Mississippi Code
Chapter 7 - Fees
§ 25-7-49. Law enforcement officers to receive no witness fees in criminal cases

It shall be unlawful for any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer, marshal, county patrolman, or any other state, county, or municipal peace or law enforcement officer to receive any fee as a witness in any criminal case in this state. The provisions of this section shall apply only when such officers are witnesses in the county or district in which such officer is serving.
Any person who shall violate the provisions of this law shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records

Chapter 7 - Fees

§ 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

§ 25-7-17. Fees of circuit clerks in certain municipal appeals

§ 25-7-19. Sheriffs

§ 25-7-21. Tax collectors

§ 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