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MS Code § 37-65-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 1 - Closing Pursuant to Governor's Proclamation|§ 37-65-13. Routes and facilities may be changed to accommodate transportation of pupils during school closure

 Upon or during any closure of any school in accordance with the provisions of this article, any and all transportation routes or transportation facilities may be changed or adjusted by the interested board or boards of trustees to accommodate the transportation of children who would be otherwise entitled to transportation had such closure not occurred.
MS Code § 37-65-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 1 - Closing Pursuant to Governor's Proclamation|§ 37-65-15. Closing of schools shall not affect retirement benefits

 Upon or during any closure of any school, junior college or institution of higher learning in accordance with the terms of this article, the retirement benefits under existing law of any teacher, superintendent, principal or other employee shall in no way be affected by the same or because of the period of time elapsing during which such school, junior college or institution of higher learning may be closed.
MS Code § 37-65-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 1 - Closing Pursuant to Governor's Proclamation|§ 37-65-17. Period of closure shall not be deducted from time earned toward certification

 Should any school, junior college or institution of higher learning be closed in accordance with the terms of this article, such period of closure shall not be subtracted from the period of time which would otherwise be earned by any superintendent, principal, teacher or other employee employed to render services in and about the conduct and operation of any such school, junior college or institution of higher learning, as to any certification to which such person might otherwise be entitled.
MS Code § 37-65-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 1 - Closing Pursuant to Governor's Proclamation|§ 37-65-19. Elapsed time during closure shall not be deducted from time schools are required to be operated during scholastic year

 The period of time which may elapse during any closure of any school, junior college or institution of higher learning in accordance with the terms of this article, shall not be deducted or counted as a deduction from any period of time which by any other law of this state such school, junior college or institution of higher learning is required to be operated in any scholastic year. The provision of any other law of this state setting a minimum time or number of days which any such school, junior college or institution of higher learning is required to be operated in any scholastic year shall not prevent the closure provided for in this article, and in the event of any conflict between the terms of this article and any such other law, the provisions of this article shall control.
MS Code § 37-65-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 1 - Closing Pursuant to Governor's Proclamation|§ 37-65-21. Construction of article

 The fact that the power and authority to close any one or more or all of the schools of any school district, or any agricultural high school, or any agricultural high school and junior college, or any institution of higher learning may be by some other law of the State of Mississippi vested in some other person or officer or board shall not cause this article and any other such law to be in conflict nor shall same be construed to be in conflict with each other, and the power and authority vested in each such board or boards of trustees or person or officer may be exercised by each or either, independent of the other such board or boards or person or persons or officer or officers.
MS Code § 37-65-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-101. Conditions under which board of trustees may close public schools

 In addition to all other power and authority which may now be vested in any board of trustees of any school district by the constitution or statutes, or both, of the State of Mississippi, any such board of trustees is hereby vested with the authority to close any one or more or all schools in any school district when, in its discretion, it determines such closure to be to the best interest of a majority of the educable children of the territory served, or to the best interest of a majority of the children enrolled in any such school or schools. Said board of trustees is also vested with the authority, in its discretion, to close any one or more or all schools in any school district when such board, in its discretion, determines such closure will promote or preserve the public peace, order or tranquility of the district.
MS Code § 37-65-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-103. Order closing schools

 The decision or determination to close any one or more or all schools of the district shall be effectuated and evidenced by an order of such board of trustees directing the same, entered upon the minutes of such board, and the same shall be sufficient by an adjudication or determination therein of any one or more reasons authorizing such action as set out in Section 37-65-101, and it shall not be necessary to include in said order any fact or detail other than the said reason or reasons above mentioned.   Any one or more or all schools of the district which may be closed, as hereinabove provided for, shall remain closed until further order of said board of trustees made and entered upon its minutes opening such school or schools or all schools of the district.
MS Code § 37-65-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-105. Salaries of superintendents, teachers and other employees may be paid while schools are closed

 The board of trustees of any such school district may, in its discretion, pay all or any part of the salary of all superintendents, principals, teachers and other employees during or for the period when any of the said schools are closed in accordance with the terms of this article, and funds shall be drawn from the same source or sources as such funds would be drawn to pay such items if the school or schools had not been closed.
MS Code § 37-65-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-107. Students affected by closing of school may be transferred to other schools

