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MS Code § 1-3-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 1-3-67. How time computed when a number of days is prescribed

 When process shall be required to be served or notice given any number of days, the day of the act, event or default from which the designated period of time begins to run shall not be included. The last day of the period so computed shall be included unless it is a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday, or any other day when the courthouse or the clerk's office is in fact closed, whether with or without legal authority, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday, a legal holiday, or any other day when the courthouse or the clerk's office is closed. When the period of time prescribed or allowed is less than seven (7) days, intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation.
MS Code § 1-3-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 1-3-69. When a number of weeks is prescribed

 When publication shall be required to be made in some newspaper "for three (3) weeks," such publication shall be made once each week for three (3) successive weeks, and the time within which the noticed party is required to act or within which the noticing party may proceed shall be computed from the first date of publication. This rule shall furnish a guide for any similar case, whether the time required be more or less than three (3) weeks.
MS Code § 1-3-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 1-3-71. Civil law to control computation of relationship unless otherwise provided

 In each and every statute of this state heretofore enacted, and now in effect, in which the phrase "kindred within the third degree" or "relationship within the third degree" is used, and in which no other rule is applied or indicated, the civil law rule in computing relationship shall govern.
MS Code § 1-3-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 1-3-73. Civil law to apply in construing

 The civil law rule of computing kinship or relationship is hereby adopted and shall hereafter control in this state where the computation of relationship or kinship, either by blood or marriage, is brought in question in construing any legislative enactment or statutory law in the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 1-3-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 1-3-75. Petitions must be signed personally by petitioners

 All petitions presented to any governing body of the State of Mississippi, or any of its subdivisions, or municipalities thereof, must be signed personally by each petitioner; otherwise, said signature shall not be counted as a valid signature of such petition.
MS Code § 1-3-76 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 1-3-76. Procedures for contesting disqualification of signatures on petition requesting vote on matter affecting county or municipality

 When any petition is filed by qualified electors of a county or municipality requesting a vote on matters affecting all or any portion of a county or municipality, the certifying official shall post a list of all names disqualified from the petition and the reason for disqualification at the courthouse or city hall, as the case may be. A person whose signature has been disqualified by the certifying official may, within ten (10) days after said notice has been posted, appear before such certifying official and present evidence of his qualification accompanied by a notarized affidavit stating the reason that his signature is qualified for the petition. Based upon such information, the certifying official shall reconsider his disqualification and may allow the signature to be counted if such action appears justified.
MS Code § 1-3-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 1-3-77. General severability provision

 If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or any part of any act passed hereafter is declared to be unconstitutional or void, or if for any reason is declared to be invalid or of no effect, the remaining sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases or parts thereof shall be in no manner affected thereby but shall remain in full force and effect.   Unless the contrary intent shall clearly appear in the particular act in question, each and every act passed hereafter shall be read and construed as though the provisions of the first paragraph of this section form an integral part thereof, whether expressly set out therein or not.
MS Code § 1-3-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 1-3-79. Treatment of amendments to same section by different bills during single legislative session; effective dates

  Except as otherwise provided in Section 1-1-109, whenever the same section of law is amended by different bills during the same session of the Legislature and the effective dates of the amendments to that section of law as specified in the bills are on different dates, the version of that section in each bill shall take effect on the effective date of the amendments to that section as specified in the bill, regardless of the dates on which the bills are approved by the Governor, become law without the Governor's signature, or are approved by the Legislature subsequent to a veto, and at the time that each version of that section takes effect, the version taking effect shall supercede all other versions of that section that took effect earlier, unless specifically provided otherwise in any of the bills amending that section.   Except as otherwise provided in Section 1-1-109, whenever the same section of law is amended by different bills during the same session of the Legislature and the effective dates of the amendments to that section of law as specified in the bills are on the same date, the version of that section in the bill that is approved by the Governor, becomes law without the Governor's signature, or is approved by the Legislature subsequent to a veto on the latest date shall supercede all other versions of that section, unless specifically provided otherwise in any of the bills amending that section.   As used in this section, "section of law" or "section" means a section of the Mississippi Code of 1972, any other valid code of statutory laws of the State of Mississippi or the session laws of the Legislature.
MS Code § 1-3-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes|§ 1-3-81. Captions of title, chapter, article, subarticle, part or section of Mississippi Code of 1972

  "Caption" means the words used to describe the substance of a title, chapter, article, subarticle, part or section of the Mississippi Code of 1972.   Captions shall not constitute a part of the Mississippi Code of 1972 unless specifically so provided by law.   The wording of captions that are not specifically provided to constitute law shall be editorial in nature and may be revised by a publisher of the code as the publisher deems appropriate. There shall be no exclusive right in any publisher of the code to the use of a caption that has appeared in any bill that is approved by the Governor, has become law without the Governor's signature, or is approved by the Legislature subsequent to a veto; captions that have appeared in such a bill shall be subject to editorial revision without legislative action.
MS Code § 1-5-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-1. Printing of general, local and private laws

