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MS Code § 19-5-157 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-157. Publication of resolution; election

 A certified copy of the resolution so adopted shall be published in a newspaper having a general circulation within such proposed district once a week for at least three (3) consecutive weeks prior to the date specified in such resolution as the date upon which such board intends to create such district. The first such publication shall be made not less than twenty-one (21) days prior to the date specified, and the last such publication shall be made not more than fourteen (14) days prior to such date.   If twenty percent (20%) or one hundred fifty (150), whichever is the lesser, of the qualified electors of such proposed district file written petition with such board of supervisors on or before the date specified aforesaid, protesting against the creation of such district, the board of supervisors shall call an election on the question of the creation of such district. Such election shall be held and conducted by the election commissioners of the county as nearly as may be in accordance with the general laws governing elections, and such election commissioners shall determine which of the qualified electors of such county reside within the proposed district, and only such qualified electors as reside within such proposed district shall be entitled to vote in such election. Notice of such election setting forth the time, place or places, and purpose of such election shall be published by the clerk of the board of supervisors, and such notice shall be published for the time and the manner provided in section 19-5-155 for the publication of the resolution of intention. The ballots to be prepared for and used at said election shall be in substantially the following form:   "FOR CREATION OF DISTRICT ( ) AGAINST CREATION OF DISTRICT ( )" and voters shall vote by placing a cross mark (x) or check mark ( Π ) opposite their choice.   Click to view
MS Code § 19-5-159 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-159. Resolution of creation

 If no petition requiring an election be filed or if three-fifths (3/5) of those voting in said election provided in Section 19-5-157 vote in favor of the creation of such district, the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution creating the district as described in the resolution of intention.
MS Code § 19-5-161 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-161. Costs

 All costs incident to the publication of the notices and all other costs incident to the public hearing and election provided in Sections 19-5-153 through 19-5-157 may be paid by the board of supervisors, in its discretion, or shall be borne by the parties filing the petition, detailed in Section 19-5-153. The board of supervisors, in its discretion, may require the execution of a cost bond by the parties filing the petition. Such bond shall be in an amount and with good sureties to guarantee the payment of such costs.
MS Code § 19-5-163 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-163. Appeals

 Any party having an interest in the subject matter and aggrieved or prejudiced by the findings and adjudication of the board of supervisors may appeal to the circuit court of the county in the manner provided by law for appeals from orders of the board of supervisors. However, if no such appeal be taken within a period of fifteen (15) days from and after the date of the adoption of the resolution creating any such district, the creation of such district shall be final and conclusive and shall not thereafter be subject to attack in any court.
MS Code § 19-5-164 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-164. Creation of district embracing lands in more than one county

 A district embracing lands in more than one county may be created under the provision of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 by the following procedure if the portion of such district located in each county includes twenty percent (20%) or more of all of the lands to be embraced in a district:    The portion of a proposed district containing the largest area of land shall be first created into a district by the board of supervisors of the county in which such largest portion is situated, such county to be known as the "incorporating county."   The resolution first creating such district shall include the exact boundaries of the lands situated in the incorporating county and shall include the exact boundaries of the contiguous area in other counties to be included in the district.   The resolution by the incorporating county shall designate the official name of the district and shall delineate the procedure by which appointment of the five (5) commissioners authorized by Section 19-5-167, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be apportioned among the counties in which portions of such districts are located.   The resolution adopted by the board of supervisors of any county desiring to include contiguous lands into a district initially created as outlined above shall contain exact and identical provisions to those in the resolution by the board of supervisors of the incorporating county.   The board of supervisors of the incorporating county shall, within sixty (60) days after the adoption of a resolution or resolutions by the board of supervisors of adjoining counties to enter lands into the district, enter an order on its minutes acknowledging, affirming and adjudicating the incorporation of the district.   Any contiguous lands in an adjoining county, but not amounting to twenty percent (20%) or more of the total land area included in a district, may be served by a district created under the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 if a certificate of convenience and necessity to do so is issued by the Mississippi Public Service Commission. Provided, however, the provisions of Sections 19-5-189 and 19-5-191, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall not be applicable to any lands not a part of a district.
MS Code § 19-5-165 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-165. District as public corporation; transfer of assets and liabilities of rural water association to newly created water district

  Beginning on the date of the adoption of the resolution creating any district, the district shall be a public corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name and shall, in that name, be a body politic and corporate with power of perpetual succession.   If the creation of the district is initiated in accordance with Section 19-5-153(3), all assets and liabilities of the nonprofit, nonshare corporation shall become the assets and liabilities of the newly organized district without any further meetings, voting, notice to creditors or actions by members of the board beginning on the date of adoption of the resolution of the board of supervisors creating the district.
MS Code § 19-5-169 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-169. Board of commissioners; officers; seal

