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MS Code § 19-27-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys|§ 19-27-19. Making of survey when surveyor interested

 Whenever a survey may be required of any land in which the county surveyor may be interested, or whenever from any cause there shall be no surveyor deputy to be found, or able to act, the survey may be made by the surveyor of any other convenient county, and a court may in any case so order, or the survey may be made by such person of skill as the parties interested may agree upon.
MS Code § 19-27-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys|§ 19-27-21. Maps and plats; making thereof

 Whenever any city, town, or village, or addition thereto, shall be laid out, the proprietor thereof shall cause a true map or plat thereof to be made by a civil engineer, surveyor, or other competent person.
MS Code § 19-27-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys|§ 19-27-23. Maps and plats; form

 Such map or plat shall in every case be made on a scale not less than two hundred feet to an inch, on sheets of good muslin-backed paper, eighteen inches by twenty-four inches in size. There shall be written upon the paper upon which said map or plat shall be made a full and detailed description of the land embraced in the map or plat, showing the township and range in which such land is situated, and the sections and parts of sections platted. It shall show on its face in plain letters the name of the city, town, or village, or addition platted, the name of the proprietor, and all of them, and of the engineer, surveyor, or other person making the map or plat, with the date. The same shall be signed by the proprietor and surveyor, and shall be acknowledged as deeds are acknowledged. The sections and parts of sections platted shall also be designated by lines drawn upon said map or plat, with appropriate letters and figures, and it shall contain a plain designation of the cardinal points of the compass, and a correct scale.
MS Code § 19-27-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys|§ 19-27-25. Maps and plats; contents

 Every such map or plat shall particularly set forth and describe such portion of the government survey as is intended to be platted, and when the premises cannot be accurately described by legal subdivisions, then the boundaries thereof must be defined by metes, bounds, and courses. Such map or plat shall also specify and describe all the public grounds, except streets and alleys, by their boundaries, courses, and extent, and all streets and alleys by their courses, length, widths, names, or numbers, by writing or figures upon that portion of the map or plat intended for those uses. All the lots intended for sale may be numbered either by progressive numbers, or, if in blocks, progressively numbered in each block, and the blocks progressively numbered or lettered. Where all the lots in any block are of the same dimensions, it shall be sufficient to mark the precise length and width upon one tier thereof, but all gores, triangles, or other lots, either squares or parallelograms, shall have the length of their sides plainly defined by figures.
MS Code § 19-27-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys|§ 19-27-27. Maps and plats; recording

 Such map or plat shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the chancery court of the county or counties where the land lies, and in the following manner. The proprietor shall cause to be made, by a competent person, on the same scale and on paper of the same size and quality as that on which the map or plat is required to be made, an exact duplicate of said map or plat, with the detailed description, and signed and acknowledged as the original is required to be. The said map or plat and the said duplicate shall be delivered to the clerk of the chancery court, who shall carefully examine the same, and, if he find that in any respect it fails to conform to the requirements of Sections 19-27-23, 19-27-25, he shall point out the deficiency to the person so presenting it, and return it to such person for correction. When such map or plat shall conform, or shall be made to conform, to the requirements of law, the clerk and the engineer, surveyor, or other person who made the same, shall carefully compare the duplicate with the map or plat, and, if correct, or when made correct, it shall be certified by the clerk and the engineer, surveyor, or other maker, stating therein that they have carefully compared the same with the map or plat (describing it), and that it is an exact duplicate thereof, and of the whole of such map or plat. The clerk shall then securely fasten the said duplicate in a book of the proper size for such paper, so that it shall not be folded, which book shall be securely bound and provided at the costs of the county, after the first map or plat is so presented. Such duplicate so fastened in said book shall be held and taken to be a record of the map or plat, with like effect as if the map or plat had been actually transcribed by the clerk in a book in his office. The clerk shall certify on the map or plat and note on the duplicate the time when it was recorded, and make a reference on the map to the book and page where recorded. The lines and distances of all such maps or plats shall be in yards, feet, and inches.
MS Code § 19-27-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys|§ 19-27-29. Maps and plats; penalty for selling lots before recording

