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County Elected Officials Countywide Offices COUNTY ELECTED OFFICIALS Mississippi has 82 counties, 72 of which have one county seat. The other 10 have two county seats due to the division of court districts. Mississippi became a territory of the United States in 1798. On December 10, 1817, Mississippi became the twentieth state admitted to the Union. Counties organized prior to statehood and their organization dates are: Adams (1798), Amite (1809), Claiborne (1802), Franklin (1809), Greene (1811), Hancock (1817), Jackson (1812), Jefferson (1799 as Pickering; renamed “Jefferson” in 1802), Lawrence (1814), Marion (1811), Pike (1815), Warren (1809), Washington (1800), Wayne (1809), and Wilkinson (1802). The last county formed was Humphreys County in 1918. County boundaries were changed over time to accommodate the formation of new counties. COUNTYWIDE OFFICES Chancery Clerk and Circuit Clerk Coroner Qualifications: These officers must be Qualifications: The Coroner must be a qualified electors of the county in which qualified elector, at least 21 years of age, election is sought. The qualifying fee is $100. possessing a high school diploma or its equivalent, and of the county in which Duties: The Chancery Clerk is elected to a election is sought. The qualifying fee is $100. four-year term and may run for re-election. The Chancery Clerk is the Clerk of the Board Duties: The Coroner is elected to a four- of Supervisors and of the Chancery Court. year term and may run for re-election. The Clerk is responsible for maintaining the The Coroner is the chief county medical records of both the Board and the Court. examiner and/or county medical examiner investigator. This official is responsible for The Circuit Clerk is elected to a four-year issuing declarations of death and performing term and may run for re-election. The Clerk or reporting results of autopsies in cases is the chief officer of the Circuit Court and requiring such action. chief elections officer of the county. The Clerk maintains the voter rolls and assists Prosecuting Attorney the Election Commissioners in purging the Qualifications: A County Prosecuting Attorney voter rolls, and assists election officials to must be a qualified elector and a regular conducting primary and general elections. licensed and practicing attorney. Miss. Code Ann. Sec. 19-23-1 (1972). The qualifying fee Tax Assessor and/or Tax Collector is $100. Qualifications: These officers must be qualified electors of the county in which Duties: The county prosecuting attorney election is sought. The qualifying fee is $100. represents the state in all felony matters before the county’s justice courts and county Duties: The Tax Assessor and/or Tax Collector courts. Additionally, the county attorney may serve in both capacities in all counties. represents the state in criminal cases This official is elected to a four-year term and appealed from county court to circuit court, may run for re-election. can present any matter to the grand jury, and has full responsibility for all misdemeanor The Assessor’s role is to maintain the youth court proceedings and all other cases personal, real and ad valorem tax rolls of not specified to the district attorney. the county. The Collector is responsible for He can also be appointed by the district keeping the records of tax payments attorney as designee. In counties where and depositing the money in the county no county attorney is elected, one may be treasury. employed by the county board of supervisors 43 to represent certain cases. The county prosecuting attorney is elected to a four-year SCHOOL DISTRICTS term and may run for re-election. Mississippi has five different types of County Surveyor school districts: Qualifications: The County Surveyor must be a registered land surveyor and a qualified • Consolidated School Districts—lie elector of the county in which election is wholly within one county, but do not sought. The qualifying fee is $100. include municipal separate and county districts; Duties: The County Surveyor executes all • Line Consolidated School Districts— orders of survey directed to him by any court, embrace territory in two or more all surveys of land within his county at the counties, but do not include municipal request of the owners or proprietors, and to separate districts; survey, resurvey, measure, and divide land as • Municipal Separate School Districts— requested by the county board of supervisors. encompass the boundary of municipality, and may have added territory; Sheriff Qualifications:The Sheriff must not be • Special Municipal Separate School a defaulter to the State or any county or Districts—municipal separate districts municipality or to the United States and a which have been reconstituted or qualified elector. The qualifying fee is $100. reorganized with added territory exclusive of any added territory which was part of the municipal separate Duties: The Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer of the county and is school district before reorganization; elected to a four-year term. He may run for • County School Districts—lie wholly re-election. The sheriff is the chief officer of within a county and are not constituted the chancery and circuit courts and maintains as either form of consolidated or the county law library. The sheriff is in charge municipal district. of the county courthouse, jail, and protection of prisoners. Superintendent of Education Duties: The Miss. Code Ann. (1972) provides Qualifications:From and after January 1, for a county Superintendent of Education 2019, in all public school districts, the local to be in each county. The Superintendent of school board shall appoint the superintendent Education is the chief administrative officer of of education in such district in the manner the school district. The Superintendent serves provided in Miss. Code Ann. § 37-9-25. as the executive secretary of the county board of education, but has no vote in the However, in the event a vacancy in the office proceedings before the board and no voice in of the superintendent of schools elected at fixing its policies. The Superintendent is the the November 2015 general election shall director of all schools in the county outside occur before January 1, 2019, the office of the municipal separate school districts. superintendent of school shall immediately become an appointed position, and the local school board shall appoint the superintendent of the school district. 44 COUNTY DISTRICT OFFICES Constable Supervisor Qualifications:A Constable must be Qualifications: County Supervisors must be a qualified elector in the county and district qualified electors of the county and reside in in which election is sought. The qualifying fee the district in which election is sought. The is $100. qualifying fee is $100. Duties: Constables shall keep and preserve Duties: Supervisors shall have the power the peace within their county, by aiding and to adopt, modify, alter, or repeal orders, assisting in executing the criminal laws of resolutions or ordinances in their respective the state for the Justice Courts of his district. county and district not inconsistent with law. In Constables shall obey all lawful orders and general, supervisors have jurisdiction over roads, execute all judgments for Justice Courts within ferries, bridges, tax levies, courthouses and jails, this district. county-owned real property, appropriation of funds, contractual powers of municipality as well Justice Court Judge as other powers expressly authorized by law. Qualifications: A Justice Court Judge must be a qualified elector, a resident of the county for Election Commissioners two (2) years preceding the day of election, Qualifications: Election Commissioners must and complete course of training required by be qualified electors of the supervisor district law within six (6) months of the beginning of in which election is sought. the term in office. The qualifying fee is $100. Qualifying fee: None; petition filed with the Chancery Clerk containing signatures of not Duties: Justice Court Judges shall have less than 50 qualified electors of the district. civil and criminal jurisdiction of all actions where the principal of the debt, amount of Duties: Election Commissioner’s general the demand, or the value of the property duties include conducting general and special sought to be recovered shall not exceed elections, certifying election results, and $3,500. purging voter rolls. APPOINTED OFFICES Board Attorney copies of records, documents, and pleadings Qualifications:A Board Attorney filed in the justice court, collect any fines or must be qualified to practice law in costs required by the justice court, and issue Mississippi. all processes necessary for the operation of the justice court. Duties: The Board Attorney is not an elected office. This person represents the county’s County Engineer Board of Supervisors by their appointment. Qualifications:The County Engineer is not an elected office. Counties may employ a Justice Court Clerk registered civil engineer or person qualified to Qualifications:The Board of Supervisors of perform the duties of a county engineer. each county shall appoint one (1) person to serve as clerk of the justice court system. Duties: This person furnishes complete engineering services on state aid projects Duties: The clerk shall file and record actions and may act as county engineer for not more and pleadings, acknowledge affidavits, issue than four (4) counties if all counties are in warrants in criminal cases, certify and issue agreement. 45 Mississippi Counties DESOTO
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