SEC. 97-11-33. Extortion; collecting unauthorized fees and fees for services not actually rendered.

If any judge, justice court judge, sheriff, constable, assessor, collector, clerk, county medical examiner, county medical examiner investigator, or any other officer, shall knowingly demand, take, or collect, under color of his office, any money fee or reward whatever, not authorized by law, or shall demand and receive, knowingly, any fee for service not actually performed, such officer, so offending, shall be guilty of extortion, and, on conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or both, and shall be removed from office.

SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 2(5); 1857, ch. 64, art. 99; 1871, Sec. 2712; 1880, Sec. 2805; 1892, Sec. 1081; 1906, Sec. 1161; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 888; 1930, Sec. 914; 1942, Sec. 2144; Laws, 1979, ch. 508, Sec. 16; 1986, ch. 459, Sec. 40, eff from and after July 1, 1986.

1997 Amendment:

 SECTION 1. Section 97-11-33, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

 97-11-33. If any judge, justice court judge, sheriff, deputy sheriff, sheriff's employee, constable, assessor, collector, clerk, county medical examiner, county medical examiner investigator, employee of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, employee of any contractor providing incarceration services or any other officer, shall knowingly demand, take or collect, under color of his office, any money, fee or reward whatever, not authorized by law, or shall demand and receive, knowingly, any fee for service not actually performed, such officer, so offending, shall be guilty of extortion, and, on conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or both, and shall be removed from office.

 SOURCES: 1997 Laws, Chapter 431, Sec. 1, SB2247, and Chapter 462, Sec. 1, HB718, Effective July 1, 1997.