Mississippi Code
Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records

§ 25-1-51. Confiscated property: prohibited acquisition; disposition by sheriff; subsequent recovery - In addition thereto, upon a showing in an action begun...

§ 25-1-53. Nepotism prohibited - It shall be unlawful for any person elected, appointed or...

§ 25-1-55. Penalty for nepotism - Any person violating the provisions of Section 25-1-53 shall forfeit...

§ 25-1-57. Undated or postdated resignations - Whenever any appointment or employment of an officer or employee...

§ 25-1-59. Vacancy by removal or default - If any state, district, county, county district, or municipal officer...

§ 25-1-61. Legal residence of state officers - All public officers of this state who are required to,...

§ 25-1-63. Defaulting officers published - If any state, state district, county, county district, or other...

§ 25-1-65. Expense of publication - The expense of publishing such defaulters shall be paid out...

§ 25-1-67. Public moneys to be promptly paid by legal representatives - It is the duty of the legal representative of every...

§ 25-1-69. Officer not to carry or deposit public funds outside state - It shall be unlawful for any officer of this state,...

§ 25-1-71. Public moneys are trust funds - All money deposited in a bank or with any depository...

§ 25-1-72. Duty to deposit funds into county depository - All county officers who receive funds payable into the county...

§ 25-1-73. Officers liable for costs of collection of public funds improperly withheld - Any officer, state, county, municipal, or district, or any other...

§ 25-1-75. Duplicate receipt books upon transfer of funds - All state boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and other departments of...

§ 25-1-79. Use of state-owned automobiles - It shall be unlawful for any officer, employee or other...

§ 25-1-81. Expense accounts and reports as to state-owned automobiles - The Department of Finance and Administration shall refuse to issue...

§ 25-1-83. Attending conventions, associations, or meetings - It is further provided that no funds appropriated by the...

§ 25-1-87. Marking publicly owned or leased vehicle; exceptions; effect of noncompliance - All motor vehicles owned or leased by the State of...

§ 25-1-89. Donated automobiles - Any institution of higher learning may own and operate a...

§ 25-1-91. Penalties regarding state-owned automobiles - If any person shall knowingly and wilfully violate any of...

§ 25-1-93. Provisions inapplicable to Governor - It is herein expressly provided that no section, portion, or...

§ 25-1-95. Signature machines - The Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, and Treasurer, who,...

§ 25-1-97. State office hours - The capitol commission of the state is hereby authorized and...

§ 25-1-98. Opening and staffing of state offices; legal holidays, construction of "workday." - In addition to any other times required by statute, all...

§ 25-1-99. County office hours - The clerks of the circuit and chancery courts, the county...

§ 25-1-101. State-furnished books - Every justice of the peace, or other officer to whom...

§ 25-1-102. Certain attorneys' work product exempt from public access requirements - Records in the possession of a public body, as defined...

§ 25-1-103. Certain offices held by same person - The offices of the clerk of the circuit and chancery...

§ 25-1-105. Application of prohibition against striking to public employees and employers - All provisions of Section 37-9-75 prohibiting strikes by teachers and...

§ 25-1-107. Date of postmark as proof of date of payment or report - Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, whenever any check,...

§ 25-1-109. Law enforcement officers prohibited from disclosing identity of person arrested, issued a citation, or being held for misdemeanor - No law enforcement agency shall disclose the name of any...

§ 25-1-111. Prevention of disclosure by state agencies of social security numbers - When any state agency mails, delivers, circulates, publishes, distributes, transmits,...

§ 25-1-117. State agencies and public officials providing information about the agency or office to the public on a website are required to regularly review and update that information - Each state agency and each statewide elected official that provides...

Chapter 3 - Salaries and Compensation

General Provisions

§ 25-3-1. Classifications of counties - For the purposes of this chapter the counties are divided...

§ 25-3-2. Elected county official's salary reductions due to valuation and population changes - No county elected official's annual salary established under this chapter...

§ 25-3-3. Salaries of assessors also serving as tax collectors; additional compensation - [Effective from and after January 1, 2020, this section will...

§ 25-3-7. State contribution to compensation of assessors - From the state treasury shall be paid up to one...

§ 25-3-9. Salaries of county prosecuting attorneys - In all cases of conviction there shall be taxed against...

§ 25-3-11. Travel and expenses of county attorneys - In Class 1 counties having two judicial districts and having...

§ 25-3-13. Salaries of supervisors - [Effective from and after January 1, 2020, this section will...

§ 25-3-15. Additions to assessed valuation for fixing supervisors' salaries in certain counties - It is hereby further provided that, in any county of...

§ 25-3-17. Payment of supervisors' salaries - The salaries provided in Sections 25-3-13 and 25-3-15 shall be...

§ 25-3-19. Salaries of county auditors - The chancery clerks, as county auditors, shall receive compensation for...

§ 25-3-21. Allowance for copying assessment rolls - The board of supervisors may allow to its clerks reasonable...

§ 25-3-23. Deputy chancery clerk in certain counties - The board of supervisors of any county having two (2)...

§ 25-3-25. Salaries of sheriffs - The annual salary for each sheriff shall be based upon...

§ 25-3-27. Salaries of deputy sheriffs in counties having two judicial districts - The board of supervisors of any county having two judicial...

§ 25-3-29. Method of paying salaries - Except as otherwise therein provided, the salaries mentioned in the...

§ 25-3-31. Salaries of elective state and district officers - The annual salaries of the following elected state and district...

§ 25-3-35. Salaries of elected judiciary, district attorneys and legal assistants - Click to view There are imposed upon the Supreme Court...

§ 25-3-38. Payment of additional funds to appointive officials unlawful; penalty - The salary for appointive and/or employed officials established herein shall...

§ 25-3-39.1. Compensation of Deputy Commissioner of Insurance - The compensation of the Deputy Commissioner of Insurance shall be...

§ 25-3-40. Annual salary increases; intent to implement minimum wage and maximize salary increases - On July 1, 1978, and each year thereafter, the Mississippi...

§ 25-3-45. Penalty for excessive travel expenses - It shall be unlawful for any person to claim, receive,...

