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MS Code § 37-45-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-3. Transfer of functions, etc., of State Educational Finance Commission to State Board of Education

  There is hereby created a State Educational Finance Commission. For the purposes of this chapter, the term "commission" shall be construed to mean "State Educational Finance Commission."   From and after July 1, 1988, the State Educational Finance Commission shall be abolished, and all duties and responsibilities thereof shall be transferred to the State Board of Education. All records, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations or other funds of the commission shall be transferred to the State Department of Education. All references in the laws of this state to the "State Educational Finance Commission" or to the "commission," when referring to the Educational Finance Commission, shall be construed to mean the State Department of Education.   In order to provide for an orderly transition in assuming the duties and responsibilities of the State Educational Finance Commission, the State Board of Education shall develop a plan of transition and shall report such plan to the Legislature on or before January 1, 1987.
MS Code § 37-45-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-5. Appointment and term of members

 The commission shall be composed of six (6) members who shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. However, no such confirmation shall be made by the Senate until said appointment or appointments have been referred to the proper Senate standing committee and an individual report has been made on each appointee by said Senate standing committee reporting that in its judgment such appointee has the proper qualifications and is a proper person to perform the duties of this office.   One (1) member shall be appointed from each congressional district of the state as presently existing. In making the original appointments, two (2) members shall be appointed for a term expiring April 1st, 1956; two (2) members shall be appointed for a term expiring April 1st, 1958; and two (2) members shall be appointed for a term expiring April 1st, 1960. Thereafter all appointments shall be for terms of six (6) years commencing on April 1st of the year in which the appointments are made. New members of the commission shall be appointed from the same district as their predecessor. Any vacancy in the membership of the commission occurring before the expiration of a term shall be filled in the manner hereinabove provided for, but only for the unexpired term.
MS Code § 37-45-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-7. Surety bond; voting

 Each member of the commission shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, enter into a good and sufficient surety bond in the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) payable to the State of Mississippi and conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. Said bond shall be executed by some surety company authorized to do business in this state. The premiums thereon shall be paid from any funds which may be available to the commission for such purpose.   Any member of the commission may have his vote on any question before the commission recorded on the minutes thereof at the time of the vote, and a member of the commission who votes against an illegal, unlawful or unauthorized expenditure of funds shall not be liable therefor.
MS Code § 37-45-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-9. Compensation and expenses

 The members of the commission shall receive a per diem, mileage and expenses as is authorized by law per day for each day spent in attending meetings of the commission and in performing such other duties as may be required of them by law or the directives of the commission. However, except for regular or called meetings no member shall receive per diem, mileage or other expenses in performing duties unless such duties shall have been directed by an order duly entered on the minutes of a meeting of the commission prior to the performance thereof.
MS Code § 37-45-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-11. Adoption and use of seal

 The commission is authorized to adopt and use an official seal.
MS Code § 37-45-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-13. Meetings; organization

 The commission shall meet on the third Monday of each month, and shall meet at such other times as may be designated by law or upon call by the chairman or a majority of the members of the commission. At its first meeting, the commission shall organize and elect a chairman and a vice-chairman. As soon as practicable thereafter, the commission shall adopt such rules and regulations not contrary to the provisions of this chapter and the other laws of the State of Mississippi as shall be necessary and proper to govern its proceedings. Four members of said commission shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of doing business. The commission may either elect a secretary from among its membership or designate the executive secretary as its secretary.
MS Code § 37-45-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-15. Minutes; recess of meetings and hearings

 The commission shall keep full, complete, and permanent minutes and records of all its proceedings, including the rules and regulations adopted by it, and said minutes shall be signed by the chairman, or vice-chairman, and attested by the secretary. All minutes of the commission shall be signed and approved not later than the close of the next regular meeting.   Any meeting or hearing of or by the commission may be recessed from day to day or time to time without the necessity of daily entering the fact of recess upon the minutes of the commission. However, the fact of recess of any hearing, where the proceedings are taken by a reporter, shall be shown in the record of the proceedings.
MS Code § 37-45-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-17. Executive secretary and other employees

