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MS Code § 19-31-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-31. Authorization for certain persons to use certain funds for purchase of district-issued obligations

 The state and all public officers, any county, municipality or other subdivision or instrumentality of the state, any political subdivision, any bank, banker, trust company, savings bank and institution, building and loan association, savings and loan association, investment company or any person carrying on a banking or investment business, any insurance company or business, insurance association and any person carrying on an insurance business, any executor, administrator, curator, trustee and other fiduciary, and any retirement system fund may legally invest any sinking funds, monies or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds or other obligations issued by the district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and such bonds or other obligations shall be authorized security for all public deposits. It is the purpose of this section to authorize such persons, firms, corporations, associations, political subdivisions and officers, or other entities public or private, to use any funds owned or controlled by them, including but not limited to sinking, insurance, investment, retirement, compensation, pension and trust funds, and funds held on deposit, for the purchase of any such bonds or other obligations of the district and that any such bonds shall be authorized security for all public deposits. However, nothing contained in this section with regard to legal investments or security for public deposits shall be construed as relieving any such person, firm, corporation or other entity from any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.
MS Code § 19-31-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-35. Enforcement of liens

 Any lien in favor of the district arising under this chapter may be enforced by the district in a court of competent jurisdiction as provided by law.
MS Code § 19-31-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-37. Compliance with public purchasing provisions of Title 31, Chapter 7

 The district shall comply with the provisions of Section 31-7-1 et seq., regarding the construction of public works or the purchase of materials or supplies.
MS Code § 19-31-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-39. Establishment and collection of rates, fees, rentals, or other charges for use of district facilities and services; public hearing; notice

  The district may prescribe, fix, establish and collect rates, fees, rentals or other charges for the facilities and services furnished by the district, within the limits of the district, including, but not limited to, recreational facilities, water management and control facilities and water and sewer systems. The district may also recover the costs of making connection with any district facility or system and provide for reasonable penalties against any user or property for any such rates, fees, rentals or other charges that are delinquent.   No such rates, fees, rentals or other charges for any of the facilities or services of the district may be fixed until after a public hearing at which all the users of the proposed facility or services shall have an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposed rates, fees, rentals or other charges. Notice of such public hearing setting forth the proposed schedule of rates, fees, rentals and other charges shall be published in a newspaper having general circulation in each county where the district is located once at least ten (10) days before such public hearing.
MS Code § 19-31-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-41. Nonpayment, delinquency charges, and discontinuance of service

 The district shall provide by ordinance with respect to nonpayment, delinquency charges and discontinuance of service for water and sewer services provided by the district.
MS Code § 19-31-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-43. Change in district boundaries; termination or dissolution of district

  The boundaries of the district may be contracted or expanded in the same manner in which the district was created pursuant to this chapter; however, the petition must be filed by the board and must contain the written consent of all landowners within only the proposed area of expansion or contraction.     Subject to the limitations of paragraph (b) of this subsection, the district may be terminated or dissolved in one (1) of the following ways:   The district may be terminated or dissolved upon the transfer of all the public improvement services of the district to a unit of local government. The district shall be terminated in accordance with a plan of termination which shall be adopted by the board of directors and filed with the clerk of the court.   If, within five (5) years after the effective date of the ordinance creating the district, a landowner has not received a development permit on some part or all of the area covered by the district, then the district will be automatically dissolved and a court of competent jurisdiction shall cause a statement to that effect to be filed in the public records.   If the district has become inactive, the county or municipality that created the district shall be informed and shall take appropriate action.     Following the establishment of the district with no timely appeal challenging the district, a district may not be dissolved or terminated if any bonds issued by the district, or bonds for which the district is obligated, are outstanding or are secured by special assessments or other security instruments to which the district is a party in connection with the bonds.
MS Code § 19-31-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-45. Disclosure statement in contracts and instruments of conveyance of parcels of real property

