Mississippi Code
Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations

§ 31-5-15. Withdrawal by contractor of amounts retained on public contracts by furnishing different security - Under any public contract heretofore or hereafter made or awarded...

§ 31-5-17. Resident labor used on public works - Every public officer, contractor, superintendent, or agent engaged in or...

§ 31-5-19. Procedure if resident labor not available - In the event workmen or laborers qualified under the provisions...

§ 31-5-21. Penalty - Any contractor, officer, superintendent, agent, or person in charge of...

§ 31-5-23. State products used in public works - In the construction of any building, highway, road, bridge, or...

§ 31-5-25. Time for full and final payment to contractors; exemptions; monthly submission by contractors of proof of payments to subcontractors - If the contractor is not paid in full within forty-five...

§ 31-5-27. Payment of interest on delinquent accounts - When a contractor receives any payment under a public construction...

§ 31-5-29. Applicability of Sections 31-5-25, 31-5-27 - Sections 31-5-25 and 31-5-27, shall apply as to all public...

§ 31-5-31. Provider to subcontractor of equipment used in road construction contract shall notify general contractor of payments not timely made - Any person, firm or corporation who leases, rents or sells...

§ 31-5-33. Amount of retainage which may be withheld; exemptions - On any contract as described herein, of which the total...

§ 31-5-35. Public employees prohibited from requiring bidder on public contract to obtain surety bonds from any particular company, agent, or broker - No state, county, or municipal employee, and no person acting...

§ 31-5-39. Public entities to establish cost estimate for public work or improvement projects; authority to allocate additional funds to projects - On or before the date and time established to receive...

Bonds Securing Public Construction Contracts

§ 31-5-52. Performance and payment bonds required when using design-build or construction manager at risk methods of project delivery - The use of either the design-build method of project delivery...

§ 31-5-53. Time for bringing suit on bond; venue - When suit is instituted on a performance bond given in...

§ 31-5-55. Persons entitled to copies of contract and bond - Any person supplying labor or materials for the prosecution of...

§ 31-5-57. Award of attorney's fees - Whenever any person supplying labor or material in the prosecution...

Chapter 7 - Public Purchases

In General

§ 31-7-1. Definitions - The following terms are defined for the purposes of this...

§ 31-7-3. Administration of provisions of chapter; purposes - The Department of Finance and Administration shall administer the provisions...

§ 31-7-5. Administrative rules and regulations - The Department of Finance and Administration shall prescribe rules and...

§ 31-7-7. Duties and powers - Through its director and other supervisory personnel and, upon its...

§ 31-7-10. Lease-purchase program for state agency equipment; participation by local governments; Master Lease-Purchase Program Fund; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund - The Department of Finance and Administration shall select the successful...

§ 31-7-11. Purchasing practices - Each agency of the state shall furnish information relative to...

§ 31-7-13. Bid requirements and exceptions; public auctions - All agencies and governing authorities shall purchase their commodities and...

§ 31-7-13.2. Construction manager at risk method of project delivery; qualifications-based selection procedure for procuring architectural, engineering and land surveying services - The agency or governing authority may conduct discussions with and...

§ 31-7-14. Public contracts of energy efficiency services - Approval by the division of an energy services provider shall...

§ 31-7-14.1. Division of Energy and Transportation authorized to establish energy savings incentive program - The Energy Division shall verify the net savings and net...

§ 31-7-16. Purchase of certain equipment capable of being manufactured or assembled in separate units - In the event equipment is required which is capable of...

§ 31-7-18. Purchase of certain motor vehicles - In addition to the method of purchasing authorized in this...

§ 31-7-21. Functions of Department of Finance and Administration - The provisions of this chapter shall neither repeal nor modify...

§ 31-7-23. Rebates, refunds, etc. from vendor to inure to benefit of agency or governing authority - Any rebates, refunds, coupons, merit points, gratuities or any article...

§ 31-7-38. Establishment of group purchasing programs by certain public hospitals and regional mental health centers - The board of trustees or governing board of any hospital...

§ 31-7-47. Preference to resident contractors - In the letting of public contracts, preference shall be given...

§ 31-7-49. Purchases under contract - In placing orders for purchases under bids received and contracts...

§ 31-7-53. Fertilizer - In making any and all purchases of fertilizer for all...