 The commission shall select an executive secretary, who shall be the administrative officer of the commission. The executive secretary shall perform such duties as are required of him by law, and such other duties as may be assigned to him by the commission. He shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the commission. He shall hold, or be eligible to secure, a Class AA certificate for administrators as defined in the rules and regulations of the state department of education covering the certification of instructional personnel. He shall have had ten years' experience as a teacher, supervisor or administrator in the public schools, of which not less than five years shall have been in a responsible administrative position. He shall have had broad professional education experience and shall have recognized ability as a school administrator. He shall have no vote in the decisions of said commission, and shall have no voice in the making or fixing of policies by said commission. Said executive secretary, in order to qualify for his position, shall be required to make a good and sufficient bond in some surety company qualified and doing business in the State of Mississippi, in the penal sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties as required by law and the directives of said commission. The premium on said bond shall be paid from any funds available to the commission for such purpose. Said executive secretary may be removed at any time upon a majority vote of the membership of said commission.   The commission shall have the power and authority to employ such technical, professional, and clerical help as may be necessary for the administration of this chapter and for the performance of such other duties as may be imposed upon the commission by law, and to define the duties and fix the compensation of such employees.
MS Code § 37-45-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-19. Promulgation of rules and regulations

 The commission shall promulgate such reasonable rules and regulations as shall be necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this chapter and of such other laws, the administration of which shall be vested in the commission; however, no such rule or regulation shall be in conflict with any applicable law. It shall be the duty of the commission to furnish the board of trustees or other governing body of all school districts and the attorney general certified copies of all rules and regulations prescribed by the commission, which distribution shall be made not less than thirty days prior to the effective date of all such rules or regulations.
MS Code § 37-45-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-21. Distribution of school facility funds

 The commission shall distribute and disburse, subject to the provisions of law, such funds as may be appropriated by the legislature, and such funds as may otherwise become available, for constructing, improving, equipping, renovating, and repairing school buildings or other school facilities, as authorized and directed by chapter 47 of this title. No funds shall be distributed by said commission to any school district operating a school in the State of Mississippi until such school district shall have conclusively shown that it has complied with all the requirements of the laws of the State of Mississippi for the operation of schools or school districts, and until such school district shall have complied with all the applicable regulations of the commission.
MS Code § 37-45-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-23. Formulation of policies and approval of plans for location and construction of noncharter public school buildings

 Subject to the provisions of any applicable statute, the commission shall formulate policies and approve or disapprove plans for the location and construction of all necessary elementary and secondary noncharter public school buildings.
MS Code § 37-45-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-25. Supervision and approval of surveys of educational needs

 Subject to the provisions of any applicable statute, the commission shall supervise and approve or disapprove all surveys of educational needs made by any school board or board of education. The commission may assist such boards in making such surveys, and it may make supplemental surveys of such needs.
MS Code § 37-45-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-27. Hearings

 In conducting any hearing, the commission shall not be required to follow common law or statutory rules of evidence or the technical or formal rules of procedure. Any such hearing may be conducted in such manner as the commission may deem best to ascertain and determine the physical, mental, moral, social and educational welfare of the educable children involved, the efficiency of the operation of the schools, and the economic and social welfare of the various school areas involved.
MS Code § 37-45-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-29. Service of notices and other process

 All notices or other process authorized or required to be served upon the commission shall be served upon the chairman and the executive secretary.
MS Code § 37-45-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-31. Issuance of subpoenas

 The commission, or the chairman thereof, at any regular or recessed meeting, or the chairman in vacation, or the executive secretary in vacation pursuant to the direction of the chairman made at any time, is hereby empowered to issue under the seal of the commission and in its name, subpoenas for witnesses to require their attendance and the giving of testimony before the commission at any hearing or proceeding conducted by the commission and to require the production of such books, papers and records in any proceeding before the commission as may be material upon questions before or brought by the commission. Such subpoenas for witnesses or subpoenas duces tecum shall be directed to the sheriff or other lawful officer of the county of the residence of the witness named in the subpoena and shall be served and returned by the sheriff or other officer authorized by law to serve and return process in this state as in the chancery courts of this state and shall be obeyed just as process in said chancery court. The time and place for the appearance of the witness and the production of any documents, as the case may be, shall be specified in such subpoena.
MS Code § 37-45-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-33. Procedure upon failure or refusal to comply with subpoena

 In case of the failure or refusal on the part of any person to comply with any subpoena issued as authorized in Section 37-45-31, or in case of the refusal of any witness to testify or answer to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, the chancellor or the chancery court of the county of the residence of such person, or the chancellor or the chancery court of the county in which the hearing to which the subpoena is returnable is being conducted may, on application of the commission or the chairman thereof, in term time or vacation, issue an attachment for such person and compel him to comply with such subpoena and to attend before the commission and produce the documents specified in any subpoena duces tecum and give his testimony upon such matters as he may be lawfully required. Said chancery court shall have the power to punish for contempt as in case of disobedience of like process issued by or from such chancery court, or as in case of the refusal to testify therein in response to such process.
MS Code § 37-45-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-35. Fees and mileage of witnesses

