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MS Code § 19-5-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-33. Golden Age Nursing Homes; land, buildings and equipment for institution

 The board of supervisors of such county or counties may purchase in the name of such county or counties such lands as may be necessary for such institution, or may use such lands available which already belong to the board of supervisors, and may have such buildings erected thereon and equipment installed therein as may be necessary, after advertising therefor as the law directs.
MS Code § 19-5-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-35. Golden Age Nursing Homes; combined institution for care of county paupers and destitute aged

 The board of supervisors of such county or counties may, when deemed proper, combine and use any property now being used for county homes and use such property hereafter as a combined institution to take care of the county paupers and the destitute aged provided for in Section 19-5-31 through 19-5-39, in which event the Golden Age Home may take care of all such persons.
MS Code § 19-5-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-37. Golden Age Nursing Homes; funds for support and maintenance

 The board of supervisors of such county or counties may, in its discretion, set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the general fund for the support and maintenance of such nursing homes.
MS Code § 19-5-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-39. Golden Age Nursing Homes; issuance of bonds

 The board of supervisors of any county or counties coming within the provisions of Section 19-5-31 through 19-5-39 may issue and sell its full faith and credit bonds as otherwise provided by law to secure funds with which to construct and equip such Golden Age Nursing Homes.
MS Code § 19-5-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-41. Creation of county hospital building commission in certain counties

 The board of supervisors of any county in the state having a population of more than one hundred thousand, according to the federal census of 1950, is authorized to create a county hospital building commission with authority to advise and assist such board of supervisors in all phases of the establishment of a county hospital, including, but not limited to, land acquisition, and the planning, constructing and staffing of such hospital.   The commission herein authorized shall consist of not more than seven members, one of whom shall be from each of the supervisors districts in such county, and two of whom shall be selected from the county at large, and the board of supervisors may pay to each of the members of said commission the sum of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per day while attending to the duties in connection with the work of the commission.
MS Code § 19-5-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-43. Temporary care and maintenance of individuals with mental illness who are unable to pay for care

 The boards of supervisors in their respective counties shall temporarily provide for the care and maintenance of any person alleged to have mental illness when the person has no means of paying that expense, pending an investigation into the mental status of the person alleged to have mental illness before the chancery clerk of the county, and provide for the care and maintenance of those persons by the sheriff of their respective counties after being adjudged as a person with mental illness by the properly constituted authority, when there is no room in one (1) of the state psychiatric hospitals or institutions for the person with mental illness. The boards shall cause all reasonable and proper allowance for that care and maintenance to be paid out of the county treasury.
MS Code § 19-5-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-45. Construction of sheltered workshop for employment of handicapped

 Any county within the State of Mississippi wherein the railroads known as the Illinois Central and the Mississippi Central intersect, and any county with a population of not less than twenty-one thousand nor more than twenty-one thousand five hundred and with an assessed valuation in excess of Sixteen Million Dollars ($16,000,000.00), and in which State Highway 35 and State Highway 12 intersect, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue the negotiable bonds or certificates of indebtedness of said county for the purpose of constructing an industrial building to be used as a sheltered workshop for the employment of handicapped people, and said county is hereby authorized to retain two mills of the state ad valorem tax levy for a period not in excess of five years for the purpose of assisting in the retirement of said bonds and interest thereon.   The board of supervisors of any county coming within the provisions of this section shall be authorized to levy, at the time and in the prescribed manner other county tax levies are made, an ad valorem tax of one-fourth mill for each mill retained levied against all of the taxable property of such county, and such levy shall be made a condition precedent to the operation of this section.   The amount of bonds or certificates of indebtedness issued for this purpose shall not exceed the sum of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) and the two mill state ad valorem tax levy herein authorized to be retained for the retirement of said bonds may be pledged, together with the full faith and credit of the county, for the payment of said bonds at maturity and the interest thereon.   In issuing the bonds herein authorized, it shall only be necessary for the board of supervisors of said county to adopt a resolution providing for the sale and issuance of said bonds as now provided by law.
MS Code § 19-5-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-47. Construction of public health buildings and clinics

 The board of supervisors of any county in the state is hereby empowered, in its discretion, to acquire by gift, donation or purchase necessary real estate on which to erect, construct or reconstruct public health buildings and clinics sponsored by the public health units of any county, or a public health building to house the county health department, said funds to be expended out of the general fund or out of any fund collected from a special levy made by said county for public health purposes. In said construction the board of supervisors of all counties are hereby empowered to erect said buildings in conjunction with any municipality situated in any county or in conjunction with any federal agency, and the board of supervisors is hereby authorized to sponsor any of such said projects, or, in the discretion of said board, said buildings may be constructed under contract after advertising as provided by law and upon competitive bids received therefor.
MS Code § 19-5-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-49. Lease of county homes and farms

