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MS Code § 65-19-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-25. General provisions for bonds

 The bonds issued under authority hereof shall mature not later than twenty-five (25) years from the date of their issuance; shall bear interest at such rate or rates, provided that the bonds of any issue shall not bear a greater overall maximum interest rate to maturity than that allowed in Section 75-17-101, payable annually or semiannually, as the board of supervisors shall direct; shall be exempt from all taxes, and shall be payable in annual installments, the amount to be paid each year to be fixed by the board of supervisors when the bonds are issued. All such bonds, with interest coupons if any attached, shall be lithographed with suitable devices to prevent counterfeiting; shall be in denominations to be fixed by the board of supervisors; shall be registered by the clerk of the board of supervisors in a book to be kept for that purpose; shall be numbered as provided by the board of supervisors, and shall be signed by the president of the board and countersigned by the clerk, who shall impress the seal of the county upon each bond as it is issued. The coupons, if any, shall be lithographed with the facsimile signatures of the president and clerk of said board, and every such bond shall specify on its face the purpose for which it was authorized and the total amount authorized to be issued. Each bond shall be made payable to a person by name, or may be made payable to bearer without any name, such bonds to be entitled "Road bonds of ," describing by name or number the territory created and organized into a road district. Such bonds shall not be sold for less than their face value; and the board of supervisors of each county shall levy annually a special tax upon all the taxable property of the district to be used exclusively in paying the interest on the bonds and providing a sinking fund for their redemption.   Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, bonds referred to hereinabove may be issued pursuant to the supplemental powers and authorizations conferred by the provisions of the Registered Bond Act, being Sections 31-21-1 through 31-21-7.
MS Code § 65-19-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-27. District road commissioners

 It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors in case the election shall result in favor of the creation of the district, at its next regular meeting or any subsequent meeting, to appoint three commissioners, who shall be qualified electors of the district and real estate owners therein, who shall hold office for a term of four years from the time of their appointment and until their successors are appointed by the board of supervisors, whose duty it shall be to have the management and supervision of the construction and maintenance of the roads built under the provisions hereof, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, and for their services shall be paid their actual expenses, not exceeding one hundred dollars each per annum. The board of supervisors may remove any commissioner, for cause or at pleasure, at any time and fill the vacancy thereby caused; and the board may, at any time after the roads within a district have been constructed by the proceeds of bonds sold, discontinue the commissioners, proceed to administer the fiscal affairs of the road district in the manner authorized by law, and make tax levies without recommendation of the commissioners on all taxable property in such district or districts. The commissioners may employ an attorney, if necessary, and pay him a reasonable compensation.
MS Code § 65-19-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-29. Duties of commissioners

 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.
MS Code § 65-19-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-31. Rejection of bids

 Where contracts are let upon competitive bids, if the commissioners deem the bids too high, they are authorized to reject all bids.
MS Code § 65-19-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-33. Special tax levied

 The public highway or highways so surveyed and adopted by such commissioners shall be constructed and maintained out of the proceeds of the aforementioned bonds, proceeds of such bonds to be used alone in their construction and maintenance. The board of supervisors shall levy an annual tax, on the recommendation of the commissioners, on all the taxable property in the district not exceeding three mills on the dollar, which shall be used to supplement the general fund of the county in maintaining said road or roads and the culverts, bridges, and levees therein. For the purpose of paying such bonds and interest and so maintaining said roads, the board of supervisors shall, at the time fixed by law, levy the tax for the same, and it shall be the duty of the county auditor to keep a separate account of such funds so raised from the other funds of the county; and it shall be the duty of the county depository, which shall be the treasurer of such funds and liable on its bond therefor, to keep a separate account thereof. All allowances against said special funds shall be made by the board of supervisors on the recommendation of the commissioners, and special warrants prepared for the purpose shall be issued against said funds.
MS Code § 65-19-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-35. Separate assessment of district

 The tax assessor, when ordered so to do by the board of supervisors, shall make a separate assessment of all the taxable property of the district or part of districts or territory forming a road district. In making such assessment, it shall not be necessary for him to reassess the property in the road district, but he shall copy from the assessment rolls in use at the time, or mark and separate thereon, all the property and persons in the district or parts of districts forming a road district, so that the county tax collector, in collecting the taxes levied on such road district, may easily ascertain the property and persons situated therein.
MS Code § 65-19-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-37. Convict labor

 Each separate road district shall receive a fair portion of the convict labor assigned to the roads of the county.
MS Code § 65-19-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-39. Disbursement of road fund

 The county auditor shall have prepared proper warrants for the disbursement of district road funds and shall issue such warrants when properly authorized by ordinance of the board of supervisors. All the costs and expenses of organizing such road district and of constructing, maintaining, and working the highways, roads, bridges, and culverts, except county bridges maintained by the county, shall be paid out of such fund.
MS Code § 65-19-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-41. Payment of contractors

