Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 19-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-25
Status: in_force

The bonds issued under authority hereof shall mature not later than twenty-five (25) years from the date of their issuance; shall bear interest at such rate or rates, provided that the bonds of any issue shall not bear a greater overall maximum interest rate to maturity than that allowed in Section 75-17-101 , payable annually or semiannually, as the board of supervisors shall direct; shall be exempt from all taxes, and shall be payable in annual installments, the amount to be paid each year to be fixed by the board of supervisors when the bonds are issued. All such bonds, with interest coupons if any attached, shall be lithographed with suitable devices to prevent counterfeiting; shall be in denominations to be fixed by the board of supervisors; shall be registered by the clerk of the board of supervisors in a book to be kept for that purpose; shall be numbered as provided by the board of supervisors, and shall be signed by the president of the board and countersigned by the clerk, who shall impress the seal of the county upon each bond as it is issued. The coupons, if any, shall be lithographed with the facsimile signatures of the president and clerk of said board, and every such bond shall specify on its face the purpose for which it was authorized and the total amount authorized to be issued. Each bond shall be made payable to a person by name, or may be made payable to bearer without any name, such bonds to be entitled “Road bonds of ,” describing by name or number the territory created and organized into a road district. Such bonds shall not be sold for less than their face value; and the board of supervisors of each county shall levy annually a special tax upon all the taxable property of the district to be used exclusively in paying the interest on the bonds and providing a sinking fund for their redemption.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, bonds referred to hereinabove may be issued pursuant to the supplemental powers and authorizations conferred by the provisions of the Registered Bond Act, being Sections 31-21-1 through 31-21-7 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-25
Status: in_force

Said ferries may be maintained, purchased, and operated, or either, by the board of supervisors of each county which comes in under this chapter or by a ferry commission consisting of not more than three members, which ferry commission may be designated by the board of supervisors of each county. Such commission, if so designated, shall receive a salary of not to exceed four hundred ($400.00) dollars each per annum, to be paid out of the funds hereinabove designated as being set aside for ferry purposes.

Where said ferriage fund is being supplemented by funds as herein provided from any municipality or municipalities within said county, and said ferriage and other things pertaining thereto are to be supervised and operated by a ferry commission, then said commission shall be composed of the president of the board of supervisors of said county, the mayor or mayors of any such municipality or municipalities that may contribute to said fund as herein provided, and one other person to be chosen by the governor and who shall serve during the tenure of such ferry operation, shall act as chairman of said commission, and shall be the only member of said commission to receive compensation, such compensation to be paid out of funds hereinabove designated and set aside for ferry purposes and shall be fixed at $1,200.00 per annum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-9
Status: in_force

In addition to the bonds authorized under Section 65-33-7 , said board shall have the authority, and it is hereby authorized, to issue and sell callable mortgage and revenue bonds in an amount not exceeding four million dollars ($4,000,000.00) to provide additional funds, if found by the board to be necessary for the purposes of Sections 65-33-1 to 65-33-15 , which mortgage and revenue bonds shall be secured by a mortgage indenture on any land acquired by the board under the authority of said sections and, in the discretion of the board, by tolls to be fixed and collected by the board for the use of any such bridge or bridges, causeway or causeways, or other structure, and by any other revenue derived from any source under said sections.

Such bonds shall be in the denomination of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) each, all shall mature within twenty-five years from the date of issuance, with such dates of maturity not to exceed twenty-five years as may be fixed in the resolution authorizing their issuance, shall bear interest not to exceed six per cent (6%) per annum to accrue and be payable semiannually, and shall be executed and sold in the manner authorized for the execution and sale of bonds, as provided in Section 65-33-7 .

To secure the payment of such mortgage and revenue bonds and to fix the rights of the holders thereof, said board may execute a trust indenture constituting a mortgage lien upon any of the lands acquired under the provisions of Sections 65-33-1 to 65-33-15 , and which indenture may, in the discretion of the board, pledge and assign any revenues and tolls which the board may fix and collect for the use of any bridge or bridges, causeway or causeways, or other structure financed under the provisions of said sections. Said indenture shall contain such provisions and conditions as the board may find necessary or proper, shall include provisions for insurance of such bridges or causeways against such hazards as the board may deem proper and necessary, and shall fix the terms and conditions for calling said mortgage and revenue bonds for prepayment before their maturities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 41-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-5
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Department of Transportation, upon approval of the Mississippi Transportation Commission, may administer a Mississippi Scenic Byways Program. Under the program, the department, with assistance from the Scenic Byways Advisory Committee created under Section 65-41-7 , shall develop, adopt and implement a scenic byways corridor management plan for the state. The plan shall be consistent with the provisions of this chapter and with guidelines established by federal law, and shall specify actions, procedures, controls, operational practices and administrative strategies necessary to govern the selection, nomination and declaration of scenic byways and to ensure that highways, roads, streets and corridors designated as scenic byways are properly managed and that their intrinsic qualities are maintained.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-51 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-51
Status: in_force

The board of trustees shall designate one or more banks within the county to serve as depositories for the funds of the authority, and all funds of the authority shall be deposited in such depository bank or banks.

Before designating a depository bank or banks, the trustees shall issue a notice stating the time and place the trustees will meet for such purpose and inviting the banks in the area to submit applications to be designated depositories. The term of service for depositories shall be prescribed by the trustees. Such notice shall be published one time in a newspaper or newspapers published in the area and specified by the trustees.

At the time mentioned in the notice, the trustees shall consider the applications and the management and condition of the banks filing them, and shall designate as depositories the bank or banks which offer the most favorable terms and conditions for the handling of the funds of the authority and which the trustees find have proper management and are in condition to warrant handling of authority funds. Membership on the board of trustees of an officer or director of a bank shall not disqualify such bank from being designated as a depository.

If no applications acceptable to the trustees are received by the time stated in the notice, the trustees shall designate some bank or banks within or without the authority upon such terms and conditions as they may find advantageous to the authority.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.7
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Interstate Highway 110 north of the Interstate Highway 110 bridge within the municipal limits of the City of d'Iberville is hereby designated and henceforth shall be known as the “Lee C. Seymour, Sr., Memorial Highway.”

(2) The State Highway Department is hereby directed to erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.305 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.305
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.305
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 759 in Choctaw County, Mississippi, located in the City of Ackerman, is designated as the “James Plemon ‘J.P.’ Coleman Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 13-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-19
Status: in_force

If ten percent (10%) of the qualified electors residing in the supervisors district, or supervisors districts if the facility to be developed is located in more than one supervisors district, file a written petition with said boards of supervisors on or before the date specified aforesaid, protesting against the creation of the authority, the board shall call an election on the question of the creation of the authority. Such election shall be held and conducted by the election commissioners of the county as nearly as may be in accordance with the general laws governing elections. Such election commissioners shall determine which of the qualified electors of such county reside within said supervisors district, or districts, and only such qualified electors as reside within said supervisors district, or districts, shall be entitled to vote in such election. Notice of such election, setting forth the time, place or places, and purpose of such election shall be published by the clerk of the board of supervisors; and such notice shall be published for the time and manner provided for the publication of the aforesaid resolution of intention. The ballots to be prepared and used at said election shall be in substantially the following form:

For creation of the highway and street revenue bond authority․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․․․․․( )

Against creation of the highway and street revenue bond authority․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․․․․․( )

and voters shall vote by placing a cross mark (X) or a check mark (✓) opposite their choice.

If no petition requiring an election be filed or if a majority of those voting at an election hereunder votes in favor of the creation of the authority, the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution creating the authority as described in the aforesaid resolution of intention.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-53 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-53
Status: in_force

When the funds arising from the road district bonds shall have been expended in the construction of roads and the contracts for construction of roads have been completed, then the road engineers, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors, are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase teams, implements and material, employ labor, work said roads and build bridges, and may do all things necessary to be done to work, maintain and improve the roads and build bridges, as herein provided; but all contracts for material and supplies shall be made according to state law governing public purchases, as provided in Section 31-7-1 et seq. , and all labor shall be employed by and under the direction of said engineers, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors. If the road district be composed of only a part of a supervisors district and the principal of the bonds issued does not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), the road engineers, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors, are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to purchase and hire teams, implements and material and employ labor to build and work said roads and build bridges, and may do all things necessary to be done to construct, work, maintain and improve the roads and build bridges, as herein provided; but all contracts for material and supplies shall be made on and after competitive bids for the same, except as otherwise provided by law, and all labor shall be employed by and under the direction of said engineers, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors. The board of supervisors may use any teams and implements which it owns to assist on the roads of such district; and the like authority may be granted by the board for the maintenance of the roads, as to those not under construction, during the period when the roads or some of them are being constructed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-9
Status: in_force

In addition to the bonds authorized under Section 65-33-7 , said board shall have the authority, and it is hereby authorized, to issue and sell callable mortgage and revenue bonds in an amount not exceeding four million dollars ($4,000,000.00) to provide additional funds, if found by the board to be necessary for the purposes of Sections 65-33-1 to 65-33-15 , which mortgage and revenue bonds shall be secured by a mortgage indenture on any land acquired by the board under the authority of said sections and, in the discretion of the board, by tolls to be fixed and collected by the board for the use of any such bridge or bridges, causeway or causeways, or other structure, and by any other revenue derived from any source under said sections.

Such bonds shall be in the denomination of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) each, all shall mature within twenty-five years from the date of issuance, with such dates of maturity not to exceed twenty-five years as may be fixed in the resolution authorizing their issuance, shall bear interest not to exceed six per cent (6%) per annum to accrue and be payable semiannually, and shall be executed and sold in the manner authorized for the execution and sale of bonds, as provided in Section 65-33-7 .

To secure the payment of such mortgage and revenue bonds and to fix the rights of the holders thereof, said board may execute a trust indenture constituting a mortgage lien upon any of the lands acquired under the provisions of Sections 65-33-1 to 65-33-15 , and which indenture may, in the discretion of the board, pledge and assign any revenues and tolls which the board may fix and collect for the use of any bridge or bridges, causeway or causeways, or other structure financed under the provisions of said sections. Said indenture shall contain such provisions and conditions as the board may find necessary or proper, shall include provisions for insurance of such bridges or causeways against such hazards as the board may deem proper and necessary, and shall fix the terms and conditions for calling said mortgage and revenue bonds for prepayment before their maturities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-1
Status: in_force

An ad valorem tax of two mills on each dollar of the total assessed valuation of all the taxable property in each county or counties in the State of Mississippi in which there is located a city or town upon any river or waters, which rivers or waters separate two United States highways, which highways are separated by such water but are otherwise connected by the streets of a municipality in said county connecting said highways except for said water, is hereby levied on all said taxable property in said county in or for each year in which the principal of or interest on any bonds or other obligations issued by any municipality or county pursuant to this chapter becomes due. The receipts from said two-mill tax shall be withheld by the tax collector of said county, or by any other tax collecting agency authorized by law for the collection of said taxes, from receipts from state ad valorem taxes now in effect or which may be hereafter levied, so long as said state ad valorem shall be not less than the said two-mill tax herein levied. If no state ad valorem taxes equal to or greater than the said two-mill tax herein levied is levied, then, and in that event, the said two-mill tax herein levied shall continue to be levied and collected as herein provided in each such county or counties in or for each year in which the principal of or interest on any bonds or other obligations issued by any municipality pursuant to this chapter becomes due.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 29-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-13
Status: in_force

In connection with the issuance of bonds or other obligations by any municipality and county pursuant to this chapter, or in order to secure the payment of said bonds or other obligations, such county or municipality shall have power:

(a) To accept grants from the United States of America, the president of the United States, the federal emergency administration of public works, or such other agencies, instrumentalities, or corporations as may be designated or created to make grants or loans (hereinafter termed “federal agency”) pursuant to the National Industrial Recovery Act and any further act of the congress of the United States providing for the construction of useful public works (hereinafter termed “National Industrial Recovery Act”) for or in aid of work, development, or improvement authorized by this chapter.

(b) To make such contracts and execute such instruments containing such provisions, covenants, and conditions as, in the discretion of the authorities of any such municipalities or county, may be necessary, proper, or advisable for the purpose of obtaining or securing grants, loans, or other financial assistance from any federal agency pursuant to the National Industrial Recovery Act; to make such further, different, or additional contracts and execute all instruments necessary or convenient in or for the furtherance of any work, development, or improvement, including but not limited to all property, real and personal, appurtenant thereto or connected therewith and the existing work, development, or improvement, if any, to which the work, development, or improvement authorized by this chapter is an extension, addition, betterment, or embellishment (hereinafter termed “work, development, or improvement”); to carry out and perform the terms and conditions of any such contract or instrument.

(c) To pledge all or any part of the fees, rents, tolls, revenues, or other charges received or receivable by such municipality or county or ferry commission from any work, development, or improvement to which its right then exists or the right to which may thereafter come into existence.

(d) To covenant against the pledging of all or any part of the fees, rents, tolls, revenues, or other charges received or receivable by such municipality or county or ferry commission, if any, from any work, transportation development, or improvement to which its right then exists or the right to which may thereafter come into existence.

(e) To covenant against the encumbering of all or any part of any work, development, or improvement, or against permitting or suffering any lien thereon.

(f) To covenant as to what other or additional debt may be incurred by such municipality or county.

(g) To provide for the preparation, specifications, terms, form, registration, extension, execution, and authentication of any bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter.

(h) To provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter.

(i) To covenant as to the fees, rents, revenues, or tolls to be charged, the amount to be raised each year or other period of time, and as to the use and disbursement to be made thereof.

(j) To covenant to set aside or to pay over reserves and sinking funds and as to the disposal thereof.

(k) To redeem prior to maturity, with or without premium, bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter, to covenant for their prior redemption, and to provide the terms and conditions thereof.

(l) To covenant against extending the time for the payment of the interest on or principal of the bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter, directly or indirectly, by any means or in any manner.

(m) To covenant as to books of account of such municipality or county, as to the inspection and audit thereof, and as to the accounting method.

(n) To covenant as to the rights, liabilities, powers, and duties arising upon the breach by such municipality or county of any covenant, condition, or obligation assumed pursuant to this chapter.