 After the establishment of a district under this chapter, each contract and instrument of conveyance of a parcel of real property within the district shall include, immediately before the space reserved in the contract and instrument of conveyance for the signature of the purchaser, the following disclosure statement in boldfaced and conspicuous type which is larger than the type in the remaining text of the contract and the instrument of conveyance: "THE (Name of District) PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT MAY IMPOSE AND LEVY ASSESSMENTS ON THIS PROPERTY. THESE ASSESSMENTS PAY THE CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE COSTS OF CERTAIN PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES OF THE DISTRICT AND ARE SET ANNUALLY BY THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE DISTRICT. THESE ASSESSMENTS ARE IN ADDITION TO COUNTY AND OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS AND ALL OTHER TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS PROVIDED FOR BY LAW."   However, the failure to include the above language does not and may not be deemed to invalidate any assessment levied by the district or the contract or instrument of conveyance of the real property.
MS Code § 19-31-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-47. Notice of establishment of public improvement district

 Within thirty (30) days after the effective date of the ordinance establishing a public improvement district under this chapter, the district shall cause to be recorded in the sectional index and the subdivisional index, if applicable, in the land records in each county in which it is located a "Notice of Establishment of the_____________________________________Public Improvement District." The notice shall include the legal description of the district and a copy of the disclosure statement specified in this chapter.
MS Code § 19-31-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-49. Chapter to be liberally construed

 This chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its residents, shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
MS Code § 19-31-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 31 - Public Improvement Districts|§ 19-31-51. Certificate of public convenience and necessity

  No public improvement district established under this chapter shall provide any utility service described in Section 77-3-3(d) to or for the public for compensation without first obtaining a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Public Service Commission.   Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the Public Service Commission from issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity to any person for service in uncertificated areas within public improvement district boundaries.   Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, water and/or sewer districts that petition the Public Service Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for any uncertificated area shall give written notice by regular mail to all property owners located in such area, as reflected on the tax rolls of the county or counties at the time of filing the petition, at the address listed on the tax rolls of the county or counties within such area, and to public improvement districts and other public entities located in such area. Such notice shall give the property owners and the governmental entities instructions on how they may appear before the Public Service Commission and make any objections or otherwise participate as an interested party.
MS Code § 21-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-1. Adoption of code charter

 Any municipality not now operating under a "Code Charter" may acquire such charter and come under the provisions of this chapter by a majority vote of the electors therein, cast at a general or special election held for such purpose. At such election, the propositions to be voted on shall be "FOR THE CODE CHARTER" and "AGAINST THE CODE CHARTER." If a majority of the legal votes cast are in favor of adopting the code charter, then the municipality shall be subject to and governed by all the following provisions of this chapter, and the result of the election shall be certified to the secretary of state, who shall make a record of same in his office. If a majority of the votes cast shall be against the code charter, the municipal authorities shall so enter of record, and another election submitting the question shall not be held within four years thereafter. After the rejection of the provisions of the code charter by a municipality, and until its acceptance thereof as herein provided, the corporate powers, rights and franchises thereof shall be and remain as now provided by law.
MS Code § 21-3-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-3. Elective officers; certain officers may be appointive

 The elective officers of all municipalities operating under a code charter shall be the mayor, the aldermen, municipal judge, the marshal or chief of police, the tax collector and the tax assessor. From and after July 1, 2017, the governing authorities of the municipality shall appoint a city or town clerk who shall likewise serve as an officer of the municipality. However, the governing authorities of the municipality shall have the power, by ordinance, to combine the office of clerk or marshal with the office of tax collector and/or tax assessor. Such governing authorities shall have the further power to provide that all or any of such officers, except those of mayor and aldermen, shall be appointive, in which case the marshal or chief of police, the tax collector, the tax assessor, and the city or town clerk, or such of such officers as may be made appointive, shall be appointed by the governing authorities. Any action taken by the governing authorities to make any of such offices appointive shall be by ordinance of such municipality, and no such ordinance shall be adopted within ninety (90) days prior to any regular general election for the election of municipal officers. No such ordinance shall become effective during the term of office of any officer whose office shall be affected thereby. If any such office is made appointive, the person appointed thereto shall hold office at the pleasure of the governing authorities and may be discharged by such governing authorities at any time, either with or without cause, and it shall be discretionary with the governing authorities whether or not to require such person appointed thereto to reside within the corporate limits of the municipality in order to hold such office.
MS Code § 21-3-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-5. Appointive officers

