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Chapter 1 - State Law Library; Legislative Reference Bureau
§ 39-1-35. Legislative reference bureau - There is hereby created a legislative reference bureau, for the...
Chapter 3 - Libraries and Library Commission
Article 1 - Libraries
§ 39-3-1. Establishment of libraries by counties and municipalities - It is hereby declared to be the policy of this...
§ 39-3-3. Funds for establishment and operation of libraries - Where any public library or public library system is established...
§ 39-3-8. Joint city-county public library systems - The board of trustees of any municipal public library, or...
§ 39-3-9. Regional public library systems - Two (2) or more counties by action of their boards...
§ 39-3-11. Participation by municipalities in county libraries, county regional library systems or city-county library systems - When a county public library, city-county public library system or...
§ 39-3-17. Library boards of trustees; organization; general powers and duties - If the staff member does not request a hearing, the...
§ 39-3-19. Library boards of trustees; annual reports - At the close of each year the administrative board of...
§ 39-3-21. Free use of libraries; reimbursements for services - Every public library or public library system established or maintained...
§ 39-3-23. Construction of article - This article shall not be construed to abrogate the force...
Article 3 - Mississippi Library Commission
§ 39-3-101. Creation; composition; qualifications, appointment and terms of office of members - There is hereby created a board of commissioners of the...
§ 39-3-103. Organizational meeting; officers - Within thirty days after the selection and appointment of the...
§ 39-3-107. General powers and duties of commission - The Mississippi Library Commission, upon request, shall give advice to...
§ 39-3-109. How funds drawn - The board of commissioners of the Mississippi Library Commission may...
§ 39-3-111. Acceptance of gifts and federal funds - The board of commissioners of the Mississippi Library Commission may...
Article 5 - Interstate Library Compact
§ 39-3-201. Enactment and terms of compact - The Interstate Library Compact is hereby enacted into law and...
§ 39-3-203. Agreements for construction or maintenance of interstate libraries; compliance with other governing laws - No county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state...
§ 39-3-205. State library agency defined - As used in the compact, "state library agency" with reference...
§ 39-3-207. Eligibility for aid of district partly within state - An interstate library district lying partly within this state may...
§ 39-3-209. Compact administrator and deputy administrators - The director of the Mississippi Library Commission shall be the...
§ 39-3-211. Notices in event of withdrawal from compact - In the event of withdrawal from the compact the governor...
Article 7 - Library Materials Security
§ 39-3-301. Short title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 39-3-305. Definitions - As used in this article the term: "Without authorization" means...
§ 39-3-307. Applicability of article - The provisions of this article shall apply to all libraries,...
§ 39-3-309. Penalties for violations of § 39-3-303 - Any person who violates the provisions of section 39-3-303 is...
§ 39-3-311. Construction of article; effect of acquittal or conviction upon subsequent proceedings - The provisions of this article are supplemental to other criminal...
§ 39-3-313. Detention and questioning of suspects - Any person employed by a library or any person charged...
Article 9 - Mississippi Statewide Library Development System Act of 1988
§ 39-3-351. Short title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 39-3-353. Definitions - For purposes of this article: "Administrative board" shall mean that...
§ 39-3-355. Committee to develop system of public service incentives within public library accreditation program - The Mississippi Library Commission shall be responsible for developing a...
§ 39-3-357. State aid to accredited public library systems - Each accredited public library system shall receive an annual allocation...
§ 39-3-359. Library commission as primary resource library; commission to provide services to libraries - The commission shall be the primary resource library for Mississippi...
§ 39-3-361. Authorization to employ consultants and other staff - The commission may employ consultants and other staff to implement...
§ 39-3-363. Development of statewide master plan for public libraries - The commission shall develop a statewide master plan for public...
§ 39-3-365. Confidentiality of library user records - Records maintained by any library funded in whole or in...
§ 39-3-367. Release and use of aggregate statistics - Aggregate statistics shown from registration and circulation records, with all...
