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MS Code § 19-13-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|In General|§ 19-13-43. Warrants; assignment thereof

 Warrants shall be drawn by the clerk, under his seal of office, in favor of the claimants, on all demands, claims and accounts allowed by the board, in the order of their allowance, against the several funds in the county depository from which such allowed claims must be paid. The board of supervisors of any county may, in its discretion, adopt the use of a standard check signing machine to be used in lieu of the manual signing of warrants by the clerk, under such terms and conditions as the board shall deem meet and proper for the protection of the interest of the county. No warrant shall be signed, removed from the warrant book, nor delivered by the clerk until there is sufficient money in the fund upon which it is drawn to pay the same and all prior unpaid warrants drawn upon that fund, whether delivered or not. The owner of any claim so allowed may, either before or after allowance, transfer the same by assignment, and the holder of such assignment shall be entitled to receive the warrant therefor at the proper time by presenting such assignment to the clerk at any time before delivery of such warrant to the original claimant.
MS Code § 19-13-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|In General|§ 19-13-45. Registration and payment of warrants

 All county warrants shall be registered in a book to be provided by the board for that purpose, and the fact of registration shall be noted on the back of the warrant. The county depository shall pay warrants in the order of their registration, unless there be sufficient funds in the treasury to pay all registered warrants. This order of payment shall not however apply to jury or witness certificates, nor to warrants used in payment of taxes. A warrant not presented for payment within one year after date of its registration shall lose its priority. When warrants so used in the payment of taxes are turned over to the county depository by the tax collector in settlement the said tax collector shall make a list of said warrants so paid for taxes, showing date of registration of said warrants and showing by whom and on what dates said warrants were so paid for taxes, and said list shall have attached to it the affidavit of said tax collector that said warrants were actually received by his office in payment of taxes from the parties and on the dates as set out in said list.
MS Code § 19-13-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|In General|§ 19-13-47. Oath required

 The county depository shall not receive a jury or witness certificate nor a school warrant from any clerk, sheriff, or any county officer in settlement unless the officer make oath that he received the same in payment of taxes due the county, or that he paid the holder the full sum of its face value, without discount or abatement.
MS Code § 19-13-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|In General|§ 19-13-49. Claims for livestock killed or injured in dipping process

  Any owner of livestock making claim under §19-5-13 for damages for the death or injury of such livestock occasioned through the process of dipping or as a result of such dipping for the eradication of cattle tick, shall first make proof of the amount of his loss or damage to the board of supervisors. When conclusive proof has been made or submitted to the board and there is no evidence of contributory negligence on the part of the owner and the board is satisfied that the said owner has suffered such loss, then the board of supervisors shall pay to such owner out of the general county funds, such amount as will compensate him for his loss or damage. If the board of supervisors shall refuse to pay such claims, or any part of them, the owner shall have the right of action against the county where such damage occurred.
MS Code § 19-13-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|In General|§ 19-13-51. Defective bridges, causeways, and culverts; damages allowable for injury suffered therefrom

 The board of supervisors of any county shall have the power, in its discretion, to allow damages sustained to stock and other property injured or destroyed while traveling along the public highways maintained by the county where such loss is caused by defects in a bridge, causeway or culvert in such highway. No such payment shall be allowed unless such defect in such bridge, causeway or culvert was the proximate cause of the injury and was not apparent or discoverable by the exercise of reasonable diligence, and no such payment shall be made unless such defect had existed for such a time that the failure to remedy or repair the same amounts to gross carelessness on the part of the county. Such payments shall be made from the county road and bridge funds.
MS Code § 19-13-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|In General|§ 19-13-53. Defective bridges, causeways, and culverts-presentation of claims

