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MS Code § 19-3-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 3 - Board of Supervisors|County Cooperative Service District|§ 19-3-105. Board of commissioners

  The powers of a district shall be vested in and exercised by a board of commissioners consisting of not less than one (1) nor more than five (5) members appointed by the board of supervisors of each participating county. Each commissioner shall be either a member of the board of supervisors or an elected municipal official. Each commissioner shall be appointed and hold office for a term concurrent with the appointing authority. Any vacancy occurring on the board shall be filled by the appointing authority at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors, and unexpired terms shall be filled for the remainder of the term.   Each commissioner shall take and subscribe to the oath of office prescribed in Section 268, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, before the clerk of the appointing board of supervisors that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of commissioner, which oath shall be filed with the clerk and by him preserved.   The commissioners so appointed and qualified may be compensated for their services for each meeting of the board of commissioners attended, either regular or special, at the per diem established in Section 25-3-69, Mississippi Code of 1972, and shall be reimbursed for all expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of their official duties as provided for state officers and employees in Section 25-3-41, Mississippi Code of 1972.   The board of commissioners may appoint an executive committee, to be composed of not less than one (1) commissioner from each participating county, with a chairman to be designated by the board of commissioners. The executive committee is empowered to execute all powers vested in the full board of commissioners during the interim of the meetings of the board. A majority, plus one (1), of the members of the executive committee shall be a quorum for the transaction of business.
MS Code § 19-3-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 3 - Board of Supervisors|County Cooperative Service District|§ 19-3-107. County terminating participation in district

 The operation and management of a district is vested solely in its board of commissioners; however, a participating county may terminate its participation in a district by a majority vote of its board of supervisors, but such board of supervisors shall have no power to terminate its participation until it has paid its pro rata share of any outstanding district indebtedness of any kind.
MS Code § 19-3-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 3 - Board of Supervisors|County Cooperative Service District|§ 19-3-109. Audit of district

 A district shall be audited from time to time by the State Auditor pursuant to the provisions of Section 7-7-211, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 19-3-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 3 - Board of Supervisors|County Cooperative Service District|§ 19-3-111. Appropriation of funds

 The board of supervisors of each participating county and the governing authorities of each municipality located therein are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to appropriate and pay such sums as they deem necessary and desirable, out of any available funds of the county or municipality which are not required for any other purpose, to the district in which the county or municipality is located.
MS Code § 19-3-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 3 - Board of Supervisors|County Cooperative Service District|§ 19-3-113. Levy of tax

  The board of supervisors of any participating county is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to levy a tax not to exceed one-half (1/2) mill annually on all taxable property within the county the proceeds of which shall be used to support the district in which the county is located. The proceeds of such tax shall not be included within the ten percent (10%) increase limitation under Section 27-39-321, Mississippi Code of 1972.   In addition to the tax authorized to be imposed in subsection (1) of this section, a participating county may impose special fees, tolls and special assessments for projects or services undertaken by the district in which the county is located in order to defray the expenses of the district related to such projects or services.
MS Code § 19-3-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 3 - Board of Supervisors|County Cooperative Service District|§ 19-3-115. Contractual powers of municipality

 Any municipality located within a cooperative service district may, pursuant to a duly adopted resolution of the governing body, and upon concurrence by the board of commissioners of the service district, enter into contracts with the district to provide, obtain or receive any services provided by the district or to otherwise cooperate and participate through contract in the delivery of services provided by the district which the municipality has the power, authority or responsibility to exercise. In each instance, the contract shall provide the district sufficient payment to enable the district to meet its expenses, including any debt service as a result of any projects of the service district for which the contract is entered.   Any municipality which has contracted with a cooperative service district may terminate its contract with the district by a majority vote of the governing authorities, but the governing authorities of a municipality shall have no power to terminate a contract with the district until the municipality has paid all outstanding debts for the services it has received pursuant to the contract.
MS Code § 19-5-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-1. Examination of county jail

