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MS Code § 41-43-40 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds|Cemetery Law|§ 41-43-40. Perpetual care cemetery to maintain up-to-date record of persons buried in cemetery or entombed in mausoleum or columbarium; contents

 Every perpetual care cemetery shall maintain continuously and at all times an up-to-date record of the persons buried in the cemetery or entombed within a mausoleum or columbarium; the date of burial or entombment; a map of the designated lot for burial or entombment as well as a map of lots, burial spaces, mausoleum crypts or columbarium niches that have been sold. The map or plat shall also contain up-to-date designations indicating committed or planned designations of burial lots, crypt, niche or mausoleum spaces for future use. Additionally, the Secretary of State may require those maps to be filed with the Secretary of State in any intervals as the Secretary of State may establish by rule or regulation.
MS Code § 41-43-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds|Cemetery Law|§ 41-43-41. Nonperpetual care cemetery may become perpetual care cemetery; all cemeteries created after July 1, 2009, to be perpetual care cemeteries unless exempt

 Any nonperpetual care cemetery, after May 6, 1958, may become a perpetual care cemetery by complying with the requirement for a perpetual care cemetery as provided in Section 41-43-31 et seq. From and after July 1, 2009, all cemeteries created shall be perpetual care cemeteries unless exempt under the provisions of Section 41-43-31 et seq.
MS Code § 41-43-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds|Cemetery Law|§ 41-43-43. Nonperpetual care cemeteries to call attention to such fact in all sales contracts and deeds

 All nonperpetual care cemeteries shall have printed at the top of all contracts of sales and deeds the words "this is a nonperpetual care cemetery."
MS Code § 41-43-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds|Cemetery Law|§ 41-43-45. Lots sold to public to be free from liens; sale or transfer of lots by purchaser

 All lots and grave spaces offered for sale to the public shall be free and clear of liens or encumbrances. On payment of the purchase price, the purchaser shall be delivered a warranty deed or a perpetual easement for interment purposes.   Only the owner of a cemetery, or its agents, may sell or convey lots, plots, or parts thereof.   The purchaser of any lot, plot or part thereof may sell or transfer the same by giving notice thereof to the cemetery authorities or organization. Before acknowledging any transfer as valid, said cemetery authorities or organization may require the transferee to personally appear in the cemetery's principal place of business to accept any deed or transfer rights to the property conveyed, in order that the transfer may be properly enrolled on the books of the cemetery. A memorandum of all transfers shall be made on the books of the cemetery corporation or organization.
MS Code § 41-43-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds|Cemetery Law|§ 41-43-47. Cemetery rules and regulations

 The owner of any cemetery may make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the use, care, control, management, restriction and protection of such cemetery.
MS Code § 41-43-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds|Cemetery Law|§ 41-43-51. Rule against perpetuities inapplicable to perpetual care funds

 The rule against perpetuities shall not be applicable to perpetual care funds provided for in Sections 41-43-31 through 41-43-53.
MS Code § 41-43-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds|Cemetery Law|§ 41-43-53. Penalty for violations of Section 41-43-31 et seq.; punishment for embezzlement, misapplication or conversion of perpetual care trust funds

  Violation of any of the provisions of Sections 41-43-31 through 41-43-53 by any person, partnership, corporation or organization shall be punished by a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding one (1) year, or by both.     Any person, partnership, corporation or organization that embezzles or fraudulently or knowingly and willfully misapplies or converts perpetual care trust funds shall, upon conviction, be punished as follows:   If the amount embezzled, misapplied or converted is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and confinement in the county jail not more than one (1) year; or   If the amount embezzled, misapplied or converted is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more, by imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for a term of not more than ten (10) years.     Each such violation shall constitute a separate offense.
MS Code § 41-43-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds|Cemetery Law|§ 41-43-55. Business records of all perpetual care cemeteries to be available for inspection and examination by Secretary of State; inspection of cemetery sites

 The business records of any perpetual care cemetery, whether registered or not, the records of its financial institution, third-party administrator, or the trustee's records related to the perpetual care cemetery shall be available for inspection and examination by the Secretary of State's examiners at all reasonable times, whether those records are located within this state or outside this state. The Secretary of State's examiners are authorized access to inspect cemetery sites subject to or potentially subject to this chapter wherever the same may be located.
MS Code § 41-43-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds|Cemetery Law|§ 41-43-57. Application for release of trust principal for certain purposes under exceptional circumstances

 In exceptional circumstances only, a perpetual care owner can make an application to the Secretary of State for an order directing the trustee to release trust principal for the extended care, maintenance or improvements to the perpetual care cemetery for which interest funds are insufficient. Before issuing such an order, the Secretary of State shall satisfy himself that the request is for a major capital expenditure that will advance the perpetual care life of the cemetery without undue risk to the solvency of the perpetual care trust fund. Consistent with this section, this shall be the only instance in which a perpetual care trust corpus may be utilized for cemetery maintenance and improvements. In the consideration of the application, the Secretary of State may require the production of any records deemed necessary and relevant to the cemetery's application for a major capital expenditure.
MS Code § 41-55-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Public Ambulance Services by Governmental Entities|§ 41-55-1. Maintenance and operation of public ambulance service by political entities