 A claim under Section 19-13-51 for accidents occurring shall be made in writing, itemized and sworn to, and shall be filed within three months after such accident occurs, and shall remain on file with the clerk of the board of supervisors for sixty days before the first day of the term at which it comes up for hearing. Notice of its pendency shall be published in a newspaper published in the county at least one time before such claim comes up for hearing, and if there be no paper in such county, by posting notices at the courthouse and other public places.
MS Code § 19-13-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|In General|§ 19-13-55. Defective bridges, causeways, and culverts; payment of claims

 No payment shall be made hereunder except by a four-fifths recorded vote of all the members of the board of supervisors. Where the property injured or destroyed is properly assessable, no evidence of the actual value of the property injured or destroyed shall be received or considered, but the assessed value thereof as shown by the assessment rolls of the county shall be the only evidence of value, and the damages allowed shall be fixed in proportion. Where the property injured or destroyed is not properly assessable and was not assessed, then the board of supervisors shall receive evidence of the actual value of the same, and shall allow damages in proportion. Sections 19-13-51 through 19-13-55 shall not be construed as creating any enforceable liability against any county.
MS Code § 19-13-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|Contracts for Printing, Stationery and Office Supplies|§ 19-13-101. Definition of "stationery."

 The term stationery, as applied to purchases for the counties of the state, includes everything properly so called, and the boards of supervisors shall provide for everything in contracts for stationery as herein defined that can be conveniently so purchased.
MS Code § 19-13-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|Contracts for Printing, Stationery and Office Supplies|§ 19-13-107. Out-of-state contracts

 The boards of supervisors, if satisfied that the bids offered are materially more expensive to the taxpayers of the state than prevails in other adjoining states, may require such bids to be lowered and if the resident bidders refuse to lower such bids, the boards of supervisors may make temporary contracts with printers and stationers outside the state until such time as contracts satisfactory to the boards of supervisors can be made with resident printers and stationers.
MS Code § 19-13-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|Contracts for Printing, Stationery and Office Supplies|§ 19-13-109. Bids may be rejected

 The board of supervisors may reject any and all bids and readvertise for new ones and no bid shall be considered unless accompanied by a certified check of a solvent bank, for at least Twenty five Dollars ($25.00) or said sum in cash, the same to be forfeited to the county in the event the bidder shall fail for ten days after the acceptance of his bid to enter into the contract awarded; and when a contract is awarded the contractor shall give bond as provided in Section 19-13-115. The deposit of all bidders as above provided shall be returned to the bidders when the award has been made and the bond above mentioned given.
MS Code § 19-13-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|Contracts for Printing, Stationery and Office Supplies|§ 19-13-111. Bids and contracts to be definite

 All bids and contracts for stationery, blank books, office supplies and other things must be specific in stating the kinds or brands and qualities of all articles, as far as practicable; the weight per ream and material of all paper; the price per quire and the weight per ream of books and record books, with the style of binding and size of each kind of book duly classified; and, other things being equal, the several boards shall give the preference to those bids which are most specific as to the price and quality of the various articles. In case bids are in all respects equal between resident and nonresident bidders, the board of supervisors shall give preference to citizens of this state.
MS Code § 19-13-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|Contracts for Printing, Stationery and Office Supplies|§ 19-13-113. Rejection of bids when bidder is unfair

 If it appears to the satisfaction of the board of supervisors, on any opening of bids, that there has been a combination between the bidders or that some of them are connected with a trust or combine, or that the bidding is purposely unfair, in raising the prices of some articles and lowering those of others out of proportion so that it is difficult to determine which of the bids is the lowest and best, all bids may be rejected and new bids shall be called for and requested.
MS Code § 19-13-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|Contracts for Printing, Stationery and Office Supplies|§ 19-13-115. Bonds required of contractors

 The board of supervisors shall require the successful bidder to execute a bond with sufficient surety or sureties to be approved by it in a sufficient penalty conditioned for the faithful performance of the contract and the prompt delivery, free of all charges for freight and otherwise, at the price specified. The bond of the contractor taken by the board of supervisors shall be filed with the clerk of the board; and such bond shall be subject to the provisions of law applicable to the bonds of county officers. The board may accept the undertaking of an approved guaranty company as surety, with or without other sureties, on such bonds.
MS Code § 19-13-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|Contracts for Printing, Stationery and Office Supplies|§ 19-13-117. Payment of bills