§ 39-3-369. Use of records for purpose of collecting overdue materials and fines - No provision of this article shall be construed to prohibit...
Chapter 5 - Archives and History
In General
§ 39-5-1. Department of archives and history created; objects and purposes - There shall be for the State of Mississippi a department...
§ 39-5-3. Department board of trustees generally - The department of archives and history shall be under the...
§ 39-5-5. General powers and duties of board of trustees - The duties and powers of the Board of Trustees of...
§ 39-5-6. Powers and duties of board of trustees with respect to governor's mansion; employment of and powers and duties of curator of New Capitol Building - The duties and powers of the Board of Trustees of...
§ 39-5-7. Director of department - The department of archives and history shall be under the...
§ 39-5-9. Local Government Records Office - A Local Government Records Office is established within the Department...
§ 39-5-11. Surrender of official books, records, etc., to department - Any state, county, municipal or other official is hereby authorized...
§ 39-5-13. Surrender of historical portraits to department - The county boards of supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered...
§ 39-5-15. Official and statistical register - An official and statistical register of the State of Mississippi...
§ 39-5-17. Acquisition of historic or prehistoric ruins, etc. - The board of supervisors of any county in the state,...
§ 39-5-19. Restoration and maintenance of abandoned cemeteries - Upon the official certificate of the trustees of the state...
§ 39-5-27. Archives Trust Fund - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is hereby authorized...
§ 39-5-29. Museum Trust Fund - There is created in the State Treasury a special fund...
§ 39-5-31. William F. Winter Archives and History Building - The new Archives and History Building to be located on...
§ 39-5-33. Authorization to extinguish, abandon and nullify certain conservation easements - The Department of Archives and History is hereby authorized to...
Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty Property
§ 39-5-41. Transfer of title to property to Department of Archives and History - The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks is hereby...
Beauvior
§ 39-5-51. Establishment of Jefferson Davis Shrine - The complete custody, management, control and ownership of that portion...
§ 39-5-53. Transfer of Beauvoir Veterans Home to United Sons of Confederate Veterans - There is hereby declared to be a cessation of further...
§ 39-5-55. Control and management of Jefferson Davis Shrine - The control and management of Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Shrine,...
§ 39-5-57. Deposit of objects, documents, etc., in museum at Jefferson Davis Shrine - The director of the department of archives and history is...
Files of State Sovereignty Commission
§ 39-5-61. Files and equipment of state sovereignty commission placed in custody of department; when files become public records - The files and equipment of the state sovereignty commission are...
§ 39-5-63. Willful tampering with files - Any person who shall willfully break any seal containing the...
§ 39-5-65. Display of penalties for tampering with files - The department of archives and history shall conspicuously display the...
Law Enforcement Officers' Monument
§ 39-5-71. Construction of monument - It is the intent of the Legislature that adequate space...
William Johnson House
§ 39-5-81. Purchase and restoration - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is hereby authorized...
Mississippi Civil War Battlefield Commission
§ 39-5-91. Creation of Civil War Battlefield Commission; duties and responsibilities of commission - After the initial terms, all terms shall be for six...
Mississippi De Soto Trail Commission
§ 39-5-101. Short title - Sections 39-5-101 through 39-5-113 shall be known and may be...
§ 39-5-103. Definitions - For the purposes of Sections 39-5-101 through 39-5-113, the following...
§ 39-5-105. Creation of De Soto Trail Commission; composition; appointment of members - There is hereby created in this state a De Soto...
§ 39-5-109. Election of officers and adoption of rules and regulations; use of existing research - The De Soto Trail Commission shall meet within thirty (30)...
§ 39-5-111. Erection of markers - The commission shall designate specific sites for erection of appropriate...
§ 39-5-113. Duties and responsibilities of commission - The commission shall cooperate and work with the citizens and...
Assembly Hall
§ 39-5-117. Operation of restored hall - Once restored, the Assembly Hall will be operated by the...
