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MS Code § 19-4-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 4 - County Administrator|§ 19-4-1. Employment, qualifications and general duties

 [With regard to any county that is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]   The board of supervisors of any county is authorized, in its discretion, to employ a county administrator. The person employed as county administrator shall hold at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and shall have knowledgeable experience in any of the following fields: work projection, budget planning, accounting, purchasing, cost control, personnel management and road construction procedures. Such administrator, under the policies determined by the board of supervisors and subject to said board's general supervision and control, shall administer all county affairs falling under the control of the board and carry out the general policies of the board in conformity with the estimates of expenditures fixed in the annual budget as finally adopted by the board or as thereafter revised by appropriate action of the board.
MS Code § 19-4-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 4 - County Administrator|§ 19-4-3. Terms of employment; compensation

 [With regard to any county that is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]   The county administrator so employed shall hold office at the pleasure of the board of supervisors and his employment may be terminated at any time by a majority vote of the board of supervisors. He shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the board of supervisors which may be paid from the county general fund or from the proceeds of any tax levied by the board of supervisors for the support and maintenance of any unit of county government, excluding schools and hospitals, or from any funds which may be available to defray the financial administration expenses of county government. The board shall provide travel and transportation expense and other office expenses as are needed in the performance of the duties of the office of county administrator. Said travel and transportation expense shall be paid on itemized vouchers in accordance with the provisions of Section 25-3-41, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 19-4-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 4 - County Administrator|§ 19-4-3. Terms of employment; compensation

 [With regard to any county that is required to operate on a countywide system of road administration as described in Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]   The person appointed as county administrator under Section 19-4-1 shall serve at the will and pleasure of the board of supervisors and may be removed from such position by a majority vote of the board. The compensation of the county administrator shall be fixed by the board of supervisors and may be paid from the county general fund or from any funds which may be available to defray the financial administration expenses of county government. Any chancery clerk who agrees to also serve as county administrator may be paid, in addition to such compensation as he is otherwise entitled to receive by law, such additional compensation as the board deems him to be entitled commensurate with the additional duties he performs as county administrator. The board shall provide travel and transportation expense and other office expenses as are needed in the performance of the duties of the office of county administrator. Said travel and transportation expense shall be paid on itemized vouchers in accordance with the provisions of Section 25-3-41, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 19-4-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 4 - County Administrator|§ 19-4-5. Establishment of administration policies by board

 The board of supervisors by action spread upon the minutes shall establish the general policies to be followed in the administration of the county and the county administrator so employed shall have such duties and responsibilities as set forth in sections 19-4-1 through 19-4-9.
MS Code § 19-4-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 4 - County Administrator|§ 19-4-9. Oath and bond

 The county administrator shall take the official oath of office and shall give bond to the board of supervisors, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in a penalty equal to three percent (3%) of the sum of all the state and county taxes shown by the assessment rolls and the levies to have been collectible in the county for the year immediately preceding the commencement of the term of office for such administrator; however, such bond shall not exceed the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00). The bond premiums shall be paid from the county general fund or other available funds of the county.
MS Code § 19-7-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-1. Acquisition of certain real estate

 [With regard to any county that is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]   The board of supervisors shall have power to accept as a gift, or to purchase for the county, so much real estate, in fee simple, at the place where the courts may be required to sit, as may be convenient and necessary for the building and use of the courthouse and jail, and, at any convenient place in the county, property for fire protection purposes and homes and farms for the poor, the purchase money to be paid out of the county treasury, and the title to the property be made to and in the name of the county.   The board of supervisors of any county may acquire, by lease or purchase, grounds and buildings or may erect buildings on grounds owned by the county or road district, to be used by the county or road district in storing and preserving road machinery, trucks, teams or other county or road district property. The same shall be paid for out of the general fund or road district fund.
MS Code § 19-7-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-1. Acquisition of certain real estate

 [With regard to any county that is required to operate on a countywide system of road administration as described in Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]    The board of supervisors shall have power to accept as a gift, or to purchase for the county, so much real estate, in fee simple, at the place where the courts may be required to sit, as may be convenient and necessary for the building and use of the courthouse, county facilities and jail, and, at any convenient place in the county, property for fire protection purposes and homes and farms for the poor, the purchase money to be paid out of the county treasury, and the title to the property be made to and in the name of the county.   Subject to the provisions of Section 65-7-91, the board of supervisors of any county may purchase or lease grounds and buildings or may erect buildings on grounds owned or leased by the county, to be used by the county in storing and preserving road machinery, trucks or other county property. The same shall be paid for out of the general fund of the county or out of road maintenance and bridge funds.
MS Code § 19-7-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-5. Disposal of personal property

 The board of supervisors shall have the power to sell and dispose of any personal property and real property belonging to the county or any subdivision thereof according to the uniform personal property and real property disposal requirements for local governments in Section 17-25-25. For purposes of this section, the term "personal property," includes, but is not limited to, equipment, vehicles, fixtures, furniture, firearms and commodities.   Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit, restrict or to prescribe conditions with regard to the authority granted under Section 17-25-3.
MS Code § 19-7-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-7. Insurance on county property

