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MS Code § 21-9-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-35. City council to act as governing body of city

 The mayor and councilmen shall constitute the governing body of such city or town and shall be known as the city council or the town council as the case may be. Except as limited in this chapter, the city council shall have, exercise and perform all executive, legislative and judicial powers, duties and obligations vested by law in the mayor and governing body acting for the city at the time of the adoption by such city of the council-manager form of government.   The corporate name of every such city or town shall be "The City of (name of city)," or "The Town of (name of town)," under which name the council shall exercise and perform all the corporate powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed on it or the members thereof.
MS Code § 21-9-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-37. Function of the mayor

 The mayor shall be the titular head of the city for all ceremonial purposes and for all processes of law. He shall be the president of the council and shall have a voice and vote in its proceedings, but no power of veto. He shall have no administrative powers. In case of his absence or disability, the council may appoint another of its members to fulfill his duties temporarily.
MS Code § 21-9-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-39. Meetings of the council; quorum; voting

  Regular public meetings of the council shall be held on the first Tuesday of each month, at such time of day as the council may provide. When a regular meeting of the council shall fall on a holiday, the council shall meet the following day. Special meetings may be called at any time by the mayor or two (2) councilmen on at least two (2) days' notice to the mayor and each member of the council. A special meeting may also be held at any time by written consent of the mayor and all members of the council. At all meetings of the council, a majority of the members thereof shall constitute a quorum. The quorum required by this section may be established by teleconference or video means as provided in Section 25-41-5(2). The affirmative vote of a majority of all of the members of the council shall be necessary to adopt any motion, resolution or ordinance, or to pass any measure whatever, unless a greater number is provided in this chapter. Upon every vote taken by the council, the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded, and every motion, resolution or ordinance shall be reduced to writing before the vote is taken thereon. Upon request of one or more council members, any motion, resolution or ordinance shall be read by the clerk before the vote is taken thereon. The city or town manager may be appointed only at a regular meeting of the council with no less than a majority of the members, plus one (1), in attendance.   The council may, pursuant to Section 21-17-17, set a day other than Tuesday for the holding of its regular monthly meeting.
MS Code § 21-9-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-41. Mayor and councilmen not required to have offices or office hours

 Neither the mayor nor councilmen shall be required to have any office in the city hall, nor shall they be required to have any office hours.
MS Code § 21-9-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-43. Council members shall not serve as members of commissions or boards under their control

 A member of the city council shall neither be a member of any commission or board appointed by the city council nor serve as a member of any commission or board under the jurisdiction of the city council, except as otherwise provided by law.
MS Code § 21-9-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-45. Reorganization of city government at behest of council

 The council may, by ordinance, create new departments and offices as shall appear proper but only on recommendation of the city manager, and shall likewise fix the powers and duties and number of employees and compensation therefor.
MS Code § 21-9-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-47. Hours of service of city officers and employees

 The city council shall, by resolution, fix the hours of service of all officers and employees of the city.
MS Code § 21-9-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-53. Annual examination and statement to be made by council

 At the end of each fiscal year, the council shall cause a full and complete examination of all the books, accounts and vouchers of the city to be made by a competent accountant or accountants. The report of said examination shall be typed or printed in pamphlet form including a detailed, itemized statement of all receipts and disbursements for the year, and a summary of the proceedings of the council during the year. The council shall furnish a copy of said pamphlet, free of charge, to all persons who shall apply therefor at the office of the clerk, and shall cause three of the printed copies of said pamphlet for each fiscal year to be substantially bound in three volumes, which shall be kept and preserved as a record of the clerk's office. Said pamphlets shall be published as now provided by law.
MS Code § 21-9-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-55. Appropriations by first elected council

 If at the beginning of the first term of office of the first city council elected by any city under the provisions of this chapter, the appropriations for the expenditures for the city government for the current fiscal year shall have been made, the council shall have power, by ordinance, to revise, to repeal, or change said appropriations and to make additional appropriations.
MS Code § 21-9-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-57. Power of council may be limited as to tax rates or bond issuances

 Any city operating under the council-manager form of government may by ordinance adopted by the council and approved by a two-thirds majority of the qualified electors, voting thereon, at a special or general election in such city, fix the maximum rate of general taxation to be thereafter levied by the council, and also fix the maximum amount of the bonds or other obligations of such city that may be issued, any general or special law applicable to such city to the contrary notwithstanding. However, in the absence of such ordinance or ordinances, so adopted and approved, the maximum rate of general taxation in such city and the maximum amount of the bonds or obligations of such city that may be issued, shall be the same as is provided elsewhere by law or the charter of such city.
MS Code § 21-9-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-59. Council may redistrict wards and voting precincts

 The council is authorized to provide by ordinance for the division of the wards, or if there be no wards, for the division of the municipality, into such number of voting precincts as may be necessary, each as nearly as possible containing the same number of qualified electors.
MS Code § 21-9-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-61. Compensation of mayor and councilmen

 The compensation of mayor and councilmen in cities operating under the council-manager plan shall be fixed by ordinance of the council.
MS Code § 21-9-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-63. Salaries and their payment; overtime to members of police and fire departments

