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MS Code § 25-41-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 41 - Open Meetings|§ 25-41-15. Enforcement

 The Mississippi Ethics Commission shall have the authority to enforce the provisions of this chapter upon a complaint filed by any person. Upon receiving a complaint, the commission shall forward a copy of the complaint to the head of the public body involved. The public body shall have fourteen (14) days from receipt of the complaint to file a response with the commission. After receiving the response to the complaint or, if no response is received after fourteen (14) days, the commission, in its discretion, may dismiss the complaint or proceed by setting a hearing in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the Ethics Commission.   After a hearing, the Ethics Commission may order the public body to take whatever reasonable measures necessary, if any, to comply with this chapter. If the Ethics Commission finds that a member or members of a public body has willfully and knowingly violated the provisions of this chapter, the Ethics Commission may impose a civil penalty upon the individual members of the public body found to be in violation of the provision of this chapter in a sum not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for a first offense and One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for a second or subsequent offense, plus all reasonable expenses incurred by the person or persons in bringing the complaint to enforce this chapter.   Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the Ethics Commission from mediating or otherwise resolving disputes arising under this chapter or from entering orders agreed to by the parties. In carrying out its responsibilities under this section, the Ethics Commission shall have all the powers and authority granted to it in Title 25, Chapter 4, Mississippi Code of 1972.   Any party may petition the chancery court of the county in which the public body is located to enforce or appeal any order of the Ethics Commission issued pursuant to this chapter. In any such appeal the chancery court shall conduct a de novo review.
MS Code § 25-41-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 41 - Open Meetings|§ 25-41-17. Chance meetings and social gatherings excluded

 The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to chance meetings or social gatherings of members of a public body.
MS Code § 25-45-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 45 - Permit and Licensing Procedures|§ 25-45-1. Statement of policy

 It is the policy of the State of Mississippi that each agency of the state shall cooperate to the greatest extent possible with other agencies of the state and agencies of the federal government which have separate but similar, related or interrelated jurisdiction or authority over certain activities performed by or benefits granted to persons or entities within the state, so that (a) the processing and issuing of permits, licenses and other such instruments will be streamlined to reduce costly delays, (b) duplication of effort and unnecessary governmental "red tape" will be reduced, and (c) state policy will be carried out in an effective, efficient, predictable and consistent manner.
MS Code § 25-45-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 45 - Permit and Licensing Procedures|§ 25-45-3. State agencies to develop plans for one-stop permitting; elements of plan

 In order to accomplish the policy set out in Section 25-45-1, each agency of the state shall develop a plan for "one-stop permitting" to coordinate the processing and issuing of permits, licenses and other such instruments by the agency with other state or federal agencies which also require an applicant to obtain a permit, license or other instrument from it or to supply information to it before the applicant may perform certain activities or receive certain benefits. "One-stop permitting" shall enable an applicant for a permit, license or other instrument from an agency of the state to complete all necessary applications at one (1) time and location or to supply enough information to the agency at one (1) time and location so that such agency can process the application or information through any other state or federal agencies necessary for the applicant to obtain authorization to perform the particular activities that he wants to perform or receive the benefits for which he has applied. To the greatest extent possible, each plan for "one-stop permitting" shall provide for the following:   Where practicable, a single application form for all required permits, licenses and other instruments from agencies which have separate but similar, related or interrelated jurisdiction or authority over certain activities performed by or benefits granted to persons or entities within the state; such application form shall contain sufficient information so that the necessary reviews of all affected agencies can be expeditiously carried out;   Consolidated public hearings so that a single public hearing may serve to meet the requirements of the several public hearings as may now be provided by law for issuing permits, licenses and other such instruments by agencies which have separate but similar, related or interrelated jurisdiction or authority over certain activities performed by or benefits granted to persons or entities within the state;   The shortest practicable review period for applications, proper allowances being made for all interested parties to become informed and to make their opinions heard by the appropriate agencies; and   Joint permitting procedures for state and federal agencies.
MS Code § 25-45-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 45 - Permit and Licensing Procedures|§ 25-45-5. Agencies authorized to enter agreements with state or federal agencies