 The board of commissioners shall organize by electing one of its members as chairman and another as vice-chairman. It shall be the duty of the chairman to preside at all meetings of the board and to act as the chief executive officer of the board and of the district. The vice-chairman shall act in the absence or disability of the chairman. The board also shall elect and fix the compensation of a secretary-treasurer who may or may not be a member of the board. It shall be the duty of the secretary-treasurer to keep all minutes and records of the board and to safely keep all funds of the district. The secretary-treasurer shall be required to execute a bond, payable to the district, in a sum and with such security as shall be fixed and approved by the board of commissioners. The terms of all officers of the board shall be for one year from and after the date of election, and shall run until their respective successors are appointed or elected and qualified.   Each board of commissioners shall adopt an official seal with which to attest the official acts and records of the board and district.
MS Code § 19-5-173 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-173. Board of commissioners; power to enact regulations

 The board of commissioners shall have the power to make regulations to secure the general health of those residing in the district; to prevent, remove and abate nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the construction of privy-vaults and cesspools, and to regulate or suppress those already constructed; and to compel and regulate the connection of all property with sewers.
MS Code § 19-5-175 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-175. General powers of districts

 Districts created under the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall have the powers enumerated in the resolution of the board of supervisors creating such districts but shall be limited to the conducting and operating of a water supply system, a sewer system, a garbage and waste collection and disposal system, a fire protection system, a combined water and fire protection system, a combined water and sewer system, a combined water and garbage and waste collection and disposal system, or a combined water, sewer, garbage and waste collection and disposal and fire protection system; and to carry out such purpose or purposes, such districts shall have the power and authority to acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, better, extend, consolidate, maintain and operate such system or systems, and to contract with any municipality, person, firm or corporation for such services and for a supply and distribution of water, for collection, transportation, treatment and/or disposal of sewage and for services required incident to the operation and maintenance of such systems. As long as any such district continues to furnish any of the services which it was authorized to furnish in and by the resolution by which it was created, it shall be the sole public corporation empowered to furnish such services within such district. However, if the board of commissioners of such district and the board of supervisors unanimously agree, the county may contract directly with any fire protection services provider, in which case the board of supervisors may distribute directly to the fire protection services provider any or all of the funds that otherwise would be distributed to the fire protection district.   Any district created pursuant to the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall be vested with all the powers necessary and requisite for the accomplishment of the purpose for which such district is created. No enumeration of powers herein shall be construed to impair or limit any general grant of power herein contained nor to limit any such grant to a power or powers of the same class or classes as those enumerated. Such districts are empowered to do all acts necessary, proper or convenient in the exercise of the powers granted under such sections.
MS Code § 19-5-179 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-179. Eminent domain

 The board of supervisors of such county may, upon petition by the board of commissioners of the district, exercise the power of eminent domain on behalf of the district wherever and whenever public necessity and convenience so requires.
MS Code § 19-5-181 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-181. Revenue bonds; special improvement water and pollution abatement bonds; tax levies therefor

  Any such district shall have the power to provide funds for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, reconstructing, improving, bettering or extending the facilities of such district or for the purpose of buying, leasing, or otherwise acquiring the assets and facilities of any nonprofit corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of Sections 79-11-101 through 79-11-399, or any other utility district by the issuance of revenue bonds. Such bonds shall be payable solely and only from the revenues of such facilities, and such revenues may be pledged from a portion of the service area of the district to the support of debt service for a specific series or issue of bonds if such apportionment is economically feasible.   Any such district shall have the power to provide funds, in addition to or in conjunction with the funds authorized in subsection (1) above, for water supply or pollution abatement projects by issuing special improvement pollution abatement bonds, special improvement water bonds, or combinations of special improvement water and sewer bonds, if the resolution creating the district authorized the board of supervisors to make assessments against benefited properties as outlined in Section 19-5-191. Such bonds shall be payable solely and only from charges assessed to benefited properties as outlined in said Section 19-5-191.   If the board of supervisors of the county should levy a special tax, as provided in Section 19-5-189, and consent to the pledge of any part thereof, then that part of such tax levy may be pledged in addition to the revenues of such facilities to the payment of such bonds, and upon the pledge thereof such part of said levy so pledged shall not be reduced while such bonds are outstanding and unpaid. If the board of supervisors of the county should provide for special improvement bonds as outlined in Section 19-5-191, the funds received from the charges assessed to the properties being benefited shall be pledged, separately or in conjunction with the revenues and the avails of taxes described above, for payment of such bonds, and such assessments shall not be reduced while such bonds are outstanding and unpaid.
MS Code § 19-5-185 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-185. Sale of bonds; bids; refunding; validation

