Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-121 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 7-121
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-121
Status: repealed

(1) The board of supervisors of any county may, upon its own motion or upon the petition of any interested resident of the county, by resolution spread upon its minutes, declare any section of the county road system abandoned upon its finding that one or more of the following circumstances are applicable to the section in question:

(a) The section does not provide primary access to occupied properties;

(b) Traffic on the section has for a period of at least ten (10) consecutive years been intermittent and of such low volume that no substantial public purpose is being served thereby;

(c) The board of supervisors has, for a period of at least the previous five (5) consecutive years, not maintained such section as part of the county road system; or

(d) For any reason, the public interest or convenience does not require the section to remain open to the public or that it is in the public interest or convenience to close, vacate and abandon the section.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, before any section of the county road system may be abandoned as provided in this section, the board of supervisors shall hold a public hearing on the question of such abandonment and shall publish notice of such hearing at least two (2) times, not less than two (2) weeks prior to the date of the hearing, in a newspaper having general circulation in the county.

(3) Repealed.

(4) The resolution of the board of supervisors abandoning any section of the county road system will abrogate the easement theretofore owned, held, claimed or used by or on behalf of the general public but will not affect any private easements.

(5) Upon the abandonment of any section of the county road system, the board of supervisors shall post clearly visible signs at any intersection of the abandoned roadway with the county road system indicating that the abandoned section is no longer part of the county road system and is not maintained by the county. Once the required signs are posted, the county shall not be liable for the death of or injury to a vehicle owner, operator or passenger, or for damage to a vehicle or its contents, resulting from a dangerous condition on the abandoned section. If there exists a public railroad grade crossing or railroad bridge on the section of county road so abandoned, the county shall furnish the railroad or individual owning such railroad trackage with a copy of the resolution authorizing the abandonment and thereupon, the railroad company or individual owning such trackage may barricade the crossing or remove the bridge.

(6) From and after July 1, 2000, any proceedings under this section shall be documented in the official record of the county road system in accordance with the requirements of Section 65-7-4 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.302 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.302
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.302
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 15 in Jones County, Mississippi, beginning at its southernmost intersection with the corporate limits of the City of Laurel and extending southerly until its intersection with Triangle Drive/Country Circle is designated as the “Glade Memorial Highway” in memory of the late Fred Blackledge and Coach Frank Lucas.

(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. § 65-11-51 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-51
Status: in_force

All contracts for the construction of projects under the terms and provisions of Sections 65-11-39 through 65-11-59 shall be let and awarded by the board of supervisors in the manner and method now provided by law for the awarding of contracts for the improvement and construction of county roads and bridges. The cost and expense of the letting of such contracts shall be paid by the county, or from any funds provided for such purpose. In counties having sufficient equipment and labor, the boards of supervisors may build the roads and bridges in their respective districts or beats without the letting of contracts, and may pay for labor and material therefor out of any funds appropriated by the Legislature or otherwise made available to carry out the provisions of the aforesaid sections.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-229 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 65-25-127 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 25-127
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-127
Status: in_force

When the Governor shall have executed said compact on behalf of this state and shall cause a verified copy thereof to be filed with the Secretary of State, and when said compact shall have been ratified by the State of Arkansas, then said compact shall become operative and effective as between the States of Arkansas and Mississippi. The Governor is hereby authorized and directed to take such action as may be necessary to complete the exchange of official documents between this state and the State of Arkansas with respect to ratifying said compact.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.6 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.6
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.6
Status: in_force

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

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby directed to erect appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 65-41-51 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 41-51
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-51
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 “Grand Gulf-Raymond Scenic Byway,” pursuant to Section 65-41-1 et seq. :

Beginning at the Grand Gulf Military Monument on the Mississippi River then east along the historic Back Grand Gulf Road to Frasier Road, following east along Frasier Road to Y-Camp Road, following east along Y-Camp Road to Ingleside-Karnac Ferry Road through the community of Ingleside to Highway 61, then the route continues one-half ( 1 / 2 ) mile north of Highway 61, eastward along Willows Road to the community of Willows, then northeastward along the Old Port Gibson Road terminating at the Raymond Military Park at the City of Raymond.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-47 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-47
Status: in_force

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

The access road beginning at a point of intersection with Interstate 55 at Exit 58 and running east to the intersection with Enid Dam Road, thence southerly along the route of the Enid Dam Road then to its intersection with U.S. Highway 51, thence running southerly along the route of U.S. Highway 51 to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 32, thence in an easterly direction to its intersection with Interstate 55 at Exit 57.

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

(b) The State Highway Department may establish and maintain rest and observation areas along the designated route and may invite the participation of and cooperate with any state, county or municipal agency to assist in the promotion and development of the scenic route hereinabove designated.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-3 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-3
Status: in_force

The owner of the soil over which any toll ferry, bridge, turnpike, causeway, or plank road is established shall have the preference over all other persons to be licensed to keep the same, upon complying with the law and the orders of the board of supervisors within the time fixed by the board.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 21-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-17
Status: in_force

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Section 65-21-15 , the board or boards of supervisors may, in the same manner as set forth in said section, declare it to be their intention to issue bonds not earlier than thirty days and publish the same, stating the amount of contemplated bond issue, in any legal newspaper in the county or counties involved as provided by law. If twenty per cent of the qualified electors petition the board or boards of supervisors for an election to determine said bond issue, the board or boards of supervisors shall order an election not later than thirty days from the date the petition was presented, and a majority of the qualified electors voting shall decide the bond issue. If one or more of the counties voting should, by a majority vote of the qualified electors voting, decide against said bond issue, the part voting against the bond issue shall not issue said bonds; but if one or more of the counties voting at the same time or some other time vote favorably by a majority of the qualified electors voting for a bond issue, as provided in this section, then the board or boards of supervisors of the county or counties so voting may issue the designated bonds for the purpose of purchasing only the designated bridge or bridges.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-217 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 23-217
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-217
Status: in_force

After the board of commissioners has completed the assessment as hereinabove provided, it shall have the authority and is hereby directed to levy a tax upon the taxable property of the district, as it may consider necessary to be levied to pay the preliminary expenses of said district. When the rate of taxation is determined by the commissioners, it shall be filed with the tax collector of the county wherein such property is situated, together with a copy of the assessment hereinabove required, which shall be a warrant for the collection of such taxes. The taxes herein levied shall be collected by the tax collector of the county, along with other taxes of the county. For collecting such taxes, the tax collector shall receive the same compensation as is provided by law for the collection of state and county taxes, and the taxes so collected shall be paid over by the tax collector to the board of commissioners of the district at the same time he is required to make settlement with the county for general taxes.

All taxes levied under the provisions of this article shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as state and county taxes and, upon default, the tax collector shall certify such delinquent taxes to the board of commissioners and shall also file a copy of such delinquent taxes with the clerk of the chancery court, as is now required to be filed for other delinquent taxes. The board of commissioners shall have the same authority and it is hereby required to enforce the collection of delinquent taxes, penalties, and costs by proceeding in the chancery court of the county in which the lands are situated, and may have the lands subject to such tax sold by order of the chancery court.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-45 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 65-13-39 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 13-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-39
Status: in_force

All bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be validated as now provided by law by Sections 31-13-1 to 31-13-11, Mississippi Code of 1972 . The services of the state's bond attorney may be employed in the preparation of such bond resolutions, forms, or proceedings as may be necessary, for which he shall be paid a reasonable fee. Such validation proceedings shall be instituted in the chancery court of the county in which the projects proposed by this chapter are located, but notice of such validation proceedings shall be published at least two times in a newspaper of general circulation and published in any county involved, the first publication of which in each case shall be made at least ten days preceding the date set for the validation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-39 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-39
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-39
Status: in_force

When used in sections 65-11-39 to 65-11-59 , unless the context indicates otherwise:

(a) The term “construction” shall mean the supervising, inspection, actual building, and all expenses incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a road or bridge, including locating, surveying, mapping, cost of right of way, and elimination of the hazards of railway grade crossings.

(b) The term “county roads” shall mean all county roads now under the jurisdiction of, or being maintained by, the board of supervisors of any county.

(c) The term “board of supervisors” shall mean the board of supervisors of each county in the State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-3 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 18-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-3
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the term “local system road” means a road that is included on the county road system as designated under Section 65-7-4 that (a) is functionally classified as a local rural road in accordance with policies on geometric design of highways and streets adopted and published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; (b) provides access to the state aid system, the federal aid system or the designated state highway system; and (c) has an average daily traffic count of four hundred (400) vehicles or less. The term “local system road” includes all drainage related structures except bridges that are included on the National Bridge Inspection Inventory maintained by the Office of State Aid Road Construction. The term “local system road” does not include a road or highway on the designated state highway system or on the state aid road system.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-143.14 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-143.14
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-143.14
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 Marshall County:

Northern District--Marshall County:

Mississippi Highway 737 beginning on Mississippi 178 at or near Red Banks, thence through the business district of Red Banks and ending on Mississippi 178, all in Marshall County.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.2
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 82, being situated between the City of Greenville, Mississippi, and the City of Leland, Mississippi, shall be designated and henceforth known as the “Howard Dyer Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby directed to erect appropriate signs along and approaching such highway and further to erect a suitable memorial marker between the City of Greenville and the City of Leland.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.25
Status: in_force

(1) That bridge on Mississippi Highway 63 in Jackson County that spans the Escatawpa River is designated and shall be known as the “Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge.”

(2) The Transportation Department 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. § 65-11-43 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 11-43
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-43
Status: in_force

The funds hereinafter appropriated for the purpose of Sections 65-11-39 to 65-11-59 shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated on warrants issued by the State Auditor of Public accounts, and the said auditor shall issue his warrants upon requisition signed by the chancery clerk of each county for the sum appropriated such county. Each county shall receive nine one-thousandths (.009) of the total appropriation made to carry out the provisions of said sections, and the balance of said appropriation shall be apportioned by the state auditor among all the counties according to the following formula: one third in the ratio which the area of each county bears to the total area of the state; one third in the ratio which the rural population of each county bears to the total rural population of the state, as shown by the federal census of 1940; and one third in the ratio which the mileage of rural delivery and star routes in each county bears to the total mileage of rural delivery and star routes in the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 65-3-71.326 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.326
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.326
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of U.S. Highway 49 in Forrest County beginning at its intersection with Hardy Street in Hattiesburg and extending one (1) mile north is designated as the “Clyde Kennard 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. § 65-3-71.280 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.280
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.280
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi 15 in Jasper County, Mississippi, beginning at the southern city limits of Bay Springs and extending southerly to its intersection with County Road 12, is designated and shall be known as the “Johnny Thomas Thornton 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. § 65-7-89 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-89
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-89
Status: in_force

When the board of supervisors shall be unable to agree with the owners for any land necessary for widening any existing public road or for making changes therein or for laying out new public roads, it is authorized and empowered, in addition to the methods of procedure provided in previous sections of this chapter, to condemn any such land in the name of the county in the manner as is provided by law for the exercise of the right of eminent domain.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.107 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.107
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.107
Status: in_force

(1) Mississippi Highway 537 located in Jones County is designated and shall be known as the “Randy Chancellor 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. § 65-17-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / 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. § 65-3-71.177 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.177
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.177
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of U.S. Highway 82, also known as the 82 Bypass, located within the corporate limits of the City of Starkville shall be known and designated as the “Jack Cristil Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching that segment of highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 25-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-7
Status: in_force

Any municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, whenever it shall deem such purchase expedient, any toll bridge located as provided in Section 65-25-3 , or any such toll bridge partly constructed, or any franchises, easements, permits, or contracts for the construction of any such bridge, or any such toll bridge or facilities thereof which may be under lease in whole or in part and which may be so acquired subject to the terms of such lease, all upon such terms and at such prices as may be reasonable and can be agreed upon between such municipality and the owner thereof, title thereto to be taken in the name of such municipality. For the purpose of paying the cost of such acquisition, any municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to issue its bridge revenue bonds as hereinafter provided.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 33-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-1
Status: in_force

When any public road, street or highway shall extend along the beach or shore of any body of tidewater, and such road, street, or highway, or any part thereof shall be exposed or subject to, or in danger of, damage by water driven against the shore by storms, the boards of supervisors shall have the power, and it is hereby made their duty, to erect and maintain all necessary seawalls, breakwaters, bulkheads, shore stabilization structures, causeways, bridges, breakwaters, or other necessary structures or improvements connecting the beach or shore of any such bodies of water with islands or other land areas located offshore or connecting therewith, pumped-in sand or earth fills, sloping beaches, topping, road surfacing, road protection pavements, aprons, or other necessary devices to protect and preserve such roads, streets, and highways, or to increase the strength or stability of any existing road protection structures by hard surface aprons or other road protection devices or structures, and for that purpose and for the purpose of constructing or improving such highway, may issue the bonds of the county therefor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.195 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.195
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.195
Status: in_force

(1) That reconstructed segment of Mississippi Highway 11 in Lamar County beginning where Mississippi Highway 11 intersects the Norfolk Southern Railroad and extending one thousand eight hundred forty feet (1,840) is designated and shall be known as the Tyler R. Kilsby and Leon Sims Memorial Highway.

