Mississippi § 27-29-27 - Clerk to examine the report.
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§ 27-29-27. Clerk to examine the report.
Whenever the tax collector shall make a report as provided, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of supervisors to examine the same and to carefully compare it with the duplicate tax receipts, the cash book, and all other books and records in the collector’s office pertaining to the collection of taxes, and to certify whether the report be true and correct or not. If the report be found to be untrue, and it be not immediately corrected by the collector and the proper amount paid over, the same proceedings shall be taken as though no report or payment had been made.
Source: official Mississippi text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 27-29-27 ("Clerk to examine the report.") 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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