MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 23-15-269. Penalty for violation of election law by election official.

Any election commissioner, or any other officer or person acting as such, or performing election duty, who shall willfully refuse or knowingly fail to perform any duty required of him by the election laws, or who shall violate any of the provisions thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten (10) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or both.

SOURCES: Derived from 1972 Code Sec. 23-5-161 [Codes, 1892, Sec. 3669; 1906, Sec. 4176; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 6810; 1930, Sec. 6246; 1942, Sec. 3275; Repealed by Laws, 1986, ch. 495, Sec. 335]; En, Laws, 1986, ch. 495, Sec. 83, eff from and after January 1, 1987.


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