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching that segment of highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-53 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 65-21-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 21-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-5
Status: in_force

The several counties of this state bordering on the tide water of the Gulf of Mexico are authorized and empowered, in the discretion of the boards of supervisors of such counties or of any of them, to provide for the proper illumination of all such bridges and other parts of any of the public highways running in, through, or across said counties or any of them as, in the discretion of said boards of supervisors, may be deemed reasonable and necessary. Said boards of supervisors may and shall have authority to appropriate a reasonable and proper sum, to be paid out of the general county fund, for payment of the expenses of providing said system of illumination and the maintenance thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-31 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 39-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-31
Status: in_force

No elected or appointed official shall derive or receive, directly or indirectly, any income, compensation or pecuniary benefit, as a result of such elected or appointed official's duties under Sections 65-39-5 through 65-39-33 that provides for the issuance of bonds by the state, or any political subdivision thereof, contrary to the provisions of Section 109, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, or Article 3, Chapter 4, Title 25, Mississippi Code of 1972 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.16 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.16
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.16
Status: in_force

(1) The bridge spanning Horn Lake Creek located within the City of Horn Lake on Mississippi Highway 302 (Goodman Road) approximately one-tenth ( 1 / 10 ) of a mile east of the intersection of that highway with U.S. Highway 51 shall be designated and henceforth known as the “Roger B. Latimer Memorial Bridge.”

(2) The State Highway Department is hereby authorized and directed to erect appropriate markers at each end of the bridge.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-3 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-3
Status: in_force

In any counties lying in two levee districts through which the Yazoo River flows, traversed by U.S. Highway No. 49W and in which Mississippi Highways Nos. 12, 14, and 7 run, the board of supervisors is authorized, in its discretion, to compensate any such road commissioner of said county in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) per month.

In any counties bordering on the Pearl River, in which U.S. Highway No. 80 intersects Mississippi Highway No. 18, and having a population in excess of thirty-four thousand in the 1960 federal decennial census, the board of supervisors is authorized, in its discretion, to compensate any such road commissioner of said county in an amount not to exceed four hundred dollars ($400.00) per month.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-31 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 65-18-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 18-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-1
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Local System Road Program.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.5
Status: in_force

(1) The bridge which spans the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on United States Highway 78 at Fulton, Mississippi, shall be designated and henceforth known as the “John E. Rankin Memorial Bridge.”

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby authorized to place appropriate markers at each end of the bridge.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-6 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 43-6
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-6
Status: in_force

Any driver of a vehicle who fails or refuses to pay a required toll on a toll road or toll bridge facility in the state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned not more than six (6) months, or both. In addition, the court shall order a person convicted of violating this section, to make restitution to the toll facility operator in an amount equal to the dollar amount of the toll that such person was required but failed or refused to pay. Any sheriff, municipal police officer, State Highway Patrol officer, law enforcement officer of the Department of Public Safety or certified law enforcement officer of the Mississippi Department of Transportation may issue a traffic ticket for such violation within the limits of their respective jurisdictions in accordance with Section 63-9-21 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-19.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 15-19.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-19.nr2
Status: in_force

Where bonds have been issued by any road district, separate road district or special road district, and said bonds and interest thereon have been paid and there remains in the sinking fund or maintenance fund of such district any balance of funds collected for the purpose of paying such bonds or interest, the board of supervisors of the county in which such district or districts are located shall transfer any or all of said funds to the county road or bridge fund to be used and expended in working and maintaining the roads of the county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-74 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 65-25-103 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 25-103
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-103
Status: in_force

The compact, when signed by the signatories of each state as herein provided, shall become binding upon the State of Mississippi and shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.294 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.294
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.294
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 1 in Washington County, Mississippi, that extends one (1) mile north and one (1) mile south of the intersection of Mississippi Highway 1 and James Crossing Road is designated and shall be known as “Sonny Merideth Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the portion of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 29-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-11
Status: in_force

Any municipality or county in which there is situated and located, in whole or in part, a ferry as aforesaid is hereby given authority, upon the adoption of a resolution to such effect, to issue bonds or other obligations for any or all of the purposes as in this chapter provided. The books of account and other sources of information pertaining to duties under the provisions of this chapter, or any ferry commission, municipality, or county affected by this chapter, shall be and remain at all times open to inspection and subject to audit by the holder or holders of any bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-339 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-339
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-339
Status: in_force

If the amount of the final judgment is less than the amount deposited by the Transportation Department pursuant to the provisions of this article, the department shall be entitled to recover the excess of the amount of the deposit over the amount of the final judgment and court costs incident thereto. If there are not sufficient funds on deposit to cover the excess, then the department shall be entitled to a judgment for the sum against the person or persons having received the deposit.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-57 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 25-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-57
Status: in_force

The said commission shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body of the political subdivision. Should said governing body not create the said commission, or should it determine following its creation to revoke the authority of and terminate the said commission, then the powers and authority hereby reposed shall vest in and be exercised by such governing body, the board of supervisors of said county or the governing authority of said city. Such governing body shall by appropriate order fix or approve the rules and regulations of the commission which shall assure that all the costs of administering the bridge properties shall be exclusively borne from bridge revenues and not from any funds derived from taxation; and said governing authority shall by appropriate order fix or approve the compensation, if any, of the commissioners and the extra fees and reasonable allowances to be paid to the clerk of said governing authority to reasonably compensate such clerk for the extra services and work hereby required. The combined total of all of such costs of administering and handling said funds, as above in this section particularized, shall not exceed seven and one-half percent (7 1 / 2 %) of the aggregate sum of the funds received from such bridge revenues and regulated by the provisions hereof; if the commission not be created or be discontinued, such percentage shall be not more than five percent (5%), and no member of the board of supervisors or governing body of such municipality shall be authorized by Sections 65-25-49 to 65-25-61 to receive any additional compensation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-23 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 65-39-37 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 65-43-21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 65-25-123 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 25-123
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-123
Status: in_force

The five (5) members to represent the State of Mississippi on The Authority for the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Construction Compact shall be the Governor of the State of Mississippi and one (1) representative of the Mississippi State Highway Department and three (3) other citizens of the State of Mississippi to be appointed by the Governor. The appointive members shall serve for terms of four (4) years each. Vacancies shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired terms.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-33 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 33-33
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-33
Status: in_force

All proceedings of the board of supervisors and the road protection commission in widening, improving, or protecting any such highway and assessing damages therefor may be reviewed by the circuit court in respect to any matter of law arising on the face of the proceeding. On the question of damages, the case may be tried anew and the damages may be assessed by a jury if the owner of the land so desires. The board of supervisors shall grant appeals for that purpose when prayed for, on appellant giving bond for cost in such penalty as the board may require, not exceeding $200.00, payable to the county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 26-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-19
Status: in_force

(1) Upon the adoption of a resolution by the Highway Commission, declaring the necessity for the issuance of any part or all of the general obligation bonds authorized by this chapter, the Highway Commission shall deliver a certified copy of its resolution or resolutions to the Bond Commission. Upon receipt of same, the Bond Commission shall, in its discretion, 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.

(2) For the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon, the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the State of Mississippi are hereby irrevocably pledged. If the legislature shall find that there are funds available in the General Fund of the Treasury of the State of Mississippi in amounts sufficient to pay maturing principal and accruing interest of said general obligation bonds, and if the legislature shall appropriate such available funds to the bond retirement fund for the purpose of paying such maturing principal and accruing interest, then the maturing principal and accruing interest of said bonds shall be paid from appropriations made from the General Fund of the Treasury of the State of Mississippi by the legislature thereof. But, if there are not available sufficient funds in the bond retirement fund and General Fund of the Treasury of the State of Mississippi to pay the maturing principal and accruing interest of said bonds, or if such funds are available and the legislature should fail to appropriate a sufficient amount thereof to pay such principal and accruing interest as the same becomes due, then, and in that event, there shall annually be levied upon all taxable property within the State of Mississippi an ad valorem tax at the rate sufficient to provide the funds required to pay the said bonds at maturity and the interest thereon as the same accrues.

(3)(a) From and after that year in which the state shall become obligated to make the final expenditure of the ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00) required by Section 65-26-7 , there is hereby pledged the net revenue derived from the funds received by the State of Mississippi from the Tennessee Valley Authority in lieu of ad valorem taxes, being twelve and two-tenths percent (12.2%) of the total funds paid by the Authority in Mississippi, as provided in Section 27-37-301, Mississippi Code of 1972 , said funds to be deposited directly into the bond retirement fund. Such funds paid by the Authority in lieu of ad valorem taxes are hereby pledged for the payment of principal of and interest on bonds authorized by subsection (1) of Section 65-26-15 . When twenty-five percent (25%) of the total costs of the bonds and the debt service thereon has been paid by the use of funds of the State of Mississippi, the diversion of such funds from the Authority from the general fund of the State of Mississippi into the bond retirement fund shall cease.

(b) For repayment to the State of Mississippi to the extent of the local share of all bonds issued under the authority of this chapter and the interest thereon, there are hereby pledged the following revenues:

(i) From and after January 1, 1976, any sum in excess of the sum received in 1975 by the counties of Alcorn, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Kemper, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Pontotoc, Prentiss and Tishomingo from funds paid by the Tennessee Valley Authority to said counties under the provisions of Section 27-37-301, Mississippi Code of 1972 , which shall be deposited directly into the bond retirement fund;

(ii) The revenue derived from the one (1) mill special improvement ad valorem tax levied by Section 65-26-13 ;

(iii) The revenue derived from the levy of tolls as required by Section 65-26-11 ; provided, however, that no toll shall be levied or collected until such time as the revenue from the following sources is insufficient to pay the annual cost of the principal of the bonds and the interest thereon; the funds paid the state as set forth in subparagraph (a) until terminated as provided therein, the funds paid the counties as set forth in subparagraph (b)(i), the one (1) mill tax as set forth in subparagraph (b)(ii), and a sum equal to the portion of the balance of the bond retirement fund representing the state's participation therein;

(iv) The revenue derived from the levy of the bridge tax as provided in Section 65-26-17 ; provided, however, that no such tax shall be levied or collected until revenue from the following sources shall be insufficient to pay the annual costs of the principal of the bonds and the interest thereon: the funds paid the state as set forth in subparagraph (a) until terminated as provided therein, the funds paid the counties as set forth in subparagraph (b)(i), the one (1) mill tax set forth in subparagraph (b)(ii), the tolls as set forth in subparagraph (b)(iii) and a sum equal to the portion of the balance of the bond retirement fund representing the state's participation therein.

(c)(i) If the revenue provided for in subparagraphs (b)(i), (b)(ii) and (b)(iii) is sufficient for a period of two (2) consecutive years, to meet the cost of the principal of the bonds and the interest maturing thereon, the levy of the bridge tax as set forth in subparagraph (b)(iv) of this section shall cease;

(ii) If the revenue provided for in subparagraphs (b)(i) and (b)(ii) is sufficient, for a period of two (2) consecutive years, to meet the cost of the principal of the bonds and the interest maturing thereon, the tolls as set forth in subparagraph (b)(iii) of this section shall cease to be collected.

