reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
MS Code § 29-15-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-17. Commission to conduct boundary mapping program; additional powers of Commission

  After the preparation and publication of the certified preliminary map, as finally adopted and provided for in Section 29-15-7, the commission is authorized and directed to conduct a comprehensive program of public trust tidelands boundary mapping with the object of providing accurate surveys of such lands of the state.   In addition to other such powers as may be specifically delegated to it, the commission is authorized to perform the following functions:   To coordinate the efforts of all public and private agencies and organizations engaged in the making of tidal surveys and maps of the coastal areas of this state, with the object of avoiding unnecessary duplication and overlapping;   To serve as a coordinating state agency for any program of tidal surveying and mapping conducted by the federal government;   To assist any court, tribunal, administrative agency or political subdivision, and to make available to them information regarding tidal surveying and coastal boundary determinations;   To contract with federal, state or local agencies or with private parties for the performance of any surveys, studies, investigations or mapping activities, for preparation and publication of the results thereof, or for other authorized functions relating to the objectives of this part;   To develop permanent records of tidal surveys and maps of the state's coastal areas;   To develop uniform specifications and regulations for tidal surveying and mapping coastal areas of the state;   To collect and preserve appropriate survey data from coastal areas; and   To act as a public repository for copies of coastal area maps and to establish a library of such maps and charts.
MS Code § 29-15-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-19. Maps to conform to minimal national map accuracy standards

 All maps produced under this program shall conform at least to minimal national map accuracy standards.
MS Code § 29-15-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-21. Establishment of local tidal datums and determination of mean high and low water lines; standards

 The establishment of local tidal datums and the determination of the location of the mean high water line or the mean low water line, whether by federal, state or local agencies or private parties, shall be made in accordance with the standards and procedures set forth in this chapter, and in accordance with supplementary regulations promulgated by the commission.
MS Code § 29-15-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-23. Establishment of local tidal datums and determination of mean high and low water lines; responsibility; methods

  The establishment of local tidal datums and the determination of the location of the mean high water line or the mean low water line shall be performed by qualified personnel licensed by the Board of Professional Land Surveyors or by representatives of the United States Government when approved by the commission.   The location of the mean high water line or the mean low water line shall be determined by methods which are approved by the commission for the area concerned.
MS Code § 29-17-4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 17 - State Agency Repair and Renovation|§ 29-17-4. State Agency Repair and Renovation Fund

 There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the "State Agency Repair and Renovation Fund" which shall consist of monies appropriated or otherwise made available therefor by the Legislature. Interest earned on monies in the special fund shall be deposited to the credit of such fund and money shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year into the State General Fund. Money in the special fund shall be appropriated by the Legislature and allocated by the Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management, Department of Finance and Administration, for the repair, renovation and improvement of existing facilities owned by the State of Mississippi, except for those facilities under the control of the institutions of higher learning and those facilities owned by the community and junior colleges. Such repair, renovation and improvements shall include utility infrastructure projects; heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems; and the replacement of furniture and equipment owned by the State of Mississippi. However, the cost of such repair, renovation and improvement for any one project shall not exceed One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00). For the purposes of this section, the term "furniture and equipment" shall be limited to the types of furniture and equipment items previously recorded in the agency's inventory.
MS Code § 31-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-1. Contracts for printing, binding, etc.

 The responsibility for the making of contracts for printing, binding, engraving and lithographing is hereby vested in each state agency or office which requires such printing, binding, engraving and lithographing, including but not restricted to the Secretary of State, State Department of Education, State Tax Commission, Supreme Court, Department of Insurance, State Auditor, Public Service Commission, State Treasurer, State Fiscal Management Board, State Veterans Affairs Board, Attorney General, Department of Agriculture and Commerce, State Board of Pharmacy, State Board of Dental Examiners, State Law Library, State Board of Health, Mississippi Department of Corrections, State Educational Finance Commission, Department of Archives and History, Mississippi State Hospital and Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning.   All contracts referred to herein shall be submitted to and approved by the State Fiscal Management Board prior to their execution, except that those contracts under the jurisdiction of the Legislature shall be submitted to and approved by the Legislative Budget Office.   All state agencies shall purchase all commodities required for their operation or for the proper fulfillment of their duties and functions in accordance with Chapter 7 of this title in order to coordinate and promote efficiency and economy in the purchase of such commodities for the state.
MS Code § 31-1-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-3. Duties vested in Secretary of State