§ 31-7-55. Penalties - [For penalties applicable to violations occurring between January 1, 1981,...

§ 31-7-55. Penalties - [The following provisions apply to violations which occur on or...

§ 31-7-61. Governmental purchases of foreign beef; prohibition against - It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to purchase...

§ 31-7-63. Governmental purchases of foreign beef; penalties - Any person who violates the provisions of Section 31-7-61 shall...

§ 31-7-65. Governmental purchases of foreign beef; commissioner of agriculture and commerce to give notice - The commissioner of agriculture and commerce of the State of...

§ 31-7-73. Authority of state agencies to contract for energy efficiency services - Any state agency, as defined in Section 31-7-1, Mississippi Code...

Implementation of Central Purchasing by Counties

§ 31-7-101. Implementation of central purchase system; establishment of department of purchasing; appointment of purchase clerk and receiving clerk - From and after the first Monday of January 1989, the...

§ 31-7-103. General responsibility of purchase clerk; central purchase system to comply with requirements of State Department of Audit; purchases of $1,000.00 or less - The purchase clerk shall be responsible as hereinafter provided for...

§ 31-7-105. Procedure on bids - Upon acceptance of any bid by the board of supervisors,...

§ 31-7-107. Inventory control - In addition to the required central purchase system, from and...

§ 31-7-109. Receiving reports - The receiving clerk or his assistants shall, upon proper delivery...

§ 31-7-111. Custody of records - Except as otherwise provided in Section 25-61-11.2, such records, reports,...

§ 31-7-113. State department of audit to design and prescribe forms and systems - The State Department of Audit, under the authority of Section...

§ 31-7-115. Audit reports - The State Auditor, or a certified public accountant employed by...

§ 31-7-124. Bond of purchase clerk, receiving clerk and inventory control clerk - The purchase clerk, receiving clerk and inventory control clerk shall...

§ 31-7-127. Enforcement - In order to ensure the proper enforcement of Sections 31-7-101...

Timely Payment for Purchases by Public Bodies

§ 31-7-309. Recovery of attorney's fees in action to collect interest penalty - Whenever a vendor brings formal administrative or judicial action to...

§ 31-7-311. Annual summary of payment record - The State Fiscal Management Board shall submit to the Appropriations...

§ 31-7-313. Adoption and promulgation of rules and regulations - The State Fiscal Management Board is authorized and directed to...

§ 31-7-315. Relation to provisions governing payments under public works contracts - Sections 31-7-301 through 31-7-317 shall not affect payment under public...

Best Practices for Soliciting Requests for Proposals or Requests for Qualifications

§ 31-7-401. Applicability - Except as otherwise provided by law, the provisions of Sections...

§ 31-7-403. Conditions for use - In addition to determining whether a request for proposals or...

§ 31-7-413. Evaluation factors in the request for proposals or request for qualifications - a. Does the offerer's proposal or qualification demonstrate a clear...

§ 31-7-415. Evaluation committee - "I hereby certify that I have reviewed the conflict of...

§ 31-7-421. Best and final offers - The chief procurement officer shall establish a common date and...

Chapter 8 - Acquisition of Public Buildings, Facilities, and Equipment Through Rental Contracts

§ 31-8-1. Legislative purpose; construction of chapter - The purpose of this chapter is to provide a method...

§ 31-8-3. Purposes for which counties and municipalities may lease facilities - The counties and municipalities of this state, acting by and...

§ 31-8-5. Option to purchase - All such leases shall contain an option granting to the...

§ 31-8-7. Lease of real property by municipality to private concern for construction or renovation of buildings or facilities; subleases to United States Postal Service or to any other state or federal agency - Before entering into any lease agreement pursuant to this subsection,...

§ 31-8-9. Term of lease; pledge of full faith and credit; limitation of obligation to money appropriated - Subject to the provisions of this chapter, any such lease...

§ 31-8-11. Notice of intent to lease; protest; election; advertisement of lease agreement; award of lease - Before entering into any lease agreement pursuant to this chapter...

§ 31-8-13. Full and complete authority for leases - This chapter, without reference to any other statute, shall be...

Chapter 9 - Surplus Property Procurement Commission

§ 31-9-9. Laws regulating public purchases waived - All laws or parts of laws requiring the various state...

