{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-23-15-957","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-957","heading":"Power to compel attendance of witnesses and production of documents.","body":"Each house of the Legislature, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Senate, or any committee appointed to investigate the facts concerning the election or qualifications of any member or persons claimed to be such, shall have power to issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of such documents or papers as may be required. In addition, the clerk or the secretary, as the case may be, shall have the authority to enforce any subpoena issued by him or her and to enforce compliance with the time limitations set forth in Section 23-15-955 or in any internal procedure or precedent of the respective house of the State Legislature.","path":["Title 23. Elections","Chapter 15. Mississippi Election Code","Article 29. Election Contests.","Subarticle C. Contests of Other Elections."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.23.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17; absent from the newer snapshot, which serves other sections of this chapter, so it may since have been repealed or amended","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:52:03Z","sha256":"96914b704837be5f33c0402e9f27cb9e9b788b6e500badfd8fea396066606e1f","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-23-15-955","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-23-15-961","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}