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MS Code § 21-27-215 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|Municipal and Domestic Water and Wastewater System Operator's Certification Act of 1992|§ 21-27-215. Certification of persons holding certificates of competency obtained through examination under voluntary certification program

 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.
MS Code § 21-27-217 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 27 - Public Utilities and Transportation|Municipal and Domestic Water and Wastewater System Operator's Certification Act of 1992|§ 21-27-217. Penalties; injunctive relief

  Any person found by the board or commission, as the case may be, or any duly designated hearing officer appointed thereby, violating any of the provisions of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221, or any rule or regulation promulgated by the board or commission hereunder, or any order issued by the board or commission in the exercise of their authority and duties hereunder, shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), for each violation, such penalty to be levied and assessed by the board or commission or designated hearing officer. Appeals from such actions may be taken as provided hereinafter. Each day upon which a violation occurs shall be deemed a separate and additional violation.  In determining the amount of any monetary penalty assessed hereunder, the board or commission or duly appointed hearing officer shall consider all factors bearing upon the violation, including but not limited to, any resulting actual or probable pollution of the lands and/or waters of the state and/or endangerment to public health, and the nature and extent thereof, any violation of the terms or conditions of permits issued by the board or commission for the affected facility, and any actual or probable damage to the affected facility caused by improper operation thereof.    In lieu of, or in addition to, the penalty provided in subsection (1) of this section, the board and commission shall have power to institute and maintain in the name of the state any and all proceedings necessary or appropriate to enforce the provisions of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221, rules and regulations in force pursuant hereto, and orders and operator certifications made and issued hereunder, in the appropriate circuit, chancery, county or justice court of the county in which venue may lie. The board and commission may obtain mandatory or prohibitory injunctive relief, either temporary or permanent.   Any person found guilty of violating any provision of Sections 21-27-201 through 21-27-221, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) per day of violation.
MS Code § 21-29-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-1. Short title

 This article may be cited as the "General Municipal Employees' Retirement Law."
MS Code § 21-29-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-3. Definitions

 The following words and phrases when used in this article, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:   "Retirement system" shall mean a retirement system as authorized by this article;   "Board" shall mean the retirement board provided for in this article to administer the retirement system;   "Municipality" shall mean any city, as defined by Section 21-1-1 which has a population of twenty-one thousand (21,000), or more;   "Governing body" shall mean the legislative body, board or commission of any municipality, as defined in subsection (c) of this section;   "Employer" shall mean a municipality, as defined in subsection (c) of this section, which has elected, as by this article provided, to provide a retirement system;   "Employee" shall mean all administrative and other employees on a monthly salary basis, excepting policemen, firemen, and school teachers;   "Member" shall mean any municipal employee included in the membership of the retirement system;   "Beneficiary" shall mean any person in receipt of an annuity, pension, or retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this article;   "Compensation" shall mean the remuneration paid the employee in cash or warrant out of public funds in return for his services to the employer, plus the monetary value, as determined by the governing body, of whatever living quarters or other thing of monetary value the employer furnishes him in return for his services. Compensation in addition to an employee's base salary that is paid to the employee at the time of his retirement for unused accumulated annual leave, sick leave or both, pursuant to the vacation and sick leave policies of the employer, shall be excluded from the calculation of compensation under this article;   "Accumulated contributions" shall mean the sum of all amounts deducted from the compensation of a member and credited to his individual account in the employees' savings fund, together with interest thereon as by this article provided;   "Service" shall mean time spent as an employee of one (1) employer, the time spent in the employ of one (1) employer under this article not being transferable nor to be considered by any other employer under this article. Service shall not include any unused accumulated annual leave, sick leave or both that any employee has at the time of his retirement pursuant to the vacation and sick leave policies of the employer;   "Prior service" shall mean time spent in the employ of an employer, under this article, prior to the effective date of the retirement system; provided, the time spent in the employ of one (1) employer under this article may not be transferable nor considered by any other employer under this article.   Words of the masculine gender shall include words of the feminine gender and vice versa, and words of the singular number in relation to persons shall include the plural number and vice versa.
MS Code § 21-29-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-5. Creation of City Employees Retirement Fund; election to come under provisions of article