Shaifer House and Port Gibson Battlefield
§ 39-5-121. Restoration and operation of Shaifer House and accompanying land on Port Gibson Battlefield - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is authorized to...
§ 39-5-123. Cooperative agreements authorized - The Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives...
Coker House and Champion Hill Battlefield
§ 39-5-131. Restoration and operation of Coker House and accompanying land on Champion Hill Battlefield - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is authorized to...
§ 39-5-133. Cooperative agreements authorized - The Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives...
Grant Assistance for Preservation of Historic County Courthouses, School Buildings, and Other Historic Properties
§ 39-5-141. Legislative findings - The Legislature recognizes that the heritage of Mississippi is reflected...
§ 39-5-143. Definitions - As used in Sections 39-5-143 and 39-5-145 and Sections 22...
Historic Shipwreck Project -
Chapter 7 - Antiquities
§ 39-7-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as...
§ 39-7-3. Declaration of public policy - It is hereby declared to be the public policy and...
§ 39-7-4. Definitions - For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall...
§ 39-7-5. Administration of chapter; inspection of record of proceedings - The authority to administer the provisions of this chapter is...
§ 39-7-7. General duties of board of trustees of department of archives and history - The duties of the board shall be to determine the...
§ 39-7-9. Shipwrecks and buried treasure designated Mississippi landmarks and sole property of state - All sunken or abandoned ships and wrecks of the sea,...
§ 39-7-13. Designation of sites located upon private lands as Mississippi landmarks; recordation; marking - Any site located upon private lands which is determined by...
§ 39-7-15. Removal from designation - Upon majority vote of the board any Mississippi landmark on...
§ 39-7-17. Contracts for salvage; surveys; excavation - The board shall be authorized to enter into contracts with...
§ 39-7-19. Permits for excavation, salvage, studies, etc., at Mississippi landmarks - The board shall be authorized to issue permits to other...
§ 39-7-21. Supervision of salvage or recovery operations; custody of antiquities; promulgation of rules and regulations - All salvage or recovery operations described under Section 39-7-17, and...
§ 39-7-23. Expenditures for acquisition of items; gifts and bequests; contracts for temporary possession of items by others - The board is hereby authorized to expend such sums, from...
§ 39-7-25. Restoration of antiquities for private parties - The restoration of antiquities for private parties is authorized and...
§ 39-7-27. Reproduction, forging, etc., of antiquity with intent to deceive - No person shall intentionally reproduce, replicate, retouch, rework, or forge...
§ 39-7-29. Defacing of American Indian or aboriginal markings or carvings - No person shall intentionally and knowingly deface any American Indian...
§ 39-7-31. Entry upon land of another to deface, remove or destroy archeological relics or sites - No person, not being the owner thereof, and without the...
§ 39-7-33. Disfigurement, removal, destruction, etc., of historical structure or artifact - It shall be unlawful for any person, not being the...
§ 39-7-37. Civil action to enjoin violations or threatened violations of chapter; venue - In addition to, and without limiting the other powers of...
§ 39-7-39. Other agencies and governments to assist in enforcement of chapter - The chief administrative officers of all state agencies and of...
§ 39-7-41. Certain archaeological records exempt from requirement of public access - Records in the possession of the Mississippi Department of Archives...
Chapter 9 - Trusts to Promote Arts and Sciences
§ 39-9-1. Creation of trusts; purposes - Any person desiring in his lifetime, to promote the public...
§ 39-9-3. Designations by grantor of trust - The person making such grant may therein designate:
§ 39-9-5. Founding of institution for profit prohibited; payment of dividends; compensation of trustees; charging of fees by institutions - No institution for pecuniary profit shall be founded under this...
§ 39-9-7. Exemption from taxation of institutions - Every institution founded under this chapter, and the property of...
§ 39-9-9. Receipt of gifts and bequests by institutions - Every institution founded under this chapter shall be competent to...
§ 39-9-11. Powers and duties of trustees - The trustee or trustees named in any grant made and...