§ 31-9-13. Revolving fund - In lieu of regular appropriations, the Department of Finance and...

§ 31-9-15. Inventories - The Office of General Services shall furnish to the State...

Chapter 11 - State Construction Projects

In General

§ 31-11-7. Reports - The office of general services shall submit a full report...

§ 31-11-25. Right of eminent domain - The office of general services with the approval of the...

§ 31-11-29. Capital expense and development budget - The legislative budget office shall prepare and submit to each...

§ 31-11-31. Commission designated to act for state in matters relating to Federal Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 - The office of general services of the State of Mississippi...

Chapter 13 - Validation of Public Bonds

§ 31-13-1. State Bond Attorney - The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate,...

§ 31-13-3. "Bonds" defined - The word "bond" or "bonds," when used in this chapter,...

§ 31-13-5. Determination of validity of bond issues - When any county, municipality, school district, road district, drainage district,...

§ 31-13-7. Final decree validating bonds to be forever conclusive - If the chancellor shall enter a decree confirming and validating...

§ 31-13-9. Validated bonds to be so stamped; use of facsimile - Whenever any bonds are validated under the provisions of this...

§ 31-13-11. Court costs and bond attorney's fee and expenses - The court costs in all such cases shall be paid...

Chapter 15 - Refunding Bonds

§ 31-15-1. Short title - Sections 31-15-1 through 31-15-19 may be cited as the "General...

§ 31-15-3. Definitions - Whenever used in Sections 31-15-1 through 31-15-19, the words "political...

§ 31-15-7. Interest and form - Such refunding bonds shall bear such rate or rates of...

§ 31-15-9. Sale and redemption; acceptance of bonds - The resolution or order providing for the issuance of such...

§ 31-15-11. General obligations - All refunding bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 31-15-1...

§ 31-15-13. Time limit - The governing authority may, at any time or times, exercise...

§ 31-15-15. Invalid bonds - In the event that any of the refunding bonds authorized...

§ 31-15-17. Additional method - Sections 31-15-1 through 31-15-19, without reference to any other statute,...

§ 31-15-19. Validation - Any bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 31-15-1 through...

§ 31-15-21. Refund of bonds not based on ad valorem tax - Any bonds heretofore or hereafter issued under authority of Sections...

§ 31-15-23. Interest and form - Such refunding bonds may bear interest at such rate or...

§ 31-15-25. Security - Such refunding bonds shall be payable from the same sources...

§ 31-15-27. Validation - Refunding bonds issued under Sections 31-15-21 through 31-15-27 may be...

Chapter 17 - State Bonds; Retirement of Bonds

State Bond Commission

§ 31-17-1. Composition of State Bond Commission - The State Bond Commission shall be composed of the Governor,...

§ 31-17-3. General powers of State Bond Commission - The State Bond Commission, with the approval and consent of...

State Bond Retirement Commission

§ 31-17-11. Composition of state bond retirement commission - There is hereby created the state bond retirement commission which...

§ 31-17-13. General duties of state bond retirement commission - It shall be the duty of the state bond retirement...

Retirement of Bonds

§ 31-17-21. State bonds; notice of intention to purchase - In the event it is determined to purchase outstanding bonds...

§ 31-17-23. State bonds; best bid accepted - The State Bond Commission shall accept the bid or bids...

§ 31-17-25. State bonds; purchase of bonds sold below par - Where the bonds of the state were sold for less...

§ 31-17-27. State bonds; state bond retirement revolving fund - There is hereby created a fund in the State Treasury...

§ 31-17-29. State bonds; funds in state bond retirement revolving fund may be invested in federal securities - Until such funds are needed for the payment of outstanding...

§ 31-17-31. State bonds; deposit of federal securities - All sums paid into the state bond retirement revolving fund...

§ 31-17-33. State bonds; method of retirement by state bond retirement commission - The purpose of Sections 31-17-27 through 31-17-43 is to create...

§ 31-17-35. State bonds; maturity dates to be noted - To effectuate the purpose of Sections 31-17-27 through 31-17-43, the...

§ 31-17-37. State bonds; procedure when funds of state bond retirement revolving fund are inadequate to meet payments - Should the maturity dates of federal securities held by the...