 The bonds issued under Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall be sold upon sealed bids in the manner provided for in Section 31-19-25, Mississippi Code of 1972, in conformity with the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207; however, bonds may be sold to the United States of America or an agency or instrumentality thereof at private sale.   Each interest rate specified in any bid must be in a multiple of one-tenth of one percent (1/10 of 1%) or in multiples of one-eighth of one percent (1/8 of 1%), and a zero rate of interest cannot be named. Any premium must be paid in bank funds as a part of the purchase price, and bids shall not contemplate the cancellation of any interest coupon or the waiver of interest or other concession by the bidder as a substitute for bank funds.   Any bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 may be refunded in like manner as revenue bonds of municipalities shall be refunded.   Any bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall be submitted to validation under the provisions of Sections 31-13-1 through 31-13-11, inclusive, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 19-5-187 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-187. Statutory lien of bondholders; appointment of receiver in case of default

 There is hereby created a statutory lien to the nature of a mortgage lien upon any system or systems acquired or constructed in accordance with Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207, including all extensions and improvements thereof or combinations thereof subsequently made, which lien shall be in favor of the holder or holders of any bonds issued pursuant to said sections, and all such property shall remain subject to such statutory lien until the payment in full of the principal of and interest on said bonds. Any holder of said bonds or any of the coupons representing interest thereon may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceedings, in any court of competent jurisdiction, protect and enforce such statutory lien and compel the performance of all duties required by said sections, including the making and collection of sufficient rates for the service or services, the proper accounting thereof, and the performance of any duties required by covenants with the holders of any bonds issued in accordance herewith.   If any default is made in the payment of the principal of or interest on such bonds, any court having jurisdiction of the action may appoint a receiver to administer said district and said system or systems, with power to charge and collect rates sufficient to provide for the payment of all bonds and obligations outstanding against said system or systems, and for payment of operating expenses, and to apply the income and revenues thereof in conformity with the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 and any covenants with bondholders.
MS Code § 19-5-193 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-193. Limitations upon holders of bonds

 No holder or holders of any bonds issued pursuant to Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall ever have the right to compel the levy of any tax to pay said bonds or the interest thereon except where the board of supervisors of the county has made a levy of a special tax and consented to the pledge thereof, all as is provided in Sections 19-5-181 and 19-5-189.
MS Code § 19-5-195 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-195. Rates, fees, tolls or charges for use of system

 The board of commissioners of the district issuing bonds pursuant to Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall prescribe and collect reasonable rates, fees, tolls or charges for the services, facilities and commodities of its system or systems; shall prescribe penalties for the nonpayment thereof; and shall revise such rates, fees, tolls or charges from time to time whenever necessary to insure the economic operation of such system or systems. The rates, fees, tolls or charges prescribed shall be, as nearly as possible, such as will always produce revenue at least sufficient to: (a) provide for all expenses of operation and maintenance of the system or systems, including reserves therefor, (b) pay when due all bonds and interest thereon for the payment of which such revenues are or shall have been pledged, charged or otherwise encumbered, including reserves therefor, and (c) provide funds for reasonable expansions, extensions and improvements of service.
MS Code § 19-5-197 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-197. Exemption from taxation

 The property and revenue of such district shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation. Bonds issued pursuant to Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation, except inheritance, transfer and estate taxes, and it may be so stated on the face of said bonds.
MS Code § 19-5-199 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-199. Construction contracts

 All construction contracts by the district where the amount of the contract shall exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) shall, and construction contracts of less than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) may, be made upon at least three (3) weeks' public notice. Such notice shall be published once a week for at least three (3) consecutive weeks in at least one (1) newspaper published in such county or having general circulation therein. The first publication of such notice shall be made not less than twenty-one (21) days prior to the date fixed in such notice for the receipt of bids, and the last publication shall be made not more than seven (7) days prior to such date. The notice shall state the thing to be done and invite sealed proposals, to be filed with the secretary of the district, to do the work. In all such cases, before the notice shall be published, plans and specifications for the work shall be prepared by a registered professional engineer and shall be filed with the secretary of the district and there remain. The board of commissioners of the district shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder who will comply with the terms imposed by such commissioners and enter into bond with sufficient sureties to be approved by the commissioners in such penalty as shall be fixed by the commissioners; however, in no case shall such bond be less than the contract price, conditioned for the prompt, proper efficient performance of the contract. Contracts of less than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) may be negotiated; however, the board of commissioners shall invite and receive written proposals for the work from at least three (3) contractors regularly engaged in the type of work involved.
MS Code § 19-5-203 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 19 - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 5 - Health, Safety and Public Welfare|Water, Sewer, Garbage Disposal, and Fire Protection Districts|§ 19-5-203. State and federal cooperation

 The board of commissioners of any district created pursuant to the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall have the authority to enter into cooperative agreements with the state or federal government, or both; to obtain financial assistance in the form of loans or grants as may be available from the state or federal government, or both; and to execute and deliver at private sale notes or bonds as evidence of such indebtedness in the form and subject to the terms and conditions as may be imposed by the state or federal government, or both; and to pledge the income and revenues of the district, or the income and revenues from any part of the area embraced in the district, in payment thereof. It is the purpose and intention of this section to authorize districts to do any and all things necessary to secure the financial aid or cooperation of the state or federal government, or both, in the planning, construction, maintenance or operation of project facilities.