§ 39-9-13. Execution, acknowledgement and recording of grants - Any grant made under the provisions of this chapter may...
Chapter 11 - Mississippi Arts Commission
§ 39-11-1. Creation; composition; qualifications and appointment of members - There is hereby created and established a state commission to...
§ 39-11-3. Terms of office and compensation of members; officers - Of the members initially appointed to the Mississippi Arts Commission,...
§ 39-11-5. Executive director; staff; advisory panels - The chairman shall employ, with the approval of the commission,...
§ 39-11-7. Duties and objectives of commission - The duties and objectives of the commission shall be:
§ 39-11-11. Receipt and disbursement of federal funds - The commission is the official agency of the state to...
Chapter 13 - Historic Preservation Districts and Landmarks
§ 39-13-1. Short title - This chapter shall be cited as the "Mississippi Local Government...
§ 39-13-2. Definitions - The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed...
§ 39-13-3. Authority to create local historic preservation commissions; authority and procedure for establishment of districts and designation of landmarks - The governing authority of each municipality and county, either independently...
§ 39-13-5. Historic preservation commissions; powers and duties; composition; terms of office; officers; minutes of meetings - Before it may designate one or more historic districts, or...
§ 39-13-7. Notification to Department of Archives and History of proposed designation of historic district or local historic preservation commission; comments by department concerning proposed district or commission - No historic district or districts shall be designated until the...
§ 39-13-9. Appropriations; application by locality to participate in Certified Local Government Program of the National Park Service; eminent domain - The governing authority of any county or municipality, individually or...
§ 39-13-11. Designation of historic districts, landmarks, and landmark sites; procedures; vote of historic preservation commission; public hearing; vote of local governing authority to adopt or reject designation - A governing authority may provide by local ordinance the procedures...
§ 39-13-13. Issuance of certificates of appropriateness for certain construction, alteration, demolition or relocation of structures within a historic district or landmark property - A local historic preservation commission, if so empowered by a...
§ 39-13-15. Demolition by neglect; demolition of historic landmark or landmark site without review and approval by historic preservation commission - The governing authority of any county or municipality, individually or...
§ 39-13-17. Penalties for violations; separate offense for each day violation exists - Any person who violates any of the provisions of this...
§ 39-13-19. Appeal - If a property owner in a historic district, or the...
§ 39-13-21. In general - The governing authorities of each municipality and county may stabilize...
§ 39-13-23. Effect on existing historic preservation commissions and historic district or landmark designations - Nothing in Laws, 2001, ch. 443 shall require the dissolution...
Chapter 15 - Municipal and County Funds to Support the Arts
§ 39-15-1. Authority of municipal and county government to expend general fund monies in support of the arts - The governing authorities of any municipality or county are hereby...
Chapter 17 - Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Dizzy Dean Museum
§ 39-17-1. Recognition of need for Sports Hall of Fame - The Legislature recognizes the need for a Sports Hall of...
§ 39-17-3. Site of Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Dizzy Dean Museum - The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Dizzy Dean Museum...
§ 39-17-5. Funding of facility; special account - The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Dizzy Dean Museum...
§ 39-17-7. Construction, furnishing and equipping of facility - The Department of Finance and Administration shall proceed with constructing,...
Construction, Repair, Remodeling, Equipping, Furnishing, Adding to or Improving Capital Facility
§ 39-17-101. Department of Finance and Administration authorized to issue general obligation bonds for construction, repairing, remodeling, equipping, furnishing, adding to or improving the capital facility of Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Dizz... - The Department of Finance and Administration, at one time or...
§ 39-17-103. Form and terms of bonds - The principal of and interest on the bonds authorized under...
§ 39-17-105. Execution of bonds and coupons - The bonds authorized under Sections 39-17-101 through 39-17-127 shall be...
§ 39-17-107. Negotiability of bonds and coupons; compliance with Uniform Commercial Code not required - All bonds and interest coupons issued under the provisions of...
