Title 25, Public Officers and Employees; Public Records

The Governor is hereby empowered, in accordance with the provisions of Section 139 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, through the procedure and under the regulations prescribed in Sections 25-5-3 through 25-5-37 and for the reasons and causes set forth, to remove any electi…

The ballot at said special removal election shall be in the form usually prescribed for special elections, and shall be headed “Official Ballot.” Each ballot shall contain the following instructions to the voters: “Mark a cross (X) or check mark (✓) in the square at the right of …

The election commissioners of the county, or a quorum thereof, shall meet at the office of the county registrar at 9:00 A. M. of the day following the special removal election, and shall then proceed to canvass, tabulate, and certify the results of the election as now provided by…

A person desiring to contest the proclaimed results of a special removal election may, within twenty (20) days after said proclamation, file a petition in the office of the clerk of the chancery court of the county, setting forth the grounds upon which the election is contested. …

(1) Any person who signs any removal petition with any name other than his own, or who knowingly signs his name more than once to such petition, or who knowingly signs such petition when he is not a qualified elector shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, may be punish…

The reasons or causes for removal from office shall be: Knowingly or wilfully failing, neglecting, or refusing to perform any of the duties required of such officer by law.

Before the Governor shall consider the removal from a county office of any elective county officer, there shall be first filed with him a petition signed by not less than thirty percent (30%) of the qualified electors of said county demanding the removal of said officer. Such pet…

The removal petition shall be in substantially the following form: REMOVAL PETITION(WARNING.–It is a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any person to sign any removal petition with any name other than his own, or knowingly to sign his name more than once to suc…

It shall be lawful for the Clerk of the Supreme Court, the clerks of the circuit and chancery courts, the clerks of the justice court, masters and commissioners in chancery, sheriffs, constables, justice court judges, and other officers and persons named in this chapter to demand…

In counties having two (2) judicial districts and having a regularly appointed deputy chancery court clerk, the chancery court clerk may be allowed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) per month. This amount may be allowed and paid monthly to the chancery court clerk by the board of …

The chancery clerk shall itemize on the record, following the instrument recorded by him, a detailed fee bill of all charges due or paid for filing and recording same. A fee bill shall not be allowed him for a receipt given for the deed or other instrument unless the same shall b…

(1) The clerks of the circuit court shall charge the following fees:(a) Docketing, filing, marking and registering each complaint, petition and indictment$ 85.00The fee set forth in this paragraph shall be the total fee for all services performed by the clerk up to and including …

Neither the state, nor any county, city, town, or village, nor any state board, nor any state, county, city, town, or village officer, in his official character, may be required to prepay the cost of filing a document or an instrument with, or obtaining a copy of any filed docume…

(1) In counties having two (2) judicial districts and having a regularly appointed deputy circuit court clerk who shall serve in the judicial district of the county other than the judicial district of the county in which the circuit court clerk resides, the circuit court clerk sh…

The clerk of the circuit court of any county in Mississippi in which is located a municipality with a population of seventy-five hundred (7,500) or more, according to the last federal census, may be allowed an amount not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for any one year t…

(1) The sheriffs of the various counties of the State of Mississippi shall charge the following fees:(a) A uniform total fee in all criminal and civil cases for the service or attempted service of any process, summons, warrant, writ or other notice as may be required by law or th…

(1) From and after October 1, 1985, there will be no fees for the services of the tax collector, with the exception of taxes collected for taxing authorities other than the board of supervisors. For collecting taxes for authorities other than the board of supervisors, the fee sha…

(1) Costs and fees in the justice court shall be charged as follows and shall be paid in advance to the clerk of the justice court in accordance with the provisions of Section 9-11-10:(a) A uniform total fee in all civil cases, whether contested or uncontested, which shall includ…

(1) Marshals and constables shall charge the following fees:(a) (i) In all civil and criminal cases, for each service of process, summons, warrant, writ or other notice $ 55.00(ii) In all cases where there is more than one (1) defendant residing at the same household, for service…

(a) The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall charge the following fees:(a) General docket fee, for filing the record on appeal in a civil or criminal case $ 200.00(b) Miscellaneous docket fee 50.00(c) Confidential miscellaneous docket fee 200.00(d) Admission of new attorneys 30.00(e)…

(a) Officers taking depositions shall charge the following fees:(a) For administering oath, and certificate of the same $ .50(b) For writing or copying the deposition, if required to doso, for each hundred words .10 (a) For administering oath, and certificate of the same $ .50 (b…

For taking proof or acknowledgment of any writing concerning real or personal estate, and certificate thereof for each party, the same fee to all officers for the same service $ .25

The court in which the cause is pending, or the chancellor or judge thereof in vacation, shall fix and allow reasonable compensation for commissioners, referees, auditors, and arbitrators; and such compensation shall be taxed and collected as costs in the suit.

