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MS Code § 27-105-343 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-343. Chancery clerks to perform duties of county treasurers

 From and after the passage of this section, all the duties except the duty of receiving and disbursing money that were imposed by law on county treasurers shall be required to be done by chancery clerks, and they shall be the custodians of all the books, records, papers, and vouchers heretofore belonging to county treasurers, and shall be custodians of all the promissory notes, bonds, and other like property belonging to or deposited with the county, and said clerks shall in all respects be liable on their official bonds for the proper care of the same.   The duty of receipting for and disbursing all monies heretofore deposited with county treasurers shall be done and performed by the designated county and drainage district depositories appointed in the manner provided by law; and any person or corporation required to pay money into a county treasury shall hereafter pay the same to a properly designated depository and such depository shall issue receipts therefor in duplicate, one of which shall be filed with the chancery clerk and the other retained by the person or corporation making such payment, and such payment when made to a designated depository shall discharge the person or corporation making such payment from any further liability therefor.   In the event there shall be no designated depository for any money required to be paid into a county treasury, such payment shall be made to the tax collector who shall receipt for same in duplicate as required in the preceding paragraph and shall pay the same over to a legally appointed depository within ten (10) days after one is qualified to receive the same. The tax collector shall be the custodian of all money belonging to a county or any subdivision thereof until there be appointed a depository for any such funds and the said tax collectors shall be liable on their official bond for the proper accounting and payment of any funds so paid to them.   Boards of supervisors shall allow chancery clerks for their compensation for performance of the duties required of them by this section the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) per annum.   Nothing in this section shall preclude drainage districts from selecting their treasurer or depository as now provided by law.
MS Code § 27-105-345 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-345. Traffic in public funds prohibited; penalty therefor

 The making of profit, directly or indirectly, by the county treasurer, tax collector, treasurer of any board of trustees, or any officer whatever, out of any money belonging to a county, the custody of which the county treasurer or other officer is charged with, by loaning or otherwise using it, or depositing the same in any manner contrary to law, or a removal by any such officer or by his consent of such moneys, or a part thereof, and placing it elsewhere than as provided by law, shall constitute a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall subject such officer to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term not exceeding two (2) years or a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or to both such fine and imprisonment, and the officer offending shall be liable on his official bond for all profits realized for such unlawful use of such funds.
MS Code § 27-105-347 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-347. Penalty

 If any officer, treasurer, sheriff, tax collector, member of the board of supervisors, or other person charged with the enforcement of this article, shall at any time fail or refuse to perform any act required of him by this article, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00).
MS Code § 27-105-349 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-349. County withdrawal of bonds pledged or filed as security

 The State Treasurer is authorized and empowered to allow county depositories of county funds or county district funds of every kind and character to withdraw any bonds pledged or filed or deposited as security for those deposits:   When in the opinion of the State Treasurer the deposits become reduced to such an extent as to justify the withdrawal;   Or to withdraw any such bonds or corporate surety bonds, and substitute in lieu thereof other bonds or corporate surety bonds, as the case may be.   All such bonds shall be such as are authorized by law to be pledged or filed as security for those deposits, or if a corporate surety bond, it must be made by a surety company authorized to do business in this state; and in addition, all such deposits shall be fully secured and covered as required by Section 27-105-5.
MS Code § 27-105-351 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-351. Drainage district funds; how dealt with

 All funds coming into the county treasury belonging to any drainage district shall be deposited in the county depositories under the same conditions as county funds are deposited, to be drawn by the proper parties and in the manner provided by law. All tax collectors may pay drainage taxes into such depositories in the same manner as county funds are paid in, and shall be subject to the same protection provided herein for the protection of county funds.
MS Code § 27-105-353 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-353. Method of selecting municipal depositories

