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MS Code § 37-41-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|In General|§ 37-41-49. Violation of safety regulations of state board of education; penalty

 In case of any violation by a school district bus driver or carrier of the safety regulations established by the State Board of Education, such violation shall be deemed a misdemeanor and such offender may be punished as provided in Section 37-41-47.
MS Code § 37-41-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|In General|§ 37-41-53. Inspections and safety requirements for motor vehicles used for public school district transportation; condemnation of unsafe school district buses; penalties for operation of condemned bus

  Each school board, person, firm or corporation transporting public school district children on the public roads, streets and highways of the state with motor vehicles shall have the motor vehicles inspected according to regulations promulgated by the State Department of Education. Each motor vehicle shall be inspected by a competent mechanic to be safe for transporting pupils on the roads, streets and highways of the state before it is released for such purpose. If the motor vehicle is found to be unsafe for transporting pupils, then it shall be properly repaired or adjusted as necessary before being used to transport pupils. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to vehicles owned by individuals and under private contract to the school district and used exclusively for transporting members of their immediate families.   The State Department of Education may inspect, at its discretion, any school bus used for transporting school district pupils to and from the public schools or for activity purposes to determine the safety of such motor vehicle for operation on the roads, streets and highways of this state. In the event a vehicle is inspected and is found to be unsafe for transporting pupils, a report shall be filed with the appropriate school district official indicating its deficiencies with recommendations for correcting such deficiencies.   If it is determined that any school district buses are in such defective condition as to constitute an emergency safety hazard, those buses may be condemned and removed from service and shall not be returned to service until adequate repairs are completed and the buses are reinspected by the State Department of Education. Any school district official who approves the operation of any school bus that has been removed from service under the conditions listed above, prior to being reinspected by the State Department of Education, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed sixty (60) days, or a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
MS Code § 37-41-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|In General|§ 37-41-55. Duties of driver of school transportation vehicle used to transport pupils upon approaching railroad crossing or highway intersection

  The driver of every school transportation vehicle used to transport pupils, on approaching any railroad crossing, shall bring the vehicle to a complete stop within fifty (50) feet but not less than fifteen (15) feet from the nearest rail of the railroad. While stopped, the driver shall open the service door and driver's window, and look and listen for:   Approaching trains or any other vehicle operated upon the rails for the purpose of maintenance of railroads, including, but not limited to, all hi-rail vehicles and on-track maintenance machines; and   Signals indicating the approach of a train or other vehicle or machine operated upon the rails.  The driver shall not proceed until the driver has determined that it is safe to proceed.      The driver of every school transportation vehicle used to transport pupils, on approaching any highway intersection, shall bring the vehicle to a complete stop and shall not proceed until the driver has determined that it is safe to proceed.   Any driver who fails to bring his vehicle to a complete stop and follow the procedures as herein required is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) for each offense.
MS Code § 37-41-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|In General|§ 37-41-57. Promulgation of regulations governing design and operation of school buses

 The State Board of Education shall adopt and enforce regulations not inconsistent with the traffic laws and regulations of this state to govern the design and operation of all school buses used for the transportation of school children when owned and operated by any school board or privately owned and operated under contract with any school board in this state. Such regulations shall by reference be made a part of any such contract with a school board. Every school board, its officers and employees, and every person employed under contract by a school board shall be subject to said regulations.   Any officer or employee of any school board who violates any of said regulations or fails to include the obligation to comply with said regulations in any contract executed by them on behalf of a school board shall be guilty of misconduct and subject to removal from office or employment. Any person operating a school bus under a contract with a school board who fails to comply with any of said regulations shall be guilty of breach of contract and such contract shall be cancelled after notice and hearing by the responsible officers of such school board.
MS Code § 37-41-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|In General|§ 37-41-59. Mounting camera on school bus retractable, hand-operated stop sign

 Every school district is authorized to mount a camera on any retractable, hand-operated stop sign that is a part of the equipment of a school bus.
MS Code § 37-41-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|In General|§ 37-41-61. Information campaign on school bus safety

