MISSISSIPPI ETHICS COMMISSION
ADVISORY OPINIONS
COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
95-028-E     A district attorney may contract with a municipality within his judicial district for the district attorney's office to serve as municipal prosecuting attorney. [1, 6, 7,12]
95-156-E     1. An attorney serving as county prosecuting attorney and/or attorney for the board of supervisors may simultaneously serve as a municipal board attorney.
2. An attorney serving as county prosecuting attorney may simultaneously serve as a attorney for the county board of supervisors. [1, 5, 7, 11, 12]
93-028-E     An attorney who is retained council for a County School Board and also the County Prosecuting Attorney may serve as mayor of a city within the same county.
92-081-E     The spouse of a county prosecuting attorney may be appointed by a county court judge to be a director of a federally funded program.
91-044-E     1. A city councilman who is a teacher with the city's school system should not vote to confirm an appointment to the city school board. Reference 86-16-E.
2. A city councilman whose wife is a teacher with the city's school system should not vote to confirm an appointment (or related issue) to the city school board. Reference 86-16-E.
3. A city councilman may simultaneously serve as a probation and parole officer. Caution: 25-4-105(1).
4. A city councilman may serve in that position when her husband is a county prosecuting attorney sharing office space with the city prosecuting attorney.
5. A city judge, appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the council, may not represent council members as to their actions involving their service on the council. Violation: 25-4-105(3)(a)
90-093-E     An elected county prosecuting attorney may represent a county board of supervisors as relates to a local bond issue.
90-116-E     A county attorney may not rent office space or sell property to the county which he serves. Violation: 25-4-105(3)(a).

90-135-E     A county prosecuting attorney may represent in his private practice a corporation and/or two principals of the corporation in a civil action, one allegation of which of that a criminal stature has been violated, concerning which the county prosecuting attorney has recused himself.

89-123-E     A part-time county prosecuting attorney may simultaneously serve as a part-time criminal appeals prosecuting attorney for a municipal court in a municipality located within the county.
88-74-E     An alderman who, prior to his election, was involved in litigation with the city, may be awarded attorney fees, provided that any fees paid to the attorney/alderman are ordered by the court. Caution: 25-4-101; 25-4-105(4).
88-107-E     1. The spouse of a city attorney may serve as a municipal judge for the same city.
2. The municipal judge may rent office space to a city prosecutor who practices before the judge.
Cautions on 1 and 2: Use of office for personal benefit; Section 25-4-101, et. seq.
88-138-E     An attorney may simultaneously serve a both a city and the board of trustees of the city's municipal separate school district. Cautions: recusal; 25-4-105(1) and (4).
88-157-E     A consolidated school district board may use as a depository a bank of which the board attorney is a member of the board of directors. Based upon the fact that the county school district has total control over the placement of funds in the depository, even though the funds are designated for the consolidated school district's use.
88-168-E     A Legislator may not participate in a program funded by federal monies awarded through the Governor's Office of Federal and State Programs. Violation: Section 109. Reference: 88-03-E.
87-105-E     The law partner of a county attorney may serve as city judge for a city located within the county, as long as the county attorney does not appear as prosecutor in the city court.