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MS Code § 25-1-95 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-95. Signature machines

 The Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, and Treasurer, who, in performing their respective official duties, sign their official names as such officers to various and divers documents and instruments, are hereby authorized to use in signing said instruments and documents a standard signature machine that will reproduce a facsimile signature of each such officer which, under modern methods, gives more protection than using pen and ink. The signature machine to be used by the aforesaid officers under the provisions of this section shall be selected by the Governor, Attorney General and Secretary of State.   The instrument signed by the aforesaid officers of the State of Mississippi, who shall sign official instruments and documents with a signature machine under and by virtue of the provisions herein contained, shall be taken and accepted in all courts and otherwise with the same force, effect, and validity as though the said officer who signed same with said signature machine had signed such instrument or document with his own hand.   Each officer authorized by this section to use a signature machine shall safely keep his facsimile signature in such a way as to prevent the use thereof by persons not authorized so to do.   The Governor is hereby authorized to permit any other official of the state to use a signature machine of the kind selected by the Governor, Attorney General and Secretary of State, if the necessity therefor should arise. It shall be the duty of each of the officials authorized to use said signature machine to keep his facsimile signature secure, and such officer shall be liable personally and on his official bond for any loss caused by his negligence in failing to keep secure his said facsimile signature.   Any person unlawfully using any signature machine provided for in this section, without the consent or direction of the officer whose facsimile signature is being so used, shall be guilty of forgery and punishable upon conviction thereof as provided by law in such cases.
MS Code § 25-1-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-97. State office hours

 The capitol commission of the state is hereby authorized and empowered to fix the hours for the opening and closing of public offices of the state commensurate with the seasons of the year. The business hours of all of the state public offices, departments, boards, commissions, and agencies shall be uniform, and said offices shall be open for business eight (8) hours per day Monday through Friday of each week except state holidays, with the capitol commission to set the opening and closing hours by its order from time to time. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit any office, department, board, commission, or agency to conduct essential business outside of the regular business day hours where the executive head or governing body deems it necessary. For any state holiday fixed under Section 3-3-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, falling on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday may, in the discretion of the executive head or governing body of a state agency, be utilized in lieu of the legal holiday.
MS Code § 25-1-98 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-98. Opening and staffing of state offices; legal holidays, construction of "workday."

 In addition to any other times required by statute, all state offices shall be open and staffed for the normal conduct of business from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on legal holidays as set forth in Section 3-3-7. The Governor may designate certain state offices and institutions as providers of essential services and require that they be open and staffed on legal holidays. The Board of Directors of the Mississippi Industries for the Blind may, in its discretion, require that its offices and operations be open and staffed on legal holidays. Employees required to work on legal holidays shall earn compensatory leave under the provisions of Section 25-3-92. No employee shall receive additional vacation or sick leave benefits for working on a legal holiday, nor shall this section be construed to authorize any additional compensation as an alternative to the accrual of compensatory leave except as specifically provided for in a legislative appropriation. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to limit the hours of operation of any agency or to abrogate any action taken during hours other than those stated, nor shall these provisions apply to any offices that do not customarily stay open five (5) days a week. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the military department of the State of Mississippi or to the armories, field training sites, air bases or other installations of the Mississippi National Guard.   A workday for a state employee in a full-time employment position shall be eight (8) hours in duration at a minimum exclusive of time off for meals. The appointing authority shall develop work schedules which ensure that each full-time employee works a full workday and shall provide the State Auditor with a copy of the regular work schedule of the appointing authority.
MS Code § 25-1-99 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-99. County office hours

 The clerks of the circuit and chancery courts, the county superintendents of education, the county tax assessors, and the sheriffs shall keep their offices at the courthouses of their respective counties if offices shall be there provided for them. If offices shall not be there provided for them, they shall keep their offices within one-half (1/2) mile of the courthouses of their respective counties; except that the office of the county superintendent of education may be placed in the county in any other place determined by the county board of education to be most feasible, regardless of the distance from the courthouse. The offices of all circuit and chancery clerks and sheriffs shall be open for business on all business days from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., except that within the discretion of the board of supervisors of said county, the above county offices may be closed at 12:00 noon one (1) business day of each week, or may be closed all day Saturday of each week, or may be closed at 12:00 noon on Saturday and at 12:00 noon on one (1) additional business day of each week. Such courthouse hours decided upon within the discretion of the board of supervisors must be duly entered at large on the minutes of said board, and such action by the board shall be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the county once each week for four (4) consecutive weeks.   Provided, however, the courthouse shall be closed on all state holidays as set forth in Section 3-3-7, and when any state holiday set forth in Section 3-3-7 falls on a Saturday, the courthouse may be closed on the Friday immediately preceding such Saturday and when such holiday falls on a Sunday, the courthouse may be closed on the Monday immediately succeeding such Sunday. The board of supervisors, in its discretion, may close the county offices on those holidays created by executive order of the Governor.
MS Code § 25-1-100 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-100. Certain personnel records exempt from public access requirements; exceptions

