Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 41-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-7
Status: in_force

(1) There is created a Scenic Byways Advisory Committee to assist the department in the development and administration of the Mississippi Scenic Byways Program, the adoption of a corridor management plan, the review of scenic byway applications and the selection and nomination of highways, roads and streets as scenic byways. The committee shall consist of:

(a) Two (2) members from each of the following entities, with one (1) member from each entity being the executive director of that entity, or his or her designee, and the other member being a member of that entity selected by its executive director:

(i) The Mississippi Department of Transportation;

(ii) The Mississippi Development Authority, Division of Tourism Development;

(iii) The Keep Mississippi Beautiful/People Against Litter Association;

(iv) The Mississippi Association of Supervisors;

(v) The Mississippi Outdoor Advertising Association;

(vi) The Mississippi Retail Association;

(vii) The Mississippi Tourism Association; and

(viii) The Mississippi Municipal League; and

(b) Three (3) members to be selected by the Mississippi Transportation Commission, one (1) from each commissioner's district.

(2) The corridor management plan adopted by the committee shall use best management practices to maintain the intrinsic qualities of highways, roads and streets designated as scenic byways while ensuring the rights of landowners, including riparian owners, to continue existing agriculture, forestry, water supply, recreational, residential, commercial and industrial uses, and any other uses of land and water, identified in the plan. The department may enter into agreements for the mutual management of scenic byways with counties, municipalities and other political subdivisions of the state, state and federal agencies and private landowners or businesses. The plan shall ensure that landowners have input into management practices of any land or water that is designated as a scenic byway or that is included within a scenic byway corridor. Land placed in the program shall not be obtained by eminent domain. A landowner's decision to participate in the program shall be entirely voluntary and a participating landowner may terminate his participation at any time without liability, criminally or civilly, for his subsequent failure to participate. Counties, municipalities and other political subdivisions of the state may participate in the program as landowners in the same manner as private landowners. For the purposes of carrying out the intent of this chapter, counties, municipalities and other political subdivisions of the state, in addition to and supplemental to any other powers authorized by law for the acquisition of real property, may acquire by donation or purchase, but not by eminent domain, interests in real property.

(3) The plan adopted under this chapter shall be in compliance with all applicable Federal Highway Administration rules, regulations and policies regarding outdoor advertising on or along a highway, road or street designated as a scenic byway. Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted as amending or limiting any county or municipal zoning or land use ordinance unless the county or municipality has authorized the amendment according to the procedure provided for in its ordinance.

(4) A corridor management plan may not become effective until a draft of the plan has been submitted for review and recommendation to the Transportation Committee of the House of Representatives and the Highways and Transportation Committee of the Senate.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-301 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / 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. § 65-43-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / 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. § 65-26-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 26-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-9
Status: in_force

(1) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Bridge Bond Retirement Fund. All revenues pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds authorized to be issued by this chapter shall be deposited into the bond retirement fund. Expenditures from the bond retirement fund shall be made only in accordance with this section.

(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, amounts on deposit in the bond retirement fund and not immediately required for the making of any payments therefrom shall be invested in interest-bearing certificates of deposit in accordance with the provisions of Section 27-105-33 , except interest so earned shall be credited to the bond retirement fund.

(3)(a) There is hereby established within the bond retirement fund two (2) separate accounts as follows: (i) the “Tennessee-Tombigbee General Account”; and (ii) the “Tennessee-Tombigbee Principal and Interest Account.”

(b)(i) All amounts held in the bond retirement fund on April 23, 1986, and all amounts thereafter deposited in the bond retirement fund, shall be credited to the Tennessee-Tombigbee General Account.

(ii) Until such time as the transfer of funds from the Tennessee-Tombigbee General Account to the Tennessee-Tombigbee Principal and Interest Account occurs as provided in paragraph (b)(iii) of this subsection, amounts in the general account shall be applied to the following purposes and in the following order of priority: first, to the extent required, to the payment, the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on general obligation bonds; second, to the extent required, to the General Fund of the state to reimburse the state for expenditures in excess of twenty-five percent (25%) of the total costs of the principal and interest on bonds issued under authority of subsection (1) of Section 65-26-15 and for all expenditures for costs of the principal of and interest on bonds issued under authority of subsection (2) of Section 65-26-15 ; and third, to the extent required, if any, to the bridge construction fund created in Section 65-26-25 to make current payments to meet contractual obligations for bridge construction.

(iii) Upon certification of the State Treasurer, filed with and approved by the State Bond Commission, that the amount on deposit in the Tennessee-Tombigbee General Account, together with earnings on investments to accrue to it, is equal to or greater than the aggregate of the entire principal, redemption premium, if any, and interest due and to become due, until the final maturity date or earlier scheduled redemption date thereof, on all general obligation bonds outstanding as of the date of such certification, then the State Treasurer shall transfer from the Tennessee-Tombigbee General Account to the Tennessee-Tombigbee Principal and Interest Account an amount equal to the entire principal, redemption premium, if any, and interest due and to become due, until the final maturity date or scheduled redemption date thereof, on all general obligation bonds outstanding as of the date of such transfer. The State of Mississippi hereby covenants with the holders from time to time of general obligation bonds that amounts deposited in the Tennessee-Tombigbee Principal and Interest Account will be applied solely to the payment of the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on general obligation bonds.

(iv) After the date of the transfer from the general account to the principal and interest account contemplated by paragraph (b)(iii) of this subsection, amounts from time to time on deposit in the Tennessee-Tombigbee General Account shall be applied monthly to the following purposes and in the following order of priority: first, to the extent required, to the payment of the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on general obligation bonds issued under this chapter; second, to the extent required, to the General Fund of the state to reimburse the state for expenditures in excess of twenty-five percent (25%) of the total costs of the principal and interest on bonds issued under authority of subsection (1) of Section 65-26-15 and for all expenditures for costs of the principal of and interest on bonds issued under authority of subsection (2) of Section 65-26-15 ; and third, to the extent required, if any, to the bridge construction fund created in Section 65-26-25 to make current payments to meet contractual obligations for bridge construction.

(4) It is the intent of the Legislature that all outstanding general obligation bonds issued under this chapter shall be retired by the State Bond Commission on the earliest scheduled redemption date thereof, provided that there are sufficient funds in the bond retirement fund together with earnings on investments to accrue to it. When the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on all such outstanding general obligation bonds are paid in full, then any amounts remaining in the bond retirement fund, or separate accounts therein, together with earnings on investments to accrue to it, shall be apportioned and paid as follows:

(a) Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,500,000.00) of such funds shall be paid into the appropriate fund for use by the Yellow Creek State Inland Port Authority for equipment or facilities necessary to the operation of the port.

(b) Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,500,000.00) shall be paid into the State General Fund.

(c) Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7,500,000.00) shall be paid to Tishomingo County. Of the Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7,500,000.00), (i) Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000.00) shall be placed by the county in a special trust fund, the principal of which shall remain inviolate and the interest on which shall be expended solely for improvement of elementary and secondary education in Tishomingo County and distributed among the school districts therein based on the net enrollment in each, and (ii) Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) shall be placed in the county general fund and may be expended for general county purposes.

(d) The balance of such funds shall be paid to the counties of Alcorn, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Kemper, Pontotoc, Prentiss and Tishomingo. Such funds shall be paid to such counties in the proportion that each county's contribution to the bridge bond fund bears to the total contribution from all twelve (12) counties; however, no county shall be paid more than Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) under this paragraph (d). Such funds shall be deposited by the county into a special account to be expended solely for economic development purposes. No expenditure of funds from the special account shall be made unless the amount to be expended from the special account is matched by other county funds in an amount equal to fifteen percent (15%) of the special account funds to be expended and until the Mississippi Development Authority, upon application by the board of supervisors, has certified that the proposed expenditure is for economic development purposes and has approved the expenditure for such purposes; provided, however, the fifteen percent (15%) match hereinabove imposed shall not be required when the proposed expenditure for economic development purposes is on land owned or leased by the federal, state, county or municipal government.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-3 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / 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. § 65-3-71.369 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.369
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.369
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of U.S. Highway 72, located in Slayden, Marshall County, Mississippi, beginning one (1) mile to the south of the H.W. Byers High School and extending northerly to an ending point approximately one (1) mile north of the H.W. Byers High School, for a total distance of approximately two (2) miles, is designated and shall be known as the “Eddie Dixon 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. § 65-3-71.388 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.388
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.388
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Highway 39 that starts at North Hill Street located in the City of Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, and extends in a southward direction for one (1) mile is designated and shall be known as the “Cheri M. Barry Memorial Highway” in memory of the late former Meridian Mayor, Cheryl “Cheri” M. Barry, who was a diligent public servant, humanitarian and trailblazer.

(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. § 65-18-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 18-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-7
Status: in_force

The Local System Road Program shall be administered by the State Aid Engineer. In administering the program, the State Aid Engineer shall have the following powers and duties:

(a) To supervise the use of all funds made available for the purposes of this chapter for use on local system roads in the State of Mississippi;

(b) To allocate to each county that county's share of all monies made available under the provisions of this chapter but only when the county has complied with the provisions of this chapter and only when the county is eligible for the allocation of monies under the Local System Road Program;

(c) To keep and compile records of all expenditures on local system roads to which money is disbursed under the provisions of this chapter, which records must be kept separate and apart from other state aid records;

(d) To approve the construction of local system roads, including roadbeds, grades and drainage, before authorizing the release of funds under this chapter;

(e) To establish such rules and regulations as the State Aid Engineer determines as necessary to implement the provisions of the Local System Road Program; and

(f) To report to the Legislature, no later than January 1 of each year, on the Local System Road Program. Such report shall include what projects were approved and constructed, the number of miles constructed or improved and the cost per mile for such construction and improvement.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-81 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 65-39-37 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 39-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-37
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Transportation Commission may require the Mississippi Department of Transportation to provide the twenty percent (20%) state matching share and federal nonparticipating costs for Special Category Projects as provided for in Public Law 102-240 (the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991). In addition to any other authorized use, such funds may be expended for Special Category Projects within Public Law 102-240 as set forth in Section 1103 “High Cost Bridge Projects,” Section 1104 “Congestion Relief Projects,” Section 1105 “High Priority Corridors on National Highway System,” Section 1106 “Rural and Urban Access Projects,” Section 1107 “Innovative Projects,” and Section 1108 “Priority Intermodal Projects.” The department shall use funds obtained pursuant to this section for the specific purpose of facilitating the use of additional eighty percent (80%) federal funds provided to the Mississippi Department of Transportation from the Congress of the United States throughout each of the five (5) Congressional Districts of the State of Mississippi. The department also shall utilize any funds obtained pursuant to this section to provide the state matching share and nonparticipating share for preliminary engineering and right-of-way acquisition work for all projects so authorized and shall provide the state share and nonparticipating portion for all projects for which the federal share of the construction is provided through funds not within the normal annual apportionment of the Highway Trust Fund to the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 7-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-19
Status: in_force

In case the boards of supervisors of the several counties or if any one of them fail or refuse to erect or cause to be erected such sign or guide boards as provided in Sections 65-7-15 and 65-7-17 , then upon a petition to the circuit court by as many as twenty-five qualified electors, who are also taxpayers on real property in the county, joining in said petition, the remedy by way of mandamus shall apply and shall be fully available to enforce the provisions of the said two sections. The said petitioners of the number and qualifications aforesaid shall be deemed to possess all the necessary interest and to be fully entitled to demand, in the proceeding by mandamus, the enforcement by the court of all the duties aforementioned, and the court may upon the trial make all proper orders fully for said enforcement.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-51 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-51
Status: in_force

The road commissioners shall have general direction and supervision over the highways, bridges, and culverts of their district and the laying out, constructing, working, and maintenance of the same.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.328 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.328
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.328
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of U.S. Highway 82 in Leflore County, Mississippi, beginning at the western city limits of the City of Greenwood and extending one (1) mile west, is designated as the “Deputy Melvin P. ‘Buster’ Brown, Jr., 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. § 65-3-71.290 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.290
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.290
Status: in_force

(1) That overpass bridge on Mississippi Highway 309 that spans Interstate 269 in Marshall County, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as “Jim Tuttle Memorial Overpass.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain an appropriate plaque at each end of the overpass bridge, and suitable markers along and approaching the overpass bridge, described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-63 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 19-63
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-63
Status: in_force

The said commissioners maintaining the roads may, in case of emergency, repair such roads and bridges and keep the same in a proper state of repair without waiting until due advertisement shall be made; however, the amount so expended by them shall not in any one instance exceed the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.266 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / 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. § 65-4-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 4-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-11
Status: in_force

Before approving any application under this chapter the board shall have the Mississippi Department of Transportation, or the political subdivision if the political subdivision will have the construction or improvement performed, prepare and submit to it a detailed engineering study and report of all estimated costs associated with the construction and improvement of the highways and highway segments requested by the application of the political subdivision along with the estimated annual costs necessary to be expended for maintenance thereof. If the political subdivision will have the construction or improvement performed on a state designated highway that will be maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation, the board shall not approve the application of such political subdivision until the engineering study required in this section has been submitted by the board to the Mississippi Department of Transportation and has been certified by the Transportation Department to the board as proposing construction or improvement of highways and highway segments that meets Transportation Department standards for such work. If the political subdivision will have the construction or improvement performed on a highway that is not on the designated state highway system, the board shall not approve the application of such political subdivision until the engineering study required in this section has been submitted by the board to the Office of State Aid Road Construction and has been certified by the Office of State Aid Road Construction to the board as proposing construction or improvement of highways and highway segments that meets Office of State Aid Road Construction standards for such work.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation or the Office of State Aid Road Construction, as the case may be, may recommend modifications to the location and route of those highways and highway segments proposed in the application of the political subdivision if such modifications are more cost effective and would not have a substantially negative economic impact on the project of the private company.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / 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. § 65-1-145 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-145
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-145
Status: in_force

(1) The expenditure of funds now or hereafter available for the construction and reconstruction of primary and secondary roads by the Mississippi Transportation Commission, after having determined the priority in accordance with the requirements of Section 65-1-141 hereof, shall be as follows:

(a) Four-lane roads shall be constructed using the existing two-lane roads as part of such construction along portions of highways where the most recent average daily traffic count exceeds thirty percent (30%) of the route segment's capacity.