(o) To make such covenants and do any and all such acts and things as may be necessary, convenient, or desirable in order to secure any bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter, or in the absolute discretion of the authorities of such municipality or county in order to make such bonds or other obligations more marketable, notwithstanding that such covenants, acts, or things may not be enumerated herein or expressly authorized herein; it being the intention hereby to give the authorities of any municipality or county issuing bonds or other obligations pursuant to this chapter the power to do all things in the issuance of said bonds or other obligations and for their execution that may not be inconsistent with the constitution of the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.66 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.66
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.66
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 15 / 25 in Winston County is designated and shall be known as “Veterans' Memorial Drive.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 19-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-29
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of such commissioners, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, to determine and fix what road or roads shall be constructed, or constructed and maintained, or maintained in the district out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds and the levy of taxes. It shall be their duty to let all contracts for the construction, or for the construction and maintenance, or for the maintenance of such roads in the manner provided by law for the letting of contracts for public work by the board of supervisors. It shall be their duty to employ a competent engineer to survey and lay out the road or roads in the district as they shall determine upon, whose duty it shall be to make an estimate of the cost of constructing and maintaining such highway or highways for each separate mile covered by such survey and to report the survey and estimate to said commissioners before contracts are let for the construction or for the construction and maintenance of such highway or highways. Said commissioners shall have the power to adopt or reject such survey and estimate and in the latter event to have another made. When adopted, it shall be their duty to report the same to the board of supervisors, whose duty it shall be to order the clerk of said board to file the same among the records of the office, spread the same on the minutes of the board, and make an order adopting such survey and estimate so reported and adopted by the commissioners. All of said acts of said commissioners shall be subject to ratification or rejection by the board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-207 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / Section 23-207
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-207
Status: in_force

The commissioners hereinabove provided shall receive the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) per day for each day, or major fraction thereof, in which they are called upon to attend the meetings of the board, together with necessary travel expenses not to exceed six cents (6¢) per mile for miles actually travelled while engaged in the business of their office.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-5-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 5-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-5-9
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, or village may acquire private or public property and property rights for controlled-access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view, and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation in the same manner as such units are now or hereafter may be authorized by law to acquire such property or property rights in connection with highways and streets within their respective jurisdictions. All property rights acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall be acquired in accordance with the provisions of Section 65-1-47 , and the estate acquired shall be specified in accordance with said section. In connection with acquisition of property or property rights for any controlled-access facility or portion thereof or service road in connection therewith, the state, county, city, town, or village highway authority may, in its discretion, acquire an entire lot, block, or tract of land if, by so doing, the interests of the public will be best served, even though said entire lot, block, or tract is not needed for the right of way proper.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 31-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-5
Status: in_force

Both the State Highway Commission and the agricultural and industrial board in exercising the powers granted in this chapter are hereby authorized to accept private donations and public grants which may be available to them, respectively, for the furtherance of the purposes of this chapter. In addition thereto, either or both of such agencies may expend, for the purposes of this chapter, any funds available to them not otherwise specifically designated for a different public purpose. Each of such agencies shall cooperate with other state agencies in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-201 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-201
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-201
Status: in_force

The boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State of Mississippi are authorized and empowered at their discretion to employ, as county engineer, a civil engineer or person qualified to perform the duties of a county engineer, and such assistant engineers as may be necessary. On all projects for the construction or reconstruction of a bridge which will cost more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or for the construction or reconstruction of roads which will cost more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per mile, the employment of an engineer qualified under the chapter on engineers shall be obligatory, whether the work is being done by the county or by a separate district, and whether the work is to be done by contract or otherwise; however, in obligatory cases the employment may be for the particular work, rather than for a term.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-9
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county shall have the right, upon the application of any member thereof or any overseer, road commissioner or the county road manager, to condemn any dead or dangerous trees or timber near any public road which endangers the safety of the public travel. On the failure or refusal of the owner to cut and remove such trees or timbers, the board may assess the value thereof and pay or tender the owner of such trees or timber the said assessed value thereof by warrant on the county treasury, and such trees or timber shall be cut, felled or removed by the proper authorities working or maintaining such road. The owner of such trees or timber shall have five (5) days' notice of such assessment and, if dissatisfied with such valuation, an appeal may be had to the circuit court as in other cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-201 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 17-201
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-201
Status: in_force

The boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State of Mississippi are authorized and empowered at their discretion to employ, as county engineer, a civil engineer or person qualified to perform the duties of a county engineer, and such assistant engineers as may be necessary. On all projects for the construction or reconstruction of a bridge which will cost more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or for the construction or reconstruction of roads which will cost more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per mile, the employment of an engineer qualified under the chapter on engineers shall be obligatory, whether the work is being done by the county or by a separate district, and whether the work is to be done by contract or otherwise; however, in obligatory cases the employment may be for the particular work, rather than for a term.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 11-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-29
Status: in_force

Any county may, by resolution of its board of supervisors, request that all or any portion of the moneys available for expenditure in such county from federal aid and state appropriated funds be expended on any state highway in such county which is on the approved system of secondary and feeder roads. In that event, the State Highway Commission may expend such money on such state highway in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944 [58 U. S. Stat. 838, ch. 626] and the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, notwithstanding any provision of Sections 65-11-1 to 65-11-37 to the contrary.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 21-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-1
Status: in_force

All bridges and culverts hereafter built, rebuilt, or placed in the traveled way of any public road in this state shall conform to the design standards in effect at the time of design and shall extend across the full width of the crown of the roadway. On roads having a design width greater than sixteen feet (16’), bridges shall be not less than sixteen feet (16’) wide. All bridges hereafter built or rebuilt shall be built with railings or barriers and appropriate hazard marking signs on either side. This section shall not apply to public highways in this state within the area of, or contingent to, any national forest or reforestation project, which have been or may be taken over, constructed, or reconstructed by a department of the national government, may have bridges or culverts the width of said highways, bridges and culverts be less than twelve feet (12’) wide.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 43-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-13
Status: in_force

(1) The State Bond Commission, at one time or from time to time, may declare by resolution the necessity for issuance of revenue bonds of the State of Mississippi for the purpose of providing funds to defray the expenses of projects authorized pursuant to Sections 65-43-1 and 65-43-3 . Upon the adoption of a resolution by the Mississippi Transportation Commission, declaring the necessity for the issuance of the revenue bonds authorized by this section, the Mississippi Transportation Commission shall deliver a certified copy of its resolution or resolutions to the State Bond Commission. Upon receipt of such resolution, the State Bond Commission, in its discretion, may act as the issuing agent, prescribe the form of the bonds, advertise for and accept bids, issue and sell, at public or private sale, the bonds so authorized to be sold and do any and all other things necessary and advisable in connection with the issuance and sale of such bonds. Revenue bonds issued under this section shall be in such principal amounts as the Mississippi Transportation Commission may determine to be necessary to provide sufficient funds to defray the expenses of projects authorized pursuant to Sections 65-43-1 and 65-43-3 .

(2) Any investment earnings on amounts deposited into the special fund created in Section 65-43-9 shall be used to pay debt service on bonds issued under Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 , in accordance with the proceedings authorizing issuance of such bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-81 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 19-81
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-81
Status: in_force

Where any public highway being constructed, improved, or maintained by any separate road district shall run or extend into or through any incorporated municipality within the said district, such highway may be constructed, improved, and maintained the same within as without the corporate limits of said municipality. With the consent of and in conjunction with the road commissioners, the said municipality may, out of its own funds, add such street crossings or make improvements, such as grading, culverts, graveling, paving, or other improvements, as it may desire; the mayor and board of aldermen shall, by an order spread upon their minutes, consent for the work to be done by the commissioners. This section shall not be construed as any limitation upon those sections of this title in reference to state highways.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 33-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-25
Status: in_force

The several boards of supervisors shall have the power and authority, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and repairing any such sea wall, sloping beach, or other protection, to purchase, maintain, and operate one or more dredges, together with all necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the operation thereof, to employ necessary engineers and laborers to operate the same, and to insure such sea wall, sloping beach, or other protection against loss by hurricanes, tide water, cyclone, tornado, and risks of all kinds; and the board may pay for the same out of any funds available collected and paid into the treasury by virtue of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-15 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 31-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-15
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Department of Transportation rest area located along U.S. Highway 49 in Pocahontas, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the “Capers, Blake, Scales Rest Area.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain suitable signs at and approaching the rest area, reflecting its name, and may place a plaque at such rest area.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-223 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 23-223
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-223
Status: in_force

All bonds issued by the board of commissioners shall be secured by liens on all lands, railroads, and tramroads in the district. The board of commissioners shall be required to levy a tax annually and to collect same under the provisions of this article so long as it is necessary and required to pay any bonds or obligations issued under the authority herein granted. The making of such levy of tax on the assessment of benefits and collection thereof may be enforced by proper proceedings in court.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-55 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 19-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-55
Status: in_force

When the funds raised in any separate road district by bond issue have been expended and the contracts for road construction have been completed under the methods of building roads authorized by law, it shall be lawful for the road commissioners of any such road district, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors, to turn over to the county in which such road district is situated the roads so constructed. It shall then become the duty of the board of supervisors of such county to maintain and keep up such roads in place and stead of and in the same manner as the road commissioners of such district, and manage in place of said commissioners all of the fiscal affairs of said road district. The funds of each district shall be kept separate and applied to the district in which it was collected.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-21
Status: in_force

The owner or keeper of any ferry established according to law, on any stream of water being the dividing line between two counties, shall have the right of landing on the opposite side of the stream in the other county and to unload any passengers, wagons, carriages and their loading, and stock of all kinds without any hindrance or molestation. Any person hindering or molesting such landing or unloading shall forfeit and pay to the owner or keeper of the ferry the sum of ten dollars for each offense.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-51 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 11-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-51
Status: in_force

All contracts for the construction of projects under the terms and provisions of Sections 65-11-39 through 65-11-59 shall be let and awarded by the board of supervisors in the manner and method now provided by law for the awarding of contracts for the improvement and construction of county roads and bridges. The cost and expense of the letting of such contracts shall be paid by the county, or from any funds provided for such purpose. In counties having sufficient equipment and labor, the boards of supervisors may build the roads and bridges in their respective districts or beats without the letting of contracts, and may pay for labor and material therefor out of any funds appropriated by the Legislature or otherwise made available to carry out the provisions of the aforesaid sections.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 26-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-13
Status: in_force

(1) A state special improvement ad valorem tax of one (1) mill on the dollar for the year 1976 and for each year thereafter until eliminated as provided in subsection (4) of this section is hereby levied by the State of Mississippi on all taxable property in the counties of Tishomingo, Prentiss, Itawamba, Monroe, Clay and Lowndes of the State of Mississippi.

(2) The tax levied by subsection (1) of this section shall be a supplemental special improvement tax levy and shall be in addition to any other state, county, municipal or other ad valorem tax being levied in any such county. The tax shall not be reimbursable under any provisions of the Homestead Exemption Law of this state.

(3) The proceeds of the tax levied by subsection (1) of this section shall be paid to the State Tax Commission which shall deposit the proceeds into the bridge bond retirement fund. The proceeds of the tax shall be used only to retire any bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or to reimburse the State of Mississippi for any advances or expenditures in excess of the state share.

(4) The state special improvement ad valorem tax levied pursuant to this section shall cease to be levied or collected for any fiscal year after the 1986 fiscal year.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-27 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 25-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-27
Status: in_force

Any holder of any bonds issued under the provisions of this article or of any of the coupons attached thereto, and the trustee under the trust indenture, if any, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by resolution passed before the issuance of the bonds or by the trust indenture, may either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceeding, protect and enforce any and all rights granted hereunder or under such resolution or trust indenture, and may enforce and compel performance of all duties required by this article, or by such resolution or trust indenture, to be performed by the municipality, its governing body, or by the state highway commission, or any officer thereof, including the fixing, charging, and collecting of tolls for transit over such bridges.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-307 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 23-307
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-307
Status: in_force

As used in this article, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:

(a) The word “bridge” shall be deemed to include the structure and the superstructure of the bridge, the approaches thereto, and adjacent roadways across the flood plain of the Pearl River and also all property, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient for the operation thereof.

(b) The term “governing body” shall mean the board of supervisors of a county or counties.

(c) The term “cost of bridge,” as applied to a bridge to be constructed pursuant to the provisions hereof, shall embrace the cost of construction, the cost of all land, property, rights, easements, and franchises acquired, which are deemed necessary for such construction, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and for eighteen months after acceptance of the completed work by the governing body of such county or counties, cost of traffic estimates and of engineering and of legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and of revenues, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of the enterprise, administrative expense, and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the financing herein authorized and the construction of the bridge and the placing of the bridge in operation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 25-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-1
Status: in_force

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the “Mississippi River Bridge Revenue Bond Law”.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 43-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-1
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Transportation Commission, county boards of supervisors and/or the governing authorities of municipalities (hereinafter referred to as governmental entities), in their discretion, may construct, operate and maintain, individually or jointly with other governmental entities, one or more new toll roads or toll bridges in the state for motor vehicle traffic, including toll booths and related facilities, at those locations where an alternate untolled route exists. All such highways, pavement, bridges, drainage-related structures and other infrastructure comprising the projects shall be built and maintained in accordance with not less than the minimum highway design, construction and maintenance standards established by the contracting governmental entity for such highways, infrastructure and facilities.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 4-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-17
Status: in_force

Any highways or highway segments authorized to be constructed or improved by the Mississippi Department of Transportation or political subdivision under the provisions of this chapter shall be constructed or improved to bear a load limit of at least eighty thousand (80,000) pounds.

For any project approved from and after April 12, 1993, if at the time the project is approved the highways or highway segments to be constructed or improved are a part of the designated state highway system, then maintenance on such highways or highway segments after completion of the project shall be performed by the Mississippi Department of Transportation and shall be constructed to Transportation Department standards. For any project approved from and after April 12, 1993, if at the time the project is approved the highways or highway segments to be constructed or improved are not part of the designated state highway system, the maintenance on such highways or highway segments after completion of the project shall be performed by the political subdivision and shall be constructed to Office of State Aid Road Construction standards.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-143.5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-143.5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-143.5
Status: in_force

(1) The following highway is designated as a state highway and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission; and such highway, together with the highways designated in Section 65-3-3 , and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:

Central District--Kemper County:

That portion of Old Highway 463 from Mississippi Highway 16 northerly to Mississippi Highway 397.

(2) The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall take over and assume responsibility for construction and maintenance of the segment of highway described under subsection (1) of this section whenever the commission certifies that such segment of highway has been brought up to commission standards and all utilities, signs, structures and other encroachments on such highway and right-of-way, are removed or relocated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 43-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-5
Status: in_force

The powers conferred by Sections 65-43-1 and 65-43-3 shall be in addition to the powers conferred by any other law, general, special or local. Sections 65-43-1 and 65-43-3 shall be construed as an additional and alternative method of funding all or any portion of the purchasing, building, improving, owning or operating of roadways, highways or bridges under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission, county boards of supervisors or municipal governing authorities, any provision of the laws of the state or any charter of any municipality to the contrary notwithstanding.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 15-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-9
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county in the state in which there are county road bonds, district road bonds, sea wall bonds, or road protection bonds outstanding, which were issued for the purpose of building bridges or constructing public roads or sea walls, may, in its discretion, in addition to all other lawful uses, use such county's share, or any part thereof, of the funds heretofore or hereafter derived from the tax on gasoline and the road and bridge privilege tax for the further purpose of paying interest and principal of such county road bonds or road district bonds heretofore issued for any of the said above stated purposes. However, nothing in this section shall in anywise affect Section 65-33-45, Mississippi Code of 1972 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-27 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 19-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-27
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors in case the election shall result in favor of the creation of the district, at its next regular meeting or any subsequent meeting, to appoint three commissioners, who shall be qualified electors of the district and real estate owners therein, who shall hold office for a term of four years from the time of their appointment and until their successors are appointed by the board of supervisors, whose duty it shall be to have the management and supervision of the construction and maintenance of the roads built under the provisions hereof, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, and for their services shall be paid their actual expenses, not exceeding one hundred dollars each per annum. The board of supervisors may remove any commissioner, for cause or at pleasure, at any time and fill the vacancy thereby caused; and the board may, at any time after the roads within a district have been constructed by the proceeds of bonds sold, discontinue the commissioners, proceed to administer the fiscal affairs of the road district in the manner authorized by law, and make tax levies without recommendation of the commissioners on all taxable property in such district or districts. The commissioners may employ an attorney, if necessary, and pay him a reasonable compensation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.6 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.6
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.6
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of U.S. Highway 49 from its intersection with Interstate 220 at Jackson, Mississippi, to the point where it divides into U.S. Highway 49 East and U.S. Highway 49 West in Yazoo County is hereby designated and henceforth shall be known as the “Owen Cooper Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby directed to erect appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 15-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-25
Status: in_force

In any county where tolls collected for the use of a bridge or bridges are allocated to the payment of the bonds issued for the construction of said bridge, interest, sinking fund, and the expense of operating and maintaining said bridge or bridges, if the tolls so collected are more than sufficient to meet the payment of said bonds as they severally mature, the interest thereon, the sinking fund, and the expenses of operating and maintaining said bridge or bridges, the board of supervisors may, in their discretion, transfer to the county road and bridge fund any excess of tolls collected over and above the amount necessary to pay the maturing bonds, interest, sinking fund, and expenses of maintaining and operating said bridge or bridges.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 19-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-11
Status: in_force