 Each agency of the state is authorized to enter into agreements with other state agencies and federal agencies in order to implement the "one-stop permitting" required by this chapter.
MS Code § 25-45-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 45 - Permit and Licensing Procedures|§ 25-45-7. Agencies to consult with Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services

 Each agency of the state may consult with the Central Data Processing Authority created under the provisions of Section 25-53-1 et seq. in all instances where the Central Data Processing Authority may be of assistance in developing and/or implementing a plan or program for "one-stop permitting."
MS Code § 25-45-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 45 - Permit and Licensing Procedures|§ 25-45-9. Powers, duties and responsibilities of agencies not to be altered

 It is the intent of the Legislature that "one-stop permitting" shall expedite the decision-making of all agencies having separate but similar, related or interrelated jurisdiction or authority over certain activities performed by or benefits granted to persons within the state without impinging on the jurisdiction or authority of these agencies. The "one-stop permitting" required by this chapter shall not alter the powers, duties and responsibilities of any agency, its expressed purpose being to improve the procedural operations of these agencies.
MS Code § 25-45-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 45 - Permit and Licensing Procedures|§ 25-45-13. Legislative intent; coordination and implementation of "one-stop permitting" terms and provisions

  It is the intent of the Legislature by Sections 25-45-13 through 25-45-17 to make permitting more effective in order to improve economic development within the State of Mississippi. In accordance with this intent, the Mississippi Department of Economic Development shall coordinate and implement the terms and provisions of Sections 25-45-1 through 25-45-9, which provide for "one-stop permitting," and serve as liaison between all agencies of the state affected by those sections in order to implement same, through the functions outlined as follows:   Participating in the initial permit contact with industry;   Providing general permit information;   Arranging meetings with pertinent regulatory agencies;   Acting as industry's advocate in obtaining environmental permits; and   Considering various data bases and other relevant planning information to assist the industrial prospect in the location and permitting process.     A Department of Economic Development representative shall:   Attend all meetings of the permit board created by Section 49-17-28 and all permit considerations by agencies of the State of Mississippi; and   Prepare reports as needed, including incidences of unusual delays in permit issuance, and make recommendations from time to time for improvement of the permit issuance process.     The Department of Economic Development shall prepare and publish:   A directory or inventory of business and industry permits;   A guide to required environmental permits in Mississippi; and   A master permit information form.
MS Code § 25-45-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 45 - Permit and Licensing Procedures|§ 25-45-17. Cooperation of other state agencies

 Each agency within the state shall cooperate to the greatest extent possible with other state agencies and the Department of Economic Development in carrying out the terms, provisions and intent of Sections 25-45-13 through 25-45-17.
MS Code § 25-51-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 51 - State Depository for Public Documents|§ 25-51-1. Designation of Mississippi Library Commission as state depository for public records; electronic form of publications as public record

 The Mississippi Library Commission, hereinafter referred to as the "commission," shall be the state depository for the public records issued by any government agency for public distribution, including the annual report required under Section 27-101-1. Each agency publication shall be made available in an electronic form, and the electronic form shall constitute the public record. The record shall be placed on the official website of the commission. The libraries of state agencies, public junior colleges, colleges, public universities and public libraries located in the state may also become depositories of state agency publications that are available on the commission's official website, when designated as such by the director of the commission upon the written request of the applicable government agency.
MS Code § 25-51-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 51 - State Depository for Public Documents|§ 25-51-3. Agencies to furnish documents in electronic form for publication on commission website

 Each agency of state government shall furnish to the director of the commission the necessary information to provide its publications and public records in an electronic form for placement on the official website of the commission. The director of the commission shall transmit this information to each depository. These records shall be made accessible by the depository receiving them to any person desiring to examine the same.
MS Code § 25-51-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 51 - State Depository for Public Documents|§ 25-51-5. Annual lists of public documents

 Each agency of state government shall furnish annually to the director of the commission a list of all its publications made available for public distribution.
MS Code § 25-51-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 51 - State Depository for Public Documents|§ 25-51-7. Recorder of public documents

