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MS Code § 21-43-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 43 - Business Improvement Districts|Business Improvement Districts Act|§ 21-43-117. Notice of hearing for review of proposed district plan; conduct of election upon proposed district plan; notice of election results; review of approved plan by mayor of municipality; disbursement of proceeds from assessment

  For initial creation of the district, reauthorization of the district at the end of each ten-year period, amendment to the district plan within the ten-year plan period or modification of the boundaries of the district at the end of a ten-year period, the clerk of the municipality shall notify all property owners to be included in the proposed district of a public hearing to review the plan and receive comment about the process for accepting or rejecting the plan. Following a public hearing, the governing authority of the municipality shall set an election date not more than sixty (60) days from the date of the public hearing. The ballot shall clearly state the issue to be decided. Only property owners of record as of the date of initial notice given as provided in Section 21-43-111 shall be eligible to participate in any such election.   Notice of an election to create, continue, amend or extend a district shall be:   Mailed to each of the district property owners of record thirty (30) days prior to the election, and   Published at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality, the first publication shall be not less than ten (10), nor more than thirty (30) days before the date for the election. The notice shall include a copy of the plan, a ballot for the election and a notice about the time and date for the election.     Not less than ten (10) nor more than thirty (30) days before the date set for the election, the governing authority of the municipality shall cause a copy of the plan and the ballot to be posted in the lobby of its city hall.   Ballots shall be marked, signed and submitted by the eligible property owner to the clerk of the municipality by the date designated on the ballot.   The clerk of the municipality shall notify the property owners in the district of the result.   If the plan is approved by sixty percent (60%) of the participating eligible property owners, the mayor of the municipality shall review the district plan to ensure its compliance with the provisions of Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133.   The municipality shall disburse the proceeds collected from the assessment to the designated district management group within thirty (30) days after the assessment is due.
MS Code § 21-43-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 43 - Business Improvement Districts|Business Improvement Districts Act|§ 21-43-119. Requirements for approval of district plan; requirements for reauthorization, amendments of district plan or modification of boundaries

 A district plan shall be deemed adopted and ready for implementation upon written ballot approval by sixty percent (60%) of the participating eligible property owners in the district. Reauthorization, amendments of the district plan or modification of boundaries shall also be subject to written ballot approval by sixty percent (60%) of the participating eligible property owners.
MS Code § 21-43-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 43 - Business Improvement Districts|Business Improvement Districts Act|§ 21-43-121. Designation of district management group; fees and costs chargeable to district; contracts for specialty services

  Each district established pursuant to the provisions of Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133, must designate in its district plan an existing local non-profit organization or department of local government as the district management group for execution of day to day activities for the district and for implementation of the district plan. Designation of the district management group shall be decided solely by the property owners affected by the creation of the district. Selection of a district management group shall be included in the district plan voted upon by the property owners in the district.   Reasonable management fees, operational reimbursements, administrative costs and program implementation fees may be charged to the district by the district management group during the duration of an approved district plan.   The district management group may, in its discretion, contract as needed with outside third party sources for specialty services needed to implement the district plan.
MS Code § 21-43-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 43 - Business Improvement Districts|Business Improvement Districts Act|§ 21-43-123. Authorization of assessments for funding of district; lien for assessments; receipt of grants and donations by district

  A business improvement district may be funded in whole or in part by an assessment authorized pursuant to this section. Such assessment shall be in addition to any taxes or assessments that may be imposed on property that is included in the district.   The assessment shall be levied on the property in the district based upon the gross square footage of the property. The district plan shall set the amount that shall be assessed on each square foot of property. A district plan may authorize that the assessment per square foot for buildings may be at a different rate than that for land; provided, however, that the square foot rate for each type of property shall be uniform.   Upon presentation of a district plan by a district created pursuant to Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133, the governing authorities of a municipality shall, at the same time and in the same manner as ad valorem taxes are levied, levy the assessment provided for in this section on the property in the district in the amount specified in the district plan.   Assessments shall constitute a lien upon the respective lots or parcels of land and other real property upon which they are levied, superior to all other liens except those for state and county taxes.   In addition to the assessment authorized under this section, a business improvement district shall also be authorized and empowered to apply for and receive public and private grants and to accept any monetary contribution or donation of real or personal property.
MS Code § 21-43-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 43 - Business Improvement Districts|Business Improvement Districts Act|§ 21-43-125. Financing of improvements in districts

