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MS Code § 21-19-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-35. Regulation of transient vendors and photographers; power of counties and municipalities; application of county and municipal ordinances

 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.
MS Code § 21-19-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-37. Regulation of "going-out-of-business" sales, "fire" sales, and similar sales

 The governing authorities of any municipality within this state are hereby authorized and empowered to adopt ordinances in the manner now provided by law to regulate the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise within the corporate limits of such municipality, subject to the provisions hereinafter named.   Such governing body is hereby authorized and empowered to enact an ordinance requiring any person, firm, or corporation desiring to conduct a sale commonly known as bankruptcy, insolvent, liquidation, assignee's, receiver's, trustee's, adjuster's, wholesale, manufacturer's, or closing-out sale, or a sale of goods damaged by fire, smoke, or water, or otherwise, to file with such governing authorities a petition for the privilege of conducting such sale, showing:   the nature of the sale and the length of time required by the petitioner for conducting said sale;   whether or not it is the purpose of said petitioner to replenish his stock of goods, wares, and merchandise during the course of the sale, and to what extent it is proposed to replenish said stock;   the place of sale and approximate value of goods to be sold.   Such governing authorities may provide for a privilege tax in any sum not in excess of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for the privilege of conducting such sale, and may provide that such privilege tax shall be good and valid only for the conduct of a sale of goods in the manner and at the time and place set forth and prescribed in the application for the privilege of conducting such sale.   Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed to authorize and empower municipal governing authorities to enact any ordinances to prevent or to interfere with any sale made by a trustee under a deed of trust or an assignment, or by sheriffs, constables, or other public or court officials, or by any other person or persons acting under the authority and/or direction of any court in the course of official duty, or by any duly licensed bona fide merchant of such municipality conducting a seasonal or special sale ordinarily conducted by merchants, or by any bona fide merchant who is closing out his stock of goods and advertises such sale to that effect, or by a bona fide merchant whose own stock of goods has been damaged by fire, smoke, water, or otherwise, and who advertises as such.   Such municipal governing authorities may, by ordinance, prescribe penalties for the violation of such ordinance and may make such violation of said ordinances punishable in the manner provided by law for the punishment of misdemeanors.   The provisions of this section shall apply to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under the code charter, a special charter, commission form, or other form of government.
MS Code § 21-19-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-39. Adoption of ordinances regulating sale at retail of goods and services on Sunday

  From and after July 1, 1986, the governing authorities of counties and municipalities may adopt, in the manner provided by law, ordinances regulating, restricting and prohibiting the sale of goods and services at retail on the day of the week commonly called "Sunday." Such ordinances may regulate, restrict or prohibit such sales by types and kinds of goods and services and may also regulate and restrict the hours during which such goods and services may be sold or offered for sale.   All valid ordinances of any county or municipality regulating, restricting or prohibiting the sale of goods and services on Sunday adopted prior to July 1, 1986, pursuant to the authority granted by and in conformity with the provisions of any of the laws amended or repealed by Chapter 302, Laws of 1986, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be null and void from and after July 1, 1986; provided, however, any ordinance adopted under the provisions of any other laws of this state shall not be affected.
MS Code § 21-19-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-41. Contributing to support of federal food stamp program

 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.
MS Code § 21-19-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-43. Encouraging establishment of industry

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to aid and encourage the establishment of manufactures and other new enterprises mentioned in Section 27-31-101, Mississippi Code of 1972, and gas works, water works, and cooperative rural electrification associations, but not railroads, within the corporate limits of municipalities, by exempting all tangible property used in or necessary to the operation thereof for such purposes from municipal taxation for a period not exceeding ten years as authorized by Sections 27-31-101 and 27-31-115, Mississippi Code of 1972, and as authorized by Section 192 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 21-19-44 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-44. Supporting certain local economic development organizations

 The municipal governing authorities of any municipality shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to execute contracts and agreements with, and to appropriate, contribute and donate to, or expend budgeted funds for, local economic development organizations and designated Main Street programs.
MS Code § 21-19-44.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-44.1. Donating to Main Street Project, Incorporated