 All witnesses attending the commission pursuant to process issued as authorized in Section 37-45-31, shall be entitled to the same per diem and mileage as provided for witnesses in the chancery courts of this state. Such witnesses shall attend from day to day until discharged by the commission or by agreement of counsel for the interested parties. The fee and mileage of all witnesses shall be paid by the county board of education or the board of trustees of a municipal separate school district interested in the matter under consideration by the commission. However, any witness fees or mileage of witnesses subpoenaed by the commission or by or at the direction of the chairman on its or their own motion shall be paid by the commission by proper requisition upon the funds appropriated for the operation of the commission. The commission may tax the cost of any proceeding before it as a part of its order in such proceeding.
MS Code § 37-45-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-37. Designation of official reporter; compensation; duties

 At any hearing held by the commission under the provisions of chapter 47 of this title, or under any other statute, it is made the duty of any county board of education or board of trustees of any municipal separate school district involved, jointly or severally, to provide at their or its own expense a competent reporter to be approved by the commission, or the chairman thereof, to take the proceedings had at such hearing, and in the event of an appeal to transcribe same and file with the commission an original and one copy thereof within the time prescribed by law. Said reporter shall act under the supervision of said commission, or the secretary thereof, and for the purpose of said hearing and any appeal therefrom he shall be considered as the official reporter of the commission.   If the parties applying for any such hearing shall, at the time of applying for such hearing, certify to the commission in writing, via registered mail, their inability to secure a competent reporter, the commission shall select and provide said reporter, whose duties shall be the same and whose fees and costs shall be borne and paid as costs, in the same manner as the reporter mentioned in the preceding parts of this section.
MS Code § 37-45-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-39. Preservation of reporter's notes and transcription thereof

 The reporter shall act in the same capacity as an official court reporter of the chancery courts of this state. His shorthand notes and the transcription thereof shall be preserved in the same manner and accorded the same verity as those of chancery court reporters.
MS Code § 37-45-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-41. Certification and filing of transcript of reporter's notes; corrections

 When the reporter's notes shall have been transcribed, the reporter shall certify same and file an original and one copy with the commission and give notice by registered mail of the fact of such filing to the county board or county boards of education and the board of trustees of any municipal separate school district involved in the proceeding covered by the transcript, and their respective counsel of record, if any, and to the commission.   Any correction of the transcript shall be made in the same manner provided for correcting a transcript in Section 9-13-35, Mississippi Code of 1972, with the commission exercising the rights and power of the trial judge mentioned therein, and the executive secretary of the commission exercising the duties of the clerk mentioned in said section. The written agreement provided by said section concerning the transcript therein provided to be filed in the supreme court may be entered into and filed in the chancery court to which the appeal is taken from any final rule, regulation or order of the commission.
MS Code § 37-45-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-43. Fees of reporter

 The fees of the reporter, per diem, and for the transcription of any evidence taken by him upon any hearing before the commission, shall not be in excess of the customary per diem, transcription and filing fees made by the chancery court reporters of this state.
MS Code § 37-45-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-45. Costs of administrative proceedings; schedule; taxation

 The schedule of cost in the chancery courts of this state shall apply, where applicable, to the cost accruing or incurred in the proceedings before the commission.   The cost of the services of said reporter and any other cost provided for in this chapter shall be taxed as a part of the cost of any hearing before the commission. All costs paid to any employee of the commission and all costs collected by the commission and not required to be paid to some person by the terms of this chapter shall be paid into the treasury of the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 37-45-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-47. Time for payment of costs; procedure in case of nonpayment

 All costs taxed by the commission in any hearing or proceeding shall be had within forty-five days after the date of any final order of the commission or decree of the chancery court if no appeal is taken therefrom, and within thirty days after the final order or judgment of the supreme court of Mississippi if an appeal is taken to it.   In the event said costs are not so paid, said commission shall certify the same to the state board of education and unless said costs shall have been paid the said state board of education shall deduct the amount thereof, as to any county board of education, from the next allotment to said county for administrative expenses, and as to any municipal separate school district from its next allotment of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per teacher unit. Such amount shall be paid to the commission, which shall deposit same in the state treasury, and the same shall then be disbursed to the person to whom it is owing by proper warrant upon order of the commission. The provisions of this section shall not relieve the obligation of any surety upon any appeal bond.
MS Code § 37-45-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-49. Payment of fees and costs of school authorities and commission

 Any cost or fees provided by this chapter to be paid by any county board of education or board of trustees of a municipal separate school district may be paid by the county board of education from the administrative fund provided by Section 37-19-31, or from any school funds of the district other than minimum foundation program funds, and by the municipal separate district from the maintenance funds of the district, other than minimum foundation program funds. Any fees or costs provided by this chapter to be paid by the commission may be paid from the funds appropriated for its operation.