MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Fees, Salaries and Administration; County Affairs

By: Senator(s) Turner

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 19-25-31, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE AMOUNT PAID RIDING BAILIFFS; TO BRING FORWARD SECTION 25-3-69, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 19-25-31, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

19-25-31. Each judge of a circuit, chancery or county court, or a court of eminent domain may, in the judge's discretion, by order entered on the minutes of the court, allow the sheriff riding bailiffs to serve in the respective court of such judge, not to exceed four (4) bailiffs. Any such person so employed shall be paid by the county on allowances of the court on issuance of a warrant therefor in an amount not to exceed Sixty-five Dollars ($65.00), in the judge's discretion, for each day, or part thereof, for which he serves as bailiff when the court is in session. No full-time deputy sheriff shall be paid as a riding bailiff of any court. County court judges shall be limited to one (1) bailiff per each court day.

SECTION 2. Section 25-3-69, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:

25-3-69. Unless otherwise provided by law, all officers and employees of state agencies, boards, commissions, departments and institutions authorized by law to receive per diem compensation for each day or fraction thereof occupied with the discharge of official duties shall be entitled to Forty Dollars ($40.00) per diem compensation.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1999.