§ 31-17-39. State bonds; expenditures from and transfer of state bond retirement revolving fund - All sums paid into and actually in the state bond...

§ 31-17-41. State bonds; records and reports of state bond retirement commission - The state bond retirement commission shall keep full and accurate...

§ 31-17-43. State bonds; expenses of state bond retirement commission - The state bond retirement commission shall pay the necessary expenses...

§ 31-17-45. Local bonds; repurchase authorized - The board of supervisors of any county in this state,...

§ 31-17-47. Local bonds; notice of intention to purchase - In the event a surplus is remaining in the treasury...

§ 31-17-49. Local bonds; purchase of bonds sold below par - Where the bonds so purchased of said county, municipality, or...

§ 31-17-51. Local bonds; restrictions on purchases - Surplus funds shall be expended under the provisions of Sections...

§ 31-17-53. Local bonds; pledge of securities, properties, and taxes - The counties, municipalities, and other local authorities possessing power to...

§ 31-17-55. Local bonds; cancellation - Whenever the board of supervisors of any county or the...

§ 31-17-57. State and local bonds; paying agent to repay unused funds - When funds are forwarded to the paying agent of the...

§ 31-17-59. State and local bonds; demand for repayment - It shall be the duty of the auditor and the...

§ 31-17-61. State bonds; destruction of paid and cancelled bonds and coupons - The State of Mississippi, acting by resolution of the State...

Highway Funding

§ 31-17-75. Legislative intent regarding highway funding - The intent of the Legislature is for the structuring of...

§ 31-17-77. Restrictions on payment of implementation costs - None of the costs involved in the implementation of the...

State Bond Commission; Notes to Maintain Working Balance in General Fund

§ 31-17-101. State Bond Commission; members; delegation of powers and duties; adoption of rules - There is hereby created a commission to be known as...

§ 31-17-107. Full faith and credit of state pledged on notes - For the prompt payment of said notes at maturity, both...

§ 31-17-109. Sale of notes - The notes herein authorized shall be sold from time to...

§ 31-17-111. Commission to fix terms and details of notes and provide for issuance - The commission in providing for the issuance of the notes...

§ 31-17-113. Use of proceeds limited to purposes provided - The proceeds of the sale of the notes herein authorized...

§ 31-17-115. Issuance of interim certificates in anticipation of notes; supplemental powers conferred in issuance of bonds - In anticipation of the issuance of the notes herein authorized,...

§ 31-17-117. Notes and interim certificates to be fully negotiable - All notes and interim certificates, issued pursuant to the provisions...

§ 31-17-119. Taxation of notes, interest and income - All notes issued hereunder and all interest thereon and income...

§ 31-17-121. State treasurer to keep records of notes issued - The State Treasurer shall keep a record in his office...

§ 31-17-125. Authority to borrow money and funds - This chapter, without reference to any other statute, shall be...

§ 31-17-127. Bonds for cost of Four-Lane Highway Program; Four-Lane Highway Trust Fund - Such agreements may provide for the compensation of any purchasers...

Temporary Borrowings in Anticipation of Issuance of State-Supported Debt

§ 31-17-151. Definitions - As used in Sections 31-17-151 through 31-17-181, the following words...

§ 31-17-153. State Bond Commission authorized to make temporary borrowings in anticipation of issuance of state-supported debt - Pending the issuance of any state-supported debt, the commission is...

§ 31-17-155. Temporary borrowings to be evidenced by notes; security - All temporary borrowings made under Sections 31-17-151 through 31-17-181 shall...

§ 31-17-157. Issuance of replacement notes - The commission is authorized to provide for the subsequent issuance...

§ 31-17-159. Payment of principal and interest - The State Treasurer shall perform all acts and things necessary...

§ 31-17-161. Funding and retirement of temporary borrowings - Outstanding notes evidencing such temporary borrowings shall be funded and...

§ 31-17-163. Proceeds of temporary borrowings paid to State Treasurer - The proceeds of all such temporary borrowings shall be paid...

§ 31-17-165. Powers and authority of commission - The commission is hereby authorized to do such other acts...

§ 31-17-167. Purpose of Sections 31-17-151 through 31-17-181 - The purpose of Sections 31-17-151 through 31-17-181 is to provide...