 Upon and during the closure in accordance with the provisions of this article of any school, the educable children or enrolled students affected thereby may be assigned or transferred, as the case may be, to another school or district, as the case may be, in accordance with the laws of this state.
MS Code § 37-65-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-109. Teachers and other employees affected by closing of schools may be placed in other schools

 Upon or during any period of closure in accordance with the provisions of this article, any teacher or other employee affected thereby may be, by the board of trustees of such school district, placed in any other school within the district, or in a school or schools of another convenient district.
MS Code § 37-65-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-111. Routes and facilities may be changed to accommodate transportation of pupils during school closure

 Upon or during any closure of any school according to the provisions of this article, any and all transportation routes or transportation facilities may be changed or adjusted by the interested board or boards of trustees to accommodate the transportation of children who would be otherwise entitled to transportation had such closure not occurred.
MS Code § 37-65-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-113. Closing of schools shall not affect retirement benefits

 Upon or during any closure of any school in accordance with the terms of this article, the retirement benefits under existing law of any teacher, superintendent, principal or other employee shall in no way be affected by the same or because of the period of time elapsing while such school or junior college or institution of high learning may be closed.
MS Code § 37-65-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-115. Period of closure shall not be deducted from time earned toward certification

 Should any school be closed in accordance with the terms of this article, such period of closure shall not be subtracted from the period of time which would otherwise be earned by any superintendent, principal, teacher or other employee employed to render services in and about the conduct and operation of any such school, as to any certification to which such person might otherwise be entitled.
MS Code § 37-65-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-117. Elapsed time during closure not to be deducted from time schools are required to be operated during scholastic year

 The period of time which may elapse during any closure of any school in accordance with the terms of this article, shall not be deducted or counted as a deduction from any period of time which by any other law of this state such school is required to be operated in any scholastic year. The provisions of any other law of this state setting a minimum time or number of days which any such school is required to be operated in any scholastic year shall not prevent the closure provided for in this article, and, in the event of any conflict between the terms of this article and any such other law, the provisions of this article shall control.
MS Code § 37-65-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-121. Copies of petition shall be forwarded to state superintendent of public education

 A signed duplicate original copy or a photostatic or other reproduced copy, not a hand or typewritten copy, of the petition or petitions provided for in Section 37-65-119, shall be sent by registered or certified mail to the state superintendent of public education on the day when one such copy shall have been filed with or delivered to the president or secretary of the board of trustees to which such petitions be directed. Such copy or copies above mentioned may be transmitted to the state superintendent of public education by the person or persons filing or delivering same to said president or secretary of said board of trustees and shall be accompanied by the oath of such person or persons as to such facts and the date or dates on which such action was done. If such is not done the original petition shall have no validity.   All duplicate original signed copies or other copy or copies of said petitions, as hereinabove provided for, shall be preserved for not less than one calendar year from the date of said filing and same shall be public records.
MS Code § 37-65-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-123. "Qualified elector" defined

 The words "qualified elector" or "qualified electors" for the purposes of this article, shall in addition to the provisions of the first paragraph of Section 37-65-119, mean:   A person, who on the day he or she signs any petition provided for in the section, is properly registered and qualified to vote in a county wide election of the county if such were then held, according to the voter roll as electronically maintained in the Statewide Elections Management System in the office of the circuit clerk and registrar of the county, in which all or any part of the school district is located, and who is a resident of the school district in which one or more schools have been closed, and who (a) is qualified to vote in an election of a trustee of that school district, if any be elective and (b) if the school district be a municipal separate school district or a special municipal separate school district and such person lives within the corporate limits of the municipality then such person must be qualified to vote in a city wide election if such were held on the day he or she signs any petition herein provided for.
MS Code § 37-65-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-125. Details of petitions

 No person shall sign any such petition or petitions provided for in Section 37-65-119 who is not a qualified elector. All petitions shall be signed in person. Opposite or under his name, every signer shall, in a manner readily identifiable with his name, give the following information: his post office and street address, if any; the name in or by which he is registered upon the county registration books; his occupation; where employed, if employed; the voting precinct where he last voted if he has voted within the last three years; if the school district includes part of two judicial districts and has two offices of the circuit clerk and registrar, he shall specify the municipality in which is located the circuit clerk's office where he is registered; and whether he is parent, natural or adoptive, or guardian, as the case may be, of a child or children enrolled in a school of the district and if so, the name of the child or children and the school in which said child or children may be enrolled. Any name signed to such a petition which does not give all information required above shall not constitute a valid signature to any such petition and shall be disregarded in computing the number of qualified electors who may have signed any such petition.
MS Code § 37-65-127 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-127. Board may act at regular or special meeting

