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MS Code § 25-7-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-53. Forfeiture of witness fees

 A witness shall not be entitled to charge for his attendance in a civil case at any term of the court unless he shall, during the term or within five (5) days thereafter, prove his attendance and obtain a certificate in the manner directed; nor in any case, civil or criminal, shall a witness who does not appear in court when called, or who is so intoxicated as to be disqualified from testifying, be entitled to receive compensation.
MS Code § 25-7-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-55. Witness to have only one fee for same time

 A witness shall not be allowed compensation for his attendance in more than one case or on more than one side of the same case at the same time, but he may elect in which of several cases and on which side of a case in which he is summoned for both sides, to claim his attendance. The party who pays a witness shall be entitled to recover of the parties in other cases who were liable to such witness a just proportion of the amount to which the witness was entitled for his attendance as the witness of such parties during the same time; and a person who is compelled to attend court on other business shall not be paid as a witness.
MS Code § 25-7-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-57. Witness in criminal cases

 Witnesses in criminal cases shall be allowed the same compensation as in civil cases, but the prosecutor shall not be allowed compensation as a witness, nor shall any person be allowed for his attendance as a witness in more than one criminal case on the same day. The compensation of witnesses on behalf of the state shall be allowed in open court, the order therefor entered upon the minutes, and a certificate of same shall be delivered to the party entitled thereto. Said certificate shall be negotiable and shall be paid by the county treasurer of the county in which the offense was committed upon presentation by the payee or the holder in due course. The clerk shall keep an account of all such certificates and shall tax the amount thereof in the bill of costs if the defendant shall be sentenced to pay the costs and, when collected, the same shall be paid into the county treasury. A witness shall not receive compensation for attendance before the grand jury.
MS Code § 25-7-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-59. Report of witness certificates payable out of county treasury

 The circuit clerk shall, within thirty (30) days after the adjournment of each term of the circuit court, make a report in writing to the county auditor of all witness certificates issued by him, payable out of the county treasury, which report shall state the name of each witness, the case, the date, and the amount of each certificate. Said report shall be certified by him under his official seal, and the county auditor shall enter the same upon the proper record in his office.
MS Code § 25-7-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-63. Determination of compensation of jurors

 The amount of compensation due to each grand juror, petit juror, and juror summoned on a special venire and regularly discharged by the court shall, after the discharge of such juror, be determined on the oath of the juror, allowed in open court, and entered on the minutes thereof. The clerk shall thereupon give a certificate of the same to the juror, and said certificate shall be negotiable and shall be paid by the county treasurer upon presentation by the payee or the holder in due course. In all other cases the court or officer before whom the juror serves shall determine the sum due and give certificate accordingly.
MS Code § 25-7-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-65. Printers and publishers

 Printers and publishers shall be entitled to the following fees:   For publishing in a newspaper any summons, order, citation, advertisement or notice required by law to be published in a newspaper, Twelve Cents (12¢) for each word it contains for the first insertion, and Ten Cents (10¢) for each of the words for each subsequent insertion required by law; however, as an alternative, such printers and publishers may charge such fees per line which are acceptable to the party placing the publication not to exceed the Twelve Cents (12¢) and Ten Cents (10¢) per word as set out in this subsection.   When four (4) or more numerals appear consecutively in any such legal publication, four (4) numerals shall be considered as one (1) word, and if there remains a fractional portion of such unit of four (4) numerals therein such fraction shall also be counted as one (1) word. In the case of numbers containing less than four (4) numerals which are isolated from other numerals by words in such publication, the same shall be counted as one (1) word. When tables or tabular matter are included, each line of the standard newspaper column shall be considered as containing at least six (6) words.   The fees authorized in this paragraph (a) shall not be chargeable for any erroneous publication of a summons, order, citation, advertisement or notice required by law to be published in a newspaper, if such error is not attributable to the person or entity requesting the publication.   For making proof of publication, making a copy thereof, and for deposing to the same, Three Dollars ($3.00); but this section shall not apply to the publication of ordinances of municipalities, proceedings of the board of supervisors and school boards or audit reports.
MS Code § 25-7-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-67. Appraisers of the estates of decedents