 The governing authorities of any municipality in this state are authorized, in their discretion, to contribute, donate or appropriate annually out of any money in the treasury of the municipality, to the municipality's nonprofit corporation known as Main Street Project, Incorporated, for any economic development program or endeavor of the corporation, for the development of the municipality's central business district or for any lawful purpose of the municipality. Further, the governing authorities are authorized, in their discretion, to execute contracts and agreements and to expend municipal funds in support of any project sponsored by the corporation, the municipality or any other nonprofit corporation engaged in local economic development.
MS Code § 21-19-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-45. Donating to nonprofit civic and development corporations by certain municipalities

  Any municipality in the state having a population of less than five hundred according to the 1960 decennial census and being situated in a county bordering the State of Tennessee and having a 1960 population in excess of fifteen thousand but less than twenty thousand, and any municipality having a population according to the 1960 federal decennial census in excess of two thousand but less than two thousand two hundred and being in a county bordering the Pearl River and having an area in excess of eight hundred twenty-five square miles, and all municipalities located in counties with two judicial districts in which municipalities Mississippi Highway 35 runs and which have a population according to the latest available federal census in excess of three hundred forty-two but less than one thousand, acting by and through the mayor and board of aldermen, is authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to pay a sum not to exceed Two Hundred Twenty-Five Dollars ($225.00) per month to any nonprofit civic and development corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Mississippi for the purposes set forth herein.   The funds shall be expended by said nonprofit corporation for the purpose of building, equipping, maintaining and operating a community park, a community house, tennis courts, bowling lanes, lakes, golf courses and swimming pools, for the acquisition of land and facilities to be used for the aforesaid purposes, for the purchase of land and the making of improvements thereon for industrial development, and for other public purposes, and for the repayment of loans secured for the purposes set forth herein.   This section, without reference to any other statutes, shall be full and complete authority to expend the money for the purposes enumerated herein, and all powers necessary to be exercised by the mayor and board of aldermen in order to carry out the purposes of this section are herein expressly conferred on said mayor and board.   The mayor and board of aldermen are further authorized and empowered to adopt any and all lawful resolutions, orders, and/or ordinances, and to do and perform any and all acts and things necessary and requisite to carry out the purposes of this section.
MS Code § 21-19-46 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-46. Donating to Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)

 The governing authority of any municipality is authorized, in its discretion, to donate to any chapter of the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) out of any funds in the municipal treasury; however, the cumulative sum of donations to a chapter may not exceed the amount generated in the municipality by one-fourth (1/4) mill on all of the taxable property within the municipality during the fiscal year in which the donations are made.Nothing in this section authorizes the imposition of additional tax.
MS Code § 21-19-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-47. Donating to support bands and orchestras

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to appropriate funds each year in the amount that they may deem advisable, to be paid out of the treasury of such municipalities, toward aiding, supporting and maintaining a band or concert orchestra for the amusement and entertainment of the citizens of such municipalities.
MS Code § 21-19-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-49. Appropriation of funds or conveyance of buildings and property to school districts by local governments; contracts for provision of additional police protection for schools; off-duty law enforcement officers authorized to use public uniforms and equipment for school security purposes; municipalities authorized to donate to public school districts for certain purposes

  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.   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.   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 during such off-duty employment.   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.
MS Code § 21-19-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-51. Donating to fair associations

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to contribute, appropriate or donate to fair associations, domiciled in their respective county, a sum of money not to exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) per annum for the purpose of advertising, displaying, exhibiting or promoting the agricultural or industrial resources of such municipality or its respective county. The expenditure of such money, when contributed, appropriated or donated, shall be under the control of the municipality, and such governing authorities are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint one or as many as three individuals, in their discretion, to represent the municipal authorities in the proper expenditure of such money for said purpose in conjunction with the fair association. Before contributing, appropriating or donating any money to any fair association, such governing authorities shall publish notice of their intention to contribute, appropriate or donate money to said fair association, giving the amount of, and the date of making said contribution, appropriation or donation, in some newspaper published in the municipality, or having a general circulation therein if none be there published, for three weeks ending not less than ten days prior to the making of any contribution, appropriation or donation. If, before the making of said contribution, appropriation or donation, twenty per centum of the adult taxpayers of the municipality shall petition against such contribution, appropriation or donation, then the said contribution, appropriation or donation shall not be made, unless authorized by a majority of the electors voting in an election to be ordered for that purpose. All of the expenses of publishing the notice herein provided for and of holding any election hereunder shall be paid out of the municipal treasury.
MS Code § 21-19-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-53. Donating to support historical museums by certain municipalities

