TITLE 25 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; PUBLIC RECORDS
- Chapter 1 - Public Officers; General Provisions.
- 25-1-1 - Length of terms.
- 25-1-100 - Certain personnel records exempt from public access requirements; exceptions.
- 25-1-101 - State-furnished books.
- 25-1-102 - Certain attorneys' work product exempt from public access requirements.
- 25-1-103 - Certain offices held by same person.
- 25-1-105 - Application of prohibition against striking to public employees and employers.
- 25-1-107 - Date of postmark as proof of date of payment or report.
- 25-1-109 - Law enforcement officers prohibited from disclosing identity of person arrested, issued a citation, or being held for misdemeanor.
- 25-1-11 - Oath of office filed.
- 25-1-111 - Prevention of disclosure by state agencies of social security numbers.
- 25-1-13 - State officials to make guaranty or surety bonds.
- 25-1-15 - Conditions of official bonds; new bonds to be secured every four years.
- 25-1-17 - Official bonds payable to state.
- 25-1-19 - Approval of bonds of county and beat officers.
- 25-1-21 - Examination of sureties.
- 25-1-23 - Procedure for determining sufficiency of doubtful bond.
- 25-1-25 - New bond required in certain cases.
- 25-1-27 - Release of surety on bond of local officer or employee.
- 25-1-29 - Release of surety on bond of state officer.
- 25-1-3 - Date terms begin for state officers, except the governor.
- 25-1-31 - Personal bonds.
- 25-1-33 - Premiums on official bonds.
- 25-1-35 - Commission not necessary.
- 25-1-37 - Acts of de facto officer valid.
- 25-1-39 - Deputy to discharge duty after death of officer.
- 25-1-41 - Informal bonds valid.
- 25-1-43 - Officer not to make contract without authority.
- 25-1-45 - Civil liability for failure to perform duty.
- 25-1-47 - Defense of public employees and satisfaction of judgment.
- 25-1-49 - Seller may recover claim unlawfully brought by an officer.
- 25-1-5 - Date terms begin for district, county, and beat officers.
- 25-1-51 - Confiscated property: prohibited acquisition; disposition by sheriff; subsequent recovery.
- 25-1-53 - Nepotism prohibited.
- 25-1-55 - Penalty for nepotism.
- 25-1-57 - Undated or postdated resignations.
- 25-1-59 - Vacancy by removal or default.
- 25-1-61 - Legal residence of state officers.
- 25-1-63 - Defaulting officers published.
- 25-1-65 - Expense of publication.
- 25-1-67 - Public moneys to be promptly paid by legal representatives.
- 25-1-69 - Officer not to carry or deposit public funds outside state.
- 25-1-7 - Vacancy in office.
- 25-1-71 - Public moneys are trust funds.
- 25-1-72 - Duty to deposit funds into county depository.
- 25-1-73 - Officers liable for costs of collection of public funds improperly withheld.
- 25-1-75 - Duplicate receipt books upon transfer of funds.
- 25-1-77 - Bureau of Fleet Management created; purpose; duties; purchase, rent, lease or acquisition of motor vehicle for state use; certain documentation required; bureau may seize and dispose of cert
- 25-1-79 - Use of state-owned automobiles.
- 25-1-81 - Expense accounts and reports as to state-owned automobiles.
- 25-1-83 - Attending conventions, associations, or meetings.
- 25-1-85 - Repealed.
- 25-1-87 - Marking publicly owned or leased vehicle; exceptions; effect of noncompliance.
- 25-1-89 - Donated automobiles.
- 25-1-9 - Oath of office taken.
- 25-1-91 - Penalties regarding state-owned automobiles.
- 25-1-93 - Provisions inapplicable to Governor.
- 25-1-95 - Signature machines.
- 25-1-97 - State office hours.
- 25-1-98 - Opening and staffing of state offices; legal holidays, construction of "workday".
- 25-1-99 - County office hours.
- Chapter 3 - Salaries and Compensation.
- 25-3-1 - Classifications of counties.
- 25-3-101 - Promulgation of rules.
- 25-3-103 - Mississippi Organ Donor Leave Law; legislative intent; definitions; paid leave; number of days of leave allowed; approval required; adoption of rules governing organ donation leave.
- 25-3-11 - Travel and expenses of county attorneys.
- 25-3-13 - Salaries of supervisors.
- 25-3-15 - Additions to assessed valuation for fixing supervisors' salaries in certain counties.
