Mississippi Code
Title 97 - Crimes
Chapter 11 - Offenses Involving Public Officials

§ 97-11-1. Alteration of records - If any clerk of any court, or public officer or...

§ 97-11-3. Attorney general and district attorney not to advise or defend criminals - If the attorney general or any district attorney shall, in...

§ 97-11-9. Bond; approving worthless official bond - If any officer shall approve any official bond, knowing or...

§ 97-11-11. Bribery; offer, promise or gift of property to candidate, officer, agent or trustee to influence his action - Every person who shall promise, offer or give to any...

§ 97-11-13. Bribery; penalty when officer, agent or trustee accepts bribe - If any officer, agent or trustee shall accept any gift,...

§ 97-11-15. Circuit clerk; penalty for failure or refusal to send up certificate of appeal - Any clerk of a circuit court who shall wilfully or...

§ 97-11-17. Clerk refusing to give certified copy of papers - If any clerk shall neglect or refuse to make out...

§ 97-11-23. Drunkenness in office - Any officer who shall be guilty of habitual drunkenness, or...

§ 97-11-25. Embezzlement; officers, trustees and public employees converting property to own use - If any state officer or any county officer, or an...

§ 97-11-27. Embezzlement; officers and public agents failing to deliver money, records, etc. to successor - If any officer or agent of this state, or of...

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

§ 97-11-31. Embezzlement; fraud committed in public office - If any officer, or other person employed in any public...

§ 97-11-33. Extortion; collecting unauthorized fees and fees for services not actually rendered - If any judge, justice court judge, sheriff, deputy sheriff, sheriff's...

§ 97-11-35. Failure to return known offenders; purposeful avoidance of knowledge of offense - If any judge, justice court judge, constable, member of the...

§ 97-11-37. Failure to perform any duty - If any person, being sheriff, clerk of any court, constable,...

§ 97-11-39. Military officers; resigning to evade obedience to order prohibited - Any officer who shall offer to resign in order to...

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

§ 97-11-43. Railroad fares; government officials to pay same fare as general passengers; accepting and using free pass - If any officer, state, county, district, or municipal, except the...

§ 97-11-45. Tax collector and chancery clerk; failure to perform duty in respect to duplicate tax receipts - Any tax collector who shall fail to fill up, in...

§ 97-11-47. Tax collector; failure to make settlement - Any tax collector who shall wilfully fail or refuse for...

§ 97-11-49. Tax collector; collecting privilege tax without issuing license - If any tax collector, or deputy or agent of any...

§ 97-11-51. Trustees of state institutions not to incur liability in excess of income - It shall be unlawful for the board of trustees or...

§ 97-11-53. Offer of inducements to influence public official's action on award of contracts or accomplishment of official acts - As used in this section the following words shall have...