 To the extent that state, federal or other funds are available or appropriated, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education shall cooperate to conduct an information campaign to educate drivers concerning the provisions of this act and the importance of school bus safety.
MS Code § 37-41-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-81. General grant of authority

 The local school boards of this state are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, own and operate, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State Board of Education, motor vehicles and other equipment for the transportation of children to and from the public schools of the respective counties and school districts, and to provide for the servicing, repair, care and maintenance of such county or district-owned motor vehicles and to employ drivers for the operation thereof, and to establish, erect and equip school bus shops or garages, and purchase land therefor, all under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State Board of Education.
MS Code § 37-41-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-83. Power to expend funds

 The school boards are authorized and empowered to expend the necessary amounts from the available transportation funds of the school district for the purchase of such transportation equipment, the servicing, repair and maintenance thereof and for the payment of the salaries of persons employed to drive or operate such transportation equipment, and to establish, erect and equip school bus shops or garages, and purchase land therefor.
MS Code § 37-41-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-85. Purchases to be in manner prescribed by regulations

 No school board shall purchase any school bus or pupil transportation service vehicle as authorized by Section 37-41-81 except in the manner prescribed in Section 37-41-101. No school bus shall be purchased or otherwise acquired which does not conform to the specifications provided by the State Board of Education.
MS Code § 37-41-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-89. Authority to borrow money

 The school board of any school district may borrow money for the purchase of school transportation equipment or to establish, erect and equip school bus shops or garages, and purchase land therefor, and issue the negotiable notes or bonds of the school district as evidence of the indebtedness so incurred.
MS Code § 37-41-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-91. Issuance of negotiable notes or bonds authorized

 Where the amount of the indebtedness to be incurred does not exceed the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), the school board may issue negotiable notes as evidence of the indebtedness so incurred. Said notes shall be issued without an election thereon and without giving notice of the intention to issue same. However, where the amount of the indebtedness to be incurred exceeds the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), then the school board may, at its option, either issue negotiable notes or may issue bonds as evidence of the indebtedness so incurred. Notes or bonds issued under the authority of Section 37-41-89 may be issued and the funds borrowed thereunder without the necessity of giving notice thereof except as specifically provided herein, and specifically without the necessity of complying with the requirements of Section 31-19-25.
MS Code § 37-41-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-93. Maturity; interest

 All notes or bonds issued under the authority of Section 37-41-89 shall mature in approximately equal annual installments over a period of not exceeding six (6) years from the date of the issuance of such notes or bonds. Such notes or bonds may bear interest at a rate not exceeding that allowed in Section 75-17-105, and such interest may be payable annually or semiannually.   In the event the funds borrowed under the authority of Section 37-41-89 are to be expended for the purchase of used transportation equipment, then all notes or bonds evidencing such loans shall be made to mature within two (2) years from the date of the issuance of such notes or bonds.
MS Code § 37-41-95 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-95. Manner of issuance and form thereof

 All such notes issued by a school district shall be signed by the president of the school board and countersigned by the superintendent of schools, and the seal of the school district shall be impressed on each note as it is issued. The interest on said notes may be evidenced by proper coupons attached thereto and such coupons may bear only the facsimile signatures of the president of the school board and the superintendent of schools. Such notes shall be issued in such form and in such denominations as the school board shall determine. All of said notes shall be registered by the superintendent of schools in a book kept by him in his office for that purpose.   Where bonds are issued by the school board the manner of issuance and the form thereof shall be in compliance with the provisions of Sections 37-59-1 through 37-59-45.
MS Code § 37-41-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-97. Deposit and use of proceeds

 The proceeds of all notes or bonds issued under the authority of Section 37-41-89 shall be deposited in the proper county or municipal treasury to the credit of a special school transportation equipment fund and shall be used and expended by the school board for the purpose or purposes for which they were issued under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State Board of Education, and for no other purposes.   All such funds shall be paid out on warrants issued by the clerk of the board of supervisors or the municipal clerk, as the case may be, on pay certificates issued by the superintendent of schools upon order of the school board.
MS Code § 37-41-99 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-99. Payment of principal and interest on notes and bonds

