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MS Code § 25-1-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-47. Defense of public employees and satisfaction of judgment

  Any municipality of the State of Mississippi is hereby authorized and empowered, within the discretion of its governing authorities, to investigate and provide legal counsel for the defense of any claim, demand, or action, whether civil or criminal, made or brought against any state, county, school district, or municipal officer, agent, servant, employee, or appointee as a result of his actions while acting in the capacity of such officer, agent, servant, employee, or appointee; and such municipality is hereby authorized to pay for all costs and expenses incident to such investigation and defense.   Any municipality of this state is hereby authorized and empowered, within the discretion of its governing authorities, to pay and satisfy any negotiated settlement of a claim or any judgment, fine, or penalty which may be made, assessed, or levied by any court against any municipal agent, officer, servant, employee, or appointee as a result of any actions of such municipal agent, officer, servant, employee, or appointee while acting as such.
MS Code § 25-1-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-49. Seller may recover claim unlawfully brought by an officer

 If any county officer or his deputy shall unlawfully purchase or become interested in any certificate or claim of any kind payable out of the county treasury or in any witness certificate issued in a civil case, the person selling any such claim or certificate may recover the face value thereof of such officer on his official bond; and he shall not be required to account for what he received when he sold.
MS Code § 25-1-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-53. Nepotism prohibited

 It shall be unlawful for any person elected, appointed or selected in any manner whatsoever to any state, county, district or municipal office, or for any board of trustees of any state institution, to appoint or employ, as an officer, clerk, stenographer, deputy or assistant who is to be paid out of the public funds, any person related by blood or marriage within the third degree, computed by the rule of the civil law, to the person or any member of the board of trustees having the authority to make such appointment or contract such employment as employer. This section shall not apply to any employee who shall have been in said department or institution prior to the time his or her kinsman, within the third degree, became the head of said department or institution or member of said board of trustees; and this section shall not apply to any person seeking appointment as an election worker who has served as an election worker in the election immediately preceding the commencement of a term of office as an election commissioner by his kinsman within the third degree. The provision herein contained shall not apply in the instance of the employment of physicians, nurses or medical technicians by governing boards of charity hospitals or other public hospitals.
MS Code § 25-1-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-55. Penalty for nepotism

 Any person violating the provisions of Section 25-1-53 shall forfeit to the State of Mississippi, and shall be liable on his official bond for, an amount equal to the sum of all moneys paid to any person appointed or employed in violation of the provisions aforesaid.
MS Code § 25-1-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-57. Undated or postdated resignations

 Whenever any appointment or employment of an officer or employee of the State of Mississippi or any agency, department, or institution thereof, shall by law require confirmation by the Mississippi State Senate, no officer or employee of the state, or any other person, shall take, require, accept, or otherwise obtain as a condition of appointment or employment an undated or postdated resignation from a person to be appointed as an officer or employee of the state or any agency, department, or institution thereof. Any such resignation accepted, taken, or obtained contrary to the provisions hereof shall be null and void and of no effect, unless the Mississippi State Senate shall have been advised of the existence and content of any undated or postdated resignation and consented thereto at the time of its confirmation of the appointment or employment.
MS Code § 25-1-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-59. Vacancy by removal or default

 If any state, district, county, county district, or municipal officer during the term of his office shall remove out of the state, district, county, or municipality for which he was elected or appointed, such office shall thereby become vacant and the vacancy be supplied as by law directed. If any person who has been or shall be a collector or holder of public money is elected to either branch of the Legislature or to any office of profit or trust, and shall not have accounted for and paid into the treasury all sums for which he may be accountable on or before the day of the meeting of the Legislature to which he shall be chosen or the time for the commencement of his term of office, the seat of such person in the Legislature or the office to which he was elected shall be forthwith vacated thereby.
MS Code § 25-1-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-61. Legal residence of state officers

 All public officers of this state who are required to, or who for official reasons, remove from the county of their actual household and residence to another county of this state for the purpose of performing the duties of their office shall be deemed in law in all respects to be householders and residents of the county from which they so remove, unless such officer elects to become an actual householder and resident of the county to which he removed for official causes.
MS Code § 25-1-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-63. Defaulting officers published

 If any state, state district, county, county district, or other public officer who is required by law to make any report to or settlement with another officer, or in any manner to account with such officer, shall fail to make the report or settlement or to account within ten (10) days after the date on which such report, settlement, or accounting should be made or had or within such reasonable extended time, not exceeding thirty (30) days, as such other officer in a proper case may allow, the fact of such default shall be published by the officer to or with whom the report, settlement, or accounting should be made or had in a newspaper published in the county of the defaulter's residence, if there be one so published willing to make the publication, and, if not, then in one published at the capital. If any officer to or with whom any such defaulter should report, settle, or account shall fail to make such publication within fifty (50) days after the date of the original default, any citizen who is not a surety of the defaulter may bring an action against the officer so failing to publish the defaulter, personally or on his bond, and shall recover all damages to such citizen and a penalty of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00); and, to recover the penalty, it shall not be necessary to show any damages, provided that only one (1) penalty shall be recovered. Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) of the penalty, in the case of a state or state district officer, shall be paid into the state treasury, and in case of a county or county district officer, into the county treasury, and the other half to the person suing. It shall be the duty of the district attorney to bring all such suits.
MS Code § 25-1-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-65. Expense of publication

