{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-21-31-1","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-1","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 21-31-1","body":"(1) A civil service commission is created in every municipality described in subsection (2) which has a full paid fire and police department.\n\n(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply to:\n\n(a) Any municipality, operating under a commission form of government, and having a population of not less than fourteen thousand (14,000), according to the federal census of 1940;\n\n(b) Any municipality, under whatever form of government, having a population of not less than twenty-four thousand (24,000), according to the federal census of 1940, and situated in counties having a national military park;\n\n(c) Any municipality, operating under the commission form of government, and having a population of not less than ten thousand five hundred (10,500) nor more than eleven thousand (11,000), according to the federal census of 1950;\n\n(d) Any municipality, having an aldermanic commission or city manager form of government, and having a population of not less than three thousand eight hundred eighty-one (3,881) at the 1960 federal census, and situated on the Mississippi Gulf Coast;\n\n(e) Any municipality with its corporate limits being bounded on one (1) side by the Mississippi River and being located in a county having an assessed valuation in excess of Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000.00) but less than Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00) and having a total population in excess of thirty-seven thousand five hundred (37,500), according to the latest federal census;\n\n(f) Any municipality, operating under special charter, and in which there is located a state-supported college for women;\n\n(g) Any municipality having a population of more than ten thousand (10,000) according to the federal census of 1970, which is located within a Class 1 county in which U.S. Highway 51 and U.S. Highway 98 intersect and bounded on the south by the State of Louisiana; and\n\n(h) Any municipality, bordering on the Escatawpa River, having an aldermanic commission form of government and having a population of not less than seventeen thousand eight hundred thirty-seven (17,837) according to the 1990 federal census.","path":["MS Code","Title 21"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:17Z","sha256":"af4058485564ff24d5df2631569df6a7a4b470fd4b98f7a1e6c384c69f920762","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-21-29-9","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-21-31-11"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}