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MS Code § 1-1-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|In General|§ 1-1-35. Revised manuscript declared to be official Code of the state of Mississippi

 The Legislature finds and so declares that the code committee, comprised of the Attorney General, Secretary of State, chairmen of the appropriations committees and judiciary "A" and "B" committees of the House of Representatives and Senate has, to date, fulfilled its obligations and responsibilities within its statutory powers as set forth in Senate Bill No. 1964 (Chapter 465), Laws of 1970, and that the entire manuscript for the Mississippi Code of 1972, emanating from the Mississippi Code of 1930, all enactments of a general and permanent nature subsequent to the regular session of 1930 and through the regular session of 1942 comprising the original Mississippi Code of 1942, and all such enactments from adjournment of the 1942 regular session through the regular session of 1971 and now a part of the Mississippi Code of 1942, has been thoroughly analyzed by experienced and trained lawyer-editors of the lawbook publishers and by the publishers' computer facilities, and the publishers' findings and recommendations to the Attorney General to date have been agreed upon by and between the publishers, the Attorney General, and the code committee, and that said proposed manuscript, as prepared by The Lawyers Co-Operative Publishing Company and associates and approved by the attorney general, for the Mississippi Code of 1972, has been reported to the Legislature and revised, amended and adopted by the two houses of the Legislature, an enrolled draft of which has been prepared by the said code committee, said manuscript is hereby approved, adopted and declared to be the official code of the State of Mississippi on the first day of November, 1973.
MS Code § 1-1-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|In General|§ 1-1-37. Enrollment of the Code of 1972

 In the enrollment of the Code of 1972, it shall be sufficient and legal to enroll the code either by clipping the text from the original code or from other sources and attaching the same on paper approximately 81/2 X 11 inches, and/or by writing the same in longhand or typewriter, and/or by some method of photographic reproduction, and where necessary making corrections in the text before final approval and signature.
MS Code § 1-1-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|In General|§ 1-1-39. Deposition and preservation of enrolled draft

 The enrolled draft of the official Mississippi Code of 1972 shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, and shall be carefully preserved by that officer as the official code of the public statute laws of this state, adopted and declared to be such by Section 1-1-35.
MS Code § 1-1-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Supplementation of Code of 1972 and Update of Computer Tapes|§ 1-1-57. Purchase and distribution of pocket part supplements and replacement bound volumes

 The Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation shall purchase such numbers of sets of the pocket part supplements and the replacement volumes, including index replacement volumes, as may be required to maintain in a current status the sets of the Code of 1972 authorized to be furnished under the provisions of Section 1-1-11, and shall distribute or provide for the distribution of the same to the proper parties. In furtherance of the State Library's reciprocal program of Code exchange with libraries of the several states, the joint committee shall, at the direction and only upon the written request of the State Librarian, distribute or provide for the distribution of those supplements and replacement volumes to such libraries.
MS Code § 1-1-58 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Supplementation of Code of 1972 and Update of Computer Tapes|§ 1-1-58. Advance sheets; contract for publication; distribution; provision of information to publisher

  The Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation shall contract with a publishing company for the publication of the advance sheets of the general laws enacted at each session of the Legislature. This contract may be with the same publishing company contracted with under Section 1-1-107(a) and may be included as a provision of that contract with the publishing company instead of being a separate contract.   The joint committee shall distribute or provide for the distribution of the advance sheets to the proper parties. One (1) volume of the advance sheets shall be provided free of cost to each state government agency, to each respective Legislative Services Office of the House of Representatives and the Senate, to the Legislative Reference Bureau, and to each sheriff, chancery clerk, circuit clerk, superintendent of education, tax assessor, county prosecuting attorney, justice court judge, attorney for each county's board of supervisors, each municipal clerk, district attorney, circuit judge, chancellor, county court judge and Supreme Court judge. The joint committee shall authorize the publishing company to make copies of the advance sheets available to each member of the Mississippi Bar Association in good standing, according to the records of the secretary of the Mississippi Bar Association, at a reasonable cost, including preparation, printing, shipping and handling.   The Office of the Secretary of State shall provide or make available to the publishing company such information regarding the general laws enacted by the Legislature as necessary for the publishing company to prepare and publish the advance sheets.
MS Code § 1-1-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Supplementation of Code of 1972 and Update of Computer Tapes|§ 1-1-59. Provision and maintenance of Code in electronic form