- 25-3-17 - Payment of supervisors' salaries.
- 25-3-19 - Salaries of county auditors.
- 25-3-2 - Elected county official's salary reductions due to valuation and population changes.
- 25-3-21 - Allowance for copying assessment rolls.
- 25-3-23 - Deputy chancery clerk in certain counties.
- 25-3-25 - Salaries of sheriffs.
- 25-3-27 - Salaries of deputy sheriffs in counties having two judicial districts.
- 25-3-29 - Method of paying salaries.
- 25-3-3 - Salaries of assessors also serving as tax collectors; additional compensation.
- 25-3-31 - Salaries of elective state and district officers.
- 25-3-32 - Repealed.
- 25-3-33 - Repealed.
- 25-3-34 - Education benchmarks for appointive state and district officials.
- 25-3-35 - Salaries of elected judiciary, district attorneys and legal assistants.
- 25-3-36 - Compensation of justice court judges; disposition of fees, costs, fines and cash bonds; justice court clerk clearing account.
- 25-3-37 - Salaries to be full compensation.
- 25-3-38 - Payment of additional funds to appointive officials unlawful; penalty.
- 25-3-39 - Ceiling established for salaries; exemptions for Executive Director of Department of Economic and Community Development, Governor's Chief of Staff and certain professional employees in the D
- 25-3-40 - Annual salary increases; intent to implement minimum wage and maximize salary increases.
- 25-3-41 - Traveling expenses of state officers and employees; travel services by commercial travel agency.
- 25-3-43 - Travel expenses of judiciary.
- 25-3-45 - Penalty for excessive travel expenses.
- 25-3-47 - Department subordinates.
- 25-3-49 - Salaries in special appointments.
- 25-3-5 - Repealed.
- 25-3-51 - Deduction for absence from the state.
- 25-3-53 - Compensation of special judges of circuit, county, or chancery courts.
- 25-3-55 - Compensation of special judge of Supreme Court.
- 25-3-57 - Deduction for absence from court.
- 25-3-59 - Deduction for absence from meeting of public service commission.
- 25-3-61 - Governor may grant leave of absence.
- 25-3-63 - and 25-3-65. Repealed.
- 25-3-67 - Deductions from municipal employees' salaries for contributions for United Way, insurance, and United States Savings Bonds.
- 25-3-69 - Uniform per diem compensation for officers and employees of state boards, commissions and agencies.
- 25-3-7 - State contribution to compensation of assessors.
- 25-3-71 - Annual report of recommendations of salary increases and amounts.
- 25-3-73 - Repealed.
- 25-3-9 - Salaries of county prosecuting attorneys.
- 25-3-91 - Definitions.
- 25-3-92 - Compensatory leave; administrative leave.
- 25-3-93 - Personal leave.
- 25-3-95 - Major medical leave.
- 25-3-97 - Records; final payments upon leaving state employment; affidavits as to absences; transfer of accrued leave; employee's death.
- 25-3-99 - Prior payment of leave earned unaffected.
- Chapter 4 - Ethics in Government.
- 25-4-1 - Legislative purpose.
- 25-4-101 - Declaration of public policy.
- 25-4-103 - Definitions.
- 25-4-105 - Certain actions, activities and business relationships prohibited or authorized; contracts in violation of section voidable; penalties.
- 25-4-107 - Complaints; where brought; removal; initiated by; defendant's right to jury trial.
- 25-4-109 - Penalties; elected and nonelected public servants.
- 25-4-11 - Quorum; vacancy in commission.
- 25-4-111 - Authority head to take action against public servant who has violated article; conditions imposed upon former public servant.
- 25-4-113 - Civil action for damages against violator of article; forfeiture or pecuniary benefit; costs and attorneys' fees.
- 25-4-115 - Civil liability not precluded.
- 25-4-117 - Criminal liability not precluded.
- 25-4-119 - Officials not to derive pecuniary benefits as result of official duties; penalties.
- 25-4-121 - Officials or members of immediate family, partners or associates not to derive pecuniary benefits as result of official duties under Chapter 497, Laws of 2009; penalties.
- 25-4-13 - Compensation.
- 25-4-15 - Executive director; employees.
- 25-4-17 - Duties of commission.
- 25-4-18 - Opinions of Attorney General as to ethical situations concerning individual legislators.
- 25-4-19 - Powers of commission.
- 25-4-21 - Proceedings upon complaints.
