It is the intent of the Legislature that no person seeking employment in state service, as defined in Section 25-9-107, Mississippi Code of 1972, or employed in state service, as defined in Section 25-9-107, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or handicap.
Miss. Code Ann. § 25-9-149
Discriminatory practices prohibited
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Mississippi Forestry Comm'n v. Piazza (1987)
Most recently applied in Ola C. Kirk v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety (May 2017)
Laws, 1984, ch. 488, § 333, eff from and after July 1, 1984.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.