SEC. 25-61-7. Fees for costs incident to providing records.

Section 25-61-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

25-61-7. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), each public body may establish and collect fees reasonably calculated to reimburse it for, and in no case to exceed, the actual cost of searching, reviewing and/or duplicating and, if applicable, mailing copies of public records. Such fees shall be collected by the public body in advance of complying with the request.

(2) A county or municipality may establish a fee scale for information from a geographic information system or multipurpose cadastre as authorized by law.

SOURCES: Laws, 1983, ch. 424, Sec. 4, eff from and after July 1, 1983. Amended by Laws 1999, Ch. 466, Sec. 2, eff. July 1, 1999.