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Per Circuit Clerk Steve Womack, enough certified signatures have been received to place the liquor referendum on the November ballot. Fifteen hundred certified signatures were required.
The Board of Supervisors are required to approve the petition for the sale, distributing, and possession of alcohol liquors in the county before placement on the ballot.
If the board approves the petition in the required time element, the request for legalized liquor could appear on the November ballot .
MS Code 67-1-11(2) states: “Upon presentation and filing of a proper petition requesting same signed by at least twenty percent (20%) or fifteen hundred (1,500), whichever number is the lesser, of the qualified electors of the county, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to call an election at which there shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the county the question of whether or not the sale, distribution and possession of alcoholic liquors shall be permitted in the county.”
It also says, “Such election shall be held and conducted by the county election commissioners on a date fixed by the order of the board of supervisors, which date shall not be more than sixty (60) days from the date of the filing of said petition.”