The fees charged by a county surveyor shall be those fees agreed to between the county surveyor and the party engaging his or her services.

The fees chargeable by the surveyor shall be paid by the parties engaging his services. When the services are rendered in obedience to an order of court in a suit therein pending, the surveyor shall state an account of the fees for services, written on the back of one (1) of the …

(a) Rangers shall be entitled to the following fees:(a) For taking the information of the taker up of animal, and issuing summons for appraisers $ .50(b) For registering the certificate .50(c) Advertising estray 1.00(d) For making sale .50(e) And ten per centum commissions on the…

The president of the board of supervisors, or other officer approving the bond of any officer, shall be entitled to a fee of One Dollar ($1.00) for each bond; and where two (2) officers are engaged in approving such bond, they shall be entitled to share such fee equally. All bond…

For administering and certifying an oath or affidavit $ .25

Witnesses in the county, circuit, chancery and justice courts shall receive the same pay per day as is set by the board of supervisors under Section 25-7-61 for service as a juror plus mileage as authorized under Section 25-3-41 for each mile going to and returning from the court…

It shall be unlawful for any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer, marshal, county patrolman, or any other state, county, or municipal peace or law enforcement officer to receive any fee as a witness in any criminal case in this state. The provisions of this section…

The fees of the Clerk of the Supreme Court for recording opinions as required by law shall be payable semiannually out of the state treasury from the proper appropriation, on the certificate of either of the judges of the Supreme Court that the service has been well performed and…

The fees to which a witness may be entitled in a civil case shall be allowed on the affidavit of the witness, stating the number of days he has attended and the amount of mileage, toll, and ferriage to which he is entitled, to be taken and preserved by the clerk of the court, mas…

A witness shall not be entitled to charge for his attendance in a civil case at any term of the court unless he shall, during the term or within five (5) days thereafter, prove his attendance and obtain a certificate in the manner directed; nor in any case, civil or criminal, sha…

A witness shall not be allowed compensation for his attendance in more than one case or on more than one side of the same case at the same time, but he may elect in which of several cases and on which side of a case in which he is summoned for both sides, to claim his attendance.…

Witnesses in criminal cases shall be allowed the same compensation as in civil cases, but the prosecutor shall not be allowed compensation as a witness, nor shall any person be allowed for his attendance as a witness in more than one criminal case on the same day. The compensatio…

The circuit clerk shall, within thirty (30) days after the adjournment of each term of the circuit court, make a report in writing to the county auditor of all witness certificates issued by him, payable out of the county treasury, which report shall state the name of each witnes…

[From and after January 1, 2008, or such time as the Lengthy Trial Fund is fully funded by a specific appropriation of the Legislature, whichever is later, this section shall read as follows:] (1) Fees of jurors shall be payable as follows:(a) Grand jurors and petit jurors in the…

The amount of compensation due to each grand juror, petit juror, and juror summoned on a special venire and regularly discharged by the court shall, after the discharge of such juror, be determined on the oath of the juror, allowed in open court, and entered on the minutes thereo…

(a) Printers and publishers shall be entitled to the following fees:(a) (i) For publishing in a newspaper any summons, order, citation, advertisement or notice required by law to be published in a newspaper on behalf of a public body, Twelve Cents (12¢) for each word it contains …

The chancery court or the chancellor in vacation in each chancery court district of this state shall fix and allow reasonable compensation for appraisers in the estates of deceased persons, and said compensation shall be paid by the executor or administrator from the funds of sai…

Each juror summoned and attending the execution of a writ ad quod damnum from the board of supervisors shall be entitled to Two Dollars ($2.00), the clerk shall be entitled to One Dollar ($1.00) for the writ, and the sheriff shall be entitled to three dollars for summoning the ju…

The clerk of the Supreme Court shall make out a separate, detailed account of fees adjudged against the state, in cases where the state fails in the prosecution or suit or in case of felony where the defendant appeals on pauper oath and the costs cannot be made out of his estate,…

Any party, acting under a requisition of the Governor or acting without a requisition in cases where the person to be returned has waived extradition in writing, who brings back to this state and delivers to the sheriff of the county where the offense is alleged to have been comm…

The circuit court or the judge thereof in vacation is hereby authorized and empowered to allow all necessary and proper expenses to any person or persons acting under a requisition of the Governor, or acting without a requisition in cases where the person to be returned has waive…

When it is desired to have returned to this state a person charged in this state with a crime, and such person is imprisoned or is held under criminal proceedings then pending against him in another state or territory or the District of Columbia, the Governor of this state may ag…

The officer issuing an attachment or distress for rent or supplies furnished by a landlord to a tenant, shall be entitled to One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50) for the affidavit, bond, and writ, to be paid by the party obtaining them, which shall be collected with the rent or oth…