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MS Code § 37-45-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-51. Appeals to chancery court

 Any school board of a school district aggrieved by any final rule, regulation or order of the commission shall have the right of appeal to the chancery court of the county in which said school district or any part thereof may be located or situated, which appeal shall be taken and perfected as hereinafter provided within thirty (30) days from the date of such final rule, regulation or order. The said chancery court may modify or affirm such rule, regulation or order or reverse or remand the same for further proceedings as justice may require. All such appeals shall be taken and perfected, heard and determined, either in term time or in vacation, on the record, including a transcript of any evidence, pleadings or testimony filed and heard before said commission. Such appeal shall be heard and disposed of promptly by the chancery court as a preference cause. In perfecting any appeal provided by this chapter, the provisions of law respecting notice to the reporter and the allowance of bills of exception, now or hereafter in force respecting appeals from the chancery court to the Supreme Court shall be applicable. The reporter shall transcribe his notes and file the transcript of the record with the commission within thirty (30) days after approval of the appeal bond.   Upon the filing with the commission of a petition for appeal to the chancery court, it shall be the duty of the commission, as promptly as possible and in any event within sixty (60) days after approval of the appeal bond, to file with the clerk of the chancery court a copy of the petition for appeal and of the rule, regulation or order appealed from, and a transcript of the record of the pleadings and evidence before the commission. After the filing of said petition, the appeal shall be perfected by the filing of bond in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) with two (2) sufficient sureties or with a surety company qualified to do business in Mississippi as the surety, conditioned to pay the cost of such appeal. Said bond shall be approved by the clerk of the court. The perfection of an appeal shall not stay or suspend the operation of any rule, regulation or order of the commission, but the judge of the said chancery court may award a writ of supersedeas to any rule, regulation or order of the commission after five (5) days' notice to the commission and after hearing. Any order or judgment staying the operation of any rule, regulation or order of the commission shall contain a specific finding, based upon evidence submitted to the chancellor and identified by reference thereto, that great or irreparable damage would result to the appellant if he is denied relief, and the stay shall not become effective until a supersedeas bond shall have been executed and filed with and approved by the clerk of the court or the chancellor, payable to the state. The bond shall be in an amount fixed by the chancellor and conditioned as said chancellor may direct in the order granting the supersedeas.
MS Code § 37-45-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-53. Appeal bonds

 The beneficiary in all appeal bonds shall be the State of Mississippi. Said bonds shall secure the payment of the cost accruing in the proceeding, including the cost of appeal and the performance of any other acts required by the chancellor in granting of supersedeas appeal from any final rule, regulation or order of the commission.
MS Code § 37-45-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-55. Payment of premium on appeal bond of school authorities

 Any school board is authorized to pay the premium on any appeal bond entered into under the provisions of Section 37-45-51. The said school board may pay same from the administrative fund provided by Section 37-19-31.
MS Code § 37-45-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-57. Preparation of record on appeal

 In the event of an appeal by any county board of education or board of trustees of any municipal separate school district from any final rule, regulation or order of the state educational finance commission, it shall be the duty and responsibility of such appealing county board or board of trustees, under the supervision of the executive secretary of said commission, to prepare or cause to be prepared the record on appeal, which, when approved by the commission or by the chairman thereof in vacation, shall be and constitute the record on appeal. The same shall thereupon be filed, as required by law, in the chancery court to which the appeal is taken. The cost of making and filing such record shall be an item of cost of said appeal, which shall be paid by said appellant. The cost of such record shall not be in excess of the cost of a similar record on appeal from a chancery court of this state to the supreme court of Mississippi.
MS Code § 37-45-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-59. Record on appeal to be bound, indexed and compiled

 The record on appeal from the commission to the chancery court shall be bound, indexed and compiled in the same manner and form as the same record of appeal from a chancery court to the supreme court of this state.
MS Code § 37-45-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-61. Appeals to supreme court

 From an adverse decision of the chancery court, either party may appeal to the supreme court of the State of Mississippi. Said appeal shall be taken and perfected within thirty days and in the same manner provided by law for other appeals to the supreme court from the judgments of chancery courts, and upon appeal to the supreme court, the same shall be heard and disposed of as a preference cause as promptly and as expeditiously as the circumstances will permit.
MS Code § 37-45-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 45 - State Aid to Public Schools|§ 37-45-63. Construction of chapter

 The provisions of this chapter are and shall be construed to be in addition to and supplemental of the provisions of any other statutes of this state pertaining to the matters herein referred to.
MS Code § 37-47-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-1. Administration of chapter

 The terms and provisions of this chapter shall be administered and executed by the state educational finance commission. For the purpose of this chapter, the term "commission" shall mean "state educational finance commission" except where the context clearly indicates otherwise.
MS Code § 37-47-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-3. "School district" defined

 The term "school district" as used in this chapter shall be defined as including all public school districts and public charter schools in this state and also all agricultural high schools not located on the campus of a junior college.
MS Code § 37-47-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-5. "Capital improvement" defined

