceding the filing of said application. 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 seven-year period hereinbefore mentioned, provided the employee continues to contribute his share to the program based on the average of his last two (2) months' compensation. This contribution shall continue during the total time the employee shall be inactive.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-165 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-165
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-165
Status: in_force

A municipality is authorized and empowered to acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, extend, repair, operate and maintain one or more sewage disposal systems and make contracts with any person or any public agency, under the terms of which the municipality will, within or without the municipality but within its metropolitan area, collect, transport, treat or dispose of waste for such person or public agency. A municipality may also enter into contracts with any person to purchase or sell, by installments over such term as may be deemed desirable, or otherwise, any waste collection, transportation, treatment or sewage disposal facilities or systems. A municipality is also authorized to enter into operating agreements with any person, for such terms and upon such conditions as may be deemed desirable, for the operation of any waste collection, transportation, treatment or sewage disposal facilities or systems of any person by the municipality; and a municipality may lease to or from any person, for such term and upon such conditions as may be deemed desirable, any waste collection, transportation, treatment or sewage disposal facilities or systems.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-257 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-257
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-257
Status: in_force

No part of said fund to which any of said firemen or policemen shall be entitled, or which may be payable or ordered paid to him shall be seized, attached, assigned or levied upon by any writ of attachment, garnishment, execution, sequestration or other like process or writ.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-55
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of all municipalities in this state, including private charter municipalities, are hereby authorized and empowered to cause all taxable property, whether real or personal, within the corporate limits, and liable to taxation, which from any cause has escaped taxation within the past seven (7) years, to be assessed for taxes for each year in which such property has escaped taxation. In all cases of the assessment of property under this section, the governing authorities of any municipality ordering such assessment shall fix a day for the hearing of objections to such assessment, and shall cause the municipal clerk to give to the property owner ten (10) days' written notice, by mail, if the post office address of the owner be known; if the post office address of the owner be unknown, notice shall be given by posting notice for at least ten (10) days in five (5) public places in the municipality, of the time and place for the hearing of objections to such assessment.

In the event it be discovered that the property of any railroad, or other public service corporation required by law to be assessed by the state railroad assessors, has escaped assessment and taxation for any reason, the assessor, upon his own motion, or upon request of the governing authorities of the municipality, shall notify the state railroad assessors of such fact, and state the name of the owner and the kind of property escaping assessment and taxation. The state railroad assessors shall proceed to assess such property as provided by Section 27-35-325, Mississippi Code of 1972 .

No leasehold interest in any property, real or personal, belonging to the state of Mississippi, counties, districts, municipalities or any political subdivisions, shall be subjected to ad valorem taxation for any past year on the basis of it having been omitted from the ad valorem tax rolls.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 19-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-35
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to adopt reasonable ordinances for the regulation of transient vendors not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 75-85-1 through 75-85-19 . However, said authorities shall not have the power to declare residential solicitations by transient vendors who are citizens of the State of Mississippi, or who are agents of corporations domiciled in the State of Mississippi, or who are agents of foreign corporations qualified to do business in the State of Mississippi, to be a public nuisance or a misdemeanor, unless said transient vendors are not in compliance with Sections 75-85-1 through 75-85-19 or local regulations. Before transacting any business, all transient vendors shall furnish to the municipality wherein said business is to be transacted, a good and sufficient penal bond in an amount not to exceed Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) conditioned that if said transient vendor shall comply with all of the provisions of the municipal ordinances relating to transient vendors said obligation shall be void, otherwise, to remain in full force and effect. Any ordinance adopted by the governing authority of a municipality under the provisions of this section shall control as to the area within such municipality, regardless of the existence of a county ordinance.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-99 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-99
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-99
Status: in_force

When any of the records of which reproductions are made are declared by law, or are by their nature confidential and privileged records, then the reproduction thereof shall likewise be deemed to be confidential and privileged to the same extent as the original records.