Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 29-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-5
Status: in_force

In every municipality of the State of Mississippi, operating under a commission form of government as of March 31, 1948, and having a population of twenty-one thousand or more, according to the 1940 federal census, and in every municipality bordering on tide water and having a population of more than fifteen thousand, it shall be the duty of the governing body of said municipality to create and maintain a fund known as the “City Employees Retirement Fund,” which shall be maintained for the benefits of certain city employees hereinafter named and which shall be derived, raised and administered in the manner hereinafter provided.

In any municipality coming under the provisions of this article, upon a petition signed by twenty per cent of the qualified electors of such municipality, protesting against the operation of this article and petitioning for an election thereon to determine whether a majority of the qualified electors of such municipality desire for such municipality to come from under the terms of this article, providing such petition is filed with the governing body of such municipality by July 29, 1948, the municipal authorities of such municipality shall call an election by August 28, 1948, after giving notice for three consecutive weeks, as to whether the municipality desires to come from under the provisions of this article. At said election, the ballots used by the qualified electors shall read: “For the Retirement Fund for the City Employees,” “Against the Retirement Fund for the City Employees.” Said election shall be held as such other elections of like nature, and if at such election a majority of those participating thereat shall vote against the retirement fund for the city employees, then this article shall not apply to such municipality. If no petition is filed as above provided, the governing body of said municipality shall by August 28, 1948, pass the required ordinance to begin the operation of said retirement system in accordance with the provisions hereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-29 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 25-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-29
Status: in_force

The said governing authorities shall have power to declare an extension of such service to any adjacent territory, within or adjoining such municipality, upon petition of a majority of the property owners in such proposed added territory. In like manner, upon petition of a majority of the property owners residing therein, such fire districts may be abandoned and discontinued by the governing authorities of the municipalities involved.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-333 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 29-333
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-333
Status: in_force

(1) A retiree or beneficiary may, on a form prescribed by and filed with the Executive Director of the Public Employees' Retirement System, irrevocably waive all or a portion of any benefits from the general municipal retirement system or a firemen's and policemen's disability and relief fund to which the retiree or beneficiary is entitled. The waiver shall be binding on the heirs and assigns of any retiree or beneficiary and the same must agree to forever hold harmless the fund and the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi from any claim to the waived retirement benefits.

(2) Any waiver under this section shall apply only to the person executing the waiver. A beneficiary shall be entitled to benefits according to the option selected by the member at the time of retirement. However, a beneficiary may, at the option of the beneficiary, execute a waiver of benefits under this subsection.

(3) The fund shall retain all amounts that are not used to pay benefits because of a waiver executed under this subsection.

(4) The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System may provide rules and regulations for the administration of waivers under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 31-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-9
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the civil service commission to make suitable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 . Such rules and regulations shall provide in detail the manner of conducting examinations, appointments, promotions, transfers, reinstatements, demotions, suspensions and discharges, and may also provide for any other matter connected with the general subject of personnel administration, and which may be considered desirable to further carry out the general purposes of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 . It shall have the power to conduct investigations, and make reports on all matters touching the enforcement and effect of the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , and the rules and regulations prescribed hereunder. The commission shall have the power to investigate all complaints which must be reduced to writing, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and conduct hearings.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-259 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 29-259
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-259
Status: in_force

Should said fund at any time be insufficient to make all payments properly payable therefrom, the beneficiaries shall not file any suit against said city, its governing authorities, or said disability and relief board, but the amounts available shall be properly prorated until such time as funds may be sufficient to make all payments thereafter for the full amount properly allowed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-31
Status: in_force

The governing authorities, upon completion of the equalization, correction and revision of the assessment roll or rolls, shall enter an order approving the rolls and the assessments therein contained, subject to the right of parties in interest to be heard on objections. The order adopted, approving the rolls and the assessment, shall state the total assessment of the land roll and separately of the personal roll, but this shall not be required in the case of towns and villages.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 15-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-7
Status: in_force

The mayor shall from time to time communicate, in writing, to the governing body such information and recommend such measures as in his opinion may lead to the improvement of the finances, the police, health, security, ornament, comfort and general prosperity of the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 19-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-41
Status: in_force

Municipalities within the State of Mississippi are hereby authorized to contribute funds to the support of the federal food stamp program, operated under the direction of the United States Department of Agriculture, and administered in the State of Mississippi by the state department of public welfare. Contributions to the support of the federal food stamp program may be made by municipalities from general funds or from the proceeds of municipal sales taxes. However, no municipality shall establish a federal food stamp program where the county in which said municipality is situated has such a program in operation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-187 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-187
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-187
Status: in_force

All bonds issued under Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall be and are hereby exempt from inclusion in debts in determining whether additional bonds may be issued by such municipality and are declared to be legal and authorized investments for banks, savings banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, insurance companies, fiduciaries, trustees and for the sinking fund of municipalities, towns, villages, school districts or any other political corporation or subdivision of the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 21-9-83 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 9-83
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-83
Status: in_force

Wherever, in any general or special law or statute, any power is conferred or duty enjoined or penalty imposed upon any officer, commission, board, or other body, acting for a city, such law or statute shall be held to confer such power and to enjoin such duty and impose such penalty upon the council, and the members thereof, in cities operating under a council-manager form of government. Whenever in this chapter or in any statute of this state, the word “franchise” is used it shall, when applied to cities operating under council-manager form of government, include every special privilege in the streets, highways, and public places of the city, whether granted by the state or the city, which does not belong to the citizens generally by common right.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-255 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-255
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-255
Status: in_force

(1) If any member of the fire or police department dies in active service, or dies in inactive service on account of disability approved for disability relief under Section 21-29-241 , as a result of injury received while in the discharge of duty in the service of the fire department or police department, or dies as a result of sickness or disease, due to the discharge of duty while in service as a member of the fire or police department, or if the member dies while entitled to relief after retirement under Section 21-29-245 , the amount of disability relief or retirement relief being paid, or which should have been properly paid, shall continue to be paid from the fund to the spouse of the deceased member for the use of the spouse and the child, or children of the deceased member, so long as the spouse remains unmarried. If, after the marriage of the spouse, there remains a child or children of the deceased member, the payments shall continue to be made to a parent or lawful custodian of the child or children without the necessity of appointment as guardian for the benefit of the child or children. After the death or marriage of the spouse, all payments to the spouse shall cease, and after the death of any child or children of the deceased, all payments to the child or children shall cease. If the deceased member is not survived by a spouse or child or children, but is survived by a father or a mother dependent upon him or her, the payments shall continue to be made to the dependent father or mother, or both, so long as each lives. If there is no dependent father or mother surviving the deceased member, the payments shall continue to be made to the unmarried dependent sister or sisters of the deceased member, so long as the beneficiary or beneficiaries remain unmarried. Upon the death or marriage of any such sister, all payments shall cease to her. Payments to dependents under this section are for services rendered to the members of the fire and/or police department, and the amount of payments is within the discretion of the board of disability and relief, but in no event shall the amount payable under this section be in excess of the amount that would have been payable as disability and relief to a member of the department.

If any member of the fire or police department dies while a member of the fire department or police department, and the member has not less than five (5) years' service with the department, there shall be paid from the firemen's and policemen's disability and relief fund the following benefits:

(a) For each year's active service, not to exceed a period of twenty (20) years, one-fortieth ( 1 / 40 ) of the average monthly salary or compensation received by the member in the six-month period next preceding his or her death; and

(b) For each full year of active service in excess of twenty (20) years' service, an additional payment in a sum equal to one and seven-tenths percent (1- 7 / 10 %) of the same average monthly base salary and longevity pay received by the member in the six-month period next preceding his or her death (provided that no such payment shall exceed sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66- 2 / 3 %) of the average monthly base salary and longevity pay received by a member for the six-month period next preceding his or her death) to the spouse of the deceased member for the use of the spouse and the child or children of the deceased member, so long as the spouse remains unmarried and if, after the marriage of the spouse, there remains a child or children of the deceased member, the payments shall continue to be made to a parent or lawful custodian of the child or children without the necessity of appointment as guardian for the benefit of the child or children, and after the death or marriage of the spouse, all payments to the spouse shall cease, and after the death of any child or children of the deceased member, all payments to the child or children shall cease. If the deceased member is not survived by a spouse or child or children, but is survived by a father, mother or an unmarried sister dependent upon him or her, the payments shall continue to be made to the dependent father or mother or both, so long as each lives, or if there is no dependent father or mother surviving the deceased member, the payments shall continue to be made to the dependent sister or sisters of the deceased member, or dependent incurable children, so long as the beneficiary or beneficiaries remain unmarried. Upon the death or marriage of any such sisters, all payments shall cease to her.

(2) For purposes of this section:

(a) “ Dependent ” means wholly dependent.

(b) “ Child ” or “ children ” means:

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

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

(iii) Children of the deceased member who, though eighteen (18) years of age or older, are wholly dependent upon the deceased member and incapable of self-support by reason of mental or physical disability.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-51 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 31-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-51
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(b) Any municipality located in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, and having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than twenty thousand, according to the federal census of 1950.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 31-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-1
Status: in_force

(1) A civil service commission is created in every municipality described in subsection (2) which has a full paid fire and police department.