(b) Along such portions of highways where the most recent average daily traffic count does not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the capacity, two-lane roads shall be constructed, or existing two (2) lanes shall be widened, overlayed and reconstructed. Along such two-lane portions of highways passing lanes may be constructed where traffic congestion or special hazards dictate, or, where such two-lane segment connects two (2) existing four-lane roads, such segment may be constructed as a four-lane road for road continuity, using the existing two-lane road as part of such construction.

(c) Four-lane, full-control or limited access highways bypassing municipalities shall not be constructed until the Transportation Commission determines that the most recent average daily traffic count exceeds sixty percent (60%) of an existing two-lane route's capacity or determines that within a reasonable period of time after construction of such a four-lane, full-control or limited access municipal bypass the average daily traffic count will exceed sixty percent (60%) of an existing two-lane route's capacity. In no event shall such a bypass be constructed until approved by the Legislature by an appropriation of highway funds for a specific bypass, the construction of which has been recommended by the Executive Director of the Transportation Department pursuant to an order of the Transportation Commission duly recorded in the minutes of the commission and included in the three-year plan prepared pursuant to Section 65-1-141 .

(d) Four-lane facilities may be constructed without using existing roadways as a part of such construction where it is necessary to construct four-lanes on new location because of bad alignment of existing roadway or where it is necessary to relocate or realign such roadway so as to connect with a four-lane facility in an adjoining state.

(e) Any four-lane bypass project of which all, or any portion thereof, is presently under construction, or let to contract, or which has been partially completed, except where right-of-way only has been acquired, may be completed in its entirety.

(f) Notwithstanding any limitation imposed above on the construction of four-lane roads, through June 30, 2007, contracts to construct four-lane roads may be let when (i) the federal government has provided money for four-laning a specific highway project, (ii) four-laning will enhance the current economic development of the area in which the four-lane road will be constructed, or (iii) the four-lane road to be constructed will connect with an existing four-lane road.

Before a route location is submitted to the Federal Highway Administration for approval, appropriate identification of the proposed route must be spread upon the minutes of the Mississippi Transportation Commission and approved by an affirmative vote of all three (3) transportation commissioners. Where a route location has been approved by the Federal Highway Administration and a relocation of the route is contemplated, the same procedure of advertisement and hearings upon request must be followed which is used in reaching an initial route location. Any change in location must be spread upon the minutes of the Mississippi Transportation Commission and be approved by an affirmative vote of all three (3) commissioners. The Mississippi Transportation Commission may alter construction standards of an approved route by an affirmative vote of all three (3) commissioners; provided that such change is in conformity with items (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of this subsection.

(2) No state monies shall be expended on any construction project unless a Transportation Department engineer shall be assigned to such project.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-227 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 23-227
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-227
Status: in_force

For the purpose of carrying into effect the objects and purposes of this article the board of commissioners shall have full power and authority to negotiate and enter into contract or contracts with the federal government or any of its agencies, the Mississippi State Highway Commission, the state highway commission of any adjoining state where said bridge may be located, any counties, cities, or town of the State of Mississippi or of any adjoining state whereby the district may receive financial aid in the construction, maintenance, and operation of said bridge and approaches thereto; to contract for the joint ownership thereof and the means and manner of operating and maintaining said bridge and approaches thereto. The powers herein granted to the board of commissioners shall have broad and liberal construction for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 26-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-5
Status: in_force

(1) The Highway Commission, subject to the Corps of Engineers' approval of the plans, is hereby granted full and complete authority to perform any act necessary and proper to plan, construct and maintain any or all of the bridges or tunnels, authorized by subsection (2) of this section as funds are available, which shall span the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway from the funds derived from this chapter and any other funds available for such construction except that no state funds other than those explicitly provided by this chapter shall be used.

(2)(a) The Highway Commission may construct bridges or tunnels, whichever is more feasible as determined by the commission, only on United States Highways 45, 72, 78, 82 and 278 and Mississippi Highways 4, 6, 25, 30 and 50, as funds are available as authorized by this chapter.

(b) Any bridge or tunnel constructed on United States Highways 45, 72, 78 and 82 shall have four (4) lanes. Any bridge or tunnel constructed on United States Highway 278 and Mississippi Highways 4, 6, 25, 30 and 50 shall have two (2) lanes. The bridges or tunnels shall be constructed by order of priority as determined by the Highway Commission based on the criteria of keeping the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on schedule.

(c) The Highway Commission is hereby authorized and directed, in the discharge of its duties under this chapter, to cooperate with the Corps of Engineers, and Department of Transportation and any other federal agency to receive any available federal funds or to secure the assumption by the federal government of all or any part of the costs of planning or constructing the bridges or tunnels and shall enter into an agreement that any bridges or tunnels on highways constructed or reconstructed, in whole or in part, with federal funds allocated for the purposes of this chapter shall be owned and operated by the State of Mississippi, and that the state will operate and maintain such bridges or tunnels or highways.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-3 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 19-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-3
Status: in_force

Whenever the proceeding has been initiated or proposed by either of the methods above provided, the said board shall cause notice to be published of the said proposal, which notice shall be sufficiently full to fairly apprise all persons in interest of the character and objects of said proposal. The notice shall fix a time and place when and where the board of supervisors will hear objections to the creation of said district and to the bringing of any of the defined territory within said district. Said notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county once a week for three weeks prior to the date of the hearing fixed in said notice; the first publication shall be not less than eighteen nor more than forty days prior to said date. If there be no newspaper published in the county in which the territory is located, the notice shall be published in some newspaper having a general circulation therein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-53 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 11-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-53
Status: in_force

The boards of supervisors of the several counties are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to use and expend any county road or bridge funds available to supplement and to be used in conjunction with state appropriated funds in the construction of roads and bridges and to secure necessary rights of way.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-69 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 33-69
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-69
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors shall pay all lawful fees of the chancery clerk and its attorney now prescribed by law, which fees are incidental to the execution of said refunding bonds, and may also pay all expenses in connection with the validation of said refunding bonds and procuring the opinion as to the validity thereof from some expert bond attorney, other than the state bond attorney, of national reputation. However, in cases where the bonds to be refunded are not due or redeemable prior to maturity, such board in procuring the surrender of such outstanding bonds may expend not exceeding an additional two and one-half percent (2 1 / 2 %) of the principal amount of refunding bonds actually issued and delivered, but in no event shall any part of the said two and one-half percent (2 1 / 2 %) be used in the payment of attorney's fees. All such fees and compensation shall be paid out of the interest and sinking fund applicable to the bonds to be refunded, if the amount credited to such fund be adequate therefor. Otherwise, such fees and compensation shall be paid out of the proceeds of a special annual tax to be levied for that purpose by the board of supervisors upon all taxable property within such county. All expenses as authorized by sections 65-33-61 to 65-33-71 in effectuating the exchange of said bonds and the actual expense of the state treasurer in paying principal and interest on said bonds shall be paid by the board of supervisors of the county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 29-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-29
Status: in_force

This chapter, as to the subject matters hereof, shall supersede all other laws, general, special, or local, including charters of municipalities. Any municipality issuing bonds or other obligations pursuant to this chapter shall have no power thereafter to issue bonds or other obligations pursuant to the provisions of Sections 59-7-1 to 59-7-21, Mississippi Code of 1972 , unless and until all bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter, and interest thereon, have been fully paid and discharged.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-171 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-171
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-171
Status: in_force

Sections 65-7-171 and 65-7-173 shall be known and may be cited as the “Mississippi Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient's Memorial Highway Act.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 9-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-7
Status: in_force

The Division of State Aid Road Construction of the Mississippi State Highway Department, is hereby authorized and empowered to own and operate seven passenger automobiles, the same to be purchased, owned, and operated in strict accordance with the provisions of Sections 25-1-77 to 25-1-93, Mississippi Code of 1972 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-23 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 21-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-23
Status: in_force

When a bridge shall be necessary over a stream or any other body of water which divides one county from another, or a bridge over a river or any other body of water flowing from one county into another shall be necessary at the intersection of the river and the line between the counties, (or necessary to two or more counties and within five miles of each of said counties), the boards of supervisors of all interested counties to which it may be necessary may join in the agreement for building, repairing, and keeping the same. The charge therefor shall be defrayed by all such interested counties as may be agreed upon by the boards of all of said counties; and if the board of supervisors of one county refuses to join in the agreement, the other county or counties may construct the bridge, with the consent of the board of supervisors of the county refusing or failing to join, and have exclusive control of it and charge toll thereon against citizens of the county not joining in the building. The will of the several boards of supervisors hereunder shall be expressed by a resolution duly adopted, entered on the minutes, and published in a newspaper in the county, if there be one; if there be no newspaper in the county, then in a newspaper in an adjoining county, for three weeks before such resolution shall take effect.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 23-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-13
Status: in_force

The public agencies herein named, either jointly or severally, may acquire by purchase, gift, donation, or by eminent domain all necessary land, rights of way, easements, and supplies for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, owning, operating, improving, extending, and maintaining toll bridges and approaches thereto, acquiring same in such necessary width and length as the governing authority of such political subdivision or subdivisions may determine will be necessary, right, and proper for such bridge purposes. Such public agencies are likewise granted such rights in any adjoining state, provided that such rights do not in anywise conflict with the laws of such adjoining state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-143.4 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-143.4
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-143.4
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:

Northern District--Carroll County:

Old Mississippi Highway 430 from the Leflore/Carroll County line southeasterly to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 17, a distance of approximately thirteen (13) miles.

(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. § 65-7-4 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 65-3-71.55 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.55
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.55
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 7 beginning at the corporate limits of the City of Coffeeville and extending southerly to the Yalabousha County line shall be known as the “C.F. ‘Pappy’ Franklin Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching that portion of Mississippi Highway 7 described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-61 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 25-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-61
Status: in_force

Sections 65-25-49 to 65-25-61 shall be in addition to and supplemental to all other laws pertinent to the operation of said bridge but, to the extent the subjects herein contained are covered in such prior enactments, the cited sections and the enactments hereof shall be deemed to supersede such former laws and enactments.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.115 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.115
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.115
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of U.S. Highway 90 in the City of Pass Christian between Davis Avenue and Market Street is designated and shall be known as the “James C. Simpson, Sr., 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. § 65-11-47.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 11-47.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-47.nr2
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of each county, at its next regular or special meeting after receipt of notice of the amount of money apportioned such county, shall spread upon the minutes of such meeting the roads and bridges selected by it to be constructed or improved. In the selection of such projects the boards of supervisors shall select roads and bridges which will be of the greatest benefit to the county as a whole, judged from the standpoint of relative use and importance. However, if the board of supervisors selects a portion of the federal aid farm-to-market system, as set up in Sections 65-11-1 through 65-11-37 , then the road shall be built up to the specifications for the federal aid farm-to-market system, and the funds made available under Sections 65-11-39 through 65-11-59 shall be expended under the provisions of the former sections. No reference is intended to any order of the board of supervisors heretofore made with reference to farm-to-market roads in the respective counties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 18-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-17
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the several boards of supervisors to properly maintain all local system roads in their respective counties after construction of any such roads under this chapter. It shall be the duty of the State Aid Engineer and his assistants to make annual maintenance inspections of completed projects, and such other periodic maintenance inspections as the State Aid Engineer shall deem necessary. If essential maintenance is not properly and regularly carried on, in the opinion of the State Aid Engineer, then notice thereof shall be given in writing to the board in default, and if such maintenance is not done and continued within sixty (60) days from date of such notice, then, and in such event, the State Aid Engineer may proceed to have done the necessary maintenance and repair work on such road and charge the same to any funds allocated to such county under the provisions of the Local System Road Program. If such failure to maintain continues, then such county shall be no longer eligible for monies under the Local System Road Program until proper maintenance is resumed by it, and notice of such withdrawal of local system road funds shall be duly given the State Treasurer; however, such ineligibility shall not affect payment under the Local System Road Program of progress or final estimates on contracts awarded before notice of such ineligibility.

Local system roads that have been hard surfaced through the use of local system road funds shall be eligible for local system road funds to provide one or more seal courses, as required. Local system roads in which the grading and drainage structures were constructed under the Local System Road Program and which have been subsequently hard surfaced by the county through the use of county funds under the supervision of the county engineer shall likewise be eligible for local system road funds to provide one or more seal courses as required, provided that the hard surfacing and underlying base were constructed in accordance with the then prevailing local system road standards and specifications. The county shall furnish the State Aid Engineer with sufficient engineering data, including borings and tests, if necessary, to substantiate the required thickness and quality of the base and surfacing. The correction of base defects and pavement breaks may be made part of the plans and contract documents for each sealing project.