  Personnel records and applications for employment in the possession of a public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, except those which may be released to the person who made the application or with the prior written consent of the person who made the application, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.   Test questions and answers in the possession of a public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, which are to be used in employment examinations, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.   Letters of recommendation in the possession of a public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, respecting any application for employment, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.   Documents relating to contract authorization under Section 25-9-120 shall not be exempt from the provisions of Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.   Contracts for personal and professional services that are awarded or executed by any state agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of Information Technology Services and the Department of Transportation, shall not be exempt from the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.
MS Code § 25-1-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-101. State-furnished books

 Every justice of the peace, or other officer to whom the statute laws or other books may be furnished by the state, shall carefully preserve the same and, at the expiration of his term, deliver them to his successor, take his receipt therefor, and file the same in the office of the clerk of the circuit court. In default thereof, the said court, on motion of the clerk or of the successor in office, whose duty it shall be to make such motion, shall enter judgment in favor of the state against the justice or other officer in default for the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each volume missing and not satisfactorily accounted for, five (5) days' notice being given of such motion.
MS Code § 25-1-102 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-102. Certain attorneys' work product exempt from public access requirements

 Records in the possession of a public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, which represent and constitute the work product of any attorney, district attorney or county prosecuting attorney representing a public body and which are related to litigation made by or against such public body, or in anticipation of prospective litigation, including all communications between such attorney made in the course of an attorney-client relationship, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.
MS Code § 25-1-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-103. Certain offices held by same person

 The offices of the clerk of the circuit and chancery courts may be held by the same person, in the discretion of the board of supervisors, in a county of not exceeding fifteen thousand (15,000) inhabitants.
MS Code § 25-1-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-105. Application of prohibition against striking to public employees and employers

 All provisions of Section 37-9-75 prohibiting strikes by teachers and teacher organizations and providing penalties therefor, and providing certain responsibilities for members of local school governing boards and school administrators shall likewise apply as far as is practicable to all public employees and public employers respectively.   For purposes of this section, "public employee" means any person holding a position by employment, contract or appointment with a public employer; and   "Public employer" means any governmental entity in this state whose employees are paid in whole or in part by funds appropriated or otherwise provided by the state.
MS Code § 25-1-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-107. Date of postmark as proof of date of payment or report

 Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, whenever any check, money order or other form of payment or reports is required to be made to any state agency or any county, municipality or other political subdivision of the state by or before a certain date and the mailing is made by United States mail, then the date that the mail containing the payment or report is postmarked by the United States Post Office shall be considered as the date the payment or report is made. The date of the United States Post Office postmark is proof of the date of payment or report if the payment or report was mailed with postage paid and was correctly addressed.
MS Code § 25-1-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-109. Law enforcement officers prohibited from disclosing identity of person arrested, issued a citation, or being held for misdemeanor

 No law enforcement agency shall disclose the name of any person arrested for any misdemeanor, issued a citation, or being held for any misdemeanor unless such person shall be formally charged and arrested for the offense, except to other law enforcement agencies or to the Mississippi Department of Human Services or child day care providers where such information is used to help determine suitability of persons to serve as child care providers or child service workers. No political subdivision nor any employee thereof shall be held liable for the disclosure of any information prohibited by this section.
MS Code § 25-1-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-111. Prevention of disclosure by state agencies of social security numbers

 When any state agency mails, delivers, circulates, publishes, distributes, transmits, or otherwise disseminates, in any form or manner, information or material that contains the social security number of an individual, the agency shall take such steps as may be reasonably necessary to prevent the inadvertent disclosure of the individual's social security number to members of the general public or to persons other than those persons who, in the performance of their duties and responsibilities, have a lawful and legitimate need to know the individual's social security number. State agencies shall be in compliance with this section on or before July 1, 2003.
MS Code § 25-1-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-113. Public employment of persons convicted of embezzlement of public funds prohibited

  From and after July 1, 2013, the state and any county, municipality or any other political subdivision shall not employ a person who has been convicted or pled guilty in any court of this state, another state, or in federal court of any felony in which public funds were unlawfully taken, obtained or misappropriated in the abuse or misuse of the person's office or employment or money coming into the person's hands by virtue of the person's office or employment.   From and after July 1, 2014, the state and any county, municipality or any other political subdivision shall not employ or continue to employ a person who has been convicted or pled guilty in any court of this state, another state, or in federal court of any felony in which public funds were unlawfully taken, obtained or misappropriated in the abuse or misuse of the person's office or employment or money coming into the person's hands by virtue of the person's office or employment.
MS Code § 25-1-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-115. Certain persons prohibited from serving on executive committees

