Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 77 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS (§§ 77-1-1 — 77-NEW-NEW-004) › Chapter 5 - ELECTRIC POWER (§§ 77-5-1 — 77-5-911) › Article 3 - POWER DISTRICTS (§§ 77-5-101 — 77-5-173) › Section 77-5-131 - Government of districts; selection of directors

(1)
The government of each district shall be vested in a board of five (5) directors. There shall be a director for each subdistrict who shall be appointed by the chief executive or executives of the municipality or municipalities (or municipalities and counties if any unincorporated territory is included within said subdistrict) included within said subdistrict. For the purpose of this article the president of the board of supervisors shall be considered as the chief executive of the county.
(2)
Within ten (10) days after the creation and incorporation of such district shall have been completed the chief executives (if there be more than one) in each subdistrict shall meet for the selection of a director for said subdistrict, the time and place of such meeting to be designated by the chief executive of the county. If there be only one (1) chief executive in such subdistrict, he shall select the director thereof.
(3)
Where a municipality or unincorporated territory contains two subdistricts, the chief executive of such municipality or county shall select a director for each subdistrict, and shall file forthwith certified copies thereof as provided by subsection (4) of this section.
(4)
In the selection of a director, each chief executive (if there be more than one ) shall have one (1) vote for each one hundred (100) voters or major portion thereof within his municipality or unincorporated county territory, as the case may be, or such part thereof as is located in said subdistrict. A majority vote shall be necessary for the selection of a director. The result of said selection shall be certified to by the chairman of said meeting (or by the chief executive, if there be only one) and forthwith filed with the secretary of state and the clerk of each municipality and the clerk of the board of supervisors of each county any unincorporated part of which is included in said district. Such meeting may be adjourned from time to time.
(5)
The meeting of the chief executives for the selection of directors subsequent to the initial selection of directors shall be held within the district on the second Tuesday in April in even numbered years prior to the expiration of the term of any director. The secretary of the district shall designate the time and place of each such meeting. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, every selection of a director subsequent to the intitial selection of directors shall be made in the manner provided by this article for the initial selection of directors.
(6)
The secretary of the district, appointed pursuant to Section
77-5-143
, shall obtain, compile and file in his office, for the information of the public, thirty days prior to the date of the election of any director as provided herein, a statement showing the total number of qualified electors in each election unit included in the district. The county boards of election commissioners shall furnish such information so far as obtainable from their records, duly certified, to the secretary of the district upon his request therefor.
Codes, 1942, § 5443; Laws, 1936, ch. 187.