§ 25-3-47. Department subordinates - Unless otherwise expressly fixed or provided by law, the heads...

§ 25-3-49. Salaries in special appointments - In case of the death, resignation, or removal from office...

§ 25-3-51. Deduction for absence from the state - Any officer of this state who receives a salary may,...

§ 25-3-53. Compensation of special judges of circuit, county, or chancery courts - When a special commission shall issue for the holding of...

§ 25-3-55. Compensation of special judge of Supreme Court - When a special judge or special judges shall be commissioned...

§ 25-3-57. Deduction for absence from court - In case any judge of the Supreme Court or the...

§ 25-3-59. Deduction for absence from meeting of public service commission - In case a public service commissioner shall fail to attend...

§ 25-3-61. Governor may grant leave of absence - The Governor may grant leave of absence for a time...

§ 25-3-63. Local governmental entities and local school districts authorized to grant administrative leave with pay to their employees in the event of extreme weather conditions or man-made or natural disasters or emergencies - From and after March 14, 2020, the board of supervisors...

§ 25-3-67. Deductions from municipal employees' salaries for contributions for United Way, insurance, and United States Savings Bonds - The governing authorities of any municipality may, within their discretion,...

§ 25-3-69. Uniform per diem compensation for officers and employees of state boards, commissions and agencies - Unless otherwise provided by law, all officers and employees of...

§ 25-3-71. Annual report of recommendations of salary increases and amounts - The State Personnel Board shall prepare a written legislative report...

Vacation Time and Sick Leave

§ 25-3-91. Definitions - For purposes of Sections 25-3-91 through 25-3-99, the following words...

§ 25-3-93. Personal leave - Click to view However, employees who were hired prior to...

§ 25-3-95. Major medical leave - Click to view Faculty members employed by the eight (8)...

§ 25-3-99. Prior payment of leave earned unaffected - Nothing in Sections 25-3-91 through 25-3-99 shall be construed to...

§ 25-3-101. Promulgation of rules - The state personnel board shall promulgate rules for the administration...

Chapter 4 - Ethics in Government

Article 1 - Mississippi Ethics Commission

§ 25-4-1. Legislative purpose - The Legislature hereby declares it essential to the proper operation...

§ 25-4-3. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:...

§ 25-4-7. Organizational meeting of commission - As soon as all of the initial members of the...

§ 25-4-9. Chairman and vice-chairman of commission - The commission shall annually elect one (1) member to serve...

§ 25-4-13. Compensation - Members of the Mississippi Ethics Commission shall, while serving on...

§ 25-4-17. Duties of commission - The commission shall, in addition to any other duties prescribed...

§ 25-4-19. Powers of commission - The commission shall have the authority to do the following:...

§ 25-4-23. Confidentiality of proceedings and records - All commission proceedings and records relating to any investigation shall...

§ 25-4-25. Persons required to file statement of economic interest - Each of the following individuals shall file a statement of...

§ 25-4-27. Contents of statement of economic interest - Each person specified under Section 25-4-25 shall file a statement...

Article 3 - Conflict of Interest; Improper Use of Office

§ 25-4-101. Declaration of public policy - The Legislature declares that elective and public office and employment...

§ 25-4-103. Definitions - The following definitions apply in this article unless the context...

§ 25-4-113. Civil action for damages against violator of article; forfeiture of pecuniary benefit; costs and attorneys' fees - The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, the commission,...

§ 25-4-115. Civil liability not precluded - This article shall not bar, suspend or otherwise restrict any...

§ 25-4-117. Criminal liability not precluded - The provisions of this article shall be in addition to...

§ 25-4-119. Officials not to derive pecuniary benefits as result of official duties; penalties - No elected or appointed official shall derive any pecuniary benefit,...

§ 25-4-121. Officials or members of immediate family, partners or associates not to derive pecuniary benefits as result of official duties under Chapter 497, Laws of 2009; penalties - No elected or appointed official shall derive any pecuniary benefit,...

Chapter 5 - Removals From Office

§ 25-5-1. Removals from office - If any public officer, state, district, county or municipal, shall...

§ 25-5-3. Governor empowered to remove elective county officials - The Governor is hereby empowered, in accordance with the provisions...

§ 25-5-5. Causes for removal - The reasons or causes for removal from office shall be:...

§ 25-5-7. Demand for removal - Before the Governor shall consider the removal from a county...

§ 25-5-9. Form of petition - The removal petition shall be in substantially the following form:...

§ 25-5-11. Signing of petition - Such petitions may be circulated and signed in sections; that...

§ 25-5-13. Verification of petition - Each and every petition, or separately circulated section thereof, containing...

§ 25-5-15. Certification of county registrar - Before the submission of the petitions to the governor to...

§ 25-5-17. Contested status of signator determined by Governor - Such certificate by the county registrar shall be prima facie...

§ 25-5-19. Examination of petition by election commissioners - The county registrar shall not retain in his possession any...

§ 25-5-21. Notice of hearing - When said petitions shall have been filed with the Governor,...

§ 25-5-23. Removal council - At the time and place designated in said notice, the...

§ 25-5-25. Judgment of council - The council shall keep minutes of its final judgments, and...

§ 25-5-27. Resignation of officer - The officer named in the removal petition shall continue to...

§ 25-5-29. Conduct of election - The special removal election shall be conducted and the results...

§ 25-5-31. Form of the ballot - The ballot at said special removal election shall be in...

§ 25-5-33. Results of election - The election commissioners of the county, or a quorum thereof,...

§ 25-5-35. Appeals - A person desiring to contest the proclaimed results of a...

Chapter 7 - Fees

§ 25-7-1. Lawful to demand specific fees only - It shall be lawful for the Clerk of the Supreme...

§ 25-7-3. Clerk of the Supreme Court - The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall charge the following...

§ 25-7-5. Payment of fee for recording opinions - The fees of the Clerk of the Supreme Court for...

§ 25-7-7. Fees due from state or county - The clerk of the Supreme Court shall make out a...

§ 25-7-9. Clerks of the chancery court - [Effective from and after January 1, 2020, this section will...