 The chancery court or the chancellor in vacation in each chancery court district of this state shall fix and allow reasonable compensation for appraisers in the estates of deceased persons, and said compensation shall be paid by the executor or administrator from the funds of said estate after same has been allowed by the chancery court or chancellor in vacation.
MS Code § 25-7-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-69. Officers and jurors in ad quod damnum proceedings

 Each juror summoned and attending the execution of a writ ad quod damnum from the board of supervisors shall be entitled to Two Dollars ($2.00), the clerk shall be entitled to One Dollar ($1.00) for the writ, and the sheriff shall be entitled to three dollars for summoning the jury and to Three Dollars ($3.00) for his attendance upon the inquest, to be paid by the party petitioning for the writ, who may be required to give security for the payment of such fees before the writ is issued.
MS Code § 25-7-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-71. To persons bringing back prisoner on extradition

 Any party, acting under a requisition of the Governor or acting without a requisition in cases where the person to be returned has waived extradition in writing, who brings back to this state and delivers to the sheriff of the county where the offense is alleged to have been committed a person charged with felony shall receive, to be paid out of the county treasury on the order of the circuit court and of the board of supervisors, Twenty Cents (20¢) a mile for the distance necessarily traveled in coming from the place of arrest to the place of delivery; but the same shall not be paid to any party who has received or who claims a reward from the state, county, or person.
MS Code § 25-7-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-73. Expenses of returning felon

 The circuit court or the judge thereof in vacation is hereby authorized and empowered to allow all necessary and proper expenses to any person or persons acting under a requisition of the Governor, or acting without a requisition in cases where the person to be returned has waived extradition in writing, who may travel out of this state for the purpose of identifying or assisting in any proper and necessary manner in the return to this state of a person charged with felony.   Such expenses may be allowed only upon a petition to said court or judge filed by the district attorney, setting out the necessity for the expenditure, an estimate of the probable amount to be spent, the name of the person charged with felony, the crime with which such person is charged, and the place to which the proposed trip will be made. If, upon the hearing of said petition, the circuit court or judge is satisfied of the necessity of the expenditure, an order authorizing the same may be entered to that effect; and thereafter, upon sworn itemized statement of such expenses, the court or judge shall, if such expenses are reasonable and proper, enter an order allowing the same, which order, upon presentation to the board of supervisors of the county in which such person is charged with felony, shall be allowed by said board.
MS Code § 25-7-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-75. Expenses of returning certain prisoners to other states

 When it is desired to have returned to this state a person charged in this state with a crime, and such person is imprisoned or is held under criminal proceedings then pending against him in another state or territory or the District of Columbia, the Governor of this state may agree with the executive authority of such other state or territory for the extradition of such person before the conclusion of such proceedings or his term of sentence in such other state or territory or the District of Columbia, upon condition that such person be returned to such other state or territory at the expense of this state as soon as the prosecution in this state is terminated. The expenses of returning such prisoners to other states shall be paid out of an appropriation to be made for that purpose known as "the prisoner extradition fund."
MS Code § 25-7-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-77. Fees for attachment for rent

 The officer issuing an attachment or distress for rent or supplies furnished by a landlord to a tenant, shall be entitled to One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50) for the affidavit, bond, and writ, to be paid by the party obtaining them, which shall be collected with the rent or other demand and be refunded to such party. The officer serving the attachment shall be entitled to the same fees and commissions as are allowed to sheriffs for serving an attachment against an absconding debtor and making the money thereon.
MS Code § 25-7-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-79. Fees of officers and witness in unlawful entry and detainer court

 The justices holding a court for the trial of an unlawful entry and detainer shall each be entitled to Two Dollars ($2.00) a day for attending the trial; and other fees of witnesses and officers for services rendered in relation to the proceeding and trial shall be the same as the fees for similar services in the circuit court, and shall be taxed in the costs.
MS Code § 25-7-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-81. Secretary of State