In like manner and under like conditions as mentioned in the preceding sections, (a) separate road districts heretofore or hereafter created may be consolidated into a single separate road district; (b) a separate road district may be created from parts of two or more districts heretofore or hereafter created, or from territory partly of such a district or districts and partly of territory not theretofore in any separate road district; and (c) suitable territory, whether within or without a separate road district, may be added to an adjoining separate road district. All the qualified electors residing in each of the component parts of the territory proposed to be consolidated or joined in or added, as well as of the proposed district when completed, shall have the right to be heard and to vote in any election held as a part of said procedure. If twenty-five percent (25%) of the qualified electors in any one of the component parts aforesaid of the proposed territory or a like percent of the entire territory so petition, the board shall order an election and, unless at said election the qualified electors of each of the said component parts counted separately and a majority of the entire proposed new district counted in the aggregate shall favor the proposal, it shall not be allowed and the proposal shall be ordered rejected.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.227 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.227
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.227
Status: in_force

(1) That section of U.S. Highway 82 in Washington County beginning at the corporate limits of the City of Greenville going southward to the new Highway 82 bridge crossing the Mississippi River is designated and shall be known as the “Roy B. Fulton Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching that section of highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-43 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 19-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-43
Status: in_force

The roads hereinbefore provided shall have been completed for a period of at least one month before the board of supervisors and the road commissioners shall finally accept the same and make final settlement therefor. Nor shall the board of supervisors allow any final payment to any contractor for the construction of any such road until an itemized statement shall be filed, showing in detail the amount that may be due for each separate mile, the number of yards hauled for each mile, and the amount of work completed for each mile.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 21-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-17
Status: in_force

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Section 65-21-15 , the board or boards of supervisors may, in the same manner as set forth in said section, declare it to be their intention to issue bonds not earlier than thirty days and publish the same, stating the amount of contemplated bond issue, in any legal newspaper in the county or counties involved as provided by law. If twenty per cent of the qualified electors petition the board or boards of supervisors for an election to determine said bond issue, the board or boards of supervisors shall order an election not later than thirty days from the date the petition was presented, and a majority of the qualified electors voting shall decide the bond issue. If one or more of the counties voting should, by a majority vote of the qualified electors voting, decide against said bond issue, the part voting against the bond issue shall not issue said bonds; but if one or more of the counties voting at the same time or some other time vote favorably by a majority of the qualified electors voting for a bond issue, as provided in this section, then the board or boards of supervisors of the county or counties so voting may issue the designated bonds for the purpose of purchasing only the designated bridge or bridges.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-67 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-67
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the boards of supervisors to build all bridges and culverts in districts coming under this chapter, the cost of which shall be paid out of either the county fund or the proceeds from the sale of bonds of said separate road district, in the discretion of the board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-99.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-99.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-99.nr2
Status: in_force

Any county is authorized and empowered to purchase and hold, or to lease, any land containing gravel, sand, clay, chert or other road building material to be used in the construction and maintenance of roads, and to sell off any of such road building material in excess of its own needs. Such land or lease is to be held in the name of the county. Such land or lease is to be paid for out of the proper county fund, and any funds arising from the sale of material are to be turned back into the fund from which the purchase price was made. The necessary roads or other means to reach and use the property aforesaid may be constructed and maintained by the county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-58 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-58
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-58
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 309 in Marshall County, Mississippi, beginning at or near the community of Watson and running southerly for a distance of 9.5 miles until its intersection with Mississippi Highway 4, is hereby designated and henceforth shall be known as the “Osborne Bell Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby directed to erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 27-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-19
Status: in_force

Every ferryman shall have authority to keep out or put out of his ferry boat or other vessel any person who shall attempt or press to enter or stay in his boat or vessel contrary to his orders. Any person so doing, contrary to order, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 19-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-29
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of such commissioners, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, to determine and fix what road or roads shall be constructed, or constructed and maintained, or maintained in the district out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds and the levy of taxes. It shall be their duty to let all contracts for the construction, or for the construction and maintenance, or for the maintenance of such roads in the manner provided by law for the letting of contracts for public work by the board of supervisors. It shall be their duty to employ a competent engineer to survey and lay out the road or roads in the district as they shall determine upon, whose duty it shall be to make an estimate of the cost of constructing and maintaining such highway or highways for each separate mile covered by such survey and to report the survey and estimate to said commissioners before contracts are let for the construction or for the construction and maintenance of such highway or highways. Said commissioners shall have the power to adopt or reject such survey and estimate and in the latter event to have another made. When adopted, it shall be their duty to report the same to the board of supervisors, whose duty it shall be to order the clerk of said board to file the same among the records of the office, spread the same on the minutes of the board, and make an order adopting such survey and estimate so reported and adopted by the commissioners. All of said acts of said commissioners shall be subject to ratification or rejection by the board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 31-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-1
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Transportation Commission is hereby authorized to locate, design, construct, operate, and maintain hospitality stations on trunkline highways at or near points of entry into this state from other states. In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the commission shall have authority to employ such engineers, architects, skilled and unskilled labor as may be determined necessary by the commission, for the preparation of plans for such hospitality stations and their proper location, design, construction, maintenance, and operation. The commission also may employ full-time security officers, as authorized under Section 65-1-131 , and/or may contract for the employment of private security officers, as authorized under Section 65-1-136 , to patrol and protect the property of hospitality stations and visitors, patrons and other employees of hospitality stations.

Prior to the location of such hospitality stations the commission shall afford the opportunity for a public hearing in the county wherein such hospitality station is to be located for the purpose of receiving testimony regarding the most feasible and advantageous location for such hospitality station, at which hearing all interested persons may appear and present testimony in regard thereto. A notice of such proposed location shall be given in some newspaper published or having general circulation in the county wherein such hospitality station is proposed to be located. Should a public hearing be requested thereon, notice by publication shall be given at least ten (10) days prior to the date upon which public hearing is to be held and written notice thereof shall likewise be given, within said time, to the governing authorities of all municipalities within such county and the governing authority of such county.

Each hospitality station constructed under the provisions of this chapter shall be maintained and kept in a neat and attractive condition.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-15 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 31-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-15
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Department of Transportation rest area located along U.S. Highway 49 in Pocahontas, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the “Capers, Blake, Scales Rest Area.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain suitable signs at and approaching the rest area, reflecting its name, and may place a plaque at such rest area.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 43-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-7
Status: in_force

(1) For the purpose of providing funds to defray the expenses of projects authorized pursuant to Sections 65-43-1 and 65-43-3 , the board of supervisors of a county or the governing authorities of a municipality shall have the right to borrow money for the project, and to issue revenue bonds therefor in such principal amounts as the board of supervisors or governing authorities may determine to be necessary to provide sufficient funds to defray the expenses of projects authorized pursuant to Sections 65-43-1 and 65-43-3 . The bonds shall be payable out of any revenues derived from the project, including grants or contributions from the federal government or other sources. Such bonds may be sold at public or private sale at not less than par and shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding that allowed in Section 75-17-103 . Any such bonds so issued shall not constitute a debt of the county, the municipality or any political subdivision of the county or the city within the meaning of any constitutional, statutory or charter restriction, limitation or provision. It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond in substance that the bond has been issued pursuant to the authority granted in this section and that the taxing power of the county or municipality issuing the bond is not pledged to the payment of the bond or the interest on it and that the bond and the interest on it are payable solely from the revenues of the project for which the bond is issued.

(2) All bonds issued under the authority of this section shall bear such date or dates, shall be in such form or denomination, shall bear such rate of interest, and shall mature at such times as the county or municipality shall determine, but no bonds issued under the authority of this section shall mature more than thirty (30) years from the date of the issuance thereof and none of the bonds shall be sold for less than par and accrued interest. All bonds shall be sold in the manner now provided by law for the sale of bonds without any restrictions, limitations, requirements or conditions applicable to the borrowing of such money and the issuance of such bonds which are not herein contained. The denomination, form, place of payment and other details of such bonds may be determined by resolution or order of the board of supervisors of a county or the governing authorities of a municipality, and shall be executed on behalf of the county or municipality as is now provided by law.

(3) Before issuing any bonds under the provisions of this section, the board of supervisors of the county or the governing authorities of the municipality shall, by resolution spread upon the minutes, declare its intention to issue such bonds for the purposes authorized by this section and shall state in the resolution the amount of bonds proposed to be issued and shall likewise fix in the resolution the date upon which the board of supervisors of the county or the governing authorities of the municipality proposes to direct the issuance of the bonds. Notice of such intention shall be published once a week for at least three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper published or having a general circulation in the county or the municipality, with the first publication of the notice to be made not less than twenty-one (21) days prior to the date fixed in the resolution for the issuance of the bonds and the last publication to be made not more than seven (7) days prior to such date. If, on or before the date specified in the resolution, twenty percent (20%) or fifteen hundred (1500), whichever is less, of the qualified electors of the county or municipality shall file a written protest against the issuance of the bonds, then an election upon the issuance of the bonds shall be called, and held, as provided in this section. If no such protest shall be filed, then the board of supervisors of the county or the governing authorities of the municipality may issue such bonds without an election on the question of the issuance of the bonds at any time within a period of two (2) years after the date specified in the resolution.

(4) If an election is called under the provisions of this section on the question of the issuance of bonds, the election shall be held, insofar as practicable, in the same manner as other elections are held in the county or municipality. At the election, all qualified electors of the county or municipality may vote and the ballots used in the election shall have printed thereon a brief statement of the amount and purposes of the proposed bond issue and the words “FOR THE BOND ISSUE” and the words “AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE,” and the voters shall vote by placing a cross (X) or check mark (✓) opposite their choice on the proposition.

(5) When the results of any election provided for in this section shall have been canvassed by the election commissioners of the county or municipality and certified by them to the proper authorities, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of the county or the governing authorities of the municipality to determine and adjudicate whether or not a majority of the qualified electors who voted in the election voted in favor of the issuance of the bonds and unless a majority of the qualified electors who voted in the election voted in favor of the issuance of the bonds, then the bonds shall not be issued. Should a majority of the qualified electors who vote in the election vote in favor of the bonds, the board of supervisors of the county or the governing authorities of the municipality may issue the bonds, either in whole or in part, within two (2) years from the date of such election, or within two (2) years after final favorable determination of any litigation affecting the issuance of such bonds at such time or times, and in such amount or amounts, not exceeding that specified in the notice of the election, as shall be deemed proper.

(6) This section, without reference to any other statute, shall be deemed to be full and complete authority for the issuance of bonds and borrowing of money as authorized in this section by counties or municipalities, and shall be construed as an additional and alternate method therefor. The bonds authorized by this section shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation or restriction.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.164 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.164
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.164
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of U.S. Interstate 59 beginning at Exit 5 in the City of Picayune and extending northerly to the southern corporate limits of the City of Hattiesburg shall be known and designated as the “Mississippi Gold Star Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-13.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 15-13.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-13.nr2
Status: in_force

No existing law providing methods for the construction or maintenance of any public highway, bridges or culverts of the county shall be affected by Section 65-15-9 ; and it does not supersede or impair the obligation of any county to levy a sufficient legal ad valorem tax for the purpose of construction and maintenance of public highways, bridges or culverts, or a sufficient ad valorem tax to pay the interest or principal of any bonds heretofore or hereafter issued for the purpose of building bridges and constructing public roads. Nor does it supersede or impair any right to issue bonds for any purpose, and it shall not alter, amend or repeal any statute except insofar as such statutes are inconsistent herewith.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 33-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-17
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county in the State of Mississippi bordering on the Mississippi Sound or Gulf of Mexico, having an assessed valuation of less than five million ($5,000,000.00) dollars according to the last completed assessment, and maintaining a seawall or road protection structure under this chapter, is hereby authorized, in its discretion, and subject to complying with the provisions of Sections 65-33-17 to 65-33-21 , to borrow funds not to exceed two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars at a rate of interest not exceeding six (6%) per cent per annum, in addition to such sums as may have heretofore been borrowed, for the purpose of constructing, repairing and maintaining such seawall or road protection structure and/or the public roads of such county, and in its discretion, to expend such funds or any part thereof in conjunction with contributions and allotments of funds, materials or labor for the works progress administration or other governmental department for the aforesaid improvements, or any of them.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-311 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 23-311
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-311
Status: in_force

The governing body of any such county is hereby authorized to provide by resolution, at one time or from time to time, for the issuance of bridge revenue bonds of such county, if acting separately, and of such counties, if acting jointly, for the purpose of paying the cost, as hereinabove defined, of any one or more of such bridges, which resolution shall recite an estimate of such cost. The principal and interest of such bonds shall be payable solely from the special fund herein provided for such payment. The bonds of each issue shall be dated, shall bear interest at such rate or rates not exceeding six percent (6%) per annum, payable semiannually, shall mature at such time or times, not exceeding forty (40) years from their date or dates, as may be determined by the governing body of such county or counties, and may be made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the county or counties, at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the governing body of such county or counties prior to the issuance of the bonds. The principal and interest of such bonds may be made payable in any lawful medium. The governing body of such county or counties shall determine the form of the bonds, including any interest coupons to be attached thereto, and shall fix the denomination or denominations of the bonds and the place or places of payment of principal and interest thereof, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the state. The bonds and any interest coupons attached thereto shall be executed in such manner as shall be determined by the governing body of the county or counties. In case any officer whose signature shall appear on the bonds or coupons shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such bonds, such signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if he had remained in office until such delivery. All bridge revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this article are hereby declared to have, as between successive holders, all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the Uniform Commercial Code of the state. Provision may be made for the registration of any of the bonds in the name of the owner as to principal alone, in the manner now provided by law for the registration of bonds issued by a county. The governing body of such county or counties may sell such bonds at public or private sale in such manner and for such price as it or they may determine to be for the best interest of such county or counties, but no such sale shall be made at a price so low as to require the payment of interest on the money received therefor at more than six percent (6%) per annum, computed with relation to the absolute maturity of the bonds in accordance with standard tables of bond values. The proceeds of such bonds shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of the bridge or bridges, and shall be disbursed under such restrictions, if any, as the governing body of such county or counties thereof may provide. If the proceeds of such bonds, by error of calculation or otherwise, shall be less than the cost of the bridge or bridges, additional bonds may in like manner be issued to provide the amount of such deficit, and unless otherwise provided in the trust indenture hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed to be of the same issue and shall be entitled to payment from the same fund without preference or priority of the bonds first issued for the same bridge or bridges. If the proceeds of bonds issued for any bridge or bridges shall exceed the cost thereof, the surplus shall be paid into the fund hereinafter provided for the payment of principal and interest of such bonds. Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, such county or counties may, under like restrictions, issue temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds upon the issuance of the latter. The governing body of any such county or counties may also provide for the replacement of any bond which shall become mutilated or be destroyed or lost. Such bridge revenue bonds may be issued without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions and things which are specified and required by this article. The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition to the power conferred by any other law, general, special, or local, and this article, without reference to any other statute, shall be deemed full authority for the purpose hereof. In the discretion of the governing body of any such county or counties, bridge revenue bonds of a single issue may be issued for the purpose of paying the cost of any one or more bridges.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.27 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.27
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.27
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 9 in Union County from its intersection with Mississippi Highway 348 to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 30 is designated and shall be known as the “Naaman Bryanyan Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs approaching and along such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-53 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-53
Status: in_force

