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MS Code § 21-1-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|Abolition|§ 21-1-51. Automatic by failure to hold official meetings or municipal general election of officers

 Whenever the municipal authorities of any municipality shall fail to hold official meetings for a period of twelve consecutive months, or whenever municipal general elections of officers shall not be held in any municipal corporation as required by law upon two consecutive occasions, then such municipal corporation shall be automatically abolished, and its rights and powers as a municipal corporation shall cease and determine. The official minute book of the municipality shall be the sole evidence of whether any official meetings were held in such municipal corporation during any twelve month period, except in cases of fraud or falsification, and abolition of the municipality shall result automatically where the official minute book fails to show a record of any official meetings during such twelve month period. In cases of the failure to hold municipal general elections of officers on two consecutive occasions, the records in the office of the secretary of state as to whether or not returns of such elections were made to him as required by law shall be the sole evidence of whether such elections were held, except in cases of fraud, falsification, loss of such records or clear and patent mistake, oversight, or omission.
MS Code § 21-1-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|Abolition|§ 21-1-55. Records of municipality to be filed with chancery clerk

 Whenever a municipality is abolished under any of the provisions of this chapter, the municipal authorities shall deliver all records of such municipality to the chancery clerk of the county in which such municipality is located and said records shall be filed in the office of the chancery clerk and be kept by him as a public record.
MS Code § 21-1-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|Abolition|§ 21-1-57. Payment of indebtedness of municipality

 The abolition of a municipal corporation under any of the provisions of this chapter shall not relieve the property thereof of liability for the debts of the municipality, but the governing authorities of the municipality shall forthwith make up a statement of the indebtedness of the municipality, if any, and a statement of its assets, and shall certify the same and deliver such statement, together with the records of the municipality, to the chancery clerk of the county in which the municipality is located. The board of supervisors of the county shall levy a special tax upon the property embraced in such municipality so abolished, which shall be in force from year to year so long as may be necessary, and such tax shall be collected by the tax collector of the county. The tax collector shall deposit the funds derived from such levy in a special account in the county treasury, and the same shall be paid to the creditors of such municipality upon order and allowance of claims by the board of supervisors. When all of the indebtedness of the municipality shall have been paid, then such special levy shall be discontinued.
MS Code § 21-1-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|Tax Liability|§ 21-1-61. Tax liability in case of creation or enlargement of municipality

 In all cases where a municipality is created or the limits of an existing municipality are enlarged under the provisions of this chapter, the property included within the municipal boundaries by such creation or enlargement shall become liable for and subject to municipal ad valorem taxation on the tax lien date next succeeding the effective date of the decree creating or enlarging such municipality.
MS Code § 21-1-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|Tax Liability|§ 21-1-63. Tax liability in case of contraction of municipality

 Whenever any territory of an existing municipality is excluded therefrom by a contraction of the boundaries thereof under the provisions of this chapter, and there shall be at such time outstanding bonds or other indebtedness of such municipality constituting a lien on the territory so excluded, and which indebtedness was incurred while such territory was a part of such municipality, such territory shall remain liable for its pro rata share of said indebtedness, and the governing authorities of such municipality shall have power and authority to assess the property in such territory so excluded for taxation and to levy a tax thereon for the payment of said indebtedness in the same manner and to the same extent as the property within such municipality is taxed for the payment of such indebtedness.
MS Code § 21-1-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|Applicability|§ 21-1-65. Applicability of chapter

 This chapter shall apply to and govern the creation, enlargement, contraction, and abolition of all municipalities of this state hereafter, whether such municipality be operating under the code charter, under the commission form of government, under the council form of government, under the council-manager form of government, or under a special charter, and regardless of whether a different or special procedure be provided by any such special charter.
MS Code § 21-21-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|General Provisions|§ 21-21-1. Marshal or chief of police; duties; bond