- 25-4-23 - Confidentiality of proceedings and records.
- 25-4-25 - Persons required to file statement of economic interest.
- 25-4-27 - Contents of statement of economic interest.
- 25-4-28 - Disclosure of holdings of certain blind trusts not required under certain circumstances.
- 25-4-29 - Filing dates for statements.
- 25-4-3 - Definitions.
- 25-4-31 - Fines and penalties.
- 25-4-5 - Creation of commission; composition; appointment of members; terms of office; successors; appointment of member by Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
- 25-4-7 - Organizational meeting of commission.
- 25-4-9 - Chairman and vice-chairman of commission.
- Chapter 5 - Removals From Office.
- 25-5-1 - Removals from office.
- 25-5-11 - Signing of petition.
- 25-5-13 - Verification of petition.
- 25-5-15 - Certification of county registrar.
- 25-5-17 - Contested status of signator determined by Governor.
- 25-5-19 - Examination of petition by election commissioners.
- 25-5-21 - Notice of hearing.
- 25-5-23 - Removal council.
- 25-5-25 - Judgment of council.
- 25-5-27 - Resignation of officer.
- 25-5-29 - Conduct of election.
- 25-5-3 - Governor empowered to remove elective county officials.
- 25-5-31 - Form of the ballot.
- 25-5-33 - Results of election.
- 25-5-35 - Appeals.
- 25-5-37 - Penalties.
- 25-5-5 - Causes for removal.
- 25-5-7 - Demand for removal.
- 25-5-9 - Form of petition.
- Chapter 7 - Fees.
- 25-7-1 - Lawful to demand specific fees only.
- 25-7-10 - Additional allowance for chancery court clerks in certain counties.
- 25-7-11 - Recording fees itemized.
- 25-7-13 - Clerks of the circuit court.
- 25-7-14 - Prepayment of chancery or circuit court fees by state or political subdivision.
- 25-7-15 - Allowances for deputy circuit court clerks.
- 25-7-17 - Fees of circuit clerks in certain municipal appeals.
- 25-7-19 - Sheriffs.
- 25-7-21 - Tax collectors.
- 25-7-23 - Repealed.
- 25-7-25 - Justice courts.
- 25-7-27 - Marshals and constables.
- 25-7-29 - Notaries public.
- 25-7-3 - Clerk of the Supreme Court.
- 25-7-31 - Officers taking depositions.
- 25-7-33 - Officers taking acknowledgments.
- 25-7-35 - Commissioners, referees, auditors, and arbitrators.
- 25-7-37 - County surveyors.
- 25-7-39 - Payment of surveyor fees.
- 25-7-41 - Rangers.
- 25-7-43 - Fees for approving bond of county officer.
- 25-7-45 - All officers administering oaths.
- 25-7-47 - Witness fees.
- 25-7-49 - Law enforcement officers to receive no witness fees in criminal cases.
- 25-7-5 - Payment of fee for recording opinions.
- 25-7-51 - Certificates for witness fees in civil cases.
- 25-7-53 - Forfeiture of witness fees.
- 25-7-55 - Witness to have only one fee for same time.
- 25-7-57 - Witness in criminal cases.
- 25-7-59 - Report of witness certificates payable out of county treasury.
- 25-7-61 - Jurors; Lengthy Trial Fund.
- 25-7-63 - Determination of compensation of jurors.
- 25-7-65 - Printers and publishers.
- 25-7-67 - Appraisers of the estates of decedents.
- 25-7-69 - Officers and jurors in ad quod damnum proceedings.
- 25-7-7 - Fees due from state or county.
- 25-7-71 - To persons bringing back prisoner on extradition.
- 25-7-73 - Expenses of returning felon.
- 25-7-75 - Expenses of returning certain prisoners to other states.
- 25-7-77 - Fees for attachment for rent.
- 25-7-79 - Fees of officers and witness in unlawful entry and detainer court.
- 25-7-81 - Secretary of State.
- 25-7-83 - Executive Director of the Department of Finance and Administration.
- 25-7-85 - Secretary of State; fee relating to land transactions.
- 25-7-87 - Fees of state officers to be paid into Treasury.
- 25-7-89 - Fee for transcript of testimony and exhibits to testimony, or copy of such transcript and exhibits.
- 25-7-9 - Clerks of the chancery court.
- Chapter 9 - Statewide Personnel System.
- 25-9-1 - through 25-9-49. Repealed.
