The term of office of all officers elected at such election for any district office, in a district composed of more than one county, or any county office, or any office of a subdivision of a county shall commence on the first Monday of January next succeeding the election.
Miss. Code Ann. § 25-1-5
Date terms begin for district, county, and beat officers
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Barrett v. State (1995)
Most recently applied in Barrett v. State (December 1995)
Codes, 1880, § 396; 1892, § 3051; 1906, § 3458; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2796; 1930, § 2883; 1942, § 4028.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.