Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-29-117 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-117
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-117
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

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

(6) The municipality and the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System may enter into such contracts and agreements as are deemed necessary to implement the provisions of this section, including, but not limited to, contracts and agreements addressing the use, application and investment of proceeds of bonds issued under Section 31-25-21 and earnings thereon and the relative rights and obligations of the municipality and the Public Employees' Retirement System during the period that the bonds are outstanding and thereafter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 21-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-31
Status: in_force

The legislature finds that the availability of law enforcement officers to a municipality in a state of civil emergency is of a statewide concern, and that it is in the public interest that municipalities needing additional law enforcement officers in a state of civil emergency be able to procure such additional law enforcement officers through reciprocal assistance from other municipalities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-53 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 25-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-53
Status: in_force

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

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

(3) Any power, authority or responsibility exercised or capable of being exercised by the governing authorities of any municipality of this state may be exercised and carried out jointly with the governing authorities of any rural water association.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-305 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 29-305
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-305
Status: in_force

Each employer shall pick up the member contributions required by Sections 21-29-17 , 21-29-117 and 21-29-219, Mississippi Code of 1972 , for all compensation earned after January 1, 1989, and the contributions so picked up shall be treated as employer contributions in determining tax treatment under the United States Internal Revenue Code and the Mississippi Income Tax Code; however, each employer shall continue to withhold federal and state income taxes based upon such contributions until the Internal Revenue Service or the federal courts rule that, pursuant to Section 414(h) of the United States Internal Revenue Code , these contributions shall not be included as gross income of the member until such time as they are distributed or made available. The employer may pick up these contributions by a reduction in the cash salary of the member, or by an offset against a future salary increase, or by a combination of a reduction in salary and offset against a future salary increase. If member contributions are picked up they shall be treated for all purposes of the General Municipal Employees' Retirement System and Firemen's and Policemen's Disability Relief Funds under Articles 1, 3 and 5 of this chapter in the same manner and to the same extent as member contributions made prior to the date picked up.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-77 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 33-77
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-77
Status: in_force

When any municipality shall buy in property for delinquent taxes, such municipality is hereby authorized to issue notes, bonds, or certificates of indebtedness for the amount of the tax, for a period of time not to exceed one year after the period provided for the redemption of such land and, in addition to pledging the full faith, credit, and resources of the municipality therefor, such municipality may pledge the taxes and damages from delinquent tax sales thereon. When said notes, bonds, or certificates of indebtedness are so issued, all funds collected on said delinquent taxes and damages, or the sale of the property, in the event the title ripens in the municipality, shall be set aside as a special or trust fund for the retirement of said notes, bonds, or certificates of indebtedness. The rate of interest of said notes, bonds, or certificates of indebtedness not to exceed six per centum per annum. The authority implied and granted in this section shall apply also to the boards of trustees in municipal separate school districts, by and with the consent of the governing authorities of such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 33-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-67
Status: in_force

A list of the conveyances of land sold for municipal taxes, either to the municipalities or to individuals, shall be recorded in an indexed record, which shall be kept in the office of the mayor or the city clerk of the municipality. All redemptions of said lands shall be noted on said record.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-331 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 29-331
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-331
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, where benefits are payable to a designated beneficiary or beneficiaries under Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter and the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries as provided by the member on the most recent form filed with the system is deceased or otherwise disqualified at the time such benefits become payable, the following persons, in descending order of precedence, shall be eligible to receive such benefits:

(a) The surviving spouse of the member or retiree;

(b) The children of the member or retiree or their descendants, per stirpes;

(c) The brothers and sisters of the member or retiree or their descendants, per stirpes;

(d) The parents of the member or retiree;

(e) The executor or administrator on behalf of the member or retiree's estate;

(f) The persons entitled by law to distribution of the member or retiree's estate.

(2) Any monthly benefits payable to a beneficiary who dies prior to cashing his or her final check(s) and/or any additional benefits payable pursuant to a cost-of-living adjustment still payable at the death of a beneficiary receiving monthly benefits shall be paid as follows:

(a) The surviving spouse of the beneficiary;

(b) The children of the beneficiary or their descendants, per stirpes;

(c) The brothers and sisters of the beneficiary or their descendants, per stirpes;

(d) The parents of the beneficiary;

(e) The executor or administrator on behalf of the beneficiary's estate;

(f) The persons entitled by law to distribution of the beneficiary's estate.

(3) In the event no claim is made by any individual listed in subsection (2) of this section, a distribution may be made pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section.

(4) Payment under the provisions of this section shall bar recovery by any other person of the benefits distributed. Payment of benefits made to one or more members of a class of individuals are made on behalf of all members of the class. Any members of the class coming forward after payment is made must look to those who received the payment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-315 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 33-315
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-315
Status: in_force

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

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

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

Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, any municipality may issue a single-term bond payable annually which amortizes as described herein, complies with the other requirements described herein, and with a final maturity not longer than twenty (20) years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 13-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-1
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to pass all ordinances and to enforce the same by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-207 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 27-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-207
Status: in_force

Both the board and commission may adopt, modify, repeal and promulgate, after due notice and hearing, and may make exceptions to and grant exemptions and variances from and may enforce those rules, regulations and procedures as are necessary or appropriate to effectuate the duties and responsibilities of these agencies arising under Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 . The rules, regulations and procedures shall include, but not be limited to, the following: criteria for classifying municipal and domestic community water systems, nontransient, noncommunity water systems and wastewater facilities; qualifications for operators of community water systems, nontransient, noncommunity water systems and wastewater facilities; certification of operators of commercial Class I rubbish sites; procedures for examining or testing applicants for operator certificates; procedures and fees for issuing, reissuing, modifying, revoking or terminating operator certificates; and reciprocal certification of operators certified in other states having certification requirements not less stringent than those established by the board and commission. Any increase in the fees charged by the board under this section shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 39 / Section 41-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-35
Status: in_force

If any special assessment made pursuant to this chapter or attempted to be made in accordance with or by virtue of the authority conferred in any other law heretofore in force, to defray the whole or any part of the expense of any local improvement, shall be, either in whole or in part, annulled, vacated or set aside by the judgment of any court, or if the governing authorities of a municipality shall be satisfied that such assessment is so irregular or defective that the same cannot be enforced, or if the governing authorities shall have omitted to make such assessment when it might have done so, the governing authorities of the municipality are hereby authorized to take all steps to cause a new assessment for the whole or any part of any improvement, or against any property benefited by any improvement, following as near as may be the provisions of this chapter. In case such second assessment shall likewise be abrogated as above provided, the governing authorities may make other assessments, until a valid assessment shall be made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-58 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 19-58
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-58
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county, and the governing authorities of any municipality in the state, are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to make contributions to the Mississippi Department of Health, or the University of Mississippi Medical Center after the Mississippi Burn Center is operational, for deposit to the Mississippi Burn Care Fund from the general fund or federal revenue sharing funds of such county or municipality wherein such funds may be available.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325.1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 33-325.1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325.1
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authorities of a municipality that was formerly a census-designated place, as identified by the United States Census Bureau, and is incorporated during calendar year 2011, 2012 or 2013, shall have the power and authority to borrow money for the current expenses of the municipality from the date of incorporation in anticipation of the ad valorem taxes to be collected for the then current fiscal year and the next succeeding fiscal year. The governing authorities of the municipality may borrow such money from any available fund in the municipal treasury, or from any other source, and such loan shall be repaid in the manner provided in subsection (2) of this section.

(2) The money borrowed shall bear interest at a rate not greater than that allowed in Section 75-17-105 and shall be repaid not later than the following March 15, out of the first monies 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.

(3) In borrowing money under the provisions of this section, 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.

(4) 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.

(5) No governing authorities of a municipality shall borrow money or incur indebtedness as prescribed in this section after March 1, 2014.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-39 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 9-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-39
Status: in_force

(1) Regular public meetings of the council shall be held on the first Tuesday of each month, at such time of day as the council may 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 two (2) councilmen on at least two (2) days' notice to the mayor and each member of the council. A special meeting may also be held at any time by written consent of the mayor and all members of the council. At all meetings of the council, a majority of 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 of 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 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. The city or town manager may be appointed only at a regular meeting of the council with no less than a majority of the members, plus one (1), in attendance.

