As Amended
SEC. 21-19-25. Adoption, amendment and revision of building and other codes.
Any municipality within the State of Mississippi may, in the discretion
of its governing authorities, adopt building codes, plumbing codes, electrical
codes, gas codes, sanitary codes, or any other codes dealing with general
public health, safety or welfare, or a combination of the same, by ordinance,
in the manner * * * prescribed in this section. Before any such code shall
be adopted, it shall be either printed or typewritten, and it shall be
presented in pamphlet form to the governing authorities of the municipality
at a regular meeting. The ordinance adopting the code shall not set out
the code in full, but shall merely identify the same. The vote on passage
of the ordinance shall be the same as on any other ordinances. After
its adoption, the code shall be certified to by the mayor and clerk of
the municipality, and shall be filed as a permanent record in the office
of the clerk, who shall not be required to transcribe and record the same
in the ordinance book as other ordinances. It shall not be necessary that
the ordinance adopting the code or the code itself be published in full,
but notice of the adoption of the code shall be given by publication in
some newspaper of the municipality for one (1) time, or if there be no
such newspaper, by posting at three (3) or more public places within the
corporate limits, a
notice in substantially the following form:
Notice is * * * given that the city (or town or village) of _________, on the (give date of ordinance adopting code), adopted (state type of code and other information serving to identify the same) code.
All the provisions of this section shall apply to amendments and revisions of the code mentioned in this section. Any code adopted in accordance with this section shall not be in force for one (1) month after its passage, unless the municipal authorities in the ordinance authorize to the contrary. The provisions of this section shall be in addition and supplemental to any existing laws authorizing the adoption, amendment or revision of municipal ordinances or codes.
Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, any code adopted by a municipality before or after the effective date of House Bill No. 692, 2001 Regular Session, is subject to the provisions of Section 41-26-14(10).
The provisions of this section shall apply to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under the code charter, a special charter, commission form, or other form of government.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, §§ 3374-80, 3374-81; Laws, 1946, ch. 438; Laws, 1950, ch. 491, §§ 80, 81; Laws, 2001, ch. 587, § 3, HB 692, eff from and after passage (approved Apr. 12, 2001.)
PREVIOUS VERSION: Pre-2001.