 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.
MS Code § 21-29-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-9. Board of the General Retirement System; advisory board

 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.
MS Code § 21-29-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-11. Powers and duties of board

 The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this article are hereby vested in the board, the members of which shall serve without compensation except as otherwise provided by law. The board shall organize and adopt such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary and promptly do such things as may properly be done.   The board shall have, in addition to all others, the following rights, powers and duties:   It shall keep minutes of its proceedings which shall be open to public inspection;   Fix a time for regular meetings and provide for the means of calling special meetings;   A majority of all of the board members present shall constitute a quorum for transaction of the affairs of the board;   To hear, consider and pass upon all applications coming before it and order payments as provided by this article, and the board may hear witnesses and administer oaths, appoint hearing officers and make decisions in all matters properly before said board;   It shall have full power to invest and reinvest the funds of the retirement system under the provisions of Section 25-11-121. Moreover, said board shall have full power to order the custodian of securities and funds hereafter designated to hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer and dispose of any of the securities and investments in which any of the funds created herein shall have been invested, as well as the proceeds of said investments and all moneys belonging to said funds. The funds held by the board may be commingled with other Public Employees' Retirement System investments for the most advantageous investments;   It shall annually determine and allow interest on each individual account in the employees' saving fund based on the average percentage of interest earned from investment or deposit of all funds of the retirement system. However, the interest to be credited to such individual accounts shall not exceed one percent (1%) per annum.
MS Code § 21-29-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-15. Statement of clerk of municipality; issuance of prior service certificates

 The clerk of said employer shall, within thirty (30) days after the effective date of the ordinance of the municipality to be passed as provided in Section 21-29-5, prepare a statement showing the length of service of employees, prior to effective date of said ordinance, then employed by the employer and the total salaries or wages paid each in cash or warrants during the four (4) years of employment by the employer next before said effective date of said ordinance. Such facts shall, subject to correction after each employee is given ten (10) days within which to check and prove to the board any error therein, be the basis for the board to approve the issuance of prior service certificates and records and to determine the sum each prior service employee electing to come within the retirement system shall deposit in the employees' savings fund. The secretary of the board shall, upon approval of the board, issue to each employee a prior service certificate. The clerk of the employer shall have the duty of keeping all service records and all records on the various funds provided by this article. The clerk shall on or before July 1, 1987, forward all service records and funds to the Public Employees' Retirement System.
MS Code § 21-29-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-17. Membership

 The membership of the retirement system shall be composed as follows:   All persons who become employees after the date fixed in the ordinance of the governing body for the retirement system to go into effect shall become members of the retirement system on the expiration of two (2) months from date of employment; however, persons who have reached the age of forty (40) years who have not had prior service or membership service which may be reinstated as hereinafter provided shall not be members of the retirement system.   All persons who are employees of the municipality, and who are members of the general municipal employees' retirement system shall come under the provisions and benefits of this article and shall receive all benefits provided for in this article. The municipality shall each month deduct from the total compensation of each member not less than seven percent (7%) nor more than ten percent (10%) of the amount thereof, and put the amounts deducted in the employees' savings fund. Any increase to an amount in excess of seven percent (7%) shall be in increments of not more than one percent (1%) per annum. No increase from the deduction of seven percent (7%) shall be made unless the municipality determines that the avails of a levy of three (3) mills, when combined with the avails of the deduction of seven percent (7%), is insufficient to keep the system actuarially sound.   In lieu of the other provisions of this article, any municipality operating under the provisions of this article on March 1, 1976, may, by a resolution duly adopted and entered upon its minutes, enter into an agreement with the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi whereby all new firemen and policemen employed or reemployed after the effective date of such agreement shall be included in the provisions of such agreement for retirement purposes to the same extent as are other employees covered by the Public Employees' Retirement System.   No new member may be joined after July 1, 1987, and all new employees of the municipality who are employed after July 1, 1987, shall be covered by the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi.
MS Code § 21-29-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-19. Cessation of membership

