Each school district in the state shall be a political subdivision with the name of the district being “_______________School District.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 37-6-5
School district as political subdivision; name
Known as the Mississippi Uniform School Law
The act spans §§ 37–37 (8 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Turrentine v. Brookhaven, Mississippi School District (1992)
Most recently applied in Rebecca Anderson v. Pascagoula School District (March 2017)
Laws, 1986, ch. 492, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 1987.
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.