 Any action or order of the board of trustees provided for in this article or deemed necessary may be taken at any regular or special meeting thereof, held at the place where such board holds its regular meetings, or otherwise as provided in this article and at which a majority of the board of trustees shall be present.
MS Code § 37-65-129 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-129. Appeals

 In the event any board of trustees shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of Sections 37-65-119 through 37-65-127, a failure to act being equivalent to a refusal, then any ten or more qualified electors who have personally signed said petition may appeal from the action or nonaction of such board of trustees to the chancery court of the county in which all or a major portion of such school district is situated, within twenty days after the date by which said board is required to determine whether such petition or petitions are properly signed by the required percentage of qualified electors necessary to require the opening of any school or schools of the district which have been closed. Such appeal shall not serve as a supersedeas or cause an opening of such school or schools pending the hearing of the appeal unless a court or chancellor in vacation, for good cause shown, orders such school or schools to be opened pending the appeal. The appeal shall be by sworn bill of complaint, filed in such chancery court within said twenty-day period. The secretary of the interested board or boards of trustees shall, within fifteen days after the filing of such bill of complaint, file in such chancery court a certified copy of all orders, petitions and findings by such board of trustees; however, he may, in his discretion, file, instead of making copies thereof, the duplicate original copy of the petitions theretofore filed or delivered, if such has been done, with the president or secretary of said board of trustees. Neither the provisions of this section nor any other provision of this article shall be or constitute any waiver of the immunity from suit of any school district or member of the board of trustees thereof except strictly in accord with the terms of this article.   The hearing on appeal shall be de novo and may be heard in term time or in vacation on such date as the chancellor may set. The court may enter such order as the board of trustees involved should have made or affirm the action of such board of trustees. Said appeal shall be tried in the same manner and by the same rules of pleading, procedure and evidence as other causes in chancery courts of Mississippi. The action of such board of trustees shall be affirmed if there be substantial evidence to support the action taken by it. The said board and any qualified electors of the district, by proper pleading, answer or demurrer as used in the chancery courts of this state, may defend the action or nonaction of the board from which the appeal is taken, and be a party thereto.   Any parties to such appeal may appeal from the decision of the chancellor or chancery court to the supreme court of Mississippi as in appeals in other cases from the chancery courts of this state and such case shall be a preference case and treated as such.
MS Code § 37-65-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 65 - Closing of Public Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning|Article 3 - Closing Pursuant to Board of Trustees' Order|§ 37-65-131. Construction of article

 The fact that the power and authority to close any one or more or all of the schools of any school district may, by some other law of the State of Mississippi, be vested in some other person or officer or board shall not cause this article and any other such law to be in conflict nor shall the same be construed to be in conflict with each other, and the power and authority vested in each such board or boards of trustees or person or officer may be exercised by each or either, independent of the other such board or boards or person or persons or officer or officers.
MS Code § 37-101-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 101 - Institutions of Higher Learning; General Provisions|In General|§ 37-101-1. Management of state institutions of higher learning

 The following state institutions of higher learning, namely:   The University of Mississippi;   The Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science;   The Mississippi State College for Women;   The University of Southern Mississippi;   The Delta State College;   The Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College;   The Jackson State College;   The Mississippi Valley State College;   and any other of like kind which may be hereafter established by the state;   shall be under the management and control of a board of trustees to be known as the board of trustees of state institutions of higher learning.
MS Code § 37-101-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 101 - Institutions of Higher Learning; General Provisions|In General|§ 37-101-2. Welfare Policy Institute

 There is hereby established within the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning a Welfare Policy Institute at a campus location to be designated by the board of trustees. The purpose of the institute shall be to research and gather empirical information regarding the social and welfare programs authorized under Sections 43-49-1 through 43-49-15, 43-13-115, 43-17-1, 43-17-5, 43-1-8, 43-1-10, 43-1-30 and 37-101-2 and to write grant proposals regarding the policy implications of such program.