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Mississippi Code Title 21. Municipalities § 21-31-51

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) There is hereby created a civil service commission to administer a civil service system in every municipality described in subsection (2) of this section which has administrative and other employees employed on a monthly basis.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply to:

(a) Any municipality, operating under a commission form of government, and having a population of more than twenty-one thousand, according to the federal census of 1950; and

(b) Any municipality located in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District, and having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than twenty thousand, according to the federal census of 1950.

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