As Amended
SEC. 45-3-9. Qualifications of members of highway safety patrol; agents of Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics employed as enforcement troopers.
The chief of patrol, directors, inspectors, assistant inspectors, patrol officers and investigators of the department shall be selected after an examination as to physical and mental fitness, knowledge of traffic laws, rules and regulations of this state, the laws of the state pertaining to arrest, and the rules and regulations of the State Highway Commission and Public Service Commission, such examination to be prescribed by the commissioner. At the time of appointment they shall be citizens of the United States and the State of Mississippi, of good moral character, and shall be not less than twenty-three (23) years of age; however, they may be less than twenty-three (23) years of age provided they hold a degree from an accredited four-year senior college or university. No new patrol officer hereafter employed as an enforcement trooper shall have attained the age of thirty-six (36) years, except that sworn agents of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, who were employed by such bureau prior to December 1, 1990, regardless of age, may be employed if they meet all other qualifications. Sworn agents of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics who are employed as enforcement troopers shall retain all compensatory, personal and sick leave accrued pursuant to Sections 25-3-92, 25-3-93 and 25-3-95, Mississippi Code of 1972.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Secs. 8079, 8086; Laws, 1938, ch. 143; 1940, ch. 167; 1944, ch. 330, Sec. 1; 1946, ch. 420, Sec. 2; 1948, ch. 343, Sec. 2; 1950, ch. 407, Sec. 1; 1952, ch. 357, Sec. 1; 1956, ch. 377 Sec. 1; 1960, ch. 338, Sec. 1; 1962, ch. 515; 1962, ch. 516; 1964, ch. 324, Sec. 9; 1964, ch. 453, Sec. 1; 1966, ch. 568, Sec. 1; 1968, ch. 472, Sec. 1; 1970, ch. 482; 1971, ch. 518, Sec. 1; 1972, ch. 527, Sec. 1; 1973, ch. 485, Sec. 1; 1980, ch. 561, Sec. 21; 1981, ch. 511, Sec. 3; 1984, ch. 518, Sec. 3; 1991, ch. 468 Sec. 2, eff from and after passage (approved March 29, 1991).