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Mississippi Statutes, Title 19

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Title 19, Counties and County Officers

18 chapters · 565 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 19565 Ch 5, Health, Safety and Public Welfare149 Ch 1, County Boundaries82 Ch 3, Board of Supervisors57 Ch 25, Sheriffs45 Ch 9, Finance and Taxation37 Ch 13, Contracts, Claims and Transaction of…30 Ch 29, Local and Regional Railroad Authorities27 Ch 31, Public Improvement Districts27 Ch 7, Property and Facilities21 Ch 27, Surveyors and Surveys18 Ch 11, County Budget15 Ch 17, County Auditors11 Ch 19, Constables11 Ch 23, County Attorneys11

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Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-39 Golden Age Nursing Homes; issuance of bonds
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The board of supervisors of any county or counties coming within the provisions of Section 19-5-31 through 19-5-39 may issue and sell its full faith and credit bonds as otherwise provided by law to secure funds with which to construct and equip such Golden Age Nursing Homes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-391 Duties and responsibilities of authority
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(a) The authority shall have the duty and responsibility to:(a) Develop and adopt an annual budget for implementation, management, upgrades, deployments, and operations consistent with the State NG911 Plan. Such plan must be submitted to and approved by the Legislative Budget Off…
Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-393 NG911 CMRS Grant Fund
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(1) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the “NG911 CMRS Grant Fund.” The fund shall be maintained by the State Treasurer as a separate and special fund, separate and apart from the General Fund of the state. Subject to appropriation by the Le…
Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-395 Additional duties of authority
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(a) The authority shall:(a) Require each ECD to submit a plan to implement a NG911 program consistent with Sections 19-5-381 through 19-5-415. The ECD may obtain technical assistance from the authority in formulating its plan. Each NG911 plan shall:(i) Be designed to meet the ind…

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Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-397 Trust funds

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All monies received by the authority pursuant to this act shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in Sections 19-5-381 through 19-5-415.

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-399 Construction

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Sections 19-5-381 through 19-5-415, used for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-401 Information submitted to authority or department; protections

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All information submitted to the authority or to the department as required by Sections 19-5-381 through 19-5-415 shall be subject to review only by the authority and the department. Further, notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no information so submitted shall be sub…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-403 Legal services for the authority

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The Attorney General shall provide legal services for the authority.

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-405 Emergency communications service charge

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(1) Beginning January 1, 2026, the state hereby levies an emergency communications service charge, and all service providers shall remit such charge to the Department of Revenue in an amount of Two Dollars ($2.00) per residential telephone subscriber line per month, Two Dollars (…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-407 Assessment of charges

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(a) To avoid an overlap in the assessment of the old and new charges for service providers obligated to pay the emergency communication service charge safety charge, a transition to the payment of the emergency communications service charge shall occur.(a) The assessment of charg…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-409 Use of wireless emergency telephone service; penalties for violations

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Wireless emergency telephone service shall not be used for personal use and shall be used solely for the use of communications by the public. Any person who knowingly uses or attempts to use wireless emergency telephone service for a purpose other than obtaining public safety ass…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-41 Creation of county hospital building commission in certain counties

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The board of supervisors of any county in the state having a population of more than one hundred thousand, according to the federal census of 1950, is authorized to create a county hospital building commission with authority to advise and assist such board of supervisors in all p…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-411 Use of monies from Emergency Communications Public Safety Trust Fund

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(1) Of the total funds received by any ECD from the Emergency Communications Public Safety Trust Fund, no less than thirty percent (30%) shall be deposited into the ECD NG911 implementation fund, and shall be used to provide for the transition from legacy 911 to NG911 by implemen…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-413 Financial and program reports

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Each ECD shall submit financial and program reports to the authority advisory board annually. Such reports shall demonstrate that the emergency communications district is spending funds in an efficient and effective manner consistent with the approved ECD NG911 Plan and using bes…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-415 Deadline for adoption of NG911 plan

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Each emergency communication district shall adopt an NG911 plan no later than December 31, 2030, and any district failing to adopt its plan by such date shall not expend any monies from the NG911 CMRS Grant Fund or ECD NG911 implementation fund.

