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MS Code § 37-51-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 51 - Financial Assistance to Children Attending Nonsectarian Private Schools|§ 37-51-7. General powers and duties of commission

 It shall be the duty of the commission to receive and pass upon, allow or disallow, all applications for loans made by students who desire to receive a secular education in any of the grades one through twelve in any school in this state constituting a bona fide school as defined in a general regulation of the commission, other than in the free public school system of this state, and who are acceptable for enrollment in any approved nonfree school system. The commission may make such investigation into the financial status of the parents of such students who apply for loans as it deems advisable, to determine the extent of the need for said loan. The commission may prescribe such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of this chapter.   The commission shall have the authority to grant loans from the "state educational loan fund" to such applicants as are qualified to receive them and on such terms as may be prescribed by regulation of the commission and by this chapter.
MS Code § 37-51-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 51 - Financial Assistance to Children Attending Nonsectarian Private Schools|§ 37-51-9. "Secular education of children" defined

 The "secular education of children" as used in this chapter shall mean the education of children in those subjects, and only those subjects, which are required to be taught by state law to the same extent as those subjects are taught in the public schools of the state or which are provided in public schools throughout the state; it shall not include the education of children in any course in religion or any course expressing religious teaching or the morals or forms of worship of any sect.
MS Code § 37-51-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 51 - Financial Assistance to Children Attending Nonsectarian Private Schools|§ 37-51-11. Eligibility for loans

 In addition to the requirements set out in Section 37-51-7, to be eligible for a loan an applicant must:   Be a bona fide actual resident of the State of Mississippi; and   Attend any bona fide approved nonfree elementary or secondary school.
MS Code § 37-51-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 51 - Financial Assistance to Children Attending Nonsectarian Private Schools|§ 37-51-13. Applications for loans; certifications; transfers

 An applicant shall not have to submit but one initial application for a loan; thereafter, he or she shall file a request for each additional year's loan amount up to the maximum amount allowed. Accompanying each said request shall be a certification from the school which applicant is attending certifying that the applicant is in attendance and in good standing.   Each application by or on behalf of said student shall be signed by and be made also in the name of the parent or legal guardian of said student if he or she be a minor. However, the parent or legal guardian shall not be considered the applicant for the purposes of the limitations in Section 37-51-15.   In the event that the applicant transfers to another approved school within the state, he shall cause the certification to immediately go forth to the commission, setting out the school from which and to which he has transferred.
MS Code § 37-51-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 51 - Financial Assistance to Children Attending Nonsectarian Private Schools|§ 37-51-15. Limitations on amounts of loans

 Applicants who are granted loans may receive a loan in any amount, not exceeding two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400.00) to any one applicant. Said amount is to be paid in annual, semiannual or quarterly installments not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00) per school year, and shall be used to defray part of the applicant's tuition and other costs of attending said schools. The loans herein provided shall not exceed the limitations set out above, but they may be for any such lesser amounts as may be required.
MS Code § 37-51-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 51 - Financial Assistance to Children Attending Nonsectarian Private Schools|§ 37-51-17. Contract agreeing to terms and conditions of loans; suits on contracts

 Each applicant, if an adult, or his parent or legal guardian in his behalf, if a minor, before being granted a loan shall enter into a contract with the State of Mississippi agreeing to the terms and conditions upon which the loan shall be made. Said contract shall include such terms and conditions as are necessary to carry out the full purpose and intent of this chapter. The form of said contract shall be prepared and approved by the attorney general of this state, and said contract shall be signed by the executive secretary of the commission.   The commission is hereby vested with full and complete authority to sue in its own name any applicant for any balance due the state on any such contract. Such suit shall be filed and conducted by the attorney general of the State of Mississippi, or by private counsel, which the commission is hereby authorized to employ for such purpose.
MS Code § 37-51-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 51 - Financial Assistance to Children Attending Nonsectarian Private Schools|§ 37-51-19. Repayment of loans

 Any loans made or granted to any applicant shall be made and based upon the following conditions of repayment:   Repayment in full of the principal of the loan may be made at any time prior to three years after graduation from or termination of attendance in an approved school, plus simple interest at the rate of three percent per annum from the date of each payment made to applicant.   Repayment of the principal of the loan after three years from the date of graduation from or termination of attendance in an approved school shall be with interest at the rate of four percent per annum from the date of each payment made to applicant. From and after the fourth year following graduation or termination of attendance in an approved school, the rate of interest to be paid on the remaining unpaid balance, after such fourth year, shall increase at the rate of one-half percent per annum to a maximum of eight percent.   No applicant shall be entitled to more than twelve years after said graduation or termination of attendance in an approved school within which to repay said loan.
MS Code § 37-51-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 51 - Financial Assistance to Children Attending Nonsectarian Private Schools|§ 37-51-21. Reduction of loans