 The board of mayor and aldermen or other municipal authorities of each and every city, town or village in the state are required to select a depository in the manner provided by law for the selection of county depositories. Before being selected, a depository must be certified by the State Treasurer as meeting the capital ratio requirement specified in Section 27-105-5 or 27-105-6. An institution shall not be a qualified depository and shall not receive any municipal funds unless its ratio has been certified annually by the State Treasurer as meeting the prescribed requirement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any financial institution whether or not meeting the prescribed ratio requirement whose accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successors to that insurance corporation may receive municipal funds in an amount not exceeding the amount that is insured by that insurance corporation and may qualify as a municipal depository to the extent of that insurance as prescribed in Section 27-105-315.
MS Code § 27-105-355 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-355. Security on bond

 Each depository shall enter into bond, or deposit securities with the State Treasurer as required of county depositories; the bond or security to be approved by the State Treasurer.
MS Code § 27-105-357 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-357. Duties of depository; penalty for making profit or removing funds

 The duties of a depository are hereby made the same in respect to the municipal fund as the duties imposed upon county depositories or in respect to county funds. The penalties for making profit on or removing municipal funds are hereby made the same as those provided by law against making profit on or removing county funds.
MS Code § 27-105-359 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-359. Municipal withdrawal of bonds pledged or filed as security

 The State Treasurer is authorized and empowered to allow municipal depositories of municipal funds of every kind and character to withdraw any bonds, including corporate surety bonds, pledged or filed or deposited as security for those deposits:   When in the opinion of the State Treasurer the deposits become reduced to such an extent as to justify the withdrawal;   Or to withdraw any such bonds or corporate surety bonds, and substitute in lieu thereof other bonds or corporate surety bonds, as the case may be.   All such bonds shall be such as are authorized by law to be pledged or filed as security for those deposits, or if a corporate surety bond, it must be made by a surety company authorized to do business in this state; and in addition, all such deposits shall be fully secured and covered as required by Section 27-105-5.
MS Code § 27-105-361 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-361. Banks failing to qualify, treasurer to be selected or depository designated

 In the event of failure on the part of any bank in such municipality to qualify as a depository, the board of mayor and aldermen or other like governing authority of such city, town or village, hereinafter called the governing authority, may select a treasurer who shall safely keep and disburse the funds of such town, city or village according to law, and make bond for that purpose as now provided by law for such treasurers. The governing authority at any regular or special meeting may select and designate a depository or depositories into which the tax collector or collectors and auditor or auditors of said city, town or village shall deposit all tax collections and public funds, when collected and/or received, and in which the same shall thereafter be distributed, at the time or in the manner, as required by law to the several funds or accounts as now provided by law. Any depository so selected by the governing authority shall be within the State of Mississippi, and may hold such deposit or deposits at such rate of interest as may be agreed upon by the governing authority or in the discretion of the governing authority without liability for interest; but such depositories shall secure the same by pledging with the governing authority such security, in such amounts and upon such conditions as is now required by law of depositories which qualify as such by bidding therefor.
MS Code § 27-105-363 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-363. Term of office of depository

 The term of office of a municipal depository shall be two (2) years.
MS Code § 27-105-369 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-369. Acceptance by banks of checks payable to county, municipality, political subdivision or body politic

 All banks in this state are required to accept all checks and drafts that are payable to any county, municipality or any other political subdivision, or body politic, only for deposit to the credit of the particular payee to which such checks or drafts are payable, or to issue cashier's checks, certified checks and similar exchange in the name of and on behalf of the particular payee.
MS Code § 27-105-371 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 105 - Depositories|Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments|§ 27-105-371. Duty to deposit funds into county depository; disposition of unidentifiable funds; duty of chancery clerk

 All county officials who receive funds under the authority of their office shall deposit such funds into a county depository. Any unidentifiable funds found by the county auditor or the State Auditor in the county depository shall be settled into the general fund of the county within thirty (30) days of the determination.   Any funds settled into the general fund under the authority of this section which are later identified shall be properly disbursed by the chancery clerk after the approval of the board of supervisors.
MS Code § 27-107-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Hurricane Disaster of 1969|§ 27-107-1. Utilization of appropriated funds to assist local governing authorities to obtain federal funds for restoration purposes