 The board of supervisors may have the courthouse, jail and other buildings of the county, the furniture thereof, the books of the county, and the personal property of the county, insured against loss by fire, cyclone and tornado, and other hazards. The board of supervisors may carry steam boiler, plate glass and other miscellaneous casualty insurance against loss of county property, as in the discretion of the board of supervisors may seem proper. The cost thereof shall be paid out of the county treasury.   The boards of supervisors of two (2) or more counties may pool their risks under this section and may provide for the purchase of one or more policies of property insurance, or the establishment of a self-insurance fund or self-insurance reserves, or any combination thereof. The cost of participation shall be paid out of the general fund of the county. The administration and service of any such self-insurance program shall be contracted to a third party and approved by the Commissioner of Insurance.
MS Code § 19-7-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-9. Tagging of motor vehicles

 The board of supervisors shall place license tags or identification tags on all county automobiles, trucks and tractors.
MS Code § 19-7-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-11. Erection or renovation of courthouse or jail

 If a new courthouse or jail shall be required in any county, or if the courthouse or jail shall need remodeling, enlarging, or repairing, the board of supervisors shall determine the material, the dimensions, and the plan thereof, and may make the necessary contracts for the erection, remodeling, enlarging, or repairing thereof, and for furnishing the materials. The board may appoint one or more commissioners to superintend the work as it progresses, which commissioner or commissioners shall take care that the proper materials are furnished, and that the work is faithfully performed according to contract, and who, for his or their services, shall receive a reasonable compensation.   The board of supervisors of any county having two judicial districts, and in which State Highways 18 and 15 intersect, is further authorized to issue negotiable bonds of either of the judicial districts of such county for the purpose of erecting, equipping, repairing, reconstructing, remodeling, and enlarging the courthouse in and for the judicial district for which such bonds are issued. All such bonds shall be issued in like manner and subject to the same limitations and provisions as are set forth by law with reference to the issuance of county-wide bonds.
MS Code § 19-7-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-13. Employment of janitor and assistants

 The board of supervisors, in its discretion, may employ a janitor and necessary assistants for the courthouse and county buildings, their salaries to be fixed by the board and to be paid out of any funds in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated.
MS Code § 19-7-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-15. Employment of caretaker of county lands

 The boards of supervisors of the various counties of this state may, in their discretion, employ a competent person to look after the interest of the county in any lands that may be owned by such county other than sixteenth section or lieu lands, or lands acquired under foreclosure proceedings under deeds in trust securing loans of sixteenth section school funds, and to pay such person a salary of not exceeding Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1800.00) annually for such services. Such salary will be paid out of the revenue derived from such lands, and at the end of the year during which such services are rendered. The boards of supervisors may, in their discretion, employ the county superintendent of education to perform the duties and services provided for herein, and pay such county superintendent the salary provided for herein in addition to the salary as superintendent of education.   Moreover, the boards of supervisors of said counties in this state are hereby authorized in their discretion to pay to the secretary of the superintendents of education in said counties in this state, an additional sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) per annum out of the revenues derived from such lands in said counties, at the end of the year during which such services are rendered. Said sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) per annum shall be in addition to the salaries now authorized by law to be paid to said secretaries of the county superintendents of education in this state.
MS Code § 19-7-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-17. Employment of caretaker of county lands; duties of caretaker

 It shall be the duty of such person when employed to look after and collect the rents on such land, to see that the improvements on the same are kept in good condition, and to prevent waste and depredation to such property.
MS Code § 19-7-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-19. Employment of caretaker of county lands; minutes of board to be sole authority

 The boards of supervisors shall not enter into a contract, as provided for in Section 19-7-15, except by placing the same on their minutes, and in the event any such contract be made without complying with this section, the party attempted to be employed shall not receive any compensation whatever for any services that he may have performed thereunder.
MS Code § 19-7-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-21. Counties conveying land for state park may lease retained mineral interests

