The mayor and members of the board of aldermen shall be qualified electors of the municipality and, in addition, the aldermen elected from and by wards shall be residents of their respective wards.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-3-9
Qualifications of mayor and aldermen
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 947 F. Supp. 954 - McLaughlin v. City of Canton, Miss. (1995)
Most recently applied in 494 F. Supp. 2d 440 - United States v. Brown (June 2007)
Codes, 1892, §§ 2987, 2988; 1906, §§ 3385, 3386; Hemingway’s 1917, §§ 5913, 5914; 1930, §§ 2521, 2522; 1942, § 3374-42; Laws, 1950, ch. 491, § 42, eff from and after July 1, 1950.
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