Mississippi § 27-103-131 - Failure or refusal to file budget request; proceedings.
Full text of Mississippi Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated § 27-103-131 — Failure or refusal to file budget request; proceedings., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 27-103-131. Failure or refusal to file budget request; proceedings.
If any officer or employee of any state agency whose duty it is to do so shall refuse or fail to file a budget request with such information and in such form and in such detail and within such time as the legislative budget office may require in the exercise of its authority, the director shall prepare and file, or cause to be prepared and filed, a budget request for such agency, and the expense thereof shall be personally borne by said officer or employee, and he or she shall be responsible on his or her official bond for the payment of the expense; provided that a negligently prepared budget shall be considered as a refusal or failure under the provisions of this section. The records of the legislative budget office and the overall budget submitted by it to the Legislature shall clearly identify and set forth all the facts relative to any agency budget request prepared by the director under the authority of this section.
Source: official Mississippi text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 27-103-131 ("Failure or refusal to file budget request; proceedings.") is part of the Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated, the codified statutory law of Mississippi. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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