An officer shall not enter into any contract on behalf of the state, or of any county, city, town, or village thereof, without being specially authorized thereto by law or by an order of the board of supervisors or municipal authorities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 25-1-43
Officer not to make contract without authority
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Community Extended Care Centers, Inc. v. Board of Supervisors (1999)
Most recently applied in Community Extended Care Centers, Inc. v. Board of Supervisors (July 1999)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 33, art 23; 1857, ch. 6, art 195; 1871, § 318; 1880, § 416; 1892, § 3066; 1906, § 3474; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2812; 1930, § 2902; 1942, § 4048.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.