77-1-5 - Office, meetings and minutes of commission [Repealed effective December 31, 2011]. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 77-1-5. Office, meetings and minutes of commission [Repealed effective December 31, 2011].
 

The commission shall keep an office in the City of Jackson, which shall be kept open Monday through Friday of each week for eight (8) hours each day. The commission shall meet at its office on the first Tuesday of each month and at such other times and places as its duties may require. The commission may sit from day to day and from time to time, and any meeting may be pretermitted not exceeding two (2) in any year. 
 

The members of the commission shall devote their entire time to the performance of their official duties on every business day, except on the legal holidays enumerated in Section 3-3-7, Mississippi Code of 1972. However, official acts of the commission done on legal holidays shall be valid. 
 

The commission shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings, which shall be a public record, and all orders, findings and acts of the commission shall be entered on the minutes. 
 

Two (2) members of the commission shall be a quorum. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, §§ 7688, 7696; Laws,  1938, ch. 139; Laws, 1948, ch. 417, § 1; Laws, 1952, ch. 330, § 1; Laws, 1956, ch. 371, § 1; Laws, 1960, ch. 394, § 1; Laws, 1964, ch. 542, § 6; Laws, 1966, ch. 445, § 23; reenacted without change, Laws, 1982, ch. 389, § 3; reenacted, Laws, 1990, ch. 530, § 3; reenacted without change, Laws,  1993, ch. 616, § 3; reenacted without change, Laws, 1996, ch. 526, § 3; reenacted without change, Laws, 1998, ch. 303, § 3; reenacted without change, Laws, 2002, ch. 452, § 3; reenacted without change, Laws, 2006, ch. 386, § 3; reenacted without change, Laws, 2008, ch. 406, § 3, 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.)