 The principal of and interest upon all notes or bonds issued under the authority of Section 37-41-89 shall be paid out of such transportation funds of the school district as may be available for such purpose. It shall be the duty of the school board to set aside each year out of such transportation funds a sufficient amount to pay the principal of and interest upon said notes or bonds as and when the same shall respectively mature and accrue. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of schools to include in the school budget each year separate items showing the amount required for the payment of the principal of and the interest upon all notes or bonds issued under the authority of said section.
MS Code § 37-41-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 41 - Transportation of Pupils|Purchase of School Transportation Equipment and Employment of Drivers|§ 37-41-103. Promulgation of rules and regulations by state board of education

 For the further purpose of carrying out the provisions of Sections 37-41-81 through 37-41-101, the state board of education is further authorized and empowered to adopt and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations not inconsistent with the law for such purpose. Said state board of education shall have, in addition, all power and authority conferred upon it by the provisions of Sections 37-41-1 through 37-41-53 or any other statute.
MS Code § 37-57-108 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 57 - Taxation|Additional Tax Levy to Support School Districts' Expenditures|§ 37-57-108. Issuance of promissory notes by school districts in event of revenue shortfall

 In the event that the amount of revenue collected or estimated to be collected from local sources, on behalf of a school district during a fiscal year, is less than the amount provided for in the duly adopted budget of said school district for the fiscal year, then the school district may issue promissory notes in an amount and in the manner set forth in Section 27-39-333, not to exceed the estimated shortfall of revenue from local sources, but in no event to exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of its budget anticipated to be funded from the sources of the shortfall for the fiscal year. A school district issuing notes under the provisions of this section shall not be required to publish notice of its intention to do so or to secure the consent of the qualified electors or the tax levying authority of such school district.
MS Code § 37-57-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 57 - Taxation|Tax on Family Dwelling Units|§ 37-57-111. Definitions

 For the purposes of Sections 37-57-111 through 37-57-119, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:   "Family unit" means a new family dwelling, mobile home, apartment, condominium, duplex, townhouse or structure, used for family residency.   "Compacted area" means any countywide school system with inadequate building facilities to meet the educational needs of school children, causing crowded conditions, which will continue in the public school facilities.
MS Code § 37-57-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 57 - Taxation|Tax on Family Dwelling Units|§ 37-57-113. Imposition of excise or transfer tax upon new family units

 The board of supervisors of any class one county which has a population in the 1970 decennial census of not less than thirty-five thousand (35,000) and not more than fifty thousand (50,000) and having a total assessed valuation in 1971 of not less than forty million dollars ($40,000,000.00) and not more than fifty million dollars ($50,000,000.00) may impose an excise and/or transfer tax upon the sale or construction of all new family units as defined in Section 37-57-111 for capital improvement of public schools as provided by law for countywide public school districts. Said taxation shall not exceed three percent (3%) of the first twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) and one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) of all over twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) of the total sale or contract price of the family unit; however, said taxation shall not exceed three percent (3%) of the first ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) and one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) of all over ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) of the total sale or contract price of apartments, condominiums, duplexes or townhouses.   The tax hereby authorized, if imposed by order of the board of supervisors of the county by order duly spread upon the minutes of said board, shall apply only to the initial sale or construction of new family units not heretofore occupied or used for residence purposes, and shall be an indebtedness of the owner of the family unit.   Said tax shall not apply to such family units purchased or constructed by or for any religious, charitable, educational or nonprofit corporation or institution, nor shall it apply to demonstration of model homes.
MS Code § 37-57-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 57 - Taxation|Tax on Family Dwelling Units|§ 37-57-115. Levy of ad valorem tax upon mobile homes and house trailers

