City of Jackson v. Shlomberg

Citations

• 70 Miss. 47

Syllabus

<p>1. Municipalities. Code 1892, chapter 98. Acceptance of code chapter.</p> <p>By § 3035, chapter 93, code 1892, declaring that after the chapter became operative, every municipality should be governed by its provisions, but that any municipality might, within twelve months, “ elect not to come under the provisions hereof,” power was given municipalities, affirmatively, to accept the provisions of the chapter and be governed thereby..</p> <p>2. Same. Effort to rescind acceptance ineffectual.</p> <p>Its corporate authorities having formally resolved to accept the provisions of the code chapter, the city of Jackson became bound thereby, and subsequent action of the authorities purporting to rescind the resolution of acceptance, though within the twelve months, was ineffectual.</p>