 The expenses incurred in the construction, designing, planning, marketing, administration or operation of any improvement in a district shall be financed in accordance with the district plan. Upon the establishment, reauthorization, amendment or extension of the district, property owners within the district shall be charged the assessment pursuant to the plan. Improvements must be in addition to or an enhancement of those provided to the district by the municipality prior to the establishment of the district.
MS Code § 21-43-127 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 43 - Business Improvement Districts|Business Improvement Districts Act|§ 21-43-127. Imposition and collection of assessment

  The assessment upon benefited real property pursuant to Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 shall be imposed as established in the district plan.   The governing authorities of the municipality shall annually certify to the tax collector, or other officer charged with the duty of collecting taxes in the municipality, the annual installment of assessment due from each tract of land against which an assessment has been levied. The collector shall thereupon enter upon the annual tax roll of the municipality, in a separate column, the amount of the installment to be collected for each tract of land assessed, and the collector shall collect such installment at the same time he collects the annual municipal tax.   All assessments levied under the provisions of Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 shall be enforced in the same manner in which the payment of other municipal taxes is enforced, and all statutes regulating the collection of other municipal taxes shall apply to the enforcement and collection of the assessments levied under the provisions of Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133.
MS Code § 21-43-129 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 43 - Business Improvement Districts|Business Improvement Districts Act|§ 21-43-129. Custody and disbursement of proceeds of assessments; district fiscal year; permissible improvements

 The proceeds of any assessment imposed pursuant to an approved district plan shall be held by the chief fiscal officer of the municipality until disbursed to the designated district management group. A business improvement district shall operate on the same fiscal year as that of the municipality. None of the proceeds collected pursuant to Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 shall be used for any purposes other than those set forth in the approved district plan. Improvements provided by a district using district funds may be undertaken only when the service, events, project or activity undertaken is not for the sole benefit of any particular property owner or other private party.
MS Code § 21-43-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 43 - Business Improvement Districts|Business Improvement Districts Act|§ 21-43-131. Duration of initial authorization of district; requirements and procedure for reauthorization

 The initial authorization for any business improvement district shall be for ten (10) years. During the last twelve (12) months of the tenth year of the authorization, a new district plan must be developed which meets all of the initial requirements of the district plan plus reauthorizes the district for another ten (10) years. Reauthorization requires the same approval process as initial establishment and authorization of the district. Should the district fail to receive reauthorization from the affected property owners in the district, the business improvement district will cease to exist at the conclusion of the most recently approved ten-year period or as soon thereafter as any outstanding indebtedness is satisfied. The ability to reauthorize rests solely with the affected property owners in the district.
MS Code § 21-43-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 43 - Business Improvement Districts|Business Improvement Districts Act|§ 21-43-133. Dissolution of district

  Any district established or extended pursuant to the provisions in Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133, which has satisfied all indebtedness incurred to accomplish any of the purposes of the district, may be dissolved by the governing authority of the municipality upon:   Written and certified petition from the property owners within the district who collectively represent more than seventy percent (70%) of the total assessed valuation of all benefited real property in the boundaries of the district, or   The district plan terminates when no reauthorization has occurred as set forth in Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133.     Upon dissolution of a business improvement district, any assets of the district remaining shall be transferred to the municipality.
MS Code § 23-15-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 23 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code|Article 1 - In General|§ 23-15-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Mississippi Election Code."
MS Code § 23-15-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 23 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code|Article 1 - In General|§ 23-15-3. Definition of "ballot box."

