MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2014 Regular Session

To: Apportionment and Elections

By: Representative Calhoun

House Bill 989

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-217, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT THAT AN ELECTION COMMISSIONER RESIGN ONE YEAR BEFORE QUALIFYING AS A CANDIDATE FOR ANOTHER OFFICE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 23-15-217, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     23-15-217.  (1)  A commissioner of election of any county may be a candidate for any other office at any election held or to be held during the four-year term for which he or she has been elected to the office of commissioner of election or with reference to which he or she has acted as such * * *; provided that he or she has resigned from the office of election commissioner before he or she qualifies for the office which he or she desires to seek.

     (2)  In any case involving the election of a county election commissioner wherein there is a contest of any nature, including, but not limited to, the right of any person to vote or the counting of any challenge ballot, all the duties and powers of the commission in connection with said contest shall be performed by the board of supervisors, as is contemplated by Section 23-15-215 in cases where there are no commissioners of election in the county.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2014.

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