Local system roads that were constructed in accordance with the then prevailing local system road standards and specifications shall be eligible for local system road funds for maintenance, repair and reconstruction, subject to the prior written approval of such work by the State Aid Engineer and subject to the work being completed in accordance with the prior written approval.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 65-23-301 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / 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. § 65-7-53.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-53.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-53.nr2
Status: in_force

Whenever in the discretion of the board of supervisors of any county it seems proper so to do, the board may, by order on its minutes, authorize the road manager of the county or the county engineer to forbid the use of any hard surfaced road, or portion thereof, when under construction or repair. The county road manager or the engineer, when so authorized by the board of supervisors, may close said road or any portion thereof to travel by an obstruction placed thereon in such manner as to indicate its closing, or by a sign marked “closed by order of the county road manager (or county engineer).”
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-81 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 43-81
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-81
Status: in_force

(1) If the payment of the amount of the unpaid toll, and any applicable toll evasion penalty, is not received by the person authorized to receive payment of these fees by the time and date fixed for appearance on the notice of toll evasion violation, the processing agency shall deliver to the registered owner a final notice of toll evasion violation.

(2) Delivery of a final notice of toll evasion violation under this section shall be made by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the registered owner, or by personal delivery. If delivery by certified mail or personal delivery is refused by the registered owner, then the processing agency may publish the notice of delinquent toll evasion for two (2) weeks in a newspaper having a general circulation in the county of the registered owner's last known residence.

(3) The final notice of toll evasion violation shall contain the information specified in Section 65-43-73 , and shall also contain a notice to the registered owner that he must either:

(a) Pay the amount of the unpaid toll, and any applicable penalty, or

(b) Provide proof of payment of the unpaid toll, and any applicable penalty or an affidavit of nonliability.

(4) If the registered owner fails to pay the toll evasion penalty, as required, the registered owner shall be deemed responsible for the violation and the amount of the unpaid toll and any administrative fees or charges which shall be due to the governmental entity by the registered owner.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-45 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-45
Status: in_force

The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to restrict or prohibit the use of any state highway or bridge or to reduce the allowable weight permitted on any state highway or bridge when, due to any special weather or other hazard, such highways or bridges have been weakened or when such highways have substandard surfacing or weak bridges due to any cause. Likewise, the board of supervisors of any county shall have the same regulatory powers as granted the highway department in this section. It shall be the duty of the State Highway Commission and the boards of supervisors of the counties to post sufficient warning on any highway or bridge restricted in any manner, so that such restriction may be understood by the operator of any vehicle. Any person who shall operate a vehicle on any highway, road, or bridge when such highway, road, or bridge is under restriction, in violation of such restriction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of section 63-9-11, Mississippi Code of 1972 , providing for the punishment of misdemeanors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-97 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-97
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-97
Status: in_force

The boards of supervisors are hereby prohibited from purchasing any machinery or equipment under a contract requiring installment or deferred payments. However, this section shall not be construed to prohibit boards of supervisors from making purchases which shall be paid for not later than the next regular meeting of said board.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-45 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 11-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-45
Status: in_force

The State Fiscal Management Board shall notify the board of supervisors of each county of the amount of money to be available for expenditure in such county from any appropriation made by the state for the purpose of Sections 65-11-39 through 65-11-59 . The board of supervisors, upon the receipt of such notice, shall divide the amount available for such county among the five (5) supervisors districts. All funds which may be appropriated for the purpose of said sections shall be expended for materials and labor in construction and improvement of county roads and bridges selected by the board of supervisors of each county. However, the board of supervisors shall first select for construction and reconstruction all school bus routes and, next, rural mail routes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-61 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 41-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-61
Status: in_force

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 “Beach Boulevard Scenic Byway” pursuant to Section 65-41-1 et seq. :

Beginning at Cedar Point in Hancock County and traveling southerly along the coastline to Bayou Cadet in Hancock County.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.279 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 65-33-65 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-65
Status: in_force

The fact of the issuance and delivery of refunding bonds hereunder shall be certified by the clerk of the board of supervisors to the state Treasurer, who shall immediately register such bonds in a suitable bond register. Thereafter, the revenues and taxes which would otherwise be paid into the county treasury of such county for the payment of road protection and seawall bonds and interest thereon under the provisions of section 65-33-45 , shall be paid by the official collecting such taxes into the state treasury on a proper receive warrant of the state auditor to the credit of such county in a special fund to be designated “interest and sinking fund for road protection and seawall bonds of __________ County, Mississippi,” which fund shall be held and shall be applied by the state treasurer in the payment of interest accruing on such refunding bonds and the principal thereof at maturity, according to law. In the event that less than all of outstanding bonds payable under the provisions of this chapter shall be refunded as herein provided, then and in that event there shall be paid into the state treasury, for the credit of the aforesaid interest and sinking fund, only the proportion of the revenues and taxes as the amount of refunding bonds issued and outstanding bears to the total amount of outstanding bonds payable from the revenues herein referred to.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / Section 26-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-21
Status: in_force

All general obligation bonds of the State of Mississippi and interest coupons issued under the provisions of this chapter shall have and are hereby declared to have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Mississippi. Such bonds and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation within the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.43 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.43
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.43
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of U. S. Highway 278 in Monroe County beginning at Amory and extending southeasterly to the Mississippi/Alabama state line is designated and shall be known as the “William Jerome Huskey Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on and along that portion of U. S. Highway 278 described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.98 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.98
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.98
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 472 in Copiah County beginning at Shady Grove Church and extending easterly to Rock Port Road is designated and shall be known as “ Heroes Trail.”

(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. § 65-29-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 29-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-17
Status: in_force

Bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter and any interest thereon or income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation, except gift, transfer, and inheritance taxes, in so far as may be within the power of the State of Mississippi so to provide.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 25-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-9
Status: in_force

Any municipality, whenever a reasonable price cannot be agreed upon, or whenever the owner is legally incapacitated or is absent or is unable to convey valid title or is unknown, is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by condemnation any such bridge or bridges or interest or interests therein, and any land, rights, easements, franchises, and other property deemed necessary or convenient for the improvement or the efficient operation of any property acquired or constructed under this article, or for the purpose of constructing any bridge or portion thereof hereunder, or for securing right of way leading to any such bridge or its approaches, in the manner hereinafter provided. Such condemnation proceedings shall be instituted by a written application of the governing body of such municipality and shall be conducted, and the compensation to be paid shall be ascertained and paid, in the manner provided by Chapter 33, Title 11, Mississippi Code of 1972, or by the laws of the state where such proceedings may be conducted. And any municipality is further authorized and empowered to exercise in this state and in any adjoining state such powers of eminent domain as may be conferred upon such municipality by any act of the Congress of the United States now in force or which may hereafter be enacted. Title to any property condemned by a municipality shall be taken in its name. No municipality shall be under any obligation to accept and pay for any property condemned or any costs incidental to any condemnation proceedings, and shall, in no event, pay for the same except from the funds provided by this article. In any condemnation proceedings, the court having jurisdiction of the suit, action, or proceedings may make such orders as may be just to such municipality and to the owners of the property to be condemned, and may require an undertaking or other security to secure such owners against any loss or damage to be sustained by reason of the failure of such municipality to accept and pay for the property; but such undertaking or security shall impose no liability upon such municipality, except such as may be paid from the funds provided under the authority of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-23 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 43-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-23
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under the authority of Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 shall be revenue bonds of the state, the principal of and interest on which shall be payable solely from the revenue from projects authorized under Section 65-43-1 or 65-43-3 . The bonds shall never constitute an indebtedness of the state within the meaning of any state constitutional provision or statutory limitation, and shall never constitute or give rise to a pecuniary liability of the state, or a charge against its general credit or taxing powers, and such fact shall be plainly stated on the face of each such bond. The bonds shall not be considered when computing any limitation of indebtedness of the state. All bonds issued under the authority of Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 and all interest coupons applicable thereto shall be construed to be negotiable instruments, despite the fact that they are payable solely from a specified source.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-31 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 65-25-55 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / 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. § 65-19-59 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 65-3-71.75 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.75
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.75
Status: in_force

(1) That bridge on Cowan-Lorraine Road in Harrison County that spans the Harrison County Industrial Seaway is designated and shall be known as the “Eugene P. Wilkes Memorial Bridge.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain an appropriate plaque at each end of the bridge, and suitable markers along and approaching the bridge, reflecting its name.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 17-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-7
Status: in_force

Such highway commissioner shall, from time to time as required by the board of supervisors, report to the board his acts and doings touching his official duties, and all of his acts shall be subject to the approval or rejection of the board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / 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. § 65-18-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 18-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-5
Status: in_force

(1) There is established a Local System Road Program which shall be administered by the State Aid Engineer for the purpose of assisting the counties of this state in the construction, reconstruction and paving of local system roads.

(2) Routes on which projects are performed under this chapter are not eligible for inclusion on the state aid system except in accordance with the provisions of Section 65-9-1 et seq.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-185 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-185
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-185
Status: in_force

There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the “2023 DeSoto County Infrastructure Improvements Fund,” which shall consist of funds made available by the Legislature in any manner and funds from any other source designated for deposit into such fund. The fund shall be maintained by the State Treasurer as a separate and special fund, separate and apart from the General Fund of the state. Monies deposited into the fund shall be used by the Mississippi Department of Transportation, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to assist in paying the costs associated with infrastructure improvements on Interstate 55 from Church Road to Goodman Road in Desoto County, Mississippi. Unexpended amounts remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any investment earnings or interest earned on amounts in the fund shall be deposited to the credit of the fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-43 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 33-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-43
Status: in_force

In all counties where the bonds of the county are or have been issued under this chapter or any previous statutes of a similar character, the boards of supervisors may levy and collect a privilege tax on each person resident in such county driving an automobile or other motor vehicle on any of the public streets or highways of the county, not exceeding two dollars. The amount of said tax may be varied in case more than one member of a family pays such tax, the funds arising therefrom to be applied in the same manner as funds arising under Sections 65-33-45 to 65-33-49 are applied. The boards of supervisors shall have the power, and it shall be the duty of such boards, to levy annually on all the taxable property in such counties, and to collect a special tax sufficient to cover any deficiency, if such deficiency occur, in the amount necessary to meet annually such interest and sinking fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-77 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-77
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-77
Status: in_force

The road superintendent shall have the power to purchase nails, lumber, tools, and other things necessary, where the need for the same is immediate and the value of said purchase does not exceed fifty dollars ($50.00). In cases of emergency he shall have power to contract for the immediate repair of a bridge, causeway, culvert, or a bad place in the road, provided such contract is not for a sum greater than fifty dollars ($50.00) and the need of the repair immediate and urgent. Such purchases and contracts shall be subject to ratification by the road commissioners and the board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-47.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 11-47.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-47.nr2
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of each county, at its next regular or special meeting after receipt of notice of the amount of money apportioned such county, shall spread upon the minutes of such meeting the roads and bridges selected by it to be constructed or improved. In the selection of such projects the boards of supervisors shall select roads and bridges which will be of the greatest benefit to the county as a whole, judged from the standpoint of relative use and importance. However, if the board of supervisors selects a portion of the federal aid farm-to-market system, as set up in Sections 65-11-1 through 65-11-37 , then the road shall be built up to the specifications for the federal aid farm-to-market system, and the funds made available under Sections 65-11-39 through 65-11-59 shall be expended under the provisions of the former sections. No reference is intended to any order of the board of supervisors heretofore made with reference to farm-to-market roads in the respective counties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.225 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.225
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.225
Status: in_force

(1) That section of U.S. Highway 51 in Copiah County within the corporate limits of the City of Crystal Springs beginning from its intersection with Mississippi Highway 27 and extending southerly to its intersection with Pat Harrison Drive is designated and shall be known as the “Tommy Johnson Blues Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching that section of highway designated in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-65 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 41-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-65
Status: in_force

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 “Brice's Crossroads Battlefield-Chief Tishomingo Scenic Byway” pursuant to Section 65-41-1 et seq. :

Beginning at the Brice's Crossroads Visitors and Interpretive Center and traveling northerly on Grisham Street to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 370, then traveling westerly on Mississippi Highway 370 to its intersection with County Road 833, then traveling southeasterly on County Road 833 to its intersection with County Road 503, then traveling southerly on County Road 503 to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 348, then traveling easterly on Mississippi Highway 348 to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 145.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 31-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-13
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Department of Transportation rest area located along U.S. Highway 49 in Wiggins, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the “'Dizzy' Dean 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 in memory of Dizzy's extraordinary contributions to the sport of baseball.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-327 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 65-29-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 29-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-9
Status: in_force

The bonds or other obligations issued by any county or municipality of the State of Mississippi pursuant to this chapter shall not constitute a debt within the meaning of any statutory limitation as to the amount of debt which may be incurred by any such municipality or county. Nor shall such bonds or other obligations be payable out of any funds other than the revenue collected or collectible from the use of said docks, harbors, and facilities of whatsoever nature, if any, and out of the receipts from the said two-mill ad valorem tax or special levy made by any county or municipality in accordance with the provisions of Section 65-29-1 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-23 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-23
Status: in_force

Such election shall be held so far as practicable in accordance with the laws regulating general elections in this state; however, in order to authorize the creation of such proposed road district, a majority of the qualified electors residing in such territory shall vote in favor of such creation. When the election commissioners of the county shall have received returns of said election and have declared the result thereof, they shall, after having canvassed the same, forthwith make returns of said election to the board of supervisors by filing with the board of supervisors a certificate stating the number of votes cast in favor of the creation, the number of votes cast against the creation, and the number of qualified electors residing in the territory proposed to be created into a road district. The number of qualified electors residing in said territory shall be determined at the meeting of the election commissioners first preceding said election, as required by Section 23-5-79, Mississippi Code of 1972 . At its next meeting after it has received said returns, the board of supervisors shall adjudicate whether or not a majority of the qualified electors of the territory have voted in favor of the creation of said road district, from the findings of the election commissioners as herein required.

