Any municipality, regardless of the form of government under which it is operating, may adopt the mayor-council form of government, as hereinafter provided, by the procedure hereinafter set forth.
Miss. Code Ann. § 21-8-1
Adoption of mayor-council form authorized
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Fairley v. Hattiesburg (2009)
Most recently applied in 122 F. Supp. 3d 553 - Fairley v. Hattiesburg (August 2015)
Laws, 1973, ch. 328, § 1; Laws, 1976, ch. 355, § 1, eff from and after August 23, 1976 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to this amendment
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