(1) In any county maintaining a sea wall or road protection structure under the provisions of this chapter, the board of supervisors may borrow funds not in excess of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) in addition to the one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000.00) authorized under Section 65-33-51 , at the rate of interest not exceeding four per cent per annum, in addition to such sums as have heretofore been borrowed for the purpose of constructing, repairing, strengthening, or maintaining the road protection structure or sea wall of the county, including the raising of the roadbed as recommended and approved by the Mississippi State Highway Commission, and to construct retaining walls for such raised roadbeds and to pump by hydraulic fill, or otherwise, a sand beach adjacent to such retaining wall or sea wall structure. Such board of supervisors shall have the authority to acquire by purchase or otherwise a dredge boat and to use and operate it for the purpose of pumping a sand beach adjacent to such sea wall or road protection structure or for the maintenance thereof; however, said board of supervisors shall not pay for same out of any funds provided under this section. The funds or amount borrowed for the purposes provided in this section shall be repaid within a period of fifteen years from the date borrowed, and shall be paid out of the funds collected under this chapter. All bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness maturing each year and the interest thereon, however, shall be first provided for and paid out of said funds. The loans authorized herein shall not be subject to other limitations, restrictions, or provisions of the general laws governing the borrowing of money, amounts of indebtedness, budget, and election, and said loans may be made by the board of supervisors of such county either by issuance of county bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness which shall be full faith and credit obligations of the county issuing same and shall be payable, both as to principal and interest, from the same sources of revenue and taxes made available for the payment of road protection bonds under the provisions of this chapter, which sources of revenue and taxes are irrevocably pledged toward the repayment of any monies borrowed or any bonds issued under the provisions of this section. The money herein authorized to be borrowed by such board of supervisors may be borrowed from any person, firm, corporation, governmental lending agency, or from any sinking funds of such county; if the money be borrowed from any sinking fund, it shall be repaid before the sinking fund from which it is borrowed, when supplemented by funds paid into same, is needed. Before the board of supervisors shall borrow money under this section, it shall spread on its minutes an order reciting such intention and shall thereafter publish a copy of such order in three weekly issues of some newspaper having a general circulation in the county. If, within fifteen days after the first publication of a copy of such order, fifteen per cent of the qualified electors of the county shall file with such board of supervisors a petition in writing requesting an election on the question of borrowing money in the amount and for the purpose as set forth in such order, then such money shall not be borrowed unless authorized by a majority of the qualified voters of such county voting in an election to be ordered by such board of supervisors for that purpose. Notice of such election shall be given and such election shall be held and conducted as provided by law in connection with elections for the submission of bond issues in such county. If such proposition shall fail to receive such majority vote at such election, then no further proceedings for the borrowing of such money shall be had or taken within a period of six months from and after the date of such election. If, however, no such petition shall be so filed, or if at such election such petition shall be assented to by a majority vote, then such board of supervisors shall be authorized to borrow such money in the amount and for the purpose as set forth in such order as published. The amount authorized to be borrowed under this section may be borrowed at any time and in any amount, but the total borrowed shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) in addition to such sums as may heretofore have been borrowed for the purposes herein enumerated, or either of them, and especially in addition to any sums that may have heretofore been borrowed or in addition to any bonds that may have heretofore been issued under authority of Section 65-33-51 . Any attorneys' fees paid for the issuance of said bonds shall be paid out of the general fund of said county.

(2) The board of supervisors is hereby given full power and authority to meet and do and grant any request of the United States beach erosion board of the United States army engineers by and under Public Law 727, 79th Congress, Chapter 960, 2nd Session, and to assure either or both the following:

(a) Assure maintenance of the sea wall and drainage facilities, and of the beach by artificial replenishment, during the useful life of these works, as may be required to serve their intended purpose;

(b) Provide, at the county's own expense, all necessary land, easements, and rights of way;

(c) To hold and save the United States free from all claims for damages that may arise either before, during, or after prosecution of the work;

(d) To prevent, by ordinance, any water pollution that would endanger the health of the bathers;

(e) To assume perpetual ownership of any beach construction and its administration for public use only, and that the board of supervisors is given full power and authority to do any and all things necessary in and about the repair and reconstruction, or construction or maintenance of the sea wall and sloping beach adjacent thereto, built under the authority of this section, and it is given such power to cooperate with the requirements of the United States government to receive any grant or grants of money from congress or to contribute any grant or grants to the United States army engineers in and about this construction and maintenance, and it is further given full power and authority to employ engineers, lawyers, or any other professional or technical help in and about the completion of this project. In the event the county engineer is selected to do any or all of said work, the board of supervisors is hereby authorized to pay and allow him such reasonable fees or salary which, in its opinion, is necessary, just, and commensurate to work done by him.

It is further given full power and authority to let, by competitive bids, any contract for the repair of said wall, or for the installation and drainage, and for the construction of any additional section of wall, together with any artificial beach adjacent to said wall, and for the raising of any roadbeds and the construction of any such retaining wall.

The intent and purpose of this section is to give unto the respective boards the full power and authority to carry out all the provisions herein, and to act independently, jointly, or severally with the United States government by and under Public Law 727, 79th Congress.

(3) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any county with an assessed valuation of less than ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-25
Status: in_force

The boards of supervisors of the several counties of this state are required, within sixty days after receipt of a petition signed by twenty-five or more regular travelers of any public highway within their respective county, to have prepared and properly posted along said highway certain sign or signal boards at such intervals as may be deemed necessary to avoid danger for speedy travel, not exceeding four to the mile, with such inscriptions written thereon as will sufficiently warn the traveling public of the danger zones thereon.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.38 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.38
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.38
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of U.S. Highway 49 in Lyman, Mississippi, beginning at the intersection of U.S. Highway 49 and Mississippi Highway 53 and extending north on U.S. Highway 49 for two (2) miles shall be known and designated as the “David Bruce Ladner Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 19-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-21
Status: in_force

In any election held under the provisions of this chapter in respect to the creation of, or addition to, separate road districts, the board of supervisors shall have the power to fix the place and provide for holding the election by the qualified electors of such territory, whenever the voting precincts as fixed for general elections will not be convenient or suitable.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.3 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.3
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.3
Status: in_force

(1) The crossing of U.S. Highway 90 over the East Pascagoula River shall be designated and henceforth known as “The Singing River.”

(2) The State Highway Department is hereby authorized to erect appropriate markers at each end of the bridge.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-41 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-41
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall be legal investments for commercial banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations and insurance companies organized under the laws of this state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 43-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-13
Status: in_force

(1) The State Bond Commission, at one time or from time to time, may declare by resolution the necessity for issuance of revenue bonds of the State of Mississippi for the purpose of providing funds to defray the expenses of projects authorized pursuant to Sections 65-43-1 and 65-43-3 . Upon the adoption of a resolution by the Mississippi Transportation Commission, declaring the necessity for the issuance of the revenue bonds authorized by this section, the Mississippi Transportation Commission shall deliver a certified copy of its resolution or resolutions to the State Bond Commission. Upon receipt of such resolution, the State Bond Commission, in its discretion, may act as the issuing agent, prescribe the form of the bonds, advertise for and accept bids, issue and sell, at public or private sale, the bonds so authorized to be sold and do any and all other things necessary and advisable in connection with the issuance and sale of such bonds. Revenue bonds issued under this section shall be in such principal amounts as the Mississippi Transportation Commission may determine to be necessary to provide sufficient funds to defray the expenses of projects authorized pursuant to Sections 65-43-1 and 65-43-3 .

(2) Any investment earnings on amounts deposited into the special fund created in Section 65-43-9 shall be used to pay debt service on bonds issued under Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 , in accordance with the proceedings authorizing issuance of such bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 21-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-9
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors shall require the keeper of every toll bridge or ferry to give bond with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the president and clerk of the board in a penalty, to be fixed by the board, of not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) and not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), and conditioned to keep the bridge or ferry at all times in good repair so as to secure the safe transportation, on the payment of the fixed tolls, of all persons and property, and in all things to comply with the law and the reasonable orders of the board regulating the keeping of such toll bridge or ferry, but saving to the keeper a reasonable time within which to repair damage done by a sudden freshet, storm, or other unforeseen accident.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 19-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-9
Status: in_force

If the qualified electors petitioning for the creation and organization of a separate road district shall so desire, they may petition, in addition, that the proceeds of the sale of said bonds may be used to extend and build roads beyond the limits of such district and that a tax be levied on such district or districts to pay such bonds and maintain such roads, in which case it shall be the duty of the board, in publishing the notice as hereinbefore provided, to add thereto notice of the further purpose to use part of the proceeds of said bonds in building and maintaining roads in other territory, naming the said other territory; and to levy taxes for that purpose. In any election ordered therein, the further question shall be submitted to the electors, whether such roads are to be so extended or not, which shall be submitted as follows: “For the extension of roads into other districts,” or “against the extension of roads into other districts.” If said election result in favor of such action, determined and adjudicated in like manner by the election commissioners and board of supervisors, as required by law, then the said road commissioners shall, with the approval of the board of supervisors, have the power to extend said roads into other districts and pay for the same out of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds, and levy a tax to maintain the same on such district consenting thereto, as provided for in this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-71 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-71
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-71
Status: in_force

Where the board of supervisors of any county uses the right of way or ditch banks or any levee of any drainage district created in this state, it may pay to the treasurer of the respective drainage districts the value of any right of way taken for road purposes, as done with private individuals.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-49 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 11-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-49
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of counties who do not have an engineer employed are hereby authorized and empowered to employ a competent engineer to prepare all necessary surveys, plans, and specifications and to supervise the construction and repairing of roads and bridges in their respective counties. The salary of same shall be paid from the common fund of said county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-313 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-313
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-313
Status: in_force

After the filing of the plat, the judge, upon motion and ten (10) days' notice by either the Transportation Department or the owner shall, either in or out of term, hear and determine all issues raised by the pleading other than the issue of just compensation, including, if controverted, questions of necessary and proper parties, title to the land, interest taken and area taken.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-75 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 41-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-75
Status: in_force

(1) The following highways, roads or streets located in the State of Mississippi are hereby designated as an official Mississippi Scenic Byway to be known as the “Gulf Coast Scenic Byway” pursuant to Section 65-45-1 et seq.:

U.S. Highway 90 beginning at the intersection of U.S. Highway 90 and Beach Boulevard in Bay St. Louis continuing for 19 miles and ending at the intersection of DeBuys Road and U.S. Highway 90; connecting with the existing Beach Boulevard Scenic Byway designated in Section 65-41-61 .

(2) Outdoor advertising shall be allowed on the following portions of U.S. Highway 90 within the corporate limits of the impacted municipalities subject to the zoning and signage ordinances of the impacted municipalities: the end of the Bay St. Louis Bridge to Fort Henry Street; Church Avenue to Fleitas Avenue in Pass Christian; White Harbor Road to Marcie Drive in Long Beach; Russell Avenue to South Nicholson Avenue in Long Beach; Camp Avenue to Pratt Avenue in Gulfport; and Courthouse Road to Paradise Avenue in Gulfport.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-35 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 9-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-35
Status: in_force

In addition to any authority granted to the Division of State Aid Road Construction in Chapter 9, Title 65, Mississippi Code of 1972 , and notwithstanding any general prohibition contained therein with respect to the administration by the division of certain federal funds on designated state highways, the division is authorized and empowered to administer a project utilizing available federal and state funds to reconstruct that portion of designated Mississippi Highway 407 in Attala County, Mississippi, that spans Tibby Creek in Section 25, Township 16 North, Range 9 East, jurisdiction for the maintenance of which is, on April 17, 2017, vested in Attala County.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-69 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 41-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-69
Status: in_force

The following highways, roads or streets located in the State of Mississippi are hereby designated in the following four (4) segments as an official Mississippi Scenic Byway to be known as the “Delta Bluffs Scenic Byway” pursuant to Section 65-41-1 et seq. :

(a) Northern Branch: Beginning at the intersection of Austin Road and Mississippi Highway 301 and continuing westward to the intersection of Delta View Road and Austin Road; then north along Delta View Road to the Great River Road National Scenic Byway (connectivity through the Town of Walls via Delta View Road, U.S. Highway 161 and 2nd Street);

(b) Central Branch: Beginning at the intersection of Mississippi Highway 301 and Austin Road and continuing south along Mississippi Highway 301 to Arkabutla Lake;

(c) East-West Branch: Beginning at the intersection of Old Mississippi Highway 304 and Interstate 55 in Hernando and continuing westward to Bluff Road; and

(d) Robertson Gin Road Extension Branch: Beginning at the intersection of U.S. Highway 51 and Commerce Street in DeSoto County and continuing south along U.S. Highway 51 to Oak Grove Road; thence westward on Oak Grove Road to Robinson Gin Road; then south along Robinson Gin Road to Wheeler Road; thence westward along Wheeler Road to its point of terminus at Hernando Point at Arkabutla Lake.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.386 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.386
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.386
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 30 located in Prentiss County, Mississippi, extending for a total distance of approximately one (1) mile, consisting of a distance of one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mile in the easterly direction of Mississippi Highway 30 and a distance of one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mile in the westerly direction of Mississippi Highway 30 from Prentiss County, Mississippi, with the central point of beginning in both the easterly and westerly directions being the location of the home of Mr. J.P. Davis, shall be known as the “J.P. Davis Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-15 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 15-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-15
Status: in_force

The board shall levy annually, when other taxes are levied, a special tax to be used exclusively in paying the interest on such road bonds and in providing a sinking fund for their redemption.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-55 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 25-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-55
Status: in_force

The governing body of such county or city shall cause to be kept separate minutes and records of the operation of such bridge properties available for public inspection, which minutes from time to time shall show the approval or disapproval of the actions of said commission. Concerning the management and operation of said bridge by the commission and the governing body of said city or county, there shall be no obligation on said commission, nor shall there be any general obligation on said city or county, other than from the revenues to be derived from the operation of said bridge properties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-33 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-33
Status: in_force

All wheeled vehicles traveling over or upon said roads so designated by said signal or signboards, when operated by steam, gas, or electricity, shall be equipped with a whistle, horn, or other signal which shall be duly sounded upon approaching said danger zones, so indicated by said signal or signboards.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.266 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.266
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.266
Status: in_force

(1) The interchange located at the intersection of Mississippi Highway 63 and Mississippi Highway 26 in George County, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the “State Representative Percy L. Maples Memorial Interchange.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs approaching the interchange described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-37 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 25-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-37
Status: in_force

The exercise of the powers conferred by this article constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, and as bridges which are owned and operated by municipalities constitute public property used for public purposes, such bridges shall at all times be free from taxation within the state. No municipality shall be required to pay taxes or assessments upon any such bridge or any part thereof owned by it, whether located within or without the corporate limits of such municipality, and bonds issued under the provisions of this article, their transfer, and the income therefrom (including any profits made on the sale thereof) shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-35 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 26-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-35
Status: in_force

(1) The funds which are transferred from the sale of bonds under this chapter and such other funds as may be transferred to the bridge construction fund may be withdrawn only in the following manner: the funds shall be paid by the State Treasurer upon warrants issued by the State Auditor of Public Accounts, which warrants shall be issued upon requisition by the Highway Commission, signed by the director.