 Any other duties and powers heretofore vested in the former office of board of public contracts and not specifically transferred to a specific state agency or office or specifically repealed are transferred to and vested in the Secretary of State.
MS Code § 31-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-5. Kinds of paper to be used

 The paper for printing the acts of the Legislature, journals, all pamphlets, department reports, messages, and the like shall be of good quality of a standard book paper of not less than fifty (50) pounds to the ream, and for bills, blanks, circulars, and the like to be of good bond of not less than sixteen (16) pounds to the ream.
MS Code § 31-1-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-7. Kinds of type to be used

 The following kinds of type shall be used: The acts of the Legislature shall be set in eight- or ten-point type, solid or leaded, as the Secretary of State may direct; the journals of the Senate and the House shall be set in eight-point type, solid; the department reports, miscellaneous books, pamphlets, and Governor's messages, and the like shall be set in ten-point, eight-point and/or six-point, or other sizes of type, within the discretion of the Secretary of State. The matters of spacing between paragraphs, and of style and type of marginal or headnotes shall be within the discretion of the Secretary of State.
MS Code § 31-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-9. Binding

 Two kinds of binding for books shall be used, to wit: full buckram, or stiff boards with buckram backs, unless otherwise specified and ordered by the Secretary of State.   A number of copies each of the acts and journals of the Legislature and department reports shall be bound in buckram, sufficient for the state and county libraries and colleges and for such other distribution as the law directs. The exact number of copies of each of the foregoing to be thus bound is left within the discretion of the Secretary of State.   All the remaining copies of the acts and journals shall be bound either in full buckram, or in stiff boards with buckram backs, as the Secretary of State may direct.   The messages of the Governor, reports of officers, boards and institutions, and all other pamphlets shall be in paper covers only, except as the Secretary of State, in his discretion, may direct.
MS Code § 31-1-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-11. Contents of page

 The acts of the Legislature, the journals, department reports, pamphlets, and the like shall be set in type of the respective sizes as provided in Section 31-1-7 and in a style such as economy and good workmanship require, within the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of State. The type size of the pages of the acts, journals and department reports shall be twenty-six (26) by forty-four (44) pica ems, with a trim size of six (6) by nine (9) inches. Pamphlets and books other than the acts, journals and reports shall be of the same or a more convenient size, within the discretion of the Secretary of State. Blank pages shall not be paid for, and in all cases where unnecessary spaces are left, the Secretary of State, in estimating the number of pages in a job, shall deduct a half page for every unnecessary space.
MS Code § 31-1-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-13. No extra charge for collating

 No charge shall be made for counting, folding, stitching, collating, drying, pressing, or other like thing, but all such matter shall be considered as embraced in the printing or binding, as the case may be. The printer or binder, in all instances, is to be understood as obligated to furnish free of cost all paper and material used in the performance of his contract, and to receive and deliver all matter at the capitol.
MS Code § 31-1-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-15. Number to be printed

 The acts of the Legislature shall be printed in two (2) volumes, one (1) volume containing the public or general acts of the Legislature and the other volume the local and private acts of the Legislature, but for use of state departments the two (2) volumes can be combined. The number of general or public acts of the Legislature, of the local and private acts of the Legislature, of the journals of the Senate and the House of Representatives, of the Governor's message, and of the reports of officers, boards, and institutions to be printed, severally and respectively, shall be left within the discretion of the Secretary of State; and the Secretary of State may sell at a price, approximately the cost of publication, such copies of the laws and journals as may not be needed in the distribution, now or hereinafter required, and for the use of the Legislature and officers of the state.   The Secretary of State is authorized to dispose of all copies of the laws and journals after having kept same and failed to sell same as is provided by law at the expiration of a period of three (3) years from the date of publication. However, the Secretary of State shall keep a minimum of five (5) copies of each such publication on file in his office.
MS Code § 31-1-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-17. Printing schedule