(2) The council may, pursuant to Section 21-17-17 , set a day other than Tuesday for the holding of its regular monthly meeting.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-11
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(f) It shall annually determine and allow interest on each individual account in the employees' saving fund based on the average percentage of interest earned from investment or deposit of all funds of the retirement system. However, the interest to be credited to such individual accounts shall not exceed one percent (1%) per annum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-323 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 33 / Section 33-323
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-323
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever any municipality shall have on hand any bond and interest funds, any funds derived from the sale of bonds, special funds, or any other funds in excess of the sums which will be required for immediate expenditure and which are not needed or cannot by law be used for the payment of the current obligations or expenses of such municipality, the governing authorities of such municipality shall have the power and authority to invest such excess funds in any bonds or other direct obligations of the United States of America or the State of Mississippi, or of any county or municipality of this state, or of any school district, which such county or municipal or school district bonds have been approved by a reputable bond attorney or have been validated by a decree of the chancery court, or in obligations issued or guaranteed in full as to principal and interest by the United States of America which are subject to a repurchase agreement with a qualified depository. In any event the bonds or obligations in which such funds are invested shall mature or be redeemable prior to the time the funds so invested will be needed for expenditure.

(2) However, such excess funds may first be offered for investment in interest-bearing accounts with or through municipal depositories serving in accordance with Section 27-105-353 at a rate of interest not less than a simple interest rate numerically equal to the average bank discount rate on United States Treasury bills of comparable maturity. The rate of interest established herein shall be the minimum rate of interest and there shall be no maximum rate of interest.

(3) Such excess funds may also be invested in interest-bearing accounts in or through state depositories located in such municipality to the same extent as such depositories are eligible for invested state funds.

(4) When bonds or other obligations have been so purchased, the same may be sold or surrendered for redemption at any time by order or resolution of the governing authorities of the municipality, and the mayor of the municipality, when authorized by such order or resolution, shall have the power and authority to execute all instruments and take such other action as may be necessary to effectuate the sale or redemption thereof.

(5) When such bonds or other obligations are sold or redeemed, the proceeds thereof, including accrued interest thereon, shall be paid into the same fund as that from which the investment was made and shall in all respects be dealt with as are other monies in such fund.

(6) Except as hereinafter provided, any interest derived from the investments authorized in this section may, as an alternative, be deposited into the general fund of the municipality. Any interest derived from the investment of sums received under the terms of the federal State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 and any subsequent revisions or reenactments of that act shall be paid into the same fund as that from which the investment was made. Any interest derived from the investment of school bond funds shall be handled as provided in Section 37-59-43 . Any interest derived from investment of other bond proceeds or from investment of any bond and interest fund, bond reserve fund or bond redemption sinking fund shall be deposited either in the same fund from which the investment was made or in the bond and interest fund established for payment of the principal or interest on the bonds. Any interest derived from special purpose funds which are outside the function of general municipal government shall be paid into that special purpose fund.

(7) The authority granted by this section shall be cumulative and in addition to any other law relating to the investment of funds by municipalities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-37 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-37
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of every municipality shall have power to inspect or cause to be inspected the machinery, appliances and premises of all persons, copartnerships or corporations owning or operating any system within their corporate limits, in order to ascertain whether or not the said machinery, appliances and premises are kept in a sanitary condition and in condition to comply with the terms and requirements of the franchise or franchises under which the said system or systems are operated.

If any person, copartnership or corporation, or any employee thereof, shall refuse to permit the municipal governing authorities to make such inspection immediately when requested so to do, they shall, for each such refusal, forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars, to be recovered in an action in the name of said municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-239 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-239
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-239
Status: in_force

The Public Employees' Retirement System shall keep a record of service of the members of the fire department and police department, which record shall show the history of employment of each member of said fire department and police department. Said record shall be written up fully at the time such city comes within the terms of this article, and it shall thereafter be kept entered up fully and correctly. All records currently maintained by the municipality's affected membership shall be forwarded to the Public Employees' Retirement System not later than July 1, 1987. Any additional changes shall be forwarded to the Public Employees' Retirement System as made.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-235 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-235
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-235
Status: in_force

Any fire insurance company, subject to the tax mentioned in Section 21-29-229 , which shall fail to make a report or statement required therein after thirty days demand therefor by the commissioner of insurance, shall forfeit to said fund the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the commissioner for the use of such municipality, and the commissioner shall have the right to revoke the license of such company.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-247 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-31-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 31-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-7
Status: in_force

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

The commission shall appoint a secretary and a board of examiners, which board shall consist of the fire chief (or a person designated by the fire chief from the fire department to serve in his absence), the police chief (or a person designated by the police chief from the police department to serve in his absence), and a third member to be named by the commission, all of whom shall serve without compensation. The secretary shall keep the records and preserve all reports made to the commission, and also a record of all examinations held under the direction of the board of examiners, and perform such other duties as the commission may prescribe. The members of the board and the secretary are subject to suspension and discharge in the same manner as the commissioners.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 33-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-7
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of each municipality shall prescribe by order the form of the personal assessment roll, which shall generally be in the form prescribed for and used by the counties for the assessment of personal property. Additional columns may be provided if deemed convenient and necessary.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-17
Status: in_force

Whenever in any judicial proceeding it shall be necessary to prove the existence of any municipal ordinance, a copy of such ordinance, certified to by the clerk of the municipality, or the ordinance book in which such ordinance is entered, may be introduced in evidence, and shall be prima facie evidence of the existence of such ordinance and that the same was adopted and published in the manner provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-63 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-23-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 23-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-13
Status: in_force

The marshal or chief of police of the municipality shall be the executive officer of the municipal court. He shall attend the sittings of the court in person or by duly appointed deputies, and he shall be under the direction of the municipal judge. Any police officer of the municipality may be an ex officio deputy marshal. The marshal or chief of police shall execute all process by himself or deputy and do whatever else may be required of him by the court in the line of his duty.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / 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. § 21-29-45.nr2 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-45.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45.nr2
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

(d) If any member dies before becoming eligible to receive benefits under this article as a result of the performance of duty to the municipality, there shall be paid to the spouse or dependents designated in paragraph (b) of this section from the retirement reserve fund, an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the monthly salary of the deceased member on the date of his or her death. This amount shall be paid to the same beneficiaries and for the same period of time as those beneficiaries and periods of time set forth in paragraph (b) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-29-331 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 29-331
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-331
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, where benefits are payable to a designated beneficiary or beneficiaries under Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter and the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries as provided by the member on the most recent form filed with the system is deceased or otherwise disqualified at the time such benefits become payable, the following persons, in descending order of precedence, shall be eligible to receive such benefits:

(a) The surviving spouse of the member or retiree;

(b) The children of the member or retiree or their descendants, per stirpes;

(c) The brothers and sisters of the member or retiree or their descendants, per stirpes;

(d) The parents of the member or retiree;

(e) The executor or administrator on behalf of the member or retiree's estate;

(f) The persons entitled by law to distribution of the member or retiree's estate.

(2) Any monthly benefits payable to a beneficiary who dies prior to cashing his or her final check(s) and/or any additional benefits payable pursuant to a cost-of-living adjustment still payable at the death of a beneficiary receiving monthly benefits shall be paid as follows:

(a) The surviving spouse of the beneficiary;

(b) The children of the beneficiary or their descendants, per stirpes;

(c) The brothers and sisters of the beneficiary or their descendants, per stirpes;

(d) The parents of the beneficiary;

(e) The executor or administrator on behalf of the beneficiary's estate;

(f) The persons entitled by law to distribution of the beneficiary's estate.

(3) In the event no claim is made by any individual listed in subsection (2) of this section, a distribution may be made pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section.

(4) Payment under the provisions of this section shall bar recovery by any other person of the benefits distributed. Payment of benefits made to one or more members of a class of individuals are made on behalf of all members of the class. Any members of the class coming forward after payment is made must look to those who received the payment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-79 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / 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. § 21-17-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 17-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-15
Status: in_force

Within the discretion of the governing authorities of any municipality having a population of seventy-five thousand (75,000) or more according to the latest federal decennial census, there may be established a fiscal or financial department and the director thereof shall be invested with the full authority to act in all financial matters for and on behalf of such municipality as the city clerk is now authorized to act in such matters.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-31-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 31-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-23
Status: in_force

No person in the classified civil service who shall have been permanently appointed or inducted into civil service under the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , except for such persons as may be employed to fill a vacancy caused by the absence of a fireman or policeman while in service as a member of the armed forces of the United States, shall be removed, suspended, demoted or discharged, or any combination thereof, except for cause, and only upon the written accusation of the appointing power or any citizen or taxpayer, a written statement of which accusation, in general terms, shall be served upon the accused, and a duplicate filed with the commission. The chiefs of the fire and/or police department may suspend a member pending the confirmation of the suspension by the regular appointing power, which shall be within three (3) days.

