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MS Code § 37-29-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Borrowing of Money; Issuance of Bonds|§ 37-29-125. Board of trustees to fix and collect fees, rents and charges; disposition of monies

 The board of trustees of any such junior college district borrowing money pursuant to the authority granted in Section 37-29-121, is hereby authorized and empowered to fix, maintain and collect fees, rentals and other charges to be paid by students, faculty members and others using, housed in or being served by any building or other housing facility erected or established under the terms and provisions of said section. All such fees, rentals and other charges shall likewise be paid into the debt retirement fund specified in Section 37-29-123, and shall be pledged for the prompt repayment of any and all indebtedness, whether of principal or interest, incurred under the provisions of said section. Nothing in Sections 37-29-121 through 37-29-127 shall be construed to authorize the levying or imposition of any taxes in excess of the limits and amounts which are now or may hereafter be provided by law.
MS Code § 37-29-127 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Borrowing of Money; Issuance of Bonds|§ 37-29-127. Foregoing sections as cumulative

 Sections 37-29-121 through 37-29-125 shall be construed as cumulative and no restriction, limitation or prohibition of the general laws shall operate to curtail the authority or prescribe the procedure by which the purposes of said sections shall be effected.
MS Code § 37-29-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Authority to Enter into Lease Agreements|§ 37-29-131. Lease limitation; machinery, equipment, furnishings, and fixtures

 The board of trustees of any community or junior college is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into lease agreements or service contracts with any governmental agency or political subdivision, corporation, partnership, joint venture, or individual under which the college may acquire by lease, lease-purchase or service contract for a primary term not to exceed thirty-five (35) years lands, buildings and related facilities which the board may determine necessary to provide additional facilities, services or educational opportunities to the college, its students, faculty and the community.   Any machinery, furnishings, fixtures and equipment for these facilities and use by the college may be acquired by lease or lease purchase provided that the primary term of such lease shall not exceed the estimated useful economic life of such machinery or equipment.
MS Code § 37-29-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Authority to Enter into Lease Agreements|§ 37-29-133. Option to purchase; fair market value

 All such leases shall contain an option granting the board the right to purchase the leased property upon the expiration of the primary term or upon such earlier date as may be agreed upon. With respect to leased machinery, furniture, fixtures and equipment, the purchase price shall be specified in the lease contract separately and distinctly from that portion of lease payments attributable to interest. With respect to other property, the purchase price, excluding payments attributable to interest, shall not exceed the appraised fair market value of the leased property at the time the college takes possession of the property for occupancy.
MS Code § 37-29-135 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Authority to Enter into Lease Agreements|§ 37-29-135. Authority to lease for purposes of construction, repair, or rehabilitation of buildings or facilities

 The board of trustees is authorized to lease land and/or buildings owned by the college to any governmental agency, political subdivision, corporation, partnership, joint venture, or individual for the purpose of enabling such persons to construct thereon or repair, renovate and rehabilitate any buildings or facilities the board may determine as necessary and beneficial for additional facilities, services or educational opportunities to the college, students, faculty or the community, and to lease such building and facilities to the college.
MS Code § 37-29-137 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Authority to Enter into Lease Agreements|§ 37-29-137. Lessee's obligation to pay amounts due or perform covenants limited to current and specific appropriations

 Subject to the provisions of Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139, any lease agreement shall be binding on the board of trustees of the college and any party thereto in accordance with its terms; provided, however, that any such lease shall include a provision that the lessee's obligation to pay any amounts due or perform any covenants requiring or resulting in the expenditure of money shall be contingent and expressly limited to the extent of any covenants requiring or resulting in the expenditure of money shall be contingent and expressly limited to the extent of any appropriation made to fund such lease agreement and that nothing contained in the lease agreement shall be construed as creating any monetary obligations on the part of the lessee beyond such current and specific support appropriations. Rentals payable by the community or junior college under leases pursuant to Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139, shall be payable from any revenue available for the support and enlargement, improvement, and repair of the college.
MS Code § 37-29-139 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Authority to Enter into Lease Agreements|§ 37-29-139. Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139 full and complete authority for authorization, execution, and delivery of leases

 Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139, without reference to any other statute shall be deemed to be full and complete authority for the authorization, execution and delivery of lease agreements authorized hereunder and shall be construed as an additional and alternative method; and none of the present restrictions, requirements, conditions and limitations of law applicable to acquisition, construction and drawing of buildings or facilities shall apply to lease agreements under Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139, and no proceeding shall be required for the authorization, execution and delivery of such leases other than those required herein, and all powers necessary to be exercised in order to carry out the provisions of Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139, are hereby conferred.
MS Code § 37-29-145 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Taxation|§ 37-29-145. Taxes shall be levied until previously issued bonds retired

 In the event any county shall have outstanding bonds or other indebtedness which were sold or levied for the support and maintenance of a public junior college which was in operation as of July 1, 1964, and such county becomes a part of a legally constituted junior college district as provided in section 37-29-31, the board of supervisors of such county shall continue to levy taxes upon such county until such bonds or other indebtedness shall be fully paid according to the terms thereof.
MS Code § 37-29-161 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education|§ 37-29-161. Short title

