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MS Code § 7-9-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 9 - State Treasurer|Education Improvement Trust Fund|§ 7-9-105. Power to adopt rules and regulations

 The State Treasurer is authorized and empowered to adopt necessary rules and regulations consistent with this legislation to facilitate the management of said education trust funds.
MS Code § 7-9-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 9 - State Treasurer|Education Improvement Trust Fund|§ 7-9-107. Transfer of funds

 Upon request of the investment entity, signed by the proper person, officer or officers, the State Fiscal Management Board shall issue its warrants to authorize the transfer from the Education Improvement Trust Fund created in Section 206A of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 such funds as are selected for investment pursuant to Sections 7-9-101 through 7-9-107, and upon receipt of such warrants the State Treasurer shall immediately transfer such sums to the proper funds or accounts.
MS Code § 7-9-161 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 9 - State Treasurer|Capital Improvements Preplanning Fund|§ 7-9-161. Repeal of §§ 7-9-151 through 7-9-159

 Sections 7-9-151 through 7-9-159, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be repealed on July 1, 2014.
MS Code § 7-17-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989|Article 1 - General|§ 7-17-1. Short title

 Chapter 544, Laws of 1989, shall be cited as the "Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989."
MS Code § 7-17-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989|Article 1 - General|§ 7-17-3. Legislative intent

 It is the intent of "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989 [Chapter 544, Laws of 1989]" to provide that the Governor and the executive branch of the government of the State of Mississippi shall have full authority to execute the laws of Mississippi and to administer and manage the affairs of state government in accordance with the Mississippi Constitution of 1890.   Provided, however, nothing in "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989" is intended to reduce in any manner the authority of the Legislature to appropriate funds or to specify the means by which such funds are to be expended.   No executive director, division director or any other employee of any agency or department of this state shall be prohibited by the Governor or any other person, whether by written or verbal correspondence or by executive order, from cooperating with the Legislature for purposes of providing information to the Legislature, or any member thereof, regarding the legislative budget process or any other legislative matter.
MS Code § 7-17-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989|Article 1 - General|§ 7-17-7. Vacation of position of member of board, commission, council or authority upon change of residence; exception

 Any member of any board, commission, council or authority reconstituted under "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989 [Chapter 544, Laws of 1989]" shall be deemed to have vacated his position thereon if he changes his residence to another state or to a geographical area other than the one from which he was appointed if the statute specified that he shall be appointed from such designated geographical area. Provided, however, that this section shall not apply in the event the member was appointed from a district the boundaries of which have been altered by statute or court order.
MS Code § 7-17-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989|Article 1 - General|§ 7-17-9. Governor to appoint departmental advisory boards

 The Governor shall have the authority to appoint departmental advisory boards where otherwise required by law.
MS Code § 7-17-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989|Article 1 - General|§ 7-17-11. Organizational structure and nomenclature for budgetary purposes

 For budgetary purposes and organizational hierarchy purposes a common organizational nomenclature shall be used in the structure of state government.   Organizations for such purposes shall be:   Agency - the principal administrative organization of state government as defined in Section 25-9-107(d), headed by an executive director or such other official as prescribed by statute;   Office - the principal organization of an agency; whenever the term "division" or any other term appears to denote the principal organization of a department, it shall mean "office" for purposes of this section;   Bureau - the principal organization of an office;   Division - the principal organization of a bureau;   Branch - the principal organization of a division;   Section - the principal organization of a branch;   Unit - the principal organization of a section;   Advisory board - a body appointed to function on a continuing basis to study and recommend solutions and policy alternatives to problems arising in a specific agency or program of state government.   The nomenclature outlined in this section shall be only for budgetary purposes and organizational hierarchy purposes and shall not define job classifications or salary ranges. The State Personnel Board shall ensure that all agencies within state government as defined in Section 25-9-107(d) conform with the common organization nomenclature provided in this section, except where otherwise provided by law or determined to be necessary by the State Personnel Board.
MS Code § 7-17-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989|Article 3 - Reorganization Transition|§ 7-17-33. Transfer of powers, authority, duties, functions and funds; use of stationery and supplies of predecessor agency or department