 The Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation may contract with a reputable and competent company to perform any services necessary to update any computer tape, disc or other technological medium furnished with the Mississippi Code of 1972, and to provide for and update a CD-ROM (compact disc, read-only memory) or other disc or technological medium containing the Mississippi Code of 1972 and its annotations, so that all laws of a general nature passed by the Legislature subsequent to the 1971 Session thereof will be incorporated therein in the same format as the pocket part supplements and supplemental material contained in replacement volumes to the Code of 1972. This contract may be made with the same publishing company contracted with under Section 1-1-107(a) and may be included as a provision of that contract with the publishing company instead of being a separate contract.   If the same cannot be contracted for, at and for a consideration considered reasonable, the joint committee may request the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services to perform such services and pay over to the department such sums as may be appropriated for such purposes, and the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services may expend such sums as paid over for the employment of personnel and the purchase of such services, supplies, materials and equipment as may be required to perform the work.
MS Code § 1-1-60 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Supplementation of Code of 1972 and Update of Computer Tapes|§ 1-1-60. Requisitions from University of Mississippi law school; publication exchanges with other states

 The dean of the law school of the University of Mississippi may make requisitions to the Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation for the Mississippi Code and supplements thereto to exchange with other states for similar publications and make the same available in the University of Mississippi law school library for the purpose of increasing the facilities of the library. The joint committee may furnish or provide for the furnishing of these publications upon requisition from the dean of the law school of the University of Mississippi.
MS Code § 1-1-62 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Supplementation of Code of 1972 and Update of Computer Tapes|§ 1-1-62. Number of volumes, supplements, and advance sheets required

 The Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation shall provide for the publication of sufficient volumes of the Mississippi Code and supplements thereto and advance sheets as necessary to meet the requirements of Sections 1-1-11, 1-1-57, 1-1-58 and 1-1-60.
MS Code § 1-1-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation|§ 1-1-101. Legislative findings

 The Legislature finds that the compilation, revision and publication of legislation enacted by the Legislature is a legislative function.
MS Code § 1-1-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation|§ 1-1-105. Committee staff

 The Director of the House Legislative Services Office and the Director of the Senate Legislative Services Office shall assist the joint committee with regard to staffing the committee to the extent feasible. The joint committee shall appoint one (1) attorney employed by the House Legislative Services Office and one (1) attorney employed by the Senate Legislative Services Office to serve as co-counsel for the committee and as liaisons to the publishing company or companies with which the joint committee has contracted.
MS Code § 1-1-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation|§ 1-1-107. General powers and duties of committee

 The joint committee shall have the following powers and duties:   To select and contract with a reputable and competent publishing company on such terms and conditions and at such prices as it may deem proper for the editing, printing, indexing, annotating, binding and publishing of all the acts of the Legislature passed since adjournment of the 1998 Session of the Mississippi Legislature and annually thereafter, provided that the expenditure of state funds shall be contingent upon the Legislature appropriating the necessary funds therefor. Nothing in Chapter 546, Laws of 1998 or in Chapter 502, Laws of 1996, shall be construed to render invalid or impair the obligations of any contract entered into on behalf of the State of Mississippi on or before September 30, 1988, and any revisions or modifications to such contract other than extending the contract beyond September 30, 1998, for any of the purposes set forth in Chapter 546, Laws of 1998 or in Chapter 502, Laws of 1996.   To undertake such substantive revisions, recodifications and compilations of the Mississippi Code of 1972, and subsequent amendments thereto, as may be necessary or as may be directed by the Legislature.   To formulate with the publishing company all the details associated with the codification of the laws enacted by the Mississippi Legislature.   To review, approve or disapprove the work of the publishing company in preparing, supplementing, indexing or revising the Mississippi Code of 1972, or any volume, pocket part or portion thereof.   To grant exclusive or nonexclusive publication and sales rights to the Mississippi Code of 1972, and subsequent amendments thereto, or portions thereof to the publishing company.   In its discretion, to seek the advice and assistance of members and committees of the Mississippi Bar Association.   To provide for the preparation and introduction of legislation containing its recommendations for the revisions in substance and form or both, or the repeal or amendment of statutes or portions thereof.   To provide for procedures for the implementation or execution of its powers and duties.   To take such other action or exercise such additional powers as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
MS Code § 1-1-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation|§ 1-1-109. Authority of committee relating to preparation of legislative acts for publication

