Mississippi Code
Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records
Chapter 5 - Removals From Office

§ 25-5-1. Removals from office - If any public officer, state, district, county or municipal, shall...

§ 25-5-3. Governor empowered to remove elective county officials - The Governor is hereby empowered, in accordance with the provisions...

§ 25-5-5. Causes for removal - The reasons or causes for removal from office shall be:...

§ 25-5-7. Demand for removal - Before the Governor shall consider the removal from a county...

§ 25-5-9. Form of petition - The removal petition shall be in substantially the following form:...

§ 25-5-11. Signing of petition - Such petitions may be circulated and signed in sections; that...

§ 25-5-13. Verification of petition - Each and every petition, or separately circulated section thereof, containing...

§ 25-5-15. Certification of county registrar - Before the submission of the petitions to the governor to...

§ 25-5-17. Contested status of signator determined by Governor - Such certificate by the county registrar shall be prima facie...

§ 25-5-19. Examination of petition by election commissioners - The county registrar shall not retain in his possession any...

§ 25-5-21. Notice of hearing - When said petitions shall have been filed with the Governor,...

§ 25-5-23. Removal council - At the time and place designated in said notice, the...

§ 25-5-25. Judgment of council - The council shall keep minutes of its final judgments, and...

§ 25-5-27. Resignation of officer - The officer named in the removal petition shall continue to...

§ 25-5-29. Conduct of election - The special removal election shall be conducted and the results...

§ 25-5-31. Form of the ballot - The ballot at said special removal election shall be in...

§ 25-5-33. Results of election - The election commissioners of the county, or a quorum thereof,...

§ 25-5-35. Appeals - A person desiring to contest the proclaimed results of a...