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

(a) Any municipality, operating under a commission form of government, and having a population of not less than fourteen thousand (14,000), according to the federal census of 1940;

(b) Any municipality, under whatever form of government, having a population of not less than twenty-four thousand (24,000), according to the federal census of 1940, and situated in counties having a national military park;

(c) Any municipality, operating under the commission form of government, and having a population of not less than ten thousand five hundred (10,500) nor more than eleven thousand (11,000), according to the federal census of 1950;

(d) Any municipality, having an aldermanic commission or city manager form of government, and having a population of not less than three thousand eight hundred eighty-one (3,881) at the 1960 federal census, and situated on the Mississippi Gulf Coast;

(e) Any municipality with its corporate limits being bounded on one (1) side by the Mississippi River and being located in a county having an assessed valuation in excess of Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00) but less than Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00) and having a total population in excess of thirty-seven thousand five hundred (37,500), according to the latest federal census;

(f) Any municipality, operating under special charter, and in which there is located a state-supported college for women;

(g) Any municipality having a population of more than ten thousand (10,000) according to the federal census of 1970, which is located within a Class 1 county in which U.S. Highway 51 and U.S. Highway 98 intersect and bounded on the south by the State of Louisiana; and

(h) Any municipality, bordering on the Escatawpa River, having an aldermanic commission form of government and having a population of not less than seventeen thousand eight hundred thirty-seven (17,837) according to the 1990 federal census.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-101 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-101
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality not operating with a public utility commission, is hereby authorized to pay all expenses incurred in reproducing such records and in making provision for the preservation, retention and storage of such reproductions from the general fund of such municipality. A municipal public utility commission shall pay for the same from the earnings of the municipally-owned utility or utilities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-71 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / 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. § 21-33-77 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / 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. § 21-8-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 8-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-13
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(4) The authority of the council is otherwise legislative and is executed by a vote within a legally called meeting. No member of the council shall give orders to any employee or subordinate of a municipality other than the council member's personal staff. The council shall deal with the municipal departments and personnel solely through the mayor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 8-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-1
Status: in_force

Any municipality, regardless of the form of government under which it is operating, may adopt the mayor-council form of government, as hereinafter provided, by the procedure hereinafter set forth.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 8-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-35
Status: in_force

The territorial limits of any such municipality shall remain the same as under its former organization and any litigation concerning annexation in progress at the time any municipality shall adopt the mayor-council form of government shall not be affected by such change; provided that nothing herein shall affect the rights of such municipality to expand its territorial limits as provided by law. All rights and property of every description which were vested in every such municipality under its former organization shall vest in the same under the organization contemplated by the mayor-council form of government; and no right or liability, either in favor of or against such municipality, and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be affected by such change. This chapter shall not in any manner, irrespective of other provisions hereof, affect the organization of the police court or of the public schools which shall continue to operate by and under the laws otherwise applicable. The police justice, as well as all other municipal employees, shall be appointed by the mayor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-316 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-316
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-316
Status: in_force

(1) Pursuant to the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1992 ( Public Law 102-318 (UCA)), a member or the spouse of a member who is an eligible beneficiary entitled to a refund under Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter may elect on a form prescribed by the board under rules and regulations established by the board, to have an eligible rollover distribution of accumulated contributions payable under this section paid directly to an eligible retirement plan, as defined under applicable federal law, or an individual retirement account. If the member or the spouse of a member who is an eligible beneficiary makes that election and specifies the eligible retirement plan or individual retirement account to which the distribution is to be paid, the distribution will be made in the form of a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer to the specified eligible retirement plan. A non-spouse beneficiary may elect to have an eligible rollover distribution paid in the form of a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer to an individual retirement account established to receive the distribution on behalf of the non-spouse beneficiary. Flexible rollovers under this subsection shall not be considered assignments under Section 21-29-307 .

(2) From and after July 1, 2001, subject to the rules adopted by the board of trustees, any plan under this chapter shall accept an eligible rollover distribution or a direct transfer of funds from another eligible retirement plan or an individual retirement account in payment of all or a portion of the cost to repay a refund as permitted by the plan. The plans may only accept rollover payments in an amount equal to or less than the balance due for reinstatement of service credit. The rules adopted by the board of trustees shall condition the acceptance of a rollover or transfer from another eligible retirement plan on the receipt of information necessary to enable the system to determine the eligibility of any transferred funds for tax-free rollover treatment or other treatment under federal income tax law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-33 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-33
Status: in_force

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

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

If a majority of those voting in said election shall vote in favor of such sale, lease, or disposition, then the proper officer of the municipality may proceed to sell, lease or dispose of such system in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the notice of proposed intention to sell, lease or dispose of such system, as herein provided. If such election is determined against such sale, lease or disposition of such system, then such system shall not be sold, leased or disposed of, but shall remain the property of the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-165 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-165
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-165
Status: in_force

A municipality is authorized and empowered to acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, extend, repair, operate and maintain one or more sewage disposal systems and make contracts with any person or any public agency, under the terms of which the municipality will, within or without the municipality but within its metropolitan area, collect, transport, treat or dispose of waste for such person or public agency. A municipality may also enter into contracts with any person to purchase or sell, by installments over such term as may be deemed desirable, or otherwise, any waste collection, transportation, treatment or sewage disposal facilities or systems. A municipality is also authorized to enter into operating agreements with any person, for such terms and upon such conditions as may be deemed desirable, for the operation of any waste collection, transportation, treatment or sewage disposal facilities or systems of any person by the municipality; and a municipality may lease to or from any person, for such term and upon such conditions as may be deemed desirable, any waste collection, transportation, treatment or sewage disposal facilities or systems.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-329 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 33-329
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-329
Status: in_force

This article shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under the code charter, the commission form of government, a special charter, or any other form of government, and regardless of whether or not the provisions of any special charter shall contain conflicting or contrary provisions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-35 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-35
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to adopt reasonable ordinances for the regulation of transient vendors not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 75-85-1 through 75-85-19 . However, said authorities shall not have the power to declare residential solicitations by transient vendors who are citizens of the State of Mississippi, or who are agents of corporations domiciled in the State of Mississippi, or who are agents of foreign corporations qualified to do business in the State of Mississippi, to be a public nuisance or a misdemeanor, unless said transient vendors are not in compliance with Sections 75-85-1 through 75-85-19 or local regulations. Before transacting any business, all transient vendors shall furnish to the municipality wherein said business is to be transacted, a good and sufficient penal bond in an amount not to exceed Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) conditioned that if said transient vendor shall comply with all of the provisions of the municipal ordinances relating to transient vendors said obligation shall be void, otherwise, to remain in full force and effect. Any ordinance adopted by the governing authority of a municipality under the provisions of this section shall control as to the area within such municipality, regardless of the existence of a county ordinance.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-9 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-9
Status: in_force

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

The governing body of a municipality may appoint a board of not more than five (5) members who shall be representative of the membership of the retirement system. Such board shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-325.1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / 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. § 21-33-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 33-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47
Status: in_force

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

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

(3) The clerk shall be liable on his bond for any damages sustained by his failure to comply with the requirements of this section. However, failure to thus publish or post the same shall not affect the validity of the levy.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-163 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-29-225 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-225
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-225
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.

Said fund or its increase, or the interest or dividends therefrom, shall be paid out by the Public Employees' Retirement System herein authorized.

Necessary and proper payments may be made from said fund if it be deemed necessary by the board of trustees to make expenditures for the preservation of the fund or its proper administration. Such expenditures shall be limited to what may be necessary to safeguard and administer the fund by means of court proceedings, and to stenographic and clerical assistance.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 25-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-23
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality are hereby authorized, when petitioned so to do by the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning or the board of trustees of a community or junior college district, to create, by ordinance, a fire district encompassing the area adjoining such municipality on which a part or all of a State Institution of Higher Learning or a community college is located, after the creation of which such governing authorities and the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning or the board of trustees of the affected community or junior college district shall have full power to contract for laying of water mains and any other pipes or connections to the water mains to be used in said fire district, and for the establishment and maintenance of fire service therein. However, no such governing authority shall have the power either to promulgate or enforce any charge, rule or regulation upon said district without first having received the ratification and consent of the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning or the board of trustees of the affected community or junior college district as reflected by the minutes of said trustees.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-125 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-125
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-125
Status: in_force

The authority is vested in the board of trustees to invest such part of said fund as may not be immediately required, in investments authorized under Section 25-11-121 with the right to change said investment from time to time, and with the right and duty to convert invested funds into current funds as the same may be needed for the purpose of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-203 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 33-203
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-203
Status: in_force

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

Any such public utility which pays any municipality of the State of Mississippi the compensation provided for in municipal franchises or levied and provided for by Section 77-3-17, Mississippi Code of 1972 , shall be exempt from the tax herein imposed and from the provisions of the City Utility Tax Law. In addition, any such public utility which makes payment of the tax imposed herein shall not be required to make payments, if any, which may be required under the terms of said Section 77-3-17 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-87 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 33-87
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-87
Status: in_force

The municipal governing authorities shall have the power to levy and collect annually taxes on all the taxable property within the municipal limits, in addition to other taxes, in a sufficient amount, for the purpose of paying the interest coupons as they become due on all bonds of the municipality now issued or hereafter to be issued, and the bonds themselves, which tax shall be payable only in cash or in matured coupons or bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 21-25-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 25-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-21
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality are hereby authorized to create, by ordinance, a fire district within or adjoining such municipality when petitioned so to do by a majority of the owners of property, either real or personal, located within such proposed fire district. After the creation of the fire district such governing authorities shall cause the ordinance creating such fire district to be published three weeks in some newspaper in such municipality, or the county in which the municipality is located, and at the next regular meeting of the governing authorities after such three weeks' publication, they shall declare such territory to be a fire district as provided by this section. Such governing authorities shall have full power to contract for laying water mains and any other pipes or connections to the water mains to be used in said fire district, and for the establishment and maintenance of fire service therein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-11
Status: in_force

Whenever used in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 :