 From and after the expiration of the terms of office of present municipal officers, the mayor and board of aldermen of all municipalities operating under this chapter shall have the power and authority to appoint a street commissioner, and such other officers and employees as may be necessary, and to prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of all such officers and employees. All officers and employees so appointed shall hold office at the pleasure of the governing authorities and may be discharged by such governing authorities at any time, either with or without cause. The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to appoint the same person to any two (2) or more of the appointive offices, and in a municipality having a population of less than fifteen thousand (15,000), according to the latest available federal census, a member of the board of aldermen may be appointed to the office of street commissioner. In municipalities not having depositories, the clerk shall serve as ex officio treasurer. The municipal governing authorities shall require all officers and employees handling or having the custody of any public funds of such city to give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in an amount to be determined by the governing authority (which shall be not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00)), the premium on same to be paid from the municipal treasury. The terms of office or employment of all officers and employees so appointed shall expire at the expiration of the term of office of the governing authorities making the appointment, unless such officers or employees shall have been sooner discharged as herein provided. All officers and employees so appointed are authorized to serve until the appointment and qualification of their successors not exceeding the limitation period provided in Section 21-15-41.
MS Code § 21-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-9. Qualifications of mayor and aldermen

 The mayor and members of the board of aldermen shall be qualified electors of the municipality and, in addition, the aldermen elected from and by wards shall be residents of their respective wards.
MS Code § 21-3-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-11. Office of alderman or mayor vacated by removal of residence

 If any person elected as an alderman from a particular ward shall remove his residence from said ward, his office shall automatically be vacated, and if the mayor or any alderman elected from the municipality at large shall remove his residence from such municipality, the office shall likewise automatically be vacated. The vacancy shall be declared by the mayor and board of aldermen in the case of an alderman and by the board of aldermen in the case of a mayor, and such vacancy shall be filled in the manner prescribed by law.
MS Code § 21-3-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-13. Mayor pro tempore

 The board of aldermen shall elect from among its members a mayor pro tempore, who shall serve in the place of the mayor in cases of temporary absence or disability of the mayor.
MS Code § 21-3-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-15. Duties of the mayor; authority of the board of aldermen

  The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the board of aldermen, and in case there shall be an equal division, shall give the deciding vote. The executive power of the municipality shall be exercised by the mayor, and the mayor shall have the superintending control of all the officers and affairs of the municipality, and shall take care that the laws and ordinances are executed.     The legislative power of the municipality shall be exercised by the board of aldermen by a vote within a legally called meeting. No member of the board of aldermen shall give orders to any employee or subordinate of a municipality other than the alderman's personal staff.   Ordinances adopted by the board of aldermen shall be submitted to the mayor. The mayor shall, within ten (10) days after receiving any ordinance, either approve the ordinance by affixing his signature thereto, or return it to the board of aldermen by delivering it to the municipal clerk together with a written statement setting forth his objections thereto or to any item or part thereof. No ordinance or any item or part thereof shall take effect without the mayor's approval, unless the mayor fails to return an ordinance to the board of aldermen prior to the next meeting of the board, but no later than fifteen (15) days after it has been presented to him, or unless the board of aldermen, upon reconsideration thereof on or after the third day following its return by the mayor, shall, by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the board, resolve to override the mayor's veto.     The term "ordinance" as used in this section shall be deemed to include ordinances, resolutions and orders.
MS Code § 21-3-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-17. Signing of commissions and appointments; approval of bonds