 In addition to mobile home ad valorem taxes assessed and collected under authority of Chapter 53 of Title 27, Mississippi Code of 1972, the boards of supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a ten dollar ($10.00) ad valorem tax upon each mobile home or house trailer used as a family dwelling not heretofore occupied or used for residential purposes within the county as defined in Section 27-53-1, Mississippi Code of 1972, to be collected by the county tax assessor-collector annually and deposited into a county trust fund entitled "county school building and repair fund" and expended by the county board of education for capital improvements and equipment only in such compacted areas.
MS Code § 37-57-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 57 - Taxation|Tax on Family Dwelling Units|§ 37-57-117. Collection and utilization of funds

 All funds derived from such taxation under Sections 37-57-111 through 37-57-119 shall be collected by the tax assessors and/or tax collectors of the county prior to or simultaneous with the sale of the new family unit and shall be deposited into a county trust fund entitled "county school building and repair fund" to be utilized by the county board of education for capital improvements only in compacted areas. However, the board of supervisors of such county shall be authorized to utilize the proceeds of taxation toward paying the principal and interest on full faith and credit bonds of the county which may be issued to provide immediate funds for acquiring sites and constructing public school facilities.   All funds levied and collected under authority of Sections 37-57-111 through 37-57-119 shall be expended for the purposes set forth in said sections and in the manner now provided by law for making such expenditures in counties having a countywide school district.
MS Code § 37-57-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 57 - Taxation|Tax on Family Dwelling Units|§ 37-57-119. Enforcement

 The board of supervisors of any county which imposes the tax authorized by Sections 37-57-111 through 37-57-119 may adopt rules and regulations governing the time and method of payment of the taxes, and may provide by rule or regulation for the withholding of any final or other inspection of the property otherwise required by local building or zoning ordinance until such tax is paid or satisfactory security given for such payment, and may provide for the payment of interest and penalties up to fifty percent (50%) for late payment.
MS Code § 37-57-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 57 - Taxation|Miscellaneous|§ 37-57-131. Real property incorporated in school district prior to June 1 of fiscal year liable for taxes levied during year

 All taxable real property which has been or shall be incorporated in, annexed to or otherwise made a part of any school district, and any taxable personal property which is located or situated in any school district prior to June 1 of any fiscal year, shall be liable for all ad valorem taxes levied or imposed for such school district during such year to the same extent and in like manner as though such real property had been incorporated in, annexed to or otherwise made a part of such school district prior to January 1 of such year, and in like manner as though such personal property had been located or situated within such school district prior to January 1 of such year; such property shall be relieved from liability for taxes levied during such year for the support and maintenance of the school district of which it was formerly a part, and such personal property shall be relieved from liability for taxes levied during such year for the support and maintenance of the school district within which it was formerly located or situated. Nothing herein shall be construed to relieve such real or personal property from assessment and liability for the payment of the outstanding bonds or other indebtedness of the district of which such property was formerly a part, or of the district in which such personal property was situated or located as the case may be, and such question shall be governed and controlled by other statutes applicable thereto, including, but not being limited to, Section 37-7-109.
MS Code § 37-57-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 57 - Taxation|Miscellaneous|§ 37-57-133. Changes in assessment roll to incorporate property

 In the event taxable real property has been or is incorporated in, annexed to, or otherwise made a part of a school district, or in the event taxable personal property is or becomes situated or located within a school district, as the case may be, prior to October 1 of any year but after the approval of the assessment roll of the county or school district for such year, then the board of supervisors of the county or the governing authority of the municipality, as the case may be, shall have the power and authority to make such changes in the assessment roll as shall be necessary to cause such real or personal property to be assessed properly for the ad valorem taxes levied during said year for which such property shall be liable under the terms of Section 37-57-131.
MS Code § 37-59-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 59 - School Bonds and Obligations|Article 1 - Authority to Issue Bonds, Notes and Certificates of Indebtedness|§ 37-59-1. "Bonds" defined

 The word "bonds" as used in this article shall be deemed to mean and include bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness.