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MS Code § 27-107-143 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Tornado Disaster of March 12, 1975|§ 27-107-143. State bond commission's authority

 The State Bond Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to utilize any of its statutory powers in carrying out its functions under Sections 27-107-131 through 27-107-145 and in the repayment of principal and interest on indebtedness due the state treasury or any general fund agency or special fund agency.
MS Code § 27-107-145 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Tornado Disaster of March 12, 1975|§ 27-107-145. Adoption of rules and regulations

 The commission shall have authority to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the purposes of Sections 27-107-131 through 27-107-145.
MS Code § 27-107-151 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-151. Expired

 Expired pursuant to its own terms, effective September 30, 1979.   [Laws, 1979, ch. 430, § 1.]
MS Code § 27-107-153 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-153. Utilization of appropriated funds to assist local governing authorities to obtain federal funds for restoration purposes

 For purposes of Sections 27-107-151 through 27-107-189, the term "commission of budget and accounting" or "commission" shall mean the state fiscal management board.   The Commission of Budget and Accounting, referred to as "commission," is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to utilize any funds appropriated for such purposes to make grants or loans to boards of supervisors, boards of trustees of public schools and junior colleges, and the mayor and board of aldermen or other governing body of incorporated municipalities for the purpose of assisting such county and municipal government authorities in obtaining federal funds to be used in making repairs, renovations, restoration, construction, reconstruction and related improvements, and restoring or purchasing machinery, equipment and supplies to public office buildings, schools, courthouses, hospitals, water supplies, sewer and utility systems, streets, roads, bridges, ports and airports and other governmental facilities, all of such being publicly owned and governed by said governing authorities having statutory power thereover, which real, personal or mixed properties were either damaged, destroyed or lost as a direct result of the unprecedented devastation wrought by the excessive rains, excessive winds and floods and ice damages subsequent to January 1, 1979.
MS Code § 27-107-155 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-155. Administrator of certain emergency appropriations

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting, being the disaster emergency funding board established in Section 43-41-5 [repealed], is hereby made the sole administrator of any appropriation enacted during the first extraordinary session of 1979 to implement the provisions of Sections 27-107-153 through 27-107-167. It is authorized to utilize any of its general powers provided by Chapter 496, Laws of 1962, as amended, appearing as Sections 27-103-1 through 27-103-75, Mississippi Code of 1972, in making findings of fact and determinations as to the extent and degree of the damages, destruction or loss to the public properties and the dollar value thereof described in the preceding section. It shall take into consideration the appropriate economic factors, present and potential losses in city, county and state taxes, and revenues of all types, existing and subsequent federal laws, funds and programs, and other relevant facts and fiscal data in determining the amount of state grants and loans and reasonable conditions of the grants and loans made to the governing authorities of eligible counties and municipalities and the boards of trustees of public schools and junior colleges which have suffered publicly owned property loss and economic losses as a direct result of the excessive rains and floods of the spring of 1979.
MS Code § 27-107-159 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-159. Time limitation on loan applications

 No application for grants or loans under the authority of Sections 27-107-153 through 27-107-167 shall be filed after January 20, 1980, and no application for a grant or loan shall be approved after March 31, 1980.
MS Code § 27-107-161 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-161. Counties and municipalities to maintain certain records

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting shall require boards of supervisors and the governing authorities of municipalities to maintain such minute books and other records as said commission deems reasonable and necessary for carrying out the purposes of Sections 27-107-153 through 27-107-167, including auditing by the state auditor of all expenditures of grants and loans made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 27-107-153 through 27-107-167 and also of federal grants, private gifts and donations authorized to be received hereunder.
MS Code § 27-107-163 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-163. Total expenditure of appropriated state funds

 The total authorized expenditure of state funds under the provisions of Sections 27-107-153 through 27-107-167 from either an appropriation by the legislature or from funds borrowed by the commission under the provisions of Section 27-107-165 shall not exceed an aggregate amount of five million dollars ($5,000,000.00).
MS Code § 27-107-165 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-165. State bond commission's authority to borrow

 In the event an appropriation is not made for the purposes of Sections 27-107-153 through 27-107-167 or any appropriation for such purposes shall be less than the aggregate amount of expenditures authorized under Section 27-107-163, the commission of budget and accounting shall have the authority to request the state bond commission to borrow the difference in the amount appropriated, if any, and the authorized aggregate amount of expenditures. Such borrowing shall be in the same manner and under the same terms and conditions as provided under Chapter 557, Laws of 1966, as amended by Chapter 466, Laws of 1979, except any notes issued hereunder shall mature not later than May 1, 1980, and there shall be irrevocably pledged the full faith, credit and resources of the State of Mississippi for the payment of both the principal and interest on such notes.
MS Code § 27-107-167 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-167. Adoption of rules and regulations

 The commission shall have authority to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the purposes of Sections 27-107-153 through 27-107-167.
MS Code § 27-107-169 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-169. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; utilization of appropriated funds to assist such agencies

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting, referred to as "commission," is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to utilize any funds appropriated or otherwise made available for such purposes to make allocations to state agencies to defray the expenses incurred by them in carrying out their assigned disaster or emergency assignments which have depleted their regular appropriation below a level which would prohibit them from carrying out their normally assigned duties, and to repair or replace any property or equipment damaged, destroyed or lost as a direct result of the unprecedented devastation wrought by the excessive rains and floods in the spring of 1979 to the State of Mississippi and to pay the cost of federal flood insurance premiums on state-owned property damaged or destroyed as a result of said flood.
MS Code § 27-107-171 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-171. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; Administrator of certain emergency appropriations

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting, being the disaster emergency funding board established in Section 43-41-5, is hereby made the sole administrator of any appropriation enacted during the first extraordinary session of 1979 to implement the provisions of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189. It is authorized to utilize any of its general powers provided by Chapter 496, Laws of 1962, as amended, appearing as Sections 27-103-1 through 27-103-75, Mississippi Code of 1972, in making findings of fact and determinations as to the extent and degree of damages, destruction or loss to the public properties, and the dollar value thereof, the reasonable expectation of loss of present and future revenues, and all appropriate economic factors affecting the ability of state agencies to provide necessary public functions. It shall take into consideration programs and other relevant facts and fiscal data in determining the amount of allocations to state agencies which have suffered publicly owned property loss as a direct result of the excessive rains and floods in the spring of 1979.   Notwithstanding the provisions of any appropriation act which restricts the increase in any one (1) object of expenditure in excess of fifteen percent (15%), the commission of budget and accounting is hereby authorized to approve increases in any amounts when such funds are necessary to make expenditures authorized by Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189, provided that other objects are reduced in an amount to compensate for such increases.   No allocation authorized under the provisions of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189 shall be made to any agency which has other funds in its budget which could be utilized for these purposes except for the fifteen percent (15%) category transfer limitation provided in their appropriation bill.
MS Code § 27-107-173 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-173. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; state disaster emergency fund; payments from fund

 There is hereby established within the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the "state disaster emergency fund." All sums received or obtained by the commission under the provisions of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189, by appropriation or otherwise, shall be deposited into the fund. All sums approved to be allocated shall be paid upon warrants drawn on the state disaster emergency fund, and the state auditor of public accounts shall issue warrants upon requisitions signed by the director and secretary of the commission of budget and accounting.
MS Code § 27-107-175 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-175. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; certified copies of minutes of agencies governing boards and application forms

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting shall require a certified copy of a resolution, order, or other appropriate excerpt of the official minutes of the state agency governing board, to be of such general form and content as the commission may deem appropriate, together with application forms for such allocations.
MS Code § 27-107-177 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-177. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; use of funds

 The proceeds of all allocations shall be used only for reimbursement of the agencies' expenses for emergency or disaster-related duties and for the repair or replacement of publicly owned property or equipment damaged or lost as a direct result of the excessive rains and floods of the spring of 1979.
MS Code § 27-107-179 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-179. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; documentation of requests; auditing

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting shall require the governing boards of such state agencies to document all requests for allocations and may include auditing by the state auditor of all expenditures and claims included in the applications.
MS Code § 27-107-181 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-181. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; certification of whether expenditures made and losses incurred are reimbursable; payments to state treasury

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting shall require each agency making application for allocations to certify whether expenditures made and losses incurred as a direct result of the disaster are reimbursable under federal grants, private gifts, donations or otherwise.   In the event allocations are made under the provisions of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189, the commission of budget and accounting shall require that any reimbursements for expenditures made with the allocated funds shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the state general fund.
MS Code § 27-107-183 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-183. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; time limitation on applications

 No application for allocations under authority of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189 shall be filed after January 20, 1980, and no application for allocations shall be approved after March 31, 1980.
MS Code § 27-107-185 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-185. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; total expenditure of state funds

 The total authorized expenditure of state funds under the provisions of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189 from either an appropriation by the legislature or from funds borrowed under the provisions of Section 27-107-187 shall not exceed an aggregate amount of three million dollars ($3,000,000.00).
MS Code § 27-107-187 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-187. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; state bond commission's authority to borrow

 In the event an appropriation is not made for the purposes of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189 or any appropriation for such purposes shall be less than the aggregate amount of expenditures authorized under Section 27-107-185, the commission of budget and accounting shall have the authority to request the state bond commission to borrow the difference in the amount appropriated, if any, and the authorized aggregate amount of expenditures. Such borrowing shall be in the same manner and under the same terms and conditions as provided under Chapter 557, Laws of 1966, as amended by Chapter 466, Laws of 1979, except any notes issued hereunder shall mature not later than May 1, 1980, and there shall be irrevocably pledged the full faith, credit and resources of the State of Mississippi for the payment of both the principal and interest on such notes.
MS Code § 27-107-189 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Flooding Disaster of 1979|§ 27-107-189. Allocations to agencies with depleted funds; adoption of rules and regulations

 The Commission of Budget and Accounting shall have authority to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the purposes of Sections 27-107-169 through 27-107-189.
MS Code § 27-107-201 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Jones County Tornado Disaster of February, 1987|§ 27-107-201. Authorization to transfer certain funds to loan to county, municipalities, and school districts to match federal funds for restoration purposes

