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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 7 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT (§§ 7-1-1 — 7-17-37)
Chapter 5 - ATTORNEY GENERAL (§§ 7-5-1 — 7-5-311)
IN GENERAL (§§ 7-5-1 — 7-5-67)
- Section 7-5-1 - Qualifications, election, and duties
- Section 7-5-3 - Deputy attorney general
- Section 7-5-5 - Assistants to the attorney general
- Section 7-5-7 - Outside counsel and special investigators
- Section 7-5-8 - Contingent fee contracts with outside counsel
- Section 7-5-9 - Additional employees
- Section 7-5-11 - Statutory Advisor
- Section 7-5-13 - Additional assistants to handle legal affairs of Highway Commission
- Section 7-5-15 - Secretaries
- Section 7-5-17 - Office hours
- Section 7-5-19 - Office space, supplies, and equipment
- Section 7-5-21 - To keep a docket
- Section 7-5-23 - To keep an opinion-book
- Section 7-5-25 - To give opinions in writing
- Section 7-5-27 - To approve accounts against the state
- Section 7-5-29 - To attend the Supreme Court
- Section 7-5-31 - Failure to attend Supreme Court
- Section 7-5-33 - To enforce judgments and pay over collections
- Section 7-5-35 - May institute and prosecute suits to vacate fraudulent conveyances
- Section 7-5-37 - To prosecute suits
- Section 7-5-39 - To represent the state and state officers in suits; notice of civil legal action; retention of outside counsel under certain circumstances
- Section 7-5-41 - To receive certified copies of pleadings
- Section 7-5-43 - May advise public officials and employees investigated or sued as result of discharging duties
- Section 7-5-45 - May advise school officials and employees in proceedings challenging validity of statute
- Section 7-5-47 - Suits on bonds of state officers
- Section 7-5-49 - To advise public service commission
- Section 7-5-51 - To represent state tax and public service commissions
- Section 7-5-53 - To assist district attorneys
- Section 7-5-54 - Prosecution of official corruption and other white collar crimes
- Section 7-5-55 - To recover taxes
- Section 7-5-57 - To draw papers
- Section 7-5-59 - Investigation of official corruption, other white collar crimes, and computer crimes
- Section 7-5-61 - Books of account and deposit of funds; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund
- Section 7-5-63 - Reports to the legislature
- Section 7-5-65 - Saving statute
- Section 7-5-66 - Prepayment of costs in civil actions for recovery of delinquent sums owed to Mississippi Guaranteed Student Loan Program
- Section 7-5-67 - Investigators of Public Integrity Division empowered to make arrests, serve and execute search warrants, and serve process
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