DEPARTMENTS:

Forrest County Chancery Clerk

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Receiving and processing claims made against the county, which necessarily includes maintaining the county’s Docket of Claims
• Assisting the board in equalizing the assessment rolls of the real and personal property
• Compiling various reports on the board’s behalf and submitting them to other state governmental entities as required
• Receiving and processing all applications made for homestead exemption and reporting there onto the State Tax Commission
• Assisting the board in preparing the annual county budget (not required, but routinely done as a courtesy to the board)
• Submitting a monthly report of all county funds to the board

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Attending and maintaining the minuets of chancery court
• Creating and maintaining files for each chancery suit
• Issuing process for service upon defendants
• Recording the court’s activities in various docket and minuet books
• Maintaining dockets
• Processing all phases of civil commitments
• Receiving and accounting for various filing fees required to accompany pleadings and appeals
• Attending each session of the Chancery Court
• Transmitting statistical data to the Mississippi Supreme Court, AOC\
• Processing the court’s record(s) for appellate review

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Creating and maintaining various indexes for documents filed in the public land records (i.e., sectional index, direct/reverse index, ect…)
• Collects Delinquent Real Property Taxes
• Creating and maintaining volumes which contain copies of all documents filed and indexed in the public land records (i.e., deed books, deed of trust books, or some combination thereof, etc…)
• Receiving and accounting for various filing fees required to accompany documents left for recording
• Maintaining all records of property sold for taxes by the county tax collector each year and accepting and processing payment in redemption of those taxes.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Keeping accounts with each county office
• Keeping ledger accounts of all receipts and disbursements of county funds
• Keeping financial records for all county officers responsible for receiving or collecting money for the county, including a detailed account for debits warrants and properly documenting funds paid to the county