2015 Mississippi Code
Title 25 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; PUBLIC RECORDS
Chapter 5 - REMOVALS FROM OFFICE
§ 25-5-9 - Form of petition

The removal petition shall be in substantially the following form:

REMOVAL PETITION

(WARNING.--It is a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for

any person to sign any removal petition with any name other than his own, or

knowingly to sign his name more than once to such petition, or knowingly to

sign such petition when he is not a qualified elector.)

Date:

TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

We, the undersigned qualified electors of County, State of

Mississippi, respectfully demand that , holding the office of in said

county, be removed from office by the governor for the following reasons, to

wit: (Setting out the reasons for removal in not more than two hundred words);

that a special election, after lawful notice, be called to permit the

qualified electors of said county to vote on the question of whether or not

the said officer shall be removed;

That we each for himself say that: I am a qualified elector of said county,

and my voting precinct is correctly written after my name, and that it was

stated to me prior to the signing of said petition that after signing the same

I would not be permitted to remove my name from said petition.

NAME VOTING PRECINCT

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