 In preparing the acts of the Legislature for publication in the Mississippi Code of 1972 after the adjournment of each session and without altering the sense, meaning or effect of the acts, the joint committee is authorized to:   Correct the spelling of words;   Change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity;   Correct manifest typographical and grammatical errors;   Substitute the proper code section number, chapter number, or other number or designation for the terms "this act," and similar words or phrases;   Change cross-reference numbers to agree with renumbered chapters, code sections or portions of the Code;   Substitute the proper calendar date for "the effective date of this chapter" and other phrases of similar import;   Correct manifest errors in references to laws;   Correct inaccurate references to the titles of officers, the names of departments or other agencies of the state, local governments, or the federal government, and such other name changes as are necessary to be consistent with the laws of the state;   Insert or delete hyphens in words so as to follow correct grammatical usage;   Change nouns from the singular to the plural or vice versa for purposes of style and grammar;   Change punctuation for purposes of uniformity and consistency of style; and   Integrate the amendments that may have been made in more than one (1) act of the Legislature in a single session to the same code section or provisions of law, so that all versions of the same code section or law that were enacted during a single session may become effective, if effectuating all such amendments is consistent with the intent of the Legislature.
MS Code § 1-1-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 1 - Laws and Statutes|Chapter 1 - Code of 1972|Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation|§ 1-1-111. Approval by committee of manuscript of supplements and replacement volumes prepared by publishing company

 From and after July 1, 1998, the manuscript of acts of the Mississippi Legislature that have been edited, compiled, annotated and indexed by the publishing company holding the contract with the Joint Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation shall be submitted to the joint committee for its approval and acceptance after each regular session of the Legislature. Upon the approval and acceptance of the manuscript by the joint committee, the same shall be printed in insertable pocket supplement form or replacement bound volume or volumes where necessary, containing appropriate chapters, titles and subdivisions of titles.
MS Code § 5-3-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 5 - Legislative Department|Chapter 3 - Legislative Committees|Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review|§ 5-3-51. Creation of committee; general purpose

 A committee of the senate and house of representatives to be known as a joint legislative committee on performance evaluation and expenditure review, (hereinafter committee), is hereby created for the purpose of conducting performance evaluations, investigations and examinations of expenditures and all records, relating thereto, of any agency at any time as the committee deems necessary. Provided further the committee shall perform a complete audit of all funds expended by the highway department. The committee shall submit its findings, conclusions and reports to the Mississippi legislature no later than the first day of the second full week of each regular session of the legislature.
MS Code § 5-3-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 5 - Legislative Department|Chapter 3 - Legislative Committees|Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review|§ 5-3-53. Definitions

 For purposes of Sections 5-3-51 through 5-3-69, the following words and phrases have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires:   "Performance evaluation" shall mean an examination of the effectiveness of the administration, its sufficiency and its adequacy in terms of the programs of the agency authorized by law to be performed. Such examinations shall include, but not be limited to:    How effectively the programs are administered.   Benefits of each program in relation to the expenditures.   Goals of programs.   Development of indicators by which the success or failure of a program may be gauged.   Review conformity of programs with legislative intent.   Assist interim committee dealing with specific programs.   Impact of federal grant-in-aid programs on agency programs.    "Agency" shall mean an agency, department, bureau, division, authority, commission, office or institution, educational or otherwise, of the State of Mississippi, or any political subdivision thereof which shall include all county governments and agencies thereof, all city governments and agencies thereof, and all public school districts and agencies thereof.   "Expenditure review" shall mean an examination made at some point after the completion of a transaction or group of transactions.
MS Code § 5-3-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 5 - Legislative Department|Chapter 3 - Legislative Committees|Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review|§ 5-3-55. Membership and organization of committee