 The expense of publishing such defaulters shall be paid out of the county treasury on the allowance of the board of supervisors in the case of a county or county district officer, and in the case of a state or state district officer, out of the state treasury, as other contingent expenses are paid.
MS Code § 25-1-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-67. Public moneys to be promptly paid by legal representatives

 It is the duty of the legal representative of every tax collector or other officer who shall die having public money in his hands to promptly pay the same over to the proper authorities. Nothing herein contained shall in any manner vary or affect the liability of such officer or his bondsmen.
MS Code § 25-1-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-69. Officer not to carry or deposit public funds outside state

 It shall be unlawful for any officer of this state, or for any officer of any county or any levee board in this state, to deposit, carry, send, or to permit to be deposited, carried, or sent to any point beyond the confines of this state any part of any fund, money, bonds, or securities of any kind whatever belonging to the State of Mississippi, or to any county or subdivision of any county within this state, which may have come into his possession or custody by virtue of his office, unless paid out by due and legal authority. Any state or county officer violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned in the state penitentiary for a term not exceeding five (5) years, or both, at the discretion of the court.
MS Code § 25-1-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-71. Public moneys are trust funds

 All money deposited in a bank or with any depository by or for a tax collector or other officer having the custody of public funds, state, county, municipal, levee board, road districts, drainage districts, or school districts, whether the same be deposited in the name of the officer as an individual or as an officer or in the name of any other person, is prima facie public money and a trust fund, and is not liable to be taken by the general creditors of the officer or by the creditors of the depository. Whenever any corporation doing a banking business of whose property and banking business the banking examiner has taken possession as provided by law, it shall be the duty of such banking examiner, or his agent in charge, out of the first money coming into his hands to immediately pay to the tax collector or other officer having the custody of such funds the full amount thereof, as far as possible. On failure so to do, the chancery court of the county where said corporation was doing business, or the chancellor thereof in vacation, shall on ten (10) days' notice require the payment of all, or such part thereof as is on hand, until the full amount due is paid. Nothing herein contained shall in any manner vary or affect the liability of such officer or his bondsmen.
MS Code § 25-1-72 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-72. Duty to deposit funds into county depository

 All county officers who receive funds payable into the county treasury shall deposit such funds into the county depository on the day when they are collected or on the next business day thereafter.
MS Code § 25-1-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-73. Officers liable for costs of collection of public funds improperly withheld

 Any officer, state, county, municipal, or district, or any other custodian of public funds or property who shall improperly withhold same from the state or county treasury or other authority whose duty it is to receive same, or who shall fail to turn property over to the proper custodian, or who shall in anywise be in default as to any money or property held by him as a public official in this state or in any other capacity as custodian of such funds or property which may come into his hands by virtue of his official position, whether in the proper performance of his official duties or otherwise, shall be liable on his bond for all costs of collection or recovery of money or property, including in such costs the commissions, if any, of the state tax commission or the attorney general, and all other costs connected therewith, including interest on funds improperly withheld for such time as such funds have been withheld, and reasonable rental and damages where property belonging to the public is so withheld. Any such public official who shall unlawfully pay any public funds to himself, or who shall knowingly and designedly pay such funds to any other person not entitled thereto without allowance regularly made by the proper authority, shall be liable on his official bond for all costs of recovery of such funds, including the commissions, if any, which may be due to the officer making the collection.   It is the purpose of this section to preserve in its entirety the public funds and property in this state; and it shall be so construed that the commissions, if any, and fees of the attorney general and the state tax commission, and all other costs of collection must be borne by such derelict official or custodian.
MS Code § 25-1-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-75. Duplicate receipt books upon transfer of funds

 All state boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and other departments of the State of Mississippi, and the governing authorities of all counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions shall maintain duplicate receipt books, showing the date and the amount of money received by said department or political subdivision from any other state department or political subdivision. Upon the distribution of any funds to any state department, agency, or political subdivision of the state, the distributing department or agency shall demand a receipt for said funds. The recipient of said funds shall execute said receipt and give to the disbursing agency or political subdivision the original thereof, and shall retain in a receipt book kept for that purpose a duplicate of said receipt, showing the amount received by said agency or political subdivision.   The receipt books provided in this section shall be of permanent type, shall be approved by the state auditor, and shall be a public record available for inspection during office hours by any citizen.   Any official, authorized to disburse or receive funds as contemplated hereby, who does not demand a receipt or keep a duplicate receipt as so contemplated shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
MS Code § 25-1-78 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-78. Moratorium on acquisition of motor vehicles by state agencies; reduction in total number of motor vehicles by certain agencies; exemptions

