As Amended
SEC. 9-5-1. Chancellors; election, holding of court terms, terms of office, and residency.
[Until Laws, 2002, ch. 356, § 1, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, provided that Laws, 2002, ch. 713 is ratified by the electorate, this section will read as follows:]
A chancellor shall be elected for and from each of the chancery court districts as provided in this chapter and the listing of individual precincts shall be those precincts as they existed on October 1, 1990. He shall hold court in any other district with the consent of the chancellor thereof when in their opinion the public interest may be thereby promoted. The terms of all chancellors elected at the regular election for the year 1930 shall begin on the first day of January, 1931, and their terms of office shall continue for four (4) years. A chancellor shall be a resident of the district in which he serves but shall not be required to be a resident of a subdistrict if the district is divided into subdistricts.
[From and after the date Laws, 2002, ch. 356, § 1, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, provided that Laws, 2002, ch. 713 is ratified by the electorate, this section will read as follows:]
A chancellor shall be elected for and from each of the chancery court districts as provided in this chapter and the listing of individual precincts shall be those precincts as they existed on October 1, 1990. He shall hold court in any other district with the consent of the chancellor thereof when in their opinion the public interest may be thereby promoted. The terms of all chancellors elected at the regular election for the year 1930 shall begin on the first day of January, 1931, and their terms of office shall continue for four (4) years; provided, however, that the terms of all chancellors elected at the regular election in November 2002 shall begin on the first day of January 2003, and their terms of office shall continue for six (6) years. A chancellor shall be a resident of the district in which he serves but shall not be required to be a resident of a subdistrict if the district is divided into subdistricts.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 62, art. 1; 1871, Sec. 978; 1880, Secs. 1803, 1804; 1892, Secs. 456, 458; 1906, Sec. 505; Hemingways's 1917, Sec. 261; 1930, Sec. 319; 1942 Sec. 1227; Laws, 1930, ch. 113. Laws, 1994, ch 564, Sec. 1; Laws, 2002, ch. 356, § 1, SB 2606, eff __ (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the amendment of this section.)
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