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MS Code § 51-5-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 5 - Subsurface Waters; Well Drillers|§ 51-5-9. Proceedings for revocation of license

  When the board determines that the holder of any license issued pursuant to this chapter has violated any provisions thereof or any rules and regulations pursuant thereto, the board shall authorize suspension or revocation of such license. Proceedings under the provisions of this section shall not be dependent upon having exhausted remedies through any other section of this chapter.   The board shall notify the suspected violator at least fifteen days before the board hearing therefor, shall specify to him the grounds for which such license revocation is proposed with such sufficiency as to protect his constitutional rights therein as in other civil hearings pertaining to license revocations, shall give him opportunity to present any witnesses or other reasonable evidence before the board, and shall comply with established rules of procedure for such board hearings.   Any such order of revocation of license shall become effective thirty days after service thereof. The aggrieved party may appeal from the board's finding to a court of competent jurisdiction as provided by the laws of the state, provided notice of appeal is given to the board within ten days of such board action.
MS Code § 51-5-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 5 - Subsurface Waters; Well Drillers|§ 51-5-11. Grounds for revoking license

 The grounds for revoking a well driller's license are:   That he has intentionally made a material misstatement in the application for such license; or   That he has willfully violated any provisions of this chapter; or   That he has obtained, or attempted to obtain, such license by fraud or misrepresentation; or   That he has been guilty of fraudulent or dishonest practices; or   That he has demonstrated lack of competence as a driller of water wells; or   That he has failed or refused to file reports as required under the provisions of this chapter; or   That he has willfully and contumaciously refused to obey reasonable orders, rules, and regulations of the board.
MS Code § 51-5-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 5 - Subsurface Waters; Well Drillers|§ 51-5-13. Driller to keep records and file reports

 The driller shall keep accurate records on each water well drilled, including, but not limited to, its location, depth, character of rocks or formations drilled, fluids encountered, and such other reasonable information as the board may specify. Each driller shall, within thirty days after completion of each well, file a report containing such information in the office of the state board of water commissioners on forms provided by the board. However, no report or information shall be required to be filed with the board if the well is a driven well or if it is dug by the use of a hand auger.
MS Code § 51-5-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 5 - Subsurface Waters; Well Drillers|§ 51-5-17. Penalties

 Any person, firm, or corporation who engages in or follows the business or occupation, or advertises, holds itself out, or acts temporarily or otherwise as a well driller without having first secured the required license or renewal thereof, or who otherwise violates any provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) within the discretion of the court; and each day in which such violation exists or continues shall constitute a separate offense.   In addition to the penalties prescribed herein, any person who violates any order of the board requiring described remedial action as set out elsewhere in this chapter, which shall specify a time requirement for compliance with such order, shall be subject to a penalty not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each day such noncompliance continues.
MS Code § 51-5-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 5 - Subsurface Waters; Well Drillers|§ 51-5-19. Chapter supplementary to other laws and regulations

 This chapter shall be supplementary to laws, rules, and regulations of the State of Mississippi, of any of its political subdivisions, and of any other state agencies or commissions, except insofar as such conflict may exist.
MS Code § 51-8-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-1. Creation of joint water management district; petition to existing district

  Any two (2) or more local governmental units, being defined herein to mean a county or municipality, may create a joint water management district in the manner set forth in this chapter.   If any local governmental unit is located within an existing water management district, then the local governmental unit shall petition the district to provide a service or function needed by the petitioning unit, provided the service or function is one which the district has the power and authority to perform. Upon receipt of the petition, the existing district shall have ninety (90) days within which to respond affirmatively to the petition, setting forth its intent to meet the need or perform the service or function and its proposal or plan for meeting the need or performing the service or function. If the existing water district does not affirmatively respond in a timely fashion, then any two (2) or more local governmental units may create a joint water management district in the manner set forth in this chapter.   The joint water management district may include any geographic area within the boundaries of the interested governmental units.   A joint water management district may be created although adequate water supply, flood control, drainage or other water or wastewater management activities are being undertaken by one or more of the local governmental units interested in creating a joint water management district or by another corporate agency existing and operating within the geographical area of the joint water management district. The term "corporate agency," as used herein, means any agency or subdivision of the state or federal government, any body politic and corporate created under the laws of this state, any utility, or any public or private profit or nonprofit corporation.
MS Code § 51-8-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-3. Purpose of district