§ 39-17-109. State Bond Commission to issue bonds; sale and redemption of bonds - The State Bond Commission shall act as the issuing agent...
§ 39-17-111. Bonds deemed general obligations of State; payment of principal and interest from State treasury - The bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 39-17-101 through...
§ 39-17-113. Certification of necessity for warrants; issuance of warrants to pay principal of and interest on bonds - The State Treasurer is authorized to certify to the State...
§ 39-17-115. Deposit of proceeds of bonds into "Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Fund"; use of funds - Upon the issuance and sale of bonds under Sections 39-17-101...
§ 39-17-117. Proceedings, conditions, etc., for issuance of bonds; bond issue resolution - The bonds authorized under Sections 39-17-101 through 39-17-127 may be...
§ 39-17-119. Validation of bonds - The bonds authorized under the authority of Sections 39-17-101 through...
§ 39-17-121. Enforcement of rights of bondholders - Any holder of bonds issued under Sections 39-17-101 through 39-17-127...
§ 39-17-123. Bonds as legal investments and securities - All bonds issued under Sections 39-17-101 through 39-17-127 shall be...
§ 39-17-125. Exemption from taxation of bonds and income - Bonds issued under Sections 39-17-101 through 39-17-127 and income from...
§ 39-17-127. Construction of §§ 39-17-101 through 39-17-127 - Sections 39-17-101 through 39-17-127 shall be deemed to be full...
Chapter 19 - Museum Unclaimed Property Act
§ 39-19-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 39-19-3. Definitions - The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed...
§ 39-19-9. Termination of loan for unclaimed property - A museum may terminate a loan for unclaimed property in...
§ 39-19-11. Acquisition of title to unclaimed property - From and after March 26, 1997, a museum acquires title...
§ 39-19-15. Transfer of title by museum - A museum which acquires title to property under this chapter...
§ 39-19-17. Lien for expenses for care of unclaimed loaned property - From and after March 26, 1997, a museum shall have...
§ 39-19-21. Loan provisions by written contract - Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, a lender and museum...
Chapter 21 - Mississippi Craft Center
§ 39-21-1. Legislative intent - The Legislature recognizes the need for a craft center in...
§ 39-21-5. Authority of Department of Finance and Administration to Construct Mississippi Craft Center - The Department of Finance and Administration shall proceed with the...
§ 39-21-7. Lease or operating agreement with Mississippi Craftmen's Guild - Upon completion of the construction, furnishing and equipping of the...
Chapter 23 - Mississippi Children's Museum
§ 39-23-1. Recognition of need for Mississippi Children's Museum - The Legislature recognizes the need for a children's museum in...
§ 39-23-3. Location of Mississippi Children's Museum - The Mississippi Children's Museum may be located: At the old...
Chapter 25 - Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center -
Chapter 27 - Mississippi Blues Commission
§ 39-27-1. Mississippi Blues Commission created; "blues" defined; powers, functions and duties of commission; composition of membership; compensation; report; creation of special fund - Monies in the fund shall be expended by the Department...
§ 39-27-3. Mississippi Blues Trail historical markers - The commission shall designate specific sites for erection of appropriate...
Chapter 29 - Mississippi Commission on the Holocaust -
Chapter 32 - Mississippi Country and Western Music Commission -
Chapter 33 - Mississippi Country Music Trail
§ 39-33-1. Division of Tourism of Mississippi Development Authority authorized to create statewide Mississippi Country Music Trail infrastructure; purpose; trail markers; coordination with other organizations to share resources and information; coord... - The Division of Tourism of the Mississippi Development Authority is...
Chapter 35 - Mississippi Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission -
Chapter 37 - Mississippi Heritage, History and Culture Trail Program
§ 39-37-1. Division of Tourism of Mississippi Development Authority authorized to establish statewide Mississippi heritage, history and culture trail infrastructure; purpose; trail markers; coordination with other organizations to share resources and... - The Division of Tourism Development of the Mississippi Development Authority...
Chapter 39 - Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Advisory Commission -