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MS Code § 65-17-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 1 - County Road Commissioner|§ 65-17-3. Compensation in certain counties

 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.
MS Code § 65-17-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 1 - County Road Commissioner|§ 65-17-5. Duties of commissioner

 It shall be the duty of such commissioner to supervise the construction of such highways and their maintenance after the construction, and to see that the directions for such construction and maintenance are carried out, calling to his assistance, when necessary, the service of a competent civil engineer, which civil engineer shall receive for his services a reasonable compensation to be fixed by the board of supervisors, to be paid out of the funds arising from the proceeds of the sale of such bonds and the levy of such maintenance tax as provided by law.
MS Code § 65-17-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 1 - County Road Commissioner|§ 65-17-7. Commissioner to report to supervisors

 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.
MS Code § 65-17-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 1 - County Road Commissioner|§ 65-17-9. Authority to transfer surplus county road department equipment to another department of county government without reimbursement to road and bridge fund

 Upon a determination by the board of supervisors that (a) equipment of the county road department has ceased to be used for purposes of the road department; and (b) such equipment has been owned by the road department for at least three (3) years; and (c) such equipment may be of use or benefit to another department of county government; and (d) the transfer of the equipment to another department of county government would promote the best interest of county government; and (e) upon the unanimous approval of the board of supervisors, such surplus equipment may be transferred to any other department of county government without the necessity of reimbursement to the road and bridge fund.
MS Code § 65-17-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 3 - County Road Accountant|§ 65-17-101. Supervisors may elect road accountant

 The board of supervisors may elect a road accountant, whose salary shall be fixed by the board and who shall give bond, with sufficient surety, to be payable, conditioned and approved as provided by law, in a penalty not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). For the purpose of enabling the road accountant, in counties working their roads and building and repairing bridges on the unit system or countywide basis, to meet weekly payrolls and to pay for same each week or biweekly, the board of supervisors may advance to him at each regular monthly meeting, out of the road and bridge fund of the county, a sum not exceeding fifty percent (50%) of the amount of his bond. Said road accountant shall place said funds in the county depository to his credit as road accountant, to be checked on by him to meet weekly payrolls for labor, and said fund shall be a public fund and shall be secured as other public funds are secured. The road accountant shall report to the next meeting of the board his disposition of said money, including an itemized payroll for same, which payroll must be approved by the board of supervisors before another advance to him may be made. In the event the board finds any discrepancies in said payroll account, he shall be liable on his official bond for same; and the board of supervisors, in such event, shall not make further allowances to him until said discrepancies are corrected. It shall be the duty of the road accountant to pay all labor employed on the road and bridge work of the county, to pay transportation charges on supplies and material used in such road and bridge work, and all bills for repairs. Every three (3) months he shall take an inventory of all the personal property of the county used in said road and bridge work.
MS Code § 65-17-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 3 - County Road Accountant|§ 65-17-103. Estimates and reports

 The road accountant shall attend all meetings of the board of supervisors, and shall at each regular meeting submit to said board an estimate of the amount of money required to pay the said labor employed on the said road and bridge work, transportation charges, and repair bills. Said board shall examine said estimate and shall set aside for the current month a fund to be known as the "road labor" fund, which sum shall be placed to the credit of the said fund in the county depository, subject to the order of the road accountant; and said road accountant shall use the said fund to pay off the said labor and all freight bills. At each regular meeting of the board of supervisors the road accountant shall make a report to the said board, showing all disbursements by him and proper receipts therefor. The board of supervisors shall carefully audit the said report, and if they shall find any payment or payments or any disbursements so made by the road accountant to be illegal or improper, said board may deduct any and all such payments from the salary of the road accountant, or they may cause suit to be filed on his bond for the recovery of any such sum so illegally or improperly paid out by the road accountant.
MS Code § 65-17-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 3 - County Road Accountant|§ 65-17-105. Accountant to be purchasing agent