 The board of supervisors of any county and the governing authorities of any city, town, or any political subdivision thereof, either separately or acting in conjunction, in their discretion and upon finding that adequate public ambulance service would not otherwise be available, may own, maintain, and operate a public ambulance service as a governmental function, fix and collect charges therefor, and adopt, promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the operation of said service. Any political subdivision, or parts thereof, acting hereunder may contract and otherwise cooperate with any department or agency of the United States Government or the State of Mississippi, or any county, city, town, or supervisors district of the same, or other counties of the State of Mississippi in carrying out any of the powers herein conferred or otherwise effectuating the purposes of Sections 41-55-1 through 41-55-11 and in so doing accept gifts, money, and other property of whatever kind.
MS Code § 41-55-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Public Ambulance Services by Governmental Entities|§ 41-55-2. Defrayal of cost of public ambulance service

 The board of supervisors of counties having a population of not more than twenty-two thousand (22,000) nor less than fifteen thousand (15,000) as shown by the 1970 federal census and having an assessed valuation in excess of Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000.00) in 1970 and being traversed by Interstate Highway No. 55, may, in the discretion of the board, set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the general fund to be used solely for defraying the cost of providing public ambulance service as authorized by Sections 41-55-1 through 41-55-11.
MS Code § 41-55-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Public Ambulance Services by Governmental Entities|§ 41-55-3. Joint service by counties and municipalities; contracts, apportionment of ownership of property and costs of operation

 In acting jointly the board of supervisors of any such county acting for the county or supervisors district of the county, and the governing authorities of any city or town, acting for the city or town, are hereby authorized and empowered to contract with each other, for and on behalf of the political subdivisions or parts thereof which each represents, with respect to any and all things related to the matters and things authorized in Sections 41-55-1 through 41-55-11, and particularly to apportion and prorate the ownership of the property acquired or to be acquired in such a joint undertaking, and to determine the proportionate part of the cost of maintenance, support and operation to be assumed by each.
MS Code § 41-55-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Public Ambulance Services by Governmental Entities|§ 41-55-5. Casualty and liability insurance in connection with ambulance service; partial waiver of immunity

 The governing authority of or for any such political subdivision or part thereof shall have further power and authority to obtain insurance against casualty to the property used or useful in such public ambulance service.
MS Code § 41-55-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Public Ambulance Services by Governmental Entities|§ 41-55-7. Effect of existence of adequate private ambulance service; public subsidies

 If there is in operation an adequate privately run ambulance service, then the governing authorities are hereby prohibited from contracting for ambulance services to be run by the public body. The governing authorities may, however, subsidize such existing privately run ambulance service, in their discretion, if they deem necessary to keep such service in operation.
MS Code § 41-55-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Public Ambulance Services by Governmental Entities|§ 41-55-9. Maintenance and operation of ambulance service by certain hospitals

 In addition to other authority specifically conferred on it or arising by necessary implication, the board of commissioners or board of trustees of any hospital owned separately or jointly by one or more of such counties, cities, towns, or supervisors districts of the same or other such counties as defined in Section 41-55-1 may, in its discretion and upon a finding that adequate ambulance service would not otherwise be available, own, operate, and maintain a public ambulance service as an integral part of its governmental function of operating and maintaining a hospital and, in so doing, shall possess and may exercise and enjoy the same authority, powers, rights, privileges and immunities with respect to the operation and maintenance of said service as it possesses and may exercise and enjoy with respect to the operation and maintenance of other departments of the hospital, including the right to fix and collect charges for such ambulance service, and to adopt, promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the operation of said service.   In addition to the foregoing, the board of commissioners or board of trustees of any such public hospital may, in its discretion and upon a finding that adequate public ambulance service would not otherwise be available, either contract with the governing authority or authorities of one or more other such public hospitals, with the governing authority or authorities of one or more private nonprofit hospitals, or with the governing authorities of a combination of both types of hospitals as aforesaid, for the joint ownership, operation and maintenance of a public ambulance service. Moreover, the board of commissioners or board of trustees of any such public hospital, upon a further finding that it is necessary or expedient to do so, may, individually or jointly with the governing authority or authorities of either or both types of hospitals as aforesaid, organize and participate in the ownership of a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the State of Mississippi for the specific purpose of providing public ambulance service. Any such contract and any such charter of incorporation shall include specific provisions for retaining majority control in the public hospital or hospitals involved, to preserve and protect the funds and property of the public hospital or hospitals involved and to provide for termination of the arrangement upon reasonable notice by the public hospital or hospitals.
MS Code § 41-55-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Air Ambulance Service Districts|§ 41-55-31. Legislative declaration

 It is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination that deaths from highway traffic accidents have reached an alarming rate, that ambulance service is not readily available to many rural outposts in the state, that many deaths could be prevented if prompt medical attention were provided, and that the provision of air ambulance service would be for the general welfare of the entire population of the State.
MS Code § 41-55-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Air Ambulance Service Districts|§ 41-55-33. Establishment of air ambulance service districts authorized; boundaries