(a) The term “ municipality ” includes any incorporated city, town or village of the State of Mississippi, whether incorporated under a special charter or under the general laws of the State of Mississippi governing municipalities, and operating under any form of municipal government. However, for the purpose of establishing a motor vehicle transportation system for the transportation of passengers within the boundaries of the governmental unit or units concerned, and within three (3) miles thereof, the word “municipality” is defined to include counties and groups of municipalities and shall allow those governmental units to establish a commission as provided in Section 21-27-13 and exercise the powers granted in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 . Each county or municipality joining together shall be allowed at least one (1) commissioner representing that governing authority. For the purpose of establishing a railroad transportation system for passengers and freight, the term “ municipality ” includes any county bordering the Mississippi River and in which Highways 49 and 61 intersect, and such county may exercise the powers granted in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 ;

(b) The term “ system ” includes waterworks system, water supply system, sewage system, sewage disposal system, or any combination thereof, including any combined waterworks and sewage system, consisting of an existing waterworks system or water supply system or both, combined with an existing sewage system or sewage disposal system or both, or consisting of an existing waterworks system or water supply system or both, combined with a sewage system or sewage disposal system or both, to be acquired, (as defined herein), or consisting of an existing sewage system or sewage disposal system or both, combined with a waterworks system or water supply system or both, to be acquired, (as defined herein), gas producing system, gas generating system, gas transmission system or gas distribution system, or any one (1) or all thereof, electric generating, transmission, or distribution system, garbage disposal system, rubbish disposal system, and incinerators, and all parts and appurtenances thereof. The term “ system ” also includes a motor vehicle transportation system for the transportation of passengers within the city limits and within three (3) miles thereof. The term “ system ” also includes a railroad transportation system of any municipality located within a county bordering the Mississippi River and in which Highways 49 and 61 intersect for the transportation of passengers and freight regardless of the amount of area outside the jurisdictional limits of such municipality for which the system provides service; the railroad transportation system may be located partially outside the boundaries of the county. The term “ system ” also includes a motor vehicle transportation system for the transportation of passengers of any municipality with a population of more than forty-five thousand (45,000) but less than forty-five thousand one hundred (45,100) according to the 1970 federal decennial census regardless of the amount of area outside the city limits of such municipality for which the system provides service. Wherever in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 any one or more of the systems authorized under this section are referred to, the same shall include motor vehicle transportation systems. The term “ system ” also includes any franchise held by the owner thereof and shall also include operations within the capabilities of any component facility within the system which reasonably utilize the public resources;

(c) The term “ improvement ” includes repair, betterment, enlargement, extension and other improvements to a system;

(d) The term “ acquire ” includes construct, purchase, gift, exercise of power of eminent domain and other methods by which a municipality may acquire a system;

(e) The term “ improve ” includes repair, better, enlarge, extend and other methods of improving a system;

(f) The term “ ordinance ” includes ordinance, resolution or other appropriate legislative enactment of the governing authorities of any municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-25-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 25-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-21
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality are hereby authorized to create, by ordinance, a fire district within or adjoining such municipality when petitioned so to do by a majority of the owners of property, either real or personal, located within such proposed fire district. After the creation of the fire district such governing authorities shall cause the ordinance creating such fire district to be published three weeks in some newspaper in such municipality, or the county in which the municipality is located, and at the next regular meeting of the governing authorities after such three weeks' publication, they shall declare such territory to be a fire district as provided by this section. Such governing authorities shall have full power to contract for laying water mains and any other pipes or connections to the water mains to be used in said fire district, and for the establishment and maintenance of fire service therein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-61 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-61
Status: in_force

Any municipality in this state which has a population in excess of one hundred thousand people may set aside, appropriate and expend moneys for the purpose of advertising and bringing to the attention of the citizens of such municipality the reasons for and status of any municipal activity, litigation, franchise, proposed bond issue, and any other municipal matter about which it is for the best interest of the people that they be fully informed.

Such advertising and publicizing may be done by newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or by any combination of same, which in the judgment of the governing body of such municipality will be helpful toward advancing the moral, financial and other interests of such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 38 / Section 45-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-17
Status: in_force

The bonds authorized by this chapter and the income therefrom and all security agreements and mortgages executed as security therefor made pursuant to the provisions hereof, and the revenues derived therefrom, shall be exempt from all income taxation in the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-45.nr2 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / 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. § 21-41-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 39 / Section 41-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-31
Status: in_force

If there exists upon a portion of a tract of land sold for delinquent assessments, a lien either of a deed of trust or mortgage of any kind, or if a portion of a tract of land sold for said delinquent assessments is owned by one who does not own the entire portion sold, then, subject to the provisions herein stated, the mortgagee or holder of the notes secured by such deed of trust, or the owner of such portion, or any person interested in such real estate, may redeem that portion of the land so sold in solido, upon which portion such mortgagee or owner of notes, or owner of less than the whole of the real estate is interested, in the following manner, to-wit:

Such mortgagee, or owner of notes secured by deed of trust, owner, or other person interested, may apply in writing to the municipal clerk within the time provided by law for redemption from sale of taxes to be permitted to redeem such portion of such entire tract so sold in solido in which he is interested. Upon the application being filed with him, it shall be the duty of the municipal clerk to give ten days' notice in writing of such application by registered mail to the last known post office address, with return receipt requested, to the owner and to the purchaser at the tax sale, and to all persons holding mortgages or other liens of record on the land so sold in solido, or any part thereof, which notice shall designate a time not less than ten days from the mailing thereof when the governing authorities of the municipality shall hear and perform the duties hereinafter provided for. The clerk shall enter on the record of such tax sale notations giving the date when such notices were mailed, and the names and post office addresses of persons to whom mailed. On the date named for such hearing the governing authorities shall make such investigation as they may deem necessary to ascertain the relative value which that portion of land on which the lien of such mortgage or deed of trust is held by the applicant, or of which said applicant may be the owner, or otherwise interested, bears to the value of the entire land sold in solido for special assessment, and whether or not that portion not sought to be redeemed will remain adequate security for any assessment thereon. Should the governing authorities of the municipality determine from such investigation that that portion not sought to be redeemed will be adequate security and the interest of the municipality not adversely affected by permitting less than the whole to be redeemed, then they shall so adjudicate and fix and determine the amount of special improvement assessments which should be applied to each separate portion. The mortgagee or holder of the deed of trust, or owner, or any person interested in such real estate, shall thereupon be entitled to redeem that part of the land so sold by payment of the sum fixed thereon by such governing authorities, regardless of the amount of the purchaser's bid at the tax sale, with its proportionate part calculated as above provided of all costs, damages and interest consequent upon the sale, and also all subsequent instalments which have accrued prior to the date of said redemption, together with all municipal ad valorem taxes that have accrued upon that portion of said land being redeemed, apportioned in the manner hereinabove provided, and together with interest thereon at the rate of one per centum per month, or any fractional part thereof, from the dates such installments and taxes shall have accrued. If the sale was made to an individual purchaser, the municipality shall upon such redemption, refund to the purchaser the proportionate amount because of said redemption, which shall in nowise affect the purchaser's rights in so far as that portion which was not redeemed is concerned. Likewise, upon such redemption of less than the whole, in case of sale to the municipality, the municipality's rights in so far as that portion not redeemed are concerned, shall not be in anywise affected.

The decision of the governing authorities as to the right to redeem less than the whole shall be final. Any aggrieved party shall have the right to appeal as in other cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-61 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 33-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-61
Status: in_force

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

The term “taxes” as used in Sections 21-33-55 through 21-33-61 shall include special improvement assessments or any installment thereof that may be delinquent.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 15-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-31
Status: in_force

In no case shall the building inspector retain any compensation from his collections, but the full amount of such collections shall be paid into the municipal treasury and his compensation shall thereafter be paid by allowance thereof by the governing authorities of the municipality, and the issuance of warrants, as in other cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-37 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-27-221 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-221
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-221
Status: in_force

(1) Any person aggrieved by the final decision of any duly designated hearing officer appointed by the board or commission as a result of any hearing held under the provisions of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 may, within thirty (30) days of receipt of written notice of the action of the hearing officer, appeal such final decision to the full board or commission, as the case may be, by filing therewith a written notice of appeal. No cost bond or other security shall be required to perfect such appeal. The hearing officer shall forthwith prepare and submit to the board or commission the record made at the hearing, which shall thereupon become the record of the cause. Appeals to the board or commission shall be considered only upon the record made before the hearing officer. The board or commission shall review all findings of fact and conclusions of law of the hearing officer, together with any penalties levied, and may affirm, modify or reverse and remand the decision of the hearing officer, as may be determined to be necessary or appropriate. Appeals from the final decision of the board or commission shall be perfected as hereinafter provided.

