The county assessor shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office. The office of the assessor shall be open for business at all such times as other county offices within the county are required, pursuant to Section 25-1-99, Mississippi Code of 1972, to be open for business and, except when necessarily absent on official business, the assessor, or his deputy, shall remain in the assessor's office during the time the office is open for business.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 27 - Taxation and Finance
Chapter 1 - Assessors and County Tax Collectors
§ 27-1-3. Assessor may appoint deputies; oath of office; bond; appointment process
§ 27-1-5. Duties and compensation
§ 27-1-7. Assessor to be tax collector; bond; duties; effect of failure to qualify as tax collector
§ 27-1-9. Office of assessor and tax collector; budget; finances
§ 27-1-11. Tax collector as separate officer in certain counties; reconsolidation of offices
§ 27-1-13. Tax collector as separate officer; election; bond; powers and duties
§ 27-1-15. Method of operation where offices of assessor and tax collector are separated
§ 27-1-17. May demand list of employees
§ 27-1-19. To gather and record data; electronic filing and storage
§ 27-1-21. Shall examine records
§ 27-1-25. To devote full time to office
§ 27-1-27. Supervisors to provide office
§ 27-1-29. Delivery of books and other documents to successors in office