{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-21-35-27","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 21-35-27","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 21-35-27","body":"No board of governing authorities of any municipality shall expend from, or contract an obligation, against the budget made and published by it during the last year of the term of office of such governing authorities, between the first day of April and the first day of the following July that is not on a weekend, a sum exceeding one-fourth ( 1 / 4 ) of any item of the budget made and published by it, except in cases of emergency provided for in Section 21-35-19 . The city clerk of any municipality is hereby prohibited from issuing any warrant contrary to the provisions of this section.\n\nThe provisions of this section shall not apply to a contract, lease or lease-purchase contract entered into pursuant to Section 31-7-13 or to seasonal purchases or expenditures.","path":["MS Code","Title 21"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T20:49:39Z","sha256":"18c3f5d2ed1b3aa12fa9725315c70800a6f52f4cd1dc663657896314879b62ba","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-21-35-25","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-21-35-29","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}