Title 21, Municipalities

The mayor shall sign the commissions and appointments of all officers elected and appointed by the mayor and board of aldermen. Such commissions and appointments shall be attested by the clerk. The refusal, failure or neglect of the mayor to sign such commissions and appointments…

(1) The mayor and board of aldermen shall hold regular meetings the first Tuesday of each month at such place and hour as may be fixed by ordinance, and may, on a date fixed by ordinance, hold a second regular meeting in each month at the same place established for the first regu…

The mayor or any two (2) aldermen may, by written notice, call a special meeting of the mayor and board of aldermen for the transaction of important business. The notice must state the time of meeting and distinctly specify the subject matters of business to be acted upon and be …

The street commissioner shall, under the direction of the mayor and board of aldermen, have general control of the streets, alleys, avenues, and sidewalks. He shall see that they are always in proper repair. He shall have the same worked, repaired, altered, paved, lighted, sprink…

(1) Any municipality operating under a “Code Charter” as provided for in Chapter 3, Title 21, Mississippi Code of 1972, may through the mayor and board of aldermen, establish the position of chief administrative officer of the municipality. (2) The establishment of the position o…

The elective officers of all municipalities operating under a code charter shall be the mayor, the aldermen, municipal judge, the marshal or chief of police, the tax collector and the tax assessor. From and after July 1, 2017, the governing authorities of the municipality shall a…

From and after the expiration of the terms of office of present municipal officers, the mayor and board of aldermen of all municipalities operating under this chapter shall have the power and authority to appoint a street commissioner, and such other officers and employees as may…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, in all municipalities having a population of less than ten thousand (10,000) according to the latest available federal census, there shall be five (5) aldermen, which aldermen may be elected from the municipality at large,…

The mayor and members of the board of aldermen shall be qualified electors of the municipality and, in addition, the aldermen elected from and by wards shall be residents of their respective wards.