In the absence of extraordinary circumstances or situations, before any such employee may be removed or discharged, he shall be given written notice of the intended termination, which notice shall state the reasons for termination and inform the employee that he has the right to respond in writing to the reasons given for termination within a reasonable time and respond orally before the official charged with the responsibility of making the termination decision. Such official may, in his discretion, provide for a pretermination hearing and examination of witnesses, and if a hearing is to be held, the notice to the employee shall also set the time and place of such hearing. A duplicate of such notice shall be filed with the commission. After the employee has responded or has failed to respond within a reasonable time, the official charged with the responsibility of making the termination decision shall determine the appropriate disciplinary action, and shall notify the employee of his decision in writing at the earliest practicable date.

Where there are extraordinary circumstances or situations which require the immediate discharge or removal of an employee, such employee may be terminated without a pretermination hearing as required by this section, but such employee shall be given written notice of the specific reasons for termination within twenty-four (24) hours after the termination, and shall be given an opportunity for a hearing similar to the pretermination hearing provided in this section within twenty (20) days after the date of termination. For the purposes of this section, extraordinary situations or circumstances include, but are not limited to, circumstances where retention of the employee would result in damage to municipal property, would be detrimental to the interest of municipal government or would result in injury to the employee, to a fellow employee or to the general public.

Any person so removed, suspended, demoted, discharged or combination thereof may, within ten (10) days from the time of such disciplinary action, file with the commission a written demand for an investigation, whereupon the commission shall conduct such investigation. The investigation shall be confined to the determination of the question of whether such disciplinary action was or was not made for political or religious reasons and was or was not made in good faith for cause. After such investigation the commission may, if in its estimation the evidence is conclusive, affirm the disciplinary action, or if it shall find that the disciplinary action was made for political or religious reasons, or was not made in good faith for cause, shall order the immediate reinstatement or reemployment of such person in the office, place, position, or employment from which such person was removed, suspended, demoted, discharged or combination thereof, which reinstatement shall, if the commission so provides in its discretion, be retroactive, and entitle such person to pay or compensation from the time of such disciplinary action. The commission upon such investigation may, in lieu of affirming the disciplinary action, modify the order of removal, suspension, demotion, discharge or combination thereof by directing a suspension, without pay, for a given period and subsequent restoration of duty, or by directing a demotion in classification, grade or pay, or by any combination thereof. The findings of the commission shall be certified in writing to the appointing power, and shall be forthwith enforced by such officer.

All investigations made by the commission pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be by public hearing, after reasonable written notice to the accused of the time and place of such hearing, at which hearing the accused shall be afforded an opportunity of appearing in person and by counsel, and presenting his defense. The findings of the commission shall be conclusive and binding unless either the accused or the municipality shall, within thirty (30) days from the date of the entry of such judgment or order on the minutes of the commission and notification to the accused and the municipality, appeal to the circuit court of the county within which the municipality is located. Any appeal of the judgment or order of the commission shall not act as a supersedeas of such judgment or order, but the judgment or order shall remain in effect pending a final determination of the matter on appeal. Such appeal shall be taken by serving the commission and the appellee, within thirty (30) days after the entry of such judgment or order, a written notice of appeal, stating the grounds thereof, and demanding that a certified transcript of the record and of all papers on file in the office of the commission affecting or relating to such judgment or order, be filed by the commission with such court. The commission shall, within thirty (30) days after the filing of such notice, make, certify and file such transcript with such court. The said circuit court shall thereupon proceed to hear and determine such appeal. However, such hearing shall be confined to the determination of whether the judgment or order of removal, discharge, demotion, suspension or combination thereof made by the commission, was or was not made in good faith for cause, and no appeal to such court shall be taken except upon such ground or grounds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-309 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 33-309
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-309
Status: in_force

The election provided for by Section 21-33-307 shall be held, as far as is practicable, in the same manner as other elections are held in municipalities. At such election, all qualified electors of such municipality may vote. The ballots used at such election shall have printed thereon a brief statement of the amount and purpose of the proposed bond issue and the words “FOR THE BOND ISSUE” and “AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE,” and the voter shall vote by placing a cross (X) or check mark (✓) opposite his choice on the proposition.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / 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. § 21-25-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 25-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-27
Status: in_force

The municipal governing authorities are vested with full power to raise the levy on the property, both personal and real, by special assessment within such fire district sufficient to pay for laying such water mains, and to meet the contracted annual rental for such service. Such authorities shall have all power to enforce and collect said taxes as provided by statutes empowering municipalities to collect special assessments, and it shall be done in the same general way and may be assessed at any time and cover such length of time as the governing authorities may deem proper.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 21-33-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 33-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-5
Status: in_force

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

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

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

Municipalities using accounting machines equipment may adopt such forms as may be required for the use of such equipment, provided that the information required herein is substantially set forth on said forms.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 41 / Section 45-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-7
Status: in_force

Any redevelopment project may contain a provision that municipal and county ad valorem taxes, if any, levied upon taxable property in a redevelopment project or municipal sales taxes collected within the area, or both, shall be divided according to a tax increment financing plan.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 25-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-27
Status: in_force

The municipal governing authorities are vested with full power to raise the levy on the property, both personal and real, by special assessment within such fire district sufficient to pay for laying such water mains, and to meet the contracted annual rental for such service. Such authorities shall have all power to enforce and collect said taxes as provided by statutes empowering municipalities to collect special assessments, and it shall be done in the same general way and may be assessed at any time and cover such length of time as the governing authorities may deem proper.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 39-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-27
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authority of any municipality may acquire one or more credit cards which may be used by members of the governing authority and municipal employees to pay expenses incurred by them when traveling in or out of the state in the performance of their official duties. The municipal clerk shall maintain complete records of all credit card numbers and all receipts and other documents relating to the use of such credit cards.

(2) The members of the governing authority and municipal employees shall furnish receipts for the use of such credit cards each month to the municipal clerk who shall submit a written report monthly to the governing authority. The report shall include an itemized list of all expenditures and use of the credit cards for the month, and such expenditures may be allowed for payment by the municipality in the same manner as other items on the claims docket.

(3) The issuance of a credit card to a member of the governing authority or municipal employee under the provisions of this section does not authorize the member of the governing authority or municipal employee to use the credit card to make any expenditure that is not otherwise authorized by law. Any member of the governing authority or municipal employee who uses the credit card to make an expenditure that is not approved for payment by the governing authority shall be personally liable for the expenditure and shall reimburse the municipality.

The employee shall be subject to all interest and fees and other charges related to the collection of expenditures not approved by the governing authority.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-113 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 43 / Section 43-113
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-113
Status: in_force

In order to establish a business improvement district, and upon establishment, every tenth year thereafter, those property owners which make up the area of the proposed district shall be notified of a meeting by United States mail no less than ten (10) days prior to the scheduled date of the meeting. Notification shall include the specific location, date and time of the meeting. The goal of the meeting shall be to develop a district plan for the upcoming ten-year period. Such plan shall be agreed upon by a majority of those property owners in attendance at the meeting. Such district plan shall include the following:

(a) A description of the boundaries of the district sufficient to identify the lands included;

(b) The improvements proposed and the maximum cost thereof for each of the coming ten (10) years;

(c) The total amount proposed to be expended for improvements for and in the district during the upcoming ten (10) years;

(d) The proposed source or sources of financing and funding for the improvements;

(e) The proposed target dates for beginning the implementation of the improvements;

(f) The naming of the district management group for the upcoming ten (10) years; and

(g) A listing of the individual properties to be included in the district with any assessment computed and identified for each property based upon gross square footage of buildings and unimproved real estate. The plan may provide that tax exempt properties be included in the district but not be subject to any assessment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-229 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 21-27-95 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 21-33-57 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / 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. § 21-33-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 33-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-59
Status: in_force

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

This section and Section 21-33-57 shall also apply to all cases of void sales of property for taxes, and the governing authorities, in all cases where a tax sale is void from any cause, may proceed to cause a legal sale to be made, and to cause property to be assessed in all cases after a void sale where assessment may have become necessary, and to cause sale to be made, if necessary, by complying with Sections 21-33-55 and 21-33-57 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-25 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 29-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-25
Status: in_force