Should the result of such election show that it has carried in favor of the creation of the district by a majority vote of the qualified electors residing in the proposed district, then it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to issue the bonds of such district in the necessary amount, not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the assessed value of all taxable property of the district. The amount within this limit shall be fixed by the commissioners hereinafter provided for, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, such bonds to be issued and sold either all at one time or in installments from time to time as funds are needed for the construction of such highway or highways, in the discretion of the commissioners and the board of supervisors. Any county, supervisor's district, part of supervisor's district, or districts which have heretofore issued bonds in said county, supervisor's district, parts of supervisor's district, or districts for road purposes may, under the provisions of this chapter and in pursuance thereof, issue bonds in addition to those already issued, provided that the total amount of bonds for road purposes outstanding and to be issued shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the assessed value of all the taxable property of the district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-45 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-45
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-45
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors shall retain fifteen percent (15%) of the amount due the engineer employed upon a percentage basis until the road constructed under his supervision shall have been finally accepted.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 65-33-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 33-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-7
Status: in_force

Such bonds shall be in the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each and shall mature annually, with all maturities not longer than twenty-five (25) years, with not less than one-fiftieth ( 1 / 50 ) of the total issue to mature each year during the first five (5) years of the life of such bonds, not less than one-twenty-fifth ( 1 / 25 ) of the total issue to mature each year during the succeeding ten-year period of the life of such bonds, and the remainder to be divided into approximately equal annual payments, one (1) payment to mature each year for the remaining life of such bonds. Such bonds shall not bear a greater rate of interest than the maximum amount specified in Section 75-17-103 per annum, and the denomination, form, and place or places of payment of such bonds shall be fixed in the resolution or order of the board of supervisors issuing such bonds. Such bonds shall be signed by the president of the board of supervisors and countersigned by the clerk thereof, with the official seal of the county affixed thereto, but the coupons may bear only the facsimile signatures of such president and clerk. No bonds shall be issued and sold under the provisions of Sections 65-33-1 to 65-33-15 for less than par and accrued interest, and not more than one (1) series of interest coupons shall be attached to any bonds issued under the provisions of said sections; but all interest accruing on such bonds so issued shall be payable semiannually, except that the first interest coupon attached to any such bond may be for any period not exceeding one (1) year. Such bonds shall be payable at such place or places as may be designated therein by said board, shall be fully negotiable, and shall be sold pursuant to advertised public sale at not less than par and accrued interest. Such bonds shall not be subject to other restrictions, limitations or provisions of the general laws governing the issuance and sale of bonds by the board of supervisors, and the board of supervisors may sell said bonds at any time within three (3) years after the sale has been approved in an election held for that purpose herein required, or three (3) years after the successful termination of any litigation affecting the same, or three (3) years after the acquisition of all lands in the areas to be developed as hereinafter provided, but not later; however, in no event shall the amount borrowed by any such county after May 4, 1954, exceed the amount of Twelve Million Dollars ($12,000,000.00) under the provisions of this section.

Before any bonds shall be issued under the cited sections, the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution reciting its intention to issue such bonds and stating the amount of bonds proposed to be issued, and shall give notice of election, to be published once each week for at least three (3) consecutive weeks in at least one (1) newspaper published in such county, in accordance with the provisions of Section 19-9-13 , except that such election shall be mandatory.

Such election shall be held, as far as practicable, in the same manner as other elections are held in counties. At such election, all qualified electors of such county may vote, and the ballots used at such election shall have printed thereon a brief statement of the amount and purpose of the proposed bond issue and the words “For the Bond Issue” and “Against the Bond Issue,” and the voter shall vote by placing a cross (X) or check mark (✓) opposite his choice on the proposition.

When the results of the election on the question of the issuance of such bonds shall have been canvassed by the election commissioners of such county and certified by them to the board of supervisors of such county, it shall be the duty of such board of supervisors to determine and adjudicate whether or not three-fifths ( 3 / 5 ) of the qualified electors who voted in such election voted in favor of the issuance of such bonds; and, unless three-fifths ( 3 / 5 ) of the qualified electors who voted in such election shall have voted in favor of the issuance of such bonds, then such bonds shall not be issued.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 19-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-17
Status: in_force

Any party aggrieved by the order of the board of supervisors creating a road district or bringing territory therein, as herein provided, may appeal to the circuit court from the order of said board of supervisors as now provided by law for appeals from the orders of boards of supervisors, or may sue at law or in equity for relief therefrom; however, no action or suit attacking the validity of the said order, or in any manner questioning the same, shall be begun after the expiration of sixty days from the date of making or entering the said order. From and after the expiration of said period of sixty days, if no suit be filed or appeal taken as herein provided, the determination of the board of supervisors as to said matters shall be final, and the territory defined in said order of said board of supervisors shall constitute a road and taxing district of the state to which is delegated the power hereinafter mentioned to levy general ad valorem taxes upon all of the taxable property of said district assessed for state and county taxes, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining or repairing roads and highways, or for the payment of the principal and interest of any bonds issued for that purpose in the manner provided by the general laws.

If under the foregoing sections an election is held and the majority vote in favor of the district proposed, the appeal to the circuit court hereinabove mentioned shall not lie or, if taken, shall be dismissed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.9
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 32 from Parchman in Sunflower County to the corporate limits of the Town of Webb in Tallahatchie County is hereby designated and henceforth shall be known as the “Guy Williams 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. § 65-3-71.67 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.67
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.67
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of U.S. Highway 84 in Jones County beginning at the eastern city limits of the City of Laurel and extending easterly to the Jones/Wayne County line is designated and shall be known as the “Corporal James D. Slaton 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. § 65-13-51 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 65-7-75 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-75
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-75
Status: in_force

Whenever it is necessary to lay out a public highway at or near or along the line between two adjoining counties, and on account of the topography of the land it is not expedient to lay out said road on the line between said adjoining counties, then the boards of supervisors of both counties may lay out the road near the adjoining line between said counties, and both of said counties shall bear the expense of constructing and maintaining such public road in any proportion mutually agreed upon by the boards of supervisors of both of said counties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-57 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-57
Status: in_force

When any person shall desire to have a public road other than a road being maintained by the state highway department laid out, altered, or changed, a petition shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the county, signed by ten or more freeholders or householders of the county interested in the road, setting forth the commencement and termination and general course thereof and that the public interest or convenience requires the road to be laid out and opened or altered or changed, as shown in the petition. The petitioners, if not owners of the land through which the road runs or is proposed to be run, or if the land through which the road runs or is proposed to run is owned by the county or a municipality, shall give a copy of the same to the president of the board of supervisors if the county is the owner of the land, or to the mayor if a municipality is the owner thereof, and shall give five days' notice to the owners of the land in person, or by leaving the same at their residence if they reside in the county, or if the owners be nonresidents of the county, by putting up the notice in some conspicuous place on the land through which the road runs or is proposed to run. Thereupon the board of supervisors shall hear the parties, and if it determine that the prayer of the petitioners ought to be granted, in whole or in part, it shall appoint a committee of two members, of districts other than that of the road or proposed road, who shall examine and view the contemplated route of the road. If they find the same practicable, they shall lay out and mark the road, or the alteration or change, and report their proceedings in writing to the board at its next meeting.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-15 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-15
Status: in_force

Except as herein to the contrary provided, such counties, acting by and through their respective boards of supervisors in the performance of the powers and duties hereunder granted and provided, shall have and may exercise all powers and rights, including but not limited to the right of eminent domain heretofore granted by and under this chapter.

The provisions of Sections 65-33-1 to 65-33-15 are additional and supplemental to all other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to counties, and no county shall be deemed to be required to issue bonds under the provisions hereof. Unless and until a county shall have issued bonds under the provisions hereof, such county shall not be obligated by any of the provisions of said sections, and may avail itself of any law now or hereafter enacted and which may contain other and different provisions concerning the application of the revenues herein referred to.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-77 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 7-77
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-77
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever the board of supervisors of any county finds that any public road, bridge, or causeway located in a contiguous county and leading therefrom and into that county is not properly worked or is not kept in good repair by the county in which same is located, and finds that its own county would be benefited by the proper working and repairing of such public road, bridge, or causeway, then in such event the board of supervisors of the county which would be benefited is authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to cause to be constructed, improved, worked, repaired, and maintained, at the expense of the county which would be benefited, any such public road, bridge, or causeway for a distance not exceeding three and one-half miles beyond the line of the county which would be benefited, provided that the board of supervisors of the county in which such public road, bridge, or causeway is located shall consent thereto. The board of supervisors of any county which would be benefited is authorized and empowered, for and in the name of such county, to make all necessary contracts for the construction, improving, working, repairing, or maintaining of such public road, bridge, or causeway as herein provided, and to pay for the same either out of the general funds of the benefited county or out of the proceeds of the bonds of such benefited county, issued as otherwise provided by law, either for such purpose or for such purpose and any other lawful purpose. In instances where one or more, or parts of one or more, townships of any county are cut off from convenient communication with the county seat of last said county, either by the interposition of the territory of a contiguous county or by a watercourse or other body of water or by both, then the board of supervisors of the county which would be benefited or whose communication with its county seat is so obstructed or interfered with as aforesaid may, at its discretion and with the consent of the board of supervisors of such contiguous county, lay out, open, construct, improve, work, repair, and maintain, or construct, improve, work, repair, or maintain if already laid out, opened, or established, as much as three and one-half miles in length of road in or through a contiguous county, and pay for the same as hereinabove provided.

(2) Whenever the board of supervisors of any county finds by order or resolution entered upon its minutes that it is to the best interest of the citizens of said county for it so to do, that a public necessity therefor exists, and that said county would be benefited thereby, it is authorized and empowered in its discretion to cause to be constructed or reconstructed, at the expense of such county, such portion as it may elect of any public road lying in a contiguous county which extends from the county line of such county into such contiguous county, together with one or more connecting roads leading therefrom located in the contiguous county. The construction or reconstruction of the public road lying in a contiguous county which extends from the county line of such county into such contiguous county may be paid for out of county road funds, state aid road funds, or such other funds as may be available therefor. However, state aid road funds shall not be used to construct or reconstruct any connecting road located in the contiguous county, and the county constructing or reconstructing said connecting roads may pay therefor only from county road funds or such funds as may be available therefor other than state aid road funds. In the event state aid funds are used in connection with the exercise of the power and authority granted in this subsection, the state aid engineer's duties, responsibilities, and authority with respect thereto shall be the same as that provided by the law governing state aid projects.

Before exercising any rights or authority granted in this subsection, the board of supervisors of the county proposing to take advantage of the authority herein contained shall secure the consent of the board of supervisors of the contiguous county, which consent shall be evidenced by an order or resolution of the board of supervisors of the contiguous county and spread upon its minutes.

(3) The boards of supervisors of any two adjoining counties may, by an agreement spread upon the minutes of the board of each of such counties, join together in the construction, reconstruction, improvement, working, repair, or maintenance of any public road, bridge, or causeway, including the approaches to such bridge or causeway, located partly in each of such counties, or benefiting each of such counties, for a distance of not exceeding three and one-half miles beyond the county line in either of such counties, and may jointly perform such work or jointly award contracts therefor and jointly pay the cost thereof, as provided in said agreement between said boards, from funds authorized by law for roads, bridges, or causeways located entirely within either of such counties. Such an agreement may be terminated in whole or in part by a succeeding board of supervisors of either of such counties, provided, however, that each of such counties shall remain obligated to pay its respective part of any outstanding obligations connected with or arising from said joint project. Unless the board of each county agrees otherwise, upon termination of such an agreement the responsibilities of future construction, reconstruction, improvement, working, repair, or maintenance on such road, bridge, or causeway shall be that of the county in which the respective parts thereof are located.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-59 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 65-3-71.104 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.104
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.104
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 30 lying in Tishomingo County beginning at the Prentiss/Tishomingo county line and extending to the entrance road of the Natchez Trace Parkway shall be designated and known as the “J.O. Southward, Jr., 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. § 65-43-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 43-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-11
Status: in_force

For the purpose of providing for the payment of the principal of and interest upon bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 , there is created a special bond sinking fund in the State Treasury. The special bond sinking fund shall consist of the monies required to be deposited into the fund under Section 65-43-3 and such other amounts as the Legislature may direct to be paid into the fund by appropriation or other authorization by the Legislature. Unexpended amounts remaining in the special bond sinking fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned or investment earnings on amounts in the special bond sinking fund shall be deposited into such sinking fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-27 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 39-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-27
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 65-39-5 through 65-39-33 and income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 17-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-1
Status: in_force

(1) This section, relating to the establishment of a county road department, the employment of a county road manager and prescribing the powers and duties of the county road manager, shall not be mandatory in any county which is not required to operate under a countywide system of road administration; provided, however, such county may, by order of the board of supervisors, adopt all or part of the procedures prescribed by this section.

