Mississippi Constitution

Article 14, § 260 — Formation of new county; changing judicial districts

Mississippi Const. art. 14, § 260

This text of Mississippi Const. art. 14, § 260 (Formation of new county; changing judicial districts) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Mississippi primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Miss. Const. art. 14, § 260.

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No new county shall be formed unless a majority of the qualified electors voting in each part of the county or counties proposed to be dismembered and embraced in the new county, shall separately vote therefor; nor shall the boundary of any judicial district in a county be changed, unless, at an election held for that purpose, two-thirds of those voting assent thereto. The elections provided for in this and the section next preceding shall not be held in any county oftener than once in four years. No new county shall contain less than four hundred square miles; nor shall any existing county be reduced below that size.

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History

SOURCES: 1817 art VI § 19; 1832 art VII § 17; 1869 art IV § 37.

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