All expenses of the operation of the retirement system shall be paid out of the retirement reserve fund provided by Section 21-29-23 . The Public Employees' Retirement System is hereby authorized to deduct two percent (2%) of all income, exclusive of employee contributions, to be transferred to the expense fund of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi to defray the costs of administering the fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 33-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-67
Status: in_force

A list of the conveyances of land sold for municipal taxes, either to the municipalities or to individuals, shall be recorded in an indexed record, which shall be kept in the office of the mayor or the city clerk of the municipality. All redemptions of said lands shall be noted on said record.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-183 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 27-183
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-183
Status: in_force

All bonds issued pursuant to Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall be validated as now provided by law by Sections 31-13-1 through 31-13-11 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 17-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-15
Status: in_force

Within the discretion of the governing authorities of any municipality having a population of seventy-five thousand (75,000) or more according to the latest federal decennial census, there may be established a fiscal or financial department and the director thereof shall be invested with the full authority to act in all financial matters for and on behalf of such municipality as the city clerk is now authorized to act in such matters.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-153 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 27-153
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-153
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any driver who secures such license and badge to transfer such license or badge to any other driver, or for any person to use the license or badge of another person while driving or operating such bus.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-327 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 29-327
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-327
Status: in_force

Any municipality that has established a retirement fund or disability and relief fund under Articles 1, 3 and 5 of this chapter shall be assessed interest on delinquent payments as determined by the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board of trustees. Any delinquent payments, assessed interest and any other amount certified by the board of trustees as owed by the municipality may be recovered by action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the municipality or may, upon due certification of delinquency and at the request of the board of trustees, be deducted from any other monies payable to the municipality by any department or agency of the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-45 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-45
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(4) The mayor and board of aldermen are further authorized and empowered to adopt any and all lawful resolutions, orders, and/or ordinances, and to do and perform any and all acts and things necessary and requisite to carry out the purposes of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-53 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 33-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-53
Status: in_force

The tax collector shall collect municipal taxes during the time and in the same manner and under the same penalties as the state and county taxes are collected. He shall, where not otherwise provided, in all particulars be governed by the general revenue laws of the state, so far as applicable, in making such collections. He shall make the reports thereby required to the governing authorities. He shall receive only such commissions or compensations as may be allowed by ordinance. In no case shall he retain any commissions or compensations from his collections, but the full amount of such collections shall be paid to the municipal treasurer or depository, and his commissions or compensations shall thereafter be paid by allowance thereof by the governing authorities of the municipality, and the issuance of warrants, as in other cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-57 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-57
Status: in_force

Nothing in this article shall limit or otherwise restrict the power of the governing body of any municipality that has a retirement system under this article to adopt such vacation and sick leave policies for its employees as it deems necessary. Any such municipality having a vacation and sick leave policy that provides for the payment of unused accumulated annual leave, personal leave or both to employees at the time of their retirement shall be authorized to make such payments to any employee who retires or has retired after September 30, 1991.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-133 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-133
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-133
Status: in_force

If any member of said fire department or police department shall become or be found to be totally disabled for the discharge of his duties as a member of said fire department or police department, mentally or physically, by reason of sickness or injury caused or sustained by reason of service or discharge of his duty in said department, after such city shall have come within the terms of this article, said disability and relief board shall order the payment and there shall be paid from said fund to said fireman or policeman each month thereafter an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of said fireman's or policeman's monthly salary, to be paid throughout such total disability for service. In passing upon the question of disability, said board shall require an examination of the applicant by the city physician or other physician or physicians as it may deem proper, and may require like examinations from time to time throughout the period of disability claimed by said fireman or policeman. If said city pays a salary to its firemen or policemen while disabled in an amount equal to the disability relief allowed under this section, said fireman or policeman shall not be entitled to any disability relief under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 15-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-41
Status: in_force

(1) No person shall serve in an interim or hold-over capacity for longer than ninety (90) days in a position that is required by law to be filled by appointment of the governing body of a municipality, or by mayoral appointment with the advice and consent of the council or aldermen. If such position is not filled within ninety (90) days after the expiration of the position's term, or within ninety (90) days after the date of appointment if an interim appointment, the hold-over service or interim appointment shall terminate and no municipal funds may thereafter be expended to compensate the person serving in the position. Further, any action or vote taken by such person after the ninety-day period shall be invalid and without effect. If a council or board of aldermen rejects, or otherwise fails to confirm, an individual submitted by the mayor for appointment, the mayor may not resubmit or reappoint the same individual for that position during the remainder of the mayor's current term in office.

(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this section shall apply to all appointees serving in a hold-over or interim capacity on July 1, 2018. For such appointees, the limitation period for serving in a hold-over or interim capacity shall be no longer than ninety (90) days from July 1, 2018.

(3) Any registered voter who resides in the municipality may file all objections to any matters relating to an alleged violation of this section in the chancery court of the county where the municipality is located. The chancery court is authorized to adjudicate and determine relief as may be proper. The court shall award reasonable attorney's fees and costs to the prevailing party.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-45 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 19-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-45
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(4) The mayor and board of aldermen are further authorized and empowered to adopt any and all lawful resolutions, orders, and/or ordinances, and to do and perform any and all acts and things necessary and requisite to carry out the purposes of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 31-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-23
Status: in_force

No person in the classified civil service who shall have been permanently appointed or inducted into civil service under the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , except for such persons as may be employed to fill a vacancy caused by the absence of a fireman or policeman while in service as a member of the armed forces of the United States, shall be removed, suspended, demoted or discharged, or any combination thereof, except for cause, and only upon the written accusation of the appointing power or any citizen or taxpayer, a written statement of which accusation, in general terms, shall be served upon the accused, and a duplicate filed with the commission. The chiefs of the fire and/or police department may suspend a member pending the confirmation of the suspension by the regular appointing power, which shall be within three (3) days.

In the absence of extraordinary circumstances or situations, before any such employee may be removed or discharged, he shall be given written notice of the intended termination, which notice shall state the reasons for termination and inform the employee that he has the right to respond in writing to the reasons given for termination within a reasonable time and respond orally before the official charged with the responsibility of making the termination decision. Such official may, in his discretion, provide for a pretermination hearing and examination of witnesses, and if a hearing is to be held, the notice to the employee shall also set the time and place of such hearing. A duplicate of such notice shall be filed with the commission. After the employee has responded or has failed to respond within a reasonable time, the official charged with the responsibility of making the termination decision shall determine the appropriate disciplinary action, and shall notify the employee of his decision in writing at the earliest practicable date.

Where there are extraordinary circumstances or situations which require the immediate discharge or removal of an employee, such employee may be terminated without a pretermination hearing as required by this section, but such employee shall be given written notice of the specific reasons for termination within twenty-four (24) hours after the termination, and shall be given an opportunity for a hearing similar to the pretermination hearing provided in this section within twenty (20) days after the date of termination. For the purposes of this section, extraordinary situations or circumstances include, but are not limited to, circumstances where retention of the employee would result in damage to municipal property, would be detrimental to the interest of municipal government or would result in injury to the employee, to a fellow employee or to the general public.

Any person so removed, suspended, demoted, discharged or combination thereof may, within ten (10) days from the time of such disciplinary action, file with the commission a written demand for an investigation, whereupon the commission shall conduct such investigation. The investigation shall be confined to the determination of the question of whether such disciplinary action was or was not made for political or religious reasons and was or was not made in good faith for cause. After such investigation the commission may, if in its estimation the evidence is conclusive, affirm the disciplinary action, or if it shall find that the disciplinary action was made for political or religious reasons, or was not made in good faith for cause, shall order the immediate reinstatement or reemployment of such person in the office, place, position, or employment from which such person was removed, suspended, demoted, discharged or combination thereof, which reinstatement shall, if the commission so provides in its discretion, be retroactive, and entitle such person to pay or compensation from the time of such disciplinary action. The commission upon such investigation may, in lieu of affirming the disciplinary action, modify the order of removal, suspension, demotion, discharge or combination thereof by directing a suspension, without pay, for a given period and subsequent restoration of duty, or by directing a demotion in classification, grade or pay, or by any combination thereof. The findings of the commission shall be certified in writing to the appointing power, and shall be forthwith enforced by such officer.