 The State Fiscal Management Board is authorized to transfer any unobligated funds in the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Fund No. 3723 to the Local Disaster Emergency Grant and Loan Fund No. 3793 in order to loan funds to Jones County, Mississippi, and/or to municipalities and school districts therein to match federal funds to be used in making repairs, renovations, restoration, construction, reconstruction and related improvements and restoring or purchasing machinery, equipment and supplies to public office buildings, schools, courthouses, hospitals, water supplies, sewer and utility systems, streets, roads, bridges, airports and other governmental facilities, all of such being publicly owned and governed by the governing authorities having statutory power thereover, which real, personal or mixed properties were either damaged, destroyed or lost as a direct result of the Jones County tornado disaster of February 28, 1987.
MS Code § 27-107-203 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Jones County Tornado Disaster of February, 1987|§ 27-107-203. Authorization to utilize certain funds to loan to county, municipalities, and school districts to obtain federal funds for restoration purposes

 The State Fiscal Management Board is hereby authorized to utilize any available funds representing the repayment of disaster loans and interest thereon to the credit of the Local Disaster Emergency Grant and Loan Fund No. 3793 in the State Treasury, including any monies transferred to such fund from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Fund under Section 27-107-201, to make loans to the governing authorities of Jones County, Mississippi, any municipality within Jones County and/or any school district within Jones County for the purpose of assisting such county, municipality and/or school district in obtaining federal funds to be used in making repairs, renovations, restoration, construction, reconstruction and related improvements, and restoring or purchasing machinery, equipment and supplies to public office buildings, schools, courthouses, hospitals, water supplies, sewer and utility systems, streets, roads, bridges, ports and airports and other governmental facilities, all of such being publicly owned and governed by said governing authorities having statutory power thereover, which real, personal or mixed properties were either damaged, destroyed or lost as a direct result of the Jones County tornado disaster of February 28, 1987.
MS Code § 27-107-207 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Jones County Tornado Disaster of February, 1987|§ 27-107-207. Rules and regulations

 The State Fiscal Management Board shall have authority to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the purposes of Sections 27-107-201 through 27-107-207.
MS Code § 27-107-301 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 107 - Disaster Relief|Interstate Earthquake Emergency Compact|§ 27-107-301. Interstate earthquake emergency compact

 The Legislature of the State of Mississippi hereby ratifies a compact on behalf of the State of Mississippi with any other state legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:
MS Code § 29-1-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-3. Sixteenth section or in lieu lands; biennial report of commissioner; public officials to supply management and investment information

  The land commissioner has a supervisory power over sixteenth section lands or lands granted in lieu thereof; and he shall supply to the members of the legislature, the boards of supervisors, the boards of education and other interested persons information concerning those lands and make such recommendations and suggestions as he may deem proper.   The land commissioner shall prepare a biennial report which shall include the terms of all leases on sixteenth section school lands, or lands granted in lieu thereof, the condition of the title to all such lands and the current income from all sources earned by such lands, and he shall maintain such report in his office for examination by any interested person.   Any state, county or municipal official shall supply annually to the state land commissioner such sixteenth section management information as shall be requested by the commissioner. Such information shall include, but not be limited to, the following items pertaining to all new leases, rights of way, easements and sales of school trust lands: the number of acres in each parcel; the consideration paid for each transaction; the length and expiration of each lease, easement, or right of way; and the use to be made of each parcel. The applicable public official shall likewise report information requested by the state land commissioner upon principal fund investments. Such information shall include, but not be limited to, the following items: amounts of monies invested; dates of investment; where invested; form of investment; rate of return of each investment; and the amount of revenue earned upon each investment.  The action of mandamus shall lie as is provided under Section 29-3-9 to compel the transmittal of information under this subsection by any public official to the best of his knowledge and belief.
MS Code § 29-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-5. Value of state lands

 Whenever the state land commissioner shall need information as to the value of any lands belonging to or claimed by the state, whether the title thereto shall have been acquired by tax sale or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the county tax collector and the county assessor, in response to written inquiry by the state land commissioner, to make written certificate as to the value of such land and the improvements thereon, if any, to the best of their knowledge and belief.   Any assessor or tax collector failing to prepare and mail said certificates shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding ten (10) days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 29-1-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-7. Suits for or on behalf of public lands

 The land commissioner may prosecute suits in the name of the state, concerning the public lands, through the attorney general, a district attorney, or some attorney at law employed by him for that purpose, with the consent of the governor.
MS Code § 29-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-9. Suits for recovery of lands

 The land commissioner shall institute and prosecute, and prosecute where already instituted, all necessary suits to cancel patents to lands fraudulently obtained or issued, and to recover the possession of the land; and may, when ordered by the court, make any tender in any suit as well after as before suit is begun.
MS Code § 29-1-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-11. Fraudulent purchases declared void

 All fraudulent purchases of public lands heretofore made are void, excepting the rights of innocent purchasers without notice; and moneys and fees paid in furtherance of any such fraudulent purchase are forfeited to the state.