Mississippi Code
Chapter 11 - Offenses Involving Public Officials
§ 97-11-51. Trustees of state institutions not to incur liability in excess of income

It shall be unlawful for the board of trustees or other authority of any state-owned institution maintained in whole or in part by the state, or any state department, having charge of the disbursement or expenditure of the income provided by legislative appropriation and otherwise for such institution or department to expend, contract for the expenditure, or permit the incurring of any liability in excess of the income so provided, and it shall be and is hereby made the duty of any and all such authorities to keep the expenditures and obligations within the amount of said income, but in cases of extreme emergency arising from acts of Providence, epidemics, fire, storm, or flood, said authorities may, upon the written consent of a majority of the members of the state senate, and a majority of the members of the house of representatives and the approval of the governor, exceed such appropriation by the amounts to be so stipulated and agreed upon.
Any authority or member of a board of trustees violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars or imprisoned in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and in addition thereto shall be personally liable, and liable on his bond, for the amount of the excess thus unlawfully expended, and shall be removed from office or from such employment.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 97 - Crimes

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

§ 97-11-11. Bribery; offer, promise or gift of property to candidate, officer, agent or trustee to influence his action

§ 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

§ 97-11-27. Embezzlement; officers and public agents failing to deliver money, records, etc. to successor

§ 97-11-29. Embezzlement; accounts to be kept by all public officers; false entries, false certificates, loan of public funds and fraud on the treasury

§ 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

§ 97-11-41. Oath of office and bond; elected officials not to exercise duties before taking oath or giving bond, as required

§ 97-11-43. Railroad fares; government officials to pay same fare as general passengers; accepting and using free pass

§ 97-11-45. Tax collector and chancery clerk; failure to perform duty in respect to duplicate tax receipts

§ 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

§ 97-11-53. Offer of inducements to influence public official's action on award of contracts or accomplishment of official acts