 At least annually, and as often as it may think proper, the board of supervisors, or a competent person authorized by the board of supervisors, shall examine into the state and condition of the jail, in regard to its safety, sufficiency and accommodation of the prisoners, and from time to time take such legal measures as may best tend to secure the prisoners against escape, sickness and infection, and have the jail cleansed. If it shall appear from such examination that the sheriff has neglected his duty in the manner of keeping the jail, or keeping and furnishing the prisoners, the board shall fine him, as for a contempt, in any sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).   The board of supervisors shall not authorize the sheriff or any member of his department to make the inspections required by this section.
MS Code § 19-5-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-3. Purchase and upkeep of law enforcement dogs

 The board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase and keep on hand, for the use of the sheriffs, hounds of the best breeding and training. The board, when such hounds have been purchased by them, shall allow out of the general county funds a reasonable sum of money for the purchase of said hounds, and a reasonable amount for the monthly care and maintenance of said hounds. When such hounds have not been purchased the board may allow the sheriff a reasonable amount for hire of hounds in attempting the capture of criminals charged with capital crimes.   Likewise the board of supervisors of any county in the state is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase by negotiation or otherwise, any breed of dogs suitable for law enforcement purposes and pay for same out of the general fund of the county. Said law enforcement dogs may be furnished to the sheriff of said county or to any other law enforcement officer to be used by him or them in the enforcement of the laws in said county. The board of supervisors may also appropriate and pay monthly such amounts as may be necessary to care for and maintain said law enforcement dogs.
MS Code § 19-5-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-5. Acquisition and operation of radio stations for law enforcement

 The board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to purchase the necessary and suitable equipment required to install a complete radio base station, including mobile units to be installed in cars and motor boats, after having legally advertised for same as required by law, and to maintain the same and to make such necessary repairs and to purchase replacements and parts so as to keep the same in good order as may be necessary for the efficient operation of said station. The said radio station shall be operated by the sheriffs of said counties for law enforcement purposes. All of the expenses of said station may be borne by any available funds of said counties, including its general fund. However the board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to purchase new or used two-way shortwave equipment without first advertising for same as required by law, provided the total cost of said two-way shortwave equipment shall not exceed the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).   Any county may cooperate with one or more counties in purchasing and maintaining the radio base station herein authorized, and in such event, the cost may be prorated among them by contract.   Any county may cooperate with any municipality located in said county in purchasing and maintaining the radio base station herein authorized, and in such event, the cost may be prorated between said county and municipality by contract. Said county and municipality may employ such dispatcher or dispatchers as in their opinion may be necessary to operate such radio base station.
MS Code § 19-5-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-7. Employment of school crossing guards

 The board of supervisors of (a) any county in this state having a population in excess of two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) according to the 1990 federal census, and an assessed valuation in excess of Three Hundred Million Dollars ($300,000,000.00) as shown by the last completed assessment for taxation, and (b) any county in this state having a population of at least thirty-eight thousand (38,000), according to the latest federal decennial census, having one (1) completely constructed highway bridge and an additional highway bridge at least fifty percent (50%) constructed which cross the Mississippi River resulting in a high volume of vehicular traffic in the county, and which has only one (1) public school district in the county, shall be authorized, in its discretion, to employ school crossing guards.   The board of supervisors of the county described in "(a)" above may pay each of the guards employed by it a monthly amount to be established by the board of supervisors, and the board of supervisors of the county described in "(b)" above may pay each of the guards employed by it an amount not to exceed Three Hundred Fifty Dollars ($350.00) per month. Any such board may purchase and furnish the school crossing guards with suitable uniforms.   The board of supervisors of any county which employs school crossing guards under the authority of this section shall annually spread upon its official minutes the total number of school crossing guards employed by the county, including the names of and compensation paid to each of such school crossing guards.
MS Code § 19-5-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-11. Compensation for destruction of certain diseased livestock

