Chrisman v. City of Jackson

Citations

• 84 Miss. 787

Syllabus

<p>1. Municipalities. Legislative ordinance. Self-executing. Laws 1860, I>. 304, ch. 261, sec. 4.</p> <p>Where by act of the legislature (Laws 1860, p. 304) it is provided that “all offenses against the criminal laws of this state occurring in the limits of a designated city, not amounting to a felony, shall he deemed violations of the ordinances of the city and punishable as such, it is unnecessary to the prosecution of a party charged thereunder that the city should have enacted an ordinance covering the case, since the legislative act is independent of the city’s action.</p> <p>2. Same. Codification of ordinances. Code 1892, \\ 3010.</p> <p>Proof of a compilation of the existing ordinances of a city and their codification, under Code 1892, § 3010, authorizing such codification, after the adoption by the city of the code chapter on municipality (Code 1892, chap. 93), is evidence that an ordinance therein contained is duly in force.</p> <p>3. Same. Coming under code. Ordinances.</p> <p>When a city, town, or village comes under the code chapter on municipalities (Code 1892, chap. 93), it is not required to republish its ordinances.</p>