 The boards of supervisors of two or more counties are hereby authorized to act jointly in the establishment of an air ambulance service district by spreading upon their minutes by resolution their intention to create the district. The boundaries of the districts as they are established shall coincide with the nine districts of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol as constituted on March 29, 1971.
MS Code § 41-55-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Air Ambulance Service Districts|§ 41-55-35. Publication of notice of intention; election

 Notice of the intention to create an air ambulance service district shall be published at least three (3) times during a period of twenty-one (21) days in one (1) newspaper circulated in the county in which shall be stated the counties cooperating to create the district, the date the district shall be created, and the purpose of the district. If twenty percent (20%) or one thousand five hundred (1,500) of the qualified electors of said county shall file a written protest against the creation of said district on or before the date specified in such resolution then an election on the question of said county joining said district shall be called and held as provided by law. The determination of said issue shall be determined by a majority of the qualified electors voting in said election.
MS Code § 41-55-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Air Ambulance Service Districts|§ 41-55-37. Board of directors established; qualifications and term

 When the Governor shall have received at least two (2) such resolutions from any one (1) air ambulance service district, he shall within five (5) days appoint from the district-at-large his one (1) member of the board of directors of the district. Thereafter the board of supervisors of each county in the district which has certified to its joinder in the district shall appoint one resident of its county as its member of the board of directors of the district. The appointee may by vocation be related to the hospital or medical fields or engaged in an ambulance service but all appointments shall not be limited to persons with such backgrounds. The term of each member shall coincide with that of the appointing official, so that after the initial appointment the terms shall be for a period of four (4) years.
MS Code § 41-55-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Air Ambulance Service Districts|§ 41-55-39. Oath of office

 Each director of an air ambulance service district shall take and subscribe to the general oath of office, required by Section 268 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi, before a chancery clerk that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office, which oath shall be filed with the said clerk and by him preserved.
MS Code § 41-55-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Air Ambulance Service Districts|§ 41-55-41. Compensation

 If compensation is to be paid to any member of the board of directors of an air ambulance service district, it shall be paid by the district from any funds available. In no event shall such compensation exceed the sum of Twenty-two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($22.50) per day.
MS Code § 41-55-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Air Ambulance Service Districts|§ 41-55-43. Officers; bond

 The board of directors of an air ambulance service district shall annually elect from its number a president and a vice president of the district, and such other officers as in the judgment of the board are necessary. The president shall be the chief executive officer of the district and the presiding officer of the board, and shall have the same right to vote as any other director. The vice president shall perform all duties and exercise all powers conferred by Sections 41-55-31 through 41-55-57 upon the president when the president is absent or fails or declines to act, except the president's right to vote. The board shall also appoint a secretary and a treasurer who may or may not be members of the board, and it may combine these offices.   The treasurer shall give bond in the sum of not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) as set by the board of directors, and each director may be required to give bond in the sum of not less than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), with sureties qualified to do business in this state. The premiums on said bonds shall be an expense of the district. The condition of each such bond shall be that the treasurer or directors will faithfully perform all duties of their offices and account for all money or other assets which shall come into his custody as treasurer or director of the district.
MS Code § 41-55-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 55 - Public Ambulance Service|Air Ambulance Service Districts|§ 41-55-45. Powers of district

  Any air ambulance service district, through its board of directors, is hereby empowered:   To develop, in conjunction with the head of any federal and/or state agency as may be involved, a plan for air ambulance services to persons within or without the district, including communications and other systems incident to the efficient performance of such services.   To acquire and maintain any equipment necessary for the provision of such services.   To set reasonable rates for services and charge for each ambulance call made.   To establish rules and regulations for the use of air ambulance services both within and without the boundaries of the district, including cooperation with other air ambulance district organizations within the state and other emergency service agencies, including ground ambulances.   To employ professional managerial, technical, and clerical help as may be needed in providing air ambulance services.   To enter into agreements with ground ambulance facilities.   To borrow, acting by and through the boards of supervisors of the individual counties comprising the district, a sum of money in anticipation of the revenue to be received from taxes levied by such counties for the support of the district; the boards of supervisors in so doing shall follow the requirements of Section 19-9-27.   To make contracts and to execute instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges, and functions conferred upon it by Sections 41-55-31 through 41-55-57.   To make, or cause to be made, surveys and engineering investigations relating to the project, or related projects, for the information of the district, to facilitate the accomplishment of the purposes for which it is created.   To apply for and accept grants from the United States of America, or from any corporation or agency created or designated by the United States of America, and to ratify and accept applications heretofore or hereafter made by voluntary associations to such agencies for grants to construct, maintain or operate any project or projects which hereafter may be undertaken or contemplated by said district.   To do any and all other acts or things necessary, requisite or convenient to the exercising of the powers, rights, privileges or functions conferred upon it by Sections 41-55-31 through 41-55-57 or any act of law.     In addition to the powers set forth in subsection (1), the board of directors of any air ambulance service district is further authorized and empowered to exercise all powers conferred upon the governing boards of emergency medical service districts under the provisions of the Emergency Medical Services Act of 1974 and amendments thereto.