 The marshal or chief of police shall be the chief law enforcement officer of the municipality and shall have control and supervision of all police officers employed by said municipality. The marshal or chief of police shall be an ex officio constable within the boundaries of the municipality, and he shall perform such other duties as shall be required of him by proper ordinance. Before performing any of the duties of his office, the marshal or chief of police shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in an amount to be determined by the municipal governing authority (which shall be not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00)). The premium upon said bond shall be paid from the municipal treasury. If any marshal or chief of police shall fail to perform any of the duties of his office, it shall be the duty of the district attorney or county attorney upon receiving notice thereof to immediately file quo warranto proceedings against such official.   The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under a code charter, special charter, or the commission form of government, except in cases of conflict between the provisions of this section and the provisions of the special charter of a municipality, or the law governing the commission form of government, in which case of conflict the provisions of the special charter or the statutes relative to the commission form of government shall control.
MS Code § 21-21-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|General Provisions|§ 21-21-3. Police and night marshals

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to employ, regulate and support a sufficient police force or night marshals, to define the duties thereof, and to furnish and supply all suitable and necessary equipment therefor.
MS Code § 21-21-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|General Provisions|§ 21-21-5. Purchasing dogs for use of police department

 The governing authorities of any municipality in the state are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to purchase by negotiation or otherwise, any breed of dogs suitable for law enforcement purposes, and pay for same out of the proceeds derived from tax levies made for their support and maintenance. Said dogs may be furnished to the police or police department of said municipality to be used by them in the enforcement of the laws of said municipality and the State of Mississippi. The governing authorities may also appropriate and pay monthly such amounts as may be necessary to maintain and care for said law enforcement dogs.
MS Code § 21-21-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|General Provisions|§ 21-21-7. Peace officers attending training schools; expenses

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to pay the expenses of any municipal peace or police officer which said officer incurs in attending any recognized training school for peace and law enforcement officers. Such governing authorities are further authorized and empowered to pay the salaries of such municipal peace and police officers during the time when such officers are attending such training schools. This section shall also apply to any other municipal officer or employee attending any recognized training school beneficial to his particular employment.
MS Code § 21-21-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|General Provisions|§ 21-21-9. Medical and hospital care for injured policemen

 In all municipalities of this state maintaining a police department, the personnel of which department is actively and exclusively engaged in police duty, the governing authorities of such municipality may pay out of the general fund of said municipality reasonable hospital and medical expenses for any member of said police department on account of any occupational disease contracted or for any accident sustained by said member by reason of his service or discharge of his duty in said department. The governing authorities of such city shall be the sole judge as to whether such illness or such injury was contracted or sustained in the line of duty of any such employee, and the reasonableness of said expenses.
MS Code § 21-21-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|General Provisions|§ 21-21-11. Purchase of certain insurance for police; payment of premiums

 The governing authorities of any municipality having a population in excess of 140,000 people by virtue of the 1960 census are hereby authorized to purchase insurance coverage to protect members of the police force working under the direction of the municipal authorities, against any suit or claims growing out of any action of such policemen guilty of false arrest, false imprisonment, false or improper service of process, malicious prosecution or any other claim resulting from such officers' performance of official duties.   Such municipal authorities shall have the right to pay, out of the general fund of such municipality any premiums which may become due on the aforesaid insurance policies.
MS Code § 21-21-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|Reciprocal Law Enforcement Assistance Between Municipalities During Civil Emergencies|§ 21-21-31. Declaration of legislative findings

 The legislature finds that the availability of law enforcement officers to a municipality in a state of civil emergency is of a statewide concern, and that it is in the public interest that municipalities needing additional law enforcement officers in a state of civil emergency be able to procure such additional law enforcement officers through reciprocal assistance from other municipalities.
MS Code § 21-21-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|Reciprocal Law Enforcement Assistance Between Municipalities During Civil Emergencies|§ 21-21-33. Definitions

 "Municipality" as used in Sections 21-21-31 through 21-21-41 means any city, town, or village as defined in Section 21-1-1. "Law enforcement officer" as used herein means any policeman.
MS Code § 21-21-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|Reciprocal Law Enforcement Assistance Between Municipalities During Civil Emergencies|§ 21-21-35. Powers of municipality to provide assistance

