MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 23-15-241. Election bailiff to keep peace.

The manager designated an election bailiff shall, in addition to his other duties, be present during the election to keep the peace and to protect the voting place, and to prevent improper intrusion upon the voting place or interference with the election, and to arrest all persons creating any disturbance about the voting place, and to enable all qualified electors who have not voted, and who desire to vote, to have unobstructed access to the polls for the purpose of voting when others are not voting.

SOURCES: Derived from 1972 Code Sec. 23-5-105 [Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 7, art 5 (13); 1857, ch. 4, art 6; 1871, Sec. 365; 1880, Sec. 128; 1892, Sec. 3638; 1906, Sec. 4145; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 6779; 1930, Sec. 6217; 1942, Sec. 3246; Repealed by Laws, 1986, ch. 495, Sec. 335]; En, Laws, 1986, ch. 495, Sec. 69, eff from and after January 1, 1987.


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