(2) All expenditures ordered by the Highway Commission shall be entered upon its minutes, and the Highway Commission shall submit a full report of its work and all the transactions carried on by it, and a complete statement of all its expenditures at the next regular session of the legislature.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-99 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-99
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-99
Status: in_force

Any county, or road district organized and operating under any road law of the state, is authorized and empowered to purchase and hold, or to lease, any land containing gravel, sand, clay, chert, or other road building material to be used in the construction and maintenance of roads, and to sell off any of such road building material in excess of its own needs. Such land or lease is to be held in the name of the county when purchased or leased by the county, and to be held in the name of the county for the use of the road district when the purchase or lease is made for the district, but no purchase shall be made by a district except with the consent of the board of supervisors. Such land or lease is to be paid for out of the proper county fund when purchased or leased by the county, and to be paid for out of any funds belonging to the road district when the purchase or lease is for the district, and any funds arising from the sale of material is to be turned back into the fund from which the purchase price was made. And the necessary roads or other means to reach and use the property aforesaid may be constructed and maintained by the county or road district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 19-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-13
Status: in_force

In like manner and under like conditions, the board of supervisors may by order abolish any separate road district and, thereupon, either add the said territory or a part thereof to another separate road district, or else leave the same, or the remainder, as a part of the general road territory of the county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.100 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.100
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.100
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 6 within the corporate limits of Oxford, Lafayette County, between the Old Taylor Road Exit and the South Lamar Exit is designated and shall be known as “Amie Ewing Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-37 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 26-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-37
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise authorized in Section 7-5-39 , the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall represent the Transportation Commission in issuing, selling and validating bonds herein provided for, and said Transportation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to expend any sum not to exceed Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00) on approval by the State Bond Commission from the proceeds derived from the sale of bonds authorized in subsections (1) and (2) of Section 65-26-15 , or from other funds available to the Transportation Commission, to pay the cost of approving attorney's fees, validating, printing and cost of delivery of bonds authorized under this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-15 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 13-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-15
Status: in_force

If the board of supervisors at the hearing provided in Section 65-13-13 finds that (1) the public convenience and necessity require the creation of the authority, and (2) the creation of the authority is sound and desirable, the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution making the aforesaid findings and declaring its intention to create the authority in its respective county on the specified date.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 39-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-5
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Transportation Commission, at one time or from time to time, may declare by resolution the necessity for the issuance of general obligation bonds of the State of Mississippi to provide funds for all costs incurred or to be incurred by the Transportation Commission and the Mississippi Department of Transportation in constructing and reconstructing highways and performing the projects authorized under Section 65-39-1 .

(2) The amount of bonds issued under Sections 65-39-5 through 65-39-33 shall not exceed Three Hundred Twenty-five Million Dollars ($325,000,000.00).

(3) Upon the adoption of a resolution by the Mississippi Transportation Commission declaring the necessity for the issuance of any part or all of the general obligation bonds authorized by this section, the Transportation Commission shall deliver a certified copy of its resolution or resolutions to the State Bond Commission. Upon receipt of any such resolution, the State Bond Commission, in its discretion, may act as the issuing agent, prescribe the form of the bonds, advertise for and accept bids, issue and sell the bonds so authorized to be sold, and do any and all other things necessary and advisable in connection with the issuance and sale of such bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 39-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-9
Status: in_force

The bonds authorized by Section 65-39-5 of this chapter shall be signed by the Chairman of the State Bond Commission, or by his facsimile signature, and the official seal of the State Bond Commission shall be affixed thereto, attested by the Secretary of the State Bond Commission. The interest coupons, if any, to be attached to such bonds may be executed by the facsimile signatures of such officers. Whenever any such bonds shall have been signed by the officials designated to sign the bonds who were in office at the time of such signing but who may have ceased to be such officers before the sale and delivery of such bonds, or who may not have been in office on the date such bonds may bear, the signatures of such officers upon such bonds and coupons shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes and have the same effect as if the person so officially signing such bonds had remained in office until their delivery to the purchaser, or had been in office on the date such bonds may bear. However, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, such bonds may be issued as provided in the Registered Bond Act of the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 31-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-7
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby authorized, in the event private donations are made available therefor, to erect an appropriate commemorative sign at the state hospitality station located on federal Interstate Highway 20 east of Meridian, Mississippi, to read as follows:

“WELCOME TO MISSISSIPPI BIRTHPLACE OF JIMMIE RODGERS THE FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC”

Such sign shall be attractive and designed to invite and encourage tourism and recreation in the state.

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby authorized to accept and expend private donations for the purchase, installation and maintenance of the sign authorized hereunder. No state funds shall be expended for such purpose.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.61 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.61
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.61
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of U.S. Highway 51 within the City of Winona known as South Applegate and that portion of U.S. Highway 51 south of the city limits of Winona extending from the city limits of the City of Winona for a distance of two (2) miles is designated and shall be known as the “Mortimer Barry Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-123 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 25-123
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-123
Status: in_force

The five (5) members to represent the State of Mississippi on The Authority for the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Construction Compact shall be the Governor of the State of Mississippi and one (1) representative of the Mississippi State Highway Department and three (3) other citizens of the State of Mississippi to be appointed by the Governor. The appointive members shall serve for terms of four (4) years each. Vacancies shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired terms.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-301 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 23-301
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-301
Status: in_force

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the “Pearl River Bridge Revenue Bond Law”.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-75 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 41-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-75
Status: in_force

(1) The following highways, roads or streets located in the State of Mississippi are hereby designated as an official Mississippi Scenic Byway to be known as the “Gulf Coast Scenic Byway” pursuant to Section 65-45-1 et seq.:

U.S. Highway 90 beginning at the intersection of U.S. Highway 90 and Beach Boulevard in Bay St. Louis continuing for 19 miles and ending at the intersection of DeBuys Road and U.S. Highway 90; connecting with the existing Beach Boulevard Scenic Byway designated in Section 65-41-61 .

(2) Outdoor advertising shall be allowed on the following portions of U.S. Highway 90 within the corporate limits of the impacted municipalities subject to the zoning and signage ordinances of the impacted municipalities: the end of the Bay St. Louis Bridge to Fort Henry Street; Church Avenue to Fleitas Avenue in Pass Christian; White Harbor Road to Marcie Drive in Long Beach; Russell Avenue to South Nicholson Avenue in Long Beach; Camp Avenue to Pratt Avenue in Gulfport; and Courthouse Road to Paradise Avenue in Gulfport.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.148 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.148
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.148
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of U.S. Highway 90 in the City of Pascagoula from Pascagoula Street to 14th Street is designated and shall be known as the “Jeffery Rugheimer Memorial Highway. ”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-5-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 5-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-5-11
Status: in_force

Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights for purposes of this chapter shall take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts, to the end that the provisions of controlled-access facilities may be expedited.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-35 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 13-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-35
Status: in_force

All such bonds issued by the authority shall be secured solely by pledge of the net revenues which may now or hereafter come to the authority. Such bonds shall not constitute general obligations of the State of Mississippi or of the county supervisors district or municipalities comprising the authority, and such bonds shall not be secured by a pledge of the full faith, credit, and resources of said state, county, district, or municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.160 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.160
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.160
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of U.S. Highway 51 in Copiah County beginning at its intersection with the northern corporate limits of the City of Hazlehurst and extending southerly to its intersection with Sinclair Street, is designated and shall be known as the “Trooper Steve Gardner Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.131 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.131
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.131
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 465 in Warren County beginning at its intersection with U.S. Highway 61 and extending westerly to its easternmost intersection with the Issaquena County line, is designated and shall be known as the “William W. ‘Bill’ Ramsey Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 26-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-17
Status: in_force

For the purpose of providing funds for the payment of interest and principal upon bonds authorized by this chapter, there shall be levied, assessed and shall be collected, when required by this chapter, from every person in the Counties of Alcorn, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Kemper, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Pontotoc, Prentiss and Tishomingo engaging in or doing business, a tax which may be cited as a “bridge tax” which shall be in addition to all other taxes now imposed, as hereinafter provided:

(a) Such tax shall be a sum equal to one-half percent ( 1 / 2 %) of the retail sales made in such counties.

(b) Persons liable for the tax imposed herein shall add the amount of the tax to the sales price or gross income, and in addition thereto shall collect, insofar as practicable, the amount of the tax due by him from the person receiving the service or goods at the time of payment therefor.

(c) Such tax shall be paid to the State Tax Commission or its successor, on a form to be prescribed by the State Tax Commission, in the same manner that state sales taxes are computed, collected and paid; and the full enforcement provisions and all other provisions of Chapter 119, Laws of 1934, as amended, shall apply as necessary to the implementation and administration of this chapter.

(d) The proceeds of such tax shall be paid into the bond retirement fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 31-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-5
Status: in_force

Both the State Highway Commission and the agricultural and industrial board in exercising the powers granted in this chapter are hereby authorized to accept private donations and public grants which may be available to them, respectively, for the furtherance of the purposes of this chapter. In addition thereto, either or both of such agencies may expend, for the purposes of this chapter, any funds available to them not otherwise specifically designated for a different public purpose. Each of such agencies shall cooperate with other state agencies in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-59 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / Section 25-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-59
Status: in_force

The bridge commission shall be subject to the same type of audit as the boards of supervisors of the counties of the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 9-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-13
Status: in_force

Any county shall be entitled to receive state aid and to expend state aid monies in conjunction with monies furnished by said county on state aid roads in such county on projects approved for construction in such county, provided:

(a) The state aid system in such county has been designated and approved as herein provided.

(b) The county has employed a county engineer to act for and on behalf of the county as a whole, who shall be a registered professional engineer, and such other competent technical assistants as may from time to time be deemed necessary by the board of supervisors of said county.

(c) An annual program shall have been filed by the county engineer with the division of state aid road construction and approved by the State Aid Engineer, and in accordance with the uniform design standards and specifications set up by the State Aid Engineer; such program may be modified or revised in whole or in part by the State Aid Engineer, with the agreement of the county involved.

(d) Such county has complied with all rules and regulations promulgated by the State Aid Engineer.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-49 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-49
Status: in_force

All construction contracts by the authority where the amount of the contract shall exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) shall be made upon at least three (3) weeks' public notice by advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of the project, which notice shall state the thing to be done and invite sealed proposals, to be filed with the secretary of the authority, to do the work. In all such cases, before the notice shall be published, the plans and specifications for the work shall be filed with the secretary of the authority, and there remain. The board of trustees shall award the contract to the lowest bidder, who will comply with the terms imposed by such trustees and enter into bond with sufficient sureties to be approved by the trustees in such penalty as shall be fixed by the trustees, but in no case to be less than the contract price, conditioned for the prompt, proper, and efficient performance of the contract.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.206 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.206
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.206
Status: in_force

(1) That bridge on Mississippi Highway 82 in Washington County that spans the Mississippi River is designated and shall be known as the “Jesse Brent Memorial Bridge.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain an appropriate plaque at the Mississippi end of the bridge, and suitable markers along and approaching the bridge, reflecting its name.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 9-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-11
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the State Aid Engineer to advise with the boards of supervisors of the several counties on all matters of policy, use of funds, priority of construction, uniform standards for state aid roads, safeguards in accounting methods, and other related matters and to cooperate with the several boards of supervisors on all matters connected with the laying out and construction of the state aid system of county roads. The State Aid Engineer shall promulgate, as soon as practicable, such uniform and reasonable rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to effectuate a proper designation of state aid roads to be constructed in each county, the methods for determining priority of construction, the making of surveys, and the preparation of plans and specifications for the construction of state aid roads, and to provide a uniform system of accounting in the expenditure of state aid road funds. The State Aid Engineer, after conferring with the Chief Engineer of the State Highway Department, shall prepare and promulgate uniform design standards and specifications for the construction of the state aid road system, which said uniform design standards and specifications may be modified or amended from time to time as the State Aid Engineer may deem necessary. Such standards may be in one or more classifications, according to types and kinds of roads. After such uniform design standards and specifications have been prepared and approved by the State Aid Engineer, the boards of supervisors shall apply the same to all new construction of state aid roads in their counties and, unless not practicable and feasible, to reconstruction of old roads on the state aid road system; but no deviation from such uniform standards and specifications shall be made without the approval of the State Aid Engineer.

It shall also be the duty of the State Aid Engineer to advise and cooperate with the boards of supervisors in the selection and designation of the county roads which are to be made a part of the state aid road system, as provided in this chapter, and to approve or disapprove the selection of roads to be made a part of the state aid road system by the boards of supervisors.

The State Aid Engineer shall finally approve or disapprove all contracts advertised and let by any board of supervisors for the construction or reconstruction of state aid roads and he shall approve or disapprove any or all force account estimates for such construction. If disapproved, he shall give a notice to said county of his disapproval and state each reason, and he shall give the said county time to cure the defects, or such parts thereof as may be necessary to cure, so that the county may receive its share of state aid.

All proposals covering work to be performed by any county with its own forces on state aid roads and all force account estimates submitted for approval shall be on forms prepared for the purpose by the State Aid Engineer. Such forms shall be in such detail and based upon such cost accounting rules and regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the State Aid Engineer, but in no event shall the purchase of any road machinery or other general equipment out of the state aid road funds be allowed or permitted by such rules and regulations. Force account estimates may include a reasonable rental for machinery or equipment, and the reasonableness of the rental so estimated and as actually paid shall be subject at all times to modification, revision, approval, or disapproval of the State Aid Engineer and under the cost accounting rules and regulations promulgated by him.

The State Aid Engineer and such assistants as he may designate shall supervise and inspect all state aid road projects as the work progresses. Upon final completion of any such project, the State Aid Engineer shall cause a final inspection to be made of such project for the purpose of determining whether such project has been completed satisfactorily in accordance with the plans and specifications; and if satisfactorily completed, the State Aid Engineer shall approve payment of the final estimate on such project. No progress or final estimate, either on a contract or a force account project, shall be paid unless approved in such manner by the State Aid Engineer, and on all such contracts or force account projects a percentage of not less than two and one-half percent (2 1 / 2 %) nor more than ten percent (10%) of each estimate thereon paid shall be retained until final acceptance of such project; provided, however, the amount retained by the prime contractor from each payment due the subcontractor shall not exceed the percentage withheld from the prime contractor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-63 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 25-63
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-63
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any county which has heretofore issued bridge revenue bonds or bridge revenue refunding bonds for the purpose of acquiring a combined highway and railway bridge over the Mississippi River as authorized under the provisions of Sections 65-25-1 to 65-25-41 may, in their discretion and in lieu of taxes, annually pay to any municipality of this state in which the portion of said bridge properties lying within the State of Mississippi are located a sum not exceeding that required to be paid and paid by way of ad valorem taxes for the year 1961 within or to a sister state or the political subdivisions thereof. Such payment or payments in lieu of taxes as are hereby authorized and as may be determined upon by the board of supervisors of any county owning such bridge, concurred in by any commission appointed under authority of Sections 65-25-43 to 65-25-47 , to have control over the affairs of said bridge, shall be made from any fund created by such bond resolution or indenture enabling the caring for of contingencies not otherwise provided for. However, in no event shall such payment or payments impair any debt service fund or debt service reserve fund or lessen the minimum amount by said bond resolution or indenture required to be carried in any debt service fund or debt service reserve fund created by said resolution or indenture.

The municipality, upon receipt of such payment or payments, must treat and account for the same just as though and as if such funds had been received from ad valorem taxation for general municipal purposes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 21-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-29
Status: in_force

For the purpose of the construction and operation of the bridges mentioned in Section 65-21-27 , the board of supervisors of the county, in the construction and management of same shall be vested with all the powers and authority provided by law for bridging streams of the county, including the levy of taxes and the issuance of bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-2-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 2-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-2-1
Status: in_force

It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the State of Mississippi that it is necessary and essential in the public interest to facilitate the prompt, peaceful, and just settlement of conflicts and disputes arising out of contracts for the construction of any building, highway or work, or the doing of any repairs, between the Mississippi Transportation Department and the various contractors with whom it transacts business, and to that end the Legislature does hereby establish the State Transportation Arbitration Board, hereinafter referred to as the board.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-101 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 25-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-101
Status: in_force

The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint three (3) commissioners to enter into a compact on behalf of the State of Mississippi with the State of Arkansas. If the Senate is not in session at the time for making such appointments, the Governor shall make temporary appointments as in the case of a vacancy. Any two (2) of the commissioners so appointed, together with the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, may act to enter into the following compact:

COMPACT BETWEEN ARKANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI CREATING AN ARKANSAS-MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE COMMISSION

Article I

There is hereby created an Arkansas-Mississippi Bridge Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission) which shall be a body corporate and politic and which shall have the following powers and duties:

1. To plan, construct, maintain and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at or near Helena, Arkansas, and Friars Point, Mississippi, at a point deemed by the commission as most suitable to the interests of the citizens of the States of Arkansas and Mississippi in accordance with the provisions of an act of the Seventy-Ninth Congress, Second Session, of the United States entitled “The General Bridge Act of 1946”;

2. To purchase, maintain and, in its discretion, to operate all or any ferries across the Mississippi River within twenty-five miles of the site selected for the bridge;

3. To contract, to sue and be sued in its own name; to purchase or otherwise acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property;

4. To acquire by proper condemnation proceedings such real property as may be necessary for the construction and operation of the bridge and the approaches thereto;

5. To issue bonds on the security of the revenues derived from the operation of the bridge and ferries for the payment of the cost of the bridge, its approaches, ferry or ferries, and the necessary lands, easements and appurtenances thereto including interest during construction and all necessary engineering, legal, architectural, traffic surveying and other necessary expenses. Such bonds shall be the negotiable bonds of the commission, the income of which shall be tax free. The principal and interest of the bonds, and any premiums to be paid for their retirement before maturity, shall be paid solely from the revenues derived from the bridge and ferries;

6. To establish and charge tolls for transit over such bridge and ferries in accordance with the provisions of this compact;

7. To perform all other necessary and incidental functions.

Article II

The rates of tolls to be charged for transit over such bridge and ferries shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay for the reasonable cost of maintenance, repairs and operation (including the approaches to the bridge) under economical management, and also to provide a sinking fund sufficient to pay the principal and interest of the outstanding bonds. All tolls and other revenues derived from facilities of the commission are hereby pledged to such uses.

