MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2000 Regular Session

To: Judiciary

By: Senator(s) Gollott

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 19-3-15, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CONTRACTS FOR LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS IN HARRISON COUNTY ARE LET; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1. Section 19-3-15, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

19-3-15. In Harrison County, a county having two (2) judicial districts, the board of supervisors shall hold their meetings or sessions at the time required and provided for by law, alternately at Gulfport and Biloxi, respectively, at the seats of justice of the judicial districts, holding their first meeting or session as to the second judicial district, at Gulfport and their jurisdiction shall extend over the entire county at all times, just as if it were not divided into two (2) separate districts; provided, however, legal advertisements for the county, the board of supervisors, the chancery court, the circuit court, the county court, the tax collector, the chancery clerk, the tax assessor, the sheriff, delinquent taxes, tax sales, and all other matters pertaining to any other agency of the government of Harrison County shall be published in the judicial district in which the subject matter arises, or in which the appropriate court has jurisdiction, or in which real property pertaining to such advertisement is located, and shall be published in a newspaper having a known office of publication within such judicial district, as if the two (2) separate districts were separate counties.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2000.