 All accounts and bills for the purchase of stationery, records, blank books, office supplies, and other things herein authorized by the board of supervisors shall be approved and allowed as other claims against said counties are required to be, and warrants issued for the payment out of the county treasury.
MS Code § 19-13-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 13 - Contracts, Claims and Transaction of Business with Counties|Contracts for Printing, Stationery and Office Supplies|§ 19-13-119. Penalty for noncompliance with the law

 Members of the board of supervisors and county officers failing to comply with the requirements of Sections 19-13-101 through 19-13-119 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) or imprisonment or both, as provided by law.
MS Code § 19-21-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 21 - Coroners|Mississippi Coroner Reorganization Act|§ 19-21-101. Short title

 Sections 19-21-101 through 19-21-109 shall be known and cited as the "Mississippi Coroner Reorganization Act of 1986."
MS Code § 19-21-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 21 - Coroners|Mississippi Coroner Reorganization Act|§ 19-21-103. Qualifications of candidate for office

  Beginning with the 1987 general election and thereafter, each candidate for the elected office of coroner shall, as a minimum, possess a high school graduation diploma or its equivalent, be twenty-one (21) years of age or older, and be a qualified elector of the county in which elected.   The minimum education requirements of subsection (1) of this section and subsection (1) of Section 41-61-57 shall not apply to any coroner holding office on July 1, 1986, who is reelected in the 1987 general election and thereafter, as long as such coroner maintains continuous active service as county medical examiner or county medical examiner investigator. However, all other portions of subsection (1) of Section 41-61-57 shall apply to such coroners.
MS Code § 19-21-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 21 - Coroners|Mississippi Coroner Reorganization Act|§ 19-21-105. Elected coroner required to attend Mississippi Forensics Laboratory and State Medical Examiner Death Investigation Training School; oath of office

  Each coroner elected in the 1987 general election and thereafter shall attend the Mississippi Forensics Laboratory and State Medical Examiner Death Investigation Training School provided for in subsection (5) of Section 41-61-57, and shall successfully complete subsequent testing on the subject material prior to taking the oath of office. If the elected coroner fails to successfully complete the school and testing, he shall not be eligible to take the oath of office.   Upon successful completion of the death investigation training school, the coroner shall take the oath of office, and he then shall be designated the chief county medical examiner or chief county medical examiner investigator, as provided in subsection (2) of Section 41-61-57, and shall perform the duties of such office as required by law.
MS Code § 19-21-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 21 - Coroners|Mississippi Coroner Reorganization Act|§ 19-21-107. Appointment of successor to serve in office of coroner

 In the absence of an individual to serve in the office of coroner, there shall immediately be appointed a successor in the manner provided by law.
MS Code § 19-21-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 21 - Coroners|Mississippi Coroner Reorganization Act|§ 19-21-109. Transfer of duties from county ranger to sheriff of county

 The duties of the county ranger, heretofore exercised by the coroner, shall be transferred to the sheriff of the county, who shall have all the duties and powers of the ranger's office.
MS Code § 21-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|General Provisions|§ 21-1-1. Classification of municipalities

 The municipal corporations existing in this state are divided into three classes, to wit: cities, towns and villages. Those having two thousand inhabitants or more shall be classed as cities; those having less than two thousand and not less than three hundred inhabitants shall be classed as towns; and those having less than three hundred and not less than one hundred inhabitants shall be classed as villages. No municipal corporation shall be created hereafter except those classed as cities or towns. However, a municipality may be created in an area embracing not less than one square mile wherein there is then in existence or under construction not less than one mile of improved hard surface streets, with a total of not less than six streets making up said one mile of hard surface streets and there then exists or is under construction a public utilities system which shall include a waterworks system or sewerage system, or both. Nothing herein shall affect the status of any municipal corporation heretofore created and now existing, and all such municipal corporations, including villages, shall continue to exist as such with all the rights and privileges thereof.
MS Code § 21-1-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|General Provisions|§ 21-1-3. Change of classification according to federal census