All investigations made by the commission pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be by public hearing, after reasonable written notice to the accused of the time and place of such hearing, at which hearing the accused shall be afforded an opportunity of appearing in person and by counsel, and presenting his defense. The findings of the commission shall be conclusive and binding unless either the accused or the municipality shall, within thirty (30) days from the date of the entry of such judgment or order on the minutes of the commission and notification to the accused and the municipality, appeal to the circuit court of the county within which the municipality is located. Any appeal of the judgment or order of the commission shall not act as a supersedeas of such judgment or order, but the judgment or order shall remain in effect pending a final determination of the matter on appeal. Such appeal shall be taken by serving the commission and the appellee, within thirty (30) days after the entry of such judgment or order, a written notice of appeal, stating the grounds thereof, and demanding that a certified transcript of the record and of all papers on file in the office of the commission affecting or relating to such judgment or order, be filed by the commission with such court. The commission shall, within thirty (30) days after the filing of such notice, make, certify and file such transcript with such court. The said circuit court shall thereupon proceed to hear and determine such appeal. However, such hearing shall be confined to the determination of whether the judgment or order of removal, discharge, demotion, suspension or combination thereof made by the commission, was or was not made in good faith for cause, and no appeal to such court shall be taken except upon such ground or grounds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-169 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 27-169
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-169
Status: in_force

A municipality is authorized to make such applications and enter into such contracts for financial assistance in comprehensive planning as may be appropriate under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as now or hereafter amended; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 ( P. L. 92-500 ); under Chapter 23 and Chapter 26, Title 33, United States Code; under Chapter 9, Title 40, United States Code and under any other relevant statutes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-163 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-163
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-163
Status: in_force

Words and phrases used in Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall have meanings as follows:

(a) “Act” shall mean the Metropolitan Area Waste Disposal Act [ Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 ], as originally enacted or as hereafter amended.

(b) “Person” means and includes the State of Mississippi, a municipality as defined herein, any public agency as defined herein or any other city, town or political subdivision or governmental agency of the State of Mississippi or of the United States of America, or any individual, copartnership, association, firm, trust, estate or any other entity whatsoever.

(c) “Waterworks” means all works, plants or other facilities necessary for the purpose of collecting, storing, treating and transporting water for domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural and manufacturing purposes, including open channels.

(d) “Water supply system” means pipelines, conduits, pumping stations and all other structures, devices and appliances appurtenant thereto, including land and right-of-way thereto, for use for transporting water to a point of ultimate use.

(e) “Waste” means sewage, industrial waste, municipal waste, recreational waste and agricultural waste, waste heat and any other waste that may cause impairment of the quality of the waters in the state.

(f) “Sewerage system” means pipelines or conduits, canals, pumping stations and force mains, and all other structures, devices, facilities and appliances appurtenant thereto, used for collecting or conducting waste to an ultimate point for treatment or disposal.

(g) “Treatment facilities” means any plant, disposal field, lagoon, pumping station, constructed drainage ditch or surface water intercepting ditch, canal, incinerator, area devoted to sanitary landfills or other works not specifically mentioned herein, installed for the purpose of treating, neutralizing, stabilizing or disposing of waste or facilities to provide cooling water to collect, control and dispose of waste heat.

(h) “Sewage disposal system” means a system for disposing of waste, including but not limited to sewerage systems and treatment facilities, as such terms are defined herein.

(i) The terms “pollution,” “waters” or “waters in the state” shall have meanings as set forth in the Mississippi Air and Water Pollution Control Law, as now or hereafter amended, appearing as Section 49-17-1 through Section 49-17-70, Mississippi Code of 1972 .

(j) “Municipality” means any incorporated city having a population in excess of one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) according to the most recently completed federal decennial census, whether operating under general law or under special charter.

(k) “Metropolitan area” means all of the area or territory lying within the corporate limits of a municipality as herein defined, whether or not such area or territory be contiguous, and all area or territory lying not more than ten (10) miles from the outer boundary of any of the areas or territories comprising a municipality as herein defined, and all of an incorporated city or town, any part of which lies within the aforementioned ten-mile limit.

(l) “Public agency” means any incorporated city or town lying wholly or partially within a metropolitan area, any state board or commission owning or operating properties within a metropolitan area, a district created pursuant to Sections 51-9-101 through 51-9-163 , or a political subdivision of the State of Mississippi lying wholly or partially within a metropolitan area and having the power to own and operate waterworks, water supply systems, sewerage systems, treatment facilities or sewage disposal systems or other facilities or systems for the collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of waste.

(m) “Metropolitan area plan” means a comprehensive plan for water quality management and the control and abatement of pollution within the metropolitan area, consistent with applicable water quality standards established pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

(n) “Federal Water Pollution Control Act” shall mean the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, being 33 U.S.C. 1151 et seq. as now or hereafter amended, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, being P.L. 92-500, 86 Stat. 816 as now or hereafter amended.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-65 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-29-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 29-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-23
Status: in_force

All funds provided for herein shall be part of the public funds of the Public Employees' Retirement System and shall be kept in such way as it is required by law to keep its funds. All allowances or withdrawals from such funds shall be drawn against such funds by the rules and regulations of the Public Employees' Retirement System. All securities purchased with money of the various funds under this article shall be purchased in the name of the Public Employees' Retirement System and held as are other securities of the Public Employees' Retirement System. The Public Employees' Retirement System shall maintain separate municipal accounts for each fund. The following funds shall be set up by any municipality operating under the provisions of this article:

(a) Employees' saving fund. The employees' saving fund shall be the fund in which shall be accumulated the contribution from the compensation of the members and the contributions of members who have prior service to provide for the maintenance, by the clerk of the employer, of an individual account with each member showing the amount of the member's contributions credited to his account and showing interest credited to his account as by the board directed. The portion of the accumulated contributions of a member returned to him upon his withdrawing from service, or paid to his designated beneficiary or legal representative in event of his death, as provided in Sections 21-29-19 and 21-29-21 , shall be paid from the employees' saving fund and charged against his individual account therein and the balance then standing in his name in his individual account in said fund shall be transferred to the retirement reserve fund and his individual account closed. The contribution of each member to the employees' saving fund, beginning with the effective date of the retirement system as fixed by ordinance of the governing body, shall be four percent (4%) of his compensation. The employer shall cause the said contribution to be deducted from the cash compensation of each member on each and every payroll period, so long as he remains a member of the retirement system. Every member shall be deemed to consent and agree to the deductions made and provided for herein, and his receipt for his full compensation and payment less said deduction shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by such member during the period covered by such payment, except as to benefits provided under this article. The employer shall, within five (5) days following the end of each calendar month, forward the member contributions deducted from the compensation of each member during the preceding calendar month to the Public Employees' Retirement System, to be placed in the employees' saving fund.

(b) Retirement reserve fund. The Public Employees' Retirement System shall place in the retirement reserve fund all taxes levied and collected pursuant to the provisions of Section 21-29-27 . All retirement and disability allowances shall be paid from this fund.

(c) Income Fund. All interest and other income derived from the deposits and investments authorized by this article shall be paid into the income fund.

The board shall annually allow interest for the preceding year to the individual accounts of members of the employees' savings fund based on the average interest and income received from the investment and deposit of the moneys of the employees' savings fund and the retirement reserve fund, provided that the allowed interest on contributions made by members within any one (1) year shall be computed, beginning on the first day of the fiscal year next following, and shall be computed at the end of the fiscal year. Within thirty (30) days after the end of each fiscal year the allowed interest on the accounts in the employees' savings fund shall be credited to the individual accounts of the members and the total thereof placed in the employees' savings fund and any balance of such interest and income shall be placed in the retirement reserve fund. All costs incidental to the investment of funds shall be paid out of this fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 21-8-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 8-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-41
Status: in_force

All of the provisions of law with reference to the government of municipalities not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any municipality operating under the mayor-council form of government as herein provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-95 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-29-151 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-151
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-151
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.

