21-8-31 - Election offenses. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 21-8-31. Election offenses.
 

Any municipal officer or employee, other than the mayor and councilmen of any such municipality, who shall, during hours of employment solicit or attempt to influence any person to vote for any particular candidate at any election held in such municipality shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or by imprisonment in the municipal jail not exceeding thirty (30) days, or both such fine and imprisonment. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1973, ch. 328, § 16; Laws, 1976, ch. 355, § 14, eff from and after August 23, 1976 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to this amendment).