§ 7-17-5. Transfer of employees, property, staff and funds; general powers and duties of executive directors of departments of executive branch
Effective July 1, 1989, all employees of any agency abolished or affected by the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989 [Chapter 544, Laws of 1989] shall be transferred according to the merger of their duties by the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989. All personnel actions initiated as a result of the Mississippi Executive Reorganization […]
§ 7-17-7. Vacation of position of member of board, commission, council or authority upon change of residence; exception
Any member of any board, commission, council or authority reconstituted under “the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989 [Chapter 544, Laws of 1989]” shall be deemed to have vacated his position thereon if he changes his residence to another state or to a geographical area other than the one from which he was appointed if […]
§ 7-11-6. Assistant Secretary of State to perform functions of state land office; employment of additional personnel; transition of power by state land commissioner
The Secretary of State shall appoint a competent attorney to be designated as an assistant secretary of state, who shall have the responsibilities of performing the function of the former state land office in addition to any other duties as assigned by the Secretary of State. The secretary of state is empowered and authorized to […]
§ 7-11-8. Functions assigned to Secretary of State to be merged and coordinated with those of former state land office
It is the intent of the legislature that the functions assigned to the Secretary of State by this chapter shall be merged and coordinated with similar functions being exercised by the state land office on January 1, 1980.
§ 7-11-11. Duties and powers of Secretary of State
The Secretary of State shall have charge of the swamp and the overflowed lands and indemnity lands in lieu thereof, the internal improvement lands, the lands forfeited to the state for nonpayment of taxes after the time allowed by law for redemption shall have expired, and of all other public lands belonging to or under […]
§ 7-11-13. Land records
All state land records, all levee land records, and all other land records, except assessment rolls, shall be kept in the office of the Secretary of State and be held by him. The Secretary of State shall keep a record of all state-owned lands in a separate and well bound book. He is authorized and […]
§ 7-11-15. Form of records
The Secretary of State shall secure a sufficient number of suitable and well bound books for each county, so that the lands now or hereafter owned by the state may be complied therein. The books, in addition to the necessary columns on which to list all necessary information with reference to the lands owned, shall […]
§ 7-11-17. Records preserved and bound
The land records in the Secretary of State’s office shall be carefully preserved and valuable records shall be bound and rebound when necessary.
§ 7-11-19. Copies of records
The Secretary of State shall furnish to any party interested therein a copy or exemplification of any record, patent, plat, diagram, township plat or map, field notes, surveys or other paper or document deposited in the office of the Secretary of State and relating to the selection, location and survey of the public lands or […]
§ 7-11-25. Report to legislature
The Secretary of State shall make a report to the legislature at each regular session of all the business transactions in the Secretary of State’s office pertaining to public lands for the preceding fiscal year. He shall state therein the monthly sale of land, of what class and where situated, amount of purchase-money received for […]