  No person shall serve on any temporary municipal executive committee, municipal executive committee, temporary county executive committee, county executive committee or state executive committee if the person has been convicted of any criminal violation of the Mississippi Election Code, has been convicted of an election crime in this state or any other state, has been convicted of any felony in this state or any other state, has been convicted of an election crime under federal law, has been removed from public office pursuant to Section 25-5-1, or who has resigned from office as part of a plea agreement.   Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in Section 99-19-31 and removed from the committee.
MS Code § 25-1-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-117. State agencies and public officials providing information about the agency or office to the public on a website are required to regularly review and update that information

 Each state agency and each statewide elected official that provides information to the public about the agency or office on a website on the Internet shall review and update the information on the website on a regular basis, not less frequently than once a month, to ensure that the information appearing on the website is current and that outdated information has been removed or placed in a separate section of archived information.
MS Code § 25-1-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions|§ 25-1-119. Public bodies, employees, and officers prohibited from creating, planning, participating in, enabling, etc., sanctuary policies

  No state agency, department, political subdivision of this state, county, municipality, university, college, community college or junior college, or any agent, employee or officer thereof shall adopt, or implement a policy, order or ordinance that (a) limits or prohibits any person from communicating or cooperating with federal agencies or officials to verify or report the immigration status of any person; or (b) grants to any person the right to lawful presence or status within the state, a county or municipality, or the campus of a university, college, community college or junior college in violation of state or federal law.   Any policy, order or ordinance adopted in violation of this section shall be invalid and void from the date of its adoption or enactment and shall have no force or effect.
MS Code § 25-5-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 5 - Removals From Office|§ 25-5-1. Removals from office

 If any public officer, state, district, county or municipal, shall be convicted or enter a plea of guilty or nolo contendere in any court of this state or any other state or in any federal court of any felony other than manslaughter or any violation of the United States Internal Revenue Code, of corruption in office or peculation therein, or of gambling or dealing in futures with money coming to his hands by virtue of his office, any court of this state, in addition to such other punishment as may be prescribed, shall adjudge the defendant removed from office; and the office of the defendant shall thereby become vacant. If any such officer be found by inquest to be of unsound mind during the term for which he was elected or appointed, or shall be removed from office by the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise lawfully, his office shall thereby be vacated; and in any such case the vacancy shall be filled as provided by law.   When any such officer is found guilty of a crime which is a felony under the laws of this state or which is punishable by imprisonment for one (1) year or more, other than manslaughter or any violation of the United States Internal Revenue Code, in a federal court or a court of competent jurisdiction of any other state, the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall promptly enter a motion for removal from office in the Circuit Court of Hinds County in the case of a state officer, and in the circuit court of the county of residence in the case of a district, county or municipal officer. The court, or the judge in vacation, shall, upon notice and a proper hearing, issue an order removing such person from office and the vacancy shall be filled as provided by law.
MS Code § 25-5-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 5 - Removals From Office|§ 25-5-3. Governor empowered to remove elective county officials

 The Governor is hereby empowered, in accordance with the provisions of Section 139 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, through the procedure and under the regulations prescribed in Sections 25-5-3 through 25-5-37 and for the reasons and causes set forth, to remove any elective county officer in this state; and every elective officer of any county in this state may be removed from office by the Governor at any time when done in compliance with the regulations hereinafter set forth.
MS Code § 25-5-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 5 - Removals From Office|§ 25-5-5. Causes for removal

 The reasons or causes for removal from office shall be:   Knowingly or wilfully failing, neglecting, or refusing to perform any of the duties required of such officer by law.
MS Code § 25-5-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 5 - Removals From Office|§ 25-5-7. Demand for removal

 Before the Governor shall consider the removal from a county office of any elective county officer, there shall be first filed with him a petition signed by not less than thirty percent (30%) of the qualified electors of said county demanding the removal of said officer. Such petition shall contain a general statement, in not more than two hundred (200) words, of the ground or grounds on which such removal is demanded, which statement shall be for the information of the officer involved, for the information of the council hereinafter provided, and for the information of the qualified electors of the county.   All removal petitions with reference to only supervisors, justice court judges and constables must be signed by at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the qualified electors of the beat or district from which they were originally elected.   Upon the request of any qualified elector, it shall be the duty of the county and district prosecuting attorney to advise such person as to the provisions of Sections 25-5-3 through 25-5-37 and how to comply with the same.