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Miss. Code Ann. § 25-31-1

Qualifications for office

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 860 So. 2d 1182 - Grist v. Farese (2003)

Most recently applied in 860 So. 2d 1182 - Grist v. Farese (September 2003)

Codes, 1942, § 3920.3; Laws, 1966, ch. 389, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved May 17, 1966); Laws, 2019, ch. 433, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 2019.

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(1) The district attorney shall possess all the qualifications of county officers and, in addition thereto, shall be a resident of the district in which he or she seeks election for five (5) years immediately preceding the day of the election, shall be a regular licensed and practicing attorney, and shall have been duly admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi for a period of two (2) years.

(2) The residency requirements specified under this section shall apply to elections held from and after January 1, 2020.

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.