Bill Text: MS HB400 | 2022 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Riding bailiffs; revise salary of.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-04-08 - Approved by Governor [HB400 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2022-HB400-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2022 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B; Appropriations
By: Representative Wright
House Bill 400
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 19-25-31, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE INCREASE OF THE SALARY OF RIDING BAILIFFS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 19-25-31, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
19-25-31. Each judge of a
circuit, chancery or county court, or a court of eminent domain may, in the
judge's discretion, by order entered on the minutes of the court, allow the
sheriff riding bailiffs to serve in the respective court of such judge, not to
exceed four (4) bailiffs. Any such person so employed shall be paid by the
county on allowances of the court on issuance of a warrant therefor in an
amount * * * between
Fifty-five Dollars ($55.00) and One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each
day, or part thereof, for which he or she serves as bailiff when the
court is in session. No full-time deputy sheriff shall be paid as a riding
bailiff of any court. County court judges shall be limited to one (1) bailiff
per each court day.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2022.
