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MS Code § 7-11-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-2. Abolition of office of State Land Commissioner; transferral of duties and responsibilities to Secretary of State

 The office of State Land Commissioner as heretofore existing is hereby abolished, and all the duties, responsibilities and title of said office are transferred to the office of Secretary of State, who shall perform the duties heretofore performed by the elected State Land Commissioner for the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 7-11-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-3. Custodian of records of former land office

 The Secretary of State shall have custody of the records of the surveyor general's office turned over to this state by the United States, all field notes, plats and maps of surveys of lands belonging to the old office of swamp land commissioner and all other papers, documents and records which were formerly kept in the land office. All such records now in the possession of any other officer shall be delivered to the secretary of state.
MS Code § 7-11-4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-4. "State land commissioner," "land commissioner," "state land office," "land office" to mean Secretary of State

 The words "state land commissioner," "land commissioner," "state land office" and "land office" shall mean the secretary of state wherever they appear in sections 3-5-11, 21-33-69, 21-37-49, 25-7-83, 27-3-43, 27-29-1, 27-35-65, 27-35-69, 27-39-319, 27-45-21, 29-1-1, 29-1-5, 29-1-7, 29-1-9, 29-1-13, 29-1-17, 29-1-21, 29-1-25, 29-1-27, 29-1-31, 29-1-33, 29-1-35, 29-1-37, 29-1-43, 29-1-49, 29-1-51, 29-1-53, 29-1-55, 29-1-57, 29-1-59, 29-1-61, 29-1-63, 29-1-65, 29-1-67, 29-1-69, 29-1-71, 29-1-77, 29-1-79, 29-1-83, 29-1-85, 29-1-87, 29-1-89, 29-1-91, 29-1-93, 29-1-95, 29-1-99, 29-1-101, 29-1-107, 29-1-111, 29-1-113, 29-1-115, 29-1-119, 29-1-123, 29-1-131, 29-1-133, 33-11-11, 49-5-1, 51-29-81, 51-29-85, 51-29-87, 51-33-43, 51-33-45, 51-35-159, 55-3-9, 55-7-13, 55-13-31, 59-9-21, 59-9-67, 89-11-3, 89-11-15, 89-11-19, 89-11-21, 89-11-27 and 89-11-29, Mississippi Code of 1972, or in any other place where they appear in the laws of this state.
MS Code § 7-11-6 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-6. Assistant Secretary of State to perform functions of state land office; employment of additional personnel; transition of power by state land commissioner

 The Secretary of State shall appoint a competent attorney to be designated as an assistant secretary of state, who shall have the responsibilities of performing the function of the former state land office in addition to any other duties as assigned by the Secretary of State.   The secretary of state is empowered and authorized to employ such office assistants, clerical employees and field inspectors on either a temporary or permanent basis as shall be necessary to perform the former duties and functions of the state land office. The Assistant Secretary of State hereby created shall be in addition to any other assistant secretaries of state previously designated or heretofore authorized. The State Land Commissioner elected pursuant to Section 7-11-1 shall deliver the seal, all records, reports and other property of the state land office to the Secretary of State prior to the expiration of his term of office.
MS Code § 7-11-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-8. Functions assigned to Secretary of State to be merged and coordinated with those of former state land office

 It is the intent of the legislature that the functions assigned to the Secretary of State by this chapter shall be merged and coordinated with similar functions being exercised by the state land office on January 1, 1980.
MS Code § 7-11-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-11. Duties and powers of Secretary of State

 The Secretary of State shall have charge of the swamp and the overflowed lands and indemnity lands in lieu thereof, the internal improvement lands, the lands forfeited to the state for nonpayment of taxes after the time allowed by law for redemption shall have expired, and of all other public lands belonging to or under the control of the state. The regulation, sale and disposition of all such lands shall be made through the secretary of state's office.   The secretary of state shall sign all conveyances and leases of any and all state-owned lands and shall record same in a book kept in his office for such purposes.
MS Code § 7-11-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-13. Land records