This article is supplementary to any laws heretofore passed and the provisions of this article are not applicable to any municipality operating under Article 5 of this chapter. It is the intention of the legislature to make it mandatory on municipalities to enforce the provisions of this article, unless a majority of those voting in an election thereon vote otherwise.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-153 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-153
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-153
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any driver who secures such license and badge to transfer such license or badge to any other driver, or for any person to use the license or badge of another person while driving or operating such bus.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 13-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-13-7
Status: in_force

The style of all municipal ordinances shall be “Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen (or other proper governing body, as the case may be) of the city (or town or village, as the case may be) of __________,”.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-203 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-203
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-203
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(k) “ Waters of the state ” means all waters within the jurisdiction of this state, including all streams, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, situated wholly or partly within or bordering upon the state, and such coastal waters as are within the jurisdiction of the state, except lakes, ponds or other surface waters which are wholly landlocked and privately owned.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-29-215 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 29-215
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-215
Status: in_force

The commissioner of insurance, the attorney general, and the secretary of state of the State of Mississippi, shall be and are constituted a body to be known as the “board of disability and relief appeals,” with full duty and power to hear, consider and determine all matters brought before it on appeal from decisions of the boards of disability and relief. Determinations by said appeal board shall be final.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-33 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 8-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-33
Status: repealed

All laws governing any municipality coming under the provisions of this chapter which are not inconsistent with the provisions hereof respecting the mayor-council form of government shall apply to and govern such municipalities respectively when they shall come under the mayor-council form. All orders, ordinances or resolutions heretofore adopted by a municipality adopting the mayor-council form of government shall remain in full force and effect until altered or repealed by the council established hereunder, and all of the provisions of the civil service acts applying to any municipality adopting the mayor-council form of government at the time of such adoption shall continue to apply in full force and effect to such municipality after adoption of such mayor-council form of government. The board of civil service commissioners existing and operating under the former plan of government shall continue to operate without interruption or impairment under the mayor-council form of government. All rights, privileges, and advantages of all employees coming under the civil service acts applying to said municipality at the time of adoption shall remain in full force and effect and shall in nowise be impaired, altered, or changed by such adoption, except as otherwise provided by this chapter. After the election and taking of office of the councilmen and mayor under the mayor-council form of government, all functions and duties of every nature that would have otherwise been performed by the governing body under the previous form of government in relation to such civil service acts shall thereafter be exercised and performed by the municipal council under the mayor-council form of government except that all appointments of employees coming under the provisions of such civil service acts shall be made, subject to such civil service acts, by the mayor, but all appointments made prior to the change to the mayor-council form shall remain in full force and effect.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / 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. § 21-21-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 21-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-41
Status: in_force

All wage and disability payments, pension payments, damage to equipment and clothing, medical expense, and expenses of travel, food, and lodging shall be paid by the municipality regularly employing such law enforcement officer. Upon making such payments, the municipality that furnished the services shall, when it so requests, be reimbursed by the municipality whose authorized official requested the services out of which the payments arose. Each such municipality is hereby expressly authorized to make such payments and reimbursements notwithstanding any provision in its charter or ordinances to the contrary.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-71 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 33-71
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-71
Status: in_force

When the state, county, or taxing district taxes are paid by a municipality, or where lands are redeemed or purchased by a municipality, as provided in Section 21-33-69 , such lands shall not be exempt from state, county, or other taxing district taxes but shall be liable for such taxes the same as if owned by an individual. It shall be the duty of the tax assessor to assess lands purchased pursuant to the authority granted in Section 29-1-51, Mississippi Code of 1972 , for taxes in the same manner as other lands are assessed and if the taxes are not paid when due, it shall be the duty of the tax collector to sell said land for the delinquent taxes due and unpaid at the time and in the manner provided by law for the sale of lands for delinquent taxes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / 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. § 21-19-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-3
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to make regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious or infectious diseases; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and to enforce the same within five miles of the corporate limits; and to establish pesthouses outside the corporate limits, and to provide for the support and government of the same.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-141 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-141
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-141
Status: in_force

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

(2) Failure of any owner or operator to comply with any of the requirements of Section 21-27-133 shall be cause for the revocation or suspension of his permit, or a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-43 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 19-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-43
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to aid and encourage the establishment of manufactures and other new enterprises mentioned in Section 27-31-101, Mississippi Code of 1972 , and gas works, water works, and cooperative rural electrification associations, but not railroads, within the corporate limits of municipalities, by exempting all tangible property used in or necessary to the operation thereof for such purposes from municipal taxation for a period not exceeding ten years as authorized by Sections 27-31-101 and 27-31-115, Mississippi Code of 1972 , and as authorized by Section 192 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-65 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 33-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-65
Status: in_force

If, from any cause, a sale of any land for municipal taxes, both ad valorem and for special improvements, or any installment thereof, that may be delinquent, which is liable to such sale shall not be made at the time appointed by law for such sale, it may be sold thereafter, in the same or a subsequent year, at any time designated therefor by order of the governing authorities of the municipality in which such land may be situated. Notice of a sale so ordered shall be given by advertising it in the manner prescribed by law for the sale of land for state and county taxes, and the sale shall be made at the same place and be subject to all the provisions of law applicable to such sales made at the time appointed by law. Lists of lands sold to the municipality and to individuals shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the municipality within the same relative period of time after the sale as is allowed by law for filing such lists after tax sales made at the regular time, and the clerk shall at once record them. Such lists shall be as valid and have the same effect and be subject to all the provisions of the law applicable to such lists made of lands sold at the regular sale for taxes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-55 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 25-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-55
Status: in_force

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

(a) Its duration.

(b) Its purpose or purposes.

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

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

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

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

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

(h) Any other necessary and proper matters.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-215 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 27-215
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-215
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any provision of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 to the contrary, holders of valid certificates of competency obtained through examination under the voluntary certification program sponsored by the association may, on or before June 30, 1987, apply to the board or commission for, and shall be issued, an operator's certificate issued under the provisions of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 without further examination or proof of other qualifications, provided such state-issued certificate shall be valid only for the class of facility covered by the association certificate.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 7-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-7-17
Status: repealed

All by-laws, ordinances, and resolutions lawfully passed and in force in every city heretofore operating under code charter, which changes its form of government to council form under the provisions of this chapter, shall remain in force until altered or repealed by the council elected under the provisions thereof. The territorial limits of every such city shall not be affected by the change, and all rights and property of every description, which were vested in every such city, under its former organization, shall vest in the same under the organization contemplated by council form of government, and no right or liability, either in favor or against such city, and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be affected by such change, unless otherwise provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 23-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-15
Status: in_force

Neither the municipal judge, the marshal or chief of police, any police officer, or any other officer, shall receive any fees or costs in any case in the municipal court.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-175 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-175
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-175
Status: in_force

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

The proceeds derived from two (2) mills of the levy authorized herein shall be included in the ten percent (10%) increase limitation under Section 27-39-321 , and the proceeds derived from any additional millage levied hereunder in excess of two (2) mills shall be excluded from such limitation for the first year of such additional levy and shall be included within such limitation in any year thereafter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-215 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-215
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-215
Status: in_force

The commissioner of insurance, the attorney general, and the secretary of state of the State of Mississippi, shall be and are constituted a body to be known as the “board of disability and relief appeals,” with full duty and power to hear, consider and determine all matters brought before it on appeal from decisions of the boards of disability and relief. Determinations by said appeal board shall be final.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 19-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-3
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to make regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious or infectious diseases; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and to enforce the same within five miles of the corporate limits; and to establish pesthouses outside the corporate limits, and to provide for the support and government of the same.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-51 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 25-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-51
Status: in_force

(1) It is the purpose of Sections 21-25-51 through 21-25-59 to permit the governing authorities of any municipality and a rural water association operating within the corporate limits of the municipality to make the most efficient use of their powers in upgrading their respective water systems for the purpose of improving local fire protection by enabling them to cooperate and to contract with each other on a basis of mutual advantage and thereby provide services and facilities in a manner that will accord best with geographic, economic, population and other factors influencing the needs and development of the fire protection of local communities.

(2) The governing authorities of any municipality may enter into an interlocal agreement with any rural water association operating within the corporate limits of the municipality for the purpose of constructing, new construction or upgrading the water system of the municipality or the water association, or both, for the purpose of improving the fire protection of the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-95 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 21-29-249 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-249
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-249
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 request in writing to the board of disability and relief for a refund, but without interest, which he shall be paid within one year of the filing of the request.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-103 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 38 / 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. § 21-29-149 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / 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. § 21-33-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 33-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-5
Status: in_force

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

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

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

Municipalities using accounting machines equipment may adopt such forms as may be required for the use of such equipment, provided that the information required herein is substantially set forth on said forms.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-123 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-19-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-33-207 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 21-9-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 9-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-19
Status: in_force

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

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

The election commissioners shall, within ten (10) business days after any special or general election, certify to the Secretary of State the name or names of the person or persons elected at such special or general election, and the Secretary of State shall, immediately upon receiving such certificates, deliver the same to the Governor, who shall immediately issue commissions to the persons mentioned in certificate.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 33-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-59
Status: in_force

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

This section and Section 21-33-57 shall also apply to all cases of void sales of property for taxes, and the governing authorities, in all cases where a tax sale is void from any cause, may proceed to cause a legal sale to be made, and to cause property to be assessed in all cases after a void sale where assessment may have become necessary, and to cause sale to be made, if necessary, by complying with Sections 21-33-55 and 21-33-57 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / 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. § 21-21-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / 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. § 21-31-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 31-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-23
Status: in_force

No person in the classified civil service who shall have been permanently appointed or inducted into civil service under the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , except for such persons as may be employed to fill a vacancy caused by the absence of a fireman or policeman while in service as a member of the armed forces of the United States, shall be removed, suspended, demoted or discharged, or any combination thereof, except for cause, and only upon the written accusation of the appointing power or any citizen or taxpayer, a written statement of which accusation, in general terms, shall be served upon the accused, and a duplicate filed with the commission. The chiefs of the fire and/or police department may suspend a member pending the confirmation of the suspension by the regular appointing power, which shall be within three (3) days.