 The committee shall be composed of seven (7) members from the Senate and seven (7) members from the House of Representatives, one (1) from each of the congressional districts of the State of Mississippi as they currently exist and three (3) from the state at large, to be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for a term concurrent with their term in their respective house. For the remainder of the present term, the Lieutenant Governor and Speaker shall make their respective appointments within fifteen (15) days after sine die adjournment of the 2004 Regular Session; and for each full four-year term thereafter, the Lieutenant Governor and Speaker shall make their appointments within fifteen (15) days after the first calendar day of the regular session in the first year of such four-year term. The term of each member shall be concurrent with his term of office.   The committee shall meet no later than ten (10) days after the final day of the 2004 Regular Session, and annually thereafter, for the purpose of organizing by electing from the membership a chairman, vice chairman and secretary.
MS Code § 5-3-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 5 - Legislative Department|Chapter 3 - Legislative Committees|Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review|§ 5-3-59. Subpoena and examination of witnesses

 The committee, while in the discharge of official duties, shall have the following additional powers:   To subpoena and examine witnesses; to require the appearance of any person and the production of any paper or document; to order the appearance of any person for the purpose of producing any paper or document; and to issue all process necessary to compel such appearance or production. When such process has been served, the committee may compel obedience thereto by the attachment of the person, papers or records subpoenaed; and if any person shall wilfully refuse to appear before such committee or to produce any paper or record in obedience to any process issued by the committee and served on that person, he shall be guilty of contempt of the legislature and shall be prosecuted and punished as provided by law.   To administer oaths to witnesses appearing before the committee when, by a majority vote, the committee deems the administration of an oath necessary and advisable as provided by law.   To determine that a witness has perjured himself by testifying falsely before the committee, and to institute penal proceedings as provided by law.
MS Code § 5-3-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 5 - Legislative Department|Chapter 3 - Legislative Committees|Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review|§ 5-3-61. Issuance of performance evaluation and expenditure review reports

 The committee shall issue performance evaluation reports and expenditure review reports, favorable or unfavorable, of any agency examined, and such reports shall be a public record. A copy of the report, signed by the chairman of the committee, including committee recommendations, shall be submitted to the governor, to each member of the legislature, and to the official, officer, or person in charge of the agency examined.
MS Code § 5-3-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 5 - Legislative Department|Chapter 3 - Legislative Committees|Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review|§ 5-3-63. Recording testimony under oath

 Whenever making a performance evaluation or an expenditure review, the committee may require that testimony be given under oath, which may be administered by the chairman or by any person authorized by law to administer oaths, and may require that such testimony be recorded by an official court reporter or deputy, or by some other competent person, under oath, which report, when written and certified and approved by such person as being the direct transcript of the testimony, proceedings, or documents, expenditure review or performance evaluation, shall be prima facie a correct statement of said testimony, proceedings or documents, provided that such person's signature to such certificate be duly acknowledged by him before a notary public or some judicial official of this state.
MS Code § 5-3-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 5 - Legislative Department|Chapter 3 - Legislative Committees|Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review|§ 5-3-65. Legal assistance; other employees

 The attorney general, or a designated assistant attorney general, appointed by him, the state auditor and the director of the state department of audit shall assist the committee in whatever manner the committee deems that such officers can be helpful. Furthermore, the committee is authorized to employ one full time secretary, other stenographic help, technical experts, auditors, investigators and other employees which may be necessary to enable it to carry out the provisions therein. The committee is authorized at its discretion to fix reasonable compensation for its employees including necessary travel expenses; and it shall maintain and provide a full, complete and itemized record of all such expenditures.