 All state land records, all levee land records, and all other land records, except assessment rolls, shall be kept in the office of the Secretary of State and be held by him.   The Secretary of State shall keep a record of all state-owned lands in a separate and well bound book. He is authorized and empowered to request of any board, commission, department or other state agency having under its jurisdiction state-owned lands the records herein required to be recorded in his office, and it shall be the duty of any state agency to comply with the request of the Secretary of State.
MS Code § 7-11-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-15. Form of records

 The Secretary of State shall secure a sufficient number of suitable and well bound books for each county, so that the lands now or hereafter owned by the state may be complied therein. The books, in addition to the necessary columns on which to list all necessary information with reference to the lands owned, shall contain a column on which to number all patents or contracts issued and any other information. The order of arrangement and all other matters pertaining thereto are hereby specifically left to the discretion of the Secretary of State.   In addition to the foregoing records, the Secretary of State shall provide and cause to be kept a separate register of the several different classes of lands, with appropriate references to other records or documents for information concerning the whole class, and of each parcel, if need be. He may cause correct township maps to be prepared from the field notes of original surveys, with all errors in the location of natural objects, if any there be, corrected, which maps may be supplied to the several counties at reasonable prices; and he may, in like manner, have maps and plats lithographed and sold.   The Secretary of State shall procure a sufficient number of forms of certificates which shall be used by the chancery clerks of each of the various counties in certifying to the Secretary of State's office lands sold to the state for unpaid taxes in his county, and the Secretary of State shall provide such certificates in such form that they may be bond by him and used as a part of the permanent records of his office. The said chancery clerks shall use only such forms of certificates in certifying said lands to the Secretary of State's office, and failure to do so shall subject such chancery clerk so refusing or failing to do so, and his bondsman, to a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500.00), which penalty shall be collected by the Attorney General in a suit therefor filed in the name of the State of Mississippi. Such certificates, before being filed by the Secretary of State, shall be examined by the Attorney General. The Secretary of State, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall strike from such certificates all lands which, by reason of insufficient description or other cause, in the opinion of the Attorney General are not the property of the state; and the title of the state to such lands as may be thus stricken off shall be thereby relinquished.
MS Code § 7-11-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-17. Records preserved and bound

 The land records in the Secretary of State's office shall be carefully preserved and valuable records shall be bound and rebound when necessary.
MS Code § 7-11-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-19. Copies of records

 The Secretary of State shall furnish to any party interested therein a copy or exemplification of any record, patent, plat, diagram, township plat or map, field notes, surveys or other paper or document deposited in the office of the Secretary of State and relating to the selection, location and survey of the public lands or otherwise concerning the same, upon the party paying therefor the fees allowed by law.
MS Code § 7-11-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 11 - Secretary of State; Land Records|§ 7-11-25. Report to legislature

 The Secretary of State shall make a report to the legislature at each regular session of all the business transactions in the Secretary of State's office pertaining to public lands for the preceding fiscal year. He shall state therein the monthly sale of land, of what class and where situated, amount of purchase-money received for each, the totals of his monthly reports to the auditor of fees collected; and he shall make such recommendations as may seem proper.
MS Code § 7-13-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 13 - Mississippi Administrative Reorganization Act|§ 7-13-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be cited as the "Mississippi Administrative Reorganization Act of 1984."
MS Code § 7-13-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 13 - Mississippi Administrative Reorganization Act|§ 7-13-3. Legislative intent

 It is the intent of this chapter to provide that the Governor and the executive branch of the government of the state of Mississippi shall have full authority to execute the laws of Mississippi and to administer and manage the affairs of state government in accordance with the Mississippi Constitution of 1890.   Provided, however, nothing in this chapter is intended to reduce in any manner the authority of the legislature to appropriate funds or to specify the means by which such funds are to be expended.
MS Code § 7-13-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 13 - Mississippi Administrative Reorganization Act|§ 7-13-7. Transfer of employees