 The Secretary of State shall furnish to the contractor for printing all of the acts of the Legislature within thirty (30) days after the adjournment thereof. The contractor, within ninety (90) days thereafter, shall print, with the index, and bind all copies of the acts as required by the Secretary of State and deliver same to the said secretary, who may extend the time of the contractor, if necessary.   Within six (6) months after the adjournment of the Legislature, the journals of the two (2) houses shall be printed with the indexes, bound, and delivered to the Secretary of State, unless the time be extended by said Secretary of State.
MS Code § 31-1-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-19. Labeling

 The acts of the Legislature shall be labeled "Laws of Mississippi" including the year of their passage, and the label shall indicate whether the laws are "general" or "local and private"; and if enacted at an extraordinary session, the label shall so indicate. The journals of the Legislature shall be labeled "House Journal-Mississippi," and "Senate Journal-Mississippi," respectively, and the year of the session shall be indicated thereon; and if for an extraordinary session, the label shall so indicate. The bound copies of the department reports shall be labeled "Department Reports, State of Mississippi," and the label shall disclose the year covered by the reports.   The department reports consist of the Governor's message and the annual reports of all offices, boards, commissions, agencies and institutions.
MS Code § 31-1-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-21. Contractor's accounts

 All contractors shall specify each job of work charged for and attach to the account the receipt of the proper officer for the work. The accounts must be accompanied with one copy of each job, of the paper containing the matter charged for, and must state the number of ems or inches and all particulars.
MS Code § 31-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-23. Department to read proof

 The department for which the work is done shall examine the proof sheets of all work executed under the provisions of this chapter, and see that they are correctly printed and that all such work is executed in a suitable manner and in accordance with the requirements of law.
MS Code § 31-1-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-25. Printing, binding, and stationery

  The purchase of all printing, binding and stationery is hereby defined as a commodity purchase, subject to the provisions of Sections 31-7-1 through 31-7-19, Mississippi Code of 1972.   In the event the provisions of this section conflict with the provisions of any laws or parts of laws, the provisions of this section shall control.
MS Code § 31-1-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Public Contracts|§ 31-1-27. Certain appraisal records exempt from requirement of public access

 Appraisal information in the possession of a public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, which concern the sale or purchase of real or personal property for public purposes prior to public announcement of the purchase or sale, where the release of such records would have a detrimental effect on such sale or purchase, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.
MS Code § 31-3-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 3 - State Board of Public Contractors|§ 31-3-2. Declaration of purpose

 The purpose of this chapter, is to protect the health, safety and general welfare of all persons dealing with those who are engaged in the vocation of contracting and to afford such persons an effective and practical protection against incompetent, inexperienced, unlawful and fraudulent acts of contractors.
MS Code § 31-3-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 3 - State Board of Public Contractors|§ 31-3-3. Composition of board; removal; filling of vacancies

 There is hereby created the State Board of Contractors of the State of Mississippi, which shall consist of ten (10) members who shall be appointed by the Governor. All appointments to the board shall be made with the advice and consent of the Senate. Two (2) road contractors; two (2) building contractors; two (2) residential builders as defined in Section 73-59-1; one (1) plumbing or heating and air-conditioning contractor; one (1) electrical contractor; and one (1) water and sewer contractor shall compose the board. The Governor shall appoint one (1) additional member who shall be a roofing contractor and whose term of office shall be five (5) years. Each member shall be an actual resident of the State of Mississippi and must have been actually engaged in the contracting business for a period of not less than ten (10) years before appointment. The initial terms of the two (2) residential builders shall be for two (2) and four (4) years, respectively.   Upon the expiration of the term of office of any member of the board, the Governor shall appoint a new member for a term of five (5) years, such new appointments being made so as to maintain on the board two (2) building contractors; two (2) road contractors; two (2) residential builders; one (1) plumbing or heating and air-conditioning contractor; one (1) electrical contractor; and one (1) water and sewer contractor; and one (1) roofing contractor. The Governor shall fill any vacancy by appointment, such appointee to serve the balance of the term of the original appointee. The Governor may remove any member of the board for misconduct, incompetency or willful neglect of duty.   In the event the Governor fails to appoint a member of the board within twelve (12) months of the occurrence of the vacancy, such vacancy shall be filled by majority vote of the board, subject to advice and consent of the Senate and the requirements of this section.
MS Code § 31-3-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 3 - State Board of Public Contractors|§ 31-3-5. Organization and administration

