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MS Code § 35-1-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 35 - War Veterans and Pensions|Chapter 1 - State Veterans Affairs Board|Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery|§ 35-1-41. Establishment, operation and maintenance of the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery; authorization to establish additional veterans cemeteries; eligibility for burial; administration; applications for burial; receipt of federal aid; Mississippi Veterans Cemetery Fund

    The State Veterans Affairs Board is authorized to establish, operate and maintain a Mississippi veterans cemetery in this state, which shall be known as the "Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery."   The State Veterans Affairs Board is authorized to establish, operate and maintain additional veterans cemeteries in this state.     The State Veterans Affairs Board has the primary responsibility for verifying eligibility for interment in the veterans cemeteries. Eligibility criteria for interment in the cemeteries is the same as required for interment in a national cemetery as provided by federal law and rules and regulations applicable thereto.   The cemeteries shall be under the control and administration of the State Veterans Affairs Board.   Applications for interment in the cemeteries shall be processed in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the State Veterans Affairs Board.   The State Veterans Affairs Board is designated as the agency of this state to receive federal aid under Title 38 USCS, as amended, and is authorized to receive funds from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or any other agency of the United States authorized to grant or expend funds to assist a state in establishing, operating and maintaining veterans cemeteries. The board is authorized to receive gifts, contributions, bequests and individual reimbursements from any source, the receipt of which shall not exclude any other source of revenue. All funds received by the board pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited into a special fund, hereby created and known as the "Mississippi Veterans Cemetery Fund," and shall be expended to establish, operate and maintain veterans cemeteries in this state. The State Veterans Affairs Board is authorized to employ such personnel as it may deem necessary to carry out its duties and responsibilities under this section.
MS Code § 35-1-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 35 - War Veterans and Pensions|Chapter 1 - State Veterans Affairs Board|Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery|§ 35-1-43. Establishment, operation and maintenance of Mississippi Persian Gulf War Memorial; purpose of memorial; Mississippi Persian Gulf War Memorial Fund

  The State Veterans Affairs Board may establish, operate and maintain a Mississippi Persian Gulf War Memorial on the grounds of the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Newton County, Mississippi. The purpose of the memorial is to honor and commemorate the sacrifices and service of United States Armed Forces personnel from Mississippi who have served or will serve in the Persian Gulf War between August 2, 1990, and the date on which the conflict is declared to be over, as established by law or presidential proclamation.   The State Veterans Affairs Board is designated the agency of this state to receive any aid or funds from any source for the purpose of establishing, operating and maintaining the Persian Gulf War Memorial. The board may receive gifts, contributions, bequests and individual reimbursements from any source, the receipt of which shall not exclude any other source of revenue.   There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the "Mississippi Persian Gulf War Memorial Fund." All funds received by the board under subsection (2) must be deposited into the special fund and expended by the board to establish, operate and maintain the Mississippi Persian Gulf War Memorial.
MS Code § 37-5-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Boards of Education|§ 37-5-1. Establishment; composition; qualifications and election of members generally; counties in which board not to exist

  There is hereby established a county board of education in each county of the State of Mississippi. Said county board of education shall consist of five (5) members, one (1) of which, subject to the further provisions of this chapter and except as is otherwise provided in Section 37-5-1(2), shall be elected by the qualified electors of each board of education district of the county. Except as is otherwise provided in Section 37-5-3, each member so elected shall be a resident and qualified elector of the district from which he is elected.   The county board of education shall apportion the county school district into five (5) single member board of education districts. The county board of education shall place upon its minutes the boundaries determined for the new five (5) board of education districts. The board of education of said county shall thereafter publish the same in some newspaper of general circulation within said county for at least three (3) consecutive weeks and after having given notice of publication and recording the same upon the minutes of the board of education of said county, said new district lines will thereafter be effective. The board of education of said county shall reapportion the board of education districts in accordance with the procedure described herein for the original apportionment of districts as soon as practicable after the results of the 2000 decennial census are published and as soon as practicable after every decennial census thereafter.   In counties where the office of "administrative superintendent" as defined in Section 37-6-3, Mississippi Code of 1972, has been abolished, there shall be no county board of education.
MS Code § 37-5-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Boards of Education|§ 37-5-3. Residency requirements of members of board; qualifications of electors

 No person who is a resident of the territory embraced within a municipal separate school district or a special municipal separate school district shall be eligible to be a member of the county board of education. Qualified electors residing within a municipal separate school district or special municipal separate school district shall not be eligible to vote or participate in the election of members of the county board of education.   The provisions of this section shall be applicable in the case of a special municipal separate school district and a line consolidated school district of which another county is the home county which together occupy all of the territory of a supervisors district of the county.
MS Code § 37-5-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Boards of Education|§ 37-5-9. Nominating petition; election; runoff election

