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MS Code § 37-27-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-39. Trustees may exchange certain lands

 The boards of trustees of any agricultural high school in the state, with the approval of the board of supervisors and the county board of education, are hereby authorized and empowered to exchange the lands belonging to said schools, except the lands on which the school buildings are located, for other lands. The deed or deeds of conveyance shall be executed by the president or chairman and the secretary of the board of trustees pursuant to an order of the board of trustees entered on its minutes, and pursuant to an order of approval by the board of supervisors and county board of education entered on their minutes, and which, when so executed, shall be fully effective to convey title to said property. The orders of the respective boards shall fully describe the property to be conveyed by said school and also, the property to be received in exchange for same.
MS Code § 37-27-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-41. Agricultural high schools and public schools may be authorized to acquire each other's property

 The board of supervisors of any county may authorize the sale of any undivided interest in any property owned by an agricultural high school and used for school purposes to any public school, and the board of supervisors may authorize the sale of an undivided interest in any public school property used for school purposes to an agricultural high school. Before an order authorizing such sale shall be effected, the boards of trustees of each of such schools shall agree in writing on the terms of such sale, and shall set out in full the extent of the rights of use and occupancy of the school and grounds each of said schools is to enjoy, and shall also agree upon the control, management and preservation of such premises. Before, however, any such contract with reference to the use, occupancy, management and control of such school buildings and grounds to be used for joint purposes is final it shall receive the approval of the county board of education.
MS Code § 37-27-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-43. Trustees may sell property not needed for school purposes

 When any agricultural high school shall own any land, buildings or other property that is not used for school or related school purposes and not needed in the operation of the school, the board of trustees of such agricultural high school may sell and convey such land, buildings or other property in the manner provided in Sections 37-27-45 through 37-27-49.
MS Code § 37-27-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-45. Resolution required for sale

 When the board of trustees of any such agricultural high school shall desire to sell any such property as is provided for in Section 37-27-43, it shall pass a resolution declaring that such property is not needed nor used for school purposes and shall direct, in such resolution, that same be advertised for sale upon competitive bids in the manner provided for in Section 37-27-47.
MS Code § 37-27-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-47. Advertising of sale; conduct of sale

 All such land, buildings or other property to be sold pursuant to the authority granted in Section 37-27-43, shall be sold only after the receipt of sealed bids therefor after the time and place of making such sale shall have been duly advertised in some newspaper having a general circulation in the county in which the property is located once each week for three consecutive weeks with the first publication to be made not less than fifteen days prior to the date upon which such bids are to be received and opened. The property shall be sold to the highest and best bidder for cash, but the board of trustees shall have the right to reject any and all bids. If the property be not sold pursuant to such advertisement, the board of trustees may, by resolution, set a date for an open meeting of said board of trustees to be held within sixty days after the date upon which the bids were opened. At the meeting held pursuant to such resolution the board of trustees may sell by auction the said property for a consideration not less than the highest sealed bid previously received pursuant to said advertisement. At the meeting called pursuant to said resolution any interested party may bid for cash and the property shall be sold to the highest and best bidder for cash, but the board of trustees shall have the right to reject any and all bids. The board of trustees may require a written confirmation of bids received at such called meeting before selling the property at auction, but it shall not be necessary that sealed bids be received before conducting the auction. When the sale of such property shall be authorized and approved by the board of trustees the president of the board of trustees shall be authorized and empowered to execute a conveyance of said property upon the terms and for the consideration fixed by the board. Said board of trustees shall reserve unto said agricultural high school at least an undivided one-half nonparticipating royalty interest in all oil, gas and minerals in, on or under said land, and all proceeds derived from royalties upon said reserved mineral interests shall be used as provided by Section 37-27-49. If the mineral interests of the school shall be less than the full and undivided ownership, the undivided royalty interest reserved shall be reduced proportionately.
MS Code § 37-27-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-49. All sales to be for cash; disposition of proceeds

 All conveyances of property under the authority of Section 37-27-47 shall be for a cash consideration and the proceeds of such sale shall be placed in the maintenance fund of the agricultural high school. If any sale embraces realty, and the agricultural high school selling same owes outstanding bonds or notes, then in that event the proceeds of such sale shall be placed to the credit of the bond and interest sinking fund of such agricultural high school, or used to construct, renovate or purchase, under provisions elsewhere provided by law, similar type property or property of comparable value at attendance centers to be used for the same or other reasonably necessary purposes.
MS Code § 37-27-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-51. Trustees may contract with school districts for attendance of pupils at agricultural high school