§ 25-7-10. Additional allowance for chancery court clerks in certain counties - In counties having two (2) judicial districts and having a...

§ 25-7-11. Recording fees itemized - The chancery clerk shall itemize on the record, following the...

§ 25-7-13. Clerks of the circuit court - [Effective from and after January 1, 2020, this section shall...

§ 25-7-14. Prepayment of chancery or circuit court fees by state or political subdivision - Neither the state, nor any county, city, town, or village,...

§ 25-7-17. Fees of circuit clerks in certain municipal appeals - The clerk of the circuit court of any county in...

§ 25-7-19. Sheriffs - [Effective from and after January 1, 2020, this section will...

§ 25-7-21. Tax collectors - For each separate publication advertising lands for sale for taxes,...

§ 25-7-25. Justice courts - bond. . . . .25.00

§ 25-7-27. Marshals and constables - [Effective from and after January 1, 2020, this section will...

§ 25-7-29. Notaries public - Notaries public may charge a fee in an amount of...

§ 25-7-31. Officers taking depositions - Officers taking depositions shall charge the following fees: For administering...

§ 25-7-33. Officers taking acknowledgments - For taking proof or acknowledgment of any writing concerning real...

§ 25-7-35. Commissioners, referees, auditors, and arbitrators - The court in which the cause is pending, or the...

§ 25-7-37. County surveyors - The fees charged by a county surveyor shall be those...

§ 25-7-39. Payment of surveyor fees - The fees chargeable by the surveyor shall be paid by...

§ 25-7-41. Rangers - Rangers shall be entitled to the following fees: For taking...

§ 25-7-43. Fees for approving bond of county officer - The president of the board of supervisors, or other officer...

§ 25-7-45. All officers administering oaths - For administering and certifying an oath or affidavit. . ....

§ 25-7-47. Witness fees - Witnesses in the county, circuit, chancery and justice courts shall...

§ 25-7-49. Law enforcement officers to receive no witness fees in criminal cases - It shall be unlawful for any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable,...

§ 25-7-51. Certificates for witness fees in civil cases - The fees to which a witness may be entitled in...

§ 25-7-53. Forfeiture of witness fees - A witness shall not be entitled to charge for his...

§ 25-7-55. Witness to have only one fee for same time - A witness shall not be allowed compensation for his attendance...

§ 25-7-57. Witness in criminal cases - Witnesses in criminal cases shall be allowed the same compensation...

§ 25-7-59. Report of witness certificates payable out of county treasury - The circuit clerk shall, within thirty (30) days after the...

§ 25-7-61. Jurors; Lengthy Trial Fund - [From and after January 1, 2008, or such time as...

§ 25-7-63. Determination of compensation of jurors - The amount of compensation due to each grand juror, petit...

§ 25-7-65. Printers and publishers - Printers and publishers shall be entitled to the following fees:...

§ 25-7-67. Appraisers of the estates of decedents - The chancery court or the chancellor in vacation in each...

§ 25-7-69. Officers and jurors in ad quod damnum proceedings - Each juror summoned and attending the execution of a writ...

§ 25-7-71. To persons bringing back prisoner on extradition - Any party, acting under a requisition of the Governor or...

§ 25-7-73. Expenses of returning felon - The circuit court or the judge thereof in vacation is...

§ 25-7-75. Expenses of returning certain prisoners to other states - When it is desired to have returned to this state...

§ 25-7-77. Fees for attachment for rent - The officer issuing an attachment or distress for rent or...

§ 25-7-79. Fees of officers and witness in unlawful entry and detainer court - The justices holding a court for the trial of an...

§ 25-7-81. Secretary of State - The Secretary of State shall charge the following fees: For...

§ 25-7-83. Executive Director of the Department of Finance and Administration - The auditor of public accounts shall charge the following fees:...

§ 25-7-85. Secretary of State; fee relating to land transactions - The Secretary of State shall charge, collect and pay into...

§ 25-7-87. Fees of state officers to be paid into Treasury - It shall be the duty of all state officers who...

§ 25-7-89. Fee for transcript of testimony and exhibits to testimony, or copy of such transcript and exhibits - Each court reporter shall receive Two Dollars and Forty Cents...

Chapter 9 - Statewide Personnel System

Personnel Administration System

§ 25-9-101. Purpose of chapter - It is the purpose of this chapter to establish in...

§ 25-9-103. Principles applicable to administration of state personnel system - The State Personnel Board herein established shall administer a state...

§ 25-9-105. Consolidation of agencies and employees into state personnel system - It is the intent of this chapter to consolidate into...

§ 25-9-107. Definitions - The following terms, when used in this chapter, unless a...

§ 25-9-109. State Personnel Board members, terms of office, qualifications, vacancies - There is hereby created a board of five (5) members...

§ 25-9-113. Regular meetings; compensation and expenses of members - The State Personnel Board shall prescribe the general policies by...

§ 25-9-115. State Personnel Board to report to Legislature recommendations for judicial salaries; factors to be considered - From and after November 1, 2017, and every four (4)...

§ 25-9-116. Suspension of hiring, promotion and other reclassifications - Upon recommendation of the State Fiscal Management Board, after a...

§ 25-9-119. State personnel director; selection; qualifications; duties; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund - 1. Cost-of-living adjustments; 2. Salary increases for outstanding performance based...

§ 25-9-121. State service; status of permanent or certified employees under prior systems - The state service, as defined by Section 25-9-107, shall consist...

§ 25-9-123. Nonstate service; exclusion of positions covered by prior systems - The nonstate service, as defined by Section 25-9-107, shall consist...

§ 25-9-125. Temporary assignment of state service employees to nonstate service - A state service employee, with the consent of the head...

§ 25-9-126. Furlough of federally funded employees - In the event that federal funds for the funding of...

§ 25-9-127. Prerequisites to dismissal or action adversely affecting compensation or employment status; exceptions; exemption of personnel actions of certain state agencies from State Personnel Board procedures for limited time period; operating stat... - It is not the intention or effect of this section...

§ 25-9-129. Employee appeals board; membership; terms of office; compensation - The State Personnel Board shall appoint an employee appeals board,...