 If any person shall sell any lot or lots within any such city, town, or village, or addition thereto, before the plat or map thereof shall be recorded, he shall be liable to an action, to be brought for the use of the county, for Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). The clerk of the chancery court shall institute the action upon the presentation to him for record of any deed to lots in any such city, town, or village, or addition thereto.
MS Code § 19-27-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys|§ 19-27-31. Maps and plats; alteration and vacation

 If the owner of any land which shall have been laid off, mapped, or platted as a city, town or village, or addition thereto, or subdivision thereof, or other platted area, whether inside or outside a municipality, shall be desirous of altering or vacating such map or plat, or any part thereof, he may, under oath, petition the chancery court for relief in the premises, setting forth the particular circumstances of the case and giving an accurate description of the property, the map or plat of which is to be vacated, or altered, and the names of the persons to be adversely affected thereby, or directly interested therein. The parties so named shall be made defendants thereto, and publication of summons shall be made one time in a newspaper published, or having a general circulation, in the county where the land is situated, and which publication shall clearly state the objects and purposes of the petition.   At any time after the expiration of five days from said publication and the service of process upon the named defendants, the cause or proceeding shall be triable, and the court in term time or the chancellor in vacation may hear the petition and all objections from any person thereto, and may decree according to the merits of the case. However, where all adversely affected or directly interested persons join in said petition, the same may be finally heard and determined by the court or chancellor at any time. If the decree vacate, in whole or in part, or alter the map or plat, it shall be recorded as a deed, and a memorandum thereof noted on the record of the map or plat.
MS Code § 19-27-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys|§ 19-27-33. Establishing true meridian

 The board of supervisors may employ some skilled person to establish at or near the courthouse a line not exceeding twenty chains in length, corresponding with the true meridian of the place, and simultaneously determine to within one-half of one second of an arc the geographical longitude of the station occupied by the instrument used in the operation. After the line has been established, the board of supervisors may appoint a competent person to make annual observations at such time as may be determined, to ascertain the declination of the magnetic meridian from the true meridian, and when any alteration is ascertained, the person making the observation shall report the particulars to the board of supervisors, and the same shall be entered on its minutes.
MS Code § 19-27-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 27 - Surveyors and Surveys|§ 19-27-35. Surveyors to adjust instruments annually

 The county surveyor shall annually adjust any instrument used by him in making surveys after checking said instrument with the line of the true meridian established under Section 19-27-33, or with the line of the true meridian established within said county by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, or a division designated by the survey, or with the line of the true meridian established by the Mississippi State Highway Department in the district in which the property to be surveyed is located. A surveyor shall not be allowed to certify or testify to the correctness of a survey thereafter made unless the instrument used in making it had been corrected and adjusted within twelve months next before the survey.
MS Code § 19-29-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Railroad Authorities Law."
MS Code § 19-29-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-3. Legislative findings and declaration of purpose

 It is hereby declared by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi that railroad transportation and commerce is essential to the economic well-being of the state and the development of its natural resources and its agriculture and industry, and the preservation, development and maintenance of the state's rail service is in the public interest and serves a public purpose. It is the intent of the Legislature by this chapter to provide the manner and means necessary to carry out such purposes. The exercise of the powers granted in this chapter to the authorities and other public bodies is hereby declared to be a public and governmental function for a public purpose and public necessity.
MS Code § 19-29-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-5. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:   "Act" means the railroad authorities law.   "Authority" or "railroad authority" means any of the public bodies corporate and politic created pursuant to this chapter or any law amendatory or supplemental thereto.   "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures or similar obligations issued by an authority pursuant to this chapter.   "Federal government" means the United States of America or any department, division, commission or agency and instrumentality thereof, including the department of transportation and the interstate commerce commission.   "Governing body" means the board of commissioners of the authority.   "Person" means individuals, corporations, partnerships or foreign domestic associations.   "Railroad" means a common carrier by railroad as defined in section 1(3) of Part I of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.S.C.S., Section 1(3)).   "Railroad properties and facilities" means any real or personal property or interest in such property which is owned, leased or otherwise controlled by a railroad or other person, including an authority, and which are used or are useful in rail transportation service, including:   Track, roadbed and related structures, including rail, ties, ballast, other track materials, grading, tunnels, bridges, tressels, culverts, elevated structures, stations, office buildings used for operating purposes only, repair shops, engine houses and public improvements used or usable for rail service operation;   Communication and power transmission systems for use by railroads;   Signals, including signals and interlockers;   Terminal or yard facilities and services to express company and railroads and their shippers, including ferries, tugs, car floats and related shoreside facilities designed for the transportation of equipment by water;   Shop or repair facilities or any other property used or capable of being used in rail freight transportation services or in connection with such services or for originating, terminating, improving and expediting the movement of equipment or goods.   "Rail service" means both freight and passenger railroad service.
MS Code § 19-29-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-7. Creation of county railroad authority; commissioners; public hearing; authorization for county or municipality to create or dissolve authority