 The amount of any loan made or granted to any applicant shall be reduced by a credit at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per annum for each year from and after five years from the initial date of the granting of said loan that applicant continues to reside in the State of Mississippi.   In addition, the amount of said loan shall be reduced by a credit at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per annum for each year that applicant continues his education at any junior college, college or university within the State of Mississippi after his graduation or termination from secondary school.   In addition, the amount of said loan shall be reduced by a credit at the rate of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per annum for each year that applicant resides within the state and teaches in any school system therein, beginning from the date of his certification or licensing by the state department of education to teach in any such system.
MS Code § 37-55-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 55 - School Libraries|§ 37-55-1. County library commission; annual library report

 The county superintendent of education shall name two first grade teachers who, together with the county superintendent, shall constitute a county library commission. It shall be the duty of this commission to name a list of books suited for school libraries, and all books purchased under this chapter shall be selected from this list. It shall be the duty of this commission to make rules and regulations to govern and control the use of such libraries in the county, and the commission shall name a local manager of each library who shall make a report every year to the county commission of all books purchased during the year, of the money on hand at the time of the report, together with the amount expended for library purposes. The county superintendent shall keep a list of books purchased by the several libraries of his county and make a library report to the state superintendent of education annually with the county school report.
MS Code § 37-55-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 55 - School Libraries|§ 37-55-3. Grants of aid to school libraries from school funds

 When any public free school in this state shall raise not less than ten dollars by subscription or otherwise for a library for such school, and shall furnish suitable bookcases with lock and key, the superintendent of education of the county where such subscription is raised may issue his certificate for a like amount not exceeding twenty-five dollars in favor of such school, to be paid out of the common school fund of that county. In no case shall the amount given by the county in any one year exceed two hundred and fifty dollars. No school shall receive a second donation from the school fund for library purposes so long as there are any new applications from schools that have not been supplied.
MS Code § 37-55-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 55 - School Libraries|§ 37-55-5. Appropriations by county boards of supervisors for support of libraries

 The board of supervisors of any county is authorized, in its discretion, to appropriate a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum towards the support of public libraries, including circulating school libraries, in said county.   In counties where the enumeration of educable children is shown by the most recent census to be 10,000 or more, the board of supervisors may, in its discretion, appropriate an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars annually, towards the support of public or school libraries.
MS Code § 37-61-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-1. "Fiscal year" and "scholastic year" defined

 The "fiscal year" of all school districts of this state shall commence on July 1 and end on June 30 of each year. The "scholastic year" of the public schools of this state shall likewise commence on July 1 and end on June 30 of each year.
MS Code § 37-61-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-3. Use of school funds; generally

 The adequate education program allotments of the public school districts and the funds derived from the supplemental school district tax levies authorized by law shall be used exclusively for the support, maintenance and operation of the schools in the manner provided by law for the fiscal years for which such funds were appropriated, collected or otherwise made available, and no part of said funds or allotments shall be used in paying any expenses incurred during any preceding fiscal year. However, this shall not be construed to prohibit the payment of expenses incurred during the fiscal year after the close of such fiscal year from amounts remaining on hand at the end of such fiscal year, provided that such expenses were properly payable from such amounts. Moreover, this shall not be construed to prohibit the payment of the salaries of superintendents, principals and teachers and other school employees whose salaries are payable in twelve (12) monthly installments after the close of the fiscal year from amounts on hand for such purpose at the end of the fiscal year.
MS Code § 37-61-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-5. Disposition of balances of minimum education program funds

 If in any year there should remain a balance in the minimum education program fund of any school district on June 30 which amount is not to be used or is not needed in the payment of expenses for the preceding fiscal year properly payable out of such minimum education program fund, then such balance on hand to the credit of such minimum education fund of the school district shall be carried forward as a part of such minimum education program fund for the next succeeding fiscal year. The proper pro rata part of the amount so carried forward, to be determined by the percentage which the state minimum education program funds paid into such fund during the year bore to the entire amount paid into such fund, shall be charged against and deducted from the amount which the school district is allotted from state minimum education program fund for the succeeding fiscal year, in a manner prescribed by the State Auditor. The remainder of the amount so carried forward may be deducted from the amount which the school district is required to produce as its local minimum ad valorem tax effort for the support of the minimum education program fund for the succeeding fiscal year under the provisions of Chapter 19 of this title. However, no balance of transportation funds on hand at the end of any fiscal year shall be charged against or deducted from the allotment of state funds to any school district for minimum education program purposes for the next succeeding year.
MS Code § 37-61-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-7. Disposition of balances of school district funds

 If at the end of any fiscal year there should remain a balance in the school district fund of any school district which is not needed and is not to be used for paying the expenses properly payable out of such district fund for the preceding fiscal year, such balance shall be carried forward as a part of the school district fund for the next fiscal year and used and expended in the manner otherwise provided by law. Nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to balances remaining in the minimum education program fund of a school district, and balances remaining in such funds shall be governed by Section 37-61-5.
MS Code § 37-61-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-8. State Board of Education to prescribe method of examination of school district ending fund balances

 The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and regulations prescribing the method by which school district ending fund balances are examined for fiscal stability. Failure to comply with any of the rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education with regard to ending fund balances shall constitute a violation of the Mississippi Public School Accountability Standards.
MS Code § 37-61-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-17. Furnishing of forms for budgets