§ 25-9-132. Judicial review of employee appeals board decisions - Any employee aggrieved by a final decision of the employee...

§ 25-9-137. Reorganization and consolidation of prior systems - The Mississippi Classification Commission shall be responsible for a plan...

§ 25-9-141. Funding for State Personnel Board; proration of costs; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund - The State Personnel Board may, in the discretion of the...

§ 25-9-143. Status of employees in merit positions and exempt positions - Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, each personnel system officer...

§ 25-9-147. Variable compensation plan; annual review and report; designation of plan as "Colonel Guy Groff State Variable Compensation Plan." - The State Personnel Board shall review on an annual basis...

§ 25-9-148. Annual report regarding increases in compensation, other than salary increases authorized by Legislature - Before September 1, 1996, and before September 1 of every...

§ 25-9-149. Discriminatory practices prohibited - It is the intent of the Legislature that no person...

§ 25-9-155. Nonstate service employees to be given preference for state service positions over general public - The State Personnel Board shall grant part-time employees, as defined...

Protection of Public Employee From Reprisal for Giving Information to Investigative Body or Agency

§ 25-9-171. Definitions - For purposes of Sections 25-9-171 through 25-9-177, the following terms...

§ 25-9-175. Liability of agency for violating provisions - Any agency which violates the provisions of Section 25-9-173 shall...

§ 25-9-177. Actions to recover civil fines and other penalties - Actions to recover civil fines and other remedies provided for...

Veteran's Preference

§ 25-9-301. Definitions - The following terms shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless...

§ 25-9-305. Rules and regulations - The State Personnel Board is authorized to establish a formula...

Registration Under Military Selective Service Act -

Chapter 11 - Social Security and Public Employees' Retirement and Disability Benefits

Article 1 - Social Security Benefits

§ 25-11-1. Citation - Articles 1 and 3 shall be known and cited as...

§ 25-11-3. Purpose and declaration of policy - In order to extend to employees of the state and...

§ 25-11-5. Definitions - For the purposes of this article: The term "wages" means...

§ 25-11-15. Administration and operation of Public Employees' Retirement System, federal-state agreement, and Articles 1 and 3 - The members described above and serving on the board on...

§ 25-11-17. Rules and regulations - The board shall make, adopt, and promulgate such rules and...

§ 25-11-19. Studies and reports - The board shall make studies concerning the problem of old-age...

§ 25-11-21. Former laws remain in force - Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as repealing...

Article 3 - Additional State Retirement and Disability Benefits

§ 25-11-101. Public employees' retirement system established - A retirement system is hereby established and placed under the...

§ 25-11-105. Membership - I. THOSE WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP The membership of...

§ 25-11-107. Civilian employees of Mississippi National Guard as a coverage group - The board of trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System...

§ 25-11-109. Creditable service - When membership ceases, such prior service certificates shall become void....

§ 25-11-111. Superannuation retirement - (1) Any member who became a member of the system...

§ 25-11-111.1. Payment of retirement benefits by the most appropriate means as determined by the board - The Public Employees' Retirement System shall make payments of retirement...

§ 25-11-112. Additional annual payment to retirees and beneficiaries - [(1.03)n - 1] x [annual retirement allowance], where n is...

§ 25-11-113. Disability retirement - The temporaryallowance shall equal the greater of (i) forty percent...

§ 25-11-115. Options - Option 1.If the retired member dies before he or she...

§ 25-11-115.1. Designation of new spouse as beneficiary under Option 4-A; benefits payable to spouse - Any retired member who died in 1993, who retired under...

§ 25-11-118. Retirement system authorized to accept eligible roll over distributions to repay fund or for purchase of optional service credit - Effective July 1, 2000, and subject to the rules adopted...

§ 25-11-121. Investments - 1. Be listed on a national stock exchange; or 2....

§ 25-11-123. Crediting of assets; financing - All of the assets of the system shall be credited...

§ 25-11-124. Employer to pay required member contributions; tax treatment; funding; retirement treatment - Each employer shall pick up the member contributions required by...

§ 25-11-127. Benefits upon reemployment of retired persons - To determine the normal working days for a position under...

§ 25-11-133. Guaranty; vested right to benefits; maximum annual retirement allowance - In the event of a deficit in the availability of...

§ 25-11-135. Former laws remain in force - Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as repealing...

§ 25-11-139. Payment, commencement of benefits - Any retirement allowance or other annuity or benefit provided by...

§ 25-11-141. Group life and health benefits for retired persons - The board of trustees may enter into an agreement with...

Article 5 - Teachers' Retirement System

§ 25-11-201. Continuance of certain vested rights - In any event, if no election has been made, such...

Article 7 - Supplemental Legislative Retirement Plan

§ 25-11-301. Creation and management of supplemental legislative retirement plan - There is hereby established and placed under the management of...

§ 25-11-303. Applicable definitions - For the purposes of this article, the definitions in Section...

§ 25-11-312. Acceptance of eligible rollover distribution or direct transfer of funds from qualified plan in payment of costs to reinstate previously withdrawn service credit - From and after July 1, 2000, subject to the rules...

§ 25-11-313. Employer to pay required member contributions; tax treatment; funding; retirement treatment - The employer shall pick up the member contributions required by...

Article 9 - Feasibility Study of Establishing Separate Retirement Plan for Volunteer Fire Fighters

§ 25-11-351. Feasibility study of establishing separate retirement plan for volunteer fire fighters; expenses of study - The Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi shall conduct a...

Article 11 - Optional Retirement Program for Employees of State Institutions of Higher Learning

§ 25-11-401. Eligibility for optional program - There is established an optional retirement program for employees of...

§ 25-11-403. Contributions to annuity contracts and mutual funds - Retirement and death benefits shall be provided to participants in...

§ 25-11-405. Administration of program; delegation of responsibilities - The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System...

§ 25-11-407. Designation of life insurance companies for purchase of annuity contracts and mutual funds - The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System...

§ 25-11-409. Election to participate in program; time of election - Eligible employees initially employed on or after July 1, 1990,...

§ 25-11-411. Contributions made by reduction in salary; contributions by employer; amount; accrued liability contribution fund - Each participant shall contribute monthly to the optional retirement program...