 The payment to the contractors for the construction of the roads adopted by said commission, when the roads are constructed or maintained by contract, shall be made by the board of supervisors on certificates issued by the engineer or superintendent and approved by the commission.
MS Code § 65-19-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-43. Acceptance and final settlement

 The roads hereinbefore provided shall have been completed for a period of at least one month before the board of supervisors and the road commissioners shall finally accept the same and make final settlement therefor. Nor shall the board of supervisors allow any final payment to any contractor for the construction of any such road until an itemized statement shall be filed, showing in detail the amount that may be due for each separate mile, the number of yards hauled for each mile, and the amount of work completed for each mile.
MS Code § 65-19-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-45. Final settlement with engineer

 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.
MS Code § 65-19-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-47. Surplus funds loaned

 The commissioners are hereby authorized to loan out any surplus funds of the district, and where such loans are secured by real estate, they shall be made in the manner and under the terms and provisions of the laws now relating to the loan of funds of the sixteenth sections; or they may purchase the bonds or evidences of debts of this state or of any county, municipality, drainage or road district situated in the State of Mississippi, or notes or bonds of the United States, or accept same as security for loans therein.
MS Code § 65-19-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-49. May borrow money

 The road commissioners of a separate road district, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors evidenced by ordinance duly passed, may borrow money in a sum or sums not greater in the aggregate than two percent (2%) of the assessed valuation of the real and personal property within such district. Such loans shall be evidenced by the loan warrant or warrants of such district, signed by the road commissioners thereof and countersigned by the president of the board of supervisors, to bear not more than six percent (6%) interest per annum, and to run not more than five years from the issuance thereof. Provision shall be made at the time of making said loans for the payment thereof at maturity out of the roads funds for said district.
MS Code § 65-19-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-51. General supervision

 The road commissioners shall have general direction and supervision over the highways, bridges, and culverts of their district and the laying out, constructing, working, and maintenance of the same.
MS Code § 65-19-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-53. Roads and bridges constructed and maintained

 When the funds arising from the road district bonds shall have been expended in the construction of roads and the contracts for construction of roads have been completed, then the road engineers, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors, are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase teams, implements and material, employ labor, work said roads and build bridges, and may do all things necessary to be done to work, maintain and improve the roads and build bridges, as herein provided; but all contracts for material and supplies shall be made according to state law governing public purchases, as provided in Sections 31-7-1 et seq., and all labor shall be employed by and under the direction of said engineers, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors. If the road district be composed of only a part of a supervisors district and the principal of the bonds issued does not exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), the road engineers, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors, are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to purchase and hire teams, implements and material and employ labor to build and work said roads and build bridges, and may do all things necessary to be done to construct, work, maintain and improve the roads and build bridges, as herein provided; but all contracts for material and supplies shall be made on and after competitive bids for the same, except as otherwise provided by law, and all labor shall be employed by and under the direction of said engineers, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors. The board of supervisors may use any teams and implements which it owns to assist on the roads of such district; and the like authority may be granted by the board for the maintenance of the roads, as to those not under construction, during the period when the roads or some of them are being constructed.
MS Code § 65-19-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-55. Commissioners may turn over completed roads to county

 When the funds raised in any separate road district by bond issue have been expended and the contracts for road construction have been completed under the methods of building roads authorized by law, it shall be lawful for the road commissioners of any such road district, by and with the consent of the board of supervisors, to turn over to the county in which such road district is situated the roads so constructed. It shall then become the duty of the board of supervisors of such county to maintain and keep up such roads in place and stead of and in the same manner as the road commissioners of such district, and manage in place of said commissioners all of the fiscal affairs of said road district. The funds of each district shall be kept separate and applied to the district in which it was collected.
MS Code § 65-19-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-57. Transfer of roads not to affect obligations of district

 Such transfer shall in no way release any such road district from any of the obligations of its bond issue, nor obligate the county in any way to assume any responsibility for the same.
MS Code § 65-19-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-59. Public roads worked in separate districts

 All the public roads of any separate road district, or parts thereof, shall be worked by contract, if the board of supervisors of such county so elect, by an order entered to that effect on its minutes.
MS Code § 65-19-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-61. Board of supervisors; powers and control

 The board of supervisors of the county in which a road district organized under this chapter is situated shall have plenary power of supervision and control over all of the official acts of the road commissioners and the road superintendent, and shall refuse to ratify or confirm any contract or report of any action of such commissioners or superintendent, when the same is reported to them, which is not for the best interest of such district. They shall require the letting of contracts and the purchase of teams, materials, lumber, supplies, and all other property for the use of the district to be made after advertisement and competitive bidding when such method is deemed likely to best subserve the interest of the district and be most economical.
MS Code § 65-19-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-63. Emergency repair of roads and bridges