 It shall be the duty of the State Auditor to prescribe the forms for the budgets provided for in this chapter. It shall be the duty of such superintendents of schools and school boards to use such forms in preparing said budgets. No distribution of school funds shall be made to any school district until the budgets required by this chapter shall be filed.
MS Code § 37-61-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-19. Expenditures shall be limited to budgeted amounts; personal liability for excess

 It shall be the duty of the superintendents of schools and the school boards of all school districts to limit the expenditure of school funds during the fiscal year to the resources available. It shall be unlawful for any school district to budget expenditures from a fund in excess of the resources available within that fund. Furthermore, it shall be unlawful for any contract to be entered into or any obligation incurred or expenditure made in excess of the resources available for such fiscal year. Any member of the school board, superintendent of schools, or other school official, who shall knowingly enter into any contract, incur any obligation, or make any expenditure in excess of the amount available for the fiscal year shall be personally liable for the amount of such excess. However, no school board member, superintendent or other school official shall be personally liable (a) in the event of any reduction in adequate education program payments by action of the Governor acting through the Department of Finance and Administration, or (b) for claims, damages, awards or judgments, on account of any wrongful or tortious act or omission or breach of implied term or condition of any warranty or contract; provided, however, that the foregoing immunity provisions shall not be a defense in cases of fraud, criminal action or an intentional breach of fiduciary obligations imposed by statute.
MS Code § 37-61-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-21. Revision of budget

  If it should appear to the superintendent of schools or the school board of any school district that the amounts to be received from state appropriations, taxation or any other source will be more than the amount estimated in the budget filed and approved, or if it should appear that such amounts shall be less than the amount estimated, the school board of the school district, with assistance from the superintendent, may revise the budget at any time during the fiscal year by increasing or decreasing the fund budget, in proportion to the increase or decrease in the estimated amounts. If it should appear to the superintendent of schools or the school board of a school district that some function of the budget as filed is in excess of the requirement of that function and that the entire amount budgeted for such function will not be needed for expenditures therefor during the fiscal year, the school board of the school district, with assistance from the superintendent, may transfer resources to and from functions and funds within the budget when and where needed; however, no such transfer shall be made from fund to fund or from function to function which will result in the expenditure of any money for any purpose different from that for which the money was appropriated, allotted, collected or otherwise made available or for a purpose which is not authorized by law. No revision of any budget under the provisions hereof shall be made which will permit a fund expenditure in excess of the resources available for such purpose. The revised portions of the budgets shall be incorporated in the minutes of the school board by spreading them on the minutes or by attaching them as an addendum. Final budget revisions, pertinent to a fiscal year, shall be approved on or before the date set by the State Board of Education for the school district to submit its financial information for that fiscal year.   On or before the fifteenth day of October of each year, the local school board of each school district, with the assistance of the school district superintendent, shall prepare and file with the State Department of Education year-end financial statements and any other budgetary information that the State Board of Education may require. The State Board of Education shall prescribe and provide forms to each school district for this purpose. No additional changes may be made to the financial statements after October 15 of each year.
MS Code § 37-61-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-23. Superintendents' books of accounts

 The superintendent of schools of each school district shall open and keep regular sets of books, as prescribed by the State Department of Education, which shall be subject to inspection during office hours by any citizen so desiring to inspect the same. The books for each fiscal year shall be kept separately and same shall be safely preserved by the superintendent of schools.
MS Code § 37-61-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-27. Penalty for failure to effect publication

 If any member of the school board or the superintendent of schools disbursing and handling school funds shall fail, refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of Section 37-61-9, he shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for such failure, refusal or neglect for each offense. In addition thereto, he shall be liable to a penalty of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) recoverable on his official bond by suit filed by any county or district attorney or any interested citizen, upon his official bond.
MS Code § 37-61-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-29. Audit of school funds

 The state department of audit is hereby authorized and empowered to post-audit and investigate the financial affairs and all transactions involving the school funds of the county including the minimum education program fund and supplementary district school funds, and to make separate and special audits thereof, as now provided by Sections 7-7-201 through 7-7-215, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 37-61-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-31. Chickasaw school fund

 The boards of supervisors of the various counties in Mississippi which are entitled to share in the distribution of the Chickasaw school funds, are hereby authorized and empowered to make settlement with any separate school district in said counties which has received more or less than its proportionate part of said funds, and the boards of supervisors may appropriate any money now on hand or that may be allotted to said counties in the future in the payment of any amount due to such separate school districts.
MS Code § 37-61-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-35. School Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund

 There is hereby created a special fund in the State Treasury to be designated School Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund into which proceeds collected pursuant to Sections 27-65-75(7) and 27-67-31(a) shall be deposited. Beginning with the 1994 state fiscal year, the entire amount of monies in such special fund shall be appropriated annually to the State Department of Education which shall distribute the appropriated amount to the various school districts in the proportion that the average daily attendance of each school district bears to the average daily attendance of all school districts within the state. On or before June 1, 1993, and on or before June 1 of each succeeding year, the State Department of Education shall notify each school district of the amount to which such district is entitled pursuant to this section.