 Except as otherwise provided in this article, should a member separate from the service of an employer or should he become a beneficiary or die, he shall thereupon cease to be a member and any prior service and membership service which may be credited to his service account at the time of his separation from the service of the employer shall be forfeited by him. Should such person again become an employee of the same employer within a period of five (5) years following the date of his last separation from the service of such employer, he shall again become a member of the retirement system, if not otherwise by this article prevented, conditioned on his redepositing at time of reemployment, and not afterwards, any part of his accumulated contributions theretofore withdrawn from the employees' savings fund, and any prior service and membership service which may have been credited to him at the time of his separation from service shall be restored to him. However, that in the case of the reemployment of a duty disability retirant neither the limitation of five (5) years nor the redepositing of any sum withdrawn from the employees' savings fund shall apply.   The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to any employees of a municipality who are employed after adoption of a resolution in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of Section 21-29-17. However, under the provisions of the agreement between the municipality and the public employees' retirement system, after the employee has been actively employed for a period of four (4) years and reported as a member of the public employees' retirement system of Mississippi, he may pay the employee contributions, the employer contributions and interest as determined by the public employees' retirement system of Mississippi based on the earnings during the previous period of service with the municipality and receive creditable service for such prior service in the public employees' retirement system of Mississippi.
MS Code § 21-29-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-21. Refunds to members withdrawing from service

 Should any member cease to be an employee before becoming eligible to receive either a service or disability retirement allowance as provided by this article, for reasons other than becoming a beneficiary or his death, he thereafter, at any time while not a member of the system, may request in writing, of the board a refund to him of his accumulated contributions, whereupon one hundred percent (100%) of his accumulated contributions then credited to his individual account in the employees' savings fund, less and except all interest credited to his individual account, shall be refunded to him within one (1) year from the filing of the request. However, from the date of separation of any employee, no further interest shall be credited to his individual account in said fund by the board unless and until such employee again becomes a member of the retirement system.   Should any former member, who has accumulated contributions remaining in the employees' savings fund, die, or any member die before his retirement becomes effective, one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of his accumulated contributions standing to his credit in the employees' savings fund, including the accumulated interest therein at the rate of one percent (1%) per annum, at the time of his death shall be paid to such person or persons as shall have been nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the board. If there be no such designated person or persons, then one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of his accumulated contributions shall be paid to his legal representative. However, such payments shall be postponed, at the discretion of the board, for not more than eighteen (18) months.
MS Code § 21-29-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-25. Expenses of operation of retirement system

 All expenses of the operation of the retirement system shall be paid out of the retirement reserve fund provided by Section 21-29-23. The Public Employees' Retirement System is hereby authorized to deduct two percent (2%) of all income, exclusive of employee contributions, to be transferred to the expense fund of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi to defray the costs of administering the fund.
MS Code § 21-29-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-29. Discontinuance, reduction, or reassessment of taxes

 When the amount of funds derived from the tax levied pursuant to Section 21-29-27 is sufficient to care for current needs, requirements, and necessities, the governing body of said municipality is authorized, empowered and directed to discontinue entirely or reduce the tax rate herein provided until such time as financial necessity creates a demand for the reassessment of said tax. However, when and if the tax collections as herein provided, are discontinued, said tax shall be reassessed when necessity requires, without the necessity of an election. The governing body of the municipality may take action only upon certification from the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System.
MS Code § 21-29-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 29 - Employees' Retirement and Disability Systems|Article 1 - General Municipal Employees' Retirement|§ 21-29-31. Service retirement

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