 The salary of the mayor, councilmen and all officers and assistants holding any office created by this chapter or by ordinance shall be paid in monthly installments on the first business day of each month, and the salaries or wages of all other employees of such city shall be paid at such periods as may be fixed by the council. No salaries or wages shall be paid to any officer or employee of such city until after the same shall have been earned.   Every officer or assistant, other than the mayor and councilmen, shall receive such salary or compensation as the council shall by ordinance, provide, and the salary compensation of all other employees of such city shall be fixed by the council from time to time, as occasion may demand.   The city council of any city operating under the provisions of this chapter shall have the power and authority to provide for and pay to any member of the police department or fire department of such city additional compensation for services and duties performed by any such member over and above the usual and regular number of days and hours per week or month ordinarily worked by such member. Any additional compensation so paid shall be computed on the basis of the compensation regularly paid to such members of the police or fire department. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to relieve any such member of the police department or fire department from being subject to call for duty on a twenty-four hour basis whether or not additional compensation is paid.
MS Code § 21-9-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-65. Petitions for special election

 Except as otherwise provided for, no special election shall be held, and no ordinance, in which any petition or protest is required, shall be referred to, or voted on, at any election unless, within the time allowed by the terms hereof, a sufficient petition or petitions, addressed to the mayor, demanding such election or protesting against or requesting the adoption of such ordinances, shall be personally signed by at least twenty-five per centum of all the qualified electors of such city and filed with the city clerk. Immediately upon the filing of any such petition or petitions with the city clerk, he shall endorse thereon the date of such filing and shall within ten days thereafter, verify the signatures thereto by the registration and poll books, and deliver such petition or petitions to the mayor of such city, together with the certificate of such clerk showing the total number of qualified electors of such city and also the total number of qualified electors who shall have signed such petition or petitions, which certificate shall be prima facie correct but not conclusive. If it shall appear from said petition or petitions and the certificate of such clerk that the same are in proper form and have been signed by the required number of the qualified electors of such city, it shall be the duty of the council at its next regular meeting to order such special election, or refer such ordinance to a vote of the electors of such city, in case of their failure to wholly repeal the same. Each and every petition shall, at the time the same is filed with the city clerk, have attached thereto the affidavit of one or more of the signers thereto, stating the total number of names signed to such petition at the time of filing the same, and no such petition shall be received or filed by the city clerk unless such affidavit is attached thereto.
MS Code § 21-9-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-67. Ordering by council of special elections

 Whenever any ordinance or resolution adopted by the council, or any other matter, is required to be referred to a vote of the qualified electors of any city, the council shall order a special election for the determination of the matter, to be held no less than thirty days nor more than sixty days from the making of such order, provided that there shall not be a general election to be held in such city within sixty days from the date of the order referring such matter to the judgment of the electors. In case there is to be such a general election, the matter shall be referred to and voted upon at such general election. All such special elections shall be held and conducted as other elections in such city.
MS Code § 21-9-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-69. Conduct of elections

 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all elections of every kind, special or otherwise, shall be conducted in any city operating under the council-manager form of government in the same manner and method and under the same laws and regulations as the same would have been conducted if the council-manager plan of government had not been adopted.
MS Code § 21-9-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-71. Election offenses

 Any officer or employee other than the mayor and councilmen of any such city, who shall solicit or attempt to influence any person to vote for any particular candidate at any election held in such city, or who shall in any manner contribute any money, labor or other valuable thing to any person or organization for election purposes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 21-9-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-75. Police court and public schools unaffected by reorganization

 This chapter shall not in any manner, irrespective of other provisions hereof, affect the organization of the police court or of the public schools, which shall continue to operate by and under the laws otherwise applicable.
MS Code § 21-9-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-77. Existing laws, rights and liabilities of city unaffected by reorganization

 All laws governing cities heretofore operating under another form of government, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter respecting the council-manager plan of government, shall apply to and govern such cities respectively when they shall come under the said council-manager plan. All by-laws, ordinances and resolutions lawfully passed and in force in every such city under its former organization shall remain in force until altered or repealed by the council elected under the provisions of this chapter.   The territorial limits of every such city shall remain the same as under its former organization. All rights and property of every description, which were vested in every such city under its former organization, shall vest in the same under the organization contemplated by the council-manager plan of government. No right or liability, either in favor of or against such city, and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be affected by such change, unless otherwise provided.
MS Code § 21-9-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-79. Application of civil service laws

 All of the provisions of the civil service laws applying to any city adopting the council-manager plan of government, at the time of such adoption shall continue to apply in full force and effect to such city after adoption of such council-manager plan of government. The civil service commission existing and operating under the former plan of government shall continue to operate without interruption or impairment under the council-manager form of government. All rights, privileges, and advantages of all employees coming under the civil service laws, applying to said city at the time of adoption shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no wise be impaired, altered or changed by such adoption. After the election and taking of office of the councilmen and mayor under the council-manager plan of government, all functions and duties of every nature that would have otherwise been performed by the council under the commission form of government in relation to such civil service laws shall thereafter be exercised and performed by the city council under the council-manager plan of government, except that all appointments of employees coming under the provisions of such civil service laws shall be made, subject to such civil service laws, by the city manager, but all appointments made prior to the change to the council-manager plan shall remain in full force and effect.   The city manager is expressly excluded from coming under the terms and provisions of the civil service laws herein mentioned and is expressly excluded from the employees therein included.
MS Code § 21-9-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-81. Provisions as to disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen to continue unaffected