In the absence of extraordinary circumstances or situations, before any such employee may be removed or discharged, he shall be given written notice of the intended termination, which notice shall state the reasons for termination and inform the employee that he has the right to respond in writing to the reasons given for termination within a reasonable time and respond orally before the official charged with the responsibility of making the termination decision. Such official may, in his discretion, provide for a pretermination hearing and examination of witnesses, and if a hearing is to be held, the notice to the employee shall also set the time and place of such hearing. A duplicate of such notice shall be filed with the commission. After the employee has responded or has failed to respond within a reasonable time, the official charged with the responsibility of making the termination decision shall determine the appropriate disciplinary action, and shall notify the employee of his decision in writing at the earliest practicable date.

Where there are extraordinary circumstances or situations which require the immediate discharge or removal of an employee, such employee may be terminated without a pretermination hearing as required by this section, but such employee shall be given written notice of the specific reasons for termination within twenty-four (24) hours after the termination, and shall be given an opportunity for a hearing similar to the pretermination hearing provided in this section within twenty (20) days after the date of termination. For the purposes of this section, extraordinary situations or circumstances include, but are not limited to, circumstances where retention of the employee would result in damage to municipal property, would be detrimental to the interest of municipal government or would result in injury to the employee, to a fellow employee or to the general public.

Any person so removed, suspended, demoted, discharged or combination thereof may, within ten (10) days from the time of such disciplinary action, file with the commission a written demand for an investigation, whereupon the commission shall conduct such investigation. The investigation shall be confined to the determination of the question of whether such disciplinary action was or was not made for political or religious reasons and was or was not made in good faith for cause. After such investigation the commission may, if in its estimation the evidence is conclusive, affirm the disciplinary action, or if it shall find that the disciplinary action was made for political or religious reasons, or was not made in good faith for cause, shall order the immediate reinstatement or reemployment of such person in the office, place, position, or employment from which such person was removed, suspended, demoted, discharged or combination thereof, which reinstatement shall, if the commission so provides in its discretion, be retroactive, and entitle such person to pay or compensation from the time of such disciplinary action. The commission upon such investigation may, in lieu of affirming the disciplinary action, modify the order of removal, suspension, demotion, discharge or combination thereof by directing a suspension, without pay, for a given period and subsequent restoration of duty, or by directing a demotion in classification, grade or pay, or by any combination thereof. The findings of the commission shall be certified in writing to the appointing power, and shall be forthwith enforced by such officer.

All investigations made by the commission pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be by public hearing, after reasonable written notice to the accused of the time and place of such hearing, at which hearing the accused shall be afforded an opportunity of appearing in person and by counsel, and presenting his defense. The findings of the commission shall be conclusive and binding unless either the accused or the municipality shall, within thirty (30) days from the date of the entry of such judgment or order on the minutes of the commission and notification to the accused and the municipality, appeal to the circuit court of the county within which the municipality is located. Any appeal of the judgment or order of the commission shall not act as a supersedeas of such judgment or order, but the judgment or order shall remain in effect pending a final determination of the matter on appeal. Such appeal shall be taken by serving the commission and the appellee, within thirty (30) days after the entry of such judgment or order, a written notice of appeal, stating the grounds thereof, and demanding that a certified transcript of the record and of all papers on file in the office of the commission affecting or relating to such judgment or order, be filed by the commission with such court. The commission shall, within thirty (30) days after the filing of such notice, make, certify and file such transcript with such court. The said circuit court shall thereupon proceed to hear and determine such appeal. However, such hearing shall be confined to the determination of whether the judgment or order of removal, discharge, demotion, suspension or combination thereof made by the commission, was or was not made in good faith for cause, and no appeal to such court shall be taken except upon such ground or grounds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

(d) If any member dies before becoming eligible to receive benefits under this article as a result of the performance of duty to the municipality, there shall be paid to the spouse or dependents designated in paragraph (b) of this section from the retirement reserve fund, an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the monthly salary of the deceased member on the date of his or her death. This amount shall be paid to the same beneficiaries and for the same period of time as those beneficiaries and periods of time set forth in paragraph (b) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-59 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 33-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-59
Status: in_force

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

This section and Section 21-33-57 shall also apply to all cases of void sales of property for taxes, and the governing authorities, in all cases where a tax sale is void from any cause, may proceed to cause a legal sale to be made, and to cause property to be assessed in all cases after a void sale where assessment may have become necessary, and to cause sale to be made, if necessary, by complying with Sections 21-33-55 and 21-33-57 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-175 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 27-175
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-175
Status: in_force

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

The proceeds derived from two (2) mills of the levy authorized herein shall be included in the ten percent (10%) increase limitation under Section 27-39-321 , and the proceeds derived from any additional millage levied hereunder in excess of two (2) mills shall be excluded from such limitation for the first year of such additional levy and shall be included within such limitation in any year thereafter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-209 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-209
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-209
Status: in_force

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

The board shall have the duty and power to promptly hear and pass upon all applications of firemen and/or policemen or of beneficiaries of deceased firemen and of deceased policemen for participation in the benefits of said fund. Said board may hear witnesses, administer oaths, find facts, and make decisions in all matters properly before said board, which decisions shall be final except upon appeals in the way hereafter set forth. Said board shall order payments made according to the facts found and the provisions of this article, which payments shall be made as far as funds may be available. The board may invest the funds as provided in Section 25-11-121 , and such funds may be commingled with other system funds for the most advantageous investments; however, each fund shall have separate accounting status.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-77 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 9-77
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-77
Status: repealed

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

The territorial limits of every such city shall remain the same as under its former organization. All rights and property of every description, which were vested in every such city under its former organization, shall vest in the same under the organization contemplated by the council-manager plan of government. No right or liability, either in favor of or against such city, and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be affected by such change, unless otherwise provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 21-39-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 35 / Section 39-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-9
Status: in_force

At each regular meeting of the governing authorities of the municipality the claims docket shall be called and all claims then on file not previously paid shall be paid by the governing authorities in the order in which they were entered on the docket.

The processing of claims by the governing authority of the municipality shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 31-7-301 , 31-7-305 , 31-7-309 , 31-7-311 and 31-7-313 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-19
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, should a member separate from the service of an employer or should he become a beneficiary or die, he shall thereupon cease to be a member and any prior service and membership service which may be credited to his service account at the time of his separation from the service of the employer shall be forfeited by him. Should such person again become an employee of the same employer within a period of five (5) years following the date of his last separation from the service of such employer, he shall again become a member of the retirement system, if not otherwise by this article prevented, conditioned on his redepositing at time of reemployment, and not afterwards, any part of his accumulated contributions theretofore withdrawn from the employees' savings fund, and any prior service and membership service which may have been credited to him at the time of his separation from service shall be restored to him. However, that in the case of the reemployment of a duty disability retirant neither the limitation of five (5) years nor the redepositing of any sum withdrawn from the employees' savings fund shall apply.