- 25-9-101 - Purpose of chapter.
- 25-9-103 - Principles applicable to administration of state personnel system.
- 25-9-105 - Consolidation of agencies and employees into state personnel system.
- 25-9-107 - Definitions.
- 25-9-109 - State personnel board members, terms of office, qualifications, vacancies.
- 25-9-111 - Officers of board, regulations as to meetings.
- 25-9-113 - Regular meetings; compensation and expenses of members.
- 25-9-115 - Repealed.
- 25-9-116 - Suspension of hiring, promotion and other reclassifications.
- 25-9-117 - Mississippi Personnel Advisory Council; membership; duties; expenses.
- 25-9-119 - State personnel director; selection; qualifications; duties.
- 25-9-120 - Contract personnel not state service or nonstate service employees of state; creation of Personal Service Contract Review Board; powers and duties of board.
- 25-9-121 - State service; status of permanent or certified employees under prior systems.
- 25-9-123 - Nonstate service; exclusion of positions covered by prior systems.
- 25-9-125 - Temporary assignment of state service employees to nonstate service.
- 25-9-126 - Furlough of federally funded employees.
- 25-9-127 - Prerequisites to dismissal or action adversely affecting compensation or employment status; exceptions; operating state vehicle without license good cause grounds for dismissal; male state
- 25-9-129 - Employee appeals board; membership; terms of office; compensation.
- 25-9-131 - Proceedings before employee appeals board; judicial review; legislative intent.
- 25-9-132 - Judicial review of employee appeals board decisions.
- 25-9-133 - Recommendations and position audits by board.
- 25-9-134 - Establishment of program to encourage and recognize excellence in government.
- 25-9-135 - State personnel director to review payrolls and collect statistical information; retention of payroll warrants for agency violations.
- 25-9-137 - Reorganization and consolidation of prior systems.
- 25-9-139 - Status of employees, equipment and supplies of prior systems; transfer of funds appropriated to prior systems.
- 25-9-141 - Funding for State Personnel Board; proration of costs.
- 25-9-143 - Status of employees in merit positions and exempt positions.
- 25-9-145 - Official coercion prohibited; penalties.
- 25-9-147 - Variable compensation plan; annual review and report; designation of plan as "Colonel Guy Groff State Variable Compensation Plan".
- 25-9-148 - Annual report regarding increases in compensation, other than salary increases authorized by Legislature.
- 25-9-149 - Discriminatory practices prohibited.
- 25-9-151 - Longevity service award program.
- 25-9-153 - Operator of state-owned vehicle must have valid drivers license from Mississippi or contiguous state; penalty.
- 25-9-155 - Nonstate service employees to be given preference for state service positions over general public.
- 25-9-171 - Definitions.
- 25-9-172 - Record of complaint; authority to investigate complaint; standard form for complaint; confidentiality.
- 25-9-173 - Prohibition against dismissing or adversely affecting compensation or employment status of public employee for providing information to investigative body; reprisals and retaliatory actions
- 25-9-175 - Liability of agency for violating provisions.
- 25-9-177 - Actions to recover civil fines and other penalties.
- 25-9-301 - Definitions.
- 25-9-303 - Preference for veterans in appointment, promotion and layoffs; additional preference for disabled veterans.
- 25-9-305 - Rules and regulations.
- 25-9-351 - Documentation of selective service registration required prior to employment of males between ages 18 and 26.
- 25-9-401 - Short title; legislative intent; management training program for state employees; incentives for successful completion of management training; participation in Basic Supervisory Training Co
- Chapter 11 - Social Security and Public Employees' Retirement and Disability Benefits.
- 25-11-1 - Citation.
- 25-11-101 - Public employees' retirement system established.
- 25-11-103 - Definitions.
- 25-11-105 - Membership.
- 25-11-106 - Counties responsible for employer contributions on direct payments to constables covered under Public Employees' Retirement System; constables responsible for employee contributions; count
- 25-11-107 - Civilian employees of Mississippi National Guard as a coverage group.
- 25-11-109 - Creditable service.
- 25-11-11 - Coverage of employees of political subdivisions and instrumentalities.
- 25-11-111 - Superannuation retirement.
- 25-11-112 - Additional annual payment to retirees and beneficiaries.
- 25-11-113 - Disability retirement.
- 25-11-114 - Retirement allowance for death or disability in line of duty.
- 25-11-115 - Options.
- 25-11-116 - Repealed.