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-43 Temporary care and maintenance of individuals with mental illness who are unable to pay for care

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The boards of supervisors in their respective counties shall temporarily provide for the care and maintenance of any person alleged to have mental illness when the person has no means of paying that expense, pending an investigation into the mental status of the person alleged to…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-45 Construction of sheltered workshop for employment of handicapped

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Any county within the State of Mississippi wherein the railroads known as the Illinois Central and the Mississippi Central intersect, and any county with a population of not less than twenty-one thousand nor more than twenty-one thousand five hundred and with an assessed valuatio…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-47 Construction of public health buildings and clinics

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The board of supervisors of any county in the state is hereby empowered, in its discretion, to acquire by gift, donation or purchase necessary real estate on which to erect, construct or reconstruct public health buildings and clinics sponsored by the public health units of any c…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-49 Lease of county homes and farms

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The board of supervisors of any county in the State of Mississippi is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to lease or rent any lands or buildings owned by the county and being used, or intended to be used, as a county home and farm to any person, persons, or association for the…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-5 Acquisition and operation of radio stations for law enforcement

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The board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to purchase the necessary and suitable equipment required to install a complete radio base station, including mobile units to be installed in cars and motor boats, after having legally a…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-50 Controlling running of animals at large; establishing county pounds

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(1) The governing authorities of any county bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and having within its boundaries two cities having in excess of forty thousand (40,000) population each, according to the 1970 United States decennial census and of any county bordering on the Pearl River…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-51 Bounty on beaver, nutria, and bobcats

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Any board of supervisors may, in its discretion, by appropriate resolution spread upon its minutes, offer a bounty not to exceed Five Dollars ($5.00) for each nutria, beaver or bobcat destroyed, where such board finds and determines that nutria, beaver or bobcats are in such quan…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-53 Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock

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The board of supervisors in the various counties of the state are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to appropriate money out of the general county fund for the purpose of offering premiums for excellence in raising crops and livestock in their county.

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-55 Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; limitation on amount to be expended

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The amount of money to be appropriated and offered shall not exceed the following: (a) for corn – Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for the best five acres or more, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for the second best and Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the third best, or half the amounts fo…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-57 Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; petition by contestants; publication of premiums

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Before the board of supervisors will be authorized to take action under Sections 19-5-53, 19-5-55, a petition containing the names of not less than one hundred contestants in the county must be on file in the office of the chancery clerk of the county on or before the first Monda…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-59 Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; rules governing contest and placing of exhibits

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The board of supervisors shall have the power to issue rules governing the contest, and to determine the time for placing of the exhibits in competition at the county seat.

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-61 Promotion of excellence in raising crops and livestock; judges

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The board of supervisors shall, after having announced premiums, select a competent committee or judges to measure the land, to test the crop and pass upon the merits of the exhibits and entries. The members of said committee shall not be related to the contestant in any manner, …

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-63 Establishment of county extension department

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It is declared to be the policy of this state to develop and promote agriculture, including the raising of livestock, and all enterprises and activities dependent upon the products of the soil, and in line with this policy, to make available to the citizens of this state useful a…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-65 Funding of display rooms for county home economic or home demonstration agents

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The boards of supervisors of counties of class one of the several counties, in their discretion, are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate and expend moneys out of the general fund of the county for the purpose of renting or otherwise providing offices or display rooms w…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-67 Establishment of department of animal husbandry

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The boards of supervisors of two (2) or more counties, one or more of which has an incorporated livestock association, are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to establish a joint department of animal husbandry, the purposes of this department being to disseminate useful info…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-69 Funding of buildings for junior beef and dairy boys and girls

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The boards of supervisors of the various counties having livestock shows or associations located therein, and having a department of animal husbandry, as created under Section 19-5-67, and having a total assessed valuation of not exceeding Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00), ar…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-7 Employment of school crossing guards

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The board of supervisors of (a) any county in this state having a population in excess of two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) according to the 1990 federal census, and an assessed valuation in excess of Three Hundred Million Dollars ($300,000,000.00) as shown by the last complet…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-71 Support of experiment stations

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The boards of supervisors of the several counties may, in their discretion, appropriate money from the general funds of the county for the purpose of buying lands, personal property, or equipment of whatever nature and kind, for experiment stations, and may appropriate money from…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-73 Establishment of farmers’ markets

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The board of supervisors of each county may expend monies from the general fund, not exceeding the amount that would be generated from the levy of a one-fourth (¼) mill ad valorem tax upon all taxable property in the county, for the purpose of providing funds to be expended to es…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-75 Acquisition of cold storage plants, meat curing plants, warehouses, syrup blending plants, creameries, farm orchard and dairy produce establishments, by certain counties

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The board of supervisors of any county in the State of Mississippi bordering on the Mississippi Sound or Gulf of Mexico, or any county in Class 8 whose population is greater than 12,000 and less than 13,000, according to the census of 1940 and whose total area is 500 square miles…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-77 Acquisition of cold storage plants, meat curing plants, etc., by certain counties; lease of establishment