(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to any employees of a municipality who are employed after adoption of a resolution in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of Section 21-29-17 . However, under the provisions of the agreement between the municipality and the public employees' retirement system, after the employee has been actively employed for a period of four (4) years and reported as a member of the public employees' retirement system of Mississippi, he may pay the employee contributions, the employer contributions and interest as determined by the public employees' retirement system of Mississippi based on the earnings during the previous period of service with the municipality and receive creditable service for such prior service in the public employees' retirement system of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 43 / Section 43-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-15
Status: in_force

If the governing authority, following the hearing, decides to establish the proposed area, it shall adopt an ordinance to that effect. This ordinance shall contain the following information:

(a) the number, date and title of the resolution of intention pursuant to which it was adopted;

(b) the time and place the hearing was held concerning the formation of such area;

(c) the description of the boundaries of such area;

(d) a statement that the businesses in the area established by the ordinance shall be subject to the provisions of the additional tax provided by this chapter;

(e) the initial rate of increase, or additional levy, of the privilege license tax to be imposed with a breakdown by classification of business, if such classification is used;

(f) a statement that a parking and business improvement area has been established; and

(g) the uses to which the additional revenue shall be put.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-45 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 21-19-29 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 19-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-29
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to regulate the entrances to public halls, churches, and buildings, and the way of ingress and egress to and from the same.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 9-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-47
Status: in_force

The city council shall, by resolution, fix the hours of service of all officers and employees of the city.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-223 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 29-223
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-223
Status: in_force

The disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall be set aside as a special trust fund and shall only be disbursed 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 the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi on or before July 1, 1987.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 31-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-13
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 shall include all full paid employees of the fire and/or police departments of each municipality coming within its purview, including the chiefs of those departments. All appointments to and promotions in said departments shall be made solely on merit, efficiency, and fitness, which may be ascertained by open competitive examination and impartial investigation. No person shall be reinstated in, or transferred, suspended, or discharged from any place, position or employment contrary to the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 . The governing authorities of the municipality may, with the approval of the civil service commission, extend the benefits of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 to other full time employees of the municipality.

All incumbents and future appointees shall be subject to civil service, except, however, those appointees now and hereafter serving as extra members.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / Section 39-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-39-19
Status: in_force

The depository of the municipality, or the clerk as ex-officio treasurer where there is no depository, shall receive, safely keep, and pay out all moneys belonging to the municipality according to law. The depository or clerk shall keep correct and accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements, and shall make a written report to the governing authorities, at each regular meeting, of the finances of the municipality. The depository or clerk shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinance. The funds of the municipality shall be paid out only by virtue of an order or ordinance duly spread on the minutes of such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-47-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 37 / 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. § 21-19-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 21-29-139 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-139
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-139
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

Provided, however, in any city having a population of nineteen thousand (19,000) but less than twenty thousand (20,000), according to the 1970 census, the periods of time not exceeding four (4) years within which a member of the fire or police departments may have been absent from his employment while in active service in the Armed Forces of the United States, shall not be excluded in computing the twenty-year period and the ten-year period mentioned in this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 25-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-9
Status: in_force

In all municipalities of this state maintaining a paid or volunteer fire department, the personnel of which department is actively and exclusively engaged in fire duty or emergency medical services, the governing authorities of such municipality may pay out of the general fund of such municipality reasonable hospital and medical expenses for any member of said fire department on account of any occupational disease contracted or for any accident or injury sustained by said member by reason of his service or discharge of his duty in said department. Where hospital and medical expenses are to be paid directly from the municipality's general fund, the governing authorities of such city shall be the sole judge as to whether such illness or such injury was contracted or sustained in the line of duty of any such employee, and the reasonableness of said expenses.

Further, the governing authorities of such municipality may pay out of the general fund insurance premiums for the purchase of insurance covering hospital and medical expenses for any member of said fire department on account of any occupational disease contracted or for any accident or injury sustained by said member by reason of his service or discharge of his duty in said department.

In addition, the governing authorities of such municipality may pay out of the general fund insurance premiums for the purchase of accident, death or disability insurance covering any member of said fire department for expenses associated with any occupational disease contracted or for any accident or injury sustained by said member by reason of his service or discharge of his duty in said department.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-67 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-67
Status: in_force

A list of the conveyances of land sold for municipal taxes, either to the municipalities or to individuals, shall be recorded in an indexed record, which shall be kept in the office of the mayor or the city clerk of the municipality. All redemptions of said lands shall be noted on said record.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 23-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-15
Status: in_force

Neither the municipal judge, the marshal or chief of police, any police officer, or any other officer, shall receive any fees or costs in any case in the municipal court.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-41
Status: in_force

Upon retirement for nonduty disability as provided in Section 21-29-39 , a member shall receive for each year's active service one-fortieth ( 1 / 40 ) of the average monthly salary or compensation received by such member from the employer in the four-year or two-year period, as the case may be, next preceding the injury or illness causing such disability.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-323 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 33-323
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-323
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever any municipality shall have on hand any bond and interest funds, any funds derived from the sale of bonds, special funds, or any other funds in excess of the sums which will be required for immediate expenditure and which are not needed or cannot by law be used for the payment of the current obligations or expenses of such municipality, the governing authorities of such municipality shall have the power and authority to invest such excess funds in any bonds or other direct obligations of the United States of America or the State of Mississippi, or of any county or municipality of this state, or of any school district, which such county or municipal or school district bonds have been approved by a reputable bond attorney or have been validated by a decree of the chancery court, or in obligations issued or guaranteed in full as to principal and interest by the United States of America which are subject to a repurchase agreement with a qualified depository. In any event the bonds or obligations in which such funds are invested shall mature or be redeemable prior to the time the funds so invested will be needed for expenditure.

(2) However, such excess funds may first be offered for investment in interest-bearing accounts with or through municipal depositories serving in accordance with Section 27-105-353 at a rate of interest not less than a simple interest rate numerically equal to the average bank discount rate on United States Treasury bills of comparable maturity. The rate of interest established herein shall be the minimum rate of interest and there shall be no maximum rate of interest.

(3) Such excess funds may also be invested in interest-bearing accounts in or through state depositories located in such municipality to the same extent as such depositories are eligible for invested state funds.

(4) When bonds or other obligations have been so purchased, the same may be sold or surrendered for redemption at any time by order or resolution of the governing authorities of the municipality, and the mayor of the municipality, when authorized by such order or resolution, shall have the power and authority to execute all instruments and take such other action as may be necessary to effectuate the sale or redemption thereof.

(5) When such bonds or other obligations are sold or redeemed, the proceeds thereof, including accrued interest thereon, shall be paid into the same fund as that from which the investment was made and shall in all respects be dealt with as are other monies in such fund.

(6) Except as hereinafter provided, any interest derived from the investments authorized in this section may, as an alternative, be deposited into the general fund of the municipality. Any interest derived from the investment of sums received under the terms of the federal State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 and any subsequent revisions or reenactments of that act shall be paid into the same fund as that from which the investment was made. Any interest derived from the investment of school bond funds shall be handled as provided in Section 37-59-43 . Any interest derived from investment of other bond proceeds or from investment of any bond and interest fund, bond reserve fund or bond redemption sinking fund shall be deposited either in the same fund from which the investment was made or in the bond and interest fund established for payment of the principal or interest on the bonds. Any interest derived from special purpose funds which are outside the function of general municipal government shall be paid into that special purpose fund.

(7) The authority granted by this section shall be cumulative and in addition to any other law relating to the investment of funds by municipalities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-27-61 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-33-79 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / 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. § 21-27-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-15
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of such municipality shall have the power to remove any member of said commission for inefficiency or incompetency or any other cause, but the governing authority of any municipality which has created a commission under the terms of Section 21-27-13 , shall not have authority to abolish the commission, or to diminish its powers, except by a vote of a majority of the qualified electors of such municipality at a special election, duly called and held for that purpose. However, nothing herein shall limit, alter, impair or in any way change the procedure prescribed for the sale or lease of a public utility system under Section 21-27-33 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-23
Status: in_force

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

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

Every deputy city clerk, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the same oath required of the city clerk. The appointment of said deputy city clerk, with the certificate of the oath, shall be filed and preserved in the office of the clerk of the governing authorities of such city. Such deputy city clerk shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in an amount to be determined by the governing authority (which shall be not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00)).
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-253 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 27-253
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-253
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(4) Section 21-27-251 and this section shall be deemed to be full and complete authority for the exercise of the powers herein granted, but Section 21-27-251 and this section shall not be deemed to repeal or to be in derogation of any existing law of this state whereunder projects of the character herein defined may be constructed or financed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 19-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-23
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities may enter into mutual assistance pacts or agreements with other municipalities in the assignment of personnel, equipment, supplies and material for the purposes of combatting fires and natural and enemy disasters, and of preventing and alleviating riots or civil disturbances of the peace and tranquility within such municipalities. This section shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-40 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / 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.