19-5-95 - Aid to fire departments. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 19-5-95. Aid to fire departments.
 

The board of supervisors of any county in this state is hereby empowered and authorized to appropriate out of the county treasury annually a sum not in excess of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) in aid of any fire department for services and protection by such fire department, and, in its discretion, to appropriate out of the county treasury annually a sum not in excess of the amount which would be produced by a levy of one-fourth (1/4) mill on all taxable property within the county in aid of municipal fire departments in the county, or in aid of volunteer fire departments within the county which meet the requirements set forth in Section 83-1-39(2), but in no event shall the aggregate amount appropriated annually under this section exceed an amount equal to the amount which would be produced by a levy of one-fourth (1/4) mill on all taxable property within the county. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1906, § 370; Hemingway's 1917, § 3743; 1930, § 234; 1942, § 2912; Laws,  1904, ch. 101; Laws, 1930, ch. 24; Laws, 1981, 1st Ex Sess, ch. 7, eff from and after passage (approved August 27, 1981).