 The board of supervisors of any county may, in their discretion, pay to the owner compensation not exceeding the value of any farcied or glandered stock killed heretofore by the sheriff under the provisions of law.
MS Code § 19-5-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-13. Compensation for cattle killed or injured in dipping process

 Any person in any county in this state shall be entitled to recover from such county reasonable compensation for any livestock owned by such person that may be killed or permanently injured in the process of dipping or as a result of such dipping for the eradication of the cattle tick, where such dipping was done under the supervision of the board of supervisors or the livestock sanitary board.
MS Code § 19-5-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-15. Burial of livestock dying as result of epidemic; burial of poultry dying as result of natural or man-made disaster or emergency situation

  The board of supervisors of any county is authorized to use the road equipment and employees of the county to bury livestock which died as a result of an epidemic, whenever any licensed veterinarian shall certify to the board or any member thereof that there is an epidemic, contagious disease, among the livestock of the county or any portion of the county and immediate burial is necessary in order to prevent the spread of a contagious disease and would be in the best interest of the community wherein livestock have contracted such disease.     If a concentrated animal feeding operation contains at least ten thousand (10,000) heads of poultry per house, the board of supervisors of any county may use the road equipment and employees of the county to bury the poultry that has died as the result of a natural or man-made disaster or other emergency situation;   The board shall spread upon its minutes an order declaring that it will be the policy of the board to bury such poultry as authorized by this section;   Any poultry buried under this section shall be buried according to the requirements and regulations of the Mississippi Board of Animal Health;   Before the county buries poultry, the owner shall give written permission and execute a release and waiver of liability to the county for any loss or damages that may result from the burying of the poultry.     Any livestock or poultry buried under this section shall be buried on the premises of the owner of the livestock or poultry, the property provided by the owner, or an approved site.
MS Code § 19-5-18 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-18. Development of billing and collection system

  To defray the cost of establishing, operating and maintaining the system provided for in Section 19-5-17, the board of supervisors may develop a system for the billing and/or the collection of any fees or charges imposed on each person furnished garbage and/or rubbish collection and/or disposal service by the county or at the expense of the county. The board of supervisors may designate, by resolution, a county official to collect the fees or charges. If the board of supervisors designates an elected county official to collect the fees or charges, the board of supervisors shall pay the reasonable costs incurred in collecting the fees or charges. The county official so designated shall notify the board of supervisors monthly of any unpaid fees or charges assessed under Section 19-5-21. The sheriff of the county, in accordance with the performance of his regular duties, shall assist in the collection of any delinquent fees or charges.   The board of supervisors may enter into a contract upon mutual agreement with a public or private corporation, nonprofit corporation, planning and development district or a public agency, association, utility or utility district within the county and/or the area receiving garbage and/or rubbish collection and/or disposal services from the county for the purpose of developing, maintaining, operating and administering a system for the billing and/or collection of fees or charges imposed by the county for garbage and/or rubbish collection and/or disposal services. The entity with whom the board of supervisors contracts shall notify the board of supervisors monthly of any unpaid fees or charges assessed under Section 19-5-21. Any entity that contracts to provide a service to customers, within the area being served by the county's garbage and/or rubbish collection and/or disposal system, may provide a list of its customers to the board of supervisors upon the request of the board.
MS Code § 19-5-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-19. Authority of counties to grant tax exemptions for property surrounding certain public landfills; credit against services received from regional authority in amount of tax revenues lost