 For the purposes of this chapter, the term "capital improvement" shall mean the cost of (1) erecting, repairing, equipping, remodeling and enlarging school buildings and related facilities, including, but not being limited to, gymnasiums, auditoriums, lunch rooms, vocational training buildings, libraries, teachers' homes, school barns, garages for transportation vehicles, and (2) providing necessary water, lights, heating, air conditioning and sewerage facilities for school buildings. Such term shall not include the cost of the acquisition of land whereon to construct or establish any of the facilities named above.
MS Code § 37-47-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-7. State public school building fund created

 There shall be, and there is hereby, created in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the "state public school building fund". The said fund shall consist of such amounts as may be paid into said fund by appropriation or other legislative authorization.
MS Code § 37-47-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-9. Annual grants by state

 It is found and determined that the state should make an annual grant of Twenty-four Dollars ($24.00) for each child in average daily attendance in the public schools of the various school districts of this state during each school year, and that such monies should be applied for the purpose of establishing and maintaining adequate physical facilities for the public school district and/or the payment of existing debt therefor.   The grant to which each public school is entitled under the provisions of this section shall be credited to the school district of which such school is part. If any change is made in the operation or boundaries of any such school district, equitable reallocations shall be made by the commission of all balances to the credit of such school district, and all debits charged against the districts affected by the change in the boundaries or system of operation. The obligation of the state to make remittance of the sums appropriated or otherwise provided to make the annual grants provided by this section shall be subordinate to the pledge made to secure the state school bonds authorized under this chapter and the sinking fund created for their retirement. The grants shall be computed annually as soon as practicable after the end of the school year, and shall be based on the average daily attendance for such school year in all of the public schools operated by each school district as determined by the State Department of Education.
MS Code § 37-47-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-11. Order of priority of disposition of funds

 The sums becoming due to any school district shall be disposed of in the following order of priority and for the following purposes and for no others:   To discharge the principal and interest due the commission by reason of any advance or loan made to any such school district by the commission;   To be applied by the school district, subject to the approval of the commission, to defray the cost of any capital improvement;   To pay the principal and interest of school district indebtedness represented by bonds or notes issued before July 1, 1954, for capital improvements, provided that the capital improvements for which such bonds or notes were issued fulfill the rules and requirement for new capital improvements and district organization as provided by the commission, or for bonds or notes issued on or after July 1, 1954, for capital improvements which have been approved by the commission as provided in this chapter.
MS Code § 37-47-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-13. Certificates of credit

 When the amounts of the annual grants to school districts have been computed as provided in Section 37-47-9, the commission shall credit each such school district with the amount of the annual grant to which it is entitled and shall issue to each such school district a certificate of credit for the amount of such annual grant. All such certificates of credit shall be signed by the chairman of the commission and countersigned by the executive secretary thereof. Such certificates shall constitute an indebtedness of the State of Mississippi but shall be non-transferable and non-negotiable and shall bear no interest. All such certificates so issued shall be held and retained by the school district to which same are issued until the expenditure of the funds to the credit of such school district shall be approved by the commission as is otherwise provided in this chapter. Such certificates shall be surrendered to the commission at the time the funds to which the school district is entitled are withdrawn from the public school building fund and deposited to the credit of the school district entitled thereto.
MS Code § 37-47-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-15. Approval of use of grants; surveys and plans

 No grants accruing to any school district shall be expended for any purpose unless such expenditure has been approved by the commission. In order to guide the commission in passing upon requests for the use of grants, the school boards of the respective school districts are directed to prepare a survey of necessary capital improvements and/or a plan for tax relief on school indebtedness within each school district. Such surveys shall show existing facilities, desirable consolidations, the new construction and new facilities necessary and desirable for the efficient operation of the public schools of the school districts, proper compliance with state energy conservation standards, and the plan of tax reduction in the school districts by use of such funds in retiring any outstanding indebtedness for school facilities. The commission shall not approve any application for the use of funds of the said public school building fund from the school board of any school district until such time as an acceptable and reasonably satisfactory plan, looking particularly to efficiency through consolidations of school attendance centers, has been submitted by the school board.   Furthermore, the commission shall not approve any application for the use of funds of the public school building fund until such time as an acceptable plan has been submitted by the appropriate board which complies with improved design, heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, insulation and architectural standards provided by the State of Mississippi to promote maximum energy conservation in new and existing public buildings.   All applications from school districts shall conform to the plan of the school board.
MS Code § 37-47-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-17. Applications for expenditures

