MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Corrections

By: Senator(s) Huggins

AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION 47-5-731, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, WHICH REPEALS THE PRISON OVERCROWDING EMERGENCY POWERS ACT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 47-5-731, Mississippi Code of 1972, which repeals Sections 47-5-701 through 47-5-729, the Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act, is repealed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.