 Any municipality shall have the power by resolution or order of its governing body to make provision for or to authorize its mayor or chief administrative officer or chief of police to make provision for its regularly employed law enforcement officers to assist any other municipality, when in the opinion of the mayor or other officer authorized to declare a state of civil emergency in such other municipality, there exists in such other municipality a need for the services of additional law enforcement officers to protect the health, life and property of such other municipality, its inhabitants, and the visitors thereto, by reason of riot, unlawful assembly characterized by the use of force and violence, or threat thereof by three (3) or more persons acting together or without lawful authority, or during time of natural disaster or man-made calamity.   Any municipality shall have the power to send law enforcement officers of its municipality on loan to assist other municipalities in the state in undercover work or as a special agent to combat crime. The chief administrative officer or chief of police of a municipality shall have the power to assist other chief administrative officers or chiefs of police upon a written or oral request from such municipalities; provided, however, that an oral request must be followed by a written authorization. In addition, any municipality may loan any law enforcement officer to any other law enforcement agency of the state or of any political subdivision of the state for drug enforcement purposes, the expense of the officer to be paid by the agency to which the officer is assigned.
MS Code § 21-21-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|Reciprocal Law Enforcement Assistance Between Municipalities During Civil Emergencies|§ 21-21-37. Powers of law enforcement officer while in another municipality

 While any law enforcement officer regularly employed as such in one municipality is in the service of another municipality pursuant to Sections 21-21-31 through 21-21-41, he shall be a peace officer of such other municipality and be under the command of the law enforcement officer therein who is in charge in that municipality, with all the powers of a regular law enforcement officer in such other municipality, as fully as though he were within the municipality where regularly employed and his qualification, respectively, for office where regularly employed shall constitute his qualification for office in such other municipality, and no other oath, bond, or compensation need be made.
MS Code § 21-21-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|Reciprocal Law Enforcement Assistance Between Municipalities During Civil Emergencies|§ 21-21-39. Rights of law enforcement officer while in another municipality

 Any law enforcement officer who is ordered by the official designated by the governing body of any municipality to perform police or peace duties outside the territorial limits of the municipality where he is regularly employed as such officer, shall be entitled to the same wage, salary, pension, and all other compensation and all other rights for such service, including injury or death benefits, as though the service had been rendered within the limits of the municipality where he is regularly employed. He shall also be paid for any reasonable expenses of travel, food, or lodging that he may incur while on duty outside such limits.
MS Code § 21-21-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 21 - Police and Police Departments|Reciprocal Law Enforcement Assistance Between Municipalities During Civil Emergencies|§ 21-21-41. Payments to law enforcement officer; reimbursement to the regularly employing municipality

 All wage and disability payments, pension payments, damage to equipment and clothing, medical expense, and expenses of travel, food, and lodging shall be paid by the municipality regularly employing such law enforcement officer. Upon making such payments, the municipality that furnished the services shall, when it so requests, be reimbursed by the municipality whose authorized official requested the services out of which the payments arose. Each such municipality is hereby expressly authorized to make such payments and reimbursements notwithstanding any provision in its charter or ordinances to the contrary.
MS Code § 21-25-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|General Provisions|§ 21-25-1. Fire marshal

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to appoint a fire marshal, who may be the mayor, or any member of the governing authority of the municipality, or the city or town marshal. The fire marshal shall have the power to remove and keep away from the vicinity of any fire all idle and suspicious persons lurking near the same. He shall have the power to compel any person present to aid in the extinguishment of such fire or the preservation of property exposed to the danger of such fire and to aid in preventing goods from being purloined thereat. He shall also have such powers and duties as may be prescribed by ordinance.
MS Code § 21-25-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|General Provisions|§ 21-25-3. Establishment and maintenance of fire departments; reimbursement of training expenses

