2016 Mississippi Code
Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order
Chapter 19 - Subversive Groups and Subversive Activities
§ 45-19-51. Powers of Secretary of State as to subversive groups

In those cases in which an unincorporated or incorporated organization or association having a chapter, branch, or unit in this state, has a national or state officer or director who either in the past, or at present, is, or has been, an officer, or director, of any organization, association, or group listed, or designated, as a subversive or communist-front group, or organization, by the United States Attorney General, or a congressional committee on un-American activities, the Secretary of State is authorized and empowered to request the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, or the general legislative investigating committee, or both, to investigate that organization, association, or group which has such a chapter, branch, or unit in this state. As used in Sections 45-19-51 through 45-19-65, the term "subversive group" shall mean any group or organization so listed or designated by the United States Attorney General or a congressional committee on un-American activities.

The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi or the general legislative investigating committee, or both, when requested by the Secretary of State, shall make said investigation, and for such purpose the general legislative investigating committee is hereby vested with all powers and authority granted to said committee by Sections 5-3-1 through 5-3-25, Mississippi Code of 1972.