A person shall not be a member of the board of supervisors who is not a resident freeholder in the district for which he is chosen, and the owner of real estate of the value of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 19-3-3
Eligibility of supervisors
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Kirksey v. Board of Supervisors (1977)
Most recently applied in Young v. Stevens (June 2007)
Codes, 1892, § 273; 1906, § 292; Hemingway’s 1917, § 3664; 1930, § 196; 1942, § 2871; Laws, 1968, ch. 282, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved June 10, 1968
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