(2) The board of supervisors of each county shall establish a county road department. The board of supervisors shall adopt the general policies to be followed in administration of the county road department and shall appoint as administrative head of the county road department a county road manager who shall be educated or experienced in the construction and maintenance of highways, bridges and other facets of county highway responsibilities. Provided, however, that in any county which, on July 1, 1988, employed two (2) county road managers each of whom managed an administrative division of the county for road construction and maintenance, the board of supervisors may continue to employ two (2) county road managers. The county road manager shall not be a member of the board of supervisors. The county road manager, under the policies determined by the board of supervisors and subject to the board's general supervision and control, shall administer the county road department, superintend the working, construction and maintaining of the public roads and the building of bridges in such county, and carry out the general policies of the board in conformity with the estimates of expenditures fixed in the annual budget as finally adopted by the board or as thereafter revised by appropriate action of the board. All requisitions for the purchase and repair of all equipment, heavy equipment, machinery, supplies, commodities, materials and services for the county road department shall be prepared by the county road manager and submitted to the county department of purchasing for processing in accordance with the central purchasing system. The county road manager shall serve at the will and pleasure of the board of supervisors and may be removed from such position by a majority vote of the board.

(3) The county road manager shall receive such compensation, to be paid from the county road and bridge funds, as the board of supervisors shall determine. The county road manager, before entering upon his duties, shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in a penalty in such amount as may be approved by the board of supervisors, but not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00).

(4) A county may appoint as county road manager the same person whom it has under the law employed as its county engineer for its state aid road system, provided that such county road manager is being compensated by the county for serving as county road manager and for all duties, if any, that he performs as county engineer by payment of an annual salary and not on the basis of a percentage of the cost of road projects.

(5) Nothing shall preclude one (1) person from serving two (2) or more counties as county road manager by agreement between such counties.

(6) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require new county personnel to be employed but, to the extent practicable, an existing county employee shall be appointed as the county road manager.

(7) The responsibility for construction and maintenance of all “local farm roads” (including bridges) as the same are defined in Sections 65-9-1 and 65-9-3, Mississippi Code of 1972 , together with all functions not vested by law in the county state aid engineer in the construction and maintenance of state aid roads shall be vested in the county's road department.

(8) The county road manager each year shall prepare, or shall assist the county administrator (if one has been appointed) in the preparation of, a tentative road budget containing all proposed expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year for construction and maintenance of county roads and bridges and the operation of the county road department. Such tentative road budget shall be submitted to the board of supervisors for incorporation, with such modification as the board may adopt, in the county budget, as prescribed by law.

(9) The county road manager shall employ, subject to approval of the board of supervisors, such assistants and employees as may be necessary in conformity with the budget and county policies and procedure with respect to personnel and subject to approval of the board as to salary or other compensation to be paid. He shall have supervision and jurisdiction over personnel and assignments of personnel engaged in the work of the road department. He may purchase, lease or hire such equipment and purchase such materials and supplies as may be necessary for operation of the county road department in conformity with the budget, in accordance with the central purchase system and existing laws and subject to approval of the board as to price or rental. He shall have jurisdiction over the assignment of equipment needed in performance of the work of the county road department.

(10) The board of supervisors may, by a majority vote of the entire board, supersede any act of the road manager or change, modify or revoke any act which has been completed by the road manager, provided the change, modification or revocation does not constitute a breach of contract.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-65 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 33-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-65
Status: in_force

The fact of the issuance and delivery of refunding bonds hereunder shall be certified by the clerk of the board of supervisors to the state Treasurer, who shall immediately register such bonds in a suitable bond register. Thereafter, the revenues and taxes which would otherwise be paid into the county treasury of such county for the payment of road protection and seawall bonds and interest thereon under the provisions of section 65-33-45 , shall be paid by the official collecting such taxes into the state treasury on a proper receive warrant of the state auditor to the credit of such county in a special fund to be designated “interest and sinking fund for road protection and seawall bonds of __________ County, Mississippi,” which fund shall be held and shall be applied by the state treasurer in the payment of interest accruing on such refunding bonds and the principal thereof at maturity, according to law. In the event that less than all of outstanding bonds payable under the provisions of this chapter shall be refunded as herein provided, then and in that event there shall be paid into the state treasury, for the credit of the aforesaid interest and sinking fund, only the proportion of the revenues and taxes as the amount of refunding bonds issued and outstanding bears to the total amount of outstanding bonds payable from the revenues herein referred to.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-23 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 43-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-23
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under the authority of Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 shall be revenue bonds of the state, the principal of and interest on which shall be payable solely from the revenue from projects authorized under Section 65-43-1 or 65-43-3 . The bonds shall never constitute an indebtedness of the state within the meaning of any state constitutional provision or statutory limitation, and shall never constitute or give rise to a pecuniary liability of the state, or a charge against its general credit or taxing powers, and such fact shall be plainly stated on the face of each such bond. The bonds shall not be considered when computing any limitation of indebtedness of the state. All bonds issued under the authority of Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 and all interest coupons applicable thereto shall be construed to be negotiable instruments, despite the fact that they are payable solely from a specified source.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-67 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 33-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-67
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county issuing refunding bonds under the provisions of sections 65-33-61 to 65-33-65 , shall levy an annual tax of not less than five mills on each dollar of the assessed valuation of taxable property within such county for the purpose of providing funds sufficient to pay such bonds at maturity and interest thereon as it accrues. The said tax shall be levied and collected as other county taxes are levied and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be remitted by the county tax collector to the State Treasury at the time when state taxes are required by law to be so remitted. The State Treasurer shall credit the amount to the interest and sinking fund referred to in section 65-33-65 . On or before October 1st in each year, the State Treasurer shall certify to the board of supervisors of each such county the amount standing to the credit of such interest and sinking fund as of September 15th, of that year, and if such amount shall be sufficient (1) to pay all principal of and interest on such bonds then due and owing and (2) all principal of and interest on such refunding bonds maturing and accruing during the period of twelve months running from said September 15th, then and in that event such board of supervisors may reduce the aforesaid taxes or omit the same for the ensuing year, as such board may determine. All funds paid into the State Treasury hereunder shall remain in the State Treasury for the payment of principal and interest on such refunding bonds until all the principal and interest on such refunding bonds shall have been fully paid.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-91 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 7-91
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-91
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors may purchase or lease land upon which to establish stations for the working of the public roads, and may erect on the land barns, sheds, and other necessary buildings for the working of the public roads; but the board shall not purchase over ten (10) acres of land for any one (1) station. If the board is unable to purchase or lease, upon terms satisfactory to it, a site selected by it for a station, or in case it is unable to agree with any landowner as to the amount of compensation he shall receive for any land so selected, then the board may proceed to obtain not more than two (2) acres of said site by eminent domain, and the right of eminent domain for no more than two (2) acres is hereby conferred upon the boards of supervisors for said purposes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-33 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 11-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-33
Status: in_force

All rights of way for any county highway to be constructed or improved under the provisions of sections 65-11-1 to 65-11-37 shall be obtained, secured, and paid for by the county in which such highway is located.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.375 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.375
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.375
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of U.S. Highway 45 located in Noxubee County, Mississippi, extending for a distance of approximately one (1) mile in the southerly direction approaching Shuqualak, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the “Chief Petty Officer Andrew Triplett 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. § 65-43-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 43-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-25
Status: in_force

Upon the issuance and sale of bonds under the provisions of Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 , the State Bond Commission shall transfer the proceeds of any such sale or sales to a special fund created in Section 65-43-9 . The proceeds of such bonds shall be disbursed solely upon the order of the Mississippi Transportation Commission under such restrictions, if any, as may be contained in the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.382 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.382
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.382
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 513 South located in Stonewall, Clarke County, Mississippi, beginning at its intersection with Church Street, and running northwesterly for a distance of approximately one (1) mile, more or less, to the Chickasawhay River in Enterprise, Clarke County, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the “Lance Corporal Mac Hamburg, USMC, Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of the highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-227 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 23-227
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-227
Status: in_force

For the purpose of carrying into effect the objects and purposes of this article the board of commissioners shall have full power and authority to negotiate and enter into contract or contracts with the federal government or any of its agencies, the Mississippi State Highway Commission, the state highway commission of any adjoining state where said bridge may be located, any counties, cities, or town of the State of Mississippi or of any adjoining state whereby the district may receive financial aid in the construction, maintenance, and operation of said bridge and approaches thereto; to contract for the joint ownership thereof and the means and manner of operating and maintaining said bridge and approaches thereto. The powers herein granted to the board of commissioners shall have broad and liberal construction for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 65-11-37 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 11-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-37
Status: in_force

All highways constructed under the provisions of Sections 65-11-1 to 65-11-37 , including those constructed under the provisions of Sections 65-11-27 to 65-11-31 , may be constructed by the State Highway Commission without regard to any group priority of construction which is now or may hereafter be provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 18-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-11
Status: in_force

(1) In order for a county to be eligible to utilize its Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program allocation or any of its state aid road funds for the Local System Road Program, a county must meet the following conditions:

(a) The county has employed a county engineer, together with such other technical assistance as is necessary to carry out the duties of this chapter, the same as provided under the provisions of Section 65-9-15 , for its state aid road system and, through its official minutes, has authorized the county engineer to perform the necessary engineering services connected with the Local System Road Program. The county engineer shall prepare the necessary plans and designs for all construction projects, including state aid projects and projects provided under this chapter. He also shall provide engineering supervision for the construction of such projects and shall approve all estimate payments made on the projects. Engineering cost for any project performed under the Local System Road Program may be paid from any funds allocated to a county under the program; however, the maximum fee paid to an engineer shall not exceed twelve percent (12%) of the final construction cost. No such cost shall be reimbursed to the county before the letting of the project; and

(b) The county has presented a plan for the construction, reconstruction and paving of a local system road which plan has been made and approved by the county engineer of the county, showing the specific road or project to be improved, stating the condition of the existing roadbed, drainage and bridges and outlining the type of construction or reconstruction to be made and the designs and specifications therefor including the paving of the road and the sources of revenue to be used and the sources and types of material to be used thereon. The plan shall be presented to the State Aid Engineer for the initial approval of the beginning of a project to receive monies.

(2) After the initial approval of the plan and plans as specified in subsection (1)(b) of this section has been made by the State Aid Engineer, the county shall be eligible to receive all funds made available to the county under the Local System Road Program to be used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction or paving of the local system road. The project may be done either by contract or by using county equipment and employees. It shall be according to the original plan or any amendments thereto which have been approved by the State Aid Engineer. The board may use county equipment and employees if the construction can be accomplished at a more reasonable cost than can be achieved by contract.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-59 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 65-7-79 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-79
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-79
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county in which a main highway in said county runs through several municipalities in said county, and lies partly within said municipalities and partly without, may join in and co-operate with the said municipalities in the joint construction, improvement, and maintenance of said highway, and out of the county road and bridge fund may pay a proportionate part of the cost of such construction, improvement, and maintenance, the municipalities also paying their proportionate parts. The board of supervisors may distribute its pro rata part of such cost over a period of not exceeding five annual payments and may direct its president to execute the notes of the county for said annual payments, to draw interest at a rate not exceeding six percent (6%) per annum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 39-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-13
Status: in_force

The State Bond Commission shall act as the issuing agent for the bonds authorized under Sections 65-39-5 through 65-39-33 , prescribe the form of the bonds, advertise for and accept bids, issue and sell the bonds so authorized to be sold, pay all fees and costs incurred in such issuance and sale, and do all other things necessary and advisable in connection with the issuance and sale of the bonds. The State Bond Commission may pay the costs that are incident to the sale, issuance and delivery of the bonds authorized under Sections 65-39-5 through 65-39-33 from the proceeds derived from the sale of the bonds. The State Bond Commission shall sell such bonds on sealed bids at public sale, and for such price as it may determine to be for the best interest of the State of Mississippi, but no such sale may be made at a price less than par plus accrued interest to the date of delivery of the bonds to the purchaser. All interest accruing on such bonds so issued shall be payable semiannually or annually; however, the first interest payment may be for any period of not more than one (1) year.

Notice of the sale of any such bond shall be published at least one (1) time, not less than ten (10) days before the date of sale, and shall be so published in one or more newspapers published or having a general circulation in the City of Jackson, Mississippi, and in one or more other newspapers or financial journals with a national circulation, to be selected by the State Bond Commission.