(d)(i) If, at any time after the bridge tax shall cease to be collected to be used to pay the cost of the principal of the bonds and interest thereon, the revenue provided for in subparagraphs (b)(i), (b)(ii) and (b)(iii) shall be insufficient to pay the annual costs of the principal and interest on the bonds, the state tax commission shall again levy the bridge tax.

(ii) If, at any time after the tolls shall cease to be collected for payment of the bonds and interest thereon, the revenue provided for in subparagraphs (b)(i) and (b)(ii) shall be insufficient to pay the annual costs of the principal and interest on the bonds, the State Highway Commission shall again collect the tolls.

(4) Such bonds shall bear date or dates, be in such denomination or denominations, bear interest at such rate or rates, be payable at such place or places within or without the State of Mississippi, shall mature absolutely at such time or times, be redeemable prior to maturity at such time or times and upon such terms, with or without premium, shall bear such registration privileges, and shall be substantially in such form, all as shall be determined by resolution of the bond commission. Provided, however, that such bonds shall mature in annual installments beginning not more than two (2) years from date thereof and extending not more than twenty (20) years from date thereof.

(5) Such bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the Bond Commission, or by his facsimile signature, and the official seal of the bond commission shall be affixed thereto, attested by the secretary of the bond commission. The interest coupons to be attached to such bonds may be executed by the facsimile signatures of said officers. Whenever any such bonds shall have been signed by the officials herein designated to sign the bonds, who were in office at the time of such signing but who may have ceased to be such officers prior to 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 the delivery of the same to the purchaser, or had been in office on the date such bonds may bear.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.303 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.303
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.303
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 98 in Greene County, Mississippi, beginning at its intersection with Mississippi Highway 198/Old Highway 98 and extending southeasterly to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 57 South, is designated as the “Maj. Ed ‘Too Tall' Freeman 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. § 65-25-121 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 25-121
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-121
Status: in_force

The Governor of the State of Mississippi, acting on behalf of this state, is hereby authorized to execute a compact, to be known as the “Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Construction Compact,” in substantially the following form, with the State of Arkansas, and the Legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification of such compact, to wit:

ARKANSAS-MISSISSIPPI GREAT RIVER BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION COMPACT

ARTICLE I

The purpose of this compact is to promote the construction of a highway bridge or a combined highway-railroad bridge connecting the States of Mississippi and Arkansas at, near or between Rosedale, Mississippi, and McGehee and Dumas, Arkansas, and to establish a joint interstate authority to assist in these efforts.

ARTICLE II

This compact shall become effective immediately as to the States ratifying it whenever the States of Arkansas and Mississippi have ratified it and Congress has given consent thereto.

ARTICLE III

(a) The states which are parties to this compact (hereinafter referred to as “Party States”) do hereby establish and create a joint agency which shall be known as the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Authority (hereinafter referred to as “The Authority”). The membership of The Authority shall consist of five (5) members from the State of Mississippi, to be selected in such manner as may be provided by laws enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, and five (5) members from the State of Arkansas, to be selected in such manner as may be provided by laws enacted by the Arkansas General Assembly. The terms of the members of such Authority from each of the Party States, the method of appointing successor members, and the method of filling vacancies on The Authority, shall be determined by the laws of Mississippi and Arkansas.

(b) The members of The Authority shall not be compensated for services on The Authority, but each member shall be entitled to actual and reasonable expenses incurred in attending meetings or incurred otherwise in the performance of his/her duties as a member of The Authority.

(c) The members of The Authority shall meet upon the call of the chairman and hold such other meetings as its business may require. Special meetings of The Authority may be called by the chairman or upon written request of a majority of the members of The Authority from each of the Party States. The Authority shall choose annually a chairman and vice chairman from its members, and the chairmanship shall rotate each year among the Party States, in order of their acceptance of this compact.

(d) The Secretary of The Authority (hereinafter provided for) shall notify each member in writing of all meetings of The Authority in such a manner and under such rules and regulations as The Authority may prescribe.

(e) The Authority shall adopt rules and regulations for the transaction of its business; and the secretary shall keep a record of all its business and shall furnish a copy thereof to each member of The Authority.

(f) It shall be the duty of The Authority, in general, to promote, encourage, and coordinate the efforts of the Party States to secure the development of the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge at, near or between Rosedale, Mississippi, and McGehee-Dumas, Arkansas. Toward this end, The Authority shall have power to:

(i) Hold hearings;

(ii) Conduct studies and surveys of all problems, benefits, and other matters associated with the construction of the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge, and to make reports thereon;

(iii) Acquire by gift, grant or otherwise, from local, federal, or private sources, such money or property as may be provided for the proper performance of their function, and to hold and dispose of the same and to expend such monies as is necessary to defray the costs of establishing and operating The Authority;

(iv) Cooperate with other public or private groups, whether local, state, regional, or national, having an interest in the bridge construction;

(v) Formulate and execute plans and policies for emphasizing the purpose of this compact before the Congress of the United States and other appropriate officers and agencies of the United States;

(vi) Negotiate with one or more railroads in the State of Mississippi and the State of Arkansas, and with the appropriate federal authorities for the construction of the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge as a combined highway-railroad bridge. If necessary, The Authority may enter into a contract with one or more railroads and/or the appropriate agencies of Congress to borrow funds for the construction of the railroad portion of the bridge, to be reimbursed, including all costs of principal, interest and other costs in connection with such indebtedness, by revenues derived from rental fees, grants, or other charges, with such indebtedness to be secured solely by a pledge of such revenues; and

(vii) Exercise such other powers as may be appropriate to enable it to accomplish its functions and duties in connection with the construction of the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge as a highway bridge or a combined highway-railroad bridge, and to carry out the purposes of this compact.

ARTICLE IV

The Authority shall appoint a secretary, who shall be a person familiar with the nature, procedures, and significance of the bridge construction and the informational, educational, and publicity methods of stimulating general interest in such developments, and who shall be the compact administrator. The term of office of the secretary shall be at the pleasure of The Authority and such officer shall receive such compensation as The Authority shall prescribe from monies provided to The Authority under Article III(f)(iii). The secretary shall maintain custody of The Authority's books, records, and papers, which shall be kept by the secretary at the office of The Authority, and shall perform all functions and duties and exercise all powers and authorities which may be delegated to the secretary of The Authority.

ARTICLE V

Nothing in this compact shall be construed so as to conflict with any existing statute, or to limit the powers of any Party State, or to repeal or prevent legislation, or to authorize or permit curtailment or diminution of any other bridge project, or to affect any existing or future cooperative arrangement or relationship between any federal agency and a Party State.

ARTICLE VI

This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each Party State until the Legislature or Governor of each or either state takes action to withdraw therefrom; provided that such withdrawal shall not become effective until six (6) months after the date of the action taken by the Legislature or Governor. Notice of such action shall be given to the other Party State by the secretary of state of the Party State which takes such action.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 27-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-17
Status: in_force

The owner or keeper of every toll ferry, bridge, turnpike, causeway, and plank road shall put up, in a convenient place, so as to be open and visible to travelers, a copy of the table of rates of toll established by the board of supervisors, printed, written, or painted in legible characters. For every day's failure to put up and keep exposed to view such table of rates, and for every overcharge made by him, such owner or keeper shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-153 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-153
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-153
Status: in_force

(1) The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol within the Department of Public Safety, in conjunction with the Mississippi Department of Transportation, is authorized to designate any segment of any public street, road, highway or interstate within the state upon which any member of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol has fallen in the line of duty as a memorial roadway in such officer's honor, provided that such memorial roadway shall not extend more than five (5) miles in each southern and northern or eastern and western direction of the location in which the fallen member of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol fell.

(2) The Department of Public Safety shall notify the Mississippi Department of Transportation of the site of such officer who was killed in the performance of his or her official duties, and the Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs with a distinctive marker along and approaching the segment of roadway denoting the site of the fallen officer's death. The distinctive marker shall be designed by the Department of Public Safety with the advice and recommendation of the Mississippi State Troopers' Association.

(3) The funding for the distinctive markers shall be made from any funds appropriated by the Legislature to the Department of Public Safety or from any gifts, grants or donations received by the Department of Public Safety for the purpose of providing the distinctive markers.

(4) This section shall apply to all Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol officers who have given their lives in the performance of their official duties after July 1, 1938.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-87 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 19-87
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-87
Status: in_force

The board shall provide for the collection of taxes from the benefit district in such annual installments as it may determine, extending over not more than fifteen years, and may borrow money in advance of the collection of such taxes, in which event an amount sufficient to pay the annual interest shall be collected in addition to the principal. The taxes so assessed and levied shall be a lien upon the land and be collected at the same time and in the same manner that state and county taxes are collected. A separate assessment roll shall be provided by the board, and the assessor shall assess the lands in each benefit district separately, together with the benefit tax assessed thereon. He shall also mark in red ink on the general assessment roll the particular lands the benefits of which have been assessed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-31 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 33-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-31
Status: in_force

Whenever it shall become necessary to construct, widen, or protect any highway under the provisions hereof, the road protection commission shall make publication for thirty days in some newspaper published in the county wherein such improvements are made, setting forth the commencement and termination, with a general outline of the nature and extent thereof. When any owner of land or other person shall claim compensation for land taken for such purpose, or for damage sustained by the construction, widening, improvement, or protection of such road or highway, he shall petition the board of supervisors in writing within thirty days after the expiration of the time provided for such publication, setting forth the nature and character of the damages claimed. Thereupon the board shall, on five days' notice to petitioner, go on the premises and assess the damages sustained by him. The finding of the board shall be in writing, signed by the members agreeing to it, and must be entered on the minutes at the next meeting; but if the damages sustained and claimed be less than the cost of assessing, the board may allow the same without inquiry.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / Section 21-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-19
Status: in_force

When a bridge over any stream or other water will connect two or more districts in any county and the districts so connected shall desire to join in defraying the costs and expenses incident to the building and construction of said bridge, or if only one of said districts shall desire to defray said costs and expenses, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of such county, upon petition of twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of said districts or, in the case last mentioned, of the district, to order an election to be held on a day to be fixed by it, submitting to the qualified electors of the districts or the district affected, as the case may be, the proposal of said board of supervisors to issue bonds for said purpose against all the taxable property in said districts or district, as the case may be. Said board shall give notice of such election to issue such bonds by publication in a newspaper having a general circulation in said county for three consecutive weeks, which said election shall be held, conducted, and certified as required by law for the holding of general elections, so far as applicable. The tickets to be used in said election shall have printed thereon the purposes for and the amount of said proposed bond issue, after which shall be printed thereon “for the issuance of the bonds” and below that thereon “against the issuance of the bonds.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.6 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.6
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.6
Status: in_force

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

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby directed to erect appropriate signs along and approaching such highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 27-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-5
Status: in_force

Every person licensed to keep a toll ferry shall give bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the president and clerk of the board of supervisors, payable to the county, and in a penalty of not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, to be fixed by the board, conditioned to constantly provide and keep good and sufficient boats and appliances for the speedy and safe transportation of persons and property over the stream, to provide safe landings for the ferryboat, and in all things to comply with the law and the reasonable orders of the board regulating the keeping of the ferry; but saving to the keeper a reasonable time within which to repair damage done by sudden freshet, storm, or other unforeseen accident.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.345 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.345
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.345
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 334 located in the corporate limits of Oxford, Mississippi, beginning at the bridge passing over U.S. Highway 278/Mississippi Highway 6 and extending north to University Avenue is designated and shall be known as the “Leonard E. Thompson 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. § 65-3-71.21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.21
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.21
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 22 which is between the municipalities of Edwards and Canton in Hinds and Madison Counties is hereby designated, and henceforth shall be known as, the “W. Felder Dearman Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby authorized and directed to erect memorials at appropriate locations along and approaching the highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-15 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 27-15
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-15
Status: in_force

