Section 5-1-3 - Apportionment of senatorsThe number of Senators shall be fifty-two (52) and shall be elected from fifty-two (52) districts adopted as provided in Section 254 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890.
Codes, 1930, § 5330; 1942 §§ 3327, 3327.1; Laws, 1963, 1st Ex Sess. ch. 34, § 1; Laws, 1966 Ex Sess, ch. 41, § 1; Laws, 1971, ch. 394 § 2; Laws, 1973, ch. 305, § 1; Laws, 1973, ch. 457, § 1; Laws, 1975, ch. 484, § 1; Laws, 1977 2d Ex Sess, ch. 26, § 1; Laws, 1978, ch. 535, § 1; Laws, 1982, ch. 305, § 1; Laws, 2002, ch. 568, § 2, eff. 7/29/2002 (the date the U.S. Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the amendment of this section).