 All of the provisions of Sections 21-25-5, 21-25-7, and 21-29-101 through 21-29-151, shall be applicable to any city operating under the council-manager plan as herein provided, and all rights of every policeman and fireman of any such city under the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen shall be unimpaired, and there shall be no interruption or change in the operation or administration of the disability and relief fund for firemen and policemen, and other city employees.
MS Code § 21-9-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 9 - Council-Manager Plan of Government|§ 21-9-83. General and special laws and statutes to be construed as applicable to council

 Wherever, in any general or special law or statute, any power is conferred or duty enjoined or penalty imposed upon any officer, commission, board, or other body, acting for a city, such law or statute shall be held to confer such power and to enjoin such duty and impose such penalty upon the council, and the members thereof, in cities operating under a council-manager form of government. Whenever in this chapter or in any statute of this state, the word "franchise" is used it shall, when applied to cities operating under council-manager form of government, include every special privilege in the streets, highways, and public places of the city, whether granted by the state or the city, which does not belong to the citizens generally by common right.
MS Code § 21-13-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 13 - Ordinances|§ 21-13-1. Authority to pass; penalties

 The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to pass all ordinances and to enforce the same by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both.
MS Code § 21-13-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 13 - Ordinances|§ 21-13-3. How certain actions are to be taken

  The governing authorities of any municipality may provide by ordinance, order or resolution for the appropriation of monies for the operation of the municipal government, which monies shall be paid as provided for in any such ordinance, order or resolution. However, any ordinance granting a franchise or any right to use or occupy the streets, highways, bridges or public places in the municipality for any purpose, except ordinances, resolutions or other actions for the immediate and temporary preservation of the public peace, health or safety, shall be introduced in writing at a regular meeting of the governing body of such municipality and shall thereafter remain on file with the municipal clerk for public inspection for at least two (2) weeks before the final passage or adoption thereof. Upon request of one or more members of the governing authorities, any such ordinance shall be read by the clerk before a vote is taken thereon. In addition, every franchise or grant of any kind to use or occupy the street, highway, bridges, or other public places of such municipality to any interurban or street railway, railroad, gas works, water works, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telephone or telegraph system, or other public utility operating within such municipality must be approved by the passage of the ordinance granting same by a majority of the qualified electors of such municipality voting thereon at a general or special election.   The vote on final passage of all municipal ordinances shall be taken by both "yeas" and "nays", which shall be entered on the minutes by the clerk. A vote shall never be taken on any ordinance not previously reduced to writing. Upon request of one or more members of the municipal governing authorities, any ordinance shall be read by the clerk before a vote is taken thereon.
MS Code § 21-13-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 13 - Ordinances|§ 21-13-7. Style of ordinances

 The style of all municipal ordinances shall be "Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen (or other proper governing body, as the case may be) of the city (or town or village, as the case may be) of_______________ ,".
MS Code § 21-13-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 13 - Ordinances|§ 21-13-9. Ordinances shall not contain more than one subject; amendments

 An ordinance shall not contain more than one (1) subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. An ordinance shall be amended by section or sections, and the original section or sections shall thereby be repealed. Each amendment to a section or sections of an ordinance shall have a title which clearly indicates the subject matter or matters of the amendment.
MS Code § 21-13-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 21 - Municipalities|Chapter 13 - Ordinances|§ 21-13-11. Effective date of ordinances; emergency measures

 Every ordinance passed by the governing body of a municipality, except as is otherwise provided by law, shall be certified by a municipal clerk, signed by the mayor or a majority of all the members of the governing body, recorded in the ordinance book, and published at least one (1) time in some newspaper published in such municipality, or, if there be no such newspaper, then in a newspaper within the county having general circulation in said municipality, or, if there be no newspaper published in or having general circulation in same, then in any newspaper published in the State of Mississippi having general circulation in said county; and all of same shall be done before such ordinance shall be effective. The publication of the ordinance may be made as provided in Section 21-17-19. No ordinance shall be in force for one (1) month after its passage; however, any ordinance for the immediate and temporary preservation of the public peace, health or safety or for other good cause, which is adopted by unanimous vote of all members of the governing body, may be made effective from and after its passage by a unanimous vote of all members of the governing body. However, in such cases, such ordinance shall contain a statement of reason why it is necessary that same become immediately effective. All such ordinances shall be published and recorded in the ordinance book in the same manner as other ordinances, but shall become effective immediately upon the adoption thereof, and prior to being so recorded and published. Nothing in this section shall apply to ordinances appropriating money for the payment of the current expenses of the municipality or the payment of sums due on any contract previously made.