Every ferryman shall give constant and diligent attendance at his ferry and shall not deny or unreasonably delay carrying over any passenger, horse, cattle, carriage, or goods; and all passengers shall be received into the ferryboat and carried over the ferry in the order of their arrival, or first coming to the ferry. Any ferryman offending against this provision shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for every offense, and shall be liable to an action for damages at the suit of the party aggrieved; but a ferryman shall not be obliged to pass the ferry when it appears to be dangerous to do so on account of a storm or freshet. All public officers and such as go on public and urgent occasions--as posts, expresses, physicians, and the like--shall be carried over first, or with the first.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-53 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 25-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-53
Status: in_force

The commissioners appointed by such governing body or municipality, or the commissioners whose terms are continued in force as above authorized, shall, subject to the approval of such governing body, have the following authority, powers, and rights: Said commission shall manage and control the affairs of the bridge as a separate proprietary venture, apart from other public roads and bridges within the county, and shall provide for the regular inspection, repair, maintenance, and upkeep of said bridge and its approaches, which expenses and all liabilities which may exist or later come into being or be claimed to exist shall be wholly borne from the bridge properties themselves and the revenues received from the lease of such properties to private or public utilities. In connection with operating the affairs of the said bridge and maintaining the same, said commission is vested with the following powers and authority, subject to the veto power or approval of the governing body owning the said bridge, viz: (1) Contracts and purchases shall be made on the same basis and under the same requirements of advertisement for bids as those made by the board of supervisors; (2) the commissioners may employ a superintendent or manager of the bridge properties and fix the amount of his salary, and either employ or delegate to said manager the employment of subordinate personnel and provide for the wages and compensation of such employees, and, should the commission so determine, may require the manager or other employees to post bond in such sum as the commission may designate for the faithful discharge of their duties as such employees; however, the number of persons employed in an election year shall not exceed the average number employed during the preceding three (3) years, except that additional employees may be hired on a temporary basis in cases of emergency when the specific reasons therefor shall be entered on the minutes of the commission; (3) provide for an adequate bookkeeping system pertinent to the affairs of said bridge and for regular audits, with the revenues derived following the freeing of said bridge to vehicular traffic, if any there be over and above cost of operating and maintaining the said bridge, to be kept by the clerk of the said board or treasurer of the said municipality in a separate account and to so remain, properly invested in the same manner as sinking funds of the county or municipality may be invested, said assets to be subject to bear and discharge the liabilities of the said bridge and not to be utilized for any other or different purpose until a period of at least five (5) years following the freeing of the said bridge from tolls (unless sooner there be another free bridge constructed and opened to public travel crossing said Mississippi River located not more than one (1) mile from said bridge, in which event that factor, rather than the five-year time limit, shall be determinative), and then not until a determination is made by the board or governing authority that such funds, to the extent amassed, will not be further needed for operational maintenance purposes; and that said audits thus caused to be made shall be done by a certified public accountant or accountants duly qualified under the laws of this state; (4) that, without in anywise sacrificing or waiving the entire exempt status of the said bridge properties from ad valorem taxation, to pay a sum or sums in lieu of ad valorem taxes which, by agreement with the taxing authorities of this or any neighboring state, will in no event exceed in any year a sum equaling more than one-half ( 1 / 2 ) of the average amount paid per year by way of such taxes or in lieu thereof over the five-year period preceding June 15, 1966; (5) employ nationally recognized engineers and such other professional assistance as may be deemed necessary, and to pay reasonable compensation for such services; (6) to have and exercise any other authority and right conferred by existing laws, state or federal, applicable to the operation of such bridge; and (7) fulfill the requirements of any outstanding lease contracts to the extent that the bridge properties will permit and the revenues to be derived from such leases will allow, but without incurring any pecuniary liability on the part of the governing authorities or taxpayers generally.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-35 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 26-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-35
Status: in_force

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

(2) All expenditures ordered by the Highway Commission shall be entered upon its minutes, and the Highway Commission shall submit a full report of its work and all the transactions carried on by it, and a complete statement of all its expenditures at the next regular session of the legislature.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-9.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 15-9.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-9.nr2
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county in the state in which there are county road bonds, seawall bonds, or road protection bonds outstanding which were issued for the purpose of building bridges or constructing public roads may, in its discretion, in addition to all other lawful uses, use such county's share, or any part thereof, of the funds heretofore or hereafter derived from the tax on gasoline and the road and bridge privilege tax for the further purpose of paying interest and principal of such county road bonds heretofore issued for any of the said above stated purposes. However, nothing in this section shall in anywise affect Section 65-33-45 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 23-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-17
Status: in_force

Any municipality, county, parish, highway commission, or other political authority in an adjoining state which has been properly authorized by the laws of that state and the United States may exercise in the State of Mississippi any and all the powers granted in this article to municipalities and other public bodies in Mississippi, subject to the conditions and requirements of this article. In event that the powers granted under this article are exercised solely by a municipality or county, then same shall be exercised by the governing authority of such municipality or county; and in the event that same are exercised jointly, then same shall be exercised jointly by the governing authorities of such political subdivisions.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.195 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.195
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.195
Status: in_force

(1) That reconstructed segment of Mississippi Highway 11 in Lamar County beginning where Mississippi Highway 11 intersects the Norfolk Southern Railroad and extending one thousand eight hundred forty feet (1,840) is designated and shall be known as the Tyler R. Kilsby and Leon Sims Memorial Highway.

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching that segment of highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.249 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.249
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.249
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 555, also known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Road, in Adams County beginning at its intersection with Broadmoor Drive and extending northerly to its intersection with Steamplant Road is designated and shall be known as the “Rev. Dan Alexander 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. § 65-23-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 65-26-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 26-25
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-25
Status: in_force

(1) Upon the issuance and sale of such bonds, the Bond Commission shall transfer the principal proceeds of any such sale or sales to the bridge construction fund hereby created in the state treasury. The proceeds of such bonds shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of the project or combined projects, which shall include costs incident to the issuance and sale of such bonds, and shall be disbursed solely upon the order of the Highway Commission under such restrictions, if any, as may be contained in the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds.

(2) Any revenues transferred to the bridge construction fund from the bond retirement fund as provided in this chapter shall be expended for the construction of any bridges described in Section 65-26-5 upon the order of the Highway Commission. Such revenues shall not be commingled with any other funds in the bridge construction fund but shall be kept separate and distinct therefrom.

(3) Any funds in the bridge construction fund which are not needed to make current payments to meet contractual obligations 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 bridge construction fund.

(4) When all contracts for bridge construction are paid in full then all funds in the bridge construction fund and all funds invested as provided in subsection (3) of this section shall be transferred to the bond retirement fund and no further diversion or transfer of said funds shall be made to the bridge construction fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.205 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.205
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.205
Status: in_force

(1) The bridge on Mississippi Highway 15 in Chickasaw County within the City of Houston at its intersection with Mississippi Highway 8 is designated and shall be known as the “Representative William E. ‘Billy’ Bowles Memorial Bridge.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs and markers along and approaching, and at each end of, the bridge described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 17 / 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. § 65-1-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-11
Status: in_force

The executive director, subject to the approval of the commission, shall employ a chief engineer who shall be a registered civil engineer, a graduate of a recognized school of engineering, and who shall have had not less than five (5) years' actual professional experience in highway construction. The chief engineer shall also be a deputy executive director of the department with such powers and duties as may be prescribed by the commission. The chief engineer shall give bond in the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) in some surety company authorized to do business in this state, which bond shall be conditioned upon the faithful performance and discharge of his duties. The principal and surety on such bond shall be liable thereunder to the State of Mississippi for double the amount of the value of any money or property which the state may lose, if any, by reason of any wrongful or criminal act of such engineer. The term of office of the chief engineer shall be for a period of four (4) years, unless sooner removed as hereinafter provided, and he shall be eligible for reappointment. The first term of office, however, shall extend from the date of appointment until the first Monday of January 1952.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 19-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-9
Status: in_force

If the qualified electors petitioning for the creation and organization of a separate road district shall so desire, they may petition, in addition, that the proceeds of the sale of said bonds may be used to extend and build roads beyond the limits of such district and that a tax be levied on such district or districts to pay such bonds and maintain such roads, in which case it shall be the duty of the board, in publishing the notice as hereinbefore provided, to add thereto notice of the further purpose to use part of the proceeds of said bonds in building and maintaining roads in other territory, naming the said other territory; and to levy taxes for that purpose. In any election ordered therein, the further question shall be submitted to the electors, whether such roads are to be so extended or not, which shall be submitted as follows: “For the extension of roads into other districts,” or “against the extension of roads into other districts.” If said election result in favor of such action, determined and adjudicated in like manner by the election commissioners and board of supervisors, as required by law, then the said road commissioners shall, with the approval of the board of supervisors, have the power to extend said roads into other districts and pay for the same out of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds, and levy a tax to maintain the same on such district consenting thereto, as provided for in this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-27 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 29-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-27
Status: in_force

Any municipality within whose confines one of the terminals is located shall have the right, power, and authority, whether such municipality be special charter or otherwise, to set aside and appropriate from its general fund as much as three mills for the defraying of the expenses of operation of said free or limited free ferry service.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-49 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 33-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-49
Status: in_force

In those counties operating under this chapter, the board of supervisors may borrow funds not in excess of three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000.00) at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, in addition to such sums as may have heretofore been borrowed, for the purpose of extending, constructing, repairing, or maintaining the road protection of the county or to protect by sea wall or road protection any street, highway, road, or avenue connected therewith extending to or along the side of a harbor or to a boat landing or dock, which, in the judgment of the board of supervisors of such county, should be so protected either for an existing or a contemplated road, street, highway, or avenue. Such board of supervisors shall have authority to acquire by purchase or otherwise a dredge boat and use and operate the same for the purpose of pumping a sand beach adjacent to such sea wall or road protection structure, and to pay for same out of any funds provided under this section or any funds collected under Section 65-33-47 . The funds or amount borrowed for the purpose provided for in this section shall be paid within a period of ten years from the date borrowed, and shall be paid out of the funds collected under this chapter. All bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness maturing each year and the interest thereon, however, shall be first provided for and paid out of said funds. The loans authorized herein shall not be subject to other limitations, restrictions, or provisions of the general laws governing the borrowing of money, amounts of indebtedness, budget, and election; and said loans may be made by the board of supervisors of such county either by issuance of county bonds, notes, or certificates of indebtedness which shall be full faith and credit obligations of the county issuing the same and shall be payable, both as to principal and interest, from the same sources of revenue and taxes made available for the payment of road protection bonds under the provisions of this chapter. The money herein authorized to be borrowed may be borrowed by such board of supervisors from any person, firm, corporation, governmental lending agency, or from any sinking funds of such county, provided that if the money be borrowed from any sinking fund, it shall be repaid before the sinking fund from which it is borrowed, when supplemented by funds paid into same, is needed. Before the board of supervisors shall borrow money under this section, it shall spread on its minutes an order reciting such intention and shall thereafter publish a copy of such order, in two weekly issues of some newspaper having a general circulation in the county. If, within fifteen days after the first publication of a copy of such order, twenty-five per cent of the qualified electors of the county petition the board of supervisors for an election to determine whether or not the adoption of such order should be annulled, such election shall be ordered by such board of supervisors. If at such election a majority of those voting vote in favor of the adoption of such order, the same shall be valid and effective; but if a majority shall vote against such order, it shall be annulled and shall be ineffective, and no further effort shall be made to borrow funds under this section by such board for a period of six months from the date of such election. If no such petition be presented within fifteen days after the first publication of a copy of such order, such order shall be valid and effective. The amount authorized to be borrowed under this section may be borrowed at any time and in any amount, but the total borrowed shall not exceed three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000.00) in addition to such sums as may heretofore have been borrowed for the purposes herein enumerated, or either of them.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-49 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 25-49
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-49
Status: in_force

The governing authorities of any county or city of this state which has acquired or may hereafter acquire any combined railroad and highway bridge over the Mississippi River, as authorized by Sections 65-23-1 to 65-23-21 or Sections 65-25-1 to 65-25-41 , and which has discharged the bridge revenue bonds which were issued for the purpose of financing the cost of such acquisition and has freed the bridge as to the vehicular portion thereof from tolls may, by appropriate resolution, create a commission of five members to manage the affairs of said bridge, said appointees to be qualified electors of such governing body of high character, integrity, and business acumen; and, if such governing body has already created a commission under the provisions of Sections 65-25-43 to 65-25-47 , then in lieu of creating another commission, the governing authorities of such county or city may, by order entered upon the minutes of such authority, continue the present commission in effect.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 41-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-5
Status: in_force

