Mississippi Code
Chapter 31 - District Attorneys
§ 25-31-17. District attorney to give opinions and prosecute public debtors

It shall be the duty of the district attorney, when requested by the county depository or the board of supervisors, or the clerk thereof, to give his opinion in writing upon all cases concerning the revenue or expenses of the county, and with the approval of the Attorney General to institute and prosecute to effect, before the proper court, all persons indebted to the state or any county within his district.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records

Chapter 31 - District Attorneys

§ 25-31-5. Legal assistants to district attorney; expenditure of certain federal funds for additional legal assistants and criminal investigators authorized

§ 25-31-6. Legal assistants to district attorney; qualifications; powers and duties; removal

§ 25-31-8. Office operating allowance

§ 25-31-10.1. Supplemental salary, expenses and fringe benefits for district attorneys, legal assistants and criminal investigators

§ 25-31-11. Powers and duties

§ 25-31-13. District attorney to attend deliberations of grand jury

§ 25-31-15. District attorney to pass on public accounts

§ 25-31-17. District attorney to give opinions and prosecute public debtors

§ 25-31-19. To represent state tax and public service commissions

§ 25-31-21. Pro tempore appointment and compensation of appointees

§ 25-31-23. Duty as to fines

§ 25-31-25. District attorney to institute and prosecute suits to vacate fraudulent conveyances

§ 25-31-27. Antitrust suits to require consent of Attorney General

§ 25-31-29. Reports on persons sentenced to state penitentiary

§ 25-31-33. Certain counties to contribute toward salaries of district attorneys and legal assistants

§ 25-31-39. Abolition of part-time district attorneys and part-time legal assistants; exception

§ 25-31-43. Retention of one service-issued sidearm by district attorney, legal assistant to district attorney or criminal investigator employed by district attorney upon retirement