 A joint water management district may be created for the purpose of establishing a water supply system, conserving water resources, developing additional water resources or any other water or wastewater management function not being performed by an existing water management district, except that such a district as described in Section 51-8-1 may not be created for the purpose of constructing, contracting for the construction of, or serving as a local sponsor for the construction of, any dam or other flood control facility or project, the primary purpose of which is to control flooding on any part of the Pearl River, Mississippi River, Yazoo River, Tombigbee River, Big Black River, Pearl River, Pascagoula River, Tallahatchie River, Yalobusha River, Homochito River, Buffalo River, Leaf River, Coldwater River, Sunflower River, Little Sunflower River, Wolf River, Yockanookany River, Ofahoma River, Strong River, Bogue Chitto River, Amite River, Bayou Pierre River, Tangipahoa River, Noxubee River, Buttahatchee River, Chunky River, Biloxi River, Tippah River, Hatchie River, Jourdan River, Bowie River, Chickasawhay River and Escatawpa River.
MS Code § 51-8-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-5. Local government resolutions; contents

 Creation of a joint water management district shall be initiated by identical resolutions passed by each interested local governmental unit. Such resolution shall set forth in detail the geographic boundaries of the district, the function or functions to be performed by the district, a statement of the necessity for the creation of the district, the proposed corporate name of the district and any other information reasonably necessary to inform the constituency of the governmental unit of the purpose and obligations of the respective units proposing to form the district.
MS Code § 51-8-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-7. Public hearings

 Each governmental unit proposing to form a joint water management district shall hold a public hearing in the same manner as set out in Section 19-5-155.
MS Code § 51-8-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-9. Findings required

 After the public hearing required by Section 51-8-7 and upon full consideration of all matters and facts presented at such hearing, each such local governmental unit shall make a finding that the public convenience and necessity requires the creation of the district and that the creation of the district is economically sound and feasible.
MS Code § 51-8-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-11. Publication of findings; petition for election

 Upon the making of such finding, the governing body of each interested local governmental unit shall publish the finding accompanied by the initial resolution specified in Section 51-8-5 in the manner provided in Section 19-5-157.   If twenty percent (20%) or fifteen hundred (1500), whichever is lesser, of the qualified electors of a local governmental unit file a written petition with the governing body of such unit on or before the date specified for creation of the district, an election shall be held in the same manner prescribed by Section 19-5-157.
MS Code § 51-8-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-13. Adoption of resolution creating district

 If no petition requiring an election be filed or if three-fifths (3/5) of those voting in said election vote in favor of the creation of such district, the governing body of such local governmental unit shall adopt a resolution creating the district as described in the initial resolution specified in Section 51-8-5.
MS Code § 51-8-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-15. Payment of costs

 All costs incident to the publication of the notices and all other costs incident to the public hearing and election provided in Sections 51-8-7 and 51-8-11 may be paid by the applicable governing body.
MS Code § 51-8-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-17. Appeals from local government findings

 Any party having an interest in the subject matter and aggrieved or prejudiced by the findings and adjudication of the applicable governing body may appeal to the circuit court of the county in the manner provided by law for appeals from orders of such bodies. However, if no such appeal be taken within a period of thirty (30) 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 § 51-8-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-19. District to be public corporation in perpetuity

 From and after the date of adoption of the resolution creating a joint water management district, such district shall be a public corporation in perpetuity in its corporate name and shall, in that name, be a body politic and corporate with power of perpetual succession.
MS Code § 51-8-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-21. Board of commissioners; membership; authority; withdrawal of district member