The Mississippi Department of Transportation, upon approval of the Mississippi Transportation Commission, may administer a Mississippi Scenic Byways Program. Under the program, the department, with assistance from the Scenic Byways Advisory Committee created under Section 65-41-7 , shall develop, adopt and implement a scenic byways corridor management plan for the state. The plan shall be consistent with the provisions of this chapter and with guidelines established by federal law, and shall specify actions, procedures, controls, operational practices and administrative strategies necessary to govern the selection, nomination and declaration of scenic byways and to ensure that highways, roads, streets and corridors designated as scenic byways are properly managed and that their intrinsic qualities are maintained.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 39-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-29
Status: in_force

The proceeds of the bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 65-39-5 through 65-39-33 shall be used solely for the purposes herein provided, including the costs incident to the issuance and sale of such bonds.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-25 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / 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. § 65-21-21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 21-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-21
Status: in_force

Should the result of such election show that it has carried in favor of the issuance of bonds by a majority vote in each district or in the one district, as the case may be, then it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to issue the bonds of such districts or district affected thereby, as the case may be, for the purpose aforesaid in any amount which, with other outstanding district road or bridge bonds, will not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the assessed valuation of said districts or district affected thereby, as the case may be.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-47 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 13-47
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-47
Status: in_force

The accomplishment of the purposes stated in this chapter being for the benefit of the people of this state and for the improvement of their properties and industries, the authority in carrying out the purposes of this chapter will be performing an essential public function, and the interest on the bonds issued hereunder shall at all times be free from taxation within this state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-35 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 11-35
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-35
Status: in_force

All moneys that shall be appropriated for the purposes of Sections 65-11-1 to 65-11-37 shall be paid into the State Highway Fund, as shall all other moneys that shall be paid for said purposes as a result of any other law, state or federal, and all moneys which shall accrue from any other source for such purposes. All expenditures of state funds contemplated by the aforesaid sections shall be made from such fund, and such moneys shall be paid out by the State Highway Commission, acting through its director, in the manner and method now provided by law.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 31-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-31-1
Status: in_force

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

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

Each hospitality station constructed under the provisions of this chapter shall be maintained and kept in a neat and attractive condition.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-15 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 65-7-95 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-95
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-95
Status: in_force

The methods of constructing, reconstructing and maintaining the public roads and bridges in this state, other than those under the actual charge of the State Highway Department, shall be as follows:

Any county may purchase implements and material through its central purchase system; may employ labor; may work, construct, reconstruct and maintain the public roads; may build bridges; and may do any and all things necessary to be done to work, construct, reconstruct and maintain the public roads and to build bridges as herein provided. If, in the opinion of the board of supervisors, any part of the work necessary to be done in working, constructing, reconstructing and maintaining the public roads and in building bridges in such county, or any part or parts thereof, can best be done by awarding contracts therefor, the board of supervisors may advertise for bids and make contracts therefor in accordance with the provisions of Section 31-7-13 ; and the board of supervisors may, in its discretion, use any funds heretofore or hereafter raised by bond issue or otherwise for working, constructing, reconstructing, maintaining and improving the public roads and for building bridges as herein provided. Except for contracts exempt from the provisions of Section 19-11-27 , no contract provided above shall be awarded that shall extend beyond thirty (30) days from the termination and end of the term of office of the members of the boards of supervisors awarding same.

Before any board of supervisors may hire, lease or rent any heavy road machinery or equipment for use in the construction, reconstruction or maintenance of any county road or bridge, such board of supervisors shall first adopt an order adjudicating the necessity for leasing or renting such machinery or equipment, the purposes for which it is to be used, the type of such machinery or equipment and the reasons why the leasing or renting thereof will promote the public interest of the county. Such order shall also direct the clerk of the board of supervisors to advertise for bids for such machinery or equipment, which bids shall be returnable on a day to be fixed by the board of supervisors, in accordance with Section 31-7-13 .

All contracts for the leasing or renting of such machinery or equipment shall be awarded to the lowest and best responsible bidder whose bid price or rental consideration is not in excess of the current rates and charges fixed and prescribed by the Nielsen/Data Quest publication, which rates and charges fixed and prescribed by the Nielsen/Data Quest publication shall be on file with the Governor's Office of General Services at that time.

All invoices submitted for the leasing or renting of such machinery or equipment shall identify the equipment by number and name and shall include the number of hours of labor performed and the dates thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-315 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 23-315
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-315
Status: in_force

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

Either the resolution providing for the issuance of bridge revenue bonds or such trust indenture may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of such county or counties and the governing body thereof in relation to the construction, maintenance, operation, repair, and insurance of the bridges, and the custody, safeguarding, and application of all moneys; and it may also provide that the bridge or bridges shall be constructed and paid for under the supervision and approval of consulting engineers employed or designated by the governing body of such county or counties and satisfactory to the original purchasers of the bonds issued therefor, and may also require that the security given by contractors and by any depository of the proceeds of the bonds or revenues of the bridges or other moneys pertaining thereto be satisfactory to such purchasers. It shall be lawful for any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of this state to act as such depository and to furnish such indemnifying bonds or to pledge such securities as may be required by the governing body of such county or counties. Such indenture may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustee, and may restrict the individual right of action of bondholders as is customary in trust indentures securing bonds and debentures of corporations. Except as in this article otherwise provided, the governing body of such county or counties may provide, by resolution or by such trust indenture, for the payment of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds and the revenues of the bridges to such officer, board, or depository as it may determine for the custody thereof, and for the method of disbursement thereof with such safeguards and restrictions as it may determine. All expenses incurred in carrying out such trust indenture may be treated as a part of the cost of maintenance, operation, and repair of the bridge or bridges affected by such indenture.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.373 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.373
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.373
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 15 located in Jasper County, Mississippi, beginning at its intersection with Jasper County Road 16 and extending to the southernmost boundary of the corporate limits of Louin, Jasper County, Mississippi, shall be known as the “Major Samuel S. (Coach) King 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. § 65-21-27 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 21-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-27
Status: in_force

In case any public highway of any county in the state shall cross any river or stream on such highway within the boundaries of any municipality, in whole or in part, and it shall be deemed by the board of supervisors to be to the interest of the public that a free or toll bridge be constructed across such stream at the expense and under jurisdiction of the county, and the municipal authorities of such municipality shall by ordinance express a willingness that such bridge be constructed and maintained at the expense of the county, the board of supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to establish, construct, and maintain such bridge either as a free or toll bridge, as in case of other bridges of the county and to the full extent as now authorized by law in such cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-143 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-143
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-143
Status: in_force

When the specific location of a road has been established under the criteria contained in Section 65-1-141 , construction on said roads shall commence at the point on each segment having the greatest traffic congestion.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-123 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 25-123
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-123
Status: in_force

The five (5) members to represent the State of Mississippi on The Authority for the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Construction Compact shall be the Governor of the State of Mississippi and one (1) representative of the Mississippi State Highway Department and three (3) other citizens of the State of Mississippi to be appointed by the Governor. The appointive members shall serve for terms of four (4) years each. Vacancies shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired terms.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 65-41-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 41-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-13
Status: in_force

(1) This chapter shall not prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect any existing or future lawful use or activity in or related to a scenic byway area. This chapter also shall not prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the operation, maintenance or new construction of any facility, road, railroad, bridge, utility, pipeline, crossing or any other structure in or related to a scenic byway area. If there is any conflict between this section and any other provision of this chapter, this section shall control.

(2) Nothing in this chapter shall mandate local governments to participate in the program, and a local governmental entity may terminate participation in the program at any time by resolution duly adopted and entered upon its minutes.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 4-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-1
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Economic Development Highway Act.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 21-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-9
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors shall require the keeper of every toll bridge or ferry to give bond with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the president and clerk of the board in a penalty, to be fixed by the board, of not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) and not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), and conditioned to keep the bridge or ferry at all times in good repair so as to secure the safe transportation, on the payment of the fixed tolls, of all persons and property, and in all things to comply with the law and the reasonable orders of the board regulating the keeping of such toll bridge or ferry, but saving to the keeper a reasonable time within which to repair damage done by a sudden freshet, storm, or other unforeseen accident.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / 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. § 65-1-57 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-57
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-57
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the Highway Commission to issue rules and regulations for the State Highway Department to construct all secondary roads, when taken over for construction and maintenance, up to such standard of specifications and with such surfacing material as the Highway Commission may determine from a traffic census of the use and importance thereof as would be justified from a standpoint of economy and convenience to the traveling public. To this end the Highway Commission is authorized, in dealing with said secondary roads, to have the highway department place surfacing material on said secondary roads. All secondary roads shall be constructed and maintained with a view of being eventually hard surfaced as provided for primary roads.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.304 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.304
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.304
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of United States Highway 51 in Lincoln County, Mississippi, beginning at its intersection with Lee Drive and extending northerly to its southern most intersection with Cold Springs Lane is designated as the “Deputy Donald William Durr 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. § 65-37-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 37-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-37-9
Status: in_force

Engineering costs for any project performed under this chapter, including the salaries or fees of the engineer, may be paid from the Local Bridge Replacement Rehabilitation Fund allocations to a county; however, the maximum fee paid to an engineer from the fund shall not exceed twelve percent (12%) of the final construction cost, with the methods of payment to be approved by the State Aid Engineer under regulations promulgated by the State Aid Engineer. No such costs shall be paid to an engineer before the letting of the project.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-105 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 25-105
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-105
Status: in_force

Vacancies occurring in the office of any appointed commissioner shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the unexpired term.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 19-1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-1
Status: in_force

(1) Separate road districts, composed in whole or in part of one or of more than one supervisors' district, may be created and organized by the board of supervisors of any county (a) upon its own initiative or (b) upon petition as follows:

(a) Whenever in the judgment of the board the public interest and the interest of the proposed district will be promoted by the creation and organization of a separate road district, the said board shall determine the boundaries of the district in such manner as the existing public highways, the territory tributary thereto, the engineering and topographical conditions, and other pertinent considerations render expedient, and shall accurately define the said boundaries by land numbers, by natural boundaries, by metes and bounds, or by combinations thereof, so long as said description may be clearly understood or would be sufficient as a description in a deed of conveyance. The board shall enter an order declaring its intention to create and organize a separate road district according to the boundaries so defined and made a part of said order.

(b) When a petition or petitions containing the boundaries of a proposed district, defined and bounded as hereinbefore required, signed by twenty per cent. of the qualified electors of the proposed district has been filed and presented to the board, requesting the creation and organization of a separate road district composed of the territory aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the board to make an order reciting the fact and to proceed thereupon with said proposal as is hereinafter provided.

(2) No road district shall hereafter be created which has an assessed value of property therein of less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00), according to the last completed assessment for taxation, but this limitation shall not apply to the consolidation of existing road districts.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-3 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 27-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-27-3
Status: in_force

The owner of the soil over which any toll ferry, bridge, turnpike, causeway, or plank road is established shall have the preference over all other persons to be licensed to keep the same, upon complying with the law and the orders of the board of supervisors within the time fixed by the board.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-203 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 17-203
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-17-203
Status: in_force

The duties of the county engineer shall be to prepare all plans and estimates for the construction of bridges and superintend their construction, to make all estimates and plans of work to be done in the construction and maintenance of roads and superintend the work, to go over the report to the board of supervisors what work should be done to properly upkeep and maintain all roads and bridges in the county, and to check over and report to the board of supervisors on all estimates before payment by the board of supervisors of all work done on public roads.