  Effective July 1, 1984, all employees of any agency abolished or affected by this chapter shall be transferred according to the merger of their duties by this chapter. All such transfers shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations of the state personnel board.   It is the intent of the legislature that the number of persons employed by the state as the result of the consolidation required by this chapter shall be reduced where possible, but it is the intent of the legislature that such reduction shall result from attrition of employees and not dismissal.   All records, personnel, property and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations or other funds of any agency abolished or affected by this chapter shall be transferred to the appropriate agency according to the merger of their functions under this chapter.
MS Code § 7-13-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 13 - Mississippi Administrative Reorganization Act|§ 7-13-9. Change of domicil affecting membership on board, commission, council or authority

 Any member of any board, commission, council or authority reconstituted under this chapter shall be deemed to have vacated his position thereon if he changes his domicile to another state or to a geographical area other than the one from which he was appointed if the statute specified that he shall be appointed from such designated geographical area. Provided, however, that this section shall not apply in the event the member was appointed from a district the boundaries of which have been altered by statute or court order.
MS Code § 9-4-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 4 - Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi|§ 9-4-1. Establishment of Court of Appeals

  There is hereby established a court to be known as the "Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi," which shall be a court of record.   The Court of Appeals shall be comprised of ten (10) appellate judges, two (2) from each Court of Appeals District, selected in accordance with Section 9-4-5.
MS Code § 9-4-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 4 - Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi|§ 9-4-3. Jurisdiction of court; issuance of decisions

  The Court of Appeals shall have the power to determine or otherwise dispose of any appeal or other proceeding assigned to it by the Supreme Court.  The jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals is limited to those matters which have been assigned to it by the Supreme Court.   The Supreme Court shall prescribe rules for the assignment of matters to the Court of Appeals. These rules may provide for the selective assignment of individual cases and may provide for the assignment of cases according to subject matter or other general criteria. However, the Supreme Court shall retain appeals in cases imposing the death penalty, or cases involving utility rates, annexations, bond issues, election contests, or a statute held unconstitutional by the lower court.    Decisions of the Court of Appeals are final and are not subject to review by the Supreme Court, except by writ of certiorari. The Supreme Court may grant certiorari review only by the affirmative vote of four (4) of its members. At any time before final decision by the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court may, by order, transfer to the Supreme Court any case pending before the Court of Appeals.   The Court of Appeals shall have jurisdiction to issue writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, quo warranto, certiorari, prohibition or any other process when this may be necessary in any case assigned to it by the Supreme Court.   The Court of Appeals shall issue a decision in every case heard before the Court of Appeals within two hundred seventy (270) days after the final briefs have been filed with the court.   The Supreme Court shall issue a decision in every case within its original jurisdiction, including all direct and post-conviction collateral relief appeals or applications in cases imposing the death penalty, within two hundred seventy (270) days after the final briefs have been filed with the court. The Supreme Court shall issue a decision in every case received on certiorari from the Court of Appeals within one hundred eighty (180) days after the final briefs have been filed with the court.
MS Code § 9-4-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 4 - Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi|§ 9-4-7. Structure and personnel of court

  The Court of Appeals shall be subject to the administrative policies and procedures as may be established by the Supreme Court, including docket control of the Court of Appeals cases. Whenever feasible, and subject to approval of the Supreme Court, the administrative structure of the Supreme Court shall also support the Court of Appeals.   The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be the Clerk of the Court of Appeals and appointment of employees by the Court of Appeals shall be governed by personnel policies adopted and approved by the Administrative Office of the Courts. Whenever feasible and approved by the Supreme Court, employees of the Supreme Court shall also serve the Court of Appeals. The records of the Court of Appeals shall be kept by the Supreme Court Clerk or a deputy of the clerk.   The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall appoint a Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for a term of four (4) years, and the person so named shall be eligible for reappointment, subject to the discretion of the Chief Justice.   The Chief Justice may assign one or more Court of Appeals Judges to serve as lower court trial judges to provide docket relief as he deems necessary.   The Court of Appeals shall be authorized to employ an Opinion Editor of the Court of Appeals.
MS Code § 9-4-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 4 - Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi|§ 9-4-9. Quorum of court; assignment of judges to panels; presiding judge of panel