§ 25-11-413. Ineligibility for membership in Public Employees' Retirement System - Any person electing to participate in the optional retirement program...

§ 25-11-415. Deductions from employers' contribution to administer program; expense fund - The Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi may deduct not...

§ 25-11-417. Benefits payable not obligations of state but of designated companies - Benefits payable to participants under the optional retirement program are...

§ 25-11-419. Exemption from state or municipal tax; exemption from levy, garnishment, attachment, or other process; application of State Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act - Annuity contracts, mutual fund accounts or similar investment products authorized...

§ 25-11-421. Qualification under Section 401(a) or conformity with section 403(b) of Internal Revenue Code; determination letter from Internal Revenue Service - The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System...

§ 25-11-423. Actuarial study; report of study - After a period of three (3) years has elapsed from...

Chapter 13 - Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System

§ 25-13-1. Purpose of system - There is hereby established a retirement system for the Mississippi...

§ 25-13-3. Eligibility for service retirement benefits - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates...

§ 25-13-5. Creditable service - Creditable service on which a member's service or disability retirement...

§ 25-13-7. Custodian of fund; financing; payment of benefits; maintenance as separate fund - The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System,...

§ 25-13-8. Employer to pay member contributions required for fund; tax treatment; methods of payment - The employer shall pick up the member contributions required by...

§ 25-13-9. Disability retirement - Any former uniformed highway safety patrolman who has had not...

§ 25-13-11. Retirement allowance; superannuation retirement; annual increase; minimum retirement allowances; waiver of benefits - Any member whose withdrawal from service occurs before attaining the...

§ 25-13-11.1. Payment of retirement benefits by the most appropriate means as determined by the board - The Public Employees' Retirement System shall make payments of retirement...

§ 25-13-12. Additional benefit payments - Click to view [(1.03)n - 1] x [annual retirement allowance],...

§ 25-13-14. One-time early retirement for members with twenty years of service - No member of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol Retirement System...

§ 25-13-16. Retirement benefit options; definitions - Option 1.If he dies before he has received in annuity...

§ 25-13-17. Credit for prior time served in highway safety patrol, armed forces - The credit for military service granted in this subsection shall...

§ 25-13-19. Transfer of state retirement annuity fund contributions - In any case in which a highway patrolman has been...

§ 25-13-21. Refund of contributions; rollover distribution to retirement plan or account; repayment of refund upon subsequent reentry into service - In the event a highway patrolman ceases to work for...

§ 25-13-22. Retirement system authorized to accept eligible rollover distributions to repay fund or for purchase of optional service credit - Effective July 1, 2000, and subject to the rules adopted...

§ 25-13-23. Non-covered employees - All other employees of the Mississippi highway safety patrol who...

§ 25-13-25. Administrative board - There is established an administrative board for the Mississippi Highway...

§ 25-13-27. Cost of administering fund; maintenance and disclosure of records - The Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi is hereby authorized...

§ 25-13-28. Interest on employee reserve account - Regular interest shall be credited annually to the mean amount...

§ 25-13-29. Actuarial valuation - At least once in each biennium the administrative board shall...

§ 25-13-33. Guaranty; vested rights to benefits; maximum annual retirement allowance - In the event of a deficit in the availability of...

Chapter 14 - Government Employees Deferred Compensation Plan Law

§ 25-14-1. Title - This chapter shall be known as the "Government Employees Deferred...

§ 25-14-3. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the term "employee" means...

§ 25-14-5. Deferred compensation program authorized; investment; deferred compensation exempt from tax and execution - The State of Mississippi, or any state agency, county, municipality...

§ 25-14-7. Administration of deferred compensation program - The administration of the deferred compensation program shall be under...

§ 25-14-9. Investment of monies in life insurance and annuity contracts or in other funds authorized - Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the...

§ 25-14-11. Deferred compensation program additional to other retirement, pension, and benefit systems - The deferred compensation program established by this chapter shall exist...

§ 25-14-13. Deferred compensation considered as compensation for purpose of retirement, pension, and benefit programs - Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any...

§ 25-14-15. Deferred compensation not included for withholding taxes purposes - Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any other...

Chapter 15 - Group Insurance for Public Employees

Article 1 - State Employees Life and Health Insurance Plan

§ 25-15-3. Definitions - For the purposes of this article, the words and phrases...

§ 25-15-7. Exclusions - Such health insurance shall not include expense incurred by or...

§ 25-15-9. Formulation of state employees health insurance plan; benefits - The board shall develop plans for the insurance plan authorized...

§ 25-15-11. Contracts of insurance; self insurance; contracts for administration of plan; reports, reviews and audits - The board shall supply the statistical information upon which a...

§ 25-15-13. Eligibility - Each eligible employee may participate in the plan by signing...

§ 25-15-14. Elected state or district officials; participation in plans after leaving office - Any elected state or district official who does not run...

§ 25-15-16. Public school districts may use local funds to pay full cost of health insurance premiums for certain school bus drivers - The public school districts of the state, in their discretion,...

§ 25-15-19. Notification of commencement of payroll deductions - On or before July 1, 1972, the board shall notify...

§ 25-15-23. Withdrawals from State Employees Life and Health Insurance Plan prohibited - No agency, board, school district, community/junior college, public library, university,...

Article 3 - Group Insurance for Employees of Local Governments and Their Institutions and Agencies

§ 25-15-101. Administration of insurance program; self-insurance; liability for payment of benefits and loss or misappropriation of funds - The governing board of any county, municipality, municipal separate school...

§ 25-15-105. Exception for school district employees in federally impacted areas - Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 25-15-101 and 25-15-103, Mississippi Code...

Article 5 - Group Insurance for National Guard

§ 25-15-201. Death and dismemberment coverage for state military personnel - The military department is authorized and empowered to procure and...

Article 9 - Administration of Group Insurance Plans

§ 25-15-303. State and Public School Employees Health Insurance Management Board - The legislators, or their designees, shall serve as ex officio,...

Article 11 - Mississippi First Responders Health and Safety Act

§ 25-15-401. Short title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 25-15-403. Definitions - For purposes of this article, the following words shall have...

