{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-51-15-115","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 51-15-115","heading":"Election.","body":"Such election shall be held, as far as is practicable, in the same manner as other elections are held in counties. At such election, all qualified electors of such counties may vote and the ballots used at such election shall have printed thereon the words “FOR BEING INCLUDED IN THE PAT HARRISON WATERWAY DISTRICT” and “AGAINST BEING INCLUDED IN THE PAT HARRISON WATERWAY DISTRICT” and the voter shall vote by placing a cross (x) or check (Π) mark opposite his choice on the proposition. In any particular county, should a majority of the qualified electors voting in such election in said county vote in favor of the creation of the Pat Harrison Waterway District, then that county shall become a part of the waterway district. The chancery court of Forrest County or the chancellor thereof in vacation shall thereupon enter a final order including such county in the district. In any particular county, should a majority of the qualified electors voting in such election in such county vote against being included in the Pat Harrison Waterway District, then that county shall not become a part of the waterway district and the said decree shall be modified accordingly.","path":["Title 51. Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control","Chapter 15. Pat Harrison Waterway Commission and District","Article 3. Pat Harrison Waterway District."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.51.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2026-09-17; absent from the newer snapshot, which serves other sections of this chapter, so it may since have been repealed or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":"2026-10-27T05:53:13Z","sha256":"9cc96194b4ee978b255a14b63a07df24ac739651018a713f1e4774592961dca1","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-51-15-113","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-51-15-117","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."}