 The Supreme Court shall prescribe rules for the submission of cases to panels of the court and to the court en banc, as well as all other rules of procedure for the Court of Appeals. The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, insofar as practicable, shall assign judges to panels in such a manner that each judge shall sit a substantially equal number of times with each other judge. The Chief Judge shall preside over any panel on which he or she shall sit, and the Chief Judge shall appoint one or more judges to preside, at the will and pleasure of the Chief Judge, over any panel on which the Chief Judge is not a member of a panel.
MS Code § 9-4-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 4 - Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi|§ 9-4-11. Location of court

 The Court of Appeals shall be located in the City of Jackson and shall have offices as convenient to the State Law Library and the Supreme Court as can be arranged; but the court en banc, or any panel thereof, may sit at such other locations within the state as the Supreme Court may determine by rule.
MS Code § 9-4-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 4 - Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi|§ 9-4-13. Salaries of court and its personnel

  The judges of the Court of Appeals shall receive salaries as provided for in Section 25-3-35, shall be reimbursed for mileage expenses incurred in performing their duties at the rate authorized by law for public officials and employees as provided for in Section 25-3-41, and shall receive an expense allowance as provided for in Section 25-3-43.   Staff attorneys, law clerks, the opinion editor and all other employees of the Court of Appeals shall be of the same grade classification as Supreme Court employees performing the same or similar duties.
MS Code § 9-4-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 4 - Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi|§ 9-4-15. Time for holding elections for office of judge of Court of Appeals

 General elections for the office of judge of the Court of Appeals shall be held at the same times as general elections for congressional offices.
MS Code § 9-4-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 4 - Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi|§ 9-4-17. Severability clause

 If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or any part of Chapter 518, Laws of 1993, is declared to be unconstitutional or void, or if for any reason is declared to be invalid or of no effect, the remaining sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases or parts thereof shall be in no manner affected thereby but shall remain in full force and effect.
MS Code § 9-9-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 9 - County Courts|§ 9-9-1. Continuation and establishment in certain counties

  There shall be an inferior court to be known as the county court in and for each of the following counties:   Each county of the state wherein a county court is in existence on July 1, 1985;   From and after January 1, 1987, each county that has a population exceeding fifty thousand (50,000) inhabitants as shown by the latest federal decennial census; and   The board of supervisors of any county having a population exceeding thirty-nine thousand (39,000) inhabitants as shown by the latest federal decennial census in which Highways 589 and 98 intersect shall have the option to establish a county court under the provisions of this section.       A county judge for a county that is required to establish a county court under subsection (1)(b) of this section shall be elected by the qualified electors of the county in the same manner as provided for the election of circuit court judges at an election held at the same time as the next regular election of circuit court judges first occurring after the date upon which it can be determined that a county court is required under the provisions of subsection (1)(b) of this section to be established in such county.   A county judge for a county electing to establish a county court under subsection (1)(c) of this section shall be elected by the qualified electors of the county in the same manner as provided for the election of circuit court judges at an election held at the November general election first occurring after the date when the board of supervisors spreads upon its minutes a resolution creating the county court. The term of the county court judge so elected shall begin on the first day of January following the November election, and shall end at the same time as for county court judges generally. Thereafter, the county court judge shall be elected and serve for a term as provided for county court judges generally.     The provisions of this section shall not be construed so as to require that a county court be established in any county in which the board of supervisors has agreed and contracted with the board of supervisors of any other county or counties to support and maintain one (1) county court for such counties as provided in Section 9-9-3.
MS Code § 9-9-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 9 - County Courts|§ 9-9-3. Establishment by agreement between two or more counties; expenses of operating court to be prorated

 Any two (2) or more counties in the discretion of their respective boards of supervisors may contract and agree between themselves to support and maintain one (1) county court for such counties. If such agreement be made then the expenses of the operation of said court shall be prorated among such two (2) or more counties and the pro rata part of each county shall be paid from the general funds of each county, from any special tax which may be levied for the support of such court, or any funds made available to the county from the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration for this purpose.