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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 27 - Taxation and Finance » Chapter 105 - Depositories » Article 3 - Depositories for Funds of Local Governments

§ 27-105-301. Levee district depositories

The adoption of this code shall not be construed as repealing any law or laws providing for deposits by and loans of the board of commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi delta levee district and the board of Mississippi levee commissioners.

§ 27-105-303. Establishment of county depositories

The amount of money belonging to the several funds in the county treasury of each county in the state which is required to meet the current needs and demands of no more than seven (7) business days shall be kept on deposit in or through qualified financial institutions whose accounts are insured by the Federal […]

§ 27-105-305. Publication for bids to keep county funds; content of bids; acceptance of bid; election by board of supervisors to submit certain bids to State Treasurer to determine acceptance of bid; authority of State Treasurer upon receipt of bids from board of supervisors

The board of supervisors at the regular December 1997 meeting, and annually thereafter or, in the discretion of the board of supervisors, every two (2) years thereafter, shall give notice to all financial institutions in its county whose accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (or any successor thereto), by publication, that bids […]

§ 27-105-307. When no bids submitted; board to readvertise

When no bid is made by any qualified financial institution in the county or in the adjoining county to qualify as a depository at the January meeting, the board of supervisors shall readvertise at some subsequent meeting for a depository and select same, in the manner provided by law.

§ 27-105-309. When banks in county fail to respond

Any county failing to secure a county depository by the advertisement to the qualified financial institutions of the county and of the adjoining counties, shall readvertise at any subsequent meeting of the board of supervisors, and as soon as possible, for bids for a county depository. Such notice shall be published once a week for […]

§ 27-105-311. State Treasurer to aid in selection

The clerk of the board of supervisors shall mail a copy of the notice provided for in Section 27-105-309 to the State Treasurer, who shall make efforts to have some qualified financial institution in the state submit bids for such depository.

§ 27-105-313. Obstructing bids; penalty for

It shall be unlawful for any officer in any financial institution, or any other person, to make an agreement of any kind with the intent and purpose of keeping any financial institution from bidding for county deposits, whether such agreement be express or implied, and any person violating this provision shall, upon conviction, be fined […]

§ 27-105-315. Qualification as depository

Any financial institution in a county, or in an adjoining county where there is no financial institution in the county qualifying, whose accounts are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successors to that insurance corporation may qualify as a county depository, if the institution qualifies as a public funds depository under Section […]

§ 27-105-321. Receipts in triplicate to be issued for deposits; disposition of same

When any payment of county funds shall be made into a county depository in pursuance of this article, the depository shall give the person making such payment triplicate receipts, specifying the accounts on which the payment is made, one of which shall be immediately mailed to the chancery clerk of the county. Any person paying […]

§ 27-105-325. How tax collectors to settle with county treasury

In making a settlement with the county treasury, the tax collector of each county shall pay the amount due the county to a county depository, according to law and the rules of the board of supervisors. The tax collector, in making deposits, shall receive duplicate receipts for the same and shall mail one to the […]

§ 27-105-329. Failure to pay county warrants

In the event of the failure of any county depository to pay any county warrant lawfully issued on any funds on deposit belonging to the county in the depository, the county is empowered to order the State Treasurer to sell such securities as are placed with the State Treasurer by the depository, or call on […]

§ 27-105-331. Acquisition of closed depository securities

The State Treasurer, on behalf of any county in the State of Mississippi that has acquired bonds or other securities as the result of the closing of the depository or depositories of the county, is authorized and empowered in his discretion to sell, trade, refinance or agree to the refinancing of any or all of […]

§ 27-105-333. Alternative method of selecting depositories

In any county in this state where no depository or depositories were selected and qualified, as provided by law, on or before the first Monday of January 1932, or in which the depository or depositories are not selected and qualified annually thereafter on or before the first Monday in January, the board of supervisors of […]

§ 27-105-337. Tax collector to deposit funds

Upon the selection of any county depository, either upon bids therefor or by designation of the board of supervisors or the Commissioner of Banking and Consumer Finance, and such designated financial institution becoming qualified as required by law, the tax collector of such county or counties shall deposit all funds collected therein and thereafter make […]

§ 27-105-339. Insufficient depository

In counties where county depositories have been designated and qualified as provided by law or which shall hereafter be designated and qualified as provided by law but not for an amount sufficient to cover all county funds belonging to such counties, the provisions of Sections 27-105-333 and 27-105-335 shall be applied to secure depositories for […]

§ 27-105-341. Sections 27-105-333 through 27-105-339 cumulative

Sections 27-105-333 through 27-105-339 shall not be held to modify or repeal any existing law relative to county depositories and the deposit of county funds, but are expressly intended to extend the existing laws of the state and provide additional methods of selecting county depositories.