Chapter 29 - Junior Colleges.
- 37-29-1 - Creation, establishment, maintenance and operation of community and junior colleges authorized; types of instruction to be offered; dual enrollment program; early admission program.
- 37-29-3 - Official seal.
- 37-29-5 - Title to lands; buildings and improvements.
- 37-29-11 - through 37-29-17. Repealed.
- 37-29-31 - Junior college districts created.
- 37-29-33 - Property of existing institutions transferred to and vested in district trustees.
- 37-29-35 - Repealed.
- 37-29-37 - Continuation of operation of junior college lying in county bordering on the Mississippi River.
- 37-29-39 - Continuation of Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District.
- 37-29-61 - President; selection and term.
- 37-29-63 - Powers of the president.
- 37-29-65 - Selection of trustees; terms; compensation; provisions applicable to East Mississippi Junior College and Coahoma Community College Districts.
- 37-29-67 - General powers and duties of trustees.
- 37-29-69 - Junior college attendance centers.
- 37-29-71 - Preparation of budget.
- 37-29-73 - Board may execute oil, gas and mineral leases; terms; limits.
- 37-29-75 - Sales of surplus real and personal property.
- 37-29-76 - Exchange of lands.
- 37-29-77 - Lease of school buildings, equipment and lands.
- 37-29-79 - Transportation of pupils; no additional allocation; promulgation of rules.
- 37-29-81 - Fees and tuition.
- 37-29-83 - Repealed.
- 37-29-85 - Liability insurance to cover official actions of board members.
- 37-29-87 - Conveyance of land to counties within junior college districts.
- 37-29-101 - Borrowing in anticipation of taxes; authorization to borrow funds from federal government to compensate for loss of revenue as result of Hurricane Katrina.
- 37-29-103 - Long-term borrowing; procedure.
- 37-29-105 - Utilization of available funds for commencement of projects for which bonds have been authorized.
- 37-29-107 - Issuance of bonds for dormitories and other housing facilities.
- 37-29-109 - Resolution authorizing issuance of bonds; bond provisions; sale.
- 37-29-111 - When bonds may be refunded.
- 37-29-113 - Refunding bonds.
- 37-29-115 - Securing payment of bonds.
- 37-29-117 - Actions or proceedings by bondholders.
- 37-29-119 - Full faith and credit of state not pledged to payment of bonds.
- 37-29-121 - Junior college district may borrow not to exceed $50,000 for housing facilities.
- 37-29-123 - Declaration of intention to borrow; issuance of notes; repayment.
- 37-29-125 - Board of trustees to fix and collect fees, rents and charges; disposition of monies.
- 37-29-127 - Foregoing sections as cumulative.
- 37-29-131 - Lease limitation; machinery, equipment, furnishings, and fixtures.
- 37-29-133 - Option to purchase; fair market value.
- 37-29-135 - Authority to lease for purposes of construction, repair, or rehabilitation of buildings or facilities.
- 37-29-137 - Lessee's obligation to pay amounts due or perform covenants limited to current and specific appropriations.
- 37-29-139 - Sections 37-29-131 through 37-29-139 full and complete authority for authorization, execution, and delivery of leases.
- 37-29-141 - Determination of tax rate; tuition may be fixed in lieu of taxation.
- 37-29-143 - Receipt and expenditure of tax revenues; surety bonds by persons handling district funds.
- 37-29-145 - Taxes shall be levied until previously issued bonds retired.
- 37-29-161 - Short title.
- 37-29-163 - Declaration of intent.
- 37-29-165 - Junior college vocational and technical training fund; expenditures from fund.
- 37-29-167 - Applications for benefits; local matching funds; district board of trustees authorized to receive gifts.
- 37-29-169 - Allocation of funds; review of application; certificate of necessity; disposition of application.
- 37-29-171 - Approval of expenditures.
- 37-29-173 - Use of local and supporting funds.
- 37-29-175 - Lease of facilities for industrial training of students.
- 37-29-177 - Specialized programs in vocational and vocational-technical education shall be available to out-of-district students.
- 37-29-179 - Repealed.
- 37-29-201 - Hospitals, counties and municipalities may support nurse training programs.
- 37-29-211 - Instructors, professors and other teachers shall file affidavit as to membership in organizations.
- 37-29-213 - Form of affidavit.
- 37-29-215 - Contracts of employment are void for failure to file affidavit.
- 37-29-217 - Penalty for filing false affidavit.
- 37-29-231 - Students' residency and fees.