  Any county which locates, develops, owns or operates a municipal solid waste management facility within the county, or any county within which is located or developed a municipal solid waste management facility that is part of a local nonhazardous solid waste management plan approved by the Commission on Environmental Quality in accordance with Section 17-17-227, on its own behalf or as a member of a regional authority, is authorized to grant a tax abatement or exception from ad valorem taxation in an amount not to exceed fifty percent (50%) of the tax amended and levied against the real property located directly adjacent and surrounding the site of such facility or such other property within are made of the site which is determined by the board of supervisors to be impacted by the location and operation of the site.   Any county, which is a member of a regional authority, and which grants the tax exemption authorized herein for a municipal solid waste management facility site of the regional authority, shall receive a credit against services received from the regional authority in an amount commensurate with the tax revenue lost as a result of tax exemptions granted pursuant to this section.
MS Code § 19-5-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-23. Notice of tax levy; protest; election

 The tax levy authorized by Section 19-5-21 shall not be imposed until the board of supervisors shall have published notice of its intention to levy same. Said notice shall be published once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks in some newspaper having a general circulation in such county, but not less than twenty-one (21) days, nor more than sixty (60) days, intervening between the time of the first notice and the meeting at which said board proposes to levy such tax. If, within the time of giving notice, twenty percent (20%) or fifteen hundred (1500), whichever is less, of the qualified electors of the district affected shall protest or file a petition against the levy of such tax, then such tax shall not be levied unless authorized by a majority of the qualified electors of such district voting at an election to be called and held for that purpose. The notice provided for herein shall only be required prior to the initial levy except when the board of supervisors intends to increase the levy over the amount shown in the initial notice.
MS Code § 19-5-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-25. Reimbursement of tax levies

 The levies made under Section 19-5-21 shall not be reimbursed under the Homestead Exemption Law of 1946, being Sections 37-57-3 and 37-57-35, Mississippi Code of 1972, and any other statute authorizing the levy of taxes for the support of schools.
MS Code § 19-5-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-27. Supplementary method for garbage and rubbish removal

 Sections 19-5-18 through 19-5-27 provide counties a supplementary method for handling garbage and rubbish removal. These sections do not amend or repeal Section 19-5-17, Sections 17-5-3 through 17-5-11, or any other law relating to the subject, including any special or local law which may have been enacted or which may hereafter be enacted by the Legislature regarding payment of costs for garbage or rubbish removal or collection of delinquent fees assessed for garbage or rubbish removal.
MS Code § 19-5-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-29. Payment for laying certain water mains

 The boards of supervisors of the several counties of this state may, in their discretion, pay such part of the cost of labor and material for laying water mains from municipal water systems along the highways outside the corporate limits of such municipalities, not exceeding a distance of five miles, as in their discretion, may be to the public interest of their respective counties. Such expenditure on the part of a board of supervisors shall not exceed one-half of the entire total cost of labor and material for laying such water main.   However, no part of said expense is to be borne by any board of supervisors unless there is situate on the route of such proposed water main one or more county schools.
MS Code § 19-5-30 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-30. Payment for relocating water lines

 The board of supervisors of any county in this state is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to render any assistance deemed necessary in order to defray the cost of the relocation of a water line operated within the county by a local water association when such relocation is required for the development of a public road or other county improvement. Such assistance may be rendered by the board upon a finding that such would be in the best interest of the county.
MS Code § 19-5-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-31. Golden Age Nursing Homes; establishment and operation

 The board of supervisors of each county in the state, acting alone or in conjunction with boards of supervisors of an adjoining county or counties, shall have the power and jurisdiction necessary and proper to provide for the relief and support of the aged bona fide residents of said county or counties, of good moral character and over sixty-five years of age, and, to that end, may purchase the necessary lands for the establishment of a Golden Age Nursing Home in said county or counties, and may employ suitable persons to control and operate same and to see that such aged persons are properly treated, and may provide physicians and nurses in such cases as it may deem proper, and purchase the necessary medicines and medical supplies and pay for all of same out of the general fund of said county or counties, or out of any funds ensuing from any levy made by such board of supervisors for the support and maintenance of such institutions.   The board of supervisors of said county or counties may prescribe such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient and necessary for the operation and maintenance of said county nursing home, and may employ any person as superintendent or other employees that may be required and necessary in the operation of such institution.