Mississippi § 37-55-5 - Appropriations by county boards of supervisors for support of libraries.
Full text of Mississippi Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated § 37-55-5 — Appropriations by county boards of supervisors for support of libraries., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 37-55-5. Appropriations by county boards of supervisors for support of libraries.
The board of supervisors of any county is authorized, in its discretion, to appropriate a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum towards the support of public libraries, including circulating school libraries, in said county. In counties where the enumeration of educable children is shown by the most recent census to be 10,000 or more, the board of supervisors may, in its discretion, appropriate an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars annually, towards the support of public or school libraries.
Source: official Mississippi text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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