  Any county in which there is located existing railroad properties and facilities or in which railroad properties and facilities previously existed, but were abandoned after February 5, 1976, may, by resolution, create a public body corporate and politic, to be known as a county railroad authority, which shall be authorized to exercise its functions upon the appointment and qualifications of the first commissioners thereof. Upon the adoption of a resolution creating a county railroad authority, the board of supervisors of the county shall, pursuant to the resolution, appoint five (5) persons as commissioners of the authority. The commissioners who are first appointed shall be designated to serve the terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4) and five (5) years respectively. Thereafter, each commissioner shall be appointed for a term of five (5) years, except that vacancies occurring otherwise than by the expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointments. A county shall not adopt a resolution authorized by this section without a public hearing thereon. Notice thereof shall be given at least ten (10) days prior thereto in a newspaper published in the county, or if there is no newspaper published therein, then in a newspaper having general circulation in the county.   Any county and a municipality within a county may create a railroad authority under this section by resolution adopted by the respective governing authorities. The authority shall be governed by five (5) commissioners. The board of supervisors shall appoint two (2) persons as commissioners of the authority. The governing authorities of the municipality shall appoint two (2) persons as commissioners of the authority. One (1) commissioner shall be appointed by the municipality and the county on a rotating basis with the municipality making the first appointment. The terms of the commissioners shall be the same as those provided in subsection (1) with the term designation to be determined by the majority vote of the governing authorities of the municipality and of the county. The municipality and the county may dissolve the authority by a majority vote of both governing authorities.
MS Code § 19-29-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-11. Submission of resolutions of regional authority to Secretary of State; certificate of incorporation

 Upon the appointment and qualification of the commissioners first appointed to a regional railroad authority, they shall submit to the Secretary of State a certified copy of each resolution adopted pursuant to subsection (1) of Section 19-29-9 by the counties included in the regional authority. Upon receipt thereof, the Secretary of State shall issue a certificate of incorporation to the regional railroad authority.   When a regional railroad authority is increased or decreased pursuant to subsections (2) and (3) of Section 19-29-9, it shall forward to the Secretary of State a certified copy of each resolution adopted pursuant thereto and, upon receipt thereof, the Secretary of State shall issue an amended certificate of incorporation in accordance therewith.
MS Code § 19-29-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-13. Proof of authorization or existence of county or regional railroad authority

 In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, any contract of a county railroad authority, created pursuant to Section 19-29-7, the county authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become established and authorized to transact its business and exercise its powers upon proof of the adoption by the county of the resolution creating the county railroad authority and of the appointment and qualification of the first commissioners thereof.   In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, any contract of a regional railroad authority, such regional railroad authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become established and authorized to transact its business and exercise its powers upon proof of the issuance by the Secretary of State of a certificate of incorporation of such regional railroad authority.
MS Code § 19-29-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-15. Commissioners; expenses; quorum; officers