§ 31-17-169. Full and complete authority for all temporary borrowings - This section and other applicable provisions of Sections 31-17-151 through...

§ 31-17-171. Nothing in Sections 31-17-151 through 31-17-181 to be construed as applicable to obligations other than those that are state-supported - Nothing in Sections 31-17-151 through 31-17-181 shall be construed as...

§ 31-17-173. Sections 31-17-151 through 31-17-181 deemed to be full and complete authority for exercise of powers granted therein - Sections 31-17-151 through 31-17-181 shall be deemed to be full...

§ 31-17-175. Notes to be fully negotiable and shall be "securities" within the meaning of the Uniform Commercial Code - All notes sold and issued under Sections 31-17-151 through 31-17-181...

§ 31-17-177. Notes and income therefrom exempt from state taxation - All notes sold and issued under the provisions of Sections...

§ 31-17-179. Severability - If any one or more sections, clauses, sentences or parts...

§ 31-17-181. Validation of notes - Any notes sold and issued under the provisions of Sections...

Chapter 18 - Variable Rate Debt Instruments

§ 31-18-1. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following words shall have...

§ 31-18-3. Purpose - The purpose of this chapter is to provide full and...

§ 31-18-9. Commission's power of state-supported debt - In connection with state-supported debt, the commission shall have the...

§ 31-18-11. Interest rate exchange or similar agreements; limitations - Any interest rate exchange or similar agreements entered into pursuant...

§ 31-18-15. Debt obligation or related instrument - Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as to apply...

§ 31-18-17. Excercise of power - This chapter shall be deemed to be full and complete...

§ 31-18-19. Issuance of variable rate bonds - All variable rate bonds issued under this chapter shall be...

§ 31-18-21. Provisions of issuance; variable rate bonds - All variable rate bonds issued under the provisions of this...

§ 31-18-23. Sections, clauses, or sentences questioned or adjudged unconstitutional - If any one or more sections, clauses, sentences or parts...

Chapter 19 - Public Debts

§ 31-19-1. Serial payment bonds only may be issued - No county or municipality shall issue any bonds except on...

§ 31-19-3. Penalty on officials for violations - For failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter...

§ 31-19-5. Investment of certain funds - Any funds received from the sale of bonds, notes, or...

§ 31-19-7. Ratification of bonds signed by officials not in office at the time of sale or delivery - Whenever, pursuant to statutory authority, bonds of the State of...

§ 31-19-9. Payment of county bonds and coupons at maturity - Whenever any county, road district, consolidated school district, rural school...

§ 31-19-11. Allowance for remittance - Said allowance for said remittances shall be made by the...

§ 31-19-13. Payment of municipal or drainage district bonds - Where said obligations above referred to shall have been issued...

§ 31-19-15. Remedy of bondholders - For failure or refusal to comply with the foregoing provisions,...

§ 31-19-17. Outstanding bonds may be registered - Any and all persons holding or owning any outstanding and...

§ 31-19-25. Sale of bonds to be advertised - All bonds issued pursuant to any laws of this state...

§ 31-19-27. Doubtful claims defined - A doubtful claim of the state, or of the county,...

§ 31-19-29. Compromise of doubtful claims - The Governor, on the advice of the Attorney General or...

§ 31-19-31. Bonds to the federal government for state hospitals - Any bonds hereafter issued to the United States of America...

§ 31-19-33. Limitation of actions for payment of bonds and coupons - Action against the state or any county, municipality, school district...

Chapter 21 - Registered Bonds

§ 31-21-1. Citation of chapter - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 31-21-3. Definitions - As used herein, the following words and terms shall have...

§ 31-21-5. Additional powers granted in connection with issuance of bonds - Notwithstanding any law or any provision of any law to...

Chapter 23 - Mississippi Private Activity Bonds Allocation Act

§ 31-23-51. Citation of chapter - This act may be cited and referred to as the...

§ 31-23-53. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have...

§ 31-23-55. Powers and duties of board - The board shall administer, operate and manage the system. Any...

§ 31-23-57. Ceiling for issuance of private activity bonds; records; public notice - The state's ceiling for the issuance of private activity bonds...