- 37-29-232 - Criminal history record checks and fingerprinting for health care professional/vocational technical students.
- 37-29-233 - Diplomas.
- 37-29-235 - Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; definition.
- 37-29-237 - Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society, declared to be unlawful.
- 37-29-239 - Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; unlawful for pupils to join, belong to, or participate in activities.
- 37-29-241 - Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; duties of district boards of trustees.
- 37-29-243 - Junior college fraternity, sorority or secret society; solicitation of pupils; penalty.
- 37-29-261 - Board of supervisors may permit county road department employees or road district employees to assist in maintenance of campus streets.
- 37-29-263 - Defraying costs of providing electronic data processing equipment.
- 37-29-265 - Municipalities and municipal separate school districts may issue bonds for establishing and maintaining junior colleges.
- 37-29-267 - Municipalities and counties may purchase land and buildings for junior college.
- 37-29-268 - Community College Repair and Renovation Fund.
- 37-29-269 - Relationship to county agricultural high schools.
- 37-29-271 - Abolition of high school department and confining of activities to junior college work; restoration of high school department to curriculum.
- 37-29-272 - Transfer of agricultural high school to county board of education.
- 37-29-273 - Attendance of county pupils at municipal junior college.
- 37-29-275 - Application of general criminal laws of state; security officers vested with powers of constables; authorization to bear arms if certified; jurisdiction of peace officers employed by publi
- 37-29-301 - Legislative findings and declarations.
- 37-29-303 - Definitions.
- 37-29-305 - Calculation of funding; use of information from SREB State Data Exchange.
- 37-29-401 - Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District created.
- 37-29-403 - Transfer of property to junior college district.
- 37-29-405 - President.
- 37-29-407 - Powers of president.
- 37-29-409 - Selection of trustees; terms.
- 37-29-411 - General powers and duties of trustees.
- 37-29-413 - Junior college attendance centers.
- 37-29-415 - Preparation of budget.
- 37-29-417 - Execution of oil, gas and mineral leases.
- 37-29-419 - Sales of surplus real and personal property.
- 37-29-421 - Transportation of pupils.
- 37-29-423 - Fees and tuition.
- 37-29-425 - Borrowing in anticipation of taxes.
- 37-29-427 - Utilization of available funds for commencement of projects for which bonds have been authorized.
- 37-29-429 - Issuance of bonds; authorized purposes; resolution of board of trustees; election pursuant to board's request.
- 37-29-431 - Issuance of bonds, procedure where board of trustees elects itself not to cause an election to be held.
- 37-29-433 - Issuance of bonds; validation and sale.
- 37-29-435 - Bonds issued are full faith and credit bonds of District; levy of tax.
- 37-29-437 - Taxation.
- 37-29-451 - Copiah-Lincoln Junior College District created.
- 37-29-453 - President.
- 37-29-455 - Powers of the president.
- 37-29-457 - Selection of trustees; terms.
- 37-29-459 - General powers and duties of trustees.
- 37-29-461 - Campuses.
- 37-29-463 - Preparation of budget.
- 37-29-465 - Purchase of property; capital improvements; lease of facilities.
- 37-29-467 - Transportation of pupils.
- 37-29-469 - Borrowing of money; taxation.
- 37-29-471 - Transfer of property to junior college district.
- 37-29-501 - Meridian Junior College District created.
- 37-29-503 - Transfer of property to district.
- 37-29-505 - Board of trustees; terms of office; vacancies.
- 37-29-507 - General powers and duties of trustees.
- 37-29-509 - President; powers and duties.
- 37-29-511 - Preparation of budget.
- 37-29-513 - Tax levy for maintenance of Meridian Junior College District.
- 37-29-515 - Receipt and expenditure of tax revenues.
- 37-29-551 - Coahoma Community College District; creation; boundaries.
- 37-29-553 - President; election by trustees of district; term not to exceed four years.
- 37-29-555 - President's powers and authority.
- 37-29-557 - Operation and control of district vested in board of trustees; area represented; number and selection.
- 37-29-559 - President and Board of Trustees, powers; authority of State Board for Community and Junior Colleges.
- 37-29-561 - Annual budget.
- 37-29-563 - Board of Trustees, authority to purchase property, lease or use private or public facilities, make capital improvements.
- 37-29-565 - District responsible for providing pre-professional, liberal arts, technical, vocational and adult education courses and to transport students.
- 37-29-567 - General borrowing and bonding authority; taxing authority.
- 37-29-569 - Property transferred to District.
- 37-29-571 - Counties, support and maintenance of community colleges, allocation of millage.