2017 Mississippi Code
Title 21 - Municipalities
Chapter 13 - Ordinances
§ 21-13-13. Ordinance record
The municipal clerk shall keep a record of permanent construction, to be
entitled "Ordinances of the City, Town or Village of ____," in which he shall
enter at length, in cases where same have not already been entered, every
ordinance in force, and every ordinance hereafter enacted immediately after
its passage. Such ordinances shall be entered in typewriting, or in a plain
and distinct handwriting, and the clerk shall append to each ordinance a note
stating the date of its passage, and shall cite therein the record and page of
the minutes containing the record of its passage. All ordinances which have
been previously passed by any municipality which are not so entered in the
ordinance record, and all ordinances hereafter passed which are not entered in
the ordinance record, shall be void and of no effect. The ordinances which are
to be recorded in such ordinance record are those which are in their nature
laws of the municipality, and are not mere resolutions, orders or decrees of a
temporary nature. It shall be the duty of the municipal clerk to keep the
ordinance record indexed alphabetically.