§ 31-23-59. Threshold portion of ceiling; applications for notices of allocation; fee; notices of allocation; confirmation of issuance; transfer of funds - The threshold portion of the state's ceiling is hereby established...

§ 31-23-61. Undesignated portion of ceiling; applications for notices of allocation; fee; notices of allocation; confirmation of issuance - The undesignated portion of the state's ceiling is hereby established...

§ 31-23-67. Timeliness of statements accompanying applications; record of allocations; notices - The following provisions shall apply to the system: Any written...

§ 31-23-69. Effect of changes in federal tax laws - In the event that interest on exempt small issue bonds...

Chapter 25 - Mississippi Development Bank Act

Article 1 - General Provisions

§ 31-25-1. Short title - This act may be referred to and cited as the...

§ 31-25-3. Legislative intent; construction - It is hereby determined and declared to be the policy...

§ 31-25-5. Definitions - As used in this act, the following words and terms...

§ 31-25-7. Mississippi Development Bank created - There is hereby created an independent public body corporate and...

§ 31-25-9. Bank's powers vested in board - The powers conferred upon the bank hereby are to be...

§ 31-25-11. Quorum for conducting business; per diem compensation; expenses - A majority of the voting members of the board then...

§ 31-25-15. Disclosure of contractual interest - Any member, officer or employee of the bank who is...

§ 31-25-17. Acceptance of membership on bank; nonforfeiture of office or employment - Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, no officer or...

§ 31-25-20. Power of bank to loan money to local governmental unit - In addition to the other powers granted to the bank...

§ 31-25-21. Power of bank to loan money to local governmental unit - The bank is hereby granted, has and may exercise the...

§ 31-25-23. Loans to local governmental units; purchase or sale of municipal securities - The bank is hereby granted, has and may exercise, the...

§ 31-25-25. Prohibited transactions - Under this act the bank may not: Make loans of...

§ 31-25-33. Exemption from taxation - As set forth in the declaration of finding and purpose...

§ 31-25-35. Report; audit of books and accounts - The bank shall submit to the Governor within ninety (90)...

§ 31-25-39. Resolution of Board authorizing or relating to issuance of bonds; contracts - In any resolution of the board of the bank authorizing,...

§ 31-25-41. Pledge of revenues or other moneys - Any pledge of revenues or other moneys made by the...

§ 31-25-43. Establishment of funds or accounts - The bank may establish such funds or accounts as may...

§ 31-25-45. Purchase of bonds by Bank - The bank, subject to such agreements with bondholders as may...

§ 31-25-47. Agreements or contracts for safekeeping of municipal bonds or other investments - The bank may enter into agreements or contracts with any...

§ 31-25-49. Reservation of State power - The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the...

§ 31-25-53. Chapter provisions as cumulative - Neither this act nor anything herein contained is or shall...

§ 31-25-55. Savings clause - If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or provision of...

Article 3 - Bonds

§ 31-25-101. Definitions - For the purposes of this article, the following words and...

§ 31-25-107. Joint legislative committee - There is hereby created, for the purposes of oversight and...

Chapter 27 - Mississippi Bond Refinancing Act

§ 31-27-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 31-27-3. Definitions - The following terms whenever used or referred to in this...

§ 31-27-5. Legislative intent; construction - The purpose of this chapter is to provide full and...

§ 31-27-7. Issuance of refunding bonds - Refunding bonds shall be issued pursuant to an authorizing resolution...

§ 31-27-9. Escrow account; banking corporation as trustee for bondholders - The governing body of any governmental unit may, in addition...

§ 31-27-11. Security for refunding bonds - Refunding bonds may be secured by a pledge of: (a)...

§ 31-27-13. Amount of refunding bonds authorized to be issued - The total amount of refunding bonds to be issued under...

§ 31-27-15. Sale of refunding bonds and disposition of proceeds - Refunding bonds may be sold and proceeds thereof may be...

§ 31-27-17. Refinancing of outstanding bonds by issuance of refunding bonds - The governing body of a governmental unit may refinance outstanding...

§ 31-27-19. Negotiability of refunding bonds - All refunding bonds issued under this chapter shall be fully...

§ 31-27-21. Tax treatment - All refunding bonds issued under this chapter, and all interest...

§ 31-27-23. Judicial validation and related procedures - The refunding bonds authorized under authority of this chapter may,...