 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.
MS Code § 21-19-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-55. Donating to patriotic organizations

 The council or board of aldermen of any municipality in the state is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to donate a sum not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) to build or aid any post of the American Legion or the chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, any chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, or any post, unit or chapter of any patriotic organization within the county in building a memorial to the veterans of World Wars I and II, and a sum not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to aid in defraying the cost of the erection of suitable memorials to deceased soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late world wars. Such appropriation may be made even though no provision has been made therefor in the municipal budget.
MS Code § 21-19-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-57. Donating to American Red Cross

 Any mayor and board of commissioners of any city and/or any mayor and board of aldermen of any municipality in this state, are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to donate annually, out of any moneys in the municipal treasury, to be drawn by warrant thereon, a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per million of assessed valuation to the support of a local chapter of the American Red Cross, in said municipality.
MS Code § 21-19-58 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-58. Donating to Mississippi Burn Care Fund

 The board of supervisors of any county, and the governing authorities of any municipality in the state, are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to make contributions to the Mississippi Department of Health, or the University of Mississippi Medical Center after the Mississippi Burn Center is operational, for deposit to the Mississippi Burn Care Fund from the general fund or federal revenue sharing funds of such county or municipality wherein such funds may be available.
MS Code § 21-19-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-59. Donating to state colleges or universities for support of airport by certain municipalities

 Every municipality of this state, in or near which a state university or other state-supported four-year college is now or hereafter may be located, in which there has been constructed or is contemplated, an airport for use by said university or college, as the case may be, may, in the discretion of its governing authorities, contribute funds and aid and assist by the donation of lands, furnishing of materials and labor, use of general municipal operating funds, or otherwise, in acquiring a site, erecting suitable buildings, and constructing, equipping, maintaining and operating an airport for use by the university or college, as the case may be, and for use by the general public in said municipality.
MS Code § 21-19-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-61. Advertising of municipal activities by certain municipalities

 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.
MS Code § 21-19-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-63. Requiring maps of subdivisions to be furnished and approved; effect of dedication; easement declared abandoned

 The governing authorities of municipalities may provide that any person desiring to subdivide a tract of land within the corporate limits shall submit a map and plat of such subdivision, and a correct abstract of title of the land platted, to said governing authorities, to be approved by them before the same shall be filed for record in the land records of the county. Where the municipality has adopted an ordinance so providing, no such map or plat of any such subdivision shall be recorded by the chancery clerk unless same has been approved by said governing authorities. In all cases where a map or plat of the subdivision is submitted to the governing authorities of a municipality, and is by them approved, all streets, roads, alleys and other public ways set forth and shown on said map or plat shall be thereby dedicated to the public use, and shall not be used otherwise unless and until said map or plat is vacated in the manner provided by law, notwithstanding that said streets, roads, alleys or other public ways have not been actually opened for the use of the public. If any easement dedicated pursuant to the provisions of this section for a street, road, alley or other public purpose is determined to be not needed for the public purpose, the easement may be declared abandoned, and ownership of the fee underlying the easement shall revert, regardless of the date of dedication, to the adjoining property owner or owners at the time of abandonment. Ownership of the easement shall extend to the centerline of said abandoned street, road or public way. Such abandonment and reversion shall not affect any private easements which might exist.
MS Code § 21-19-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 19 - Health, Safety, and Welfare|§ 21-19-65. Matching funds for social and community service programs

 The governing authorities of any municipality shall have the power to expend monies from the municipal general fund to match any other funds for the purpose of supporting social and community service programs including, but not limited to, juvenile residential treatment centers; juvenile and half-way houses; prenatal care facilities; child day care facilities; mentally ill and alcoholics half-way houses; child and adult emergency shelters; elderly home health aides programs.