 The board of supervisors of any county in the State of Mississippi is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to lease or rent any lands or buildings owned by the county and being used, or intended to be used, as a county home and farm to any person, persons, or association for the purposes of using such land and buildings for the care and keeping of old, infirm, or indigent persons. At any time that such lands and buildings cease to be used for such purposes, then such lease shall automatically expire.
MS Code § 19-5-50 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-50. Controlling running of animals at large; establishing county pounds

  The governing authorities of any county bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and having within its boundaries two cities having in excess of forty thousand (40,000) population each, according to the 1970 United States decennial census and of any county bordering on the Pearl River having two (2) judicial districts, wherein is housed the seat of state government, wherein U. S. Interstates 55 and 20 interchange and having a population in excess of two hundred thousand (200,000), according to the 1970 federal decennial census, shall have the power to prevent or regulate the running at large of animals of all kinds, and to cause such as may be running at large to be impounded and sold to discharge the costs and penalties provided for the violation of such regulations and the expense of impounding and keeping and selling the same; to regulate and provide for the taxing of owners and harborers of dogs, and to destroy dogs running at large, unless such dogs have proper identification indicating that said dogs have been vaccinated for rabies; and to provide for the erection of all needful pens, pounds, and buildings for the use of the county, and to appoint and confirm keepers thereof, and to establish and enforce rules governing the same.   The governing authorities of any county bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and having within its boundaries two (2) cities having in excess of forty thousand (40,000) population each, according to the 1970 federal decennial census, and of any county bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and the State of Alabama in which there is a shipyard which constructs oceangoing vessels, and any county bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and the State of Louisiana and through which U.S. Interstate Highway 10 runs, shall have the power to prevent or regulate the running at large of animals of all kinds, and to cause such as may be running at large to be impounded and sold to discharge the costs and penalties provided for the violation of such regulations and the expense of impounding and keeping and selling the same; to regulate and provide for the taxing of owners and harborers of dogs, and to destroy dogs running at large unless such dogs have proper identification indicating that said dogs have been vaccinated for rabies; and to provide for the erection of all needful pens, pounds and buildings for the use of the county, and to appoint and confirm keepers thereof, and to establish and enforce rules governing the same.
MS Code § 19-5-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-51. Bounty on beaver, nutria, and bobcats

 Any board of supervisors may, in its discretion, by appropriate resolution spread upon its minutes, offer a bounty not to exceed Five Dollars ($5.00) for each nutria, beaver or bobcat destroyed, where such board finds and determines that nutria, beaver or bobcats are in such quantities that the preservation of trees and other properties requires such bounties to be offered. Upon presentation to the sheriff of the complete tail of a nutria, beaver or bobcat, the sheriff shall execute a receipt therefor. Upon filing of such receipt with the chancery clerk, the amount of such bounty may be allowed by the board of supervisors as are other accounts against the county.   There is further provided a bounty on beaver not to exceed Five Dollars ($5.00) for each beaver to be paid in the following manner: upon the presentation of the tail of any beaver, any conservation officer of the state shall issue a receipt in such form as prescribed by the Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to the person presenting such tail. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks shall redeem such receipts by paying to such person a sum not to exceed Five Dollars ($5.00) for each such receipt as bounty. The redemption of such receipts shall be paid only from funds especially appropriated for this purpose and it is expressly provided that no such bounty shall be paid from any regular receipts, funds and appropriations of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.   For the purposes of carrying out the purposes of this section, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and the State Forestry Commission are authorized, empowered and directed, when requested by the board of supervisors or any property owner, to utilize funds, personnel and equipment under reasonable terms and conditions.   No bounty shall be paid when funds, personnel or equipment of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, the State Forestry Commission or the county are employed in capturing and killing such animals.
MS Code § 19-5-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-53. Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock

 The board of supervisors in the various counties of the state are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to appropriate money out of the general county fund for the purpose of offering premiums for excellence in raising crops and livestock in their county.
MS Code § 19-5-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-55. Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; limitation on amount to be expended

 The amount of money to be appropriated and offered shall not exceed the following: (a) for corn - Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for the best five acres or more, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for the second best and Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the third best, or half the amounts for three acres; (b) for mule colt - not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for the best, Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) for the second best and Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the third best; (c) for horse colt - the same as for a mule colt; (d) for cow - not more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the best, Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for the second best and Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for the third best; (e) for hog - the same as for a cow. Other premiums for excellence in raising agricultural, horticultural and livestock products may be given in proportion. No exhibit or entry of any kind which has once been awarded a prize shall be eligible at any other time for a prize.
MS Code § 19-5-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-57. Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; petition by contestants; publication of premiums