- 25-11-117 - Refund of contributions; distribution to retirement plan or account; repayment of refund.
- 25-11-118 - Retirement system authorized to accept eligible roll over distributions to repay fund or for purchase of optional service credit.
- 25-11-119 - Administration of Article 3.
- 25-11-120 - Hearings and appeals for persons aggrieved by administrative determination relating to eligibility, payment of benefits or calculation of creditable service.
- 25-11-121 - Investments.
- 25-11-123 - Crediting of assets; financing.
- 25-11-124 - Employer to pay required member contributions; tax treatment; funding; retirement treatment.
- 25-11-125 - Employer contributions for certain fee paid public officers.
- 25-11-13 - Contribution fund.
- 25-11-15 - Administration and operation of Public Employees' Retirement System, federal-state agreement, and Articles 1 and 3.
- 25-11-17 - Rules and regulations.
- 25-11-19 - Studies and reports.
- 25-11-21 - Former laws remain in force.
- 25-11-3 - Purpose and declaration of policy.
- 25-11-5 - Definitions.
- 25-11-7 - Federal-state agreement.
- 25-11-9 - Contributions by state employees.
- Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System.
- 25-13-1 - Purpose of system.
- 25-13-11 - Retirement allowance; superannuation retirement; annual increase; minimum retirement allowances.
- 25-13-12 - Additional benefit payments.
- 25-13-13 - Death benefits.
- 25-13-14 - One-time early retirement for members with twenty years of service.
- 25-13-15 - Repealed.
- 25-13-16 - Retirement benefit options; definitions.
- 25-13-17 - Credit for prior time served in highway safety patrol, armed forces.
- 25-13-19 - Transfer of state retirement annuity fund contributions.
- 25-13-21 - Refund of contributions; rollover distribution to retirement plan or account; repayment of refund upon subsequent reentry into service.
- 25-13-22 - Retirement system authorized to accept eligible roll over distributions to repay fund or for purchase of optional service credit.
- 25-13-23 - Non-covered employees.
- 25-13-25 - Administrative board.
- 25-13-27 - Cost of administering fund; maintenance and disclosure of records.
- 25-13-28 - Interest on employee reserve account.
- 25-13-29 - Actuarial valuation.
- 25-13-3 - Eligibility for service retirement benefits.
- 25-13-31 - Exemption of benefits from taxation, legal execution, and assignment; deductions from retirement allowances for payment of employer or system sponsored group life or health insurance.
- 25-13-33 - Guaranty; vested rights to benefits; maximum annual retirement allowance.
- 25-13-35 - Repealed.
- 25-13-5 - Creditable service.
- 25-13-7 - Custodian of fund; financing; payment of benefits; maintenance as separate fund.
- 25-13-8 - Employer to pay member contributions required for fund; tax treatment; methods of payment.
- 25-13-9 - Disability retirement.
- Chapter 14 - Government Employees Deferred Compensation Plan Law.
- 25-14-1 - Title.
- 25-14-11 - Deferred compensation program additional to other retirement, pension, and benefit systems.
- 25-14-13 - Deferred compensation considered as compensation for purpose of retirement, pension, and benefit programs.
- 25-14-15 - Deferred compensation not included for withholding taxes purposes.
- 25-14-3 - Definitions.
- 25-14-5 - Deferred compensation program authorized; investment; deferred compensation exempt from tax and execution.
- 25-14-7 - Administration of deferred compensation program.
- 25-14-9 - Investment of monies in life insurance and annuity contracts or in other funds authorized.
- Chapter 15 - Group Insurance for Public Employees.
- 25-15-1 - Repealed.
- 25-15-101 - Administration of insurance program; self-insurance; liability for payment of benefits and loss or misappropriation of funds.
- 25-15-103 - Amount of coverage.
- 25-15-105 - Exception for school district employees in federally impacted areas.
- 25-15-11 - Contracts of insurance; self insurance; contracts for administration of plan; reports, reviews and audits.
- 25-15-13 - Eligibility.
- 25-15-14 - Elected state or district officials; participation in plans after leaving office.
- 25-15-15 - Payment of premiums; purchase of additional coverage; late charges and interest penalties; State Employees Insurance Fund; Insurance Reserve Fund.
- 25-15-16 - Public school districts may use local funds to pay full cost of health insurance premiums for certain school bus drivers.
- 25-15-17 - Payment of benefits.
- 25-15-19 - Notification of commencement of payroll deductions.