 The name of any qualified elector who is a candidate for the county board of education shall be placed on the ballot used in the general elections by the county election commissioners, provided that the candidate files with the county election commissioners, not more than ninety (90) days and not less than sixty (60) days prior to the date of such general election, a petition of nomination signed by not less than fifty (50) qualified electors of the county residing within each supervisors district. Where there are less than one hundred (100) qualified electors in said supervisors district, it shall only be required that said petition of nomination be signed by at least twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of such supervisors district. The candidate in each supervisors district who receives the majority of votes cast in the district shall be declared elected. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast at the election, a runoff shall be held between the two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the first election. The runoff election, in the event that such is necessary, shall be held three (3) weeks after the first election.   When any member of the county board of education is to be elected from the county at large under the provisions of this chapter, then the petition required by the preceding paragraph hereof shall be signed by the required number of qualified electors residing in any part of the county outside of the territory embraced within a municipal separate school district or special municipal separate school district. The candidate who receives the majority of votes cast in the election shall be declared elected. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast at the election, a runoff shall be held between the two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the first election. The runoff election, in the event that such is necessary, shall be held three (3) weeks after the first election.   In no case shall any qualified elector residing within a municipal separate school district or special municipal separate school district be eligible to sign a petition of nomination for any candidate for the county board of education under any of the provisions of this section.
MS Code § 37-5-18 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Boards of Education|§ 37-5-18. Election of members from special board of education districts in certain counties

 In any county bordering on the Mississippi Sound and having therein at least four (4) municipal separate school districts, each member of the county board of education established by Section 37-5-1 for such county shall be elected from and shall be a resident and qualified elector in a special district determined in the following manner:   The board of education of such a county shall apportion the county into five (5) board of education districts in the territory outside the municipal separate school districts and these board of education districts shall be divided as nearly equal as possible according to population, incumbency and other factors heretofore pronounced by the courts. The board of education shall place upon its minutes the boundaries determined for the new five (5) board of education districts. The board of education of said county shall thereafter publish the same in some newspaper of general circulation within said county for at least three (3) consecutive weeks and after having given notice of publication and recording the same upon the minutes of the board of education of said county, said new district lines will thereafter be effective.   All incumbents now holding office within the district as presently constituted shall continue holding their respective offices provided they reside within the new district for the remainder of the term of office to which they have heretofore been elected and all members from the respective district shall be elected from the new board of education district constituted as herein provided in the same manner provided by law for the election of members of the county board of education. Any vacancies in the office, whether occasioned by redistricting or by other cause, shall be filled in the manner presently provided by law for the filling of vacancies.
MS Code § 37-5-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Boards of Education|§ 37-5-19. Filling of vacancies on board

 Vacancies in the membership of the county board of education shall be filled by appointment, within sixty (60) days after the vacancy occurs, by the remaining members of the county board of education. Said appointee shall be selected from the qualified electors of the district in which the vacancy occurs, and shall serve until the first Monday of January next succeeding the next general election, at which general election a member shall be elected to fill the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner and with the same qualifications applicable to the election of a member for the full term. In the event the school district is under conservatorship and no members of the county board of education remain in office, the Governor shall call a special election to fill the vacancies and said election will be conducted by the county election commission.   In the event the vacancy occurs more than five (5) months prior to the next general election and the remaining members of the county board of education are unable to agree upon an individual to be appointed, any two (2) of the remaining members may certify such disagreement to the county election commission. Upon the receipt of such a certificate by the county election commission, or any member thereof, the commission shall hold a special election to fill the vacancy, which said election, notice thereof and ballot shall be controlled by the laws concerning special elections to fill vacancies in county or county district offices. The person elected at such a special election shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.
MS Code § 37-5-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Superintendents of Education|§ 37-5-61. Creation; functions generally; election and term of office

  There shall be a county superintendent of education in each county.   Said superintendent shall serve as the executive secretary of the county board of education, but shall have no vote in the proceedings before the board and no voice in fixing the policies thereof.   In addition, said superintendent shall be the director of all schools in the county school district which are outside the municipal separate school districts.   Said superintendent shall be elected at the same time and in the same manner as other county officers are elected and shall hold office for a term of four (4) years. However, in the event that a vacancy in the office of the superintendent of schools elected at the November 2015 general election shall occur before January 1, 2019, the office of superintendent of school shall immediately become an appointed position, and the local school board shall appoint the superintendent of the school district.
MS Code § 37-5-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Superintendents of Education|§ 37-5-65. Reestablishment of position as elective office

 Where the office of county superintendent of education has been made appointive under the provisions of Section 37-5-63, the same may thereafter be made elective in such county by a petition filed and election held in the same manner provided in said section, all of the provisions of which shall be applicable to such proceedings. Where such change is made from the appointive method back to the elective method the same shall become effective at the date for the commencement of the term of office of other county offices next succeeding such election, and the county superintendent of education of such county shall be elected at the preceding election at the same time and in the same manner as other county officers are elected. Nothing herein shall be construed, however, to authorize the calling of a special election under any of the provisions of this section more often than once in any four years.
MS Code § 37-5-66 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Superintendents of Education|§ 37-5-66. Appointment of superintendent by county board of education in certain counties