The engineer may be required to furnish plans and estimates, and may superintend the construction of any road under the supervision of the state highway commission, if the highway commission may so elect. The purpose of this section is to provide a means whereby the board of supervisors and the highway commission may co-operate in such work, when same can be done, and reduce the expense of construction of any road.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 11-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-7
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a system of county federal aid highways, for the purposes of Sections 65-11-1 to 65-11-37 , and the county highways which shall comprise and constitute such system shall be selected jointly by the boards of supervisors of the various counties and the State Highway Commission of Mississippi, as same may be supplemented from time to time. Projects for the construction and improvement of such county highways shall likewise be selected jointly by the several boards of supervisors and the State Highway Commission, provided however, that in all cases where such system and projects thereon have been heretofore selected and agreed upon by the several boards of supervisors and the State Highway Commission as required by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944 [58 U. S. Stat. 838, ch. 626], the highways thereby selected shall constitute the roads in the affected counties which shall be a part of the county federal aid highway system, and such selections and agreements are hereby ratified and approved.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 26-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-26-13
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(4) The state special improvement ad valorem tax levied pursuant to this section shall cease to be levied or collected for any fiscal year after the 1986 fiscal year.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / 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. § 65-3-71.376 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.376
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.376
Status: in_force

(1) The north bridge located on Mississippi Highway 309, recorded identification being, Mississippi Department of Transportation Bridge No. 16764, located in North Byhalia, Marshall County, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the “Hubert Ingram Memorial Bridge.”

(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. § 65-1-309 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 1-309
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-309
Status: in_force

(1) Any person whose property has been taken by the Transportation Department by the filing of a complaint and a declaration of taking may, within the time hereinafter set forth, file an answer to the complaint praying only for a determination of just compensation. No answer shall be filed to the declaration of taking and notice of deposit. The answer, in addition, shall contain the following:

(a) Such admissions or denials of the allegations of the complaint as are appropriate;

(b) The names and addresses of the persons filing the answer, together with a statement as to their interest in the property taken; and

(c) Such affirmative defenses or matters as are pertinent to the action.

(2) A copy of the answer shall be served on the Transportation Department, or such other process agents as may be designated by the department, in Jackson, Mississippi, provided that failure to serve the answer shall not deprive the answer of its validity. The affirmative allegation of the answer shall be deemed denied; however, the Transportation Department may file a reply within thirty (30) days from receipt of a copy of the answer.

(3) The Transportation Department, within ninety (90) days from the receipt of the answer, shall file in the cause a plat of the land taken and such additional area as may be necessary to properly determine the damages, and a copy thereof shall be mailed to the parties or their attorney; however, the department shall not be required to file a map or plat in less than six (6) months from the date of the filing of the complaint.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.392 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.392
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.392
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of U.S. Highway 98 South located in George County, Mississippi, beginning at its intersection with Brushy Creek Road, and running westerly for a distance of approximately one (1) mile, more or less, towards its intersection with Rocky Creek Road in George County, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the “Deputy Jeremy Malone 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. § 65-13-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 13-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-11
Status: in_force

A petition for the creation of a highway and street revenue bond authority may be submitted to the board of supervisors of the county in which the project or projects authorized by this chapter are to be developed. Such petition shall be signed by not less than twenty qualified electors residing within the county of the board to which the petition is submitted. Such petition shall include (1) a statement of the necessity for the service or services to be supplied by the proposed highway and street revenue bond authority, (2) the services to be provided by the authority, and (3) the limits of the facility to be constructed by the authority. Such petition shall be signed in person by the petitioners, with their respective residence addresses, and shall be accompanied by a sworn statement of the person or persons circulating the petition, who shall state under oath that he or they witnessed the signature of each petitioner, that each signature is the signature of the person it purports to be, and that, to the best of his or their knowledge, each petitioner was at the time of signing a resident of the county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-5 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 19-5
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-5
Status: in_force

If the board of supervisors of its own motion initiates the proceedings, it shall make a careful preliminary estimate of the probable amount of the bonds of the proposed district that will be required to be issued by the district; and if the proposal be made by petition, then the petitioners shall make a like estimate and recite the same in their petition or petitions. The preliminary orders of the board in either case shall recite the said proposed or probable amount of the bonds to be issued, and the notice required under Section 65-19-3 shall contain a like recital. But said estimates, whether by the board or by the petitioners, shall be deemed no more than estimates and, if the district be created, shall not be controlling upon the amount of bonds subsequently to be issued, whether more or less, as future necessity may require.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 19-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-29
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of such commissioners, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, to determine and fix what road or roads shall be constructed, or constructed and maintained, or maintained in the district out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds and the levy of taxes. It shall be their duty to let all contracts for the construction, or for the construction and maintenance, or for the maintenance of such roads in the manner provided by law for the letting of contracts for public work by the board of supervisors. It shall be their duty to employ a competent engineer to survey and lay out the road or roads in the district as they shall determine upon, whose duty it shall be to make an estimate of the cost of constructing and maintaining such highway or highways for each separate mile covered by such survey and to report the survey and estimate to said commissioners before contracts are let for the construction or for the construction and maintenance of such highway or highways. Said commissioners shall have the power to adopt or reject such survey and estimate and in the latter event to have another made. When adopted, it shall be their duty to report the same to the board of supervisors, whose duty it shall be to order the clerk of said board to file the same among the records of the office, spread the same on the minutes of the board, and make an order adopting such survey and estimate so reported and adopted by the commissioners. All of said acts of said commissioners shall be subject to ratification or rejection by the board of supervisors.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.253 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.253
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.253
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of U.S. Highway 98 beginning at the intersection with Donovan/Brushy Creek Road and extending approximately two (2) miles easterly to the intersection of Shipman/Beaver Creek Road in George County is designated and shall be known as the “Ricky Murrah Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching that segment of U.S. Highway 98 in George County.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-121 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 25-121
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-121
Status: in_force

The Governor of the State of Mississippi, acting on behalf of this state, is hereby authorized to execute a compact, to be known as the “Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Construction Compact,” in substantially the following form, with the State of Arkansas, and the Legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification of such compact, to wit:

ARKANSAS-MISSISSIPPI GREAT RIVER BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION COMPACT

ARTICLE I

The purpose of this compact is to promote the construction of a highway bridge or a combined highway-railroad bridge connecting the States of Mississippi and Arkansas at, near or between Rosedale, Mississippi, and McGehee and Dumas, Arkansas, and to establish a joint interstate authority to assist in these efforts.

ARTICLE II

This compact shall become effective immediately as to the States ratifying it whenever the States of Arkansas and Mississippi have ratified it and Congress has given consent thereto.

ARTICLE III

(a) The states which are parties to this compact (hereinafter referred to as “Party States”) do hereby establish and create a joint agency which shall be known as the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Authority (hereinafter referred to as “The Authority”). The membership of The Authority shall consist of five (5) members from the State of Mississippi, to be selected in such manner as may be provided by laws enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, and five (5) members from the State of Arkansas, to be selected in such manner as may be provided by laws enacted by the Arkansas General Assembly. The terms of the members of such Authority from each of the Party States, the method of appointing successor members, and the method of filling vacancies on The Authority, shall be determined by the laws of Mississippi and Arkansas.

(b) The members of The Authority shall not be compensated for services on The Authority, but each member shall be entitled to actual and reasonable expenses incurred in attending meetings or incurred otherwise in the performance of his/her duties as a member of The Authority.

(c) The members of The Authority shall meet upon the call of the chairman and hold such other meetings as its business may require. Special meetings of The Authority may be called by the chairman or upon written request of a majority of the members of The Authority from each of the Party States. The Authority shall choose annually a chairman and vice chairman from its members, and the chairmanship shall rotate each year among the Party States, in order of their acceptance of this compact.

(d) The Secretary of The Authority (hereinafter provided for) shall notify each member in writing of all meetings of The Authority in such a manner and under such rules and regulations as The Authority may prescribe.

(e) The Authority shall adopt rules and regulations for the transaction of its business; and the secretary shall keep a record of all its business and shall furnish a copy thereof to each member of The Authority.

(f) It shall be the duty of The Authority, in general, to promote, encourage, and coordinate the efforts of the Party States to secure the development of the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge at, near or between Rosedale, Mississippi, and McGehee-Dumas, Arkansas. Toward this end, The Authority shall have power to:

(i) Hold hearings;

(ii) Conduct studies and surveys of all problems, benefits, and other matters associated with the construction of the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge, and to make reports thereon;

(iii) Acquire by gift, grant or otherwise, from local, federal, or private sources, such money or property as may be provided for the proper performance of their function, and to hold and dispose of the same and to expend such monies as is necessary to defray the costs of establishing and operating The Authority;

(iv) Cooperate with other public or private groups, whether local, state, regional, or national, having an interest in the bridge construction;

(v) Formulate and execute plans and policies for emphasizing the purpose of this compact before the Congress of the United States and other appropriate officers and agencies of the United States;

(vi) Negotiate with one or more railroads in the State of Mississippi and the State of Arkansas, and with the appropriate federal authorities for the construction of the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge as a combined highway-railroad bridge. If necessary, The Authority may enter into a contract with one or more railroads and/or the appropriate agencies of Congress to borrow funds for the construction of the railroad portion of the bridge, to be reimbursed, including all costs of principal, interest and other costs in connection with such indebtedness, by revenues derived from rental fees, grants, or other charges, with such indebtedness to be secured solely by a pledge of such revenues; and

(vii) Exercise such other powers as may be appropriate to enable it to accomplish its functions and duties in connection with the construction of the Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge as a highway bridge or a combined highway-railroad bridge, and to carry out the purposes of this compact.

ARTICLE IV

The Authority shall appoint a secretary, who shall be a person familiar with the nature, procedures, and significance of the bridge construction and the informational, educational, and publicity methods of stimulating general interest in such developments, and who shall be the compact administrator. The term of office of the secretary shall be at the pleasure of The Authority and such officer shall receive such compensation as The Authority shall prescribe from monies provided to The Authority under Article III(f)(iii). The secretary shall maintain custody of The Authority's books, records, and papers, which shall be kept by the secretary at the office of The Authority, and shall perform all functions and duties and exercise all powers and authorities which may be delegated to the secretary of The Authority.

ARTICLE V

Nothing in this compact shall be construed so as to conflict with any existing statute, or to limit the powers of any Party State, or to repeal or prevent legislation, or to authorize or permit curtailment or diminution of any other bridge project, or to affect any existing or future cooperative arrangement or relationship between any federal agency and a Party State.

ARTICLE VI

This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each Party State until the Legislature or Governor of each or either state takes action to withdraw therefrom; provided that such withdrawal shall not become effective until six (6) months after the date of the action taken by the Legislature or Governor. Notice of such action shall be given to the other Party State by the secretary of state of the Party State which takes such action.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 15-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-21
Status: in_force

One-half ( 1 / 2 ) of all ad valorem taxes collected by or for a county or a separate or special road district on property within a municipality (the streets of which are worked at the expense of the municipal treasury, or worked by municipal authority) for road purposes of such county or district, not including taxes for the purposes of paying bonds issued for road purposes or the interest thereon or for creating a bond and interest fund for retiring the same, shall be paid over to the treasurer of such municipality for said municipality.