 Sections 37-29-161 through 37-29-173 may be cited as the "Mississippi Junior College Vocational and Technical Training Law of 1964."
MS Code § 37-29-163 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education|§ 37-29-163. Declaration of intent

 It is hereby declared to be the intent of the legislature that those funds appropriated to the state building commission for the junior college vocational and technical training fund shall be expended to expand immediately and improve existing programs, to institute new programs and to provide adequate equipment and facilities for existing and new programs for vocational and technical training individually or collectively within the public junior colleges of the state. The legislature further declares its intent to be that the presently existing physical facilities of the junior colleges shall be utilized in the development and implementation of such vocational and technical training programs where possible.
MS Code § 37-29-165 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education|§ 37-29-165. Junior college vocational and technical training fund; expenditures from fund

 There is hereby created within the state building commission a fund for the stimulation of the vocational and technical training programs of the junior colleges of the State of Mississippi. All sums of money received by the state building commission to carry out the provisions of the Mississippi Junior College Vocational and Technical Training Law of 1964 shall be maintained in the state treasury and shall constitute a fund to be known as the "junior college vocational and technical training fund". All expenditures therefrom shall be authorized by the State Building Commission in the manner set forth in Section 37-29-171. Such expenditures shall be paid therefrom by the state treasurer on warrants issued by the auditor of public accounts. Said auditor shall issue his warrant upon requisition signed by the chairman and secretary of said commission.
MS Code § 37-29-167 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education|§ 37-29-167. Applications for benefits; local matching funds; district board of trustees authorized to receive gifts

 Any state public junior college desiring any benefit available under the provisions of the Mississippi Junior College Vocational and Technical Training Law of 1964 shall make application in triplicate therefor to the Mississippi Community College Board, and submit the same in the form and manner as said commission may direct.   The board of trustees of the junior college district is required and it is empowered to allocate local matching funds on at least a fifty-fifty basis to supplement state funds, and the commission shall determine the rules and conditions appertaining to same.   The board of trustees is authorized to receive all grants, scholarships or donations in carrying out the provisions of said law.
MS Code § 37-29-169 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education|§ 37-29-169. Allocation of funds; review of application; certificate of necessity; disposition of application

 The formula for allocating funds to the state's public junior colleges in support of the purposes set forth in Section 37-29-163 shall be determined by the Mississippi Community College Board based upon need for the program set forth in the application.   Said board shall furnish a copy of the application to the Governor's Office of General Services and a copy to the Board of Economic Development. The Board of Economic Development shall review each application, and if said board finds and determines there exists a need for said training programs, facilities and equipment, it shall issue a certificate of necessity to the Mississippi Community College Board, which certificate of necessity shall be a prerequisite for approval.   The Mississippi Community College Board shall consider each application with reference to adequacy of the past, present and prospective use of the instruction, personnel, curriculum, equipment, budget, operation, facilities, grants, scholarships, tuition, maintenance and other similar administrative and technical data as relates to each junior college. The said board shall, by resolution or order, approve or disapprove the application.
MS Code § 37-29-171 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education|§ 37-29-171. Approval of expenditures

 No expenditures shall be made under the provisions of the Mississippi Junior College Vocational and Technical Training Law of 1964 for the construction of new buildings, renovation or expansion of existing buildings, the purchase of any new or used instructional equipment, machinery and instructional facilities, or for any other purpose under the provisions of said law until approval of the state building commission is obtained by resolution duly entered upon its minutes.
MS Code § 37-29-173 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education|§ 37-29-173. Use of local and supporting funds

 Local funds made available to the junior colleges or supporting funds allocated in support of the Mississippi Junior College Vocational and Technical Training Law of 1964, or both, may be used to supplement any other funds that may now be, or that may hereafter become, available for the purposes of carrying out the intent of said law. In no event, however, shall any expenditures be made under the provisions of said law unless the amount of local funds involved shall be equal to or exceed the amount of state funds made available for the projects or programs involved.
MS Code § 37-29-175 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education|§ 37-29-175. Lease of facilities for industrial training of students

 If a junior college now or hereafter establishes facilities for the industrial training of students and it appears to the board of trustees of the junior college district that the training of students will be facilitated by the continuous operation of such facilities, the trustees are authorized to lease to individual firms or corporations such facilities or a part thereof upon such terms and conditions as the trustees may approve, provided that all students desirous of securing training of the kind offered by the lessee shall be given a reasonable opportunity therefor.
MS Code § 37-29-177 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Vocational and Vocational-Technical Education|§ 37-29-177. Specialized programs in vocational and vocational-technical education shall be available to out-of-district students

 Specialized programs in vocational and vocational-technical education which are not available to students in their home districts, but which are offered in other districts, shall be available to such students on a non-out-of-district fee basis.
MS Code § 37-29-201 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Nurse Training Programs|§ 37-29-201. Hospitals, counties and municipalities may support nurse training programs