 For purposes of Sections 27-107-1 through 27-107-61, the term "commission of budget and accounting" or "commission" shall mean the state fiscal management board.   The Commission of Budget and Accounting is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to utilize any funds appropriated for such purposes to make grants to boards of supervisors, boards of trustees of public schools and junior colleges, and the mayor and board of aldermen or other governing body of incorporated municipalities for the purpose of assisting such county and municipal government authorities in obtaining federal funds to be used in making repairs, renovations, restoration, construction, reconstruction and related improvements, and restoring or purchasing machinery, equipment and supplies to public office buildings, schools, courthouses, hospitals, water supplies, sewer and utility systems, streets, roads, bridges, ports and airports and other governmental facilities, all of such being publicly owned and governed by said governing authorities having statutory power thereover, which real, personal or mixed properties were either damaged, destroyed or lost as a direct result of Hurricane Camille's unprecedented devastation to the State of Mississippi on Sunday and Monday, August 17-18, 1969. Provided, however, no application shall be considered until the applicant has obtained prior approval thereof by the governor's emergency council created by Executive Order No. 49, dated September 6, 1969.
MS Code § 27-107-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Hurricane Disaster of 1969|§ 27-107-3. Administrator of certain emergency appropriations

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting is hereby made the sole administrator of the appropriation enacted during the Extraordinary Session of 1969 to implement the provisions of Sections 27-107-1 through 27-107-15. It is authorized to utilize any of its general powers provided by Sections 27-103-1 through 27-103-75 [repealed], Mississippi Code of 1972, in making findings of fact and determinations as to the extent and degree of the damages, destruction or loss to the public properties and the dollar value thereof described in the preceding section. It shall take into consideration the appropriate economic factors, present and potential losses in city, county and state taxes, and revenues of all types, existing and subsequent federal laws, funds and programs, and other relevant facts and fiscal data in determining the amount of state grants and loans and reasonable conditions of the grants and loans made to the governing authorities of eligible counties and municipalities and the boards of trustees of public schools and junior colleges which have suffered publicly owned property loss and economic losses as a direct result of Hurricane Camille.
MS Code § 27-107-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Hurricane Disaster of 1969|§ 27-107-7. Time limitation on loan applications

 No application for loans or grants under authority of Sections 27-107-1 through 27-107-15 shall be filed after December 31, 1970.
MS Code § 27-107-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Hurricane Disaster of 1969|§ 27-107-9. County and municipal authorities to maintain certain records

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting shall require boards of supervisors and the governing authorities of municipalities to maintain such minute books and other records as said commission deems reasonable and necessary for carrying out the purposes of Sections 27-107-1 through 27-107-15, including auditing by the state auditor of all expenditures of grants and loans made pursuant to the provisions of said sections, and also of federal grants, private gifts and donations authorized to be received hereunder.
MS Code § 27-107-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Hurricane Disaster of 1969|§ 27-107-11. Borrowings from state general and special fund agencies

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting, with the concurrence of the state bond commission, is hereby authorized to borrow the sum of five million five hundred thousand dollars ($5,500,000.00) from one or a multiple of "state general-fund agencies" or "state special-fund agencies" at one time or as required for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Section 27-107-5. Such borrowing shall be done by appropriate resolution or order of said commission, and certified copies of each such order spread upon its minutes shall be provided the executive head of the state agency, state treasurer, state auditor, attorney general and governor. Funds disbursed by the commission from said loan fund shall be as provided herein.
MS Code § 27-107-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Hurricane Disaster of 1969|§ 27-107-13. State bond commission's authority