Article III

The commission shall keep an accurate record of the cost of the bridge and other expenses and of the daily revenues collected and shall report annually to the governor of each state setting forth in detail the operations and transactions conducted by it pursuant to this agreement and any legislation thereunder.

Article IV

When the bonds have been retired, the part of the bridge within the State of Arkansas shall be conveyed to the State of Arkansas, and the part within the State of Mississippi to the State of Mississippi, and the high contracting parties to this compact do hereby agree that thereafter the bridge shall be free of tolls and shall be properly maintained, operated and repaired by the two states as may be agreed upon.

Article V

The commission shall consist of eighteen members, nine of whom shall be qualified electors of the State of Mississippi and nine of whom shall be qualified electors of the State of Arkansas. The Arkansas members are to be chosen by the State of Arkansas, and the Mississippi members are to be chosen by the State of Mississippi, in the manner and for the term fixed by the Legislature of each state, except as herein provided. The first commission, acting under this compact, shall be the present members of the Arkansas-Mississippi Bridge Commission heretofore appointed under the terms and provisions of Act of Congress approved May 17, 1939 (Public Act 80, 76th Congress), as amended by Act of Congress approved June 19, 1948 (Public Act 701, 80th Congress), said commission consisting of the following members: J. B. Lambert, Helena, Arkansas; R. L. Brooks, Helena, Arkansas; K. B. Lasswell, Helena, Arkansas; John C. Sheffield, Helena, Arkansas; C. N. Houck, Marianna, Arkansas; William Campbell, Forrest City, Arkansas; Clarence Thomas, Clarendon, Arkansas; Ballard Deane, St. Charles, Arkansas; DeWitt Poe, McGehee, Arkansas; W. K. Anderson, Clarksdale, Mississippi; E. Cage Brewer, Jr., Clarksdale, Mississippi; M. D. Brett, Clarksdale, Mississippi; R. N. Baltzer, Clarksdale, Mississippi; Sol Hirsburg, Friars Point, Mississippi; John Dunlap, Batesville, Mississippi; Noel M. Hodge, Oxford, Mississippi; Grady Cook, Pontotoc, Mississippi; James A. Finley, Tupelo, Mississippi.

Article VI

1. The Commission shall elect from its number a chairman and a vice-chairman and may appoint such officers and employees as it may require for the performance of its duties and shall fix and determine their qualifications and duties.

2. Until otherwise determined by the legislatures of the two states no action of the commission shall be binding unless taken at a meeting at which at least five members from each state are present and unless a majority of the members from each state present at such meeting shall vote in favor thereof. Each state reserves the right hereafter to provide by law for the exercise of the veto power by the governor thereof over any action of any commissioner appointed therefrom.

3. The two states shall provide penalties for violations of any order, rule or regulation of the commission, and for the manner of enforcing same.

Article VII

The commission is authorized and directed to proceed with the planning and construction of the bridge and the approaches thereto as rapidly as may be economically practicable and is hereby vested with all necessary and appropriate powers, not inconsistent with the constitution or the laws of the United States or of either state, to effect the same, except the power to assess or levy taxes.

Article VIII

In witness thereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals under authority vested in us by law.

(Signed)

In the presence of:

(Signed)
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-119 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-119
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-119
Status: in_force

The circuit judge shall at each term of the court especially charge the grand jury to inquire into the condition of the roads of any county. Any contractor or overseer or supervisor who neglects his duty shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to indictment and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-37-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 37-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-37-13
Status: in_force

(1) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the “Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund.” The fund shall consist of monies that the Legislature appropriates under subsection (2) of this section, the proceeds of bonds issued under Section 10 of Chapter 557, Laws of 2009, and any other monies that the Legislature may designate for deposit into the fund. Monies in the fund may be expended upon legislative appropriation in accordance with the provisions of Sections 65-37-1 through 65-37-15 .

(2)(a) During each regular legislative session held in calendar years 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, if the official General Fund revenue estimate for the succeeding fiscal year for which appropriations are being made reflects a growth in General Fund revenues of three percent (3%) or more for that succeeding fiscal year, then the Legislature shall appropriate Twenty-five Million Dollars ($25,000,000.00) from the State General Fund for deposit into the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund.

(b) During the regular legislative session held in calendar year 1999, if the official General Fund revenue estimate for the succeeding fiscal year for which appropriations are being made reflects a growth in General Fund revenues of two percent (2%) or more for the succeeding fiscal year, then the Legislature shall appropriate Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00) from the State General Fund for deposit into the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph (c), during each regular legislative session held in calendar years 2001 through 2017, if the official General Fund revenue estimate for the succeeding fiscal year for which appropriations are being made reflects a growth in General Fund revenues of two percent (2%) or more for the succeeding fiscal year, then the Legislature shall appropriate Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000.00) from the State General Fund for deposit into the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund. However, during the regular legislative sessions held in calendar years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016 the Legislature shall not be required to appropriate funds for deposit into the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund.

(3) Monies that are deposited into the fund under the provisions of this section may be expended upon requisition therefor by the State Aid Engineer in accordance with the provisions of Sections 65-37-1 through 65-37-15 . The Office of State Aid Road Construction shall be entitled to reimbursement from monies in the fund, upon requisitions therefor by the State Aid Engineer, for the actual expenses incurred by the office in administering the provisions of the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program. Unexpended amounts remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned on amounts in the fund shall be deposited to the credit of the fund.

(4) Monies in the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund shall be allocated and become available for distribution to counties in accordance with the formula prescribed in Section 65-37-3 beginning January 1, 1995, on a project-by-project basis. Monies in the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund may not be used or expended for any purpose except as authorized under Sections 65-37-1 through 65-37-15 .

(5) Monies in the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund may be credited to a county in advance of the normal accrual to finance certain projects, subject to the approval of the State Aid Engineer and subject further to the following limitations:

(a) That the maximum amount of such monies that may be advanced to any county shall not exceed ninety percent (90%) of the funds estimated to accrue to such county during the remainder of the term of office of the board of supervisors of such county;

(b) That no advance credit of funds will be made to any county when the unobligated balance in the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund is less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00); and

(c) That such advance crediting of funds be effected by the State Aid Engineer at the time of the approval of the plans and specifications for the proposed projects.

It is the intent of this provision to utilize to the fullest practicable extent the balance of monies in the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund on hand at all times.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.30 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.30
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.30
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of U. S. Highway 84 in Franklin County, Mississippi, beginning four (4) miles west of its intersection with U. S. Highway 98 and extending to a point six (6) miles west of the intersection of U. S. Highway 84 and U. S. Highway 98 shall be known and designated as the “George D. ‘Danny’ Nash, Jr., Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.216 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.216
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.216
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 15 in Jasper County beginning at its intersection with County Road 1511 and extending southerly to its intersection with County Road 151131 is designated and shall be known as the “Tommy Bryan Hosey Memorial Highway” in memory of the first Jasper County resident killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 4-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-13
Status: in_force

If, after reviewing the application of the political subdivision and the report of the State Highway Department or political subdivision, the board determines that the application meets the requirements for approval and should be approved, the board shall notify the political subdivision and the State Highway Commission of its approval and contracts may be let. Upon certification by the board that monies currently available in the Economic Development Highway Fund are sufficient to defray the costs of the construction or improvement, then contracts with respect to such work may be executed by the highway department or political subdivision and work necessary for the construction or improvement of the highways and highway segments so approved shall commence by the State Highway Department or political subdivision, as determined by the Department of Economic and Community Development. If the construction or improvement is by a political subdivision, the State Aid Engineer shall have such work inspected periodically during the progress of such construction or improvement to ensure that it meets the standards prescribed in Section 65-4-17, Mississippi Code of 1972 . However, no application shall be approved by the board if the total costs for constructing or improving the proposed highways or highway segments to be funded hereunder, according to estimates in the report of the State Highway Department or political subdivision, will exceed monies currently available in the Economic Development Highway Fund created in Section 65-4-15, Mississippi Code of 1972 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 27-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-7
Status: in_force

The bond given by the keeper of a toll ferry, bridge, turnpike, causeway, or plank road may be put in suit by the county, or by any person damaged, for a breach thereof; and the bond may be sued on from time to time until the whole penalty be recovered. The board of supervisors may require such bonds to be renewed when proper.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 29-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-19
Status: in_force

The power to issue bonds or other obligations authorized by Section 65-29-11 shall be vested in, and may be exercised from time to time by, the governing body of any municipality or county described in said section. Such bonds or other obligations shall be authorized by resolution of the governing body of any such municipality and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not exceeding twenty-five years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding six per centum per annum, be in such denomination, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of prior redemption, with or without premium, as such resolution or resolutions shall provide. Such bonds or other obligations may be sold at public or private sale for such price or prices as the governing body of such municipality or county shall determine, provided that the interest cost to maturity of the money received from any issue of said bonds or other obligations shall not exceed six per centum per annum. Such bonds or other obligations may be issued by any municipality or county described in Section 65-29-11 in a principal amount not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, for any purpose or purposes authorized by said section. Such municipality or county shall have the power out of any funds available to purchase any bonds or other obligations issued by it pursuant to this chapter, and all bonds or other obligations so purchased shall be cancelled and no bonds or other obligations shall be issued in lieu thereof. In anticipation of the issuance of the definitive bonds authorized by this chapter, any such municipality or county may issue interim certificates. Such interim certificates shall be in such form, contain such terms, conditions, or provisions, bear such dates or date, and evidence such agreement or agreements relating to their discharge by payment or by the delivery of the definitive bonds, as such municipality or county by resolution of its governing body may determine. Any bonds, interim certificates, or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all the purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 17-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-9
Status: in_force

Upon a determination by the board of supervisors that (a) equipment of the county road department has ceased to be used for purposes of the road department; and (b) such equipment has been owned by the road department for at least three (3) years; and (c) such equipment may be of use or benefit to another department of county government; and (d) the transfer of the equipment to another department of county government would promote the best interest of county government; and (e) upon the unanimous approval of the board of supervisors, such surplus equipment may be transferred to any other department of county government without the necessity of reimbursement to the road and bridge fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.170 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.170
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.170
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 366 within Tishomingo County, Mississippi, beginning at its intersection with Mississippi 25 in the Town of Belmont and extending to North Patterson Street in the Town of Golden shall be known and designated as “Roger D. Moore Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-2-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-2-11
Status: in_force

The board shall have the authority to hire personnel for the purpose of recording the hearings provided for herein, and the costs for such personnel shall be assessed as determined by the board.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 23-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-9
Status: in_force

Any municipality or county or political subdivision desiring to come under this article, whether such municipality be a special charter municipality or not, may so do and may own, operate, and maintain such toll bridge wholly within the State of Mississippi or partly within the State of Mississippi and partly within any adjoining state, together with all approaches to and from said bridge. This article shall apply to special charter cities simply by resolution of the governing authority thereof, either through resolution or ordinance, and without amendment to the charter of such municipality.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-225 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 23-225
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-225
Status: in_force

The board of commissioners herein created are hereby granted the right and power to construct, operate, and maintain said bridge as a toll bridge, and shall have the power to fix and determine, subject to the terms and provisions of the General Bridge Authority Act of Congress, approved August 2, 1946, and any laws amendatory thereof, the tolls to be charged for transit over such bridge for motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carriages, animals, foot passengers, pipe line or lines, or other persons, firms, or corporations using such bridge; and the rates so prescribed shall be the legal rates demanded and received for such transit. The rates for such tolls may be increased or decreased from time to time by the board of commissioners, subject, however, to the terms and provisions of the above-mentioned act of Congress. The board of commissioners shall make an annual report of all tolls collected to a trustee or trustees representing the bond holders and to the Mississippi State Highway Commission, and one copy of said report shall be filed with the clerk of the chancery court of the county in which the bridge is located. When the bonded indebtedness and all claims and liability have been fully paid and discharged, said bridge shall become a free bridge. The board of commissioners shall thereupon convey all its right, title, and interest in said bridge to the Mississippi State Highway Commission, and said commission shall maintain and operate said bridge as a part of its highway system without cost to the individual user thereof. The tolls so charged and collected for the use of such bridge shall be used as follows:

(a) To the payment of the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge and approaches thereto, under economical management;

(b) To the payment of the principal and interest on the bonded indebtedness; and

(c) The balance, if any, to be placed in an interest and sinking fund to be used for future maintenance and operations and the retirement of the bonded indebtedness.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-43 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 11-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-43
Status: in_force

The funds hereinafter appropriated for the purpose of Sections 65-11-39 to 65-11-59 shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated on warrants issued by the State Auditor of Public accounts, and the said auditor shall issue his warrants upon requisition signed by the chancery clerk of each county for the sum appropriated such county. Each county shall receive nine one-thousandths (.009) of the total appropriation made to carry out the provisions of said sections, and the balance of said appropriation shall be apportioned by the state auditor among all the counties according to the following formula: one third in the ratio which the area of each county bears to the total area of the state; one third in the ratio which the rural population of each county bears to the total rural population of the state, as shown by the federal census of 1940; and one third in the ratio which the mileage of rural delivery and star routes in each county bears to the total mileage of rural delivery and star routes in the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-45 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 4-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-45
Status: in_force

Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 , without reference to any other statute, shall be deemed to be full and complete authority for the issuance of such bonds, and shall be construed as an additional and alternative method therefor, and none of the present restrictions, requirements, conditions or limitations of law applicable to the issuance or sale of bonds, notes or other obligations by the state shall apply to the issuance and sale of bonds under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 , and no proceedings shall be required for the issuance of such bonds other than those provided for and required in Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 , and all powers necessary to be exercised in order to carry out the provisions of Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 are hereby conferred.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-11.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 15-11.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-11.nr2
Status: in_force

In any county having road or bridge bonds outstanding, and having on hand in the county treasury to the credit of a special fund set aside from the county's share of the gasoline tax for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds, or to the credit of bond and interest sinking funds, a sufficient amount to pay the principal of and interest on all such road or bridge bonds outstanding, the board of supervisors shall no longer be required to set aside any part of the county's share of the gasoline tax or the county's share of motor vehicle privilege taxes, to be used in paying the principal and interest of such road or bridge bonds as they mature. In any such case, however, the funds already set aside from the county's share of the gasoline tax or the county's share of the motor vehicle privilege taxes, for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, shall be applied to the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds as they mature and shall not be used by the board of supervisors for any other purpose; however, when all of said bonds shall have been paid, any balance remaining in said funds may be transferred by the board of supervisors to the county road or bridge maintenance fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-51 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-51
Status: in_force

The State Highway Commission is hereby directed to designate the bridge located at the interchange of U.S. Highway 61 and U.S. Highway 82 in Leland, Mississippi, as the “Donnie Gene Kelley Memorial Bridge” and to place appropriate markers at each end of the bridge.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-21
Status: in_force

(1) The permanent district offices for the Office of Highways of the Mississippi Department of Transportation and for the repair and housing of the equipment and vehicles of the department provided for in paragraph (m) of Section 65-1-8, Mississippi Code of 1972 , shall be at the following locations:

(a) For the Northern District: At or near Batesville and at or near Tupelo.

