General and special laws and statutes to be construed as applicable to council.

Miss. Code Ann. § 21-9-83
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Wherever, in any general or special law or statute, any power is conferred or duty enjoined or penalty imposed upon any officer, commission, board, or other body, acting for a city, such law or statute shall be held to confer such power and to enjoin such duty and impose such penalty upon the council, and the members thereof, in cities operating under a council-manager form of government. Whenever in this chapter or in any statute of this state, the word “franchise” is used it shall, when applied to cities operating under council-manager form of government, include every special privilege in the streets, highways, and public places of the city, whether granted by the state or the city, which does not belong to the citizens generally by common right.

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