Any municipality may contract with its board of supervisors, or any member thereof, whereby work may be performed on the streets maintained by said municipality in lieu of the refund of one-half ( 1 / 2 ) of the road taxes collected under this section and in such event such agreement shall be spread at large upon the minutes of both the governing authorities of such municipality and the board of supervisors of such county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-59 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 41-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-59
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 “Highway 605 Tradition Scenic Parkway” pursuant to Section 65-41-1 et seq. as it reaches completion:

Beginning at the intersection of Highway 605 and U.S. Highway 90 and travel northerly along Highway 605 to the intersection of Highway 605 and Highway 67.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-27 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / Section 29-27
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-29-27
Status: in_force

Any municipality within whose confines one of the terminals is located shall have the right, power, and authority, whether such municipality be special charter or otherwise, to set aside and appropriate from its general fund as much as three mills for the defraying of the expenses of operation of said free or limited free ferry service.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 7-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-9
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of any county shall have the right, upon the application of any member thereof or any overseer, road commissioner or the county road manager, to condemn any dead or dangerous trees or timber near any public road which endangers the safety of the public travel. On the failure or refusal of the owner to cut and remove such trees or timbers, the board may assess the value thereof and pay or tender the owner of such trees or timber the said assessed value thereof by warrant on the county treasury, and such trees or timber shall be cut, felled or removed by the proper authorities working or maintaining such road. The owner of such trees or timber shall have five (5) days' notice of such assessment and, if dissatisfied with such valuation, an appeal may be had to the circuit court as in other cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.72 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.72
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.72
Status: in_force

(1) Mississippi Highway 617 in Jackson County is designated and shall be known as the “Jerry St. Pe' 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. § 65-41-59 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 41-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-59
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 “Highway 605 Tradition Scenic Parkway” pursuant to Section 65-41-1 et seq. as it reaches completion:

Beginning at the intersection of Highway 605 and U.S. Highway 90 and travel northerly along Highway 605 to the intersection of Highway 605 and Highway 67.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-213 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / 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. § 65-3-71.378 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.378
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.378
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway U.S. Highway 278, also known as Noah Curtis Street, located in Shannon, Lee County, Mississippi, extending for a distance of approximately one (1) mile in the westerly direction from the eastern entrance of Shannon Primary School to a point immediately west of the on-ramp interchange with U.S. Highway 45, is designated and shall be known as the “Johnny R. Patterson 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. § 65-43-4 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 43-4
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-4
Status: in_force

On or before January 10 of each year the Mississippi Transportation Commission shall submit a detailed report to the Chairman of the Senate Highways and Transportation Committee and the Chairman of the House Transportation Committee describing and evaluating the financial and operational performance by a company with which the commission has contracted under Chapter 44, Laws of 2008, First Extraordinary Session, of the company's duties and responsibilities regarding the construction, operation and maintenance of a toll road or toll bridge project.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-45.nr2 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 11-45.nr2
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-45.nr2
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 deposit the amount available for such county into the county road and bridge fund. 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. § 65-23-317 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 23-317
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-317
Status: in_force

The governing body of any such county or counties issuing bonds under the provisions of this article is hereby authorized to fix and to revise from time to time tolls for transit over such bridges, to charge and collect the same, and to contract with any person, partnership, association, or corporation desiring the use of any bridge, its approaches, appurtenances, or any part thereof for placing thereon water, gas, oil pipelines, telephone, telegraph, electric light or power lines, railroad or street railway tracks, or for any other purpose, and to fix the terms, conditions, rates, and charges for such use. Such tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted, in respect of the aggregate of tolls from the bridge or bridges for which a single issue of bonds is issued, as to provide a fund sufficient with other revenues of the bridge or bridges, if any, to pay (a) the cost of maintaining, repairing, operating such bridge or bridges, and collecting tolls, and (b) the bonds and the interest thereon as the same become due. Such tolls shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any state commission, board, bureau, or agency, except such bureau or agency that might participate in the financing of the cost of any such bridge. The tolls from the bridge or bridges for which a single issue of bonds is issued, except such part thereof as may be required to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge or bridges and to provide such reserves therefor as may be provided in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or in the trust indenture, shall be set aside at such regular intervals as may be provided in such resolution or such trust indenture, in a sinking fund which is hereby pledged to, and charged with, the payment of (1) the interest upon such bonds as such interest shall fall due, (2) the principal of the bonds as the same shall fall due, (3) the necessary fiscal agency charges for paying principal and interest, and (4) any premium upon bonds retired by call or purchase as herein provided. The use and disposition of such sinking fund shall be subject to such regulations as may be provided in the resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds, or in the trust indenture, but, except as may otherwise be provided in such resolution or trust indenture, such sinking fund shall be a fund for the benefit of all bonds without distinction or priority of one over another. Subject to the provisions of the resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds or of the trust indenture, any moneys in such sinking fund in excess of an amount equal to one year's interest on all bonds then outstanding may be applied to the purchase or redemption of bonds. All bonds so purchased or redeemed shall forthwith be cancelled and shall not again be issued.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-6 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 43-6
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-6
Status: in_force

Any driver of a vehicle who fails or refuses to pay a required toll on a toll road or toll bridge facility in the state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned not more than six (6) months, or both. In addition, the court shall order a person convicted of violating this section, to make restitution to the toll facility operator in an amount equal to the dollar amount of the toll that such person was required but failed or refused to pay. Any sheriff, municipal police officer, State Highway Patrol officer, law enforcement officer of the Department of Public Safety or certified law enforcement officer of the Mississippi Department of Transportation may issue a traffic ticket for such violation within the limits of their respective jurisdictions in accordance with Section 63-9-21 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-55 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 41-55
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-55
Status: in_force

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

Begin at the Tennessee state line and travel south on U.S. Highway 61 to the intersection of Mississippi Highway 161. Continue on Mississippi Highway 161 to the Town of Walls, Mississippi, and travel south on Old Highway 61 through DeSoto County and Tunica County to the intersection with U.S. Highway 49 near Lula, Mississippi. Continue northwest on U.S. Highway 49 to the intersection with Mississippi Highway 1, and travel south along Mississippi Highway 1. Continue south along Mississippi Highway 1 through Coahoma County, Bolivar County, Washington County, east along Mississippi Highway 1 at Sharkey County and then south along Mississippi Highway 1 at Issaquena County. Continue on Mississippi Highway 1 south to the intersection of U.S. Highway 61 at Mississippi Highway 1 at Onward; continue south along U.S. Highway 61 to the Issaquena/Warren County line. This terminates the “Mississippi Delta Great River Road Scenic Byway.”

(2) Outdoor advertising as identified in the Mississippi Delta Great River Road Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan shall be allowed on Mississippi Highway 1 and U.S. Highway 61 within the corporate limits of the impacted municipalities along the byway subject to the zoning and signage statutes and ordinances of the state and the impacted municipalities. Outdoor advertising outside of a municipality's corporate limit must be in compliance with applicable local, state and federal guidelines.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-331 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / 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. § 65-29-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 65-19-45 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 65-23-307 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 23-307
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-307
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(c) The term “cost of bridge,” as applied to a bridge to be constructed pursuant to the provisions hereof, shall embrace the cost of construction, the cost of all land, property, rights, easements, and franchises acquired, which are deemed necessary for such construction, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and for eighteen months after acceptance of the completed work by the governing body of such county or counties, cost of traffic estimates and of engineering and of legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and of revenues, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of the enterprise, administrative expense, and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the financing herein authorized and the construction of the bridge and the placing of the bridge in operation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-7 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-7
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-4-7
Status: in_force

Any political subdivision desiring the assistance of the state in order to construct or improve any highways or highway segments, the primary purpose of such construction or improvement being to encourage a private company to engage in a high economic benefit project within the geographic boundaries of the political subdivision, may apply to the board for such approval and assistance. The application from the political subdivision shall include, but not be limited to:

(a) A description of the highways or highway segments requested to be constructed or improved;

(b) A certified resolution from the governing authorities of the political subdivision detailing the source and amount of funds which the political subdivision has committed or is willing to commit for construction or improvement of such highways or highway segments;

(c) A certified copy of a signed letter of intent from the private company to the political subdivision describing in detail the high economic benefit project in which it is committed to engage upon construction or improvement of the highways or highway segments within the political subdivision and the proposed timetable for completion of such project;

(d) Demonstration that the private company is financially sound and is likely to fulfill the commitments made in its letter of intent; and

(e) An estimate by the private company of the number, size and weight of motor vehicles and the frequency of travel of such vehicles upon the highways or highway segments requested to be constructed or improved after completion of the project by the private company.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-37-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 4 / Section 37-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-37-9
Status: in_force

Engineering costs for any project performed under this chapter, including the salaries or fees of the engineer, may be paid from the Local Bridge Replacement Rehabilitation Fund allocations to a county; however, the maximum fee paid to an engineer from the fund shall not exceed twelve percent (12%) of the final construction cost, with the methods of payment to be approved by the State Aid Engineer under regulations promulgated by the State Aid Engineer. No such costs shall be paid to an engineer before the letting of the project.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-3 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 18-3
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-18-3
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the term “local system road” means a road that is included on the county road system as designated under Section 65-7-4 that (a) is functionally classified as a local rural road in accordance with policies on geometric design of highways and streets adopted and published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; (b) provides access to the state aid system, the federal aid system or the designated state highway system; and (c) has an average daily traffic count of four hundred (400) vehicles or less. The term “local system road” includes all drainage related structures except bridges that are included on the National Bridge Inspection Inventory maintained by the Office of State Aid Road Construction. The term “local system road” does not include a road or highway on the designated state highway system or on the state aid road system.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.289 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.289
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.289
Status: in_force

(1) That bridge on Adams Street that spans Interstate 22 in Itawamba County, Mississippi, in the City of Fulton, is designated and shall be known as “Leland Taylor 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, described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.258 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.258
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.258
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 57 in Jackson County within the City of Gautier beginning at its intersection with Brown Road and extending northerly to its intersection with Interstate 10 is designated and shall be known as the “James Donovan Gautier 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. § 65-39-27 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 65-13-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 13-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-13
Status: in_force

Upon the filing of a petition with the board of supervisors as outlined above, it shall be the duty of said board to fix a time and place for a public hearing upon the question of the public convenience and necessity for the creation of the proposed authority. The date fixed for such hearing shall be not more than thirty days after the filing of the petition, and the date of the hearing, the place at which it shall be held, and the purpose of the hearing shall be set forth in a notice to be signed by the clerk of the board of said county. Said notice shall be published in a newspaper having general circulation within such county once a week for at least three consecutive weeks prior to the date of such hearing. The first such publication shall be made not less than twenty-one days prior to the date of such hearing, and the last such publication shall be made not more than seven days prior to the date of such hearing.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-57 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / 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. § 65-3-71.105 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.105
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.105
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 35 in Tallahatchie County beginning at the northern corporate boundaries of the City of Charleston and extending northerly to the Tallahatchie/Panola county line is designated and shall be known as the “Birdia Keglar 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. § 65-9-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 9-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-9-13
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

(d) Such county has complied with all rules and regulations promulgated by the State Aid Engineer.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-53 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 33-53
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-33-53
Status: in_force

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(3) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any county with an assessed valuation of less than ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.181 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 3-71.181
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.181
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of highway that is designated as U.S. Highway 78 and will be redesignated as Interstate 22 beginning at the Marshall/DeSoto county line and extending to the Benton/Union county line shall be known and designated as the William R. “Bill” Minor 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. § 65-11-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 11-9
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-11-9
Status: in_force

The State Highway Commission shall determine what proportion of the funds allotted to the State of Mississippi for the improvement of secondary and feeder roads under subsection (b), Section 3, of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944 [53 U. S. Stat. 838, ch. 626], shall be expended upon the improvement of highways on the county federal aid highway system; however, not less than fifty per cent (50%) of the amount so apportioned to Mississippi under said act shall be apportioned for expenditure among the counties for the improvement of roads on the county federal aid highway system; if the amount apportioned by the state to the state highway fund to carry out the purposes of Sections 65-11-1 to 65-11-37 should be less than fifty per cent (50%) of the amount apportioned to Mississippi for secondary and feeder roads under said act, then the amount of federal funds apportioned to the counties for the improvement of roads on the county federal aid highway system may be less than fifty per cent (50%) of such federal funds, but shall not be less than the amount of such state appropriation.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-205 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 23-205
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-205
Status: in_force

When the chancery court has established a bridge district as hereinabove provided, it shall appoint five owners of real property residing within the district to act as commissioners. Each commissioner shall take the oath of office required by section 268 of the Constitution of Mississippi , and shall also swear that he will not directly or indirectly be interested in any contract made by the board of commissioners and that he will well and truly assess all benefits resulting from said improvement.