 The state bond commission is hereby authorized and empowered to utilize any of its statutory powers, particularly Chapter 519, Laws of 1968, in carrying out its functions under Sections 27-107-1 through 27-107-15, and in the repayment of principal and interest on indebtedness due the State Treasury or any general-fund agency or special-fund agency.
MS Code § 27-107-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Hurricane Disaster of 1969|§ 27-107-15. Adoption of rules and regulations

 The commission shall have authority to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the purposes of Sections 27-107-1 through 27-107-15.
MS Code § 27-107-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Federal Disaster Relief Act of 1970|§ 27-107-31. Authority to accept and disburse funds

 The board of supervisors, mayor and aldermen or other appropriate municipal governing body, board of trustees of school districts, county board of education, county and state port authorities, county development districts, and other public agencies at the community or state level which qualify for funds and other benefits under the United States "Disaster Relief Act of 1970", are hereby authorized to do and perform every act and deed necessary by such officers to make possible the receipt and disbursements of all such funds and related benefits made available by said act.
MS Code § 27-107-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Tornado Disaster of 1971|§ 27-107-51. Utilization of appropriated funds to assist local governing authorities to obtain federal funds

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to utilize any funds appropriated for such purposes which said sum shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) to make grants to boards of supervisors, boards of trustees of public schools and junior colleges, and the mayor and board of aldermen or other governing body of incorporated municipalities for the purpose of assisting such county and municipal government authorities in obtaining federal funds to be used in making repairs, renovations, restoration, construction, reconstruction and related improvements, and restoring or purchasing machinery, equipment and supplies to public office buildings, schools, courthouses, hospitals, water supplies, sewer and utility systems, streets, roads, and airports and other governmental facilities, all of such being publicly owned and governed by said governing authorities having statutory power thereover, which real, personal or mixed properties were either damaged, destroyed or lost as a direct result of a series of tornadoes which wrought unprecedented devastation to the State of Mississippi on Sunday, February 21, 1971.
MS Code § 27-107-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Tornado Disaster of 1971|§ 27-107-53. Administration of appropriation

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting is hereby made the sole administrator of the appropriation enacted during the regular session of 1971 to implement the provisions of Sections 27-107-51 through 27-107-61. It is authorized to utilize any of its general powers provided by Sections 27-103-1 through 27-103-75 [repealed], Mississippi Code of 1972, in making findings of fact and determinations as to the extent and degree of the damages, destruction or loss to the public properties and the dollar value thereof described in the preceding section. It shall take into consideration the appropriate economic factors, present and potential losses in city, county and state taxes, and revenues of all types, existing and subsequent federal laws, funds and programs, and other relevant facts and fiscal data in determining the amount of state grants and loans and reasonable conditions of the grants and loans made to the governing authorities of eligible counties and municipalities and the boards of trustees of public schools and junior colleges which have suffered publicly owned property loss and economic losses as a direct result of tornado damages on February 21, 1971.
MS Code § 27-107-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Tornado Disaster of 1971|§ 27-107-57. Counties and municipalities to maintain certain records

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting shall require boards of supervisors and the governing authorities of municipalities to maintain such minute books and other records as said commission deems reasonable and necessary for carrying out the purposes of Sections 27-107-51 through 27-107-61, including auditing by the state auditor of all expenditures of grants and loans made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 27-107-51 through 27-107-61 and also of federal grants, private gifts and donations authorized to be received hereunder.
MS Code § 27-107-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Tornado Disaster of 1971|§ 27-107-59. Borrowing from state general and special fund agencies

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting with the concurrence of the state bond commission is hereby authorized to borrow the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500.00) from one or a multiple of "state general fund agencies" or "state special fund agencies" at one time or as required for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Section 27-107-55. Such borrowing shall be done by appropriate resolution or order of said commission, and certified copies of each such order spread upon its minutes shall be provided the executive head of the state agency, state treasurer, state auditor, attorney general and governor. Funds disbursed by the commission from said loan fund shall be as provided herein. The commission shall have authority to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the purposes of Sections 27-107-51 through 27-107-61.