 The board shall be assigned suitable office space at the seat of government and shall elect one (1) of its members as chairman and one (1) as vice chairman; and each shall perform the usual duties of such offices. The board may adopt a seal. Six (6) members of the board shall constitute a quorum, and a majority vote of those present and voting at any meeting shall be necessary for the transaction of any business coming before the board. Members must be present to cast votes on any and all business. The executive director shall serve as secretary of the board. The board is authorized to employ such personnel as shall be necessary in the performance of its duties including sufficient administrative and clerical staff to process and review applications for certificates of responsibility, to prepare and administer tests therefor, to investigate applications for certificates of responsibility and to inspect work performed by contractors as may be necessary to enforce and carry out the purpose of this chapter.
MS Code § 31-3-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 3 - State Board of Public Contractors|§ 31-3-7. Meetings

 The board shall have four (4) regular meetings in each year, one (1) on the second Wednesday in January, one (1) on the second Wednesday in April, one (1) on the second Wednesday in July, and one (1) on the second Wednesday in October, at its offices at the seat of government or through the means of teleconference or video conferencing in accordance with Section 25-41-5. If the regular meeting day falls on a legal holiday, the board shall meet on the next day. The board may hold such special meetings as it finds necessary. However, before any special meeting is held, a notice stating the time, place and primary purpose of such meeting shall be sent by certified or registered mail from the chairman or vice chairman of the board to the other members of the board at least five (5) days before such meeting. Certificates of responsibility shall be issued at any time during the course of a calendar year as prescribed by the rules and regulations of the board. All meetings shall be held in the State of Mississippi. At any regular or special meeting the board may recess from time to time to reconvene on a day and time fixed by an order of the board entered upon its minutes.   The holder of a valid certificate of responsibility shall disclose to the owner or other person with whom the holder is contracting at the signing of a contract or the initial agreement to perform work whether the holder carries general liability insurance. The disclosure shall be written, the structure and composition of which shall be determined by the State Board of Contractors, and shall be placed immediately before the space reserved in the contract for the signature of the purchaser. The disclosure shall be boldfaced and conspicuous type which is larger than the type of the remaining text of the contract.
MS Code § 31-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 3 - State Board of Public Contractors|§ 31-3-9. Compensation of members

 The members of the board shall be entitled to receive a per diem as provided in Section 25-3-69, Mississippi Code of 1972, when actually engaged in the business of the board, together with their actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses incurred on behalf of board business, upon itemized statements of same as provided by general law in the case of other state employees. Such statements shall be paid only after the same have been approved by order on the minutes of the board.
MS Code § 31-3-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 3 - State Board of Public Contractors|§ 31-3-11. Executive director

 The board shall elect and fix the salary of an executive director, and the board may terminate the employment of such executive director at any time the board deems the same advisable. The board shall require the executive director to file bond in such amount as the board may deem necessary, and shall specify the duties of such employee. The premium on any such bond shall be paid from the funds provided by this chapter.
MS Code § 31-3-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations|Chapter 3 - State Board of Public Contractors|§ 31-3-15. Certificates of responsibility required for bid

 No contract for public or private projects shall be issued or awarded to any contractor who did not have a current certificate of responsibility issued by said board at the time of the submission of the bid, or a similar certificate issued by a similar board of another state which recognizes certificates issued by said board. Any contract issued or awarded in violation of this section shall be null and void.