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The title to such property shall be taken in the name of the county and the board of supervisors may, upon such terms and conditions as may be fixed by said board by order spread upon its minutes, enter into agreements to lease such establishment to any cooperative association or…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-79 Acquisition of cold storage plants, meat curing plants, etc., by certain counties; issuance of notes, bonds, or loan warrants

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Such board of supervisors may issue notes, bonds or loan warrants to evidence the amount borrowed for said purposes. Said notes, bonds or loan warrants shall bear such rate of interest as may be determined by the board of supervisors, not exceeding, however, six per cent per annu…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-81 Acquisition of cold storage plants, meat curing plants, etc., by certain counties; notice of intention to borrow; election

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Before issuing the bonds, notes or loan warrants, authorized by Section 19-5-79 the board of supervisors shall publish notice of its intention to borrow such funds and to issue loan warrants, notes or bonds, and the clerk of said board shall publish in three weekly issues of some…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-83 Acquisition of cold storage plants, meat curing plants, etc., by certain counties; sections as full authority

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Sections 19-5-75 through 19-5-87, without reference to any other statute, shall be deemed full and complete authority for the issuance of said notes, bonds or loan warrants, and shall be construed as an additional and alternative method therefor, and none of the present restricti…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-85 Acquisition of cold storage plants, meat curing plants, etc., by certain counties; levy of taxes

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Said loan warrants, bonds or notes shall be general obligations of the county and the board of supervisors of said county shall annually levy a tax upon all taxable property therein sufficient to pay the principal of, and the interest on, such loan warrants, bonds or notes as the…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-87 Acquisition of cold storage plants, meat curing plants, etc., by certain counties; validation of warrants, bonds or notes

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Said loan warrants, bonds or notes may, in the discretion of the board of supervisors, of such county, be validated under Sections 31-13-1 through 31-13-11.

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-89 Promotion of youth activities

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The board of supervisors of any county in the State of Mississippi, in which there is located a national cemetery wholly supported by federal funds, and any county having a population of less than twenty thousand (20,000) in accordance with the 1950 census, with an area of less t…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-9 Adoption of building and other related codes in certain counties

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(1) The construction codes published by a nationally recognized code group which sets minimum standards and has the proper provisions to maintain up-to-date amendments are adopted as minimum standard guides for building, plumbing, electrical, gas, sanitary, and other related code…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-91 Agreements with the United States relative to navigation projects

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(a) The board of supervisors of any county through any part of which any river or other stream may run, or any part of which any river or other stream may touch or border, on which the United States of America has authorized navigation projects, including channel clearing, channe…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-92 Construction of dams and low-water control structures by counties; funding; federal and state assistance

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(1) Any county in the State of Mississippi is authorized to construct a dam or low-water control structure on any lake or natural body of water with an outlet or evidence of the flow or occurrence of water, including a lake or body of water located partially within the county and…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-92.1 Authority of counties to alter channels of streams and water courses; construction and repair of bridges; erosion prevention; property acquisition and easements; compensation to landowners; financing

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(1) The board of supervisors of any county, whenever the board determines that the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of the county will be promoted, may:(a) Alter and change the channels of streams or other water courses;(b) Construct, reconstruct and repair brid…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-93 Donations for certain patriotic and charitable uses

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(a) The board of supervisors of each county is authorized, in its discretion, to donate money for the objects and purposes following, to wit:(a) Confederate graves. For the location, marking, care and maintenance of the grave or graves and graveyard of Confederate soldiers or sai…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-95 Aid to fire departments

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(1) The board of supervisors of any county in this state having a population of less than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000), according to the most recent federal census, is hereby empowered and authorized to appropriate out of the county treasury annually a sum not in excess o…

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-96 Medical and hospital care for county fire department personnel engaged in fire duty or emergency medical services for injury sustained or occupational disease contracted in the line of duty; payment of insurance premiums

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In all counties of this state maintaining a paid or volunteer fire department, the personnel of which department is actively and exclusively engaged in fire duty or emergency medical services, the board of supervisors of such county may pay out of the general fund of such county …

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-97 Purchase, operation and maintenance of fire trucks and other fire fighting equipment

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The board of supervisors of any county who find that the public interest of the county, or any supervisors’ district or districts within the county, will be conserved thereby, may purchase, operate, and maintain fire trucks, pumps, tanks, trailers, fire hose, fire extinguishers, …