 The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide for and may enter into contracts for the complete, accurate and timely printing of the general laws and the local and private laws passed at each session of the Legislature.
MS Code § 1-5-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-3. Disposition of general, local and private laws and journals of legislature; responsibility

 The Office of the Secretary of State shall be responsible for the disposition of the general laws, local and private laws and journals of the Legislature as provided for by law.
MS Code § 1-5-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-5. General laws and journals, local and private laws deposited in state law library

 The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide five (5) volumes of the general laws and journals and five (5) volumes of the local and private laws of each session of the Legislature to the State Law Library.
MS Code § 1-5-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-7. Distribution of general laws and journals, and local and private laws free of charge

 The Office of the Secretary of State shall distribute and transmit, free of cost, the general laws and journals of each session of the Legislature, as follows: One (1) volume of each to the following: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, State Auditor, State Treasurer, Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals; Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Alcorn State University, University of Southern Mississippi, Delta State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University, University of Mississippi and University of Mississippi School of Law; the sheriff of each county for the county law library; each member of the Legislature; the Secretary of the Senate; the Clerk of the House; each attorney employed in the Legislative Services Offices of the House of Representatives and the Senate; each legislative committee meeting room in the New Capitol; the Legislative Reference Bureau; the Legislative Budget Office; the Department of Archives and History; and the Library of Congress at Washington, D.C. The copies to be provided each sheriff, member of the Legislature and each attorney employed in the Legislative Services Offices of the House and Senate shall not be provided unless specifically requested by such sheriff, legislator or attorney in writing. The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide, free of cost, one (1) volume of the local and private laws to each attorney employed in the Legislative Services Offices of the House of Representatives and the Senate; each legislative committee meeting room in the New Capitol; and the Legislative Reference Bureau; however, the copies to be provided each attorney employed in the Legislative Services Offices of the House and Senate shall not be provided unless specifically requested by such attorney in writing.   In addition to the volumes provided to the Legislative Services Offices' attorneys under this section, four (4) volumes of the general laws, three (3) volumes of the local and private laws and two (2) volumes of the journal of the particular house involved shall be provided free of cost to the Legislative Services Offices of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Receipt of any number of volumes that are to be provided to the Legislative Services Offices and their attorneys under this section may be waived in writing by the Director of the Legislative Services Office of either house.
MS Code § 1-5-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-9. Distribution of general laws of Legislature to judges of United States

 The Secretary of State shall, in the same manner, further distribute one (1) copy of the general laws of the Legislature alone to each of the judges of the United States courts in this state.
MS Code § 1-5-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-11. Publication of volumes of general, local and private laws and journals for sale; disposition of proceeds

 The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide for the publication of sufficient additional volumes of the general laws, local and private laws and journals not otherwise provided for by law, to be made available for sale at a reasonable cost, including preparation, printing, shipping and handling. The Office of the Secretary of State shall pay the proceeds of such sales into the State General Fund in the manner prescribed by law.
MS Code § 1-5-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-17. University law school to have books for exchange

 The dean of the law school of the University of Mississippi may make requisitions to the Secretary of State for the general session laws and journals of the Legislature to exchange with other states for similar publications and make the same available in the University of Mississippi law school library for the purpose of increasing the facilities of the library. The Secretary of State may furnish these publications upon requisition from the dean of the law school of the University of Mississippi.
MS Code § 1-5-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-19. Publication and distribution of journals and laws

 The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide for the publication of sufficient volumes of the House journal, Senate journal, general laws and local and private laws necessary to meet the requirements of this chapter.
MS Code § 1-5-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-21. Sale of excess volumes

 The Secretary of State may sell the volumes of the House journal, Senate journal, general laws, local and private laws and the Southern Reporter-Mississippi Cases in excess of the number thereof necessary for distribution or retention, the sale price for each volume to be the cost price of printing, binding and mailing. The funds realized by the Secretary of State from the sale of those excess volumes shall be paid by him into the State General Fund in the manner prescribed by law.
MS Code § 1-5-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 5 - Session Laws and Journals|§ 1-5-25. To receive certain books from the sheriffs and distribute them

 The Secretary of State shall receive from the several sheriffs all extra copies of the acts of the Legislature, which the sheriffs are required to return to him, and he shall see that the several sheriffs perform the duty required of them in this behalf. If there be less than ten copies of any of the acts, in the State Library, he shall supply the deficiency from the acts so returned to him, and out of the residue of the acts so returned, he shall, as far as can be, supply each county with the books needed to complete the set belonging to each respectively, and shall take the receipt of the sheriff therefor; and any books not thus disposed of shall be preserved in his office, and sold as other like books.
MS Code § 3-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-1. Limits and boundaries of the territorial waters of the State of Mississippi

 The limits and boundaries of the territorial waters of the State of Mississippi shall consist of all territory included within the boundaries described in the act of Congress of March 1, 1817, together with all territory ceded to the State of Mississippi by later acts of Congress or by compacts or agreements with other states, as such territory and boundaries may have been or may be modified by the United States Supreme Court which extends three (3) miles of Cat Island, Ship Island, Horn Island and Petit Bois Island off shore to three (3) Marine Leagues.
MS Code § 3-3-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-3. How state divided into counties