 All power, authority, duties and functions of the boards, commissions, departments and agencies abolished by "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989 [Chapter 544, Laws of 1989]" shall, from and after July 1, 1989, vest in and be performed by the departments or agencies to which they are assigned. All records, personnel, property and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocation or other funds of the abolished departments or agencies, except those transferred elsewhere by other provisions of "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989", shall be transferred under the direction of the State Fiscal Officer to the proper department or agency on July 1, 1989. The transfer of segregated or special funds shall be made in such a manner that the relation between program and revenue source as provided by law is retained.   The newly created Department of Economic and Community Development and the newly created Department of Environmental Quality shall continue to use the stationery or other supplies having thereon the letterhead of their predecessor agency or department until such stationery or other supplies are depleted. Such newly created departments shall not expend any funds to purchase stationery or other supplies having thereon the letterhead of the newly created department until such time as the supplies of their predecessor agency or department are depleted as herein provided.
MS Code § 7-17-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989|Article 3 - Reorganization Transition|§ 7-17-35. Agencies to assist in transition; rules and regulations; legislative intent concerning personnel reductions

    Each officer, department or agency subject to the provisions of "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989 [Chapter 544, Laws of 1989]" shall assist with the fullest degree of reasonable cooperation with any other officer, department or agency in carrying out the intent and purpose of "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989".   Each officer, department or agency subject to the provisions of "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989" is hereby authorized and empowered to promulgate all necessary rules and regulations not in conflict with "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989" necessary to accomplish an orderly transition pursuant to "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989".     It is the intent of the Legislature that the number of persons employed by the various departments and agencies as a result of the consolidation required by "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989" shall be reduced, but it is the intent of the Legislature that wherever possible, such reduction shall result from attrition of employees, assistance in relocating to other positions in state government for which they are qualified, and by assistance in locating employment in the private sector.
MS Code § 7-17-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 7 - Executive Department|Chapter 17 - Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989|Article 3 - Reorganization Transition|§ 7-17-37. Procedures for eliminating and filling personnel positions; benefit rights of terminated employees

 Upon the decision by a department executive director to eliminate a personnel position, the executive director shall notify the State Personnel Board and the affected employee of the intention to eliminate the position. No employee shall be required to vacate an eliminated position prior to sixty (60) days from the date notice is sent to that employee.   Executive directors hiring personnel to fill existing vacant positions shall first interview persons placed on the reduction in force list maintained by the State Personnel Board to fill positions for which they are qualified. If the executive director does not hire a person on the reduction in force list for a position for which he interviewed and is qualified, the executive director shall provide justification upon request by the interviewed person or the State Personnel Board.   If an employee whose position is terminated by virtue of the executive branch reorganization brought about by "the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989 [Laws, 1989, Chapter 544]" is rehired by the State of Mississippi within three (3) years from the date of his termination, the employee shall have the same benefit date for leave accumulation purposes as he had when his position was terminated. Any accumulated leave benefits not given to the employee at the time his position was eliminated shall be restored to him upon his rehiring.
MS Code § 9-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-5. Extension into term in other county of same district

 In order to utilize the services of a judge temporarily assigned to chancery or circuit court in a county, the chancery or circuit court judge is authorized to extend a term of his court in one (1) county in a district, even if it overlaps into a term of that court in another county in the same district, so long as the term of court in the county into which the extension runs shall not be pretermitted. The Nineteenth Chancery Court District and the Eighteenth Circuit Court District are hereby excepted from the provisions of this section.   The word "county" wherever used herein shall be construed to mean "judicial district" in counties having two (2) judicial districts.
MS Code § 9-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-9. Adjourning if the judge be absent

 If the circuit judge or chancellor fail to attend at any term of the court, it shall stand adjourned from day to day until the third day, when, if the judge or chancellor shall not appear and open court, it shall stand adjourned without day; but, by virtue of a written order by the judge or chancellor, it may be adjourned by the clerk or sheriff to any day of the term, as the order may direct, and parties, witnesses and jurors must attend accordingly.
MS Code § 9-1-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-11. Judge not to sit when interested or related