 For purposes of this chapter, the term "ballot box" includes any ballot bag or other container of a type that has been approved for use in elections by the Secretary of State and is capable of receiving voted paper ballots. Such ballot bags or containers may be used for any purpose that a ballot box may be used under the provisions of law regulating elections in Mississippi or any other purpose authorized by the rules and regulations adopted by the Secretary of State.
MS Code § 23-15-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 23 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code|Article 1 - In General|§ 23-15-5. Elections Support Fund created; use of funds; deposit of portion of monies into State General Fund

  There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Elections Support Fund. Monies derived from annual report fees imposed upon limited liability companies under Section 79-29-1203 shall be deposited into the Elections Support Fund. Unexpended amounts remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned or investment earnings on amounts in the fund shall be disbursed as provided in subsection (2) of this section. The expenditure of monies in the fund shall be under the direction of the Secretary of State as provided by subsection (2) of this section, and such funds shall be paid by the State Treasurer upon warrants issued by the Department of Finance and Administration.     Monies in the fund shall be used as follows:   Fifty percent (50%) of the monies in the special fund shall be distributed annually to the counties, upon appropriation of the Legislature, based on the proportion that the population of a county bears to the total population in all counties of the state population according to the most recent information from the United States Census Bureau, and held in a separate fund solely for the purpose of acquiring, upgrading, maintaining or repairing voting equipment, systems and supplies, hiring temporary technical support, conducting elections using such voting equipment or systems, employing such personnel to conduct an election, and training election officials; and   The remaining fifty percent (50%) of the monies in the special fund shall be deposited in the State General Fund.     The Secretary of State shall create standard training guidelines to assist counties in training election officials with the funds authorized under subsection (2)(a)(ii) of this section. Any criteria established by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this section shall be used in addition to any other training or coursework prescribed by the Secretary of State to train circuit clerks, poll managers and any other election officials participating in county elections.   Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no monies from the Elections Support Fund shall be used by the Secretary of State or any person associated with the Office of the Secretary of State to provide or otherwise support expert testimony in any manner for any hearing, trial or election contest.     From and after July 1, 2017, none of the monies deposited in the Elections Support Fund may be used to reimburse or otherwise defray any costs that the Office of the Secretary of State may incur in administering the fund.   From and after July 1, 2016, no state agency shall charge another state agency a fee, assessment, rent or other charge for services or resources received by authority of this section.
MS Code § 23-15-211.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 23 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code|Article 7 - Election Officials|§ 23-15-211.1. Secretary of State designated Mississippi's chief election officer; chief election officer to gather certain information regarding elections; annual report on voter participation

  For purposes of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the Secretary of State is designated as Mississippi's chief election officer.   As the chief election officer of the State of Mississippi, the Secretary of State shall have the power and duty to gather sufficient information concerning voting in elections in this state. The Secretary of State shall gather information on voter participation and submit an annual report to the Legislature, the Governor, the Attorney General and the public.
MS Code § 23-15-215 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 23 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code|Article 7 - Election Officials|§ 23-15-215. Performance by board of supervisors of election commissioners' duties

 If there shall not be election commissioners in any county, or if they fail to act, the duties prescribed for them shall be performed by the board of supervisors. In such case, the president of the board is charged with the duty of having the official ballot printed and distributed; and the poll managers shall make returns to the board, which shall canvass the returns, give certificates of election, and make report to the Secretary of State, in like manner as the election commissioners are required to do.
MS Code § 23-15-217 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 23 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code|Article 7 - Election Officials|§ 23-15-217. County election commissioner authorized to be candidate for other office; resignation from office; duties and powers of board of supervisors where election of county election commissioner is contested

