§ Miss. Code § 23-15-313(untitled)

Selection of temporary executive committee in municipality not having party
executive committee; notice to public; county executive committee to serve as municipal
executive committee under certain circumstances; person convicted of felony barred from
serving as member of municipal executive committee.
(1) If there be any political party, or parties, in any municipality which shall not have a party
executive committee for such municipality, such political party, or parties, shall within thirty
(30) days of the date for which a candidate for a municipal office is required to qualify in that
municipality select qualified electors of that municipality and of that party's political faith to
serve on a temporary municipal executive committee until members of a municipal executive
committee are elected at the next regular election for executive committees. The temporary
municipal executive committee shall be selected in the following manner: The chairman of the
county executive committee of the party desiring to select a temporary municipal executive
committee shall call, upon petition of five (5) or more members of that political faith, a mass
meeting of the qualified electors of their political faith who reside in such municipality to meet at
some convenient place within such municipality, at a time to be designated in the call, and at
such mass convention the members of that political faith shall select a temporary municipal
executive committee which shall serve until members of a municipal executive committee are
elected at the next regular election for executive committees. The public shall be given notice of
such mass meeting as provided in Section 23-15-315. The chairman of the county executive
committee shall authorize the call within five (5) calendar days of receipt of the petition. If the
chairman of the county executive committee is either incapacitated, unavailable or nonresponsive
and does not authorize the mass call within five (5) calendar days of receipt of the petition, any
elected officer of the county executive committee may authorize the call within five (5) calendar
days. If no elected officer of the county executive committee acts to approve such petition after
an additional five (5) calendar days from the date, the chair of the county executive committee
not taking action as provided by this section, the petitioners shall be authorized to produce the
call themselves.
(2) If no municipal executive committee is selected or otherwise formed before an election,
the county executive committee may serve as the temporary municipal executive committee and
exercise all of the duties of the municipal executive committee for the municipal election. After
a county executive committee has fulfilled its duties as the temporary municipal executive
committee, as soon as practicable thereafter, the county executive committee shall select a
municipal executive committee no later than before the next municipal election.
(3) A person who has been convicted of a felony in a court of this state or any other state or a
court of the United States, shall be barred from serving as a member of a municipal executive
committee.