 The judge of a court shall not preside on the trial of any cause where the parties, or either of them, shall be connected with him by affinity or consanguinity, or where he may be interested in the same, or wherein he may have been of counsel, except by the consent of the judge and of the parties.
MS Code § 9-1-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-17. Supreme Court, circuit, chancery and county courts and Court of Appeals may punish for contempt and refer certain persons for placement in restitution, house arrest or restorative justice center or program

 The Supreme, circuit, chancery and county courts and the Court of Appeals shall have power to fine and imprison any person guilty of contempt of the court while sitting, but the fine shall not exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each offense, nor shall the imprisonment continue longer than thirty (30) days. If any witness refuse to be sworn or to give evidence, or if any officer or person refuse to obey or perform any rules, order, or judgment of the court, such court shall have power to fine and imprison such officer or person until he shall give evidence, or until the rule, order, or judgment shall be complied with.   At the discretion of the court, any person found in contempt for failure to pay child support and imprisoned therefor may be referred for placement in a state, county or municipal restitution, house arrest or restorative justice center or program, provided such person meets the qualifications prescribed in Section 99-37-19.
MS Code § 9-1-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-19. Authority of judges of supreme, circuit courts and chancellors and judges of Court of Appeals to grant remedial writs

 The judges of the Supreme and circuit courts and chancellors and judges of the Court of Appeals, in termtime and in vacation, may severally order the issuance of writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, certiorari, supersedeas and attachments, and grant injunctions and all other remedial writs, in all cases where the same may properly be granted according to right and justice, returnable to any court, whether the suit or proceedings be pending in the district of the judge or chancellor granting the same or not. The fiat of such judge or chancellor shall authorize the issuance of the process for a writ returnable to the proper court or before the proper officer; and all such process or writs may be granted, issued and executed on Sunday.
MS Code § 9-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-23. Judges conservators of peace; must reside in district

 The judges of the Supreme, circuit and county courts and chancellors and judges of the Court of Appeals shall be conservators of the peace for the state, each with full power to do all acts which conservators of the peace may lawfully do; and the circuit judges and chancellors shall reside within their respective districts and the county judges shall reside in their respective counties.
MS Code § 9-1-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-25. Judges not to practice law

 It shall not be lawful for any judge of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals or a judge of the circuit court, or a chancellor to exercise the profession or employment of an attorney or counsellor at law, or to be engaged in the practice of law; and any person offending against this prohibition shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor and be removed from office; but this shall not prohibit a chancellor or circuit judge or a judge of the Court of Appeals from practicing in any of the courts for a period of six (6) months from the time such judges or chancellors assume office so far as to enable them to bring to a conclusion cases actually pending when they were appointed or elected in which such chancellor or judge was then employed, nor shall a judge of the Supreme Court be hindered from appearing in the courts of the United States in any case in which he was engaged when he was appointed or elected judge.
MS Code § 9-1-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-27. Officers pro tempore to be appointed in certain cases

 Whenever a vacancy shall exist in the office of clerk of any court, sheriff, or coroner and the vacancy shall not have been filled on or before the commencement of the term of any court which the clerk, sheriff, or coroner is required to attend, or if the clerk, sheriff, or coroner shall be absent, deceased, become unable, or refuse to discharge his duties, or be on trial therein, the court, or the judge or judges thereof, shall have power to appoint a suitable person to discharge the duties of clerk, sheriff, or coroner pro tempore, who shall take the oath required by law, and perform the duties and receive the emoluments of the office to which he is appointed, until the proper incumbent shall be duly qualified or return to his duties.
MS Code § 9-1-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-29. Court to control clerk's office

 Each court shall have control over all proceedings in the clerk's office, and such control shall be exercised in a manner consistent with the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 9-1-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-31. Records of office of clerk delivered to successor