(b) For the Central District: At or near Yazoo City and at or near Newton.

(c) For the Southern District: At or near McComb and at or near Hattiesburg.

(2) The Northern District Office at or near Tupelo is designated and shall be known as the “Roy Clark Adams District Office.” The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain an appropriate sign or placque designating such office.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-51 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 25-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-51
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of such county or the governing authority of such city shall appoint the members of such commission. In making the first appointments, one (1) member shall be appointed for a term of one (1) year, one (1) member for a term of two (2) years, one (1) member for a term of three (3) years, one (1) member for a term of four (4) years, and one (1) member for a term of five (5) years. If the governing authorities shall elect to continue an existing commission in effect, then the order so providing shall reappoint the membership of such commission for varying terms of from one (1) to five (5) years, as hereinabove provided in cases of a newly established commission and, thereafter, their successors shall be appointed for a term of five (5) years. Said governing authorities shall, by resolution entered upon their minutes, prescribe the duties, powers, and rights of such commission and provide for the reasonable compensation, if any, of such commissioners. The acts of such commissioners shall regularly, and not less than four (4) times each year, be reported to such governing body and be subject to its approval and concurrence.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-67 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 19-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-67
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the boards of supervisors to build all bridges and culverts in districts coming under this chapter, the cost of which shall be paid out of either the county fund or the proceeds from the sale of bonds of said separate road district, in the discretion of the board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-201 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 7-201
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-201
Status: in_force

When any person shall desire to have a private road laid out through the land of another, when necessary for ingress and egress, he shall apply by petition, stating the facts and reasons, to the special court of eminent domain created under Section 11-27-3 of the county where the land or part of it is located, and the case shall proceed as nearly as possible as provided in Title 11, Chapter 27 for the condemnation of private property for public use. The court sitting without a jury shall determine the reasonableness of the application. The owner of the property shall be a necessary party to the proceedings. If the court finds in favor of the petitioner, all damages that the jury determines the landowner should be compensated for shall be assessed against and shall be paid by the person applying for the private road, and he shall pay all the costs and expenses incurred in the proceedings.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-37-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 37-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-37-11
Status: in_force

(1) The board of supervisors of each county and the governing authorities of each municipality shall be responsible for properly maintaining all bridges replaced or repaired in their respective jurisdictions and for performing National Bridge Inspection Standard (NBIS) compliant inspections under the provisions of this chapter.

(2) The State Aid Engineer and his assistants shall make annual maintenance inspections of completed bridge projects and ensure that NBIS compliant inspections are performed as the State Aid Engineer deems necessary. If at any time the State Aid Engineer is of the opinion that a county or municipality has not provided NBIS compliant bridge inspections or proper maintenance as required by subsection (1) of this section, he shall give written notice thereof to the board of supervisors of the county or the governing authorities of the municipality of default and direct such maintenance as may be necessary to be performed. If within sixty (60) days of the receipt of such notice the board of supervisors or governing authorities have not performed such maintenance as may be necessary, then the county or municipality shall not thereafter be eligible to participate in the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program.

(3) Whenever any county fails to be eligible for the expenditure of monies allocated to it under the provisions of this chapter for a continuous period of two (2) years because it has failed to properly maintain bridges under the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program, then the county shall forfeit and no longer be entitled to any part of the monies in the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund theretofore allocated to it. The balance of the monies theretofore allocated to it shall be reallocated pro rata among all other eligible counties in accordance with the formula established in Section 65-37-3 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 25-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-11
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the governing body of any municipality, at or before the time any such bridge shall be acquired by such municipality by purchase or by condemnation, to determine what repairs, replacements, additions, or betterments will be necessary to place the bridge in safe and efficient condition for the use of the public, and to cause an estimate of the cost of such improvement to be made. The governing body of the municipality shall authorize such improvements before the sale of any bridge revenue bonds for the acquisition of such bridge, and the cost of such improvements shall be paid for out of the proceeds of such bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-37 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 33-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-37
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors may agree with any municipality or sea wall district that the county be assessed for its pro rata share of the construction and maintenance of sea walls. The assessment shall be paid each year by the county for whatever period agreed upon by the board of supervisors and the sea wall district or municipality.

Where any municipality has issued bonds and constructed road protection, such as is contemplated by this chapter, which protection is, or shall become, a part of the general scheme to protect roads, streets, or highways from tidewater in said county, the board of supervisors may use the funds derived under Sections 65-33-47 and 65-33-49 for the payment and retirement of said bonds, or for such portion thereof as the board may deem equitable and just, and to refund upon an equitable and just basis to municipal property owners who have paid direct special improvement taxes to municipalities for sea wall or road protection, which sea wall or road protection is or shall become a part of the general road system of the county; and said payments may be made in yearly installments.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-71 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 43-71
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-71
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, as used in Sections 65-43-71 through 65-43-85 and Section 65-43-6 :

(a) “ Toll facility operator ” means any private company contracting with a governmental entity to collect tolls or fees for the use of any toll road or toll bridge as authorized under Section 65-43-3 ;

(b) “ Processing agency ” means a governmental entity, or a toll facility operator designated by any governmental entity, responsible for the processing of the notices of toll evasions and notices of delinquent toll evasions and penalties. A processing agency may include a public agency or private vendor with which any governmental entity contracts for the processing of notices of toll evasions and notices of delinquent toll evasions;

(c) “ Toll facility ” means any road or bridge for which tolls or fees are charged for the use thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-65 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-65
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the State Highway Commission to have the State Highway Department maintain all highways which have been or which may be hereafter taken over by the State Highway Department for maintenance in such a way as to afford convenient, comfortable, and economic use thereof by the public at all times. To this end it shall be the duty of the director, subject to the rules, regulations and orders of the commission as spread on its minutes, to organize an adequate and continuous patrol for the maintenance, repair, and inspection of all of the state-maintained state highway system, so that said highways may be kept under proper maintenance and repair at all times.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-135 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-135
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-135
Status: in_force

The powers and authority of any security officer may be terminated at any time by the Highway Commission.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 25-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-19
Status: in_force

In the discretion of the governing body of any municipality issuing its bonds under the provisions of this article, each or any issue of such bonds may be secured by a trust indenture by and between such municipality and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or outside of the state, which trust indenture may, in the discretion of the governing body, convey or mortgage the revenues, the bridge, or any part thereof.

Either the resolution providing for the issuance of bridge revenue bonds or such trust indenture may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of such municipality and the governing body thereof in relation to the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, operation, repair, and insurance of the bridges, and the custody, safeguarding, and application of all moneys; and may also provide that the bridge or bridges shall be acquired, constructed, or partly acquired and partly constructed, and paid for under the supervision and approval of consulting engineers employed or designated by the governing body of such municipality and satisfactory to the original purchasers of the bonds issued therefor; and may also require that the security given by contractors and by any depository of the proceeds of the bonds or revenues of the bridges or other moneys pertaining thereto be satisfactory to such purchasers. It shall be lawful for any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of this state to act as such depository and to furnish such indemnifying bonds or to pledge such securities as may be required by the governing body of such municipality. Such indenture may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustee, and may restrict the individual right of action of bondholders as is customary in trust indentures securing bonds and debentures of corporations. Except as in this article otherwise provided, the governing body of such municipality may provide, by resolution or by such trust indenture, for the payment of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds and the revenues of the bridges to such officer, board, or depository as it may determine for the custody thereof and for the method of disbursement thereof, with such safeguards and restrictions as it may determine. All expenses incurred in carrying out such trust indenture may be treated as a part of the cost of maintenance, operation, and repair of the bridge or bridges affected by such indenture.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-36 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-36
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-36
Status: in_force

(1) The following segments of highways located in the State of Mississippi are hereby designated as a scenic route:

Mississippi Highway 7 beginning at point of intersection with Interstate 55, running east to the intersection with Mississippi Highway 332, thence southerly along the route of the Grenada Dam then to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 8, thence running west along the route of Mississippi Highway 8 to its intersection with Interstate 55.

(2)(a) The State Highway Department may plan and erect suitable signs and markers along such route and along the interstate approaches to the area. Such signs shall be attractive and designed to invite and encourage tourism, recreation and camping in the area.

(b) The State Highway Department may establish and maintain rest and observation areas along the designated route and may invite the participation of and cooperate with any state, county or municipal agency to assist in the promotion and development of the scenic route hereinabove designated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-4 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 7-4
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-4
Status: in_force

(1) On or before July 1, 2000, the board of supervisors of each county shall prepare and adopt an official map designating and delineating all public roads on the county road system. Changes to the county road system shall be recorded on this map as soon as is reasonably possible. The map, as it is periodically revised, shall be kept on file in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors where it shall be available for public inspection.

(2) On or before July 1, 2000, the board of supervisors of each county shall prepare and adopt a county road system register in which shall be entered:

(a) The number and name of each public road on the county road system.

(b) A general reference to the terminal points and course of each such road.

(c) A memorandum of every proceeding in reference to each such road, with the date of such proceeding, and the page and volume of the minute book of the board of supervisors where it is recorded; however, reference to proceedings before July 1, 2000, shall not be required.

(3) Before the initial adoption of the official map and the county road system register, the board of supervisors shall hold a public hearing on the content of the official map and the county road system registry and shall publish notice of the hearing at least one (1) time, not less than two (2) weeks before the date of the hearing, in a newspaper having general circulation in the county.

(4) All subsequent proceedings and changes to the county road system shall be recorded in the county road system register as soon as is reasonably possible. The county road system register, as it is periodically revised, shall be kept on file in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors where it shall be available for public inspection.

(5) From and after July 1, 2000, the official record of the county road system shall consist of an official map, as provided for in subsection (1) of this section, and the county road system register, as provided for in subsection (2) of this section. The county road system register shall have priority in case of conflict between the register and the official map. The minutes of the board of supervisors containing proceedings with respect to county roads and the county road system shall serve as the official record until such proceedings are recorded on the official map and in the county road system register. The official record of the county road system, at a minimum, shall be revised and updated on or before July 1 of each year.

(6) It is the intention of the Legislature that the initial official record of the county road system prepared and adopted in accordance with this section shall include all public roads that the board of supervisors determines, consistent with fact, as of July 1, 2000, or such date the initial official record is adopted, are laid out and open according to law. From and after July 1, 2000, no road shall be added or deleted from the county road system or otherwise changed except by order or other appropriate action of the board of supervisors and such action shall be recorded in the minutes of the board. All additions, deletions or changes to the county road system shall be recorded in the official record of the county road system as provided for in this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-23 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-23
Status: in_force

For the purpose of this chapter the several boards of supervisors are hereby clothed with the power and authority, and it is made their duty, to exercise the right of eminent domain in order to procure the right of way for such roads, streets, highways, sea walls, breakwaters, bulkheads, sloping beach, and such other devices as may be adopted for the protection of such highways. They shall have the power to pass all necessary ordinances for the preservation and protection of any such road, sea wall, sloping beach, or other device constructed hereunder, and the violation of such ordinances shall constitute, and be punished as, a misdemeanor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-59 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 19-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-59
Status: in_force

All the public roads of any separate road district, or parts thereof, shall be worked by contract, if the board of supervisors of such county so elect, by an order entered to that effect on its minutes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-69 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-69
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 63 lying in Wayne County shall be designated and henceforth shall be known as the “Jake W. Lindsey Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby directed to erect appropriate signs along Mississippi Highway 63 at the entrances to Wayne County and at the exits from the Town of Waynesboro.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-35 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-35
Status: in_force

All expenses incurred prior to the issuance and sale of bonds as hereinabove provided may be paid out of the general county fund or such other fund as the board of supervisors may select. The fund out of which such expense is paid shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds of such bond issue when the bonds are issued and sold.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.315 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.315
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.315
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of U.S. Highway 11 in Jones County, Mississippi, beginning at its intersection with Hill Street and extending one (1) mile south, is designated as the “Coach Elmer Higginbotham Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-85 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 19-85
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-85
Status: in_force

The board, in assessing the benefits derived by any land in such district, shall consider only its proximity to the road and its market terminus. No benefit assessment shall be made on any lands when the distance between it and the nearest point on the road is greater than three tenths of the distance from such point on the road to the market terminus of the road, and no benefit assessment shall be made on any land more than three and one-half miles from the road. Any subdivision of a section of land containing forty acres, more or less, for the purposes of the benefit assessment may be included in such district if one fourth thereof is within the lines of the district. The board may collect from a benefit district an amount equal to one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each lineal mile of road constructed therein, and no more, except interest on the amount that may be expended twelve months or more in advance of the collection of any tax. The board shall not undertake the construction of any road when the estimate indicates that the total cost will exceed thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500.00) per mile.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-327 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 23-327
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-327
Status: in_force

The exercise of the powers conferred by this article constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, and as bridges which are owned and operated by counties constitute public property used for public purposes, such bridges shall at all times be free from taxation within the state. No county shall be required to pay taxes or assessments upon any such bridge or any part thereof owned by it, and bonds issued under the provisions of this article, their transfer, and the income therefrom shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.38 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.38
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.38
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of U.S. Highway 49 in Lyman, Mississippi, beginning at the intersection of U.S. Highway 49 and Mississippi Highway 53 and extending north on U.S. Highway 49 for two (2) miles shall be known and designated as the “David Bruce Ladner Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-27 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 21-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-27
Status: in_force

In case any public highway of any county in the state shall cross any river or stream on such highway within the boundaries of any municipality, in whole or in part, and it shall be deemed by the board of supervisors to be to the interest of the public that a free or toll bridge be constructed across such stream at the expense and under jurisdiction of the county, and the municipal authorities of such municipality shall by ordinance express a willingness that such bridge be constructed and maintained at the expense of the county, the board of supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to establish, construct, and maintain such bridge either as a free or toll bridge, as in case of other bridges of the county and to the full extent as now authorized by law in such cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 9-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-17
Status: in_force

(1) When any county shall have met the requirements of this chapter and shall have become eligible for state aid, the State Aid Engineer, as soon as practicable, shall notify such county in writing of such eligibility and that its proportionate part of any state funds allocated to it for state aid may be utilized for construction in the manner provided by law, and such notice shall also be given in writing to the Department of Finance and Administration and to the State Treasurer.

(2) State aid funds shall be allocated to each county for use on state aid system roads or roads on the Local System Road Program in accordance with the provisions of Section 27-65-75 .

(3) State aid funds may be credited to a county in advance of the normal accrual to finance certain state aid improvements, subject to the approval of the State Aid Engineer and subject further to the following limitations:

(a) That the maximum amount of state aid funds that may be advanced to any county shall not exceed ninety percent (90%) of the state aid funds estimated to accrue to such county during the remainder of the term of office of the board of supervisors of such county.

(b) That no advance credit of funds will be made to any county when the unobligated balance in the State Aid Road Fund is less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00).

(c) That such advance crediting of funds be effected by the State Aid Engineer at the time of the approval of the plans and specifications for the proposed improvements.

It is the intent of this provision to utilize to the fullest practicable extent the balance of state aid funds on hand at all times.

