Mississippi Statutes § 23-17-43 Time limit for resubmitting initiative rejected by voters
Statute Text
If any amendment to the Constitution proposed by initiative petition is rejected by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon, no initiative petition proposing the same, or substantially the same, amendment shall be submitted to the electors for at least two (2) years after the date of the election on such amendment.
Source
Laws, 1993, ch. 514, § 22, eff. 8/3/1993 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objections under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965).
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