(2) Any person aggrieved by the final decision of the board or commission as a result of any hearing held under the provisions of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 , including hearings requested incidental to the issuance, denial, modification or revocation of any operator certification issued hereunder, may, within thirty (30) days of receipt of written notice of the action of the board or commission, appeal such final decision to the chancery court of the county of the situs in whole or in part of the subject matter by giving a cost bond with sufficient sureties, payable to the state in the sum of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), to be fixed by the board or commission and to be filed with and approved by the chief administrative officer of the appropriate agency, who shall forthwith certify the same together with a certified copy of the record made before the board or commission or designated hearing officer in the matter to the chancery court to which the appeal is taken, which shall thereupon become the record of the cause. An appeal to the chancery court as provided herein shall not stay the decision of the board or commission. The aggrieved party may, within such thirty (30) days, petition the said chancery court for an appeal with supersedeas and the chancellor shall grant a hearing on said petition and upon good cause shown may grant such appeal with supersedeas; the appellant shall be required to post a supersedeas bond with sufficient sureties according to law in an amount to be determined by the chancellor. Appeals shall be considered only upon the record as made before the board or commission. The chancery court shall always be deemed open for hearing of such appeals and the chancellor may hear the same in termtime or in vacation at any place in his district, and the same shall have precedence over all civil cases, except election contests. The chancery court shall review all questions of law and of fact. If no prejudicial error be found, the matter shall be affirmed. If prejudicial error be found, the same shall be reversed, and the chancery court shall remand the matter to the board or commission for appropriate action as may be indicated or necessary under the circumstances. Appeals may be taken from the chancery court to the Supreme Court in the manner as now required by law, except that if a supersedeas is desired by the party appealing to the chancery court, he may apply therefor to the chancellor thereof, who shall award a writ of supersedeas, without additional bond, if in his judgment material damage is not likely to result thereby; but otherwise, he shall require such supersedeas bond as he deems proper, which shall be payable to the state for damage.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-203 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 21-33-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 33-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-17
Status: in_force

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

If the municipality has added territory, the assessor shall, on separate pages, make an assessment of said lands and a recapitulation thereof, in the manner provided for recapitulations of the county assessment roll. He shall then make a grand recapitulation, showing all the above enumerated totals, separately, for the municipality, the added territory, and for the entire separate school district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 15-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-19
Status: in_force

In addition to the claims docket provided for in Section 21-39-7 the clerk shall keep a record of permanent construction to be styled “Municipal Docket,” upon which he shall enter each subject, other than claims and accounts, to be acted upon by the governing authorities at the next meeting. After each meeting he shall make up such docket for the next regular meeting, and he shall examine the statutes of the state and the ordinances of the municipality to ascertain the subjects required or proper to be acted upon at the following meeting, and shall docket all such matters. He shall keep all such other records as may be provided for by ordinance, and shall file in his office and preserve all records pertaining to the business of the municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-313 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 33-313
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-313
Status: in_force

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

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, bonds referred to hereinabove may be issued pursuant to the supplemental powers and authorizations conferred by the provisions of the Registered Bond Act, being Sections 31-21-1 through 31-21-7 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 33-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-17
Status: in_force

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

If the municipality has added territory, the assessor shall, on separate pages, make an assessment of said lands and a recapitulation thereof, in the manner provided for recapitulations of the county assessment roll. He shall then make a grand recapitulation, showing all the above enumerated totals, separately, for the municipality, the added territory, and for the entire separate school district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-237 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 29-237
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-237
Status: in_force

Every member of said fire department and police department including its officers, but not including the governing authorities of said city on account of their relation as such to said fire department and/or police department, who are members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall come under the provisions and benefits of this article, and shall receive all benefits provided for in this article. All firemen and policemen who are employed in the said fire department or police department after adoption of a resolution by the municipality in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of Section 21-29-17 shall not become members of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 23-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-21
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 21-23-1 through 21-23-19 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 said sections and the provisions of the special charter of a municipality, or the law governing the commission form of government, in which cases of conflict the provisions of the special charter or the statutes relative to the commission form of government shall control. The provisions of this chapter are cumulative to other applicable laws of this state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-145.nr2 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-145.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-145.nr2
Status: in_force

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

(2) For the purposes of this section:

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

(b) “ Child ” or “ children ” means:

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

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

(iii) Children of the deceased member who, though eighteen (18) years of age or older, are wholly dependent upon the deceased member and incapable of self-support by reason of mental or physical disability.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 31 / Section 33-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47
Status: in_force

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

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

(3) The clerk shall be liable on his bond for any damages sustained by his failure to comply with the requirements of this section. However, failure to thus publish or post the same shall not affect the validity of the levy.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-41 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 21-33-49 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 33-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-49
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(2) As to any real property on which taxes for any previous year were not paid, the tax collector shall give notice of the delinquent taxes by stamping on the current tax receipt the fact that previous taxes are delinquent. The tax collector shall not accept payment of current year taxes for real property which has sold for delinquent taxes until the taxpayer provides the tax collector with proof that the tax sales for such real property for the previous two (2) years have been redeemed in the chancery clerk's office. Failure of the tax collector to stamp tax receipts shall not void any tax sale. The tax collector shall have no liability for errors made in complying with the provisions of this subsection if such tax collector makes a good faith effort to comply with such provisions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-215 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 21-19-49 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 19-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-49
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

(4) The governing authority of any municipality, in its discretion, may donate funds, equipment or in-kind services to any school district located within the boundaries of the municipality to assist the voluntary character development or public service programs of that school district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-47
Status: in_force

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

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

(3) The clerk shall be liable on his bond for any damages sustained by his failure to comply with the requirements of this section. However, failure to thus publish or post the same shall not affect the validity of the levy.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-165 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-165
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-165
Status: in_force

A municipality is authorized and empowered to acquire, construct, improve, enlarge, extend, repair, operate and maintain one or more sewage disposal systems and make contracts with any person or any public agency, under the terms of which the municipality will, within or without the municipality but within its metropolitan area, collect, transport, treat or dispose of waste for such person or public agency. A municipality may also enter into contracts with any person to purchase or sell, by installments over such term as may be deemed desirable, or otherwise, any waste collection, transportation, treatment or sewage disposal facilities or systems. A municipality is also authorized to enter into operating agreements with any person, for such terms and upon such conditions as may be deemed desirable, for the operation of any waste collection, transportation, treatment or sewage disposal facilities or systems of any person by the municipality; and a municipality may lease to or from any person, for such term and upon such conditions as may be deemed desirable, any waste collection, transportation, treatment or sewage disposal facilities or systems.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 27-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-17
Status: in_force

The commission provided for by Section 21-27-13 is authorized to make such bylaws for the holding and conduct of its meetings and such other regulations as it may deem necessary for the safe, economic and efficient management and protection of the system or systems, and such bylaws and regulations shall have the same validity as an ordinance duly passed by the governing authorities of any municipality.

It is authorized to elect such officers and appoint such employees as may be necessary to operate the system or systems efficiently, and it shall have the entire control and management of such system or systems, together with all property connected or appertaining in any manner to such system or systems. The commission shall have the authority to employ a superintendent or manager of the systems, who shall have actual charge of the management and operation thereof and of the enforcement and execution of all the rules, regulations, programs, plans and decisions made and adopted by the commission in making purchases for materials and supplies to be used in the operation of the systems. In addition to any other purchasing authority granted by law, the commission may purchase electric transmission line materials, electric distribution system substation equipment, transformer equipment, and all other appliances, apparatus, machinery, equipment and appurtenances necessary for the sale of electricity, such as utility vehicles and fencing, from the surplus inventory of the Tennessee Valley Authority or any other similar agency of the federal government and electric power associations. These purchases shall be exempt from the public bid requirements prescribed in Sections 31-7-12 and 31-7-13 . However, for all other purchases, the commission shall advertise for competitive bids in the manner and form as is required in accordance with Section 31-7-13 . The superintendent or manager shall make and keep full and proper books and records of all purchases and shall submit them to the commission for its approval and ratification before payment thereof is authorized to be made. The commission may authorize the superintendent or manager to immediately refund to a customer of the municipally owned utility his or her deposit for municipal utility services after the superintendent or manager has determined that payment for all services and any other obligations which the customer may have incurred in regard to the municipal utility has been made. It shall have the right to fix the salaries and term of office of all employees and to direct them in the discharge of their duties. It shall have the right to require good and sufficient bonds from all officers and employees in such amounts as it may deem proper. It shall have the right to discharge employees when found inefficient or for other good cause. It shall have the power to make and collect rates for services and facilities, and appropriate funds for the maintenance and improvements of such systems. It is authorized to borrow from the Mississippi Development Bank in order to fund advance purchases of energy for gas producing, generating, transmission or distribution system or its electric generating, transmission or distribution system. It is authorized to insure all property used in the operation of such systems, including buildings, furniture, books and records, against loss by fire and tornado, and to carry sufficient amount of employers liability, steam boiler, plate glass and other miscellaneous casualty insurance, as in the discretion of the commission may be deemed proper, and to pay premiums therefor out of the funds derived from the operation of the systems. It shall report quarterly to the governing authorities of the municipality of all its doings and transactions of every kind whatsoever and shall make a complete statement of the financial condition of the systems at the end of each quarter, and shall annually make a detailed statement covering the entire management and operation of the systems, with any recommendations which it may have for the further development of the systems. At any time, the commission, by order or resolution, may authorize the expansion of activities of any component facility to include processing of materials on a custom basis or the processing and marketing of materials acquired to fully and efficiently utilize existing plant capacity. It shall also provide copies of all such quarterly and annual reports and statements to the Public Service Commission when so directed under Section 77-3-6 .

The commission provided for by Section 21-27-13 is also authorized to allow a municipally owned utility to prepay the utility's bills to those electricity suppliers which offer early payment discounts to the municipally owned utility.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-3-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-3-23
Status: in_force

The street commissioner shall, under the direction of the mayor and board of aldermen, have general control of the streets, alleys, avenues, and sidewalks. He shall see that they are always in proper repair. He shall have the same worked, repaired, altered, paved, lighted, sprinkled, and everything else done that ought to be done to keep the same in good repair and condition, and shall perform all other duties that may be required of him by ordinance.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 15-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-21
Status: in_force

The clerk shall be the auditor of the municipality. He shall keep a record, in which he shall enter and preserve accounts of each particular fund, and the accounts of each municipal officer. The treasurer or depository shall not receive money from any source until the same has been reported to the clerk and audited and a receipt warrant issued therefor. All fines and forfeitures shall be reported by the officer collecting the same immediately after such collection, and be paid into the treasury. The record of the auditor shall be subject to inspection by the taxpayers of the municipality at any time during business hours.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 33-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-19
Status: in_force

The assessor shall make the personal roll at the same time and in the same manner that the land roll is made, except that it shall be made annually. He shall make a recapitulation thereof as is required for the land roll.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-301 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 33-301
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-301
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(h) Constructing bridges and culverts;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(q) A project for which a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been obtained by the municipality pursuant to the Regional Economic Development Act.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 21-27-179 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 27-179
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-179
Status: in_force

