Whenever the corporate limits of any municipality shall be enlarged or contracted, as herein provided, the chancery clerk shall, after the expiration of ten days from the date of such decree if no appeal be taken therefrom, forward to the secretary of state a certified copy of such decree, which shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state and shall remain a permanent record thereof. In the event an appeal be taken from such decree and such decree is affirmed, then the certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the secretary of state within ten days after receipt of the mandate from the supreme court notifying the clerk of such affirmance.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 1 - Classification, Creation, Abolition, and Expansion
Extension or Contraction of Corporate Boundaries
§ 21-1-27. Passing of ordinance
§ 21-1-29. Preparing and filing of petition
§ 21-1-31. Publication of notice of proposed enlargement or contraction
§ 21-1-39. Copy of decree sent to secretary of state
§ 21-1-41. Chancery clerk to be furnished map or plat of alterations