The state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and public bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business and all executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds or other obligations issued by a housing authority pursuant to the Housing Authorities Law, or any law amendatory or supplemental thereto, of the State of Mississippi or issued by any public housing authority or agency in the United States, when such bonds or other obligations are secured by a pledge of annual contributions to be paid by the United States government or any agency thereof, and such bonds and other obligations shall be authorized security for all public deposits and shall be fully negotiable in this state; it being the purpose of this article to authorize any persons, firms, corporations, associations, political subdivisions, bodies, and officers, public or private, to use any funds owned or controlled by them, including (but not limited to) sinking, insurance, investment, retirement, compensation, pension and trust funds, and funds held on deposit, for the purchase of any such bonds or other obligations, and that any such bonds or other obligations shall be authorized security for all public deposits and shall be fully negotiable in this state. However, nothing contained in this article with regard to legal investments shall be construed as relieving any person, firm or corporation from any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 33 - Housing and Housing Authorities
Article 1 - Housing Authorities
§ 43-33-3. Finding and declaration of necessity
§ 43-33-5. Housing authorities created
§ 43-33-7. Appointment, qualifications and tenure of commissioners
§ 43-33-11. Powers of authority
§ 43-33-13. Operation not for profit
§ 43-33-15. Rentals and tenant selection
§ 43-33-17. Cooperation of authorities
§ 43-33-21. Planning, zoning and building laws
§ 43-33-25. Form and sale of bonds
§ 43-33-27. Provisions of bonds, trust indentures, and mortgages
§ 43-33-28. Issuance of leased housing revenue refunding bonds by certain housing authorities
§ 43-33-29. Remedies of an obligee of authority
§ 43-33-31. Additional remedies conferable by authority
§ 43-33-33. Exemption of property from execution sale
§ 43-33-35. Aid from federal government
§ 43-33-37. Tax exemption and payments in lieu of taxes
§ 43-33-39. Housing bonds to be legal investments, legal security and negotiable
§ 43-33-43. Cooperation in undertaking housing projects
§ 43-33-45. Agreements as to payments by housing authority
§ 43-33-47. Advances to housing authority
§ 43-33-49. Procedure for exercising powers