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

No interest payment shall be evidenced by more than one (1) coupon and neither cancelled nor supplemental coupons shall be permitted; the lowest interest rate specified for any bonds issued shall not be less than seventy percent (70%) of the highest rate specified for the same bond issue. Such bonds shall not bear a greater overall maximum interest rate to maturity than that allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972 . Each interest rate specified in any bid must be in multiples of one-eighth of one percent ( 1 / 8 of 1%) or in multiples of one-tenth of one percent ( 1 / 10 of 1%). If serial bonds, such bonds shall mature annually, and the first maturity date thereof shall not be more than five (5) years from the date of such bonds. Such bonds shall be legal investments for trustees and other fiduciaries, and for savings banks, trust companies and insurance companies organized under the laws of the state of Mississippi. The bonds and interest coupons shall be exempt from all state, county, municipal and other taxation under the laws of the state of Mississippi. No bond issued pursuant to Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall constitute an indebtedness of a municipality within the meaning of any statutory or charter restriction or limitation upon indebtedness. Such bonds shall be sold on sealed bids at public sale in the manner provided by Section 31-19-25 , as now or hereafter amended, upon such terms as the governing authorities of the municipality may determine, not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 , but no sale shall be made at a price so low as to require the payment of interest on the money received therefor at more than that allowed in Section 75-17-103, Mississippi Code of 1972 , computed with relation to the absolute maturity of the bonds, in accordance with standard tables of bond values, excluding from such computation the amount of any premium to be paid on redemption of any bonds prior to maturity. Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 shall be full and complete authority for the issuance of the bonds provided for herein, and no restriction or limitation otherwise prescribed by law shall apply herein, nor shall such bonds constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-141 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-141
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-141
Status: in_force

Any member of the fire and/or police department who ceases to be an employee before becoming eligible to receive either a service or disability allowance, as provided by this article, may file a request in writing with the board of disability and relief for a refund of all sums contributed by him to the fund, which sums shall be paid to him, without interest, within one year of the filing of the request.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 27-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-11
Status: in_force

Whenever used in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 :

(a) The term “ municipality ” includes any incorporated city, town or village of the State of Mississippi, whether incorporated under a special charter or under the general laws of the State of Mississippi governing municipalities, and operating under any form of municipal government. However, for the purpose of establishing a motor vehicle transportation system for the transportation of passengers within the boundaries of the governmental unit or units concerned, and within three (3) miles thereof, the word “municipality” is defined to include counties and groups of municipalities and shall allow those governmental units to establish a commission as provided in Section 21-27-13 and exercise the powers granted in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 . Each county or municipality joining together shall be allowed at least one (1) commissioner representing that governing authority. For the purpose of establishing a railroad transportation system for passengers and freight, the term “ municipality ” includes any county bordering the Mississippi River and in which Highways 49 and 61 intersect, and such county may exercise the powers granted in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 ;

(b) The term “ system ” includes waterworks system, water supply system, sewage system, sewage disposal system, or any combination thereof, including any combined waterworks and sewage system, consisting of an existing waterworks system or water supply system or both, combined with an existing sewage system or sewage disposal system or both, or consisting of an existing waterworks system or water supply system or both, combined with a sewage system or sewage disposal system or both, to be acquired, (as defined herein), or consisting of an existing sewage system or sewage disposal system or both, combined with a waterworks system or water supply system or both, to be acquired, (as defined herein), gas producing system, gas generating system, gas transmission system or gas distribution system, or any one (1) or all thereof, electric generating, transmission, or distribution system, garbage disposal system, rubbish disposal system, and incinerators, and all parts and appurtenances thereof. The term “ system ” also includes a motor vehicle transportation system for the transportation of passengers within the city limits and within three (3) miles thereof. The term “ system ” also includes a railroad transportation system of any municipality located within a county bordering the Mississippi River and in which Highways 49 and 61 intersect for the transportation of passengers and freight regardless of the amount of area outside the jurisdictional limits of such municipality for which the system provides service; the railroad transportation system may be located partially outside the boundaries of the county. The term “ system ” also includes a motor vehicle transportation system for the transportation of passengers of any municipality with a population of more than forty-five thousand (45,000) but less than forty-five thousand one hundred (45,100) according to the 1970 federal decennial census regardless of the amount of area outside the city limits of such municipality for which the system provides service. Wherever in Sections 21-27-11 through 21-27-69 any one or more of the systems authorized under this section are referred to, the same shall include motor vehicle transportation systems. The term “ system ” also includes any franchise held by the owner thereof and shall also include operations within the capabilities of any component facility within the system which reasonably utilize the public resources;

(c) The term “ improvement ” includes repair, betterment, enlargement, extension and other improvements to a system;

(d) The term “ acquire ” includes construct, purchase, gift, exercise of power of eminent domain and other methods by which a municipality may acquire a system;

(e) The term “ improve ” includes repair, better, enlarge, extend and other methods of improving a system;

(f) The term “ ordinance ” includes ordinance, resolution or other appropriate legislative enactment of the governing authorities of any municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-69 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 21-15-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 15-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-3
Status: in_force

At the first regular meeting of the governing authorities succeeding each regular municipal election, they shall elect the officers to be elected by them and such officers shall take the oath of office.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-217 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / Section 29-217
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-217
Status: in_force

Any applicant for benefits of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen, or any two (2) active members of said fire department, or any two (2) active members of said police department, being aggrieved at the decision or order of the board of trustees, may file with the board of trustees and with said board of disability and relief appeals duplicate copies of a petition for a rehearing of the matter in which such decision or order was made. Within thirty (30) days thereafter the board of trustees shall file with said appeal board, true copies of all papers and documents which were before it, all evidence of record before it and a statement of all evidence heard by it and not of record, all certified to be true and correct, whereupon said appeal board shall fix a time for hearing and shall give the board of trustees and the petitioner or petitioners for appeal notice of said such time for hearing. When the matter shall come on for hearing said appeal board shall have before it all papers, statements, matters and things certified to it by the board of trustees, as well as such additional evidence and documents as it may hear and receive and upon all of the same shall hear, consider and decide said matter fully and finally according to this article and the facts. Said appeal board may cause witnesses to be sworn by any one (1) of its members, or by any other authority competent to administer oaths. Said appeal board may meet for all purposes at any time in the State of Mississippi when all are present, or upon the call of two (2) members thereof. Said appeal board shall certify its decision to the board of trustees, and such decision or order shall be final and binding and said fund shall be disbursed according thereto. Any suit or other action affecting said fund shall be by or against the board of trustees as custodian of said fund and shall be filed in the Chancery Court of Hinds County.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-75 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 31-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-75
Status: in_force

No person holding any office, place, position or employment subject to civil service, is under any obligation to contribute to any political fund or to render any political service to any person or party whatsoever, and no person shall be removed, reduced in grade or salary, or otherwise prejudiced for refusing so to do. No public officer, whether elected or appointed, shall discharge, promote, demote or in any manner change the official rank, employment or compensation of any person under civil service, or promise or threaten so to do, for giving or withholding, or neglecting to make any contribution of money, or service, or any other valuable thing, for any political purpose. No such employee shall engage in any political campaign as a representative of any candidate or shall engage in pernicious activities, and any person so engaging in such activities shall be subject to dismissal or demotion.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-43 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 27-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-43
Status: in_force

Except as hereinafter provided, no bonds shall be issued pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 until and unless a majority of those qualified electors of the municipality, voting on a proposition stating in general terms the maximum amount and purposes of the bonds, have approved the issuance at a special election called thereon according to law.

However, the requirement for an election to be held before the issuance of the bonds shall not apply to the issuance of the revenue bonds for the purpose of improving, repairing or extending any waterworks system, water supply system, sewage system, sewage disposal system (or the addition of a sewage disposal system to a sewage system), gas producing system, gas generating, transmission, or distribution system, electric generating, transmission, or distribution system, garbage disposal system, rubbish disposal or incinerator system, or motor vehicle transportation system, which is now, or hereafter, owned or operated by any municipality, or railroad transportation system owned or operated by any municipality located in a county bordering the Mississippi River and in which Highways 49 and 61 intersect. The revenue bonds may be issued for such purposes in the following manner: notice of intention to issue the revenue bonds, setting out the amount and other terms or conditions of the proposed issue, shall be given by publication once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a local newspaper published in the municipality, and if a newspaper is not published in the municipality, then in some newspaper having a general circulation in the municipality. After ten (10) days from the last publication of the notice, the bonds may be sold under the regular procedure for selling the bonds unless, within ten (10) days after the last publication of the notice, a petition signed by not less than twenty percent (20%) of the qualified voters of such municipality be filed objecting to and protesting against such revenue bond issue, in which event the same shall not be made unless submitted to a special election ordered for the purpose of determining whether or not a majority of those voting in the election shall vote for or against the revenue bond issue. The election shall be ordered to be held not later than forty (40) days after the date of the last notice of the proposed revenue bond issue. Notice of the election, stating the purpose of the election, shall be published once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks next preceding the time set for holding the election in the newspaper, provided in this section. The laws governing municipal elections shall govern the order and conduct of the election. However, nothing in this section shall prevent the governing authorities from calling an election, whether required by petition of twenty percent (20%) of the qualified voters or not. This section shall not have application to and it shall not affect the authority granted public utilities commissions under Section 21-27-25 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 39 / 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. § 21-9-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 9-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-23
Status: in_force

Members of the city council shall have no administrative powers or duties. All such powers or duties vested in members of the governing body of the city before adoption of the council-manager plan of government shall be transferred to the city manager or his subordinates.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 17-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-17-17
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 21-3-19 , 21-5-13 , 21-7-9 and 21-9-39, Mississippi Code of 1972 , the governing authorities of any municipality may by ordinance duly adopted change the day of the week set by the appropriate section hereinabove as their regular monthly or bimonthly meeting date. Before the adoption of any such ordinance, the ordinance shall first be published once a week for at least three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in or having general circulation within the municipality. Once such regular meeting day has been changed, meetings shall be held as otherwise provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-313 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 29-313
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-313
Status: in_force

