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MS Code § 65-7-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-53. Use of roads while under construction

 [With regard to any county which is required to operate on a countywide system of road administration as described in Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]   Whenever in the discretion of the board of supervisors of any county it seems proper so to do, the board may, by order on its minutes, authorize the road manager of the county or the county engineer to forbid the use of any hard surfaced road, or portion thereof, when under construction or repair. The county road manager or the engineer, when so authorized by the board of supervisors, may close said road or any portion thereof to travel by an obstruction placed thereon in such manner as to indicate its closing, or by a sign marked "closed by order of the county road manager (or county engineer)."
MS Code § 65-7-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-55. Penalty for forbidden use of roads

 Any person who uses such road while the same is closed, or removes such obstruction or sign, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) and not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), and shall be responsible in damages to the highway commission for all damage done to the highway in violation of Section 65-7-53.
MS Code § 65-7-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-57. Petition to have roads laid out or changed

 When any person shall desire to have a public road other than a road being maintained by the state highway department laid out, altered, or changed, a petition shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the county, signed by ten or more freeholders or householders of the county interested in the road, setting forth the commencement and termination and general course thereof and that the public interest or convenience requires the road to be laid out and opened or altered or changed, as shown in the petition. The petitioners, if not owners of the land through which the road runs or is proposed to be run, or if the land through which the road runs or is proposed to run is owned by the county or a municipality, shall give a copy of the same to the president of the board of supervisors if the county is the owner of the land, or to the mayor if a municipality is the owner thereof, and shall give five days' notice to the owners of the land in person, or by leaving the same at their residence if they reside in the county, or if the owners be nonresidents of the county, by putting up the notice in some conspicuous place on the land through which the road runs or is proposed to run. Thereupon the board of supervisors shall hear the parties, and if it determine that the prayer of the petitioners ought to be granted, in whole or in part, it shall appoint a committee of two members, of districts other than that of the road or proposed road, who shall examine and view the contemplated route of the road. If they find the same practicable, they shall lay out and mark the road, or the alteration or change, and report their proceedings in writing to the board at its next meeting.
MS Code § 65-7-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-59. Report of committee

 The report of the committee may be set aside by the board of supervisors, for sufficient cause, and a new committee appointed at the discretion of the board; but if confirmed, the report shall be entered at large in the minutes of the board.
MS Code § 65-7-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-61. Damages for taking land

 When any owner of land or other person shall claim compensation for land taken for a public road, or for damages sustained by the construction of a road, he shall petition the board of supervisors, in writing, at the next meeting after the laying out of the road or at the meeting when the report thereof shall be returned, setting forth the nature and character of the damages claimed, whereupon the board shall, on five days' notice to the petitioner, go upon 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.
MS Code § 65-7-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-63. Water to be drained from roads

 The board of supervisors shall have power, whenever necessary, to drain water off the public roads through and over the adjacent lands, and damages may be allowed and paid to the owners of said adjacent lands in the same manner as is provided in regard to locating public roads.
MS Code § 65-7-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-65. Damages paid from county treasury

 The damages assessed and allowed by the board shall be paid out of the county treasury.
MS Code § 65-7-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-67. Review by circuit court

 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.
MS Code § 65-7-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-69. Roads on rights of way of drainage districts

 The board of supervisors may construct public roads along the side of and on the right of way of drainage canals or on any levees of any drainage districts of their respective counties, and for this purpose may use the dumps of earth taken from any canal or ditch, either as a road bed or otherwise, provided that no such road shall be constructed without the consent of the commissioners of the drainage district affected, and paying all damages to landowner. Before establishing and constructing said public road, a written resolution of the commissioners of the drainage district agreeing to the establishing of said road shall be presented to the board of supervisors, and said resolution shall be and constitute a part of the order of the board of supervisors establishing the public road. Said road shall not be so constructed as to interfere with the drainage of lands in the drainage district, and the same shall not be so constructed as to hinder or impede the drainage canals for the use and purpose for which they were constructed.
MS Code § 65-7-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-71. Payment for right of way so taken

 Where the board of supervisors of any county uses the right of way or ditch banks or any levee of any drainage district created in this state, it may pay to the treasurer of the respective drainage districts the value of any right of way taken for road purposes, as done with private individuals.
MS Code § 65-7-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-73. Roads into experiment stations

 In any county in the State of Mississippi in which there is located a branch experiment station, the boards of supervisors of such counties are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to open up, lay out, construct, and maintain public roads into and across the land owned by the State of Mississippi and used in connection with said branch experiment station. No petition shall be required to have such road opened up, laid out, constructed, and maintained, but the boards of supervisors of such counties are authorized to proceed with such work when requested so to do by the manager in charge of said branch experiment station. Boards of supervisors are hereby authorized to expend the funds of said county in opening up, laying out, constructing, and maintaining said roads.
MS Code § 65-7-74 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-74. Roads, driveways and parking areas on public school property

 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.
MS Code § 65-7-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-75. Line roads

 Whenever it is necessary to lay out a public highway at or near or along the line between two adjoining counties, and on account of the topography of the land it is not expedient to lay out said road on the line between said adjoining counties, then the boards of supervisors of both counties may lay out the road near the adjoining line between said counties, and both of said counties shall bear the expense of constructing and maintaining such public road in any proportion mutually agreed upon by the boards of supervisors of both of said counties.
MS Code § 65-7-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-79. Counties may join with municipalities in keeping up roads