 The Secretary of State shall charge the following fees:   For every commission issued by him to persons appointed by the Governor as a commissioner of this state in any other state, territory, or district of the United States, or in any foreign country. . . . .$10.00   For recording charter of a corporation for literary, religious, benevolent, fraternal, or scientific purposes, and not for pecuniary profits, directly or indirectly. . . . .20.00   For commission of each notary public. . . . .25.00   For commission of each commissioner of deeds. . . . .10.00
MS Code § 25-7-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-83. Executive Director of the Department of Finance and Administration

 The auditor of public accounts shall charge the following fees:   The auditor shall be entitled to charge and receive of persons paying taxes to him five per centum thereon.   For each transcript from land records, containing official certificate and not more than five land descriptions. . . . .$1.50   For each additional land description over five. . . . .1.00   For each official certificate other than land record transcript. . . . ..15   And, in addition, on each hundred words over one hundred. . . . ..15   For receiving, examining, and filing each insurance statement and issuing authority. . . . .5.00   The auditor shall make all necessary transcripts of the records of his office relating to lands sold for taxes and certified into the land office, and give all necessary certificates concerning them from the records in his office. He shall collect the proper fees therefor and pay the same over to the land commissioner for payment into the state treasury.
MS Code § 25-7-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-85. Secretary of State; fee relating to land transactions

 The Secretary of State shall charge, collect and pay into the State Treasury the following fees, viz:   a. For each application filed for the purchase of tax-forfeited property $2.50 b. For copy of patent 2.00 c. For certificate from 1875 to date, certifying each and every sale and disposition by the state 5.00 d. For certificate of land records information 2.00 e. For copy of any land record, not certified 1.00 f. Photostat copies of plats and field notes, as follows: Size of Sheet Per Page 8 1/2" x 11" and under $0.50 Over 8 1/2" x 11" and not more than 8 1/2" x 14" .60 Over 8 1/2" x 14" and not more than 18" x 24" 1.20 All over 18" x 24" 2.00   Click to view
MS Code § 25-7-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-87. Fees of state officers to be paid into Treasury

 It shall be the duty of all state officers who receive a salary to continue to collect the fees or perquisites required of them by any law. Each of said officers shall keep a detailed account of such collections among the official receipts of his office and pay them in full into the state treasury on the first Monday of each month. The payment shall be accompanied by the affidavit of the officer averring that he has collected all fees allowed by law for all work performed by him during the preceding month, and showing the amount thereof.
MS Code § 25-7-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 7 - Fees|§ 25-7-89. Fee for transcript of testimony and exhibits to testimony, or copy of such transcript and exhibits

 Each court reporter shall receive Two Dollars and Forty Cents ($2.40) per page for each transcript of testimony, or copy of such transcript, which shall be taxed as costs to each party or individual who may obtain such transcript or copy thereof. The court reporter shall file with the clerk an original and one (1) copy of the transcript, for which copy no charge shall be made.
MS Code § 25-13-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System|§ 25-13-1. Purpose of system

 There is hereby established a retirement system for the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, as defined in this chapter, effective July 1, 1958, under which members of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol may retire for superannuation or may retire for reason of disability, and providing benefits to widows and orphans of such patrolmen. This retirement system is designed to supplement and is in addition to the provisions of Sections 25-11-1 through 25-11-21. Under the terms of this chapter, the highway safety patrolmen, as defined herein, retain all the benefits of old age and survivors insurance under the federal laws administered by the department of public health, education and welfare, or its successor, as provided in the federal and state agreement executed on July 2, 1952, but shall not be eligible for benefits under Sections 25-11-101 through 25-11-139, which is the state retirement annuity plan for state employees. This chapter is a substitute for and in lieu of said sections, and is designed to provide more liberal benefits for the highway safety patrolmen by reason of the dangerous nature of their employment.
MS Code § 25-13-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System|§ 25-13-5. Creditable service