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

Benefits payable under the provisions of Articles 1, 3 and 5 that previously were made on the basis of full years of creditable service shall be computed on the basis of the fractional years of service as provided in this section beginning July 1, 1991.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-37 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 21-27-203 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / 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. § 21-29-325 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-325
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-325
Status: in_force

The Public Employees' Retirement System shall make payments of retirement benefits under this chapter to members and to the beneficiaries of those members, by whatever means the board prescribes by regulation to be the most appropriate for the proper and efficient payment of benefits, including, but not limited to, direct deposit to an account with a financial institution that is a participant of the Automated Clearing House designated by the member or beneficiary. The board may provide for alternative means of payment if the member or beneficiary can demonstrate that payment by the prescribed means will cause the member or beneficiary undue hardship.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-75 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 33-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-75
Status: in_force

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

Said municipal governing authorities may lease or sell any of said lands to any person in any manner that may be prescribed by an order or resolution, which said order or resolution shall be entered in the minutes covering each particular tract of land so leased or sold, it being the intention of the legislature to vest in municipal authorities in each specific case of lease or sale the right to fix the price, terms, and conditions of each sale or lease.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-211 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 27 / Section 33-211
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-211
Status: in_force

All administrative provisions of Chapter 65 of Title 27 of the Mississippi Code of 1972 , including those which fix damages, penalties and interest for nonpayment of sales tax and for noncompliance with the provisions of said chapter and all other requirements and duties imposed upon the taxpayer, shall apply to all persons liable for city utility taxes under the provisions of the City Utility Tax Law. The chairman shall exercise all power and authority and perform all duties with respect to taxpayers under the City Utility Tax Law as are provided in said chapter, except where there is conflict, then the provisions of the City Utility Tax Law shall control. Any damages, penalties, or interest collected for the nonpayment of taxes, or for noncompliance with the provisions of the City Utility Tax Law, shall be paid to the municipality in which said damages were collected on the same basis and in the same manner as the tax. Any overpayment of tax for any reason that has been disbursed to any municipality or any payment of the tax to any municipality in error may be adjusted by the chairman on any subsequent payment to the municipality involved pursuant to the provisions of the said chapter. The chairman may from time to time make such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the City Utility Tax Law as may be deemed necessary to carry out its provisions and such rules and regulations shall have the full force and effect of law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-141 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-141
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-141
Status: in_force

Any member of the fire and/or police department who ceases to be an employee before becoming eligible to receive either a service or disability allowance, as provided by this article, may file a request in writing with the board of disability and relief for a refund of all sums contributed by him to the fund, which sums shall be paid to him, without interest, within one year of the filing of the request.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-303 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 33-303
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-303
Status: in_force

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

All bonds issued prior to July 1, 1990, pursuant to this chapter by any municipality for the purpose of the constructing, replacing, renovating or improving wastewater collection and treatment facilities in order to comply with an administrative order of the Mississippi Department of Natural Resources issued pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and amendments thereto, are hereby exempt from the limitation imposed by this section if the governing body of the municipality adopts an order, resolution or ordinance to the effect that the rates paid by the users of such facilities shall be increased to the extent necessary to provide sufficient funds for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as each respectively becomes due and payable as well as the necessary expenses in connection with the operation and maintenance of such facilities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-12 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 19-12
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-12
Status: in_force

(1) The governing authority of any municipality may forgive liens imposed on real property for the costs, fines, penalties and other assessments associated with the municipality's cleaning of real property pursuant to Section 21-19-11, Mississippi Code of 1972 , subject to the following:

(a) The real property must be in a blighted condition if it has been vacant and in a deteriorated condition which necessitated the municipality's imposition of a lien in order to correct specific code violations.

(b) The liens imposed by the municipality must have been in existence and declared uncollectible for a period of at least two (2) years.

(c) The real property must be purchased by a nonprofit entity or for-profit developer and converted from its blighted condition. For purposes of this section, “ nonprofit ” entity means an association, organization, or corporation which is a nonprofit organization in accordance with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and provides proof of its tax exempt status. “ For-profit developer ” means an individual partnership or corporation other than the real property's owner who purchases property considered to be in blighted condition and converts it to productive use.

(d) The nonprofit entity or for-profit developer must have obtained the blighted estate for a sum not exceeding seventy percent (70%) of the real estate's appraised value.

(2) The for-profit developer or nonprofit entity must file an application with the municipality seeking lien amnesty. The application must include the following:

(a) The contract of sale;

(b) Appraisal reports from two (2) reputable real estate appraisers; and

(c) Plans for the real estate's development and anticipated use.

(3) The for-profit developer or nonprofit entity may be granted conditional lien amnesty and allowed eighteen (18) months to develop the blighted real property. For good cause shown, the municipality may allow the for-profit developer or nonprofit entity an additional six (6) to twelve (12) months to develop the blighted property.

(4) If the blighted property remains undeveloped after eighteen (18) months and the municipality has not extended the period for development of the real estate, the nonprofit entity or for-profit developer must pay the principal amount of the municipality's lien plus interest at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum.

(5) If the nonprofit entity or for-profit developer desires to sell or dispose of the real property prior to its development, the nonprofit entity or for-profit developer must first obtain the municipality's approval. If the municipality approves the sale or disposal of the real estate prior to development, the nonprofit entity or for-profit developer shall pay the principal amount of the lien on or before the closing date of the sale unless a subsequent purchaser of the blighted real property has applied for and been granted conditional lien amnesty.

(6) If a for-profit developer or nonprofit entity sells or disposes of the real property prior to development from its blighted condition without the municipality's approval, then the for-profit developer or nonprofit entity shall be liable to the city for the principal amount of the lien plus interest at the rate of eight percent (8%), and a penalty of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) will also be assessed against the developer.

(7) Conditional lien amnesty may not be sold, conveyed, transferred or assigned.

(8) No lien imposed upon real property pursuant to the provisions of Section 21-19-11 shall be finally released until real property in a blighted condition has been developed according to plan.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-11 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 23 / Section 25-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-25-11
Status: in_force

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

Such municipal authorities shall have the right to pay out of the general fund of such municipality any premiums which may become due on the aforesaid insurance policies.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-333 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 29-333
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-333
Status: in_force

(1) A retiree or beneficiary may, on a form prescribed by and filed with the Executive Director of the Public Employees' Retirement System, irrevocably waive all or a portion of any benefits from the general municipal retirement system or a firemen's and policemen's disability and relief fund to which the retiree or beneficiary is entitled. The waiver shall be binding on the heirs and assigns of any retiree or beneficiary and the same must agree to forever hold harmless the fund and the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi from any claim to the waived retirement benefits.

(2) Any waiver under this section shall apply only to the person executing the waiver. A beneficiary shall be entitled to benefits according to the option selected by the member at the time of retirement. However, a beneficiary may, at the option of the beneficiary, execute a waiver of benefits under this subsection.

(3) The fund shall retain all amounts that are not used to pay benefits because of a waiver executed under this subsection.

(4) The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System may provide rules and regulations for the administration of waivers under this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-53 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 29 / Section 29-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-53
Status: in_force

The General Municipal Employees' Retirement Law and the provisions thereof shall in no way affect the provisions of Sections 21-29-101 through 21-29-151 of this chapter, establishing the firemen's and policemen's disability and relief fund, or the provisions of Article 5 of Chapter 11 of Title 25 of the Mississippi Code of 1972 , concerning the retirement of school teachers.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-317 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-317
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-317
Status: in_force

The proceeds of any bonds issued by a municipality shall be placed in the municipal treasury or depository, if there be one, as a special fund, and shall be used for no other purpose than that for which such bonds were authorized to be issued. If the governing authorities of such municipality, or any member thereof, or any other officer, shall wilfully divert, or aid or assist in diverting any such fund, or any part thereof, to any purpose other than that for which such bonds were authorized to be issued, then such person shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term not exceeding five years and, in addition, he shall be liable personally and on his official bond for the amount so diverted. Any member of such governing authorities may escape the penalty provided for above by requesting and having his vote recorded in the negative on any illegal diversion of the proceeds of such bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-27
Status: in_force

No free service shall be furnished by any such system, or combined system, to any private person, firm, corporation, or association. The municipality may, however, furnish such service, free of charge, to the municipality or any agency or department thereof, to any public school, or to any hospital or benevolent institution located within such municipality, including county, city, and community fairs.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 39 / Section 43-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-43-3
Status: in_force

“Parking and business improvement area” or “area” as used in this chapter shall mean an area designated as provided in this chapter.