 A commissioner of an authority shall receive no compensation for his services, but shall be entitled to the necessary expenses, including traveling expenses, incurred in the discharge of his duties. Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor has been appointed and has qualified. The certificates of the appointment and reappointment of commissioners shall be filed with the authority.   The powers of each authority shall be vested in the commissioners thereof. A majority of the commissioners of an authority shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting the business of the authority and exercising its powers and for all other purposes. Action may be taken by the authority upon a vote of not less than a majority of the commissioners present.   There shall be elected a chairman and vice chairman from among the commissioners.
MS Code § 19-29-18 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-18. Ad valorem tax for acquisition and maintenance of railroad properties

  The governing body of a county railroad authority or regional railroad authority, as the case may be, may file a petition with the board of supervisors of any county included in the railroad authority, specifying for each such county, the rate of the ad valorem tax, not to exceed two (2) mills, to be levied by such county on the taxable property therein, for acquisition and maintenance of railroad properties and facilities, and to defray operating expenses of the railroad authority and any other expenses authorized to be incurred by the railroad authority. Prior to levying the tax specified by the railroad authority, the board of supervisors of each such county shall publish notice of its intention to levy same. The notice shall be published once each week for three (3) weeks in some newspaper having a general circulation in the county, but not less than twenty-one (21) days, nor more than sixty (60) days, intervening between the time of the first notice and the meeting at which said board proposes to levy the tax. If, within the time of giving notice, twenty percent (20%) or one thousand five hundred (1,500) of the qualified electors of the county, whichever is less, shall file a written protest against the levy of the tax, then the tax shall not be levied unless authorized by three-fifths (3/5) of the qualified electors of such county, voting at an election to be called and held for that purpose. If the tax levy fails to be authorized at an election held in a county included in the regional authority, then such tax levy shall not be made in any of the counties included in such regional authority.   The avails of the ad valorem tax levied under authority of this section shall be paid by the county board of supervisors to the governing body of the railroad authority to be used as herein authorized.   For any fiscal year after the initial levy of the tax, the board of supervisors levying same shall levy such tax at a millage rate which will produce an amount of revenue which approximates, but does not exceed, the amount of revenue produced from the levy for the preceding fiscal year. The county board of supervisors shall not increase the millage rate for the purposes authorized herein unless notice thereof is published and an election held, if required, in the manner set forth in subsection (1) of this section.   Each railroad authority shall be subject to examination by the State Auditor.   The tax levy authorized in this section shall not be included in the ten percent (10%) limitation on increases under Sections 27-39-320 or 27-39-321.   The tax levy authorized in this section shall not be reimbursable under the provisions of the Homestead Exemption Law.   A railroad authority created under Section 19-29-7(2) must receive the approval of the governing authorities of the municipality and the county creating such authority before levying any tax under this section.
MS Code § 19-29-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-19. Acquisition of property by eminent domain

 In the acquisition of property by eminent domain proceedings authorized by this chapter, an authority shall proceed in the manner provided by Chapter 27 of Title 11, Mississippi Code of 1972, and as elsewhere provided by law. For the purpose of making surveys and examinations relative to eminent domain proceedings, it shall be lawful for the authority to enter upon the land, doing no damage. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute or other law, an authority may take possession of any property to be acquired by eminent domain proceedings at any time after the commencement of such proceedings. The authority shall not be precluded from abandoning such proceedings at any time prior to final order and decree of the court having jurisdiction of such proceedings. The authority shall be liable to the owner of the property for any damage done to the property during possession thereof by the authority.
MS Code § 19-29-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 29 - Local and Regional Railroad Authorities|§ 19-29-21. Disposal of railroad property or facilities

 Except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan or agreement authorized by Section 19-29-17 an authority may, by sale, lease or otherwise, dispose of any of its railroad property and facilities, or other property, or portion thereof or interest therein, acquired pursuant to this chapter. Such disposal by sale, lease or otherwise shall be in accordance with the laws of this state governing the disposition of other public property, except that in the case of disposal to another authority, a municipality or county or an agency of the state or federal government for use and operation as a public railroad, the sale, lease or other disposal may be effected in such manner and upon such terms as the commissioners of the authority may deem in the best interest of the railroad system in this state.