11-3-11
Section 11-3-11 Powers and duties generally. (a) The county commission shall have authority: (1) To direct, control, and maintain the property of the county as it may deem expedient according to law, and in this direction and control it has the sole power to locate the courts in the rooms of the courthouse and to designate the rooms to be occupied by the officers entitled to rooms therein, including the circuit judge if resident in the county, and to change the location of the courts and the designation of the rooms for officers as it may deem best and most expedient, and this shall be done by order of the county commission entered upon the minutes of the county commission at a regular meeting of the county commission. In the event the courthouse is inadequate to supply office rooms for such officers, the county commission may lease such office rooms in a convenient location in the county site and pay the rental from the county fund. (2) To levy a general tax, for general county...
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37-3-4
Section 37-3-4 Exemptions. (a) This chapter shall not be construed to apply to: (1)a. School buses or other motor vehicles which are owned by county boards of education or under contract with county boards of education, regardless of whether or not the school buses and other motor vehicles are being used exclusively for the transportation of school children and school teachers to and from school and provided the school buses and other motor vehicles do not take on passengers for fare on a certificated route. b. Motor vehicles for hire while operating wholly within the limits of a city or incorporated town or within the police jurisdiction thereof, or between two or more incorporated towns or cities whose city limits join or are contiguous or whose police jurisdictions join or are contiguous. c. Motor vehicles while used in the transportation of property when the owner of the vehicle is legally and regularly engaged in the business of selling such property and is the owner and has the...
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40-23-4
Section 40-23-4 Exemptions. (a) There are exempted from the provisions of this division and from the computation of the amount of the tax levied, assessed, or payable under this division the following: (1) The gross proceeds of the sales of lubricating oil and gasoline as defined in Sections 40-17-30 and 40-17-170 and the gross proceeds from those sales of lubricating oil destined for out-of-state use which are transacted in a manner whereby an out-of-state purchaser takes delivery of such oil at a distributor's plant within this state and transports it out-of-state, which are otherwise taxed. (2) The gross proceeds of the sale, or sales, of fertilizer when used for agricultural purposes. The word "fertilizer" shall not be construed to include cottonseed meal, when not in combination with other materials. (3) The gross proceeds of the sale, or sales, of seeds for planting purposes and baby chicks and poults. Nothing herein shall be construed to exempt or exclude from the computation of...
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11-65-10
Section 11-65-10 Powers and duties of commission. When authorized by one or more elections as provided in Section 11-65-4, a commission shall have the powers and duties necessary to license, regulate, and supervise horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon and greyhound racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon within the commission municipal jurisdiction, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the powers and duties hereinafter set forth in this section or in other sections of this chapter. (1) A commission shall have succession in perpetuity, subject only to the provisions of this chapter as it may be amended from time to time. (2) A commission shall have the power to sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions and to defend suits against it. (3) A commission shall have the power to adopt and make use of an official seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (4) A commission shall have the power to adopt, alter, and repeal bylaws, regulations and...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry, and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion, or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II. This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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16-13-191
Section 16-13-191 School tax district - Boundaries fixed by county board. In order to make it possible to work out a system of local tax units adapted to the needs of the whole county, the county board of education of its own initiative shall fix the boundaries of any school tax district within its jurisdiction in which it is proposed to levy a local school tax. In making application for a special election in any such district, the county board of education shall submit a map made by the county surveyor, or other competent person, showing the boundaries of the school tax district for which a special tax levy is proposed, indicating the section or sections and ranges, together with the correct description of the boundaries of the said district for which a special tax levy is proposed. These maps shall also show the location of public utilities, such as power plants, railroad and telegraph lines, if any, in such districts, and the railroad mileage for each and every corporation having...
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16-13-196
Section 16-13-196 School tax district - Consolidation - Effect. Thereupon the county commission shall call an election in like manner as already prescribed for calling an election in a school tax district in the special districts or district and adjacent territory proposed to be consolidated, and if a majority of the qualified electors voting in the combined territories of the districts or district and adjacent territory proposed to be consolidated shall vote favorably, the districts or district and adjacent territory shall be consolidated into a new special school tax district, and the tax as voted shall be levied and collected in the new district as a unit, but the creation of a new district shall not operate to relieve the county board of education of liability for the just obligations made prior to such consolidation. In the event a majority of the qualified electors voting in the combined territories of the districts or district and adjacent territory proposed to be consolidated...
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45-37A-351.02
Section 45-37A-351.02 Special ad valorem tax for public school purposes. (a) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AMENDMENT 56. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act 383, H. 458, 1945 Regular Session. (2) AMENDMENT 325. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act 116, H. 56, 1971 Third Special Session. (3) AMENDMENT 373. That amendment to the constitution that was proposed by Act 6, H. 170, 1978 Second Special Session. (4) CITY. Mountain Brook, Alabama. (5) CONSTITUTION. The Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (6) COUNCIL. Mountain Brook City Council. (7) SPECIAL TAX. The special ad valorem tax for public school purposes authorized in Amendment 56 and pursuant to an election held in the city on May 20, 1947, and levied and collected on taxable property in the city; being originally voted at the rate of 5 mills on each dollar of assessed value and, pursuant to proceedings heretofore taken under Amendment 325 and...
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45-39A-14.01
Section 45-39A-14.01 Special ad valorem tax for public school purposes. (a) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AMENDMENT 8. That amendment to the Constitution that was proposed by Act 650, S. 593, 1919 General Session. (2) AMENDMENT 373. That amendment to the Constitution that was proposed by Act 6, H. 170, 1978 Second Special Session. (3) CITY. Florence, Alabama. (4) CONSTITUTION. The Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (5) COUNCIL. Florence City Council. (6) SPECIAL TAX. The special voted ad valorem tax for public school purposes authorized in the second proviso of Amendment 8 and pursuant to an election held in the city on December 10, 1923, and levied and collected on taxable property in the city; being originally voted at the rate of 5 mills on each dollar assessed value and, pursuant to proceedings heretofore taken under Amendment 373, presently levied at the rate of 7 mills on each dollar of assessed value. (b) The city presently levies and...
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16-13-182
Section 16-13-182 When district tax cannot be levied. No election in any rural or city school tax district shall be held for the purpose of levying and collecting a special school tax for school purposes unless the county in which said rural or city school tax district is located shall be levying and collecting special county taxes for school purposes of not less than $.30 on each $100.00 worth of taxable property in such county. (School Code 1927, §262; Code 1940, T. 52, §255.)...
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