MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 21-23-1. Municipal courts established.

There shall be a municipal court in all municipalities of this state. Wherever the words "police court" or "police justice" appear in the laws of this state, they shall mean municipal court or municipal judge, respectively.

SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 3001; 1906, Secs. 3398, 3399; Hemingway's 1917, Secs. 5926-5929; 1930, Secs. 2535-2537; 1942, Sec. 3374-103; Laws, 1910, ch. 169; 1950, ch. 491, Sec. 103; 1958, ch 517, Secs. 1, 2; 1960, ch. 424; 1979, ch. 401, Sec. 1, eff from and after July 1, 1979.


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