2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 21 - MUNICIPALITIES
Chapter 31 - Civil Service.
21-31-1 - Adoption of civil service system mandated in certain municipalities.

§ 21-31-1. Adoption of civil service system mandated in certain municipalities.
 

(1)  A civil service commission is created in every municipality described in subsection (2) which has a full paid fire and police department. 

(2)  The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply to: 

(a) Any municipality, operating under a commission form of government, and having a population of not less than fourteen thousand (14,000), according to the federal census of 1940; 

(b) Any municipality, under whatever form of government, having a population of not less than twenty-four thousand (24,000), according to the federal census of 1940, and situated in counties having a national military park; 

(c) Any municipality, operating under the commission form of government, and having a population of not less than ten thousand five hundred (10,500) nor more than eleven thousand (11,000), according to the federal census of 1950; 

(d) Any municipality, having an aldermanic commission or city manager form of government, and having a population of not less than three thousand eight hundred eighty-one (3,881) at the 1960 federal census, and situated on the Mississippi Gulf Coast; 

(e) Any municipality with its corporate limits being bounded on one (1) side by the Mississippi River and being located in a county having an assessed valuation in excess of Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00) but less than Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00) and having a total population in excess of thirty-seven thousand five hundred (37,500), according to the latest federal census; 

(f) Any municipality, operating under special charter, and in which there is located a state-supported college for women; 

(g) Any municipality having a population of more than ten thousand (10,000) according to the federal census of 1970, which is located within a Class 1 county in which U.S. Highway 51 and U.S. Highway 98 intersect and bounded on the south by the State of Louisiana; and 

(h) Any municipality, bordering on the Escatawpa River, having an aldermanic commission form of government and having a population of not less than seventeen thousand eight hundred thirty-seven (17,837) according to the 1990 federal census. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, §§ 3825-01, 3825-02; Laws,  1944, ch. 208, § 1; Laws, 1956, ch. 398; Laws, 1962, ch. 547, § 1; Laws, 1964, ch. 507, § 1; Laws, 1968, ch. 557, § 1; Laws, 1973, ch. 308, § 1; Laws, 1980, ch. 378; Laws, 1999, ch. 354, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1999.