 Any county which has acquired and conveyed or may hereafter acquire and convey any land for state park purposes and has retained or does retain the mineral rights thereunder may lease the same for oil, gas and other minerals either jointly or severally.   Such lease or leases may be made only after legal advertisement for bids therefor have been published once a week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper having a general circulation in the county. It shall be necessary to describe the property in the advertisement by its popular name and by giving a definite legal description by metes and bounds. Said lease, with the legal description of the property set out therein, shall be executed to the highest and best bidder therefore on all the tract involved and shall contain a provision therein that no part of the property involved in said lease shall be dropped during the lifetime of said lease, which shall not be for a longer period than ten years, unless production in commercial quantities results, and that if the delay rentals are not paid on all the property then said lease in its entirety shall become null and void. No lease shall become effective after its acceptance by the board of supervisors until the same shall have the written approval of the state mineral lease commission and the Mississippi Board of Park Examiners affixed thereto.   From the proceeds arising from the execution of the original lease there shall be paid all cost of advertising herein required and other expenses necessary and incident to the execution thereof, and any balance then remaining on hand and accruing thereafter as a result of the rents, profits and income accruing from the lease shall be used, first, to build necessary bridges in the particular park property affected and, second, any balance then remaining on hand shall be used to call or pay any county-wide bonds now or hereafter outstanding and, third, if there be no outstanding county-wide bonds, then such balance shall be paid into the general funds of the county.   Whenever production in commercial quantities is made on any property involved in such lease, the lessee shall not be required to pay delay rentals thereafter so long as such production continues.   The proceeds to be paid to the county from the production of the oil, gas or other minerals shall be subject to all severance taxes imposed by law, just the same as if the county was an individual or corporation.   The lessee shall be liable for all damages to property incurred by any operation in carrying out the terms of said lease.   Nothing in this section shall in any way be construed to limit, abrogate, or otherwise restrict any right, title, or interest in the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 19-7-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-23. Furnishing of courthouse

 The board of supervisors shall provide for properly furnishing the courthouse and for supplying all county offices with necessary record books, stationery, seals, presses, iron safes, tables, chairs, furniture, and all other necessary articles, and the board shall provide the chancery clerk's office with a copy of the field notes of the United States survey, transcripts of records of other counties which relate to or affect titles of property in its county, the original entries of land and the necessary township maps, and provide for the safe and orderly keeping of all the records thereof, and shall make all needful allowances, payable out of the county treasury, therefor. On the order of the circuit court, or the chancery court, the board shall allow all sums expended for supplying the offices and courtrooms with all such necessary articles, but an allowance shall not be made for printing in record books of conveyances.
MS Code § 19-7-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-25. Providing books and bookcase for courtroom

 The board of supervisors of each county shall provide and have placed in the courtroom of the courthouse a suitable bookcase, with doors and lock, of sufficient capacity to hold not less than two hundred law books, in which the Mississippi reports, digests thereof, statutes of the state, and other books belonging or furnished to the county, shall be kept, The board of supervisors shall purchase any volume of said reports, digests and statutes which may be lost or destroyed, and shall have bound all of such books as need to be rebound for preservation, all of which shall be paid for out of the county treasury. Additional bookcases shall be furnished when necessary.
MS Code § 19-7-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-27. Providing bulletin boards for legal notices

 The board of supervisors shall provide suitable bulletin boards, to be placed conspicuously at or near the main entrance to the courthouse, upon which all notices required to be there posted may be placed.
MS Code § 19-7-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-29. Maintenance of courthouse yard

 The board of supervisors of each county may in their discretion maintain a good and sufficient fence around the courthouse yard, and, when necessary, a substantial pavement on the walks of the same, and may have shade trees planted therein, and shall provide for the absolute exclusion of all livestock therefrom. No tent or booth may be erected on the courthouse yard to be used for the advertising or the vending of any goods, wares, notions or nostrums, or for doing the business of a photographer, unless written authorization therefor is obtained from the board of supervisors. The board of supervisors may pave and improve the streets around the courthouse yard.
MS Code § 19-7-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-33. Regulation of parking on courthouse and other county lands

 The board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized and empowered to regulate the parking of motor vehicles on county public lands on which the courthouse and other county buildings are located, or any other lands under the control and jurisdiction of the county.
MS Code § 19-7-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-35. Procurement of artesian well on county property

 The board of supervisors may procure an artesian well on the property used for the courthouse, jail, county farm, or poorhouse, and owned by the county, by contract with some person or corporation to complete said well on said property, or by hiring laborers, manager, and machinery to sink the well under supervision of the board or some one appointed by it to superintend the work. The cost of said well shall be paid out of the county treasury, on the allowance of the board, as other accounts against the county are paid. The board of supervisors shall make the best contracts it can in the interest of the county in procuring said well, without advertising for the bidders as required by law in letting other contracts, but having the clerk of the board write a number of persons or corporations engaged in such work, inviting them to come before the board to submit propositions. If no proposition submitted is satisfactory, the board shall not accept any proposition at that meeting, but shall extend invitations as before for another meeting, and so continue until the board gets a proposition submitted that is satisfactory.
MS Code § 19-7-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 7 - Property and Facilities|§ 19-7-37. Use of part of oil severance tax funds for building and permanent improvements

 The board of supervisors of any county receiving a part of the oil severance tax under the provisions of Sections 27-25-501 et seq., is hereby authorized to allocate a part of the money so received to a fund or funds for building and permanent improvements for the county or for any school district or for any road district, and the money so allocated to any such fund or funds may be expended for any purpose as now authorized by law. The authority to allocate a part of the oil severance tax to a fund, or funds, for buildings and other permanent improvements shall be in addition to the authority of the board of supervisors granted by Section 27-25-3.