§ 97-11-47. Tax collector; failure to make settlement
Any tax collector who shall wilfully fail or refuse for ten days after the time appointed by law for any monthly payment or final settlement, to make the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, he shall be removed from office and fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.
§ 97-11-49. Tax collector; collecting privilege tax without issuing license
If any tax collector, or deputy or agent of any tax collector, shall collect any privilege tax without issuing to the party from whom the tax is collected the auditor’s license therefor as provided for by law, he shall, on conviction, be fined not less than double the amount of the tax, and be imprisoned […]
§ 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 other authority of any state-owned institution maintained in whole or in part by the state, or any state department, having charge of the disbursement or expenditure of the income provided by legislative appropriation and otherwise for such institution or department to expend, contract for the […]
§ 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 the following meaning: Person: individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership or other legal entity. Public official: Any elected official of the State of Mississippi or of any political subdivision thereof, or Any officer, director, commissioner, supervisor, chief, head, agent or employee of: The State of Mississippi, […]
§ 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 Public Service Commissioners when in the actual discharge of official duties, shall travel or ride upon any railroad without paying absolutely and without any guile, trick, subterfuge, or evasion whatsoever, the same fare required of passengers generally, or if any railroad company, or officer or […]
§ 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 case of the payment of taxes to him, the duplicate tax receipt required by law to be filled up by him, or to preserve the book of duplicate receipts filled, or to submit such book or books to the board of supervisors when required, or […]
§ 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 any county or subdivision of a county, or of any city, town, or village therein, in whose hands money, books, records, papers, or anything else required by law to be delivered by him to his successor in office or other person authorized by law to […]
§ 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 of taxes, and all other state and county officers, and officers of cities, towns and villages, shall make and keep in their offices, subject to inspection at all times, an accurate entry of each and every sum of public money, securities, stocks, or other public […]
§ 97-11-31. Embezzlement; fraud committed in public office
If any officer, or other person employed in any public office, shall commit any fraud or embezzlement therein, he shall be committed to the department of corrections for not more than ten (10) years, or be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
§ 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 employee, constable, assessor, collector, clerk, county medical examiner, county medical examiner investigator, employee of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, employee of any contractor providing incarceration services or any other officer, shall knowingly demand, take or collect, under color of his office, any money fee or […]