  For purposes of this section, the term "state agency" means any agency that is subject to oversight by the Bureau of Fleet Management of the Department of Finance and Administration under Section 25-1-77.   Except as otherwise provided in this section, beginning on July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018, the Bureau of Fleet Management, Department of Finance and Administration, shall not approve the purchase, lease or acquisition of any motor vehicle by a state agency, regardless of the source of funds used. However, any agency that has a fleet of not more than fifty (50) vehicles may replace a vehicle that has been wrecked and deemed a total loss or any vehicle whose repair cost exceeds the cash value of the vehicle as determined by the Bureau of Fleet Management. Documentation of such loss or repair costs must be submitted to the Bureau of Fleet Management prior to replacement of the vehicle.   Beginning July 1, 2012, any state agency with a fleet of more than fifty (50) motor vehicles shall reduce the total number of its motor vehicles by two percent (2%) each fiscal year until June 30, 2016. The Bureau of Fleet Management and the State Auditor shall work together to enforce the provisions of this subsection.   The provisions of subsections (2) and (3) of this section, with regard to the purchase, lease or acquisition of vehicles and to the mandatory reduction of the agency's fleet of vehicles, shall not apply to:   A state agency's law enforcement or emergency vehicles, upon demonstrating to the Bureau of Fleet Management a justifiable need to be excluded from the provisions of subsections (2) and (3) of this section.   A state agency's vehicles that are acquired by the use of grant monies that are specified to be used for that purpose and for which no state matching funds from the State General Fund are required, expended or used.   Vehicles of the Department of Child Protection Services.
MS Code § 25-1-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-79. Use of state-owned automobiles

 It shall be unlawful for any officer, employee or other person whatsoever to use or permit or authorize the use of any automobile or any other motor vehicle owned by the State of Mississippi or any department, agency or institution thereof for any purpose other than upon the official business of the State of Mississippi or any agency, department or institution thereof. Further, it shall be unlawful for any such officer or employee to be paid or to receive any sums whatsoever for travel expense until the expenses for which payment is made, and each item thereof, have been actually incurred by such officer or employee, and then only upon the presentation of an itemized expense account which shall be approved in writing by the head of the department, agency or institution on whose behalf such travel is performed. However, it is expressly provided that any such officer or employee traveling on business for and in behalf of the State of Mississippi may, strictly in the discretion of an agency, institution or department head, receive in advance from state funds for the purpose of such travel expense a sum to be specified by such aforementioned superior. Further, strict account of any sum so advanced must be kept in accord with Section 25-1-81.
MS Code § 25-1-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-81. Expense accounts and reports as to state-owned automobiles

 The Department of Finance and Administration shall refuse to issue warrants upon requisitions drawn in violation of the provisions hereof, and where any expense account is allowed and paid in violation of the provisions of Sections 25-1-77 through 25-1-93, it shall be the duty of the Department of Finance and Administration to withhold the payment of any further expense accounts for the department, agency or institution involved until the amount of the account or accounts illegally paid shall be refunded and repaid to the State of Mississippi by the person receiving or approving same. It is further provided that the Department of Finance and Administration shall prescribe and deliver to each agency, department or institution a uniform system of expense accounts herein allowed, including a uniform system of depreciation allowance. All expense accounts for lodging shall be supported by receipted bills showing the payment thereof by such officer or employee. It is incumbent upon each agency, department or institution to abide by and utilize the method of uniform system of expense accounts so prescribed and delivered by the Department of Finance and Administration. Each agency, department or institution, in rendering its annual report to the Bureau of Fleet Management and the Legislature, shall show the number of state-owned automobiles purchased and operated during the year, the number purchased and operated out of funds appropriated by the Legislature, the number purchased and operated out of any other public funds, the miles traveled per automobile, the total miles traveled, the average cost per mile, and depreciation estimate on each automobile. The report shall also show the cost per mile and total number of miles traveled in privately-owned automobiles for which reimbursement is made out of state funds and any other information requested by the Bureau of Fleet Management.
MS Code § 25-1-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-83. Attending conventions, associations, or meetings

 It is further provided that no funds appropriated by the Legislature or received by any agency, department, or institution from any source whatever shall be used in defraying the expenses of any state employee, other than an officer or department head, in attending a convention, association, or meeting, unless such employee be duly authorized by prior approval in writing of the departmental head or officer in charge of such department, agency, or institution in strict accord with Sections 25-1-79 and 25-1-81. Each department, agency, or institution in its annual report to the Legislature shall separately show each association, convention, or meeting attended by any of its employees, the purposes thereof, the names of the employees attending, and the total cost to the state of such convention, association, or meeting.
MS Code § 25-1-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-89. Donated automobiles

 Any institution of higher learning may own and operate a passenger automobile donated to it for use in the work of such institution by an individual or individuals.
MS Code § 25-1-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-91. Penalties regarding state-owned automobiles

 If any person shall knowingly and wilfully violate any of the provisions of Sections 25-1-77 through 25-1-93, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars and, in addition, shall be removed from the office or position which he holds.
MS Code § 25-1-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-93. Provisions inapplicable to Governor

 It is herein expressly provided that no section, portion, or part of Sections 25-1-77 through 25-1-91 shall in any way be construed to apply to the Governor or to the governor's office of the State of Mississippi.