§ 31-27-25. Savings clause - If any one or more sections, clauses, sentences or parts...

Chapter 29 - Institute for Technology Development

§ 31-29-1. Definitions - As used in this chapter, "general obligation bonds" means bonds...

§ 31-29-3. Authorization to issue bonds to defray unappropriated expenses of Institute for Technology Development; limitations as to amount - The State Bond Commission shall have the power and is...

§ 31-29-5. Issuance of bonds; repayment; ad valorem tax on property - Upon the adoption of a resolution by the Board of...

§ 31-29-7. Bonds to be negotiable instruments; bonds and income tax exempt - All general obligation bonds of the State of Mississippi and...

§ 31-29-9. Sale of bonds; price; notice of sale - The State Bond Commission shall sell such bonds in the...

§ 31-29-11. Institute for Technology Development Fund; proceeds of bonds to be used solely for support of institute - Upon the issuance and sale of such bonds, the State...

§ 31-29-13. Right of holders of bonds or interest coupons - Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this...

§ 31-29-15. Necessity of other proceedings or conditions for issuance of bonds; validation of bonds - Such general obligation bonds may be issued without any other...

§ 31-29-17. Bonds as legal investments and securities - All bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall...

§ 31-29-19. Authority for exercise of powers - This chapter shall be deemed to be full and complete...

§ 31-29-21. Withdrawal of funds from Institute for Technology Development Fund - The funds which are transferred from the sale of bonds...

§ 31-29-23. Representation by Attorney General in issuing, selling and validating bonds; costs and expenses of issuance of bonds - Except as otherwise authorized in Section 7-5-39, the Attorney General...

Chapter 31 - Mississippi Telecommunications Conference and Training Center

§ 31-31-1. Short title - This chapter may cited as the Mississippi Telecommunication Conference and...

§ 31-31-3. Definitions - As used in this chapter: "Commission" means the Mississippi Telecommunication...

§ 31-31-7. General powers and duties of commission - The commission shall have the following powers: To sue and...

§ 31-31-9. Mississippi Telecommunications Conference and Training Center Fund - All monies and revenues collected by the commission from fees,...

§ 31-31-11. Levy, assessment, and collection of occupancy tax in City of Jackson; disposition of proceeds of tax; Mississippi Telecommunication Conference and Training Facility Reserve Fund - The resolution shall be published in a local newspaper at...

§ 31-31-17. Form, denominations, maturities, terms, etc., of bonds; payment of principal of and interest on bonds - The principal of and interest on the bonds authorized under...

§ 31-31-19. Execution of bonds and coupons - The bonds authorized under this chapter shall be signed by...

§ 31-31-21. Negotiability of bonds and interest coupons; compliance with Uniform Commercial Code - All bonds and interest coupons issued under the provisions of...

§ 31-31-23. Issuance and sale of bonds by State Bond Commission - The State Bond Commission shall act as the issuing agent...

§ 31-31-25. Pledge of full faith and credit of state for payment of bonds - The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter are...

§ 31-31-27. Issuance of warrants for payment of bonds - The State Treasurer is authorized to certify to the State...

§ 31-31-29. Telecommunication Conference Center Fund - Upon the issuance and sale of bonds under this chapter,...

§ 31-31-31. Necessity for additional proceedings for issuance of bonds; adoption and effective date of resolution providing for issuance of bonds - The bonds authorized under this chapter may be issued without...

§ 31-31-33. Validation of bonds - The bonds authorized under the authority of this chapter may...

§ 31-31-35. Enforcement of rights by holders of bonds - Any holder of bonds issued under this chapter or of...

§ 31-31-37. Investment in bonds by trustees, savings banks, trust companies, etc.; bonds as legal securities for deposit of public funds - All bonds issued under this chapter shall be legal investments...

§ 31-31-39. Exemption from taxation of bonds and income from bonds - Bonds issued under this chapter and income from the bonds...

§ 31-31-41. Construction of chapter - This chapter shall be deemed to be full and complete...

"Hold Harmless" Clauses

§ 31-5-41. "Hold harmless" clauses in construction contracts are void; exceptions - With respect to all public or private contracts or agreements,...

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Mississippi Code Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations

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Title 31 - Public Business, Bonds and Obligations