The State Bond Commission, when issuing any bonds under the authority of Sections 65-39-5 through 65-39-33 , may provide that bonds, at the option of the State of Mississippi, may be called in for payment and redemption at the call price named therein and accrued interest on such date or dates named therein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-55 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 13-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-55
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to violate any provision of the federal or state constitutions, and all acts done under this chapter shall be done in such manner as will conform thereto, whether herein expressly provided or not. Where any procedure hereunder may be held by any court to be violative of either of such constitutions, the authority shall have the power by resolution to provide an alternative procedure conformable with such constitutions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-39 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 43-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-39
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer is authorized, without further process of law, to certify to the Department of Finance and Administration the necessity for warrants, and the Department of Finance and Administration is authorized and directed to issue such warrants, in such amounts as may be necessary to pay when due the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, or the accreted value of, all bonds issued under Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 ; and the State Treasurer shall forward the necessary amount to the designated place or places of payment of such bonds in ample time to discharge such bonds, or the interest thereon, on the due dates thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / Section 27-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-9
Status: in_force

All penalties and forfeitures incurred by the owner or keeper of a toll ferry, bridge, turnpike, causeway, or plank road may be recovered by suit on the bond of the owner or keeper, one half to go to the person who sues for it, the other half to be paid into the county treasury; and damages may likewise be recovered against such owner or keeper by suit on the bond.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.63 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.63
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.63
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 25 beginning at the Hinds/Rankin County line and extending northeasterly to U.S. Highway 82 in Oktibbeha County shall be known and designated as “Military Order of the Purple Heart Drive.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-74 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 7-74
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-74
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to construct, maintain and/or repair roads, driveways and parking areas into and on all property owned by any public school district within such county, and the expenditure of funds for such construction, repairs and maintenance is hereby authorized from any available funds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-309 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 23-309
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-309
Status: in_force

Any such county acting separately or jointly with another county is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, whenever it shall deem such construction expedient, any toll bridge located as provided in Section 65-23-305 . Authority is hereby granted to any such county or counties to purchase, solely from funds provided under the authority of this article, such lands, rights of way, easements, and other interests in lands, including lands under water and riparian rights of any person, copartnership, association, railroad or other corporation, municipality, or political subdivision, deemed necessary for the construction of any such bridge, upon such terms and at such prices as may be considered by it or them to be reasonable and can be agreed upon between it or them and the owner thereof, and to take title thereto in the name of such county or counties. Any such county or counties may acquire such lands, rights of way, easements, and other interest in land by eminent domain in the manner now provided by law. The State of Mississippi hereby consents to the use of all lands lying under water, which are within the state and are necessary for the construction and operation of any such bridge and the approaches and appurtenances thereto.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-30 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 9-30
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-30
Status: in_force

(1) The State Aid Engineer shall maintain an accurate record of all federal aid secondary funds, federal “safer off-system” funds, and all other available federal road funds allocated to the counties in accordance with the percentages set out in Section 65-9-3 . He shall likewise maintain an accurate account of all state aid funds apportioned to the counties in accordance with the percentages and provisions set out in Section 27-65-75 .

(2) The State Aid Engineer is hereby authorized to utilize state aid funds, and federal aid secondary funds allocated to the counties as provided for in accordance with Section 65-9-29 , and federal “safer off-system” funds, and/or any other available federal road funds allocated to Mississippi and to be expended on county roads, and allocated to the counties as provided for in accordance with Section 65-9-29, in such amounts as he deems necessary for an orderly and effective programming of all funds available to the counties, including an interchange of one (1) type of funds for another type of funds when necessary; provided, however, that each county shall receive, not less than annually, its pro rata share of the combined funds so allocated; and further provided that the authority of the county boards of supervisors to otherwise adopt construction programs is in no way circumvented.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 65-23-229 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 23-229
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-229
Status: in_force

The board of commissioners, acting for and in behalf of the district, shall have the right, power, and authority to purchase, hold, and possess such real estate as may be necessary for the purposes for which the district was organized and, in addition thereto, the district organized hereunder shall have the right of eminent domain. If condemnation proceedings become necessary, such proceedings shall be instituted and conducted in the manner as is now provided by law for such condemnation proceedings.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 23-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-19
Status: in_force

Any municipality or public authority hereinabove set forth, either jointly or severally, may enter into contracts with the United States of America, or any agency thereof, under the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act and the regulations made in pursuance thereof, and under any further acts of Congress of the United States to encourage public works, for the sale of bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of this article, or for the acceptance of a grant to aid such municipality or other public authority to acquire, build, or improve any toll bridge, or to enter into contracts with any person or corporation, public or private, for the sale of such bonds. Such contracts may contain such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by and between the municipality, or other public authority, and the United States of America, any agency thereof, or any purchaser of such bonds. This and all other provisions of this article shall apply to code municipalities of the State of Mississippi or special charter cities of the State of Mississippi alike. In event of special charter cities of the State of Mississippi, no amendment to the charter of such municipality shall be necessary in order for such municipality to have advantage of this article, but such municipality shall have such advantage by simply spreading upon the minutes of its governing board of authority by resolution or ordinance the fact that same desires to come under the provisions of this article, in which event such municipality or any other political authority of the State of Mississippi hereinabove named shall have full power to adopt such ordinance and resolution and to do all things and perform all acts necessary or right or desirable to effectuate the full intent and purpose of this article.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-55 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-55
Status: in_force

Any person who uses such road while the same is closed, or removes such obstruction or sign, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and shall be responsible in damages to the highway commission for all damage done to the highway in violation of Section 65-7-53 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.347 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.347
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.347
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 45 located in Prentiss County, Mississippi, beginning at the boundary between Lee County and Prentiss County and extending north for two (2) miles is designated and shall be known as the “Senator John 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. § 65-13-55 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 13-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-55
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to violate any provision of the federal or state constitutions, and all acts done under this chapter shall be done in such manner as will conform thereto, whether herein expressly provided or not. Where any procedure hereunder may be held by any court to be violative of either of such constitutions, the authority shall have the power by resolution to provide an alternative procedure conformable with such constitutions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 18, which is situated in Jasper County from the corporate limits of the town of Bay Springs to the Smith County line shall be designated and known as the “Dr. W. C. Simmons Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby directed to erect appropriate signs identifying such memorial highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-205 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-205
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-205
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall construct to department design standards, may perform such reconstruction as may be required to existing highways and may acquire by gift, purchase or eminent domain proceedings such property as may be necessary to provide four (4) lanes for traffic on and along the following locations:

Northern District -- Pontotoc, Lee and Monroe Counties:

Mississippi Highway 6 (Appalachian Corridor V) from Mississippi Highway 9 easterly to U.S. Highway 45 south of Tupelo and continuing easterly to existing Mississippi Highway 6 near Plantersville, a distance of approximately 10.5 miles, and Mississippi Highway 6 from the City of Amory to its intersection with U.S. Highway 45 south of Nettleton, including relocation of Mississippi Highway 6 south of Nettleton, a distance of approximately 10 miles.

Northern District -- Itawamba County:

Mississippi Highway 76 (Appalachian Corridor V) from a point approximately 5.0 miles northeast of U.S. Highway 78 near the community of Fairview and extending northeasterly approximately 11 miles to the Alabama state line.

(2) The mileage of highways specifically designated in subsection (1) of this section shall be under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission for construction and maintenance and, together with the highways designated in Sections 65-3-3 and 65-3-5 , and all other laws adding links to the state designated highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.328 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.328
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.328
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of U.S. Highway 82 in Leflore County, Mississippi, beginning at the western city limits of the City of Greenwood and extending one (1) mile west, is designated as the “Deputy Melvin P. ‘Buster’ Brown, Jr., 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. § 65-3-43 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-43
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of United States Highway 78 being situated between the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee and the western boundary of the state of Alabama shall be designated and henceforth known as the Elvis Aaron Presley Memorial Highway.

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby directed to erect appropriate signs along and approaching said highway and, further, to erect a suitable memorial marker between the City of Tupelo, Mississippi, and the Town of Mineral Wells, Mississippi, at a site to be chosen with the approval of the family of Elvis Aaron Presley.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 33-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-13
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of such board to exercise a continuing supervision over all public lands, works, and road protection. All bonds issued under the provisions of Section 65-33-7 and all obligations and expenses necessarily incurred in connection there with shall be paid out of the funds made available for road protection purposes under this chapter.

Any attorneys' fees paid in connection with or in consideration of the issuance of any bonds under the terms of Sections 65-33-1 to 65-33-15 , shall not exceed one half of one per cent of ( 1 / 2 of 1%) the total amount of each bond issue.

The cost of the maintenance of any such causeway or causeways, bridge or bridges, road and roads shall be defrayed out of funds provided under Section 65-33-47 , or general county fund, or from tolls or revenues derived from any bridge or bridges, causeway or causeways, or facilities provided for herein. Said county shall insure the causeway or causeways, bridge or bridges, against such perils as the board may deem proper, such insurance to be written by an insurance company or companies authorized to do business in the State of Mississippi, and the premiums therefor shall be payable out of funds provided under this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.141 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.141
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.141
Status: in_force

(1) The Dorsey-Fawn Grove intersection in Itawamba County on United States Highway 78 (future I-22) shall be known as “Phyllis Hawkins Harper Interchange.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the intersection described in subsection (1).
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 11-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-13
Status: in_force

The projects upon such county federal aid highway system shall be selected jointly by the several boards of supervisors and the State Highway Commission in conformity with the applicable laws, rules, and regulations of the federal government and the public roads administration, of the federal works agency, or any other authorized agency of the federal government. The order of the construction and completion of such projects shall likewise be determined jointly by the several boards of supervisors and the State Highway Commission in conformity with such laws, rules, and regulations; the State Highway Commission shall first call upon the several boards of supervisors to select and recommend a series of projects in the respective counties in the order in which, in the opinion of the board or a majority thereof, the projects should be constructed. Such selections and recommendations shall be examined and analyzed by the State Highway Commission and, if found to be proper and correct based on the relative use and importance of such roads, shall be approved by the State Highway Commission.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 43-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-25
Status: in_force

Upon the issuance and sale of bonds under the provisions of Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 , the State Bond Commission shall transfer the proceeds of any such sale or sales to a special fund created in Section 65-43-9 . The proceeds of such bonds shall be disbursed solely upon the order of the Mississippi Transportation Commission under such restrictions, if any, as may be contained in the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.93 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.93
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.93
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of U.S. Highway 84 located in Jones County beginning from 16th Avenue within the corporate limits of Laurel and extending westerly to the Jones/Covington county line is designated and shall be known as the “Veterans 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).
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-51 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 65-7-53 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-53
Status: in_force

Whenever in the discretion of the board of supervisors of any county it seems proper so to do, the board may, by order on its minutes, authorize the commission of any road district within the county, or the engineer of such commission, to forbid the use of any hard surfaced road, or portion thereof, when under construction or repair. The Highway Commission or its engineer, when so authorized by the board of supervisors, may close said road or any portion thereof to travel by an obstruction placed thereon in such manner as to indicate its closing, or by a sign marked “closed by order of the Highway Commission.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-7
Status: in_force

If any person shall fell any bush or tree and leave any portion thereof in any stream or on any public highway, road, or ditch draining the roadway or obstruct the same in any manner whatever, and not immediately remove the obstruction, the overseer of the road shall remove the same, and the person so felling the tree or bush, or otherwise obstructing the road or water shall forfeit and pay all expenses of removing the same, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of the county, in the name of the county. It is the duty of the overseer to cause suit to be commenced therefor, and such person shall be liable for all damages occasioned to another by the obstruction. However, no cattle gap placed on a county road, subject to overflow by the Mississippi River and not protected by levees, shall be considered an obstruction in the public road if such cattle gap is installed with the permission of the board of supervisors and the person installing same also provides a gate adjacent to the road for the passage of stock.

Any violation of this section shall also, upon conviction, be punishable as provided under Section 99-19-31 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-47 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 11-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-47
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of each county, at its next regular or special meeting after receipt of notice of the amount of money apportioned such county, shall spread upon the minutes of such meeting the roads and bridges selected by it to be constructed or improved in its respective district or beat. In the selection of such projects the boards of supervisors shall select roads and bridges which will be of the greatest benefit to the district or beat as a whole, judged from the standpoint of relative use and importance. However, if the board of supervisors selects a portion of the federal aid farm-to-market system, as set up in Sections 65-11-1 through 65-11-37 , then the road shall be built up to the specifications for the federal aid farm-to-market system, and the funds made available under Sections 65-11-39 through 65-11-59 shall be expended under the provisions of the former sections. No reference is intended to any order of the board of supervisors heretofore made with reference to farm-to-market roads in the respective counties.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 11-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-25
Status: in_force

If the amount apportioned to any county from federal aid funds for the purposes mentioned above shall exceed the amount made available to such county from state appropriated funds, then the board of supervisors of such county is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to use and expend any county road and bridge funds, or any funds available in the general fund of such county, to increase or enlarge the county highway construction program in such county and to match any federal aid funds not matched by state appropriated funds. All such additional funds shall be remitted and turned over by the board of supervisors to the State Treasurer to be deposited in the state highway fund and to be used exclusively in said county on projects on county highways approved by the board of supervisors, the State Highway Commission, and the public roads administration, it being the intention of this section to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of any county to supplement the funds provided for the construction or improvement of projects on secondary or feeder roads in said county out of any funds which the county might have available at the time. For the purpose of providing such supplemental or additional funds, the board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to issue the road or road and bridge bonds of such county in any lawful amount, said bonds to be issued in all respects in the manner and method, and subject to the restrictions and conditions, now provided by law for the issuance of county road or road and bridge bonds, and shall be payable from the same sources of revenue.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-17
Status: in_force

Bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter and any interest thereon or income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation, except gift, transfer, and inheritance taxes, in so far as may be within the power of the State of Mississippi so to provide.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-39 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 33-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-39
Status: in_force

When any county of this state has adopted or will adopt any sea wall or part of a sea wall constructed prior to October 31, 1931, by a municipality as a part of its general system as provided by Section 65-33-37 , and where said county has been unable to take care of or pay the maturing bonds and interest of said municipality from the gasoline tax as provided by said section, the said county may borrow funds necessary to pay outstanding maturing bonds and interest of the municipality issued for said sea wall, or walls. The said county may borrow said funds either upon certificates of indebtedness, notes, or bonds, as in its judgment it may see fit. Said obligation or bonds shall not be for a period longer than ten years and at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. Said obligations or bonds shall not be considered as included in any limitation now fixed by law upon the indebtedness of any county, and said obligations or bonds may be issued without notice and without an election on the question of the issuance of same. The said obligation or bonds issued hereunder shall be general obligations of the county and payable out of the gasoline tax when available, as provided in the cited section, and the general sea wall road protection laws. In the event of the failure of sufficient funds from the said gasoline tax, the county shall levy a special tax to pay said bonds. The board of supervisors issuing bonds hereunder may provide that the first obligations or bonds mature as long as three years from the date of their issuance, but all interest shall be paid semiannually. In the event of the failure to collect sufficient gasoline tax to pay said bonds or obligations authorized hereunder, the board of supervisors of the county are authorized to levy ad valorem taxes to pay same as other sea wall or road protection bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-143.9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-143.9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-143.9
Status: in_force

The following segment of highway is designated as a state highway and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission for construction and maintenance; 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:

Northern District--Union County:

An extension of Mississippi 30 in the City of New Albany beginning at its intersection with Mississippi 178 and extending east and northerly to its intersection with Sam T. Barkley Road.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 26-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-29
Status: in_force

(1) Such general obligation 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 or required by this chapter. Any resolution providing for the issuance of general obligation bonds under the provisions of this chapter shall become effective immediately upon its adoption by the bond commission, and any such resolution may be adopted at any regular, special or adjourned meeting of the bond commission by a majority of its members.