 A recorder of documents shall be appointed by the director of the commission in his office, whose functions shall be to administer the provisions of Sections 25-51-1 through 25-51-5, under the supervision of the director of the commission.
MS Code § 25-55-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-1. Applicability of the chapter

 The provisions of this chapter shall apply as well to records heretofore as hereafter lost, stolen, or destroyed.
MS Code § 25-55-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-3. Remedy for lost record of deed

 Whenever the record of deeds of any county, or any book or part of a book thereof shall be destroyed, stolen, or lost, the same may be remedied-   By the re-record of the original of whatever may have been therein recorded; or   By the recording of decrees adjudicating the execution of lost or destroyed or stolen instruments of all kinds, and perpetuating testimony, and of decrees confirming titles to land or cancelling titles thereto; or   By the recording of certified copies of whatever may have been recorded in the lost, destroyed, or stolen record, which may have been taken from the said record, or which may be taken from the records of any other county in which the original may have been recorded, or from the files of any court of record in this state or any other state, or of the United States, or of any public office of this state or of the United States, in which the original or authenticated copies may be found.
MS Code § 25-55-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-5. Duty of chancellor and supervisors as to abstracts

 In any county in which the record of deeds, or any material part thereof, may be destroyed, the chancellor may examine into the matter; and if he find any abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts from said records existing after such destruction, he shall appoint two (2) persons learned in such matters to act with him, and the three (3) shall investigate the same. If they find that the abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts were fairly made before such destruction of the records, and that they contain material and substantial parts of the destroyed records, they shall so certify to the board of supervisors; and thereupon the board of supervisors shall have power to purchase such abstracts, minutes, copies, or extracts, or any part thereof, or to procure copies thereof and to pay therefor, out of the county treasury, a reasonable compensation.
MS Code § 25-55-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-7. Effect of such abstracts

 Such abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts, or the copy thereof if so procured, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the chancery court and copies recorded and arranged in such form as the board of supervisors may direct. In case the originals have been lost or destroyed, or are not in the power of the party asking to use the same on any trial or other proceedings, copies of such abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts, or any part thereof, duly certified by the chancery clerk, shall be admissible in evidence, and shall establish prima facie that all deeds or other instruments appearing thereby to have been executed by any person, were executed and acknowledged at the date given, according to law.
MS Code § 25-55-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-9. Record in books

 Where any part of the court record was recorded or enrolled in a book, and the record thereof is stolen, lost or destroyed - as the record of wills, register of claims, minute-book, judgment-roll, or the like - the court shall direct its record or enrollment anew, as of the date of its original record or enrollment.
MS Code § 25-55-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-11. In pending suits

 If the record lost, destroyed, or stolen be that of a pending suit, or a part thereof, process on the petition for its substitution may be returnable on any day of a term of court, and it may be served on the attorney of the party defendant to the petition; but in such case the plaintiff or complainant, if he so elect, may bring another suit on the same cause of action.
MS Code § 25-55-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-13. Loss first discovered during trial

 If the loss or absence of the record, or any part thereof, be first discovered during the progress of a trial, the cause may be proceeded with notwithstanding the loss; but if a substitute therefor be essential, the trial may be suspended temporarily, and the record or instrument substituted at once, without any other notice than the direction of the court to the parties to proceed to substitute the lost and absent document.
MS Code § 25-55-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-15. Assessment rolls

 When the assessment rolls of a county, or either of them, shall be stolen, lost, or destroyed, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to obtain certified copies thereof from the office of the state tax commission or the proper custodian thereof, and to pay for the same out of the county treasury. If the assessment have been so recently made that copies thereof are not on file in the auditor's office, then the assessment roll or rolls of the county used the preceding year shall be in force and, if necessary, copies thereof shall in like manner be obtained, and the taxes of the current year collected thereon; but in such case new assessments shall be made for the following year.
MS Code § 25-55-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-17. Records of board of supervisors