“Business” as used in this chapter shall mean all types of business, including professions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-33 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 9-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-33
Status: in_force

The manager and such other officers as the council shall determine shall meet regularly with the city council and have full privileges of discussion but no vote.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-31 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 35 / Section 41-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-31
Status: in_force

If there exists upon a portion of a tract of land sold for delinquent assessments, a lien either of a deed of trust or mortgage of any kind, or if a portion of a tract of land sold for said delinquent assessments is owned by one who does not own the entire portion sold, then, subject to the provisions herein stated, the mortgagee or holder of the notes secured by such deed of trust, or the owner of such portion, or any person interested in such real estate, may redeem that portion of the land so sold in solido, upon which portion such mortgagee or owner of notes, or owner of less than the whole of the real estate is interested, in the following manner, to-wit:

Such mortgagee, or owner of notes secured by deed of trust, owner, or other person interested, may apply in writing to the municipal clerk within the time provided by law for redemption from sale of taxes to be permitted to redeem such portion of such entire tract so sold in solido in which he is interested. Upon the application being filed with him, it shall be the duty of the municipal clerk to give ten days' notice in writing of such application by registered mail to the last known post office address, with return receipt requested, to the owner and to the purchaser at the tax sale, and to all persons holding mortgages or other liens of record on the land so sold in solido, or any part thereof, which notice shall designate a time not less than ten days from the mailing thereof when the governing authorities of the municipality shall hear and perform the duties hereinafter provided for. The clerk shall enter on the record of such tax sale notations giving the date when such notices were mailed, and the names and post office addresses of persons to whom mailed. On the date named for such hearing the governing authorities shall make such investigation as they may deem necessary to ascertain the relative value which that portion of land on which the lien of such mortgage or deed of trust is held by the applicant, or of which said applicant may be the owner, or otherwise interested, bears to the value of the entire land sold in solido for special assessment, and whether or not that portion not sought to be redeemed will remain adequate security for any assessment thereon. Should the governing authorities of the municipality determine from such investigation that that portion not sought to be redeemed will be adequate security and the interest of the municipality not adversely affected by permitting less than the whole to be redeemed, then they shall so adjudicate and fix and determine the amount of special improvement assessments which should be applied to each separate portion. The mortgagee or holder of the deed of trust, or owner, or any person interested in such real estate, shall thereupon be entitled to redeem that part of the land so sold by payment of the sum fixed thereon by such governing authorities, regardless of the amount of the purchaser's bid at the tax sale, with its proportionate part calculated as above provided of all costs, damages and interest consequent upon the sale, and also all subsequent instalments which have accrued prior to the date of said redemption, together with all municipal ad valorem taxes that have accrued upon that portion of said land being redeemed, apportioned in the manner hereinabove provided, and together with interest thereon at the rate of one per centum per month, or any fractional part thereof, from the dates such installments and taxes shall have accrued. If the sale was made to an individual purchaser, the municipality shall upon such redemption, refund to the purchaser the proportionate amount because of said redemption, which shall in nowise affect the purchaser's rights in so far as that portion which was not redeemed is concerned. Likewise, upon such redemption of less than the whole, in case of sale to the municipality, the municipality's rights in so far as that portion not redeemed are concerned, shall not be in anywise affected.

The decision of the governing authorities as to the right to redeem less than the whole shall be final. Any aggrieved party shall have the right to appeal as in other cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 8-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-13
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(4) The authority of the council is otherwise legislative and is executed by a vote within a legally called meeting. No member of the council shall give orders to any employee or subordinate of a municipality other than the council member's personal staff. The council shall deal with the municipal departments and personnel solely through the mayor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-49 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-49
Status: in_force

Whenever any municipality shall issue any bonds or other evidence of indebtedness which are payable solely from revenues to be derived from any system, the governing authorities of such municipality may, by appropriate provision in the ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, or by separate resolution or ordinance passed at or prior to the actual sale of such bonds, bind and obligate such municipality to take, for a period not exceeding the full term of such bonds, at least a stated minimum of the services to be afforded by such system and to pay, out of its corporate funds, a least a stated minimum price therefor. Such provision, resolution or ordinance shall constitute a contract between such municipality and all the holders of such bonds.

All such agreements heretofore entered into by any such municipality, whether such bonds have actually been delivered and paid for or not, are hereby ratified, approved and validated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-79 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / 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. § 21-19-53 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 19-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-53
Status: in_force

The mayor and board of aldermen of any municipality wherein there is located an historic museum operated by an historical society on a nonprofit basis and which municipality is situated in a county bordered by the Mississippi River and having therein a national military park and a national military cemetery are hereby authorized and empowered to donate a sum not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) per annum to such historic museum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-91 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 17 / Section 33-91
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-91
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality having a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) according to the most recent federal census and in which the qualified electors have approved at a special election participation in redevelopment projects in its central business district pursuant to Sections 43-35-201 through 43-35-235 may, in their discretion, exempt from all municipal ad valorem taxes, for a period of not more than seven (7) years from and after January 1, 1974, any privately owned new structures and any new renovations of and improvements to existing structures lying within a slum or blighted area within the central business district, as determined by the municipality, but only if such structures shall have been constructed, renovated or improved pursuant with the requirements of the approved project of the municipality for redevelopment of slum or blighted areas within its central business district. Such exemption shall be granted upon written application only after the finding by the governing authorities of a municipality that the construction, renovation or improvement of said property is for the purpose of promoting business and commerce in the central business district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-45 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 7 / Section 8-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-45
Status: in_force

Any municipality voting to adopt the mayor-council form of government after adoption of this chapter shall have an election of municipal officers within the time and in the manner provided by statute, and such officers and the form of government shall take effect and be instituted at the time of the taking of office for the newly elected officials as expressly provided by statute.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-15 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 39 / Section 41-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-41-15
Status: in_force

Assessments shall be made and apportioned in the manner fixed by the resolution of the governing authorities determining to proceed with the improvement. The owner of any property assessed for an improvement, or any party having an interest therein, may appear at the time and place fixed for the hearing and determining of any objections or defense, and object to the proposed assessment against the property or to the amount thereof. The governing authorities of the municipality shall hear and determine all objections and protests to the proposed assessment, under such reasonable rules and regulations as they may adopt. At such meeting, or at any adjournment thereof, the governing authorities may alter, change or correct any assessment; however, no assessment shall be increased without notice to the owner of the property. The governing authorities shall, by resolution, approve and confirm all assessments as finally fixed and adjusted at the said hearing, and said assessments shall, from the date of such confirmation, constitute a lien upon the respective lots or parcels of lands and other real property upon which they are levied, superior to all other liens except those for state and county taxes. All persons who fail to object to the proposed assessments, in the manner herein provided shall be deemed to have consented to and approved the same. Any property owner aggrieved by the decision of the governing authorities may appeal to the circuit court.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-213 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 27-213
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-213
Status: in_force

(1) Notwithstanding any provision of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 to the contrary, any person who is an operator of a municipal or domestic wastewater facility or community water system on July 1, 1986, may, on or before June 30, 1987, apply to the board or commission for, and shall be issued, an operator's certificate without examination or proof of other qualifications, if the application is accompanied by an affidavit of the owner of the facility or system verifying the status of the applicant. Any certificate so issued shall be valid only for the particular facility being operated by the applicant, and then only so long as the facility remains in the same or a lower classification as at the time the application is filed.

(2) Notwithstanding any provision of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221 to the contrary, any person who is an operator of a nontransient, noncommunity water system on July 1, 1997, may, before June 30, 1998, apply to the board for an operator's certificate without examination. The application shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the owner of the system verifying the status of the applicant. The board shall consider the performance history of any system operated by the applicant in determining whether to issue a certificate under this subsection. Upon review of the performance history and the application, the board may grant or deny the issuance of a certificate under this subsection. Any certificate issued under this subsection shall be valid only for the particular facility being operated by the applicant.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-317 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-317
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-317
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

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

(5) In the event of the termination of one or more of the retirement plans established pursuant to Article 1, 3 or 5 of this chapter, all members of the plan or system as of the date of termination of the system shall be deemed to have a vested right to benefits to the extent and in the same manner that rights would be vested under the laws existing as of the date of termination of the system; however, any member, who because of a termination of the system has not fulfilled the requirements for length of service, shall be entitled to compensation as of the date that such member would otherwise be eligible, with such compensation to be computed on the basis of time actually a member of the service and compensation actually earned during the time a member, in the manner now provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-75 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-75
Status: in_force

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

Said municipal governing authorities may lease or sell any of said lands to any person in any manner that may be prescribed by an order or resolution, which said order or resolution shall be entered in the minutes covering each particular tract of land so leased or sold, it being the intention of the legislature to vest in municipal authorities in each specific case of lease or sale the right to fix the price, terms, and conditions of each sale or lease.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-21 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 45 / Section 45-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-45-21
Status: in_force

(1) After adoption of a redevelopment plan containing a tax increment financing plan the clerk shall certify the assessed value of the real property, including personal property located thereon, described in the tax increment financing plan. Property taxable at the time of the certification shall be included in the assessed value at its most recently determined valuation.

Property exempt from taxation at the time of the request shall be included at zero unless it was taxable when the tax increment financing plan was approved, in which case its most recently determined assessed valuation before it became exempt shall be included. These assessed values shall be, and will be referred to as, the “original assessed value.”

(2) Each year thereafter, the clerk and the State Tax Commission, if applicable, shall certify the amount by which the assessed value of real property, including personal property located thereon, described in the tax increment financing plan has increased or decreased from the original assessed value. These assessed values shall be, and will be referred to as, the “current assessed value.”

(3) Any amount by which the current assessed value of the real property, including personal property located thereon, described in the redevelopment plan exceeds the original assessed value shall be referred to as the “captured assessed value.” The clerk shall certify the amount of the captured assessed value to the municipality each year for the duration of the tax increment financing plan. A municipality may choose to retain all or a portion of the captured assessed value for purposes of tax increment financing if the plan provides that all or a portion of the captured assessed value is necessary to finance the redevelopment project, including the cost of establishing necessary reserves to insure payment of revenue bonds.

If the tax increment financing plan provides that only a portion of the captured assessed value is necessary to finance the redevelopment program, only that portion shall be set aside and the remainder shall be apportioned to the various municipal tax levy funds and the various county tax levy funds.

The amount of captured assessed value that a municipality intends to use for purposes of tax increment financing must be clearly stated in the tax increment financing plan.

(4) After adoption of a redevelopment plan containing a tax increment financing plan which includes a portion of the municipality sales tax diversion, the State Tax Commission shall certify the amount of sales tax collected by the state within the boundaries of the redevelopment area and diverted to the municipality in the twelve-month period ending on the last day of the month before the effective date of approval of the plan. Any increase in the amount collected within the boundaries shall be set aside by the municipality in the fund created by the tax increment financing plan.