No commissioner shall be eligible to discharge the duties of his office until the oath herein required has been taken.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-21 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 23-21
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-23-21
Status: in_force

This article, being necessary for and to secure the public health, safety, convenience, and welfare of municipalities, counties, and other political agencies of the State of Mississippi, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-21-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 13 / 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. § 65-25-9 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / 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. § 65-7-29 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-29
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-29
Status: in_force

At such intervals on said road as may be deemed extremely dangerous, such board shall be double faced, with said inscription on each side thereof, and shall be placed in such manner as to be easily seen by travelers at night when proper lights upon vehicles are reflected thereon.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-140.1 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-140.1
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-140.1
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 Copiah County:

Central District--Copiah County:

Mississippi Highway 844 beginning on U.S. Highway 51 and proceeding easterly on South Pat Harrison Drive, thence northerly on South Jackson Street, West Georgetown Street and North Jackson Street, thence westerly on North Pat Harrison Drive to U.S. Highway 51, for a total approximate length of 3.57 miles, all within Crystal Springs, Copiah County.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-71 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 43-71
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-71
Status: in_force

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

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

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

(c) “ Toll facility ” means any road or bridge for which tolls or fees are charged for the use thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.112 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.112
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.112
Status: in_force

(1) Proposed new Mississippi Highway 22 Alternate in Hinds and Madison Counties beginning at or near Edwards and extending northeasterly to or near Canton shall be designated and shall be known, upon completion, as the “Dudley R. Bozeman 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. § 65-25-41 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 25-41
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-41
Status: in_force

Such bonds may be issued for the purpose herein 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 municipality or county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.137 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.137
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.137
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of Mississippi Highway 786 in Lowndes County beginning at U.S. Highway 45 and extending to the gate of the Columbus Air Force Base is designated and shall be known as the “George ‘Happy’ Irby Parkway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-87 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 19-87
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-87
Status: in_force

The board shall provide for the collection of taxes from the benefit district in such annual installments as it may determine, extending over not more than fifteen years, and may borrow money in advance of the collection of such taxes, in which event an amount sufficient to pay the annual interest shall be collected in addition to the principal. The taxes so assessed and levied shall be a lien upon the land and be collected at the same time and in the same manner that state and county taxes are collected. A separate assessment roll shall be provided by the board, and the assessor shall assess the lands in each benefit district separately, together with the benefit tax assessed thereon. He shall also mark in red ink on the general assessment roll the particular lands the benefits of which have been assessed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.169 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.169
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.169
Status: in_force

(1) That a certain segment of highway adjacent to Camp Shelby shall be known and designated as “Chaplin Clark Polling Memorial Highway.”

(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the highway.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.129 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.129
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.129
Status: in_force

(1) That portion of U.S. Highway 49 beginning at the intersection with Community Road and extending northerly to its intersection with Dedeaux Road is designated and shall be known as the “Lieutenant Robert J. Curry 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. § 65-3-71.362 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.362
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.362
Status: in_force

(1) The section of Mississippi Highway 45 North located in Lowndes County, Mississippi, beginning at the Ridge Road Exit near Kolola Springs, Mississippi, and extending one (1) mile north is designated and shall be known as the “PFC Bradford C. Freeman Memorial Highway” in memory of deceased World War II army veteran Private First Class Bradford Clark Freeman of Caledonia, Mississippi.

(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. § 65-7-37 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 7-37
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-37
Status: in_force

Whenever in the discretion of the board of supervisors of any county it seems proper to do so, the board of supervisors may, by order duly entered on its minutes, regulate the use of any hard surfaced or graveled public road in the county by prescribing what kind of wheels may be used on vehicles on said public roads and by prohibiting the use thereon of vehicles using cleats or spikes on wheels. But such order shall, before being in full force and effect, be published in a newspaper published in the county for three (3) consecutive weeks, whereupon such order shall be in full force and effect.

In the event of inclement weather, floods, or other causes wherein immediate nonuse of any of such roads is necessary, the supervisor of the district may enter his proclamation prohibiting the use of said road for such period of time as he deems necessary for the proper preservation thereof, or enter his proclamation regulating the type of traffic that may use such road. However, at the next meeting of the board of supervisors, such supervisor as has entered such a proclamation must present his proclamation to the entire board for its action thereon, and if the full board declines to enter an order in the manner set forth in the next preceding paragraph hereof, then the proclamation of such supervisor shall be null and void and of no further effect. Notice of such proclamation at each public entrance, intersection with another public road, shall be sufficient notice of the proclamation of the supervisor.

This section shall not be construed as to authorize the board of supervisors to prohibit vehicles with spiked or cleated wheels from crossing or going from one side of said road to another, and shall only be construed so as to authorize said board of supervisors to prohibit the use of said spiked or cleated wheels on said public roads.

This section shall not be so construed as to apply to state built or constructed highways or federal aid roads, and shall only be construed to apply to public roads maintained by the county.

Any person going upon any hard surfaced road or portion thereof in such county with any kind of vehicle, or who shall cause any such vehicle to be driven upon any such hard surfaced road in such county in violation of such regulations or orders, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction therefor, shall be fined in the sum of not exceeding Fifty Dollars ($50.00) and shall moreover be liable severally to any county or road district for any damage done such roads by such illegal act.

As to any county which is required to operate on a countywide system of road administration as described in Section 19-2-3 , the duties of a supervisor under this section relating to the issuance of a proclamation shall be performed by the road manager of the county.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-73 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 43-73
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-43-73
Status: in_force

(1) A person may not use any toll facility without payment of tolls, except as specifically provided by statute, ordinance, regulation or rule of a governing entity.

(2) If a vehicle is found by automated devices, visual observation, or otherwise to have evaded tolls on any toll facility, the processing agency shall, within thirty (30) days of the violation, forward to the registered owner of the vehicle involved in the violation, by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal delivery, a notice of toll evasion violation setting forth the violation, including reference to the statute, ordinance, regulation or rule violated, the approximate time and location of the violation and the amount of the toll owed by the violator. Included with the notice of toll evasion violation shall be an affidavit of nonliability that complies with the requirements of Section 65-43-81 . In the case of joint ownership of a motor vehicle, the notice must be mailed to the first name appearing on the registration, unless the first name is a business organization, in which case the second name appearing on the registration may be used. Mailing the notice to the address provided for notice or personal delivery constitutes legal notification to the violator. If accurate information concerning the identity and address of the registered owner of the vehicle is not available to the processing agency within thirty (30) days of the violation, the processing agency shall have an additional forty-five (45) calendar days to obtain such information and forward the notice of toll evasion violation. If after ninety (90) calendar days of the violation the processing agency has not obtained accurate information concerning the identity and address of the registered owner of the vehicle, the processing agency may publish the notice of the toll evasion for two (2) weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the county of the registered owner's last known residence. This publication shall constitute legal notification to the violator. The notice of toll evasion violation shall also set forth the following:

(a) The vehicle license plate number;

(b) If practicable, the registration expiration date and the make of the vehicle;

(c) A clear and concise explanation of the procedures for contesting the violation and appealing an adverse decision.

(3) A violation of subsection (1) of this section is an infraction subject to a penalty established pursuant to Section 65-43-75 . The collection of civil penalties shall be governed by the civil administrative procedures set forth in Section 65-43-77 .
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-17 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 15-17
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-15-17
Status: in_force

In counties which have heretofore created special or general road funds under then existing laws, the boards of supervisors may use such funds as if originally collected hereunder. In case the board of supervisors shall, in availing themselves of this provision, relieve from the operation of the contract system any part of a county entitled to a special fund, the board may also order that such special fund shall become a part of the general fund.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-13 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 5 / Section 7-13
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-13
Status: in_force

For all counties where this has not already been done, the state highway department or the state highway engineer shall prepare and file with the clerk of the board of supervisors of the said several counties of the state, plans and specifications for highway sign or guide boards, showing the construction, size, material, color, and how said sign or guide boards are to be erected on the roads or highways within the said several counties. All such specifications are to be uniform, so as to obtain a uniform system of highway sign or guide board markers throughout the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.236 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.236
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.236
Status: in_force

(1) The segment of Mississippi Highway 2 in Alcorn County, Mississippi, beginning at its intersection with Gaines Road and extending westerly to its intersection with Airport Road, is designated and shall be known as the “Agent Harold Lane Caldwell 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. § 65-3-71.151 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 2 / Section 3-71.151
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.151
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of Mississippi Highway 23 in Itawamba County beginning at its intersection with Mississippi Highway 178 and extending northerly to the Mississippi/Alabama state line is designated and shall be known as the “Tammy Wynette 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. § 65-3-71.188 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-71.188
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-71.188
Status: in_force

(1) That segment of U.S. Highway 61 South in Adams County beginning at its intersection with Kingston Road and extending southerly to its intersection with Hutchins Landing Road, is designated and shall be known as the “SFC Severin West Summers III 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. § 65-41-59 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / Section 41-59
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-41-59
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 “Highway 605 Tradition Scenic Parkway” pursuant to Section 65-41-1 et seq. as it reaches completion:

Beginning at the intersection of Highway 605 and U.S. Highway 90 and travel northerly along Highway 605 to the intersection of Highway 605 and Highway 67.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-205 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 3 / 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. § 65-33-43 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / 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. § 65-3-61 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 1 / Section 3-61
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-3-61
Status: in_force

(1) Mississippi Highway 588, situated between Collins, Mississippi, and Ellisville, Mississippi, shall be designated and henceforth known as the James Duncan Arrington Memorial Highway.

(2) The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby authorized and directed to erect appropriate signs along and approaching said highway and, further, to erect a suitable memorial marker between Collins, Mississippi, and Ellisville, Mississippi.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-19 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 9 / Section 13-19
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-13-19
Status: in_force

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

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

․․․․․․․․( )

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

․․․․․․․․( )

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

If no petition requiring an election be filed or if a majority of those voting at an election hereunder votes in favor of the creation of the authority, the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution creating the authority as described in the aforesaid resolution of intention.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-11 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 15 / Section 39-11
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-39-11
Status: in_force

All bonds and interest coupons issued under the provisions of Sections 65-39-5 through 65-39-33 have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the provisions of the Mississippi Uniform Commercial Code, and in exercising the powers granted by Sections 65-39-5 through 65-39-33 , the State Bond Commission shall not be required to and need not comply with the provisions of the Mississippi Uniform Commercial Code.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-67 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-67
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-67
Status: in_force

All proceedings of the board of supervisors in laying out, altering, or changing any public road and assessing damages therefor may be reviewed by the circuit court in respect to any matter of law arising on the face of the proceedings; and on the question of damages the cause may be tried anew, and the damages may be assessed by a jury if the owners of the land so desire. The board of supervisors shall grant appeals for that purpose, when prayed for, on the appellant giving bond for the costs in such penalty as the board may require, not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00), payable to the county; and such bond shall have the same effect and be subject to the same proceedings as appeal bonds in other cases. Any person interested and a taxpayer may appeal in like manner and with like effect from the action of the board in assessing, allowing, or disallowing damages in opening or changing a road. If the road laid out or changed is a part of a federal aid project, such appeal to, and such review by, the circuit court shall be without supersedeas and only after the assessment of damages herein provided; on such appeal and review, all of the proceedings involving the taking of land for a public road and assessing damages therefor, and otherwise, shall be before the circuit court for consideration on such review and appeal. If the road laid out or changed is a part of a federal aid project, after the board of supervisors has confirmed the report of the committee examining and viewing the contemplated route of a road and finding the same practicable, such road may be opened, worked, constructed, and used, and such opening, working, constructing, and using of said road shall not be stopped or held up by appeal, by writ of supersedeas, writ of certiorari, direct appeal, other method of appeal, review, by writ of prohibition, or otherwise after the board of supervisors has entered an order on its minutes to the effect that the county shall be liable to the landowner for all damages sustained by such laying out, working, and construction of such road and the taking of the land therefor; and the board of supervisors shall have actually deposited the amount assessed as damages with the clerk of the circuit court, subject to the order of the landowner.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-31 — MS Code / Title 65 / Chapter 11 / Section 25-31
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-25-31
Status: in_force

No bridge for the use of the traveling public located as provided in Section 65-25-3 shall hereafter be constructed and operated by any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the state, or by any person, copartnership, association, or corporation, and no franchise shall hereafter be granted for the operation of a ferry within fifteen miles of any toll bridge for the acquisition or construction of which bridge revenue bonds shall have been authorized under this article, except under a written permit granted by the state highway commission. No such permit shall be granted by the state highway commission until it shall ascertain by an investigation, including a hearing upon such notice and under such rules as the commission may prescribe, that there is an urgent public need for the operation of such bridge or such ferry, and that its operation will not affect the revenues of any bridge purchased or constructed under the provisions of this article so as to impair the security of any bridge revenue bonds issued for the acquisition or construction of such bridge.