  The powers of each such district shall be vested in and exercised by a board of commissioners consisting of a minimum of five (5) members, to be selected in the manner provided in the initial resolution prescribed by Section 51-8-5. Provided, however, there shall be at least one (1) member from each county within the district.  The resolution may provide that commissioners will be elected by the electors of the local governmental unit or units which they represent or that commissioners will be appointed by the governing body or bodies of the local governmental units which are members of the district. The resolution shall also prescribe the term of office, which shall not exceed five (5) years, and shall establish the length of initial terms, if staggered terms are to be used. Vacancies and unexpired terms shall be filled by the governing body of each local governmental unit.    Notwithstanding the appointive authority herein granted to the said governing body, its legal and actual responsibilities, authority and function, subsequent to the creation of any such district, shall be specifically limited to said appointive function and the responsibilities outlined in Sections 51-8-1, 51-8-5, 51-8-7, 51-8-9, 51-8-11, 51-8-13, 51-8-15, 51-8-31, 51-8-33, 51-8-35, 51-8-43, 51-8-45, and 51-8-57. The operation, management, abolition or dissolution of such district, and all other matters in connection therewith, shall be vested solely and only in said board of commissioners to the specific exclusion of said governing body, and the abolition, dissolution or termination of any such district shall be accomplished only by unanimous resolution of the board of commissioners. However, such board of commissioners shall have no power, jurisdiction or authority to abolish, dissolve or terminate any such district while such district has any outstanding indebtedness of any kind or character.   After a district is created, a local governmental unit may withdraw as a member thereof only if:   The district has no outstanding indebtedness of any kind or character;   Withdrawal would not impair the district's water management plan or objectives;   The withdrawing entity is not receiving benefits from the water management operations and activities of the district; and   Withdrawal is approved by a three-fifths (3/5) vote of the board of commissioners.
MS Code § 51-8-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-23. Officers of board; duties; terms; official seal

 The board of commissioners shall organize by electing one (1) 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. Such board also shall elect and fix the compensation of 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 (1) year from and after the date of election, and shall run until their respective successors are appointed 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 § 51-8-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-25. Commissioners; qualifications; oath; compensation; meetings

 Every resident citizen of a local governmental unit in any district created pursuant to this chapter, of good reputation, being the owner of land or the conductor of a business situated within such district and being over twenty-one (21) years of age and of sound mind and judgment, shall be eligible to hold the office of commissioner.   Each person appointed as a commissioner, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, shall be required to execute a bond payable to the State of Mississippi in the penal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) conditioned that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office; each such bond shall be approved by the clerk of the governing body of such unit and filed with said clerk.   Any commissioner who shall remove his residence from the local governmental unit from which he was appointed or elected shall be deemed to have automatically vacated his office.   Each commissioner shall take and subscribe to an oath of office prescribed in Section 268, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, before the clerk of said governing body that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of commissioner, which oath shall also be filed with said clerk and by him preserved with such official bond.   The commissioners so appointed and qualified shall be compensated on a per diem basis for their services for each meeting of the board of commissioners attended, either regular or special, at the rates established by law for state boards and commissions. Commissioners shall also be reimbursed for all expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of their official duties in such amounts as are allowed for members of state boards and commissions.   The board of commissioners shall hold regular monthly meetings and such other special meetings as may be called by the chairman or a majority of the commissioners.
MS Code § 51-8-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-27. Rules and regulations of board

 The board of commissioners shall have the power to adopt, promulgate, modify and repeal, and to make exceptions to and grant exemptions and variances from, and to enforce, rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of the creation of the district, provided that such regulations shall conform to and not conflict with regulations promulgated by state regulatory agencies responsible for regulating the activities which the district was created to perform.
MS Code § 51-8-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-29. Powers of district, generally

 Districts created under this chapter shall have the powers set out in the creating resolution not inconsistent with the powers set forth in this chapter, and in addition, the power and authority to acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, better, extend, consolidate, maintain and operate facilities and to contract with any municipality, person, firm or corporation for 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. Except as provided elsewhere in this chapter, 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.   Any district created pursuant to the provisions of this chapter 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 § 51-8-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-33. Powers of eminent domain

 The board of commissioners may exercise, on behalf of the district, such powers of eminent domain as are specified in the creating resolution wherever and whenever public necessity and convenience so requires.
MS Code § 51-8-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-35. Issuance of bonds

  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, nonshare corporation chartered under Title 79, Chapter 11, 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) of this section, 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 governing bodies of the local governmental bodies to make assessments against benefitted properties as outlined in Section 51-8-45. Such bonds shall be payable solely and only from charges assessed to benefitted properties as outlined in said Section 51-8-45.
MS Code § 51-8-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 8 - Joint Water Management Districts|§ 51-8-39. Sale of bonds; interest rates; refunds; validation

 The bonds issued under this chapter shall be sold for not less than par value plus accrued interest at public sale in the manner provided for in Section 31-19-25, Mississippi Code of 1972; 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 multiples of either one-tenth of one percent (1/10 of 1%) or one-eighth of one percent (1/8 of 1%), and a zero rate of interest cannot be named.   Any revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be refunded in like manner as revenue bonds of municipalities shall be refunded.   Any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be submitted to validation under the provisions of Sections 31-13-1 through 31-13-11.