Each school district shall be governed by a school board consisting of five (5) members, selected in the manner provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 37-6-7
School board as governing body
Known as the Mississippi Uniform School Law
The act spans §§ 37–37 (8 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Shipman v. North Panola Consolidated School District (1994)
Most recently applied in Smith Ex Rel. Smith v. Leake County School District (July 2016)
Laws, 1986, ch. 492, § 4, 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.