 Whenever a census taken under an act of Congress shall show that the population of a city, town or village has increased or diminished so as to take or place such city, town or village out of the class to which it theretofore has belonged, the governing authorities of the municipality shall enter an order on the minutes thereof reciting such fact and adjudging the proper class of such municipality according to such census, and shall forward a certified copy of such order to the secretary of state, who shall file same with the other records pertaining to such municipality and keep same as a permanent record. Thereafter, such municipality shall be classed according to the population shown by such census, and such census shall be conclusive on the question of such classification.
MS Code § 21-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|General Provisions|§ 21-1-5. Corporate names

 The corporate name of a city shall be "The City of_______________ ." The corporate name of a town shall be "The town of_______________ ." The corporate name of a village shall be "The village of_______________ ." In each case the blank shall be filled in with the name by which such municipality has been legally designated.
MS Code § 21-1-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|General Provisions|§ 21-1-7. Changing corporate name

 The mayor and board of aldermen or municipal authorities may change the name of any municipality by preparing in writing the proposed change and having same published for three weeks in a newspaper published in such municipality, if there be one, and, if none, then by posting for said time in at least three public places therein, after which the proposed change shall be submitted to the governor for his approval. If, after publication is made, one-tenth of the qualified electors of the municipality shall within ten days after the completion of such publication protest against the proposed change, the governor shall not approve same until it shall be submitted to and ratified by a majority of the qualified electors of the municipality. When approved by the governor, the same shall be recorded in the office of the secretary of state and upon the record of the municipal governing authorities.
MS Code § 21-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|General Provisions|§ 21-1-9. Designation of municipalities

 All municipalities operating under Chapter 99, Mississippi Code of 1906, and all municipalities operating under Title 21, Chapter 3, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be designated as having "Code Charters." All municipalities operating under Title 21, Chapter 5, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be designated as having "Commission Form of Government." All municipalities operating under Title 21, Chapter 7, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be designated as having "Council Form of Government." All municipalities operating under Title 21, Chapter 9, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be designated as having "Council-Manager Form of Government." All other municipalities shall be designated as having "Private Charters," or such other form of government as may be created by the legislature, such cities to be designated by the act creating such special form of government.
MS Code § 21-1-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|General Provisions|§ 21-1-11. Judicial notice to be taken of class and powers of municipality

 The courts shall take judicial notice of the class to which each of the municipalities of the state belongs, and of its powers under the provisions of this title.
MS Code § 21-1-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion|Incorporation|§ 21-1-13. Preparing and filing of petition

 Whenever the inhabitants of any unincorporated territory shall desire to incorporate such territory as a city or town, they shall prepare a petition and file same in the chancery court of the county in which such territory is located or, if the territory is located in more than one county, the chancery court of either county. Said petition shall meet the following requirements:    it shall describe accurately the metes and bounds of the territory proposed to be incorporated and there shall be attached to such petition a map or plat of the boundaries of the proposed municipality;   it shall set forth the corporate name which is desired;   it shall be signed by at least two-thirds of the qualified electors residing in the territory proposed to be incorporated;   it shall set forth the number of inhabitants of such territory;   it shall set forth the assessed valuation of the real property in such territory according to the latest available assessments thereof;   it shall state the aims of the petitioners in seeking said incorporation, and shall set forth the municipal and public services which said municipal corporation proposes to render and the reasons why the public convenience and necessity would be served by the creation of such municipal corporation;   it shall contain a statement of the names of the persons the petitioners desire appointed as officers of such municipality; and   it shall be sworn to by one or more of the petitioners.  When such a petition shall be filed, it shall be docketed as are other suits and causes in the chancery courts of this state.