2014 Mississippi Code
Title 27 - TAXATION AND FINANCE
Chapter 103 - STATE BUDGET
JOINT LEGISLATIVE BUDGET COMMITTEE; LEGISLATIVE BUDGET OFFICE
§ 27-103-131 - Failure or refusal to file budget request; proceedings

If any officer or employee of any state agency whose duty it is to do so shall refuse or fail to file a budget request with such information and in such form and in such detail and within such time as the legislative budget office may require in the exercise of its authority, the director shall prepare and file, or cause to be prepared and filed, a budget request for such agency, and the expense thereof shall be personally borne by said officer or employee, and he or she shall be responsible on his or her official bond for the payment of the expense; provided that a negligently prepared budget shall be considered as a refusal or failure under the provisions of this section. The records of the legislative budget office and the overall budget submitted by it to the Legislature shall clearly identify and set forth all the facts relative to any agency budget request prepared by the director under the authority of this section.