 When the office of clerk of any court shall become vacant, the records, papers, books, stationery, and everything belonging thereto, shall be delivered to the successor in office by any person having the same, on demand; and if any person having such records, papers, books, stationery, or other things shall refuse to deliver the same on demand to the person entitled thereto, he shall be liable for all damages sustained by any person aggrieved thereby; and in case of a refusal or a detention of the same, or of any part thereof, after demand made, the court may compel the delivery thereof, by fine and imprisonment at discretion, for contempt of court; and the court, or judge in vacation, may order process to be issued for the seizure of such records, papers, books, stationery, and other things, and for the delivery thereof to the successor in office.
MS Code § 9-1-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-33. Minutes of Supreme Court, circuit, chancery and county courts and Court of Appeals

 The minutes of the proceedings of the Supreme, circuit, chancery and county courts and the Court of Appeals shall be entered by the clerk of each, respectively, in the minute book of the court, against the next sitting of the court, if practicable, when the same shall be read in open court; and when corrected shall be signed - the minutes of the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice or presiding judge, of the Court of Appeals by the Chief Judge or presiding judge, of the circuit court by the circuit judge, of the chancery court by the chancellor, and of the county court by the county judge; and on the last day of the term, or within ten (10) days thereafter, the minutes shall be drawn up, read and signed.   Whenever by inadvertence said minutes and proceedings may remain unsigned or the judge of said court dies before signing the minutes, the succeeding judge or judges of said court may, in their discretion, examine into said unsigned minutes and ascertain as to the correctness thereof, and after same shall have been read in open court, and if the court is of the opinion that same are true and correct, then the said minutes may be signed and adopted by said judge or judges.
MS Code § 9-1-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-35. Seal of court

 The clerk of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Appeals, at the expense of the state, and the clerk of every circuit and chancery court, at the expense of the county, shall keep a seal, with the style of the court around the margin and the image of an eagle in the center.
MS Code § 9-1-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-37. Allowance for stationery

 The circuit, chancery and county courts shall make allowance to the clerks thereof of all needful sums for supplying the offices and courtrooms with necessary stationery, furniture, books, presses, seals, and other things necessary for the same, and for the safe-keeping of the books, records, and papers belonging thereto; and such allowance shall be certified to the board of supervisors. Provided, however, that in no event shall said circuit, chancery or county courts be allowed to purchase furniture in excess of five hundred dollars for any one year without first securing the approval of the board of supervisors of the county.
MS Code § 9-1-38 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-38. Certain judicial records exempt from public access requirements

 Records in the possession of a public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, which are developed among judges and among judges and their aides, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.
MS Code § 9-1-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-39. Clerks of circuit, chancery and county courts in separate judicial districts in Harrison County

 In Harrison County, a county having two judicial districts, the clerks of the circuit and chancery courts of said county shall be the clerks of the respective circuit and chancery courts in each of the districts aforesaid and the circuit clerk shall additionally be the clerk of the county court as provided by law, in each of said districts and they shall keep offices both at Gulfport and Biloxi, in which all books, records, dockets, papers and documents belonging to each of the courts of said district shall be kept respectively; and all dockets, records, papers and books required to be kept by law by clerks of the circuit, chancery and county courts in this state shall be kept by each of said clerks respectively at Gulfport and Biloxi, for each of said districts; and the enrollment of a judgment or decree in the district where the same may be rendered or obtained, shall be a lien on all property of the person against whom the same may be rendered within the district where so enrolled.
MS Code § 9-1-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 9 - Courts|Chapter 1 - Provisions Common to Courts|General Provisions|§ 9-1-41. Reasonableness of attorneys' fees; evidence

 In any action in which a court is authorized to award reasonable attorneys' fees, the court shall not require the party seeking such fees to put on proof as to the reasonableness of the amount sought, but shall make the award based on the information already before it and the court's own opinion based on experience and observation; provided however, a party may, in its discretion, place before the court other evidence as to the reasonableness of the amount of the award, and the court may consider such evidence in making the award.