(2) The bonds authorized under the authority of this chapter shall be validated in the chancery court of Hinds County, Mississippi, in the manner and with the force and effect provided now or hereafter by Chapter 13, Title 31, Mississippi Code of 1972 , for the validation of county, municipal, school district, and other bonds. The necessary papers for such validation proceedings shall be transmitted to the state bond attorney by the secretary of the bond commission, and the required notice shall be published in a newspaper published in the City of Jackson, Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-309 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 23-309
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-309
Status: in_force

Any such county acting separately or jointly with another county is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, whenever it shall deem such construction expedient, any toll bridge located as provided in Section 65-23-305 . Authority is hereby granted to any such county or counties to purchase, solely from funds provided under the authority of this article, such lands, rights of way, easements, and other interests in lands, including lands under water and riparian rights of any person, copartnership, association, railroad or other corporation, municipality, or political subdivision, deemed necessary for the construction of any such bridge, upon such terms and at such prices as may be considered by it or them to be reasonable and can be agreed upon between it or them and the owner thereof, and to take title thereto in the name of such county or counties. Any such county or counties may acquire such lands, rights of way, easements, and other interest in land by eminent domain in the manner now provided by law. The State of Mississippi hereby consents to the use of all lands lying under water, which are within the state and are necessary for the construction and operation of any such bridge and the approaches and appurtenances thereto.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-221 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / Section 23-221
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-221
Status: in_force

In order to carry out the purposes for which the district is organized and created, the board of commissioners may borrow money at a rate of interest not exceeding six percent (6%) per annum and issue negotiable notes or bonds therefor, signed by the chairman or vice-chairman and the secretary, when authorized by the commissioners, and may pledge all assessments of benefits for the repayment thereof. No bonds issued under the terms of this article shall run for more than thirty years, and all issues of such bonds must be divided so that a portion thereof will mature each year, as other general obligation bonds are now required to be issued.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-33 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 9-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-33
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 funds to reconstruct that portion of designated Mississippi Highway 182 in Lowndes County, Mississippi, that spans the Tombigbee River on Federal Aid Urban Route Number 9539, jurisdiction for the maintenance of which is, on March 12, 1990, vested in Lowndes County pursuant to an agreement executed by the county, the State Highway Commission and the City of Columbus.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 65-9-33 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 9-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-33
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 funds to reconstruct that portion of designated Mississippi Highway 182 in Lowndes County, Mississippi, that spans the Tombigbee River on Federal Aid Urban Route Number 9539, jurisdiction for the maintenance of which is, on March 12, 1990, vested in Lowndes County pursuant to an agreement executed by the county, the State Highway Commission and the City of Columbus.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-23 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 9-23
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-23
Status: in_force

Such accounting controls and safeguards, including those already provided in this chapter, may be required of each board of supervisors as, in the discretion of the State Aid Engineer, may be deemed necessary; but general and uniform rules and regulations thereasto shall be first promulgated by said State Aid Engineer, only with the advice and approval of the State Auditor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-53 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 13-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-53
Status: in_force

When the particular bonds issued for the projects to be constructed under this chapter and the interest thereon shall have been paid, or a sufficient amount shall have been provided for their payment and shall continue to be held for that purpose, and upon acceptance of the responsibility for operation and maintenance of the project by an agency of government legally authorized to do so, the authority shall cease to charge tolls or levy assessments for use of the project or projects, and thereafter the use of such projects shall be free.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-331 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 23-331
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-331
Status: in_force

Such bonds may be issued for the purpose stated above and, regardless of the amount thereof, same shall not be subject to the limitations as to amount of bonded debt based upon amount of the assessed value of taxable property in a county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 17-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-7
Status: in_force

Such highway commissioner shall, from time to time as required by the board of supervisors, report to the board his acts and doings touching his official duties, and all of his acts shall be subject to the approval or rejection of the board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-11
Status: in_force

Before approving any application under this chapter the board shall have the Mississippi Department of Transportation, or the political subdivision if the political subdivision will have the construction or improvement performed, prepare and submit to it a detailed engineering study and report of all estimated costs associated with the construction and improvement of the highways and highway segments requested by the application of the political subdivision along with the estimated annual costs necessary to be expended for maintenance thereof. If the political subdivision will have the construction or improvement performed on a state designated highway that will be maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation, the board shall not approve the application of such political subdivision until the engineering study required in this section has been submitted by the board to the Mississippi Department of Transportation and has been certified by the Transportation Department to the board as proposing construction or improvement of highways and highway segments that meets Transportation Department standards for such work. If the political subdivision will have the construction or improvement performed on a highway that is not on the designated state highway system, the board shall not approve the application of such political subdivision until the engineering study required in this section has been submitted by the board to the Office of State Aid Road Construction and has been certified by the Office of State Aid Road Construction to the board as proposing construction or improvement of highways and highway segments that meets Office of State Aid Road Construction standards for such work.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation or the Office of State Aid Road Construction, as the case may be, may recommend modifications to the location and route of those highways and highway segments proposed in the application of the political subdivision if such modifications are more cost effective and would not have a substantially negative economic impact on the project of the private company.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-65 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-65
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-65
Status: in_force

The damages assessed and allowed by the board shall be paid out of the county treasury.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.40 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.40
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.40
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 15 in Harrison County beginning at Interstate Highway 110 and extending northerly to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 26 is designated and shall be known as the “Wade Guice Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on and along that portion of Mississippi Highway 15 described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 43-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-21
Status: in_force

The State Bond Commission shall act as the issuing agent for the bonds authorized under Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 , 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, pay all fees and costs incurred in such issuance and sale, and do any and all other things necessary and advisable in connection with the issuance and sale of such bonds. The State Bond Commission is authorized and empowered to pay the costs that are incident to the sale, issuance and delivery of the bonds authorized under Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 from the proceeds derived from the sale of such bonds. The State Bond Commission shall sell such bonds on sealed bids at public or private sale, and for such price as it may determine to be for the best interest of the State of Mississippi, but no such sale shall be made at a price less than par plus accrued interest to the date of delivery of the bonds to the purchaser. All interest accruing on such bonds so issued shall be payable semiannually or annually; however, the first interest payment may be for any period of not more than one (1) year.

Notice of the sale of any such bonds shall be published at least one time, not less than ten (10) days before the date of sale, and shall be so published in one or more newspapers published or having a general circulation in the City of Jackson, Mississippi, and in one or more other newspapers or financial journals with a national circulation, to be selected by the State Bond Commission.

The State Bond Commission, when issuing any bonds under the authority of Sections 65-43-9 through 65-43-39 , may provide that bonds, at the option of the State of Mississippi, may be called in for payment and redemption at the call price named therein and accrued interest on such date or dates named therein.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-55 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-55
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to violate any provision of the federal or state constitutions, and all acts done under this chapter shall be done in such manner as will conform thereto, whether herein expressly provided or not. Where any procedure hereunder may be held by any court to be violative of either of such constitutions, the authority shall have the power by resolution to provide an alternative procedure conformable with such constitutions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / Section 18-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-13
Status: in_force

All rights-of-way and adjustments for utilities necessary for Local System Road Program projects must be acquired or performed by the boards of supervisors in the manner provided by law for the acquisition of rights-of-way, including gift, purchase, deed, dedication and eminent domain; however, no part of the cost of such rights-of-way may be paid from Local System Road Program funds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 27-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-11
Status: in_force

Any county or municipality authorized to construct bridges and issue bridge revenue bonds to pay the cost thereof is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase any competing ferry or ferries within fifteen miles of any such bridge, and to include the cost thereof as a part of the cost of construction of such bridge.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / 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. § 65-2-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / 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. § 65-9-33 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 9-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-33
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 funds to reconstruct that portion of designated Mississippi Highway 182 in Lowndes County, Mississippi, that spans the Tombigbee River on Federal Aid Urban Route Number 9539, jurisdiction for the maintenance of which is, on March 12, 1990, vested in Lowndes County pursuant to an agreement executed by the county, the State Highway Commission and the City of Columbus.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-1
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors may establish and license toll ferries, and fix the toll; and where the public convenience and travel justifies it, may establish and maintain free ferries, or in its discretion toll ferries at public expense; and the board of supervisors shall fix the salary of the ferryman or ferrymen to run such free or toll ferry. The board of supervisors may make allowance to pay for ferry boats and things to run same, and may establish ferries over rivers or other watercourses where public road is parallel with and on one bank of the river or watercourse, and public or private roads on the opposite bank.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-43 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 13-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-43
Status: in_force

The board of trustees may, in lieu of charging and collecting tolls or in combination with the charging and collection of tolls, levy or assess adjacent property owners or the different supervisors districts, municipalities, agencies, departments, or other instrumentalities assisting in the development of the works authorized herein with an amount of money which, together with other revenues, will provide sufficient funds to carry out the purpose of this chapter. All political subdivisions of this state are hereby authorized and empowered to make such agreements with the board of trustees as are necessary to carry out the purpose of this section. All assessments shall be voluntary and at the discretion of the party or governmental subdivision upon which the assessment is to be levied. All procedures, regulations, commitments, etc., shall be outlined in detail on a resolution by the board of trustees of the authority prior to acceptance by any political subdivision of this state and agencies, commissions, departments, and other instrumentalities thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 9-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-25
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the several boards of supervisors to properly maintain all state aid roads in their respective counties after construction of any such roads with state aid monies. It shall be the duty of the State Aid Engineer and his assistants to make annual maintenance inspections of completed projects, and such other periodic maintenance inspections as the State Aid Engineer shall deem necessary. If essential maintenance is not properly and regularly carried on, in the opinion of the State Aid Engineer, then notice thereof shall be given in writing to the board in default, and if such maintenance is not done and continued within sixty (60) days from date of such notice, then, and in such event, the State Aid Engineer may proceed to have done the necessary maintenance and repair work on such road and charge the same to any funds in the State Aid Road Fund in the State Treasury allocated to such county. If such failure to maintain continues, then such county shall be no longer eligible for state aid until proper maintenance is resumed by it, and notice of such withdrawal of state aid shall be duly given the State Treasurer; however, such ineligibility shall not affect payment from the State Aid Road Fund of progress or final estimates on contracts awarded prior to notice of such ineligibility, nor shall that ineligibility in any way affect the payment of principal and interest on state aid road bonds issued by any such county.

State aid roads which have been hard surfaced through the use of state aid funds or federal aid funds shall be eligible for state aid funds to provide one or more seal courses, as required. State aid roads in which the grading and drainage structures were constructed under state aid projects and which have been subsequently hard surfaced by the county through the use of county funds under the supervision of the county engineer shall likewise be eligible for state aid funds to provide one or more seal courses as required, provided that the hard surfacing and underlying base were constructed in accordance with the then prevailing state aid standards and specifications. The county shall furnish the State Aid Engineer with sufficient engineering data, including borings and tests, if necessary, to substantiate the required thickness and quality of the base and surfacing. The correction of base defects and pavement breaks may be made part of the plans and contract documents for each sealing project.