 The official boards of the various public supported hospitals of the State of Mississippi that conduct a nurses training program in connection with said hospitals are hereby empowered to contribute to a public supported junior college wherein said hospital is located in said junior college district for the support and maintenance of a nurses training program at said junior college. The board of supervisors of any county wherein there is a public hospital supported in whole or in part at county expense is hereby authorized and empowered to contribute to a nurses training program carried on and conducted thereat when said junior college district encompasses the county wherein the supervisors so contribute. The governing board of any municipality in this state that supports in whole or in part a hospital is hereby authorized and empowered to contribute to such a nurses training program at the public supported junior college wherein the municipality is located within the junior college district.   Any public supported junior college operating or conducting a nurses training program is hereby authorized and empowered to accept donations from private hospitals or any other persons, firms or corporations for the support of a nurses training program.
MS Code § 37-29-231 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Students|§ 37-29-231. Students' residency and fees

 The provisions of Sections 37-103-1 through 37-103-29 relating to the legal residence of and tuition to be charged any student applying for admission to state educational institutions shall be applicable to the boards of trustees of each junior college district in the state and to the administrative authorities of each such junior college governed by said board.
MS Code § 37-29-233 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Students|§ 37-29-233. Diplomas

 When a student has successfully completed the course prescribed for the freshman and sophomore years, any junior college which has been properly accredited may issue a diploma to such student, bearing the title of AN ASSOCIATE OF ARTS, AN ASSOCIATE OF AGRICULTURE, or any other appropriate title as testimonial of the completion of two years of college work.
MS Code § 37-29-235 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Students|§ 37-29-235. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; definition

 A public junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society, as contemplated by Sections 37-29-235 through 37-29-243 is hereby defined to be any organization composed wholly, or in part, of public junior college pupils, which seeks to perpetuate itself by taking in additional members from the pupils enrolled in such junior college on the basis of the decision of the membership of such fraternity, sorority or secret society, rather than upon the free choice of any pupil in the junior college. However, this does not apply to the Order of DeMolay or a similar organization sponsored by any branch of the Masonic Orders or like adult fraternal organization.
MS Code § 37-29-237 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Students|§ 37-29-237. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society, declared to be unlawful

 Any public junior college fraternity, sorority, or secret society as defined in Section 37-29-235 is hereby declared to be inimical to public free schools and therefore unlawful.
MS Code § 37-29-239 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Students|§ 37-29-239. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; unlawful for pupils to join, belong to, or participate in activities

 It shall be unlawful for any pupil attending the public junior colleges of this state to become a member of or to belong to or participate in the activities of any junior college fraternity, sorority, or secret society as defined in Section 37-29-235.
MS Code § 37-29-241 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Students|§ 37-29-241. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; duties of district boards of trustees

 All boards of trustees of public junior college districts shall prohibit fraternities, sororities, or secret societies in all junior colleges under their respective jurisdiction. It shall be the duty of said boards of trustees to suspend or expel from said junior colleges under their control, any pupil or pupils who shall be or remain a member of, or shall join or promise to join, or who shall become pledged to become a member, or who shall solicit or encourage any other person to join, promise to join, or be pledged to become a member of, any such public junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society, as defined in Section 37-29-235.
MS Code § 37-29-243 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Students|§ 37-29-243. Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; solicitation of pupils; penalty

 It shall be unlawful for any person not enrolled in any such public junior college to solicit any pupil enrolled in any such public junior college, to join or pledge himself or herself to become a member of any such public junior college fraternity, sorority, or secret society, or to solicit any such pupil to attend a meeting thereof or any meeting where the joining of any such public junior college fraternity, sorority, or secret organization shall be encouraged.   Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each and every offense.
MS Code § 37-29-261 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Miscellaneous|§ 37-29-261. Board of supervisors may permit county road department employees or road district employees to assist in maintenance of campus streets

 The board of supervisors of any county which levies a tax for the support of a junior college district may, in its discretion, permit county road department employees or road district employees, if any, to operate county-owned equipment and machinery to assist in the maintenance of the public property on such junior college campus.   The board of trustees of the junior college district affected and the board of supervisors may agree as to the terms and conditions under which such public property may be worked and supplies or materials may be furnished.
MS Code § 37-29-263 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Miscellaneous|§ 37-29-263. Defraying costs of providing electronic data processing equipment

 Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the various junior colleges of the state are authorized to defray the cost of providing electronic data processing equipment out of any available funds acquired from taxes levied within the junior college district, whether designated for capital expenditures or operating costs, whether such equipment is acquired by purchase, lease or under any other form of contract. However, no such funds shall be expended unless the acquisition of such equipment has been approved by the central data processing authority.
MS Code § 37-29-265 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges|Miscellaneous|§ 37-29-265. Municipalities and municipal separate school districts may issue bonds for establishing and maintaining junior colleges

 The municipalities of Mississippi and the municipal separate school districts in Mississippi are hereby authorized and empowered to issue municipal bonds or municipal separate school district bonds to aid in procuring the establishment, location, and maintenance of junior colleges which have been or may hereafter be established. Said bonds shall be issued as provided by law. The proceeds of the sale of said bonds may be used for the purchase of lands, buildings or for erecting buildings, or in any way to aid in the establishment and maintenance of junior colleges.