- 25-15-201 - Death and dismemberment coverage for state military personnel.
- 25-15-21 - Repealed.
- 25-15-23 - Withdrawals from State Employees Life and Health Insurance Plan prohibited.
- 25-15-25 - Program for treatment and management of obesity and related conditions; criteria for patient and facility program eligiblity [Repealed effective July 1, 2012].
- 25-15-251 - through 25-15-265. Repealed.
- 25-15-3 - Definitions.
- 25-15-301 - Contracts for administration of certain insurance plans; requests for proposals; review and evaluation of proposals; awarding and duration of contract; audits; renewal and termination of c
- 25-15-303 - State and Public School Employees Health Insurance Management Board.
- 25-15-5 - Powers and duties of department.
- 25-15-7 - Exclusions.
- 25-15-9 - Formulation of state employees health insurance plan; benefits.
- Chapter 17 - Cafeteria Fringe Benefit Plans.
- 25-17-1 - Definitions.
- 25-17-11 - Requirements with respect to providers of qualification and discrimination testing services.
- 25-17-3 - Authority of state agency or local government entity to adopt cafeteria fringe benefit plan.
- 25-17-5 - Payment of cafeteria plan costs; salary reduction agreements.
- 25-17-7 - Treatment of amounts by which employees' salaries are reduced for purposes of retirement benefit and income tax computations.
- 25-17-9 - Requirements with respect to providers of cafeteria plans.
- Chapter 19 - Public Employer-Assisted Housing Program.
- Chapter 31 - District Attorneys.
- 25-31-1 - Qualifications for office.
- 25-31-10 - Criminal investigators.
- 25-31-11 - Powers and duties.
- 25-31-13 - District attorney to attend deliberations of grand jury.
- 25-31-15 - District attorney to pass on public accounts.
- 25-31-17 - District attorney to give opinions and prosecute public debtors.
- 25-31-19 - To represent state tax and public service commissions.
- 25-31-21 - Pro tempore appointment and compensation of appointees.
- 25-31-23 - Duty as to fines.
- 25-31-25 - District attorney to institute and prosecute suits to vacate fraudulent conveyances.
- 25-31-27 - Antitrust suits to require consent of Attorney General.
- 25-31-29 - Reports on persons sentenced to state penitentiary.
- 25-31-3 - Repealed.
- 25-31-31 - Office of criminal records.
- 25-31-33 - Certain counties to contribute toward salaries of district attorneys and legal assistants.
- 25-31-35 - District attorneys shall not engage in private practice; exception.
- 25-31-36 - Right of district attorney to conclude civil cases pending at time of taking office; practice by appointees pending filling of vacancy by election.
- 25-31-37 - Repealed.
- 25-31-39 - Abolition of part-time district attorneys and part-time legal assistants; exception.
- 25-31-5 - Legal assistants to district attorney; expenditure of certain federal funds for additional legal assistants and criminal investigators authorized.
- 25-31-6 - Legal assistants to district attorney; qualifications; powers and duties; removal.
- 25-31-7 - Repealed by implication [see now § 25-31-8].
- 25-31-8 - Office operating allowance.
- 25-31-9 - Repealed by implication.
- Chapter 32 - Public Defenders.
- Chapter 33 - Notaries Public.
- 25-33-1 - Appointment, bond and oath; issuance of new certificate; qualifications.
- 25-33-11 - Powers and duties.
- 25-33-13 - Affixation of expiration date of commission.
- 25-33-15 - Record of protest of bill or note.
- 25-33-17 - Ex officio notaries public.
- 25-33-19 - Common seal of such officers.
- 25-33-21 - Acknowledgment by notary public as stockholder.
- 25-33-23 - Notarial acts of commissioned officers of United States armed forces.
- 25-33-25 - Notice that a Notary Public is not an Attorney.
- 25-33-27 - Prohibited Representations or Advertising.
- 25-33-29 - Exceptions.
- 25-33-3 - To procure seals; delivery of copy of seal provisions.
- 25-33-31 - Compliance.
- 25-33-33 - Forms and fees not otherwise provided by law; regulations providing for suspension or revocation of notary commission for misfeasance or malfeasance in office.
- 25-33-5 - Register of official acts.
- 25-33-7 - Disposal of register and papers.
- 25-33-9 - Administering oaths and affirmations; affidavit of notary public.
- Chapter 41 - Open Meetings.
- 25-41-1 - Legislative declaration.