 The board of trustees of any agricultural high school or the board of trustees of any junior college, in connection with which an agricultural high school is operated, and the board of trustees of any school district, or a county board of education, under the conditions hereinafter provided for, are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into agreements, one with the other, providing for the attendance of any high school pupils of such school district or any grades thereof, at such agricultural high school or junior college, and for the instruction of such high school pupils or grades at such agricultural high school or junior college. Subject to the provisions of Sections 37-27-53 through 37-27-59, all such contracts so executed shall be upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by and between the boards of trustees or the county board of education involved. All such contracts shall be subject to the approval of the state educational finance commission.   Any parent or guardian of such high school pupil or pupils, as to an individual pupil or as to any grade or grades, may request in writing that such agreement be entered into with the board of trustees of said agricultural high school or board of trustees of any junior college in connection with which an agricultural high school is operated. Such request shall be filed or lodged with the president or secretary of the board of trustees of such school district. Said board of trustees of said school district shall no later than the date of its next regular meeting approve or disapprove the request therein made to provide for the attendance of the pupil or pupils, or grade or grades, at such agricultural high school; failure of said board of trustees of such school district to act upon said request not later than said date shall be and will constitute a disapproval or rejection thereof.   In the event such board of trustees of said school district shall either disapprove or reject said request, or fail to act thereon on or before said date, then and in that event the county board of education is hereby authorized to act upon such request not later than the next regular meeting date of the said county board of education after the filing or lodging by such parent or guardian of a true copy of the request theretofore filed or lodged with the said board of trustees of the said school district, with the president or secretary of the said county board of education, and with said copy shall be filed or lodged a written statement of the action, if any, or non-action, taken by the board of trustees of the said school district upon the request made to it. If such request be approved by the county board of education, then it may proceed to enter into such agreement with the board of trustees of said agricultural high school or the said board of trustees of said junior college, but subject to the approval of the state educational finance commission.
MS Code § 37-27-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-53. Pupils entitled to transportation

 When any pupils who shall attend any agricultural high school or junior college under the provisions of Section 37-27-51 are otherwise entitled to transportation at public expense under any applicable statute, such pupils shall remain entitled to such transportation, and shall be reported for the allotment of transportation funds by the county or municipal separate school district in which they reside and, when so reported, transportation funds shall be allotted therefor just as though such pupils were attending the regular schools of the district in which they reside, and transportation shall be furnished therefor by the county board of education or board of trustees of the municipal separate school district, as the case may be, as is otherwise provided by law.
MS Code § 37-27-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-55. Pupils reported for allocation of minimum education funds and building funds

 When any pupils shall attend any agricultural high school or junior college under the provisions of Section 37-27-51, such pupils shall be reported and accounted for the allocation of minimum education program funds and building funds just as though such pupils were attending the regular schools of the district in which they reside. For this purpose reports shall be made to the board of trustees of the school district involved by the agricultural high school or junior college of the number of children in average daily attendance, and the average daily attendance of such pupils shall thereupon be included in reports made to the county or school district under the provisions of Chapters 19 and 47 of this title. The allocation of minimum education program funds and state public school building funds shall be made for such children just as though such children were attending the regular schools of the district. However, all minimum education program funds which accrue to any district as a result of the pupils who are in attendance at such agricultural high school or junior college, except amounts allotted for transportation purposes, shall be paid by the board of trustees of the municipal separate school district or the county board of education, as the case may be, to the agricultural high school or junior college at which the pupils are in attendance, and shall be expended by said agricultural high school or junior college for the instruction of said pupils and for the purposes for which the funds were originally allotted. Funds allotted to the school district for building purposes under Chapter 47 of this title, shall, however, be retained by the school district entitled thereto. The term "school district" as used in Sections 37-27-51 through 37-27-59 shall be defined as including all public school districts in this state and also all agricultural high schools not located on the campus of a junior college.
MS Code § 37-27-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-57. Payment of additional or supplemental expenses

 Any additional or supplemental expenses incurred by the agricultural high school or junior college in the instruction of such pupils above that defrayed by minimum education funds as provided in Section 37-27-55, shall be paid either from the amounts received from the state appropriation for the support of agricultural high schools or from the tax levy for the support of such agricultural high school or junior college or from any other funds which such agricultural high school or junior college may have available for such purpose.
MS Code § 37-27-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-59. Applicability of laws

 Except as provided in Sections 37-27-51 through 37-27-57, all laws of the State of Mississippi relative to the operation and government of schools shall be applicable to pupils attending agricultural high schools or junior colleges under the provisions of said sections.
MS Code § 37-27-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-61. County superintendent may provide for attendance out of the county

