Mississippi Code
Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes
§ 1-3-76. Procedures for contesting disqualification of signatures on petition requesting vote on matter affecting county or municipality

When any petition is filed by qualified electors of a county or municipality requesting a vote on matters affecting all or any portion of a county or municipality, the certifying official shall post a list of all names disqualified from the petition and the reason for disqualification at the courthouse or city hall, as the case may be. A person whose signature has been disqualified by the certifying official may, within ten (10) days after said notice has been posted, appear before such certifying official and present evidence of his qualification accompanied by a notarized affidavit stating the reason that his signature is qualified for the petition. Based upon such information, the certifying official shall reconsider his disqualification and may allow the signature to be counted if such action appears justified.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 1 - Laws and Statutes

Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes

§ 1-3-1. Application of chapter

§ 1-3-3. Bond

§ 1-3-4. Capital case, capital offense, capital crime, and capital murder

§ 1-3-5. Crime

§ 1-3-7. Drugs

§ 1-3-9. Established

§ 1-3-11. Felony

§ 1-3-13. Fertilizers

§ 1-3-15. Food

§ 1-3-17. Gender, masculine to embrace the feminine

§ 1-3-19. Infamous crime

§ 1-3-21. Infant

§ 1-3-23. Insurrection

§ 1-3-24. Intellectual disability

§ 1-3-25. Land

§ 1-3-26. Minimum education program, minimum program, minimum foundation program

§ 1-3-27. Minor

§ 1-3-29. Month

§ 1-3-31. Navigable waters

§ 1-3-33. Number, singular and plural

§ 1-3-35. Oath

§ 1-3-37. Offense

§ 1-3-39. Person

§ 1-3-41. Personal property

§ 1-3-43. Promissory note

§ 1-3-45. Property

§ 1-3-47. Railroad

§ 1-3-49. State

§ 1-3-51. Stationery

§ 1-3-53. Sworn

§ 1-3-55. United States

§ 1-3-57. Unsound mind

§ 1-3-58. Ward

§ 1-3-59. Will

§ 1-3-61. Written

§ 1-3-63. Year

§ 1-3-65. Construction of terms generally

§ 1-3-67. How time computed when a number of days is prescribed

§ 1-3-69. When a number of weeks is prescribed

§ 1-3-71. Civil law to control computation of relationship unless otherwise provided

§ 1-3-73. Civil law to apply in construing

§ 1-3-75. Petitions must be signed personally by petitioners

§ 1-3-76. Procedures for contesting disqualification of signatures on petition requesting vote on matter affecting county or municipality

§ 1-3-77. General severability provision