 The State of Mississippi is divided into the following counties, to wit: Adams, Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Clay, Coahoma, Copiah, Covington, De Soto, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene, Grenada, Hancock, Harrison, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Itawamba, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, Lafayette, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Leake, Lee, Leflore, Lincoln, Lowndes, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pearl River, Perry, Pike, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Rankin, Scott, Sharkey, Simpson, Smith, Stone, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Walthall, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Wilkinson, Winston, Yalobusha, and Yazoo, which are bounded as described in Chapter 1 of Title 19 of this Code.
MS Code § 3-3-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-5. How far counties on Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico extend

 The counties lying immediately on the Mississippi River shall, respectively, have and possess jurisdiction and extend to the western boundary of the state, within the space embraced, by extending their boundary lines which strike the river, on a continuous direct course to the extreme boundary of the state, including all islands that may be within the limits just defined; and the counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, to wit: Jackson, Harrison and Hancock, shall, respectively, have and possess jurisdiction and extend to the southern boundary of the state within the space embraced by extending their boundary lines which strike the Gulf of Mexico, or the inlets thereto, on a continuous direct course to the southern boundary of the state, including all islands that may lie within the limits thus defined.
MS Code § 3-3-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-8. Designation of first week in May as Hernando de Soto Week

 The first week in May of each year is declared to be Hernando de Soto Week in Mississippi in recognition, observation and commemoration of Hernando de Soto who led the first and most imposing expedition ever made by Europeans into the wilds of North America and the State of Mississippi, and in further recognition of the Spanish explorer's 187-day journey from the Tombigbee River basin on our state's eastern boundary, westward to the place of discovery of the Mississippi River on May 8, 1541.   This week shall be a week of recognition, observation and commemoration of Hernando de Soto and European exploration and no day of this week shall be recognized as a legal holiday.
MS Code § 3-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-9. State tree

 The magnolia or evergreen magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora L.) is herewith designated as the state tree of Mississippi.
MS Code § 3-3-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-11. State bird

 The bird commonly called the mocking bird is hereby designated the state bird of the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 3-3-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-13. State flower

 The flower or bloom of the magnolia or evergreen magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora L.) is hereby designated as the state flower of Mississippi.
MS Code § 3-3-14 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-14. State wildflower

 The Coreopsis sp. is hereby designated as the state wildflower of Mississippi.
MS Code § 3-3-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-15. Display of state flag

 The state flag may be displayed from all public buildings from sunrise to sunset; however, the state flag may be displayed from all public buildings twenty-four (24) hours a day if properly illuminated. The state flag should not be displayed when the weather is inclement, except when an all-weather flag is displayed. The state flag shall receive all of the respect and ceremonious etiquette given the American flag. Provided, however, nothing in this section shall be construed so as to affect the precedence given to the flag of the United States of America.
MS Code § 3-3-15.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-15.1. Display of POW/MIA flag

  The Legislature enacts this section as the symbol of the nation's and the state's commitment to achieving the fullest possible accounting for Mississippians who have been or in the future may become prisoners of war, missing in action or otherwise unaccounted for as a result of hostile action.   As used in this section, the term "POW/MIA Flag" means the National League of Families POW/MIA Flag recognized officially and designated by Section 2 of Public Law 101-355 (36 USCS Section 189).   The Bureau of Capitol Facilities shall display the POW/MIA Flag in a prominent place at the New Capitol Building on the following days:   Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May;   Memorial Day, the last Monday in May;   Flag Day, June 14;   Independence Day, July 4;   National POW/MIA Recognition Day; and   Veterans Day, November 11.     Such display shall serve as the symbol of the nation's and the state's concern and commitment to achieving the fullest possible accounting of Americans and Mississippians who, having been prisoners of war or missing in action, still remain unaccounted for.   This section shall not be construed or applied so as to either require or prohibit the display of the POW/MIA Flag by any county, municipality or public school district in Mississippi.
MS Code § 3-3-16 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-16. Design of state flag

 The official flag of the State of Mississippi shall have the following design: with width two-thirds (2/3) of its length; with the union (canton) to be square, in width two-thirds (2/3) of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad blue saltire thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided into three (3) bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one, extending the whole length of the flag, red (the national colors); this being the flag adopted by the Mississippi Legislature in the 1894 Special Session.
MS Code § 3-3-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-17. State land mammals

 The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) are designated the state land mammals of Mississippi.
MS Code § 3-3-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-19. State water mammal

 The bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), commonly called the porpoise, is hereby designated the state water mammal of Mississippi.
MS Code § 3-3-20 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 3 - State sovereignty, jurisdiction and holidays|Chapter 3 - State Boundaries, Holidays, and State Emblems|§ 3-3-20. State reptile

 The American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis) is hereby designated the State Reptile of Mississippi.