 The board of supervisors shall have power to re-establish any of its records that may be lost, destroyed, or stolen, in the same manner as other courts. It may, of its own motion and without petition or process, re-establish any levy for taxes or other public or legislative matter and make the same of record; and in all proceedings thereafter in respect thereto the same shall be conclusively presumed to have been correctly re-established, except in respect to rights which may have accrued before the order of re-establishment and, as to such rights, the same shall be prima facie correct.
MS Code § 25-55-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-19. State, county, town, or levee board bonds or warrants

 Whenever any outstanding bond or warrant of this state or any county, city, town, village, or levee board shall become so far mutilated as to be unfit for circulation, or shall be lost or destroyed, a duplicate thereof may be issued by the officer authorized by law to issue such bonds or warrants, under the regulations and restrictions prescribed in the next section.
MS Code § 25-55-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-21. Content of duplicate bond or warrant

 Such duplicate shall correspond in number, date, amount, and unpaid coupons, if any, with the original bond or warrant, and shall in all respects be a copy thereof, and shall have indorsed on its face the word "duplicate," together with the date of its issuance.
MS Code § 25-55-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-23. Duplicate for mutilated original

 A duplicate shall not be issued for a mutilated bond or warrant until the original shall be delivered to such officer, and not until an examination has been made by such officer and the treasurer on whom it may be drawn, or who is to pay the same, to see if it be genuine and have not been already paid. If genuine and not previously paid, the duplicate may issue upon the cancellation of the original and the entry of a statement of facts on the proper record or registry of its issuance, with the words "pay duplicate only."
MS Code § 25-55-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-25. Duplicate for lost or destroyed original

  A duplicate for a lost or destroyed bond shall not issue until there shall have been filed with the officer an affidavit and a bond. The affidavit must be that of some credible person knowing the facts, and it must set forth the ownership of such bond, the number of unpaid coupons, if any, thereto attached, and the description thereof, embracing, if can be, its number, to whom and for what issued, its date, and when mature. The bond must be that of a person to whom the duplicate is to be issued, with at least two (2) sufficient sureties, in a sum equal to double the amount of the lost, destroyed or stolen bond, payable to the state, conditioned to pay all damages which the state, county, city, town, or levee board, as the case may be, may sustain if compelled to pay such bond or coupons, together with all costs and expenses and lawyers' fees, if any, incurred in enforcing the bond.   A duplicate for a lost or destroyed warrant shall not issue until there shall have been filed with the officer an affidavit. The affidavit must be that of some credible person knowing the facts, and it must set forth the ownership of such warrant and the description thereof, embracing, if can be, its number, to whom and for what issued, and its date.
MS Code § 25-55-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-27. Officer issuing duplicates of bonds and warrants to keep records and preserve indemnity bonds and affidavits

  Any officer issuing duplicates of bonds shall keep a record showing:   The numbers, dates and amounts of such mutilated, lost or destroyed bonds and of the coupons thereto attached;   The date of the issuance of the duplicate;   The name of the person to whom the duplicate was issued; and   The name of the sureties and penalty of the indemnity bond, if a bond is required.  The officer issuing duplicates of bonds shall preserve the bond and affidavit taken in each case.      Any officer issuing duplicates of warrants shall keep a record showing:   The numbers, dates and amounts of such mutilated, lost, or destroyed warrants;   The date of issuance of the duplicate; and   The name of the person to whom issued.  The officer issuing duplicates of warrants shall preserve the affidavit taken in each case.
MS Code § 25-55-28 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-28. Presentation of photocopy of state warrant where original has been lost or destroyed

 When a state warrant has been lost or destroyed before having been paid by the State Treasurer, and a photocopy of such warrant is presented for payment to the State Treasurer by a qualified state depository bank or a Federal Reserve bank, a duplicate warrant need not be issued in order for payment to be made. The State Treasurer may treat the photocopy as the warrant or certificate of the State Auditor or State Fiscal Management Board issued pursuant to law and may pay the same, provided the photocopy is presented in accordance with applicable Federal Reserve Board rules and such regulations as the State Treasurer may prescribe.
MS Code § 25-55-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records|Chapter 55 - Lost Records|§ 25-55-29. Registration and poll-books

 The mutilation, loss, or destruction of the registration or poll-books in any county shall be remedied as provided in the chapter on "Registration and Elections."