 The said commissioners maintaining the roads may, in case of emergency, repair such roads and bridges and keep the same in a proper state of repair without waiting until due advertisement shall be made; however, the amount so expended by them shall not in any one instance exceed the sum of Two Hundred Fifty dollars ($250.00).
MS Code § 65-19-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-65. Roads connecting districts

 The boards of supervisors of the several counties upon request of a separate road district are hereby authorized to cooperate in the construction and maintenance of any public road connecting two such districts, and may, in their discretion, appropriate and expend such district road funds for such purpose in such an amount as may appear to be for the best interest of the respective districts.
MS Code § 65-19-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-67. Supervisors to build all bridges and culverts

 It shall be the duty of the boards of supervisors to build all bridges and culverts in districts coming under this chapter, the cost of which shall be paid out of either the county fund or the proceeds from the sale of bonds of said separate road district, in the discretion of the board of supervisors.
MS Code § 65-19-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-69. Supervisors may acquire rights of way

 The board of supervisors are authorized to acquire rights of way for the roads proposed to be constructed in said district, in the manner now prescribed by law for the acquisition of the rights of way for roads. Such rights of way shall be of necessary width, and if it be deemed necessary to acquire rights of way for such roads in excess of thirty feet, then the board of supervisors is authorized to acquire same up to any width deemed by them to be necessary for such road.
MS Code § 65-19-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-71. Road superintendent

 There may be selected by the road commissioners, subject to the confirmation of the board of supervisors, a competent road superintendent, whose compensation shall be fixed by the board of supervisors, who shall hold his office for one year unless sooner removed, and who shall give a good and sufficient bond for the faithful performance of his duties. Such superintendent shall work under the direction of the road commissioners and may require any or all directions given him by the commissioners to be in writing. He shall give his whole time to the working of the roads in the district except when the commissioners, on account of weather or other conditions, may direct him otherwise. All labor employed on the roads in the district shall be employed by the superintendent and shall be under his control and direction, but the wages paid or agreed to be paid such labor shall be subject to revision and correction by the road commissioners. The superintendent shall file each month with the road commissioners a payroll showing the name of each laborer, the number of days each worked, and the amount due him. When this payroll shall have been approved by the commissioners and transmitted to the board of supervisors and approved by them, warrants on the road fund of the district shall be issued in accordance therewith.
MS Code § 65-19-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-73. Duties of road superintendent

 The road superintendent shall have the custody, care, and control of all the teams, machinery, materials, supplies, and any and all property owned or hired by the district and used in working the road. It shall be his duty to care for and preserve the same, and he and his bondsmen shall be responsible for the proper care and safekeeping of such property and the economical use of the supplies and materials. He shall make a monthly report to the commissioners, which shall be forwarded by them with their recommendations or criticisms to the board of supervisors. Such report shall be a complete inventory of such property, showing the present number, amount, and condition of such property and what was used since his preceding report.
MS Code § 65-19-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-75. Reports to be filed

 The reports of the road commissioners and the road superintendent shall be kept on file by the clerk of the board of supervisors and shall be open to inspection of any resident or taxpayer of such road district.
MS Code § 65-19-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-77. Purchases by road superintendent

 The road superintendent shall have the power to purchase nails, lumber, tools, and other things necessary, where the need for the same is immediate and the value of said purchase does not exceed Fifty Dollars ($50.00). In cases of emergency he shall have power to contract for the immediate repair of a bridge, causeway, culvert, or a bad place in the road, provided such contract is not for a sum greater than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) and the need of the repair immediate and urgent. Such purchases and contracts shall be subject to ratification by the road commissioners and the board of supervisors.
MS Code § 65-19-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-79. Provisions of general road laws to govern

 All the provisions of law in respect to roads and bridges, so far as applicable and where not in conflict with the special provisions in respect to separate road districts, shall govern in said road districts.
MS Code § 65-19-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-81. Public highways extending into municipalities

 Where any public highway being constructed, improved, or maintained by any separate road district shall run or extend into or through any incorporated municipality within the said district, such highway may be constructed, improved, and maintained the same within as without the corporate limits of said municipality. With the consent of and in conjunction with the road commissioners, the said municipality may, out of its own funds, add such street crossings or make improvements, such as grading, culverts, graveling, paving, or other improvements, as it may desire; the mayor and board of aldermen shall, by an order spread upon their minutes, consent for the work to be done by the commissioners. This section shall not be construed as any limitation upon those sections of this title in reference to state highways.