 The board of supervisors of any county in which a main highway in said county runs through several municipalities in said county, and lies partly within said municipalities and partly without, may join in and co-operate with the said municipalities in the joint construction, improvement, and maintenance of said highway, and out of the county road and bridge fund may pay a proportionate part of the cost of such construction, improvement, and maintenance, the municipalities also paying their proportionate parts. The board of supervisors may distribute its pro rata part of such cost over a period of not exceeding five annual payments and may direct its president to execute the notes of the county for said annual payments, to draw interest at a rate not exceeding six percent (6%) per annum.
MS Code § 65-7-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-81. State highways within or without municipalities

 [With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]   The board of supervisors of any county in the state may construct, reconstruct, maintain, or contribute to the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of any state highway declared by legislative act expressly to be such highway or which, in accordance with law, has been taken over by the State Highway Department for construction, reconstruction, or maintenance; and this section shall apply to such state highway within as well as without the limits of any municipality and, when within such limits, with or without the consent of the municipal authorities. In such cases and for said purposes the board of supervisors, for and in the name of the county, may fully exercise the right of eminent domain within any municipality, and it shall be the duty of the board so to do on the lawful demand of the State Highway Department. This section shall apply also to said state highways within a separate road district, or districts, adjacent to a municipality.
MS Code § 65-7-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-81. State highways within or without municipalities

 [With regard to any county which is required to operate on a countywide system of road administration as described in Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]   The board of supervisors of any county in the state may construct, reconstruct, maintain or contribute to the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of any state highway declared by legislative act expressly to be such highway or which, in accordance with law, has been taken over by the State Highway Department for construction, reconstruction or maintenance; and this section shall apply to such state highway within as well as without the limits of any municipality and, when within such limits, with or without the consent of the municipal authorities. In such cases and for said purposes the board of supervisors, for and in the name of the county, may fully exercise the right of eminent domain within any municipality, and it shall be the duty of the board so to do on the lawful demand of the State Highway Department.
MS Code § 65-7-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-83. Assumption by counties of concurrent jurisdiction over municipal streets for maintenance purposes

 The board of supervisors of any county may, by consent of or agreement with the proper governing authorities of any municipality within such county, assume concurrent jurisdiction over any street in such municipality for maintenance purposes where such street is a continuation of or intersects a local or county road already under the jurisdiction of such board of supervisors.   Such consent or agreement to the assumption of said concurrent jurisdiction shall be entered into only by the entering of an order on the minutes of both of said boards.   The liability heretofore imposed by law upon any municipality for or on account of the negligent construction or maintenance of any municipal street shall not be changed, diminished, or increased in any way by the provisions of this section.   Said boards of supervisors may, in their discretion, authorize the use of county-owned machinery and equipment in the construction and maintenance of municipal streets, whether or not said streets intersect a local or county road.
MS Code § 65-7-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-85. Construction and maintenance by county of streets within municipalities

 The several counties of the state, acting by and through the boards of supervisors thereof, are hereby invested, within their discretion, with full authority to expend monies and to do, within any municipalities of the county all acts regarding construction and maintenance of roads and streets that they may do within the county outside the limits of said municipalities.   The authority granted under this section shall be construed as additional and cumulative to all existing authority for the expenditure of county funds within municipalities.
MS Code § 65-7-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-87. Certain counties may construct village streets

 The board of supervisors of any county of the state of the second class, having a population of more than fifty thousand according to the 1930 federal census, situated wholly within a levee district, and in which there is situated a city of more than fourteen thousand population, is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to construct or assist in the construction of any streets of any village or town of less than five hundred population in said county, and to pay for same out of the highway maintenance fund or any other county fund available to said county for highway construction purposes.
MS Code § 65-7-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-89. Eminent domain, generally

 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.
MS Code § 65-7-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-91. Supervisors may establish stations for work

 [With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]   The board of supervisors may purchase or lease land upon which to establish stations for the working of the public roads, and may erect on the land barns, sheds, and other necessary buildings for the working of the public roads; but the board shall not purchase over ten (10) acres of land for any one (1) station. If the board is unable to purchase or lease, upon terms satisfactory to it, a site selected by it for a station, or in case it is unable to agree with any landowner as to the amount of compensation he shall receive for any land so selected, then the board may proceed to obtain not more than two (2) acres of said site by eminent domain, and the right of eminent domain for no more than two (2) acres is hereby conferred upon the boards of supervisors for said purposes.
MS Code § 65-7-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way|Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets|General Provisions|§ 65-7-91. Supervisors may establish stations for work

 [With regard to any county which is required to operate on a countywide system of road administration as described in Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]    The board of supervisors may, for the benefit of the county, purchase or lease real property upon which to establish facilities for the working of the public roads, and may erect on the real property barns, sheds, and other necessary buildings for the working of the public roads. However, only real property belonging to or under the control of the state or some other governmental entity may be leased at no more than fair market value by the county for such purposes and any such lease shall be for a term of not less than twenty-five (25) years.   On or before October 1, 1990, the board shall establish and maintain one (1) central road repair and maintenance facility for the county or may designate an existing facility as the central road repair and maintenance facility for the county. Additional road repair and maintenance facilities may be established if the board, by resolution duly adopted and entered on its minutes, determines the establishment of these facilities is essential for the effective and efficient management of the county road and bridge programs.   From and after October 1, 1990, no road repair and maintenance facilities shall be located on any land not owned by the county or leased by the county in accordance with this section unless these facilities are located on sixteenth section school lands or lands granted in lieu thereof.   If the board is not able to purchase, upon terms satisfactory to it, a site selected by it for a facility, or in case the board is unable to agree with any landowner as to the amount of compensation he is to receive for any real property so selected, then the board may proceed to obtain not more than two (2) acres of the property by eminent domain, and the right of eminent domain for no more than two (2) acres is hereby conferred upon the boards of supervisors for such purposes.