 The road accountant shall be the purchasing agent of the county and, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors, shall purchase all materials, implements, and supplies used in such road and bridge work.
MS Code § 65-17-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 3 - County Road Accountant|§ 65-17-107. Accountant to submit trial balance

 The road accountant shall keep a complete set of books, showing in detail all receipts and disbursements had or made by him. With every report made by him to the board of supervisors as hereinbefore required, he shall submit a trial balance of the said books, showing in detail all his transactions as such road accountant.
MS Code § 65-17-201 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 5 - County Engineer|§ 65-17-201. Authority to employ engineer

 [With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:]   The boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State of Mississippi are authorized and empowered at their discretion to employ, as county engineer, a civil engineer or person qualified to perform the duties of a county engineer, and such assistant engineers as may be necessary. On all projects for the construction or reconstruction of a bridge which will cost more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or for the construction or reconstruction of roads which will cost more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per mile, the employment of an engineer qualified under the chapter on engineers shall be obligatory, whether the work is being done by the county or by a separate district, and whether the work is to be done by contract or otherwise; however, in obligatory cases the employment may be for the particular work, rather than for a term.
MS Code § 65-17-201 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 5 - County Engineer|§ 65-17-201. Authority to employ engineer

 [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 boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State of Mississippi are authorized and empowered at their discretion to employ, as county engineer, a civil engineer or person qualified to perform the duties of a county engineer, and such assistant engineers as may be necessary. On all projects for the construction or reconstruction of a bridge which will cost more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), or for the construction or reconstruction of roads which will cost more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) per mile, the employment of an engineer qualified under the chapter on engineers shall be obligatory, whether the work is to be done by contract or otherwise; however, in obligatory cases the employment may be for the particular work rather than for a term.
MS Code § 65-17-203 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 5 - County Engineer|§ 65-17-203. Duties of engineers

 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.
MS Code § 65-17-205 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 5 - County Engineer|§ 65-17-205. Salary of engineer

 The compensation of the county engineer shall be determined by the board of supervisors of the county employing such engineer. The manner of making such compensation shall be spread annually upon the minutes of the board.
MS Code § 65-17-207 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 17 - County Road Officials|Article 5 - County Engineer|§ 65-17-207. Control of engineer

 The employment and work of such engineer shall be under the control of the board of supervisors.
MS Code § 65-23-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-1. Authority to construct and operate

 Any municipality, state highway commission, or county, severally or acting with other authorized agencies in this or adjoining states, may acquire, own, operate, construct, or aid in the construction in whole or in part improving and extending, and maintain toll bridges or free bridges, including the approaches thereto, either within such political subdivision or within five miles adjacent to the territory over which such public agency or subdivision has jurisdiction, which bridges shall extend over any of the rivers and waters in or forming the boundary of this and other states.
MS Code § 65-23-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-5. Enforcement of payment of bonds

 The holders of any bond or interest coupon issued under the provisions of this article may by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings at law or in equity enforce or compel performance by the appropriate official or officials of a municipality or public body of any and all acts and duties to be performed by such public body under the provisions of this article and the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds and interest coupons. If there be any default in the payment of the interest and principal of any of said bonds, any court having jurisdiction in the proper action may, upon petition of the holder of any such bond, appoint a receiver to administer and operate the bridge, with power to fix rates and collect charges sufficient to provide for the payment of all bonds outstanding to the payment of which the revenue of such bridge is pledged, to pay the expenses of operating and maintaining such toll bridge, and to apply the revenues of such toll bridge in conformity with the provisions of this article and the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds.
MS Code § 65-23-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-7. Power additional to other laws

