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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 37 - Education » Chapter 47 - State Aid for Construction of School Facilities

§ 37-47-1. Administration of chapter

The terms and provisions of this chapter shall be administered and executed by the state educational finance commission. For the purpose of this chapter, the term “commission” shall mean “state educational finance commission” except where the context clearly indicates otherwise.

§ 37-47-11. Order of priority of disposition of funds

The sums becoming due to any school district shall be disposed of in the following order of priority and for the following purposes and for no others: To discharge the principal and interest due the commission by reason of any advance or loan made to any such school district by the commission; To be applied […]

§ 37-47-13. Certificates of credit

When the amounts of the annual grants to school districts have been computed as provided in Section 37-47-9, the commission shall credit each such school district with the amount of the annual grant to which it is entitled and shall issue to each such school district a certificate of credit for the amount of such […]

§ 37-47-15. Approval of use of grants; surveys and plans

No grants accruing to any school district shall be expended for any purpose unless such expenditure has been approved by the commission. In order to guide the commission in passing upon requests for the use of grants, the school boards of the respective school districts are directed to prepare a survey of necessary capital improvements […]

§ 37-47-17. Applications for expenditures

Applications for the expenditure of funds to the credit of any school district in the state public school building fund shall originate with the school board of the school district entitled to such funds. Before any funds to the credit of a school district shall be expended for capital improvements or the retirement of outstanding […]

§ 37-47-23. Effect of insufficient funds in public school building fund

When any school district holding certificates of credit shall desire to expend funds which have accumulated to its credit under the provisions of this chapter and the expenditure thereof has been approved by the commission but insufficient funds are available in the state public school building fund because of loans or advances having been made […]

§ 37-47-25. Loans for capital improvements

Whenever the State Department of Education shall determine that any school district is in need of capital improvements to an extent in excess of that which may be financed by the credit then due such school district by the department, the department shall be empowered to advance or lend said school district such sums as […]

§ 37-47-27. Requirement of contracts for capital improvements

All capital improvements by any school district which are financed in whole or in part with funds received from the state public school building fund pursuant to an application approved by the commission, shall be constructed by contract entered into and awarded by the board of trustees or other governing body of such school district. […]

§ 37-47-29. Awarding of contracts for capital improvements

All contracts for capital improvements by any school district which are financed in whole or in part with funds received from the state public school building fund pursuant to an application approved by the commission shall be awarded and entered into upon receipt of sealed bids or proposals after the time and place of letting […]

§ 37-47-3. “School district” defined

The term “school district” as used in this chapter shall be defined as including all public school districts and public charter schools in this state and also all agricultural high schools not located on the campus of a junior college.

§ 37-47-31. Continuation and functions of state bond commission

The state bond commission now consisting of the governor, attorney general and treasurer of the State of Mississippi, each acting ex officio, is hereby continued in existence for the purpose of this chapter and with full power and authority to issue state school bonds to the extent, for the purposes, and in the manner and […]

§ 37-47-35. Request for issuance of bonds

Before any state school bonds are issued as authorized by this chapter, the state educational finance commission shall transmit to the state bond commission a request for the issuance thereof in the form of a resolution adopted by said state educational finance commission. Said request shall embody the following: A schedule showing the aggregate of […]

§ 37-47-37. Prerequisites to issuance of bonds

If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the state bond commission from the request provided for in Section 37-47-35: That the estimate of the needs for the then current fiscal year as shown pursuant to the requirement of Section 37-47-35, requires bonds to be issued in the amount requested; and That the issue will […]

§ 37-47-41. Execution of bonds; form, terms and conditions; redemption

All state school bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be signed by the governor, or by his facsimile signature, and attested by the secretary of state. The great seal of the State of Mississippi shall be affixed to or impressed upon each of them. Coupons attached to such bonds may bear only […]

§ 37-47-43. Printing of bonds; denominations; interest

All bonds issued under the authority of this chapter shall be lithographed or engraved and printed in two (2) or more colors to prevent counterfeiting. Such bonds shall be issued in denominations as shall be specified by the State Bond Commission. No bond shall bear more than one (1) rate of interest; each bond shall […]

§ 37-47-45. Maturity of bonds

All bonds issued under the authority of this chapter shall mature annually. None of such bonds shall have a final maturity date of more than twenty (20) years from the date of the issuance thereof, and in no event shall the final maturity date of any such bonds be later than July 1, 2004. In […]