MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 25-4-29. Filing dates for statements.

Required statements hereunder shall be filed as follows:

(a) Every incumbent public official required by items (a), (b), (d) and (e) of Section 25-4-25 to file a statement of economic interest shall file such statement with the commission on or before May 1 of each year that such official holds office, regardless of duration;

(b) Candidates for office required to file a statement hereunder shall file such statement within fifteen (15) days after the time that such person becomes a candidate for public office;

(c) Persons who are required to file a statement because of appointment to fill a vacancy in an office or required to file under Section 25-4-25 (d) and (e) shall file such statement within thirty (30) days of their appointment;

(d) No person by reason of successful candidacy or assuming additional offices shall be required to file more than one (1) statement of economic interest in any calendar year, except such official shall notify the commission as soon as practicable of additional offices not previously reported; and

(e) The commission may, on an individual case basis, provide for additional time to file a statement upon a showing that compliance with a filing date set out under item (a), (b), (c) or (d) above would work an unreasonable hardship.

SOURCES: Laws, 1979, ch. 508, Sec. 10; reenacted and amended, 1982, ch. 488, Sec. 16; reenacted, 1986, ch. 348, Sec. 16; reenacted, 1990, ch. 491, Sec. 16, eff from and after June 18, 1990 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to the reenactment of this section). Laws, 1995, ch. 360, Sec. 16, eff from and after August 25, 1995 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to the amendment of this section), and shall stand repealed from and after December 31, 1998.


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