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Section
45-1-1

Repealed

Section
45-1-2

Executive Director of Department of Public Safety to be commissioner; organization of department; Commissioner of Public Safety; statewide safety training officer; Mississippi Analysis and Information Center (MSAIC Fusion Center) established within Office of Homeland Security

Section
45-1-3

Rule-making power of commissioner

Section
45-1-5

Employment of administrative, clerical and other employees

Section
45-1-6

Special contract agents authorized; powers; qualifications; form of contract; agents not considered employees of Mississippi Bureau of Investigation

Section
45-1-7

Legislators ineligible to serve

Section
45-1-9

Repealed

Section
45-1-11

Salaries may be paid on semi-monthly basis

Section
45-1-12

Salaries of certain officers of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics

Section
45-1-13

Use of employees in other divisions

Section
45-1-15

Purchase of workers' compensation insurance

Section
45-1-17

Crime detection and medical examiner laboratory

Section
45-1-19

Repealed

Section
45-1-21

Department of Public Safety authorized to charge fees for services and reports

Section
45-1-23

Payment of expenses of operating and administering department; budget; disposition of funds received

Section
45-1-25

Director of Mississippi Forensics Laboratory; qualifications; removal

Section
45-1-27

Director of Crime Laboratory; responsibilities and duties

Section
45-1-29

Mississippi Forensics Laboratory; funding; fees for services

Section
45-1-31

Mississippi Forensics Laboratory; vehicles and equipment

Section
45-1-33

Transfer of Office of Criminal Justice Planning and Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee

Section
45-1-35

Department of Public Safety to provide state highway accident statistics to Department of Transportation

Section
45-1-37

Commissioner authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with bordering states for purpose of entering such state to make arrest; commissioner to require Department of Public Safety to enter into Memorandum of Understanding with county registrars for purpose of providing Mississippi Voter Identification Card

Section
45-1-39

Repealed

Section
45-1-41

Disposition of seized property after notice to any known owner or lienholder

Section
45-1-43

Emergency response and vehicular pursuit policies; state, county and local mandate; training procedures; sanctions for failure to adopt

Section
45-1-45

Implementation of Internet-based data and information sharing network for exchange and viewing of certain felony and misdemeanor information; Information Exchange Network Fund created

Section
45-1-47

Department of Public Safety authorized to sell and replace as needed its fleet of aircraft; use of proceeds

Section
45-1-49

Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop K command center in Biloxi, Mississippi, renamed "Commissioner George Landon Phillips District Office."