The salaries of superintendents, principals and licensed employees shall be paid by pay certificates issued by the school district superintendent. Such pay certificates may be issued without additional authorization of the school board where the amount of salary has been fixed and a contract entered into as is provided in this chapter. All pay certificates shall be preserved by him as a part of the official records of his office for the same time and in the same manner as other records are preserved. Except as is herein provided, the said warrants shall be governed in all respects by the same laws regulating the issuance of other warrants for other purposes. All pay certificates and warrants issued shall show the gross amount of the salary and all authorized deductions therefrom for income taxes, Social Security, retirement contributions and other lawful purposes.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 9 - District Superintendents, Principals, Teachers, and Other Employees
§ 37-9-3. Employment of non-instructional employees
§ 37-9-4. Compensation of attorney employed by school board who is a member of the Legislature
§ 37-9-11. Testing of applicants for teacher licensure
§ 37-9-12. Referendum on continuation or abolition of office of county superintendent of education
§ 37-9-14. General duties and powers of superintendent of school district
§ 37-9-15. Selection of assistant superintendents and principals; interim conservators
§ 37-9-21. Nepotism in hiring of superintendents, principals or licensed employees
§ 37-9-24. Contracts with licensed personnel for not less than 187 employment days
§ 37-9-25. Contracts for periods greater than one scholastic year
§ 37-9-27. Bond of superintendents
§ 37-9-35. Employment of teachers to be paid from minimum education program funds
§ 37-9-41. Manner of payment of salaries
§ 37-9-43. Payment of salary prior to execution of written contract; effect of breach of contract
§ 37-9-49. Deduction of dues, etc., from salaries
§ 37-9-55. Release from contract
§ 37-9-57. Effect of abandonment of employment
§ 37-9-69. General duties of superintendents, principals and teachers
§ 37-9-71. Suspension or expulsion of pupils