When a vacancy shall occur in an elective office for which a special election is required to be called to fill, the entity with whom candidates for the office are required to qualify shall notify the Secretary of State of the vacancy within five (5) days after it receives knowledge of the vacancy.
Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-832
Notice to Secretary of State of vacancy in office for which special election is required to be called to fill
Known as the Mississippi Election Code
The act spans §§ 23-15-1 to 23-15-997 (378 sections).
Laws, 2008, ch. 528, § 2, eff August 7, 2008 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the additi…
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