Mississippi Code
Title 7 - Executive Department
Chapter 5 - Attorney General

§ 7-5-1. Qualifications, election, and duties - The Attorney General provided for by Section 173 of the...

§ 7-5-3. Deputy attorney general - There shall be no more than two (2) deputy attorneys...

§ 7-5-9. Additional employees - The attorney general shall have the power to employ a...

§ 7-5-11. Statutory Advisor - There is created the position of the Mississippi Statutory Advisor....

§ 7-5-13. Additional assistants to handle legal affairs of Highway Commission - The attorney general may, with the approval of the chief...

§ 7-5-15. Secretaries - The attorney general is authorized and empowered to employ such...

§ 7-5-17. Office hours - The attorney general shall be assigned an office at the...

§ 7-5-19. Office space, supplies, and equipment - In the event adequate office space for the use of...

§ 7-5-21. To keep a docket - The Attorney General shall keep a docket of all causes...

§ 7-5-23. To keep an opinion-book - The attorney general shall keep an "opinion-book", in which he...

§ 7-5-25. To give opinions in writing - The Attorney General shall give his opinion in writing, without...

§ 7-5-27. To approve accounts against the state - All accounts against the state subject to allowance by the...

§ 7-5-29. To attend the Supreme Court - The attorney general shall attend the supreme court, in person...

§ 7-5-31. Failure to attend Supreme Court - Should the attorney general fail to attend, in person or...

§ 7-5-33. To enforce judgments and pay over collections - After judgment in any cause represented by him, the attorney...

§ 7-5-35. May institute and prosecute suits to vacate fraudulent conveyances - When it may be necessary or proper for the enforcement...

§ 7-5-37. To prosecute suits - The attorney general shall, at the request of the governor...

§ 7-5-41. To receive certified copies of pleadings - In all suits against the state of Mississippi, any board,...

§ 7-5-43. May advise public officials and employees investigated or sued as result of discharging duties - The foregoing authority vested in the attorney general as above...

§ 7-5-45. May advise school officials and employees in proceedings challenging validity of statute - The foregoing authority vested in the attorney general as above...

§ 7-5-47. Suits on bonds of state officers - The attorney general or his assistant, when required by the...

§ 7-5-49. To advise public service commission - It shall be the duty of the attorney general to...

§ 7-5-51. To represent state tax and public service commissions - The attorney general, as well as the several district attorneys,...

§ 7-5-53. To assist district attorneys - The Attorney General shall, when required by the public service...

§ 7-5-55. To recover taxes - The attorney general, or any district attorney or county attorney...

§ 7-5-57. To draw papers - Whenever requested by the governor or other state officer, the...

§ 7-5-59. Investigation of official corruption, other white collar crimes, and computer crimes - Click to view Following such request, an order shall issue...

§ 7-5-63. Reports to the legislature - The attorney general shall make reports at the beginning of...

§ 7-5-65. Saving statute - Nothing in this chapter contained shall repeal any of the...

§ 7-5-66. Prepayment of costs in civil actions for recovery of delinquent sums owed to Mississippi Guaranteed Student Loan Program - The Attorney General is hereby authorized, in his discretion, and...

§ 7-5-67. Investigators of Public Integrity Division empowered to make arrests, serve and execute search warrants, and serve process - Persons employed by the Attorney General as investigators in the...

Insurance Integrity Enforcement Bureau

§ 7-5-301. Insurance Integrity Enforcement Bureau; creation; purpose - There is created within the Office of the Attorney General...