2012 Mississippi Code
Title 21 - Municipalities
Chapter 15 - Officers and Records
§ 21-15-17. Municipal clerk; duty to keep minute record and municipal seal
It shall be the duty of the clerk of every municipality within the State of
Mississippi to keep a record of permanent construction to be labeled
"Municipal Minutes, City (or Town or Village, as the case may be) of ," in
which he shall record the proceedings and all orders and judgments of the
governing authority of said municipality, and to keep the same fully indexed
alphabetically, so that all entries on said minutes can be easily found. Said
clerk shall likewise record in said minute record all ordinances in full, or
in lieu thereof, the title of all ordinances. In either case, however, the
ordinances in full shall be recorded in the ordinance record provided for in
Section 21-13-13, to be kept by said clerk.
In the event only the titles of ordinances are recorded in the minute record, it shall be necessary that the ordinance in full, after the recordation in the ordinance record, be read, verified and subscribed to by the mayor and clerk at the next regular meeting of the governing authority of the municipality.
All official actions of the governing authorities of a municipality shall be evidenced only by official entries duly recorded on such minute record.
The clerk shall be the custodian of the municipal seal, and each municipality shall adopt and provide a seal.
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