State aid roads which were constructed in accordance with the then prevailing state aid standards and specifications shall be eligible for state aid funds for maintenance, repair and reconstruction, subject to the prior written approval of such work by the State Aid Engineer and subject to the work being completed in accordance with the prior written approval.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 17-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-5
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of such commissioner to supervise the construction of such highways and their maintenance after the construction, and to see that the directions for such construction and maintenance are carried out, calling to his assistance, when necessary, the service of a competent civil engineer, which civil engineer shall receive for his services a reasonable compensation to be fixed by the board of supervisors, to be paid out of the funds arising from the proceeds of the sale of such bonds and the levy of such maintenance tax as provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 65-3-71.252 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.252
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.252
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of U.S. Highway 82 in Washington County beginning at its intersection with West Reed Road and extending westerly to its intersection with the Greenville corporate limits is designated and shall be known as the “Roy B. Fulton 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. § 65-21-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / 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. § 65-23-215 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 23-215
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-215
Status: in_force

When the assessment of benefits is completed the board of commissioners shall subscribe such assessment and file it with the chancery clerk of the county wherein the land is situated, where it may be preserved and kept as a public record. Upon the filing of said assessment of benefits, the chancery clerk of such county shall give notice of such filing by publication once each week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper having general circulation in the county or counties in which the lands of the district are situated. Said notice shall include a day, not less than thirty days from the date of filing the assessment and not more than forty-five days from the date of filing the assessment, at which time property owners may appear and file objections to such assessment. The board of commissioners shall meet on the date set out in such notice, to hear such objections and to make such corrections and adjustments as may be proper in the case, and shall equalize the assessments according to the benefits to be derived from the special improvement herein provided. After having heard the objections and equalized the assessments, the board of commissioners shall enter its order making such assessments final. Any property owner within the district who feels aggrieved by the order making the assessment final shall have the right, within ten days after said order has been entered, to appeal the assessment to the chancery court of the county in which such property is situated. The appeal from the assessment may be heard by the chancellor in term time or in vacation, and after hearing thereof the chancellor shall enter such order as may be proper in the case. Appeals may be taken from the final order of the chancellor within the time and in the manner now provided by law for appeals from any decree of the court.

When the assessment of benefits has been made final and filed as hereinabove provided, the property owner shall have the right to pay such assessment of benefits in full at any time within sixty days after it became final; but if he does not avail himself of this privilege, the assessment of benefits shall bear interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.193 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.193
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.193
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 25 and Mississippi 15 that converges and overlaps within the corporate limits of the City of Louisville, Mississippi, is designated as “Blue Star Memorial Highway” in honor and in gratitude and appreciation for the contributions and sacrifices of the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America.

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect suitable markers along that portion of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.271 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.271
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.271
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of United States Highway 82 in Leflore County from the point of its intersection with Berclair Road to the point of its intersection with Valley of Scholars Boulevard is designated and shall be known as the “B.B. King Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / 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. § 65-3-71.240 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.240
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.240
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 25 in Oktibbeha County beginning at its intersection with McGee Road and extending southerly to its intersection with St. Marks Drive is designated and shall be known as the “Hank McLeod 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. § 65-4-41 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / 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. § 65-25-125 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 25-125
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-125
Status: in_force

There is hereby granted to the members of The Authority for the State of Mississippi, and to the compact administrator, all the powers provided for in the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Construction Compact Authority. All officers of the State of Mississippi are hereby authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective jurisdictions, which are necessary or incidental to carrying out the purposes of the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Construction Compact.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-49 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 19-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-49
Status: in_force

The road commissioners of a separate road district, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors evidenced by ordinance duly passed, may borrow money in a sum or sums not greater in the aggregate than two percent (2%) of the assessed valuation of the real and personal property within such district. Such loans shall be evidenced by the loan warrant or warrants of such district, signed by the road commissioners thereof and countersigned by the president of the board of supervisors, to bear not more than six percent (6%) interest per annum, and to run not more than five years from the issuance thereof. Provision shall be made at the time of making said loans for the payment thereof at maturity out of the roads funds for said district.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-5-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-5-7
Status: in_force

The highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, and village are authorized to so design any controlled-access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. In this connection such highway authorities are authorized to divide and separate any controlled-access facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbings, central dividing sections, or other physical separations, or by designating such separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes, and the proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes, and other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from, or across controlled-access facilities to or from abutting lands except at such designated points at which access may be permitted, upon such terms and conditions as may be specified from time to time.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-139 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-139
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-139
Status: in_force

The following highway is deleted from the state highway system, removed from the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission and returned to the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors of Tippah County:

Northern District--Tippah County:

Mississippi Highway 368 beginning at the end of state maintenance at its intersection of County Route 700 and extending easterly approximately four and one-half (4.5) miles to its intersection with County Route 701 at or near Buena Vista.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-97 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-97
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-97
Status: in_force

The boards of supervisors are hereby prohibited from purchasing any machinery or equipment under a contract requiring installment or deferred payments. However, this section shall not be construed to prohibit boards of supervisors from making purchases which shall be paid for not later than the next regular meeting of said board.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-303 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-303
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-303
Status: in_force

There is hereby granted to the Governor and to the members of the authority for Mississippi all the powers provided for in the compact. All officers of the State of Mississippi are hereby authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective jurisdictions which are necessary or incidental to carrying out the purpose of the compact.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-101 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 17-101
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-101
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors may elect a road accountant, whose salary shall be fixed by the board and who shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in a penalty not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). For the purpose of enabling the road accountant, in counties working their roads and building and repairing bridges on the unit system or countywide basis, to meet weekly payrolls and to pay for same each week or biweekly, the board of supervisors may advance to him at each regular monthly meeting, out of the road and bridge fund of the county, a sum not exceeding fifty percent (50%) of the amount of his bond. Said road accountant shall place said funds in the county depository to his credit as road accountant, to be checked on by him to meet weekly payrolls for labor, and said fund shall be a public fund and shall be secured as other public funds are secured. The road accountant shall report to the next meeting of the board his disposition of said money, including an itemized payroll for same, which payroll must be approved by the board of supervisors before another advance to him may be made. In the event the board finds any discrepancies in said payroll account, he shall be liable on his official bond for same; and the board of supervisors, in such event, shall not make further allowances to him until said discrepancies are corrected. It shall be the duty of the road accountant to pay all labor employed on the road and bridge work of the county, to pay transportation charges on supplies and material used in such road and bridge work, and all bills for repairs. Every three (3) months he shall take an inventory of all the personal property of the county used in said road and bridge work.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.358 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.358
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.358
Status: in_force

(1) The intersection of U.S. Highway 45 and County Road 110 located in Quitman, Clarke County, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the “Army Specialist Terry Kishaun Dantez Gordon Memorial Intersection.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the intersection described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 23-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-11
Status: in_force

The Mississippi State Highway Commission may, when in its opinion the best interest of the state requires, contribute such an amount of the cost of the construction of such bridge or bridges as it may determine would be to the best interest of the State of Mississippi when such bridge forms a part of or a continuation of the state highway system, or is so connected with the state highway system through the streets of a municipality leading from the approaches of such bridge to the state highway system, and may incorporate any such toll bridge into the state highway system. Such State Highway Commission may, in whole or in part, maintain such bridge as a part of the state highway system, or may leave the maintenance of such bridge to the municipality or other political body acting jointly with such State Highway Commission in the financing and operation of such bridge. In event that the State Highway Commission shall contribute any sums of money towards the creation or acquisition of such bridge and the approaches thereto, said State Highway Commission may or may not, in its discretion, require the repayment of such funds through tolls collected, together with interest on such moneys so advanced or donated at a rate, to be determined by said State Highway Commission, not to exceed said amount of six and one-half percent (6 1 / 2 %).
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-213 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 23-213
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-213
Status: in_force

The board of commissioners shall proceed to assess the lands within the district, shall inscribe in a book the description of each tract, piece, and parcel of land, shall assess the benefits to accrue to each tract, piece, and parcel of land by reason of such improvement, and shall enter such assessment of the benefits to be derived opposite the description thereof. The assessment shall embrace not merely the lands but all public and corporate roads, railroads, tramroads, and other improvements on the land that will be benefited by the improvement. They shall place opposite each tract, piece, and parcel of land the supposed name of the owner, as shown by the last general assessment of lands within the county; but a mistake in name shall not vitiate or invalidate the assessment, and they may correct evident errors which occur in the assessment list.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-305 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 23-305
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-305
Status: in_force

Any county of this state bordering on the Pearl River is hereby authorized and empowered, separately or jointly, with any other county of the state bordering on the Pearl River:

(a) To plan, construct, operate, and maintain a toll bridge or bridges and adjacent roadways across the flood plain of, and over and across, the Pearl River.

(b) To issue bridge revenue bonds of such county or counties, payable from bridge earnings, to pay the cost of such bridges.

However, no bonds or liens given under authority of this article shall constitute a lien on any property of such county or counties other than the bridge or bridges constructed under this article, or a pledge of the revenues therefrom.

(c) In the event two counties, acting jointly, exercise the powers conferred by this article, all acts shall be authorized by the governing body of each county, and in such event any revenue bonds issued shall be bonds of both of said counties.

(d) To enter into contracts and/or 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.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-5-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 5-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-5-13
Status: in_force

The highway authority of the state, county, city, town, or village may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within a controlled-access facility. The state or any of its subdivisions shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled-access facilities with existing state and county roads and city, town, or village streets by grade separation or service road, or by closing off such roads and streets at the right of way boundary line of such controlled-access facility; and after the establishment of any controlled-access facility, no highway or street which is not part of said facility shall intersect the same at grade unless it be an approved interchange. No city, town, or village street, county or state highway, or other public way shall be opened into or connected with any such controlled-access facility without the consent and previous approval of the highway authority in the state, county, city, town, or village having jurisdiction over such controlled-access facility. Such consent and approval shall be given only if the public interest shall be served thereby.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 13-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-29
Status: in_force

The trustees shall each receive not more than twenty dollars ($20.00) per diem, and ten cents (10¢) per mile for distance traveled while actually performing the business of the authority. The compensation herein authorized shall apply for no more than fourteen days per member during any calendar year.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-57 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 41-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-57
Status: in_force

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 “Biloxi-D'Iberville Scenic Expressway” pursuant to Section 65-41-1 et seq. as it reaches completion:

Beginning at the intersection of Highway 67 and Interstate I-10 and travel northerly along Highway 67 to the intersection of Highway 67 and U.S. Highway 49.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-2-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 2-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-2-7
Status: in_force

Attendance of all three (3) members shall be necessary to conduct a meeting. If a member is recused from an arbitration or is unable to serve, that member shall be replaced in the manner originally appointed. Upon being called into session the board shall promptly hold hearings and shall have the power to administer oaths and to compel the attendance of witnesses and the furnishing by the parties of such information as may be necessary to a determination of the issue or issues in dispute. Both parties to the dispute shall have the opportunity to be present at the hearing, both personally and by counsel, and to present such oral and documentary evidence as the board shall deem relevant to the issue or issues in controversy.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / 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. § 65-17-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 65-23-219 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 23-219
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-219
Status: in_force

If the tax first levied shall prove insufficient to complete the improvement or to pay the bonds, both principal and interest, issued by the board of commissioners for such improvement, as the same shall become due and payable, the board of commissioners shall, from time to time, report the amount of the deficiency to the chancery court; and said commissioners shall make such levy or levies upon the property previously assessed for a sum or sums sufficient to complete the improvement and to pay the bonds and interest in the manner as the first levy above provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.80 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.80
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.80
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 25 in Monroe County beginning at its intersection with Highway 382 to its intersection with U.S. Highway 45 Alternate is designated and shall be known as the “Walton Greene Gray 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. § 65-25-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 25-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-13
Status: in_force

Any municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, whenever it shall deem such construction expedient, any toll bridge located as provided in Section 65-25-3 . Such municipality is hereby authorized to purchase within this state and within any adjoining state, solely from funds provided under the authority of this article, such lands, structures, rights of way, franchises, easements, and other interests in lands, including lands under water and riparian rights of any person, copartnership, association, railroad or other corporation, or municipality or political subdivision, deemed necessary for the construction of any such bridge, upon such terms and at such prices as may be considered by it to be reasonable and can be agreed upon between it and the owner thereof, and to take title thereto in the name of such municipality. The State of Mississippi hereby consents to the use of all lands lying under water, which are within the state and are necessary for the construction and operation of any such bridge and the approaches and appurtenances thereto.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-63 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 41-63
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-63
Status: in_force

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 “Scenic Byways to Space” pursuant to Section 65-41-1 et seq. :

(a) To be known as “NASA Scenic Byway to Space”: Beginning at the intersection of the 4-lane portion of Mississippi Highway 607 with Mississippi Highway 604 and continuing northerly on Mississippi Highway 607 to the south gate of Stennis Space Center as well as exiting the north gate of Stennis Space Center on Mississippi Highway 607 to the edge of Texas Flat Road.

(b) To be known as “Pearlington Scenic Byway to Space”: Beginning at the intersection of the 2-lane portion of U.S. Highway 90 with Mississippi Highway 607 and continuing southwesterly on U.S. Highway 90 to the edge of the buffer zone near the Town of Pearlington.

(c) To be known as “Westonia Scenic Byway to Space”: Beginning at the intersection of Mississippi Highway 604 with Mississippi Highway 607 and continuing southerly on Mississippi Highway 604 to the edge of the buffer zone near the Town of Pearlington.

(d) To be known as “Logtown Scenic Byway to Space”: Beginning at the intersection of Logtown Road with Mississippi Highway 604 and continuing westerly on Logtown Road to the extinct Town of Logtown on the East Pearl River.

(e) To be known as “Napoleon Scenic Byway to Space”: Beginning at the intersection of Old Mississippi Highway 43 and Mississippi Highway 607 north of Interstate 10 and continuing southerly to the south gate of Stennis Space Center, and including a small portion of road that comes off of Old Highway 43 and goes into the heart of what was once the Town of Napoleon.

(f) To be known as “Santa Rosa Scenic Byway to Space”: Beginning at the intersection of Texas Flat Road with Mississippi Highway 607 and continuing east on Texas Flat Road to the edge of the buffer zone next to the runway of Stennis International Airport.