- 25-41-11 - Minutes.
- 25-41-13 - Notice of meetings.
- 25-41-15 - Enforcement.
- 25-41-17 - Chance meetings and social gatherings excluded.
- 25-41-3 - Definitions.
- 25-41-5 - Official meetings of public bodies to be public and open; provisions for teleconference and video meetings.
- 25-41-7 - Executive sessions.
- 25-41-9 - Regulatory authority for governing; conduct of persons attending meetings.
- Chapter 43 - Administrative Procedures.
- Chapter 45 - Permit and Licensing Procedures.
- 25-45-1 - Statement of policy.
- 25-45-11 - Repealed.
- 25-45-13 - Legislative intent; coordination and implementation of "one stop permitting" terms and provisions.
- 25-45-15 - Repealed.
- 25-45-17 - Cooperation of other state agencies.
- 25-45-3 - State agencies to develop plans for one-stop permitting; elements of plan.
- 25-45-5 - Agencies authorized to enter agreements with state or federal agencies.
- 25-45-7 - Agencies to consult with central data processing authority.
- 25-45-9 - Powers, duties and responsibilities of agencies not to be altered.
- Chapter 51 - State Depository for Public Documents.
- Chapter 53 - Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services (MDITS).
- 25-53-1 - Establishment of department; declaration of purposes.
- 25-53-101 - Legislative findings and declarations.
- 25-53-103 - Repealed.
- 25-53-105 - Administration and purposes of Sections 25-53-109 through 25-53-125.
- 25-53-107 - Promulgation of rules and regulations; employment of personnel.
- 25-53-109 - General duties and powers of bureau.
- 25-53-11 - Meetings and organization.
- 25-53-111 - Additional duties of bureau; justification of requests for increases in expenditures for new telecommunication equipment systems or services; long-range plans for use of telecommunications
- 25-53-113 - Cooperation with bureau by state agencies.
- 25-53-115 - Approval by bureau of rentals, leases and purchases of telecommunications systems.
- 25-53-117 - Creation of state obligations for telecommunications systems; conduct of transactions dealing with telecommunications systems.
- 25-53-119 - Applicability of Sections 25-53-101 through 25-53-125.
- 25-53-121 - Equipment support contracts.
- 25-53-123 - Method of procurement of nonregulated telecommunications systems.
- 25-53-125 - General provisions applicable to all procurements under Sections 25-53-101 through 25-53-125.
- 25-53-13 - Quorum.
- 25-53-15 - Votes.
- 25-53-151 - Electronic Government Services Fund established; Electronic Government Oversight Committee established to oversee implementation of E-Government and related technology initiatives; duties
- 25-53-17 - Minutes and records.
- 25-53-171 - Commission created; responsibilities; membership; meetings; powers and duties; staffing and technical support; Integrated Public Safety Communications Fund; compensation; Wireless Communic
- 25-53-19 - Executive director; employees.
- 25-53-191 - Statement of need for issuance of wireless communication device to agency officer or employee; prohibition against personal use of device owned by state agencies; prohibition against reimb
- 25-53-21 - Executive director; duties, responsibilities and authority.
- 25-53-23 - Appeals to authority from decisions of executive director.
- 25-53-25 - Exemptions; delegation of bidding and contracting responsibilities to purchasing agency; relation to Public Purchases Law; exemptions.
- 25-53-27 - Repealed.
- 25-53-29 - Powers and responsibilities of authority.
- 25-53-3 - Definitions.
- 25-53-5 - Powers, duties and responsibilities.
- 25-53-51 - Qualifications for position.
- 25-53-53 - Handling and processing of information and data.
- 25-53-55 - Investigation of and hearing on complaints of allegedly improper disclosure of confidential information.
- 25-53-57 - Officer as legal agent and employee of agency or institution for which he is processing data.
- 25-53-59 - Penalty for improper release or divulgence of confidential information.
- 25-53-7 - Members of authority; terms; vacancies; surety bond; restriction on beneficial interest in business or body engaged in information business; legislative designees authorized to attend meetin
- 25-53-9 - Compensation and expense allowances.
- Chapter 55 - Lost Records.
- 25-55-1 - Applicability of the chapter.
- 25-55-11 - In pending suits.
- 25-55-13 - Loss first discovered during trial.
- 25-55-15 - Assessment rolls.
- 25-55-17 - Records of board of supervisors.
- 25-55-19 - State, county, town, or levee board bonds or warrants.