  An election commissioner of any county may be a candidate for any other office at any election held or to be held during the four-year term for which he or she has been elected to the office of election commissioner; provided that he or she has resigned from the office of election commissioner before he or she files to qualify for the office that he or she desires to seek. The clerk for the board of supervisors must have actually received the resignation for it to be deemed submitted.   In any case involving the election of a county election commissioner wherein there is a contest of any nature, including, but not limited to, the right of any person to vote or the counting of any challenge ballot, all the duties and powers of the commission in connection with the contest shall be performed by the board of supervisors, as is contemplated by Section 23-15-215 in cases where there are no election commissioners in the county.
MS Code § 23-15-219 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 23 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code|Article 7 - Election Officials|§ 23-15-219. Employment by board of election commissioners of investigators, legal counsel and others

  The board of election commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to employ and set or determine the duties of and determine the compensation of such investigators, legal counsel, secretaries, technical advisors and any other employees or persons who or which the board or a majority thereof may deem necessary to enable them to discharge the duties and obligations presently or hereafter vested in them. However, before employing such persons or setting or determining the compensation, the election commissioners must first have the approval of the board of supervisors of the county.   The board of supervisors of the county is authorized and empowered to pay out of the general fund of the county the salaries and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of the employees of the board of election commissioners in such amounts as may be mutually agreed upon by the board of supervisors and board of election commissioners, but which shall be computed on the same basis allowed to state employees when traveling on state business. All expense accounts of the employees of the board of election commissioners shall be approved by the board of election commissioners and the board of supervisors or, in the discretion of each of the boards, by one (1) of the members of each of the boards duly authorized by the respective boards to approve or disapprove the subsistence, traveling and mileage expense accounts.   Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a person who holds the office of election commissioner from being employed and receiving compensation pursuant to this section.Any compensation which such a person may receive from his or her employment pursuant to this section shall be in addition to any compensation that person may receive in performing his or her duties as an election commissioner.
MS Code § 23-15-223 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 23 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code|Article 7 - Election Officials|§ 23-15-223. County registrar shall be circuit court clerk unless found improper; appointment of deputy registrars; liability of registrar for malfeasance or nonfeasance of deputy registrar; computer skills training course

  The State Board of Election Commissioners, on or before the fifteenth day of February succeeding each general election, shall appoint in the several counties registrars of elections, who shall hold office for four (4) years and until their successors shall be duly qualified. The county registrar shall be the clerk of the circuit court, unless the State Board of Election Commissioners finds the circuit clerk to be an improper person to register the names of the electors in the county. The State Board of Election Commissioners shall draft rules and regulations to provide for notice and hearing before removal of the circuit clerk, if notice and a hearing is practicable under the circumstances.   The county registrar is empowered to appoint deputy registrars, with the consent of the board of election commissioners, who may discharge the duties of the registrar.  The clerk of every municipality shall be appointed as such a deputy registrar, as contemplated by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).    The county registrar shall not be held liable for any malfeasance or nonfeasance in office by any deputy registrar who is a deputy registrar by virtue of his or her office.   The Secretary of State, in conjunction with the State Board of Community and Junior Colleges, has developed and made available online a computer skills training course for all newly appointed registrars that shall be completed within one hundred eighty (180) days of the commencement of their term of office.
MS Code § 23-15-227 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 23 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code|Article 7 - Election Officials|§ 23-15-227. Compensation of poll managers

  The poll managers shall be each entitled to Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) for each election; however, the board of supervisors may, in its discretion, pay the poll managers an additional amount not to exceed Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per election.   The poll manager who shall carry to the place of voting, away from the courthouse, the official ballots, ballot boxes, pollbooks and other necessities, shall be allowed Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each voting precinct for so doing. The poll manager who acts as returning officer shall be allowed Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each voting precinct for that service. If a person who performs the duties described in this subsection uses a privately owned motor vehicle to perform them, he or she shall receive for each mile actually and necessarily traveled in excess of ten (10) miles, the mileage reimbursement rate allowable to federal employees for the use of a privately owned vehicle while on official travel.   The compensation authorized in this section shall be allowed by the board of supervisors, and shall be payable out of the county treasury.   The compensation provided in this section shall constitute payment in full for the services rendered by the persons named for any election, whether there be one (1) election or issue voted upon, or more than one (1) election or issue voted upon at the same time.