§ 25-15-407. Cost of cancer coverage through insurance policies or self-funded systems to be borne by employer; county and municipal governing authorities authorized to use tax proceeds to provide insurance - The costs of purchasing an insurance policy that provides for...

Chapter 17 - Cafeteria Fringe Benefit Plans

§ 25-17-1. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter: "State agency" means every state...

§ 25-17-3. Authority of state agency or local government entity to adopt cafeteria fringe benefit plan - Notwithstanding any other benefit plan offered to any eligible employee...

§ 25-17-9. Requirements with respect to providers of cafeteria plans - The State Auditor shall revise the list annually unless an...

§ 25-17-11. Requirements with respect to providers of qualification and discrimination testing services - The State Auditor shall revise the list annually unless an...

Chapter 19 - Public Employer-Assisted Housing Program -

Chapter 31 - District Attorneys

§ 25-31-5. Legal assistants to district attorney; expenditure of certain federal funds for additional legal assistants and criminal investigators authorized - legal assistants. legal assistants. legal assistants. legal assistants. legal assistants....

§ 25-31-6. Legal assistants to district attorney; qualifications; powers and duties; removal - Legal assistants to district attorneys shall be regularly licensed and...

§ 25-31-8. Office operating allowance - From and after July 1, 2006, in all circuit court...

§ 25-31-10.1. Supplemental salary, expenses and fringe benefits for district attorneys, legal assistants and criminal investigators - In addition to the salaries, expenses and fringe benefits of...

§ 25-31-11. Powers and duties - All revenue or funds allocated or expended by a district...

§ 25-31-13. District attorney to attend deliberations of grand jury - The district attorney shall attend the deliberations of the grand...

§ 25-31-15. District attorney to pass on public accounts - All accounts of a public nature, before they are allowed...

§ 25-31-17. District attorney to give opinions and prosecute public debtors - It shall be the duty of the district attorney, when...

§ 25-31-19. To represent state tax and public service commissions - The several district attorneys, with the Attorney General, are hereby...

§ 25-31-21. Pro tempore appointment and compensation of appointees - If, at the time of impaneling the grand jury in...

§ 25-31-23. Duty as to fines - The district attorney, at each term of the circuit court,...

§ 25-31-25. District attorney to institute and prosecute suits to vacate fraudulent conveyances - When it may be necessary and proper for the enforcement...

§ 25-31-27. Antitrust suits to require consent of Attorney General - No district attorney of this state, without the consent in...

§ 25-31-29. Reports on persons sentenced to state penitentiary - The district attorneys of the several circuit court districts in...

§ 25-31-33. Certain counties to contribute toward salaries of district attorneys and legal assistants - The board of supervisors of any county having a population...

§ 25-31-39. Abolition of part-time district attorneys and part-time legal assistants; exception - There shall be no part-time district attorneys or part-time legal...

§ 25-31-43. Retention of one service-issued sidearm by district attorney, legal assistant to district attorney or criminal investigator employed by district attorney upon retirement - Any district attorney, legal assistant to a district attorney or...

Chapter 32 - Public Defenders

In General

§ 25-32-1. Establishment of office by board of supervisors - Should the board of supervisors of any county or the...

§ 25-32-5. Compensation; private practice of law - Compensation for the public defender shall be fixed by the...

§ 25-32-9. Affidavit of indigency; statement of assets; representation of persons in need of mental treatment - When any person shall be arrested and charged with a...

§ 25-32-11. Duties; free access to accused - The duties of the public defender shall include the investigation...

§ 25-32-15. Termination of office - The office of public defender may be terminated, in the...

§ 25-32-17. Compensation, staff, office space, and secretarial assistance not to be reduced; authority to increase - The compensation, administrative staff, office space and secretarial assistance shall...

§ 25-32-19. Obtaining financial, professional, investigatory, research, or other assistance - The public defender and the board of supervisors may cooperate...

Chapter 33 - Notaries Public

§ 25-33-1. Appointment, bond and oath; issuance of new certificate; qualifications - The Governor may appoint notaries public who may serve in...

§ 25-33-3. To procure seals; delivery of copy of seal provisions - Every notary public appointed and commissioned shall, at his own...

§ 25-33-5. Register of official acts - Every notary public shall keep a fair register of all...

§ 25-33-7. Disposal of register and papers - In the case of the death, resignation, disqualification or expiration...

§ 25-33-9. Administering oaths and affirmations; affidavit of notary public - Every notary public shall have the power of administering oaths...

§ 25-33-11. Powers and duties - Every notary public shall have power to receive the proof...

§ 25-33-13. Affixation of expiration date of commission - Every notary public, holding commission as such through appointment by...

§ 25-33-15. Record of protest of bill or note - When any notary public, justice of the peace, or clerk...

§ 25-33-17. Ex officio notaries public - All justice court judges and clerks, clerks of the circuit...

§ 25-33-19. Common seal of such officers - The board of supervisors of every county shall provide a...

§ 25-33-21. Acknowledgment by notary public as stockholder - It shall be lawful for any notary public who is...

§ 25-33-23. Notarial acts of commissioned officers of United States armed forces - In addition to the acknowledgment of instruments and the performance...

§ 25-33-25. Notice that a notary public is not an attorney - A notary public who is not an attorney licensed to...

§ 25-33-27. Prohibited representations or advertising - A notary public who is not an attorney licensed to...

§ 25-33-29. Exceptions - The provisions of Sections 25-33-25 through 25-33-31 shall not apply...

§ 25-33-33. Forms and fees not otherwise provided by law; regulations providing for suspension or revocation of notary commission for misfeasance or malfeasance in office - The Secretary of State may prescribe forms and establish fees...

Chapter 41 - Open Meetings

§ 25-41-1. Legislative declaration - It being essential to the fundamental philosophy of the American...

§ 25-41-3. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have...

§ 25-41-9. Regulatory authority for governing; conduct of persons attending meetings - Any public body may make and enforce reasonable rules and...

§ 25-41-15. Enforcement - The Mississippi Ethics Commission shall have the authority to enforce...

