Mississippi Code

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-3-27 (2026)

Duties of clerk of board of supervisors; signing of minutes

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It shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of supervisors to keep and preserve a complete and correct record of all the proceedings and orders of the board. He shall enter on the minutes the names of the members who attend at each meeting, and the names of those who fail to attend. He shall safely keep and preserve all records, books, and papers pertaining to his office, and deliver them to his successor when required. The minutes of each day's proceedings shall either (a) be read and signed by the president or the vice president, if the president is absent or disabled so as to prevent his signing of the minutes, on or before the first Monday of the month following the day of adjournment of any term of the board of supervisors; or (b) be adopted and approved by the board of supervisors as the first order of business on the first day of the next monthly meeting of the board.

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 51, art 5 (6); 1857, ch. 59, art 14; 1871, § 1361; 1880, § 2142; 1892, § 287; 1906, § 305; Hemingway's 1917, § 3678; 1930, § 211; 1942, § 2886; Laws, 1946, ch. 305; Laws, 1959 Ex ch. 22, § 5; Laws, 1960, ch. 189; Laws, 1966, ch. 291, § 1; Laws, 1989, ch. 337, § 1, eff. 10/1/1989.


Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1992–2017 · leading case: Arlin George Hatfield, III v. Madison Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors, 235 So. 3d 18 (Miss. 2017).
Arlin George Hatfield, III v. Madison Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors, 235 So. 3d 18 (Miss. 2017). · cites it 2× “Yet Hatfield provides no specific discrepancies between his transcript and the Board’s minutes to show the Board “failed to adopt the recommendation of their Zoning Administrator or of their attorney.”
Myers v. Blair, 611 So. 2d 969 (Miss. 1992). “Miss. Code Ann. § 19-3-27 (1972); Miss. Code Ann.”
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