Mississippi Code — 25
Browse 630 sections in division 25 of the Mississippi code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 25-1-1. Length of terms.
- § 25-1-3. Date terms begin for state officers, except the governor.
- § 25-1-5. Date terms begin for district, county, and beat officers.
- § 25-1-7. Vacancy in office.
- § 25-1-9. Oath of office taken.
- § 25-1-11. Oath of office filed.
- § 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. Affidavit of worth.
- § 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.
- § 25-1-31. 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.
- § 25-1-51. 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.
- § 25-1-71. 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 certain state agency vehicles; reports; retention of vehicles seized under forfeiture laws; exemption of state institution of higher learning.
- § 25-1-78. Moratorium on acquisition of motor vehicles by state agencies; reduction in total number of motor vehicles by certain agencies; exemptions.
- § 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.
- § 25-1-91. 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.
- § 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.
- § 25-1-111. Prevention of disclosure by state agencies of social security numbers.
- § 25-1-113. Public employment of persons convicted of embezzlement of public funds prohibited.
- § 25-1-115. Certain persons prohibited from serving on executive committees.
- § 25-1-117. State agencies and public officials providing information about the agency or office to the public on a website are required to regularly review and update that information.
- § 25-1-119. Public bodies, employees, and officers prohibited from creating, planning, participating in, enabling, etc., sanctuary policies.
- § 25-3-1. Classifications of counties.
- § 25-3-2. Elected county official’s salary reductions due to valuation and population changes.
- § 25-3-3. Salaries of assessors also serving as tax collectors; additional compensation.
- § 25-3-5. Repealed.
- § 25-3-7. State contribution to compensation of assessors.
- § 25-3-9. Salaries of county prosecuting attorneys.
- § 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.
- § 25-3-21. 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.
- § 25-3-31. 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.
- § 25-3-37. Salaries to be full compensation.
- § 25-3-38. Payment of additional funds to appointive officials unlawful; penalty.
- § 25-3-39. Ceiling established for salaries; sources of funding for salaries; exemptions for Executive Director of Mississippi Development Authority, Governor’s Chief of Staff and certain professional public employees.
- § 25-3-39. 1.
- § 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.
- § 25-3-51. 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. Local governmental entities and local school districts authorized to grant administrative leave with pay to their employees in the event of extreme weather conditions or man-made or natural disasters or emergencies
- § 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.
- § 25-3-71. Annual report of recommendations of salary increases and amounts.
- § 25-3-73. Repealed.
- § 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.
- § 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.
- § 25-4-1. Legislative purpose.
- § 25-4-3. Definitions.
- § 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.
- § 25-4-11. Quorum; vacancy in commission.
- § 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.
- § 25-4-31. Fines and penalties.
- § 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.
- § 25-4-111. 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 of 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.
- § 25-5-1. Removals from office.
- § 25-5-3. Governor empowered to remove elective county officials.
- § 25-5-5. Causes for removal.
- § 25-5-7. Demand for removal.
- § 25-5-9. Form of petition.
- § 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.
- § 25-5-31. Form of the ballot.
- § 25-5-33. Results of election.
- § 25-5-35. Appeals.
- § 25-5-37. Penalties.
- § 25-7-1. Lawful to demand specific fees only.
- § 25-7-3. Clerk of the Supreme Court.
- § 25-7-5. Payment of fee for recording opinions.
- § 25-7-7. Fees due from state or county.
- § 25-7-9. Clerks of the chancery court.
- § 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.
- § 25-7-31. 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.
- § 25-7-51. 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.
- § 25-7-71. 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.
- § 25-9-1-25-9-49. 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. State Personnel Board to report to Legislature recommendations for judicial salaries; factors to be considered.
- § 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; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund.
- § 25-9-120. Contract personnel not state service or nonstate service employees of state; Personal Service Contract Review Board abolished; Public Procurement Review Board to be the Personal Service Contract Review 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; exemption of personnel actions of certain state agencies from State Personnel Board procedures for limited time period; operating state vehicle without license good cause grounds for dismissal; male state employees required to register with selective service.
- § 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; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund.
- § 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 driver’s license from Mississippi or contiguous state; operator of vehicle owned by state institution of higher learning must have valid driver’s license of appropriate classification from any 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; conditions for recovery of damages and other remedies.
- § 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 veterans with disabilities.
- § 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. Repealed.
- § 25-11-1. Citation.
- § 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.
- § 25-11-11. Coverage of employees of political subdivisions and instrumentalities.
- § 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.
- § 25-11-101. 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; county required to withhold percentage of gross fee income as estimated retirement contributions where constable responsible for both employer and employee contributions on net fee income; constables must make delinquent payments or elect not to and forfeit service credit.
- § 25-11-106. 1.
- § 25-11-107. Civilian employees of Mississippi National Guard as a coverage group.
- § 25-11-109. Creditable service.
- § 25-11-110. Inclusion of deceased member’s period of qualified military service for vesting purposes; survivors entitled to certain additional benefits; treatment of differential wage payments as compensation under certain circumstances.
- § 25-11-111. Superannuation retirement.
- § 25-11-111. 1.
- § 25-11-112. Additional annual payment to retirees and beneficiaries.
- § 25-11-113. Disability retirement.
- § 25-11-114. Retirement allowance for death before retirement or death or disability in line of duty.
- § 25-11-115. Options.
- § 25-11-115. 1.
- § 25-11-115. 2.
- § 25-11-116. Repealed.
- § 25-11-117. Refund of contributions; distribution to retirement plan or account; repayment of refund.
- § 25-11-117. 1.
- § 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.
- § 25-11-119. 1.
- § 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.
- § 25-11-127. Benefits upon reemployment of retired persons.
- § 25-11-129. Exemptions from taxation, execution, and assignment; deductions from retirement allowances for payment of employer or system sponsored group life or health insurance.
- § 25-11-131. Liability for unlawful receipt and retention of payment after death of member or beneficiary; falsification of records; penalty; correction of errors in payments.
- § 25-11-133. Guaranty; vested right to benefits; maximum annual retirement allowance.
- § 25-11-135. Former laws remain in force.
- § 25-11-137. Transfer of law enforcement officers’ or firemen’s funds.