  The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, to organize, establish, operate, and maintain fire and hook and ladder companies, to provide for and maintain a fire department and system, and to regulate the same. The governing authorities shall have the power to allow the fire department to attend and help to extinguish a fire outside the city limits.   No fire fighter whose training expenses have been reimbursed to or paid by the political subdivision employing the fire fighter shall leave the employ of the political subdivision for not less than two (2) years after completion of the reimbursed training, unless the reimbursed expenses are paid by the new employer to the political subdivision which reimbursed or paid such expenses. The amount to be paid shall be determined on a pro rata basis based upon when the fire fighter leaves the political subdivision within the two-year period. Defined training expenses are related to minimum standards training, as established by the Mississippi Fire Personnel Minimum Standards and Certification Board which were incurred and include salary, tuition, travel expenses of the employee as well as personnel cost related to the training incurred during the employee's absence.
MS Code § 21-25-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|General Provisions|§ 21-25-5. Fire departments authorized to go outside municipal limits; liability

 The fire departments, including the apparatus and all vehicles of such departments, are hereby authorized to use the roads, highways, streets and alleys outside the corporate limits of such municipalities owning and operating such fire fighting and fire prevention equipment, for the purpose of aiding in the extinguishing and prevention of fires or in the alleviating of damages or injuries caused by tornadoes or other casualties in locations outside the corporate limits of such municipalities. For the purpose of expediting the extinguishment or prevention of fires and of aiding in the rescue of persons or preventing other damage to either persons or property in such locations outside the corporate limits of such municipalities or in cities, towns, or villages located and situated beyond the corporate limits of such municipalities owning such equipment, such fire departments are hereby extended the right of way, or priority in use, over the public roads, highways, streets and alleys of the state and counties whether such roads, highways, streets or alleys are maintained by the state, counties, cities, towns, or villages.   To further effectuate and put into force and effect the purposes of this section, such municipalities owning and operating said equipment are hereby declared free of any liability on account of injury to persons or damage to property in going to and from such locations outside the corporate limits when engaged in the extinguishing and prevention of fires or in the alleviating of damages or injuries caused by tornadoes or other casualties, it being the purpose of this section that such municipalities aiding other municipalities or residents of the State of Mississippi located outside the corporate limits of such municipalities shall be entitled to all the benefits and immunities, both from civil and criminal prosecution, as are now enjoyed by such municipalities within their own respective corporate limits. This section shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.
MS Code § 21-25-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|General Provisions|§ 21-25-7. Hours of work for firemen limited; report to be made to state rating bureau

 In all municipalities of this state maintaining a paid fire department, the personnel of which department is actively and exclusively engaged in fire duty, no member of such department, exclusive of the chief officer, shall be required to remain on active duty for an entire twenty-four hours. The personnel of such fire department shall be divided into two platoons, or shifts, one to perform duty in the daytime and the other to perform duty in the nighttime, but neither platoon, or shift, shall be required to remain on active duty in any event for more than fourteen hours per day, except in cases of urgent and extreme necessity.   Each municipality coming within the provisions of this section shall immediately submit to the Mississippi state rating bureau the set-up and organization of its fire department which will be necessary in order to comply with the provisions of this section and which can be effected without employing more than one additional fireman. Such municipality shall require of said rating bureau a ruling as to whether or not such a set-up and organization of its fire department would adversely affect the present insurance rating of such municipality; if said rating bureau in answer to such request shall give a written ruling in the affirmative the municipality requesting such ruling shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.
MS Code § 21-25-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 25 - Fire Departments and Fire Districts|General Provisions|§ 21-25-9. Medical and hospital care for injured firemen

 In all municipalities of this state maintaining a paid or volunteer fire department, the personnel of which department is actively and exclusively engaged in fire duty, the governing authorities of such municipality may pay out of the general fund of such municipality reasonable hospital and medical expenses for any member of said fire department on account of any occupational disease contracted or for any accident sustained by said member by reason of his service or discharge of his duty in said department. The governing authorities of such city shall be the sole judge as to whether such illness or such injury was contracted or sustained in the line of duty of any such employee, and the reasonableness of said expenses.