 Before the board of supervisors will be authorized to take action under Sections 19-5-53, 19-5-55, a petition containing the names of not less than one hundred contestants in the county must be on file in the office of the chancery clerk of the county on or before the first Monday of January, in the year in which the premiums are to be offered. Publications of the premiums must be made on or before the 15th day of February in the year in which they are to be offered.
MS Code § 19-5-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-59. Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; rules governing contest and placing of exhibits

 The board of supervisors shall have the power to issue rules governing the contest, and to determine the time for placing of the exhibits in competition at the county seat.
MS Code § 19-5-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-61. Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; judges

 The board of supervisors shall, after having announced premiums, select a competent committee or judges to measure the land, to test the crop and pass upon the merits of the exhibits and entries. The members of said committee shall not be related to the contestant in any manner, and the members shall have their report ready for the date of meeting at the county seat in the fall on the date named for exhibit and competition by the said board of supervisors. Members of said committee shall receive compensation as determined upon by the board of supervisors, not to exceed Three Dollars ($3.00) per day, while actually employed in the work.
MS Code § 19-5-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-65. Funding of display rooms for county home economic or home demonstration agents

 The boards of supervisors of counties of class one of the several counties, in their discretion, are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate and expend moneys out of the general fund of the county for the purpose of renting or otherwise providing offices or display rooms wherein the county home economic or home demonstration agents may display, offer for sale, and sell products and articles produced under and by virtue of the home demonstration and cooperative marketing program of the county extension department.
MS Code § 19-5-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-67. Establishment of department of animal husbandry

 The boards of supervisors of two (2) or more counties, one or more of which has an incorporated livestock association, are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to establish a joint department of animal husbandry, the purposes of this department being to disseminate useful information pertaining to animal husbandry among the farmers and to develop livestock resources in the several counties.   The said department of animal husbandry shall be under the direction of a joint commissioner to be appointed by the boards of supervisors of the several counties creating this department, which said commissioner shall be a person well versed in the scientific and practical knowledge of animal husbandry. His title shall be district commissioner of animal husbandry, his salary shall be fixed by the boards of supervisors of the counties in said district, and paid out of the general funds of said counties, and his duties shall be to keep in close touch with the United States Department of Agriculture, the Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, and the state experimental stations, to assist in organizing animal husbandry societies, to look after animal husbandry statistics in the counties, to disseminate useful information pertaining to animal husbandry in the counties, and to advance in every way possible promotion of the industry of animal husbandry in the counties of said district.   The board of supervisors of any county maintaining county extension departments in agriculture and home economics and helping to maintain such joint department of animal husbandry, as provided herein, is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the general fund to help defray the expense of maintaining such departments.   The board of supervisors of any county helping to maintain such joint department of animal husbandry, as herein provided, is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the general fund to help defray the expenses of maintaining a department of dairy husbandry, and the employment of a dairy husbandryman.
MS Code § 19-5-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-69. Funding of buildings for junior beef and dairy boys and girls

 The boards of supervisors of the various counties having livestock shows or associations located therein, and having a department of animal husbandry, as created under Section 19-5-67, and having a total assessed valuation of not exceeding Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00), are hereby authorized to donate funds not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or lands and materials not exceeding in value Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), and to otherwise aid and assist in the construction of buildings for the use of the junior beef boys and girls and the junior dairy boys and girls.   The board of supervisors of each county qualifying as above set forth is authorized and empowered to borrow a sum not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for the purpose of paying for such land, buildings or building material necessary to provide and construct buildings on livestock show grounds or other places selected by the board of supervisors.   The board of supervisors may apply for and receive contributions and allotments of funds, labor and materials from the federal government or any agency thereof, and may cooperate with such governmental agency in constructing the buildings herein authorized.
MS Code § 19-5-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-71. Support of experiment stations

 The boards of supervisors of the several counties may, in their discretion, appropriate money from the general funds of the county for the purpose of buying lands, personal property, or equipment of whatever nature and kind, for experiment stations, and may appropriate money from said county funds to aid in the support and maintenance of such experiment stations, whether the same be located within or without the county. When any board of supervisors desire to appropriate funds as herein provided, they shall first publish notice of said proposed expenditure setting forth the amount thereof and the purposes for which said funds are to be used, and upon petition of ten per cent of the qualified electors in said county, the board shall submit to the qualified electors at a special election to be held in said county the question of whether or not said expenditure shall be made, and in the event the majority of the qualified electors shall vote against such expenditure, then the same shall not be made, and such proposal shall not again be made within twelve months from said election.
MS Code § 19-5-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|In General|§ 19-5-73. Establishment of farmers' markets

 The board of supervisors of each county may expend monies from the general fund, not exceeding the amount that would be generated from the levy of a one-fourth (1/4) mill ad valorem tax upon all taxable property in the county, for the purpose of providing funds to be expended to establish, maintain and operate farmers' markets and facilities that are certified by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce and operating within the county to assist in the disposal and sale of farm and other food products in the interest of farmers, consumers and the general public.