MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1998 Regular Session

To: Constitution

By: Representative Walker

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 96, MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF 1890, TO AUTHORIZE THE LEGISLATURE TO ALLOW MUNICIPALITIES TO MAKE EXPENDITURES OR DONATIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING PLAQUES, CERTIFICATES OR OTHER SUCH HONORARIUM TO RETIRING MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. 

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That the following amendment to the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 is proposed to the qualified electors of the state:

Amend Section 96, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, to read as follows:

Section 96. The legislature shall never grant extra compensation, fee, or allowance, to any public officer, agent, servant, or contractor, after service rendered or contract made except to authorize a municipality to make an expenditure or donation for a plaque, certificate or other nonmonetary honorarium as an award to a retiring municipal employee, nor authorize payment, or part payment, of any claim under any contract not authorized by law; but appropriations may be made for expenditures in repelling invasion, preventing or suppressing insurrections.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this proposed amendment shall be submitted by the Secretary of State to the qualified electors at an election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November 1998, as provided by Section 273 of the Constitution and by general law.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the explanation of this proposed amendment for the ballot shall read as follows: "This proposed constitutional amendment will allow the legislature to authorize municipalities to make expenditures and donations for the purpose of giving plaques, certificates or other such honorarium to retiring municipal employees.