 Creditable service on which a member's service or disability retirement benefit is based shall consist of "prior service" and membership service. Prior service shall mean service performed for the Highway Safety Patrol as defined in Section 25-13-3 before July 1, 1958 and service performed as a sworn agent for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics prior to March 29, 1991. No prior service credits shall be granted any person who re-enters the employment of the Highway Safety Patrol after July 1, 1958, except that any former sworn officer of the Highway Safety Patrol who returns to the Highway Safety Patrol in any capacity, and who has had not less than two (2) years of prior service as a sworn officer of the Highway Safety Patrol, and who was disabled by wounds or accident in line of duty, may become a member of the Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System with full credit for any previous service as set forth in Section 25-13-3 with the Highway Safety Patrol. Membership service shall mean all services for which credit may be allowed under this chapter subsequent to July 1, 1958, and all lawfully credited unused leave as of the date of withdrawal from service, as certified by the appointing authority.
MS Code § 25-13-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System|§ 25-13-7. Custodian of fund; financing; payment of benefits; maintenance as separate fund

 The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System, as created by Sections 25-11-1 through 25-11-139, shall act as custodian of this Disability and Relief Fund for members of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol; shall receive to the credit of such fund all appropriations and other funds available as an employer's contribution thereto from any source whatsoever; and the Highway Safety Patrol shall each month deduct from the salary of each member, as defined in Section 25-13-3, five percent (5%) thereof, and shall pay the amount so deducted to the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System to be credited to the Disability and Relief Fund for the members of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol. Provided, however, that the said board of trustees may, biennially, following March 18, 1977, vary the percentage of employee contribution on the basis of the liabilities of the retirement system for the various allowances and benefits as shown by actuarial valuation. From the funds credited to this account, the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall pay retirements, disability benefits, survivors benefits, expenses and shall refund contributions as provided in this chapter. The said "Disability and Relief Fund for the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol" shall be maintained as a separate fund, separate from all other funds held by the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi and shall be used only for the payment of benefits provided for by this chapter, or amendments thereto.
MS Code § 25-13-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System|§ 25-13-8. Employer to pay member contributions required for fund; tax treatment; methods of payment

 The employer shall pick up the member contributions required by Section 25-13-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, for all compensation earned after June 30, 1982, and the contributions so picked up shall be treated as employer contributions in determining tax treatment under the United States Internal Revenue Code and Mississippi Income Tax Code; however, the employer shall continue to withhold federal and state income taxes based upon these contributions until the internal revenue service or federal courts rule that pursuant to section 414(h) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, these contributions shall not be included as gross income of the member until such time as they are distributed or made available. The employer shall pay these member contributions from the same source of funds which is used in paying earnings to the member. The employer may pick up these contributions by a reduction in the cash salary of the member or by an offset against a future salary increase or by a combination of a reduction in salary and offset against a future salary increase. If member contributions are picked up they shall be treated for all purposes of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System in the same manner and to the same extent as member contributions made prior to the date picked up.
MS Code § 25-13-11.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System|§ 25-13-11.1. Payment of retirement benefits by the most appropriate means as determined by the board

 The Public Employees' Retirement System shall make payments of retirement benefits under this chapter to members and to the beneficiaries of those members, by whatever means the board prescribes by regulation to be the most appropriate for the proper and efficient payment of benefits, including, but not limited to, direct deposit to an account with a financial institution that is a participant of the Automated Clearing House designated by the member or beneficiary. The board may provide for alternative means of payment if the member or beneficiary can demonstrate that payment by the prescribed means will cause the member or beneficiary undue hardship.
MS Code § 25-13-14 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System|§ 25-13-14. One-time early retirement for members with twenty years of service

  There is hereby created a one-time early retirement for any member of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System who has at least twenty (20) years' of service. A superannuation retirement taken under the provisions of this section shall not be subject to the three percent (3%) penalty for a member who is below the age of fifty-five (55) years as provided in Section 25-13-11(d), Mississippi Code of 1972. A retirement under the provisions of this section shall be based upon the current fiscal year's salary of the applicant.  No member of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System may avail himself of the benefits provided in this section from and after June 30, 1986.    This section shall stand repealed from and after June 30, 1986; however, future funding for those members who retire under the provisions of this section shall be provided from surplus funds of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System as deposited therein pursuant to the provisions of Section 63-1-46, Mississippi Code of 1972.