Each redevelopment plan shall be approved in the same manner and at the same times provided in Section 43-35-13 for the approval of urban renewal plans. Any tax increment financing plan shall become effective on the same date as the redevelopment plan is approved.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-311 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 29-311
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-311
Status: in_force

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

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

(b) Benefits to dependent children through the age of twenty-three (23) when the dependent child or children are full-time college students.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / 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. § 21-27-215 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / 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. § 21-33-51 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-33-51
Status: in_force

The tax collector shall give to everyone paying taxes a signed receipt, dated, numbered and filled in so as to show by whom, and on what, taxes were paid, and conforming to the requirements of Section 21-33-49 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-17 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 31-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-17
Status: in_force

For the benefit of the public service and to prevent delay, injury, or interruption therein by reason of the enactment of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , all persons holding a position in the fire and/or police departments, including the chief thereof, of any such municipality coming under the provisions of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 , who shall have served continuously in such positions for a period of at least the preceding six months, are hereby declared eligible for permanent appointment under civil service to the offices, positions or employments which they shall then hold, respectively, without examination or other act on their part, and not on probation, and every such person is hereby automatically adopted and inducted permanently into civil service, into such office, place, position or employment which such person then holds as completely and effectually to all intents and purposes as if such person had been permanently appointed thereto under civil service after examination and investigation. However, those persons who have previously left their positions to participate in the armed forces of the United States shall have preference in reemployment and enjoy the rights and privileges of Sections 21-31-1 through 21-31-27 as if their services had not been terminated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-23 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 25 / 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. § 21-33-7 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / 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. § 21-27-251 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-251
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-251
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this section and Section 21-27-253 , the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed by this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(a) “ Governing body ” means the Mayor and Board of Aldermen or Council, as applicable, of a town.

(b) “ Short-line railroad project ” means any combination of the acquisition, restoration, construction, ownership, operation, oversight, maintenance and disposition of a short-line railroad by a town.

(c) “ Short-line railroad ” means a rail line that is no more than fifty (50) total route miles in length, located within and without the State of Mississippi, together with the line's corresponding right-of-way, fixtures, facilities, and related improvements, and that, as an independent operating concern, would qualify under the standards of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board as a Class III rail carrier under 49 CFR 1201(1-1) .

(d) “ Town ” means a municipal corporation existing within the State of Mississippi classified as a town pursuant to Section 21-1-1, Mississippi Code of 1972 , as of April 20, 2024, with a short-line railroad partially located within its municipal boundaries.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-39 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-39
Status: in_force

Upon application of a member in service of the employer, any member who has had not less than five (5) years nor more than twenty (20) years' service with the employer and who has become totally and permanently incapacitated for duty, as a result of causes occurring other than in the performance of his duty, shall be retired by the board not less than thirty (30) nor more than ninety (90) days next following the date of filing such application, on a non-duty disability retirement allowance. Any such disability shall be certified to the board in the same manner as provided in Section 21-29-35 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-47-3 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 45 / 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. § 21-31-51 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 21 / Section 31-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-51
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(b) Any municipality located in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, and having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than twenty thousand, according to the federal census of 1950.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-133 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-133
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-133
Status: in_force

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

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

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

The insurer, insurance company, or obligor, in any policy of insurance or bond filed in compliance with this section, shall be obligated to pay any final judgment obtained against such owner or operator as herein provided, regardless of the solvency, insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, of such owner or operator. In the event that the insured shall abandon his permit and leave the state, a claimant asserting his claim within the provisions of said insurance policy or bond may file suit against the insurer or insurance company or obligor issuing such insurance policy or executing such bond in a court of competent jurisdiction without the necessity of making the insured a party to said suit.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-51 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-51
Status: in_force

Any municipality which shall have issued bonds pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 , all or any portion of which shall at any time hereafter remain outstanding and unpaid, is hereby authorized, in connection with the issuance of additional bonds hereunder, to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of taking up, paying and redeeming all such outstanding and unpaid bonds. Such refunding bonds and such additional bonds may be authorized and issued separately or may be consolidated into one issue. Such outstanding and unpaid bonds may be refunded without notice and without an election thereon, and such additional bonds may be refunded without notice and without an election except as provided in Section 21-27-43 . The proceeds of any such consolidated bonds shall be used to take up, pay and redeem all of such outstanding and unpaid bonds, at their redemption price, and the balance of such proceeds shall be used and expended for the purposes for which the additional bonds were authorized to be issued. In the event any such outstanding bonds, by the terms thereof, shall be redeemable prior to maturity at the option of such municipality, then such option of redemption shall be exercised in the manner provided in such bonds, and the refunding bonds shall not be issued or delivered more than two calendar months in advance of the date upon which such outstanding bonds shall have been called for redemption. In the event that such outstanding bonds, by the terms thereof, be not so redeemable prior to maturity, then the refunding bonds shall not be issued, except concurrently with the surrender and cancellation of a like amount of the bonds to be refunded thereby. All bonds issued under the provisions of this section shall have like incidents and shall be payable from the same source or sources and the payment thereof shall be secured in like manner as are bonds issued pursuant to the authority granted in Section 21-27-23 . In lieu of selling such portion of such consolidated bonds, as may be required to provide for the redemption of such outstanding bonds, such consolidated bonds may be issued and delivered in exchange for and upon surrender and cancellation of a like amount of the bonds to be refunded thereby.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-313 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-313
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-313
Status: in_force

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

Benefits payable under the provisions of Articles 1, 3 and 5 that previously were made on the basis of full years of creditable service shall be computed on the basis of the fractional years of service as provided in this section beginning July 1, 1991.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-5 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 8 / Section 21-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-21-5
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any municipality in the state are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to purchase by negotiation or otherwise, any breed of dogs suitable for law enforcement purposes, and pay for same out of the proceeds derived from tax levies made for their support and maintenance. Said dogs may be furnished to the police or police department of said municipality to be used by them in the enforcement of the laws of said municipality and the State of Mississippi. The governing authorities may also appropriate and pay monthly such amounts as may be necessary to maintain and care for said law enforcement dogs.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-19 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 19-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-19-19
Status: in_force

The governing authority of any municipality shall have the power to restrain, prohibit and suppress blind-tigers, bucket-shops, slaughterhouses, houses of prostitution, disreputable houses, hotels and motels renting rooms on an hourly basis, games and gambling houses and rooms, dance houses and rooms, keno rooms, and all kinds of indecency and other disorderly practices, and disturbance of the peace, and to provide for the punishment of the persons engaged therein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-57 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 21-29-325 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 29-325
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-325
Status: in_force

The Public Employees' Retirement System shall make payments of retirement benefits under this chapter to members and to the beneficiaries of those members, by whatever means the board prescribes by regulation to be the most appropriate for the proper and efficient payment of benefits, including, but not limited to, direct deposit to an account with a financial institution that is a participant of the Automated Clearing House designated by the member or beneficiary. The board may provide for alternative means of payment if the member or beneficiary can demonstrate that payment by the prescribed means will cause the member or beneficiary undue hardship.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-13 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 15-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-15-13
Status: in_force

The mayor is authorized to call on every male inhabitant of the municipality over twenty-one years of age and under sixty years to aid in enforcing the laws.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-51 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-29-51
Status: in_force

The right of a person to an annuity, a retirement allowance or benefit, or to the return of contributions, or to any optional benefit or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this article, any retirement system and the moneys in any retirement system created by this article, shall be governed by the provisions of Section 21-29-307, Mississippi Code of 1972 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-27 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 8-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-27
Status: in_force

The members of the council shall not direct or dictate the appointment of any person to or his removal from office by the mayor or any department directors. Except for the purposes of inquiring or receiving information or advice, the council shall deal with the municipal departments and personnel solely through the mayor and no member of the council shall give orders to any subordinate of the municipality. The council shall have the power to investigate any part of the municipal government and for that purpose to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents and other evidence.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-171 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 19 / Section 27-171
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-171
Status: in_force

A municipality may enter into contract with any person or public agency situated wholly or partly within its metropolitan area, whether or not lying wholly or partially within its boundaries, for any of the purposes authorized by Sections 21-27-161 through 21-27-191 . Public agencies and other persons are hereby authorized to make contracts with a municipality under which the municipality will make a sewage disposal system available to a public agency or group of public agencies or to other persons and furnish waste collection, transportation, treatment and sewage disposal services by the municipality's sewage disposal system. The contract may be upon such terms and for such period of time as the parties may agree and may provide that it will remain in effect until any bonds issued or to be issued by the municipality, and any bonds which may be issued to refund the same are paid; the contract may contain provisions to assure equitable treatment of persons or public agencies who contract with the municipality for waste collection, transportation, treatment and sewage disposal services from the same sewage disposal system; may contain provisions requiring any public agency or other person to regulate the quality and strength of waste to be handled by the sewage disposal system; shall provide the method of determining the amounts to be paid by a public agency or other person to the municipality; may provide for the sale or lease to or use of by the municipality of any sewage disposal system or any part thereof at the time owned or to be acquired by a public agency or other person; may provide that the municipality shall operate any sewage disposal system or part thereof at the time owned or to be acquired by a public agency or other person; may provide that a public agency shall have the right to continued performance of such services after the amortization of the municipality's investment in the sewage disposal system during the useful life thereof upon payments of reasonable charges therefor, reduced to take into consideration such amortization; and may contain such other provisions and requirements as the municipality and a public agency or other person may determine to be appropriate or necessary. A municipality may also provide in its contract that the municipality shall have the right to use any streets, alleys and public ways and places within the jurisdiction of a public agency or other person during the term of the contract.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-1 — MS Code / Title 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 23-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-23-1
Status: in_force

There shall be a municipal court in all municipalities of this state. Wherever the words “police court” or “police justice” appear in the laws of this state, they shall mean municipal court or municipal judge, respectively.