It shall be unlawful for any person related by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree computed according to the rules of the civil law to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or commissioner to accept any employment in the state correctional system, neither shall the commissioner or other officer or employee of the state correctional system be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, purchase or sale for or in behalf of or on account of the state correctional system.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 47 - Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole
Chapter 5 - Correctional System
Operation, Management and Personnel
§ 47-5-3. Facilities of the correctional system; their purposes and locations
§ 47-5-5. Limited centralization of facilities
§ 47-5-10. Department of Corrections; general powers and duties
§ 47-5-20. Powers and duties of commissioner
§ 47-5-23. Management and control of correctional system to be vested in Department of Corrections
§ 47-5-28. Additional powers and duties of commissioner
§ 47-5-31. Reports by commissioner; inventory
§ 47-5-33. Commissioner authorized to administer oaths, and to summon and examine witnesses
§ 47-5-35. Auditor for correctional system
§ 47-5-41. Employees' oath of office
§ 47-5-43. Workers' compensation coverage
§ 47-5-47. Nepotism prohibited; employees not to be interested in contracts
§ 47-5-49. Employees not to engage in other business
§ 47-5-55. Exemption from jury service
§ 47-5-56. Lease of property; operating funds; disposal of income; transfer of property
§ 47-5-58. Sales by commissary to persons or agencies
§ 47-5-70. "Board" and "lessee" defined
§ 47-5-71. Construction or pavement of roads
§ 47-5-75. Suits by or against board of corrections; tort liability insurance
§ 47-5-78. Creation of the "Lambert State Forest Revolving Fund."
§ 47-5-79. How purchases to be made
§ 47-5-85. Chapel for religious worship; chaplain
§ 47-5-87. No gasoline or motor oil to be sold
§ 47-5-89. No solicitation nor contribution for political purposes
§ 47-5-91. Transportation of children of employees to school; payment of tuition
§ 47-5-93. Governor to make inspections
§ 47-5-94. Annual structural and environmental inspections; report of findings
§ 47-5-99. Creation of classification hearing officers and disciplinary hearing officers
§ 47-5-101. Meetings and minutes of classification and disciplinary hearing officers
§ 47-5-104. Demotion of offender or forfeiture of earned time
§ 47-5-105. Entry of bids, bills, and invoices in minutes before award or payment; copies to be sent