 Applications for the expenditure of funds to the credit of any school district in the state public school building fund shall originate with the school board of the school district entitled to such funds. Before any funds to the credit of a school district shall be expended for capital improvements or the retirement of outstanding bonded indebtedness, the school board of such school district shall prepare and submit an application in such form as may be prescribed by the commission. There shall be included with such application a statement in which there is set forth the enrollment and average daily attendance in the schools of the district divided as to schools and grades, the number of teachers employed, the facilities in use, the facilities to be provided with the funds to be expended, the outstanding school indebtedness, and such other information as the commission may require. Such application and statement shall be submitted directly to the commission and approved or disapproved by it. The decision of the commission shall be final, unless an appeal to the chancery court shall be taken in the manner provided by law. In the event any application shall be disapproved by the commission, the school board submitting same shall be notified of such disapproval, which notice of disapproval shall be accompanied by a statement of the reason or reasons for such disapproval.   The commission shall approve only those applications which are found to be proper under the provisions of this chapter and the applicable rules and regulations of the commission. When an application is approved for the expenditure of funds for capital improvements, the contract for the construction of such capital improvements shall be entered into and awarded by the school board of the school district in the manner provided in this chapter; however, the contract for construction of a secondary vocational and technical training center for exclusive use and operation by a school district may be entered into and awarded by the board of trustees of a junior college district where a grant of federal funds by the Appalachian Commission has been made to the board of trustees of such junior college district to assist in financing construction of such secondary vocational and technical training facility for such school district.
MS Code § 37-47-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-19. Withdrawal of funds from public school building fund upon approval of expenditures

 Where the expenditure of any funds to which any school district may be entitled has been authorized, as provided in Section 37-47-17, such funds shall be withdrawn from the public school building fund by the commission and deposited in the school depository to the credit of the school district entitled thereto as a special fund to be known as the "Public School Building Fund" of the school district entitled thereto. Such money so deposited shall be paid out and expended in the same manner as may be now or hereafter provided by law for the expenditure of other school funds belonging to such district; however, where the contract for construction of a secondary vocational and technical training center shall have been entered into and awarded by the board of trustees of a junior college district as authorized by Section 37-47-29, the money so deposited in the public school building fund of the school district for which said facility is being constructed may be paid out and expended to pay a part of the cost of construction of such facility.
MS Code § 37-47-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-21. Disposition of funds credited to school district which fails to apply for expenditure

 All funds, if any, which may accumulate in the state public school building fund under the provisions of this chapter because school districts entitled thereto do not make application for the expenditure of same for the purposes authorized by this chapter at the time same are credited to such school district may be used as a revolving fund for the purpose of making loans or advances to other school districts as is provided in Section 37-47-25.
MS Code § 37-47-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-23. Effect of insufficient funds in public school building fund

 When any school district holding certificates of credit shall desire to expend funds which have accumulated to its credit under the provisions of this chapter and the expenditure thereof has been approved by the commission but insufficient funds are available in the state public school building fund because of loans or advances having been made to other school districts, the commission shall forthwith transmit to the state bond commission its request for the issuance of state school bonds, as is otherwise provided in this chapter, in an amount sufficient to provide the funds to which the school district holding the certificate of credit is entitled, or such portion of such funds as such school district then desires to expend.
MS Code § 37-47-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-25. Loans for capital improvements

 Whenever the State Department of Education shall determine that any school district is in need of capital improvements to an extent in excess of that which may be financed by the credit then due such school district by the department, the department shall be empowered to advance or lend said school district such sums as in the opinion of the department are necessary to be expended for capital improvements by said school district. Such loans or advances shall be evidenced by appropriate agreements, and shall be repayable in principal by the school district from the annual grants to which the school district shall become entitled and from such other funds as may be available. Such loans or advances shall not constitute a debt of the school district within the meaning of any provision or limitation of the Constitution or statutes of the State of Mississippi. The department shall not advance or lend to any school district any sum in excess of seventy-five percent (75%) of the estimated sum which will accrue to the said school district on account of grants to be made to the said school district within the twenty (20) years next following the date of the loan or advance. In determining the maximum allowable advance or loan, the department shall assume that the average daily attendance in the schools of the school district for the past preceding scholastic year as confirmed by the audit of average daily attendance made by the State Department of Audit will continue for the period during which the loan is to be repaid.
MS Code § 37-47-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities|§ 37-47-27. Requirement of contracts for capital improvements

 All capital improvements by any school district which are financed in whole or in part with funds received from the state public school building fund pursuant to an application approved by the commission, shall be constructed by contract entered into and awarded by the board of trustees or other governing body of such school district. The awarding of such contract shall be in the sole province of such board of trustees or other governing body except as is herein provided. No such contract shall be entered into unless and until the site for the location of and the plans and specifications for the construction of the capital improvements shall have been approved by the commission. The commission shall not exclude from approval plans and specifications which involve the use of preengineered steel building systems. Plans and specifications for preengineered steel building systems, in order to be approved by the commission, must be submitted to and certified by an architect or professional engineer registered in the State of Mississippi and not an employee of the contractor, as meeting the minimum requirements of the local building, plumbing and electrical codes, the Southern Standard Building Code, Coastal Region Loading, the Metal Building Manufacturers Association, the American Institute of Steel Construction and the American Iron and Steel Institute, as to design, materials and construction.