 The mayor shall sign the commissions and appointments of all officers elected and appointed by the mayor and board of aldermen. Such commissions and appointments shall be attested by the clerk. The refusal, failure or neglect of the mayor to sign such commissions and appointments, or the refusal, failure or neglect of the clerk to attest same, shall not affect the validity of the acts of such officer when the minutes show the election or appointment was regularly had or made by the board. All bonds payable to the municipality shall be approved by the mayor and clerk.
MS Code § 21-3-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-19. Regular meetings of board of aldermen; recess of meetings; quorum

  The mayor and board of aldermen shall hold regular meetings the first Tuesday of each month at such place and hour as may be fixed by ordinance, and may, on a date fixed by ordinance, hold a second regular meeting in each month at the same place established for the first regular meeting provided the second meeting shall be held at a day and hour fixed by the ordinance which shall be not less than two (2) weeks from the first day of the first regular meeting and not more than three (3) weeks from the date thereof. When a regular meeting of the mayor and board of aldermen shall fall upon a holiday, the mayor and board shall meet the following day. The mayor and board may recess either meeting from time to time to convene on a day fixed by an order of the mayor and board entered on its minutes, and may transact any business coming before it for consideration. In all cases it shall require a majority of all aldermen to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The quorum required by this section may be established by teleconference or video means as provided in Section 25-41-5(2).   The mayor and board of aldermen may, pursuant to Section 21-17-17, set a day other than Tuesday for the holding of their regular monthly meeting.
MS Code § 21-3-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-21. Special meetings of board of aldermen

 The mayor or any two (2) aldermen may, by written notice, call a special meeting of the mayor and board of aldermen for the transaction of important business. The notice must state the time of meeting and distinctly specify the subject matters of business to be acted upon and be signed by the officer or officers calling the meeting. Notice of the meeting shall be given to the members of the board, including the mayor, who have not signed it and who can be found, at least three (3) hours before the time fixed for the meeting. The method of notice shall be entered on the minutes of the special meeting, and business not specified therein shall not be transacted at the meeting. A member of the board shall not receive pay for attending a special meeting.
MS Code § 21-3-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-23. Duties of street commissioner

 The street commissioner shall, under the direction of the mayor and board of aldermen, have general control of the streets, alleys, avenues, and sidewalks. He shall see that they are always in proper repair. He shall have the same worked, repaired, altered, paved, lighted, sprinkled, and everything else done that ought to be done to keep the same in good repair and condition, and shall perform all other duties that may be required of him by ordinance.
MS Code § 21-3-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 3 - Code Charters|§ 21-3-25. Chief administrative officer

  Any municipality operating under a "Code Charter" as provided for in Chapter 3, Title 21, Mississippi Code of 1972, may through the mayor and board of aldermen, establish the position of chief administrative officer of the municipality.   The establishment of the position of chief administrative officer shall be by ordinance, and shall require a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the mayor and board of aldermen. Any action taken by the governing authorities to establish such office shall not be adopted within ninety (90) days prior to any regular general election for the election of municipal officers. The chief administrative officer shall be a full time employee of the municipality and shall serve at the discretion of the mayor and board of aldermen. He shall receive such compensation as the mayor and board of aldermen may determine, and shall be chosen solely on the basis of experience and administrative qualifications. The chief administrative officer may hold one (1) or more other appointive positions in the municipality. No person elected to the board of aldermen shall be eligible for the office of chief administrative officer during the term for which such person was elected.   The chief administrative officer shall have such administrative duties and functions as shall be delegated to him by the mayor and board of aldermen.   Following the adoption of an ordinance pursuant to this section, the position of chief administrative officer shall not be established until after the next general municipal election, at which time the first chief administrative officer will be appointed.   Members of the board of aldermen shall have no administrative powers or duties which are delegated by ordinance to the chief administrative officer.