77-1-35 - Administration of oaths; taking of affidavits; examination of witnesses; perjury [Repealed effective December 31, 2011]. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 77-1-35. Administration of oaths; taking of affidavits; examination of witnesses; perjury [Repealed effective December 31, 2011].
 

The several members of the commission and the secretary may, in the discharge of their duties, administer oaths and take affidavits. The commission and each member thereof may examine witnesses under oath in all matters coming before them. If any person shall testify falsely, or make any false affidavit or oath before the commission, or before any of the commissioners, or before any officer, to any matter coming before the commission, he shall be guilty of perjury, and, upon conviction, shall be punished according to law. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1892, § 4279; 1906, § 4831; Hemingway's 1917, § 7616; 1930, § 7035; 1942, § 7812; reenacted without change, Laws,  1982, ch. 389, § 18; reenacted, Laws, 1990, ch. 530, § 16; reenacted without change, Laws,  1993, ch. 616, § 14; reenacted without change, Laws, 1996, ch. 526, § 15; reenacted without change, Laws, 1998, ch. 303, § 15; reenacted without change, Laws, 2002, ch. 452, § 15; reenacted without change, Laws, 2006, ch. 386, § 15; reenacted without change, Laws, 2008, ch. 406, § 15, eff Dec. 11, 2008 (the later of July 1, 2008, or the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the reenactment of this section.)