 Effective with the term of office beginning January 1, 2016, in any Class 1 county bordering the Mississippi River having a population in excess of thirty thousand (30,000), according to the 2010 federal decennial census, wherein Mississippi Highway 49 and U.S. Highway 61 intersect, the county superintendent of education shall be appointed by the county board of education.
MS Code § 37-5-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Superintendents of Education|§ 37-5-67. Authorization of appointment of county superintendent by county board of education in certain counties

 The county superintendent of education shall be appointed by the county board of education:   In any county of the first class lying wholly within a levee district and within which there is situated a city of more than forty thousand (40,000) population according to the last federal decennial census;   In any county bordering on the Gulf of Mexico or Mississippi Sound, having therein a test facility operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration;   In any county bordering on the Alabama state line, traversed by the Tombigbee River, and in which is situated a senior institution of higher learning;   In any county of the second class wherein Interstate Highway 55 and State Highway 22 intersect and which is also traversed in whole or in part by U. S. Highways 49 and 51, and State Highways 16, 17 and 43 and the Natchez Trace;   In any Class 4 county having population in excess of twenty-five thousand (25,000) according to the 1960 federal census, traversed by U. S. Highway 55 and wherein State Highways 12 and 17 intersect;   In any county created after 1916 through which the Yazoo River flows;   In any Class 4 county having a land area of six hundred ninety-five (695) square miles, bordering on the State of Alabama, wherein the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit was signed and wherein U. S. Highway 45 and State Highway 14 intersect;   In any county bordering on the Mississippi River wherein lies the campus of a land-grant institution or lands contiguous thereto owned by the institution;   In any county lying within the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, bordering upon the Mississippi River, and having a county seat with a population in excess of twenty-one thousand (21,000) according to the federal census of 1960;   In any Class 3 county wherein is partially located a national forest and wherein U. S. Highway 51 and State Highway 28 intersect, with a 1960 federal census of twenty-seven thousand fifty-one (27,051) and a 1963 assessed valuation of Sixteen Million Six Hundred Ninety-two Thousand Three Hundred Four Dollars ($16,692,304.00); and   In any Class 1 county wherein U. S. Highway 49 and State Highway 16 intersect, having a land area in excess of nine hundred thirty square miles.
MS Code § 37-5-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Superintendents of Education|§ 37-5-69. Abolition of office in certain counties; exception of certain counties from provisions concerning choosing of superintendent

 In any county organizing a countywide municipal separate school district after the first day of January, 1965, the office of county superintendent of education is hereby abolished. There is excepted from the provisions of subsections (1) and (4) of Section 37-5-61, Sections 37-5-63 through 37-5-67, subsection (1) of Section 37-5-73, and Section 37-5-75, any county of the first class which has a land area of less than four hundred fifty square miles, and has located therein a municipality of more than fifteen thousand population, according to the 1950 federal decennial census.
MS Code § 37-5-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 5 - County Boards of Education and Superintendents|County Superintendents of Education|§ 37-5-75. Filling of vacancy in office

 If a vacancy shall occur in the elective office of the county superintendent of education elected at the November 2015 general election before January 1, 2019, the office of superintendent of school shall immediately become an appointed position, and such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the county board of education. In such case the person so appointed by the county board of education shall hold office under the terms and for the duration of the employment contracted issued by the board of education under the authority of Section 37-9-25.
MS Code § 37-7-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 7 - School Districts; Boards of Trustees of School Districts|Article 3 - Abolition, Alteration and Creation of Districts|§ 37-7-103. Abolition, reorganization or alteration of district by school board

 From and after July 1, 1987, the school board of any school district shall have full jurisdiction, power and authority, at any regular meeting thereof or at any special meeting called for that purpose, to abolish such existing district, or to reorganize, change or alter the boundaries of any such district. In addition thereto, with the consent of the school board of the school district involved, the school board may add to such school district any part of the school district adjoining same, and with the consent of the school board of the school district involved, may detach territory from such school district and annex same to an adjoining district. Provided, however, that the consent of the school board of the school districts involved in implementing the provisions of Section 37-7-104, 37-7-104.2, 37-7-104.3, 37-7-104.4, 37-7-104.5, 37-7-104.6, 37-7-104.7 or 37-7-104.8 shall not be required for the administrative consolidation of such school districts pursuant to the order of the State Board of Education.
MS Code § 37-7-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 7 - School Districts; Boards of Trustees of School Districts|Article 3 - Abolition, Alteration and Creation of Districts|§ 37-7-107. Abolition of school district pursuant to petition filed by electorate

 If a petition signed by two-thirds (2/3) of the qualified electors of an existing school district shall be filed with the school board requesting that such district be abolished, then the school board shall enter an order abolishing such school district. Such order shall become final without publication thereof upon such date as may be fixed by the school board but not later than July 1 next succeeding the date of such order.