§ 25-41-17. Chance meetings and social gatherings excluded - The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to chance...

Chapter 43 - Administrative Procedures

Article 1 - General Provisions

§ 25-43-1.101. Title; statement of purpose - The purposes of the Mississippi Administrative Procedures Law are: to...

§ 25-43-1.102. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have...

§ 25-43-1.105. Waiver of rights - Except to the extent precluded by another provision of law,...

§ 25-43-1.107. Report of conflicts between chapter and other laws; conforming legislation; compliance - Every agency as defined in this chapter shall, no later...

Article 2 - Public Access to Agency Law and Policy

§ 25-43-2.104. Required rule-making - In addition to other rule-making requirements imposed by law, each...

§ 25-43-2.105. Model rules of procedure - In accordance with the rule-making requirements of this chapter, the...

Article 3 - Rule-Making Adoption and Effectiveness of Rules

§ 25-43-3.108. Exemption from public rule-making procedures for temporary rules - If an agency finds that an imminent peril to the...

§ 25-43-3.112. Filing of rules - An agency shall file in the Office of the Secretary...

Article 4 - Mississippi Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act

§ 25-43-4.101. Short title - This article may be cited as the "Mississippi Small Business...

§ 25-43-4.102. Definitions - As used in this article: "Agency" is defined in Section...

§ 25-43-4.103. Small Business Regulatory Review Committee; duties, relation to Mississippi Development Authority, composition, terms, meetings, quorum - Any legislative member appointed to the committee shall serve as...

§ 25-43-4.105. Committee opposition to promulgated regulations; agency response - The petition may also renew any earlier comments made by...

§ 25-43-4.106. Annual report - The committee shall make an annual report by January 15...

§ 25-43-4.108. Applicability and relation to other laws - The Mississippi Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act shall not apply...

Chapter 45 - Permit and Licensing Procedures

§ 25-45-1. Statement of policy - It is the policy of the State of Mississippi that...

§ 25-45-3. State agencies to develop plans for one-stop permitting; elements of plan - In order to accomplish the policy set out in Section...

§ 25-45-5. Agencies authorized to enter agreements with state or federal agencies - Each agency of the state is authorized to enter into...

§ 25-45-7. Agencies to consult with Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services - Each agency of the state may consult with the Central...

§ 25-45-9. Powers, duties and responsibilities of agencies not to be altered - It is the intent of the Legislature that "one-stop permitting"...

§ 25-45-17. Cooperation of other state agencies - Each agency within the state shall cooperate to the greatest...

Chapter 51 - State Depository for Public Documents

§ 25-51-1. Designation of Mississippi Library Commission as state depository for public records; electronic form of publications as public record - The Mississippi Library Commission, hereinafter referred to as the "commission,"...

§ 25-51-3. Agencies to furnish documents in electronic form for publication on commission website - Each agency of state government shall furnish to the director...

§ 25-51-5. Annual lists of public documents - Each agency of state government shall furnish annually to the...

§ 25-51-7. Recorder of public documents - A recorder of documents shall be appointed by the director...

Chapter 53 - Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services (MDITS)

General Provisions

§ 25-53-1. Establishment of department; declaration of purposes - The Legislature recognizes that in order for the State of...

§ 25-53-5. Powers, duties and responsibilities; funding of agency expenses. - The authority shall have the following powers, duties, and responsibilities:...

§ 25-53-9. Compensation and expense allowances - The members of the authority shall be compensated by a...

§ 25-53-11. Meetings and organization - The authority shall meet regularly at a place designated by...

§ 25-53-13. Quorum - In order to have a quorum for a meeting of...

§ 25-53-15. Votes - Any member of the authority may have his vote on...

§ 25-53-17. Minutes and records - The authority shall keep full, complete, and permanent minutes and...

§ 25-53-19. Executive director; employees - The authority shall select an executive director, with the advice...

§ 25-53-21. Executive director; duties, responsibilities and authority - The executive director shall have the following duties, responsibilities and...

§ 25-53-23. Appeals to authority from decisions of executive director - The authority shall act upon all appeals of decisions made...

Information Confidentiality Officers

§ 25-53-53. Handling and processing of information and data - Information and data shall be considered public record information and...

§ 25-53-55. Investigation of and hearing on complaints of allegedly improper disclosure of confidential information - Upon written complaint of any person claiming to be adversely...

§ 25-53-57. Officer as legal agent and employee of agency or institution for which he is processing data - An information confidentiality officer shall be considered a legal agent...

§ 25-53-59. Penalty for improper release or divulgence of confidential information - Any information confidentiality officer who shall intentionally and wilfully violate...

Acquisition, Operation and Maintenance of Telecommunication Systems

§ 25-53-101. Legislative findings and declarations - The Legislature hereby declares it essential to the creation and...

§ 25-53-105. Administration and purposes of Sections 25-53-109 through 25-53-125 - The Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services shall administer the...

§ 25-53-109. General duties and powers of bureau - The bureau is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise such...

§ 25-53-111. Additional duties of bureau; justification of requests for increases in expenditures for new telecommunication equipment systems or services; long-range plans for use of telecommunications equipment, systems and services - The bureau shall have the following additional duties: To establish...

§ 25-53-113. Cooperation with bureau by state agencies - Each and every agency of the state shall give full...

§ 25-53-115. Approval by bureau of rentals, leases and purchases of telecommunications systems - No agency shall rent, lease, lease/purchase, purchase or in any...

§ 25-53-117. Creation of state obligations for telecommunications systems; conduct of transactions dealing with telecommunications systems - No agency shall be permitted to obligate the state to...

§ 25-53-119. Applicability of Sections 25-53-101 through 25-53-125 - The bureau shall, subject to the provisions of Sections 25-53-101...

§ 25-53-121. Equipment support contracts - "The continuation of this contract is contingent upon the appropriation...

§ 25-53-125. General provisions applicable to all procurements under Sections 25-53-101 through 25-53-125 - The following general provisions shall apply to all procurements under...

Electronic Government Services

§ 25-53-151. Electronic Government Services Fund established; Electronic Government Oversight Committee established to oversee implementation of E-Government and related technology initiatives; duties of committee; composition of committee; committee... - From and after July 1, 2018, the expenses of this...

