If any person elected to any office shall undertake to exercise the same or discharge the duties thereof without first having taken the oath of office or given bond as required by law, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not longer than one year, or both.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 11 - Offenses Involving Public Officials
§ 97-11-1. Alteration of records
§ 97-11-3. Attorney general and district attorney not to advise or defend criminals
§ 97-11-9. Bond; approving worthless official bond
§ 97-11-13. Bribery; penalty when officer, agent or trustee accepts bribe
§ 97-11-15. Circuit clerk; penalty for failure or refusal to send up certificate of appeal
§ 97-11-17. Clerk refusing to give certified copy of papers
§ 97-11-23. Drunkenness in office
§ 97-11-25. Embezzlement; officers, trustees and public employees converting property to own use
§ 97-11-31. Embezzlement; fraud committed in public office
§ 97-11-33. Extortion; collecting unauthorized fees and fees for services not actually rendered
§ 97-11-35. Failure to return known offenders; purposeful avoidance of knowledge of offense
§ 97-11-37. Failure to perform any duty
§ 97-11-39. Military officers; resigning to evade obedience to order prohibited
§ 97-11-47. Tax collector; failure to make settlement
§ 97-11-49. Tax collector; collecting privilege tax without issuing license
§ 97-11-51. Trustees of state institutions not to incur liability in excess of income