Mississippi Code Title 27. Taxation and Finance § 27-17-475. Printing of license blanks

It shall be the duty of the county auditor or of the governing body of a municipality to prepare and have printed and distributed to the officer collecting the tax the proper privilege tax license blanks necessary to carry into effect any law relating to privilege taxes, and there shall be printed on each license at the bottom thereof the words “this license shall not make lawful any act or thing declared to be unlawful by the State of Mississippi.”  All such privilege license blanks shall be printed in the form prescribed by the county auditor or in the case of a municipality by the governing body of a municipality and shall be imprinted with the fiscal year for which the blanks are to be issued and shall be numbered consecutively beginning with number one (1) of each fiscal year and shall be made in duplicate, the original and duplicate to bear the same serial number and be alike in all respects except that they be marked “original” and “duplicate” and shall be of different colors.