- 25-55-21 - Content of duplicate bond or warrant.
- 25-55-23 - Duplicate for mutilated original.
- 25-55-25 - Duplicate for lost or destroyed original.
- 25-55-27 - Officer issuing duplicates of bonds and warrants to keep records and preserve indemnity bonds and affidavits.
- 25-55-28 - Presentation of photocopy of state warrant where original has been lost or destroyed.
- 25-55-29 - Registration and poll-books.
- 25-55-3 - Remedy for lost record of deed.
- 25-55-31 - Proceedings to perfect record.
- 25-55-5 - Duty of chancellor and supervisors as to abstracts.
- 25-55-7 - Effect of such abstracts.
- 25-55-9 - Record in books.
- Chapter 57 - Destruction of Records [Repealed].
- Chapter 58 - Geographic Information System.
- 25-58-1 - Definitions; boards of supervisors authorized to create geographic information system and prepare multipurpose cadastre; approval of Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services
- 25-58-21 - Mississippi Coordinating Council for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems established; duties and responsibilities; composition of membership; terms; compensation; funding; sta
- 25-58-3 - Borrowing money to create geographic information system and to prepare multipurpose cadastre.
- Chapter 59 - Archives and Records Management.
- 25-59-1 - Short title.
- 25-59-11 - Transfer of responsibility and title from central records storage facility to state records center.
- 25-59-13 - Procedures for transfer of records to the department of archives and history.
- 25-59-15 - Records management duties of state agencies and officials.
- 25-59-17 - Record control schedules for courts; destruction of court records.
- 25-59-19 - Records to be public property.
- 25-59-21 - Consent of director required for disposal of public records; rules and regulations.
- 25-59-23 - Penalties for offenses involving records.
- 25-59-25 - Limitation on personal liability; closed or restricted records; compliance with requirements as to location for keeping records.
- 25-59-27 - Records to be open for public use; exceptions; disposal of closed and restricted records.
- 25-59-29 - Reproduction of records and storage of copies; destruction of originals.
- 25-59-3 - Definitions.
- 25-59-31 - Transition from existing program of reproduction and destruction of records.
- 25-59-5 - Department of archives and history to be archival and records management agency.
- 25-59-7 - State records committee; duties as to records control schedules.
- 25-59-9 - Powers and duties of department of archives and history.
- Chapter 60 - Local Government Records.
- Chapter 61 - Public Access to Public Records.
- 25-61-1 - Short title; legislative policy regarding right of access to records.
- 25-61-10 - Access to records stored, manipulated or retrieved by sensitive software; acquisition, modification, etc., of systems, etc., used for creation or maintenance of public records data bases.
- 25-61-11 - Records exempted or privileged by law.
- 25-61-12 - Exemption for private information of law enforcement, judicial and prosecutorial personnel; exceptions.
- 25-61-13 - Proceedings to compel public access to records; procedure; remedies.
- 25-61-15 - Penalty for wrongful denial of access to record.
- 25-61-17 - Chapter not to affect legislature's regulation of own proceedings and records access.
- 25-61-2 - State policy regarding access to public records.
- 25-61-3 - Definitions.
- 25-61-5 - Public access to records; form and retention of denials.
- 25-61-7 - Fees for costs incident to providing records.
- 25-61-9 - Trade secrets and confidential commercial or financial information.
- Chapter 63 - Digital Signature Act.
- Chapter 65 - Agency, University and Community/Junior College Internal Auditing Program.
- 25-65-1 - Short title.
- 25-65-11 - Qualifications of internal audit directors.
- 25-65-13 - Duties of internal audit directors.
- 25-65-15 - Auditing standards.
- 25-65-17 - Audit reports confidential; production of reports; access to records.
- 25-65-19 - Submission of report; follow-up and final report.
- 25-65-21 - Corrective actions taken on findings.
- 25-65-23 - Roles of state or external auditors and legislative committees.
- 25-65-25 - Professional development of internal audit staff; cooperation regarding technical assistance.
- 25-65-27 - Review and approval of audits.
- 25-65-29 - State Interagency Internal Audit Forum.
- 25-65-3 - Purpose and application.
- 25-65-31 - Annual report of internal audit directors.
- 25-65-33 - Investigation of criminal activity.
- 25-65-5 - Definitions.
- 25-65-7 - Specific universities, colleges and agencies included.
- 25-65-9 - Internal audit of directors and staff.