Wireless Communication Commission

§ 25-53-171. Commission created; responsibilities; membership; meetings; powers and duties; staffing and technical support; Integrated Public Safety Communications Fund; compensation; Wireless Communication Advisory Board; public properties and facil... - All members of the commission shall serve a term of...

Wireless Communication Devices Assigned or Issued to State Employees -

Enterprise Security Program -

Chapter 55 - Lost Records

§ 25-55-1. Applicability of the chapter - The provisions of this chapter shall apply as well to...

§ 25-55-3. Remedy for lost record of deed - Whenever the record of deeds of any county, or any...

§ 25-55-5. Duty of chancellor and supervisors as to abstracts - In any county in which the record of deeds, or...

§ 25-55-7. Effect of such abstracts - Such abstracts, copies, minutes, or extracts, or the copy thereof...

§ 25-55-9. Record in books - Where any part of the court record was recorded or...

§ 25-55-11. In pending suits - If the record lost, destroyed, or stolen be that of...

§ 25-55-13. Loss first discovered during trial - If the loss or absence of the record, or any...

§ 25-55-15. Assessment rolls - When the assessment rolls of a county, or either of...

§ 25-55-17. Records of board of supervisors - The board of supervisors shall have power to re-establish any...

§ 25-55-19. State, county, town, or levee board bonds or warrants - Whenever any outstanding bond or warrant of this state or...

§ 25-55-21. Content of duplicate bond or warrant - Such duplicate shall correspond in number, date, amount, and unpaid...

§ 25-55-23. Duplicate for mutilated original - A duplicate shall not be issued for a mutilated bond...

§ 25-55-27. Officer issuing duplicates of bonds and warrants to keep records and preserve indemnity bonds and affidavits - The officer issuing duplicates of bonds shall preserve the bond...

§ 25-55-28. Presentation of photocopy of state warrant where original has been lost or destroyed - When a state warrant has been lost or destroyed before...

§ 25-55-29. Registration and poll-books - The mutilation, loss, or destruction of the registration or poll-books...

§ 25-55-31. Proceedings to perfect record - A lost, stolen, or destroyed record shall not constitute constructive...

Chapter 58 - Geographic Information System

In General -

Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems

§ 25-58-21. Mississippi Coordinating Council for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems established; duties and responsibilities; composition of membership; terms; compensation; funding; staff - The members listed in paragraphs (a) through (g) may appoint...

Chapter 59 - Archives and Records Management

§ 25-59-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 25-59-3. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter: "Department" shall mean the...

§ 25-59-5. Department of archives and history to be archival and records management agency - The archival and records management agency of the state of...

§ 25-59-7. State records committee; duties as to records control schedules - There is hereby created the state records committee to be...

§ 25-59-9. Powers and duties of department of archives and history - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, with respect to...

§ 25-59-11. Transfer of responsibility and title from central records storage facility to state records center - The central records storage facility shall become the state records...

§ 25-59-13. Procedures for transfer of records to the department of archives and history - The transfer of records to the Mississippi Department of Archives...

§ 25-59-15. Records management duties of state agencies and officials - It shall be the duty of each state agency and...

§ 25-59-17. Record control schedules for courts; destruction of court records - The Mississippi Supreme Court may, by rule of the court,...

§ 25-59-19. Records to be public property - Except as otherwise provided in Section 25-61-11.2, all records created...

§ 25-59-21. Consent of director required for disposal of public records; rules and regulations - No person may destroy, sell, loan or otherwise dispose of...

§ 25-59-23. Penalties for offenses involving records - The theft, or deliberate alienation, alteration or destruction of records...

§ 25-59-27. Records to be open for public use; exceptions; disposal of closed and restricted records - All records for which title has been transferred to the...

§ 25-59-29. Reproduction of records and storage of copies; destruction of originals - Any custodian of public records as defined by this chapter...

§ 25-59-31. Transition from existing program of reproduction and destruction of records - In order to provide for an orderly implementation of this...

Chapter 60 - Local Government Records

§ 25-60-1. Local Government Records Committee - There is hereby created the Local Government Records Committee. The...

§ 25-60-3. Establishment of regional records centers; certification and administration - Counties and municipalities are hereby authorized to establish regional records...

Chapter 61 - Public Access to Public Records

§ 25-61-1. Short title; legislative policy regarding right of access to records - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 25-61-2. State policy regarding access to public records - It is the policy of this state that public records...

§ 25-61-3. Definitions - The following words shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless...

§ 25-61-9. Trade secrets and confidential commercial or financial information - As used in this subsection, "sensitive" means only those portions...

§ 25-61-11. Records exempted or privileged by law - The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to...

§ 25-61-11.1. Exemption for private information of persons possessing a weapon permit - The name, home address, any telephone number or other private...

§ 25-61-11.2. Exemption for certain information technology records - The following information technology (IT) records shall be exempt from...

§ 25-61-13. Mississippi Ethics Commission to enforce chapter; procedure upon complaint by any person denied right to inspect public records; petition to chancery court to enforce or appeal order - The Mississippi Ethics Commission shall have the authority to enforce...

§ 25-61-15. Penalty for wrongful denial of access to record - Any person who shall deny to any person access to...

§ 25-61-17. Chapter not to affect legislature's regulation of own proceedings and records access - Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as denying the...

§ 25-61-19. State agencies and departments required to post to websites legislative updates on legislation revising agency or department powers and duties - Within sixty (60) days after the end of each regular...

Chapter 62 - Disclosure of Personal Information of Section 501(c) Entity

§ 25-62-1. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases...

§ 25-62-7. Penalties - A person who knowingly violates this chapter is guilty of...

§ 25-62-9. Relation to Mississippi Campaign Finance statutes - The requirements of this chapter shall not affect any provisions...

Chapter 65 - Agency, University and Community/Junior College Internal Auditing Program

§ 25-65-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 25-65-3. Purpose and application - The purpose of this chapter is to establish a full-time...

§ 25-65-5. Definitions - The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed...

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Mississippi Code Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records

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Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records