 The county superintendent of education of a county which does not alone or in conjunction with another county maintain an agricultural high school or an agricultural high school-junior college, may provide, with the approval of the county board of education and the board of supervisors, for the attendance of pupils residing in the county of which he is superintendent of education, at an agricultural high school or an agricultural high school-junior college located in a county adjoining thereto, and pay by certificate drawn by him on the county school funds for the instruction of such pupils. However, the amount so paid shall not be greater than the pro rata share of such pupils, in the actual cost of incidentals and tuition, of such agricultural high school or agricultural high school-junior college. Counties co-operating under provisions of this section shall be represented on the boards of trustees by the county superintendent of education.
MS Code § 37-27-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-63. Municipalities and municipal separate school districts may issue bonds to support agricultural high schools

 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 agricultural high schools which have been or may hereafter be established. Such 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 county agricultural high schools.
MS Code § 37-27-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-67. Election on issuance of bonds by boards of supervisors

 If, within three (3) weeks after notice by publication has been made of intention to issue bonds pursuant to the provisions of Section 37-27-65, ten percent (10%) of the adult taxpayers of the county shall petition against the issuance of said bonds, then the question shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the county, within twenty (20) days after the next meeting of the board of supervisors after the filing of the petition. Should a majority of those voting in such election vote against the bond issue, the bonds shall not be issued, and the order shall be null and void.   When ten percent (10%) of the adult taxpayers of the county shall petition for the issuance of bonds pursuant to the provisions of Section 37-27-65, then the board of supervisors shall submit the question to the qualified electors of the county within twenty (20) days after the meeting of the board of supervisors at which such petition is filed. Should a majority of those voting in such election vote for the bond issue the bonds shall be issued by the board of supervisors as provided by law, but if a majority of the qualified electors voting at such election should vote against the bond issue, the bonds shall not be issued.
MS Code § 37-27-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-69. Agricultural high school may borrow not to exceed $50,000 for housing facilities

 Any agricultural high school, supported in whole or in part by tax levies of one or more counties, may borrow not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), for the purpose of receiving, transporting, erecting on the ground of said institution, and equipping and furnishing any prefabricated houses, or other materials, or appliances, fixtures, machines, furnishings or equipment, obtained by grant or otherwise from the United States of America or any department or agency thereof, or from any other source, where the same may be acquired for the use of the institution, any student personnel, or faculty members.
MS Code § 37-27-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-73. Board of trustees to fix and collect fees, rents and charges; disposition of monies; limitations

 The board of trustees of any such agricultural high school borrowing money pursuant to the authority granted in Section 37-27-69, 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 be paid into the debt retirement fund specified in Section 37-27-71 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 37-27-69 through 37-27-75 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 § 37-27-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-75. Foregoing sections as cumulative

 Sections 37-27-69 through 37-27-73 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 § 37-27-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-77. Purchase of bus for benefit of agricultural high schools in certain counties

 The board of supervisors of any county wherein there is located an agricultural high school not located upon the campus of a junior college may, in its discretion, purchase a bus for the use and benefit of said agricultural high school to be used in connection with various school activities and to be paid for from the general fund of the county.
MS Code § 37-27-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 27 - Agricultural High Schools|§ 37-27-79. Report and recommendations for consolidation of agricultural high schools; abolition of agricultural high school pursuant to petition; election

  The State Board of Education shall review and develop a report relating to the need for a separate board of trustees and separate administrative office for the Coahoma Agricultural High School, the Forrest Agricultural High School and the Hinds Agricultural High School and shall submit this finding with recommendations for any necessary legislation to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Education Committees on or before December 1, 2012, for consideration in the 2013 Regular Session. Said report shall include any necessary recommendations for the consolidation and transfer of administrative offices, transfer of real and personal property, and transfer of students from such agricultural high school to the appropriate school district.   Any agricultural high school in this state (whether maintained by one (1) county or more than one (1) county) may be abolished when twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors residing in such county or counties shall file a petition with the board of supervisors or boards of supervisors of such county or counties, and request that such school be abolished. Thereupon, the question shall be submitted to an election of the qualified electors of the county or counties within not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days after the next meeting of the board of supervisors or boards of supervisors after the filing of the petition. At such election said electors may vote for abolishing the agricultural high school or against abolishing the agricultural high school. If a majority of the votes cast in such election be in favor of abolishing such school, then such school shall be abolished. If less than a majority of those voting fail to vote for abolishing such school then it shall not be abolished but shall be supported and maintained as now provided by law. When an election is called under this section and the school is not abolished, then another election cannot be held for a period of two (2) years.