(4) State aid funds shall be available to such county to the following extent and in the following manner:

(a) On state aid projects, other than those on or off the federal aid secondary system to be partially financed with federal funds, state aid funds credited to such county in the State Aid Road Fund shall be available to cover the cost of such project. Upon the awarding of a contract for such state aid project, the board of supervisors of any county will, by an official order of the board, authorize the State Aid Engineer to set up the project fund for such project from that county's state aid fund in the State Treasury. The amount of the project fund will cover the estimated cost of the project, including the contractor's payments and any other costs authorized under this chapter to be paid from state aid funds. Withdrawals from the project fund will be made by requisitions prepared by the State Aid Engineer, based on estimates and other supporting statements and documents prepared or approved by the county engineer, such requisitions, accompanied by such estimates and statements, to be directed to the Department of Finance and Administration, which will issue warrants in payment thereof. Requisitions may be drawn to cover the final cost of the project accepted by the boards of supervisors of the counties affected and the State Aid Engineer, even though such cost exceeds the aforesaid estimated project fund. Whenever, in the opinion of the State Aid Engineer, it should appear that any such estimate or statement of account has been improperly allowed or that any road construction project is not proceeding in accordance with the plans, specifications and standards set up therefor, then, in such event, due notice in writing shall be given the board of supervisors of such county and the contractor on such project, if any, stating the reason why such account should not have been allowed or why such project is not progressing satisfactorily; and if, within thirty (30) days from the date of such notice in writing, such error or default is not corrected to the satisfaction of the State Aid Engineer, all state aid funds theretofore allocated to such eligible county shall be immediately withdrawn and notice given the Department of Finance and Administration and the State Treasurer that such county has become ineligible therefor. Such county shall remain ineligible until it again becomes eligible by satisfying the State Aid Engineer as to its eligibility.

(b) On state aid projects on the federal aid secondary system which are to be partially financed with federal funds, state aid funds credited to such county in the State Aid Road Fund shall be available to cover the sponsor's share of the cost of such project. At the same time, the State Treasurer, on order from the board of supervisors, shall transfer an amount up to one hundred percent (100%) of such cost from the credit of such county in the State Aid Road Fund to the credit of such county in the State Highway Fund, earmarked for such project.

(c) State aid road funds credited to a county in the State Aid Road Fund shall also be available to cover the sponsor's cost of any other project of such county which is partially financed with federal funds available through federal “safer off-system” road funds and/or other federal road funds allocated to the counties as provided for in accordance with Section 65-9-29(2) . On order from the board of supervisors of such county, the State Treasurer shall transfer an amount up to one hundred percent (100%) of such cost from the credit of such county in the State Aid Road Fund to the credit of such county in the State Highway Fund, earmarked for such project.

(d) Up to one-third ( 1 / 3 ) of state aid road funds credited to a county in the State Aid Road Fund may be available to match federal bridge replacement monies or other federal funds, or both, to construct, replace, inspect or post bridges and to conduct pavement management surveys on county roads which are not on the state aid system. To implement such projects, the State Treasurer shall, as requested in an order from the board of supervisors of the county, make transfers out of the credit of such county in the State Aid Road Fund.

(e) Up to twenty-five percent (25%) of the state aid road funds credited to a county in the State Aid Road Fund may be available for projects authorized under the Local System Road Program. Withdrawals from the fund for the Local System Road Program will be made by requisitions prepared by the State Aid Engineer, based on estimates and other supporting statements and documents prepared or approved by the county engineer; such requisitions, accompanied by such estimates and statements, to be directed to the Department of Finance and Administration, which will issue warrants in payment thereof. Requisitions may be drawn to cover the final cost of the local system road project accepted by the boards of supervisors of the counties affected and the State Aid Engineer even though such cost exceeds the aforesaid estimated project fund. Whenever, in the opinion of the State Aid Engineer, it should appear that any such estimate or statement of account has been improperly allowed or that any road construction project is not proceeding in accordance with the plans, specifications and standards set up therefor, then, in such event, due notice in writing shall be given the board of supervisors of such county and the contractor on such project, if any, stating the reason why such account should not have been allowed or why such project is not progressing satisfactorily; and if, within thirty (30) days from the date of such notice in writing, such error or default is not corrected to the satisfaction of the State Aid Engineer, all state aid funds theretofore allocated to such eligible county shall be immediately withdrawn and notice given the Department of Finance and Administration and the State Treasurer that such county has become ineligible therefor. Such county shall remain ineligible until it again becomes eligible by satisfying the State Aid Engineer as to its eligibility.

(5) The State Treasurer is hereby authorized to continue to receive and deposit all funds from the federal government made available by it, either by existing law or by any law which may be passed hereafter, to the credit of the State Highway Fund, and the Treasurer shall notify the commission of the amounts so received.

All accounts against the above-mentioned funds shall be certified to by the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, who shall request the Department of Finance and Administration to issue its warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount of the accounts; and the Treasurer shall pay same if sufficient funds are available, all in the manner prescribed herein or as may be required by law.

(6) The board of supervisors of each county is hereby authorized and empowered to pay funds into the State Treasury in the manner above set out, and to use and expend such funds for the purposes set out in this chapter. For the purpose of providing such funds, the board of supervisors is hereby authorized and empowered to use and expend any county road and bridge funds, including revenue received from any gasoline taxes paid to such county, or any funds available in the General Fund, or to issue road and bridge bonds of such county in any lawful amount in the manner and method and subject to the restrictions, limitations and conditions, and payable from the same sources of revenue, now provided by law.

(7)(a) In addition to any other provisions of this section, funds deposited into the State Aid Road Fund under Section 27-67-31(g) shall be used under this chapter to prioritize the timely repair and replacement of deficient state aid system bridges. Each county shall be allocated a percentage of such funds as they become available, which percentage shall be based:

(i) One-half ( 1 / 2 ) on the proportion that the total number of state aid system bridges in the county bears to the total number of state aid system bridges in all counties of the state; and

(ii) One-half ( 1 / 2 ) on the proportion that the total square footage of deck area of all state aid system bridges in the county bears to the total square footage of deck area of all state aid system bridges in all counties of the state.

(b) For the purposes of this subsection, (i) the term “ deficient bridge ” means a bridge with a condition rating of fair or less for its deck, superstructure or substructure, as determined by National Bridge Inspection Standards and that is included on the latest annual bridge inventory prepared by the Office of State Aid Road Construction and (ii) the term “state aid system bridge” means a bridge that is included on the latest annual official bridge inventory prepared by the Office of State Aid Road Construction, excluding bridges on the local bridge system and the rural major collector system.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.213 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.213
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.213
Status: in_force

(1) That bridge that spans the Pearl River on Mississippi Highway 44 in Marion County is designated and shall be known as the “J.B. Ivy Memorial Bridge.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the bridge described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-31 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 13-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-31
Status: in_force

The highway and street revenue bond authority, through its trustees, is hereby empowered:

(a) To develop one or more projects under the authority provided by this chapter.

(b) To construct and maintain highways and streets, including roadways, drainageways, bases, pavements, culverts, bridges, driveways, turnouts, ramps, overpasses, underpasses, intersections, and all other facilities necessary to provide for safe and convenient use by automotive and truck traffic.

(c) To acquire and develop land or any interest in land or property; acquire, construct, improve, install, reconstruct, cause to be constructed, extend, expand, maintain, use, operate all facilities of any kind necessary or convenient for the purposes of this chapter.

(d) To make or cause to be made or to cooperate in making engineering surveys, feasibility studies, and cost-benefit estimates relating to the works contemplated by this chapter.

(e) To employ engineers, attorneys, and all agents and employees necessary to the exercising of the powers, rights, privileges, or functions conferred upon the authority by this chapter, and to properly finance, construct, operate, and maintain the project and the services it renders, and to pay reasonable compensation for such services.

(f) To acquire by condemnation easements for traffic thoroughfares or utility rights of way, subject to the specific recommendation and approval of the board of supervisors; but for no other purpose shall the right of condemnation be allowed.

(g) To apply for and accept government grants and loans, whether federal, state, or local, when such are available; to borrow from other federal, state and municipal agencies and from private persons or groups, including corporations.

(h) To make contracts and to execute instruments necessary to the exercise of the powers, rights, privileges, and functions conferred upon the authority by this chapter.

(i) To enter into contracts and agreements with any federal agencies, public agencies, or political subdivisions of any kind, including municipalities, corporations, districts, or others for any financing, construction, operation, or maintenance requirements.

(j) To fix and to revise from time to time tolls and other charges for transit over, or use of, the facility, and to charge and collect same; and to contract with any person, partnership, corporation, or association desiring to use its properties for any purpose to fix the terms, conditions, rates, and charges for such use. Such tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted, in respect of the aggregate of tolls from the project for which a single issue of bonds is issued, as to provide a fund sufficient with other revenues of the project, if any, to pay (1) the cost of maintaining, repairing, operating such project and collecting tolls, and (2) the bonds and the interest thereon as the same become due. Such tolls shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any state commission, board, bureau or agency, except such bureau or agency that might participate in the financing of the cost of any such project.

(k) To designate the locations, and establish, limit, and control such points of ingress to and egress from each project as may be necessary or desirable in the judgment of the authority to insure the proper operation and maintenance of such project, and to prohibit entrance to such project from any point or points not so designated.

(l) To construct highway and railroad crossings at grade or by means of grade separation structures.

(m) To sue and be sued in its corporate name.

(n) To adopt, use, and alter a corporate seal.

(o) To make bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs.

(p) To employ a general manager, who shall, at the discretion of the board of trustees, have the power to employ and discharge employees.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-117.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 7-117.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-117.nr2
Status: in_force

Each member of the board of supervisors shall inspect every road and bridge in the county under the jurisdiction of the county not later than December 31, 1989, and, thereafter, not less than once each fiscal year. Each member shall file with the clerk of the board a report, under oath, of the condition of the roads and bridges inspected by him with recommendations by him for a four-year plan for construction and major maintenance of such roads and bridges. Based upon such reports, the board of supervisors shall, on or before February 1, 1990, and on or before February 1 of each year thereafter, adopt and spread upon its minutes a four-year plan for the construction and maintenance of county roads and bridges. The plan may be amended at any time by a vote of the majority of the members of the board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.312 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.312
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.312
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of U.S. Highway 51 in Lincoln County, Mississippi, beginning at its intersection at Natchez Avenue and extending north to its intersection with Brookway Boulevard is designated as the “Corporal Zach Moak and Officer James White Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-39 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-39
Status: in_force

The county auditor shall have prepared proper warrants for the disbursement of district road funds and shall issue such warrants when properly authorized by ordinance of the board of supervisors. All the costs and expenses of organizing such road district and of constructing, maintaining, and working the highways, roads, bridges, and culverts, except county bridges maintained by the county, shall be paid out of such fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-3 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 13-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-3
Status: in_force

The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the construction, operation, and maintenance of highways, streets, culverts, and bridges in order to furnish access from interstate, primary, or secondary highways to reservoirs, parks, residential or industrial areas, and similar facilities and to provide a method for the financing thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 23-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-5
Status: in_force

The holders of any bond or interest coupon issued under the provisions of this article may by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings at law or in equity enforce or compel performance by the appropriate official or officials of a municipality or public body of any and all acts and duties to be performed by such public body under the provisions of this article and the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds and interest coupons. If there be any default in the payment of the interest and principal of any of said bonds, any court having jurisdiction in the proper action may, upon petition of the holder of any such bond, appoint a receiver to administer and operate the bridge, with power to fix rates and collect charges sufficient to provide for the payment of all bonds outstanding to the payment of which the revenue of such bridge is pledged, to pay the expenses of operating and maintaining such toll bridge, and to apply the revenues of such toll bridge in conformity with the provisions of this article and the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.81 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.81
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.81
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 18 in Jasper County beginning at the corporate limits of the Town of Bay Springs and extending northeasterly approximately twenty (20) miles to the Rose Hill community shall be known as the “Sheriff Tom Royce Green Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching that portion of Mississippi Highway 18 described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-71 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 33-71
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-71
Status: in_force

The provisions of sections 65-33-61 to 65-33-71 , without reference to any other statute, shall be deemed full and complete authority for the issuance of refunding bonds as therein provided; and all powers necessary to be exercised by the board of supervisors of such counties, in order to carry out the provisions of said sections, are hereby conferred.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-79 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-79
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-79
Status: in_force

All the provisions of law in respect to roads and bridges, so far as applicable and where not in conflict with the special provisions in respect to separate road districts, shall govern in said road districts.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 15-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-13
Status: in_force

No existing law providing methods for the construction or maintenance of any public highway, bridges, or culverts of the county or special or separate road district shall be affected by Section 65-15-9 ; and it does not supersede or impair the obligation of any county to levy a sufficient legal ad valorem tax for the purpose of construction and maintenance of public highways, bridges, or culverts, or a sufficient ad valorem tax to pay the interest or principal of any bonds heretofore or hereafter issued for the purpose of building bridges and constructing public roads. Nor does it supersede or impair any right to issue bonds for any purpose, and it shall not alter, amend or repeal any statute except insofar as such statutes are inconsistent herewith.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 25-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-17
Status: in_force

All moneys received from any bridge revenue bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be applied solely to the payment of the cost of the bridge or bridges, or to the appurtenant sinking fund, and there is hereby created and granted a lien upon such moneys until so applied, in favor of the holders of such bonds or the trustee hereinafter provided in respect of such bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-75 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 19-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-75
Status: in_force

The reports of the road commissioners and the road superintendent shall be kept on file by the clerk of the board of supervisors and shall be open to inspection of any resident or taxpayer of such road district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.279 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.279
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.279
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 513 in Clarke County, Mississippi, beginning at the northern limit of the town of Stonewall, Mississippi, and extending southerly to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 145, is designated and shall be known as the “Marine Corporal Dustin Lee Memorial Highway.”

(2) In addition to memorializing the ultimate sacrifice Corporal Lee made on March 21, 2007, the Legislature also recognizes Corporal Lee's Military Working Dog Lex, who was wounded in the attack that killed Corporal Lee, earning Lex an honorary Purple Heart Medal. The bond between Corporal Lee and Lex was so strong that the wounded Lex would not leave Corporal Lee's side and had to be dragged away by corpsmen to be treated, and as such it is only fitting that this memorial highway designation also serve as a memorial for Lex, who reunited with his partner on March 25, 2012.

(3) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-31 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-31
Status: in_force

Any county, acting through its board of supervisors, may enter into an agreement with any other county or counties, or with any road or highway district, or any other public agency for the expenditure of a part or all of the moneys available pursuant to Sections 65-11-1 to 65-11-37 for expenditure in such county or any public highway outside the boundaries of such county, if such highway is eligible for federal aid under subsection (b) of Section 3 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944 [58 U. S. Stat. 838, ch. 626]. In that event, the state highway commission is authorized and empowered to expend such moneys in accordance with such agreement.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-19
Status: in_force

If ten percent (10%) of the qualified electors residing in the supervisors district, or supervisors districts if the facility to be developed is located in more than one supervisors district, file a written petition with said boards of supervisors on or before the date specified aforesaid, protesting against the creation of the authority, the board shall call an election on the question of the creation of the authority. Such election shall be held and conducted by the election commissioners of the county as nearly as may be in accordance with the general laws governing elections. Such election commissioners shall determine which of the qualified electors of such county reside within said supervisors district, or districts, and only such qualified electors as reside within said supervisors district, or districts, shall be entitled to vote in such election. Notice of such election, setting forth the time, place or places, and purpose of such election shall be published by the clerk of the board of supervisors; and such notice shall be published for the time and manner provided for the publication of the aforesaid resolution of intention. The ballots to be prepared and used at said election shall be in substantially the following form:

For creation of the highway and street revenue bond authority․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

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Against creation of the highway and street revenue bond authority․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․․․․․( )

and voters shall vote by placing a cross mark (X) or a check mark (✓) opposite their choice.

If no petition requiring an election be filed or if a majority of those voting at an election hereunder votes in favor of the creation of the authority, the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution creating the authority as described in the aforesaid resolution of intention.