 The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition to the powers conferred by any other law, general, special or local. This article, without reference to any other statute or to any charter, shall be deemed full authority to purchase, build, improve, own, and operate the revenue producing system by this article authorized; to fix, maintain, and collect toll rates for the facilities afforded by such toll bridge; and to issue and sell bonds by this article authorized; and shall be construed as an additional and alternative method therefor, any provision of the laws of the state or any charter of any municipality to the contrary notwithstanding. Where no funds are pledged as security for bonds to be issued by the municipality or other political subdivision other than the revenues arising from the tolls of the bridge to be purchased, erected, or extended, bonds may be authorized and issued under this article by ordinance incorporating the terms and conditions of said bonds passed by the governing authority of such municipality, county, taxing district, or other political subdivision, which article, resolution, or ordinance shall be spread in full upon the minutes of such political subdivision. It shall not be necessary to submit same to an election of the qualified voters of such political subdivision unless moneys for the payment of such bonds or interest thereon or maintenance of such bridge, or construction thereof, shall be pledged from taxes or other funds other than the revenue alone arising from the tolls collected on such bridge. In such event the proposition for the pledging of such additional funds and the issuance of such bonds shall be submitted for the approval of same to the voters of the municipality or other political subdivision at a special election called therefor according to law, and after a majority of the qualified electors voting at said election have voted in favor of the proposed bond issue. Where bonds have been authorized under this article, it shall not be necessary to make publication of any ordinance, resolution, notice, or proceedings relating thereto.
MS Code § 65-23-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-9. How municipality, etc., may come under article

 Any municipality or county or political subdivision desiring to come under this article, whether such municipality be a special charter municipality or not, may so do and may own, operate, and maintain such toll bridge wholly within the State of Mississippi or partly within the State of Mississippi and partly within any adjoining state, together with all approaches to and from said bridge. This article shall apply to special charter cities simply by resolution of the governing authority thereof, either through resolution or ordinance, and without amendment to the charter of such municipality.
MS Code § 65-23-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-11. State Highway Commission may aid

 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 (61/2%).
MS Code § 65-23-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-13. Purchase of land

 The public agencies herein named, either jointly or severally, may acquire by purchase, gift, donation, or by eminent domain all necessary land, rights of way, easements, and supplies for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, owning, operating, improving, extending, and maintaining toll bridges and approaches thereto, acquiring same in such necessary width and length as the governing authority of such political subdivision or subdivisions may determine will be necessary, right, and proper for such bridge purposes. Such public agencies are likewise granted such rights in any adjoining state, provided that such rights do not in anywise conflict with the laws of such adjoining state.
MS Code § 65-23-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-15. Collection of tolls

 Nothing in this article shall authorize or permit the collection of tolls on any bridge heretofore made toll-free or on any existing bridge on which tolls are not at present collected.
MS Code § 65-23-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-17. Political authority of adjoining state

 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.
MS Code § 65-23-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-19. Federal aid

 Any municipality or public authority hereinabove set forth, either jointly or severally, may enter into contracts with the United States of America, or any agency thereof, under the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act and the regulations made in pursuance thereof, and under any further acts of Congress of the United States to encourage public works, for the sale of bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of this article, or for the acceptance of a grant to aid such municipality or other public authority to acquire, build, or improve any toll bridge, or to enter into contracts with any person or corporation, public or private, for the sale of such bonds. Such contracts may contain such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by and between the municipality, or other public authority, and the United States of America, any agency thereof, or any purchaser of such bonds. This and all other provisions of this article shall apply to code municipalities of the State of Mississippi or special charter cities of the State of Mississippi alike. In event of special charter cities of the State of Mississippi, no amendment to the charter of such municipality shall be necessary in order for such municipality to have advantage of this article, but such municipality shall have such advantage by simply spreading upon the minutes of its governing board of authority by resolution or ordinance the fact that same desires to come under the provisions of this article, in which event such municipality or any other political authority of the State of Mississippi hereinabove named shall have full power to adopt such ordinance and resolution and to do all things and perform all acts necessary or right or desirable to effectuate the full intent and purpose of this article.
MS Code § 65-23-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters|Article 1 - Toll Bridges|§ 65-23-21. Article liberally construed

 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.