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Miss. Code Ann. § 5-3-123

Preparation of plan to redistrict congressional districts

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 866 So. 2d 429 - Mauldin v. Branch (2003)

Most recently applied in Smith v. Hosemann (December 2011)

Laws, 1981, ch. 302, § 1 subd (2), eff from and after passage (approved January 30, 1981

The members of the committee shall draw a plan to redistrict, according to constitutional standards, the United States congressional districts for the state of Mississippi no later than thirty (30) days preceding the convening of the next regular session of the legislature after the results of the 1980 decennial census are published and every ten (10) years thereafter.

Provided, however, the committee shall not be required to present a plan to the governor and to the legislature prior to four (4) months after the publication of census data.

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.