As Amended
SEC. 31-19-7. Ratification of bonds signed by officials not in office at the time of sale or
delivery.
Whenever, pursuant to statutory authority, bonds of the State of Mississippi, or of any county, municipality, road
district, supervisors district, school district, drainage district, or other taxing district therein, have been or shall
hereafter be prepared and signed by the officials designated to sign the bonds by statute or by the proceedings
authorizing the issuance of the bonds, who were or are in office at the time of such signing but who may have
ceased to be such officials prior to the sale and delivery of such bonds or who may not have been in office on the
date such bonds may bear, the signatures of such officials upon such bonds and the coupons thereto attached are
valid and sufficient for all purposes and shall have the same effect as if the persons so officially signing such bonds
had remained in office until delivery of the same to the purchasers or had been in office on the date such bonds
may bear, although the term of office of such persons or any of them may have expired or they may otherwise
have ceased to be such officers before such delivery or although the term of office of such persons or any of them
may not have commenced until a date subsequent to the date such bonds may bear. All such bonds heretofore or
hereafter executed and heretofore or hereafter sold and delivered are hereby ratified, validated, and confirmed,
notwithstanding any change in office which may have taken place subsequently to the execution of the bonds and
coupons and prior to the delivery thereof or any change in office which may have taken place subsequently to the
date which such bonds may bear and prior to the execution and delivery thereof; and such bonds shall be valid and
binding obligations of said state, county, municipality, road district, supervisors district, school district, drainage
district, or other taxing district, as the case may be.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp. Sec. 6662y; 1930, Sec. 5989; 1942, Sec. 4349; Laws, 1920, ch. 221; 1934, ch. 133.