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MS Code § 65-4-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-21. Payment into fund; warrant

 On each transfer date the Director of the State Highway Department shall make requisition upon the State Fiscal Management Board and thereupon the State Fiscal Management Board shall issue its warrant to the State Treasurer, who shall immediately pay the same into the appropriate fund specified in Section 65-4-19 as provided by law.
MS Code § 65-4-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-23. Conflict of interests

 No member of the Legislature, elected official or appointed official, or any partner or associate of any member of the Legislature, elected official or appointed official, or member of their family, shall derive any income or thing of value from the restructuring of any investments held in the investment account established pursuant to Section 4(c) of Chapter 39, Extraordinary Session of 1969, as amended, and relating to the State's Highway Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 1985.
MS Code § 65-4-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-25. Resolution to issue general obligation bonds for Economic Development Highway Fund

 The Mississippi Development Authority, acting through its executive director, is authorized, at one time or from time to time, to declare by resolution the necessity for issuance of negotiable general obligation bonds of the State of Mississippi to provide funds for the Economic Development Highway Fund established in Section 65-4-15, Mississippi Code of 1972. Upon the adoption of a resolution by the Executive Director of the Mississippi Development Authority, declaring the necessity for the issuance of any part or all of the general obligation bonds authorized by Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, Mississippi Code of 1972, the executive director shall deliver a certified copy of his resolution or resolutions to the State Bond Commission. Upon receipt of the resolution, the State Bond Commission, in its discretion, shall act as the issuing agent, prescribe the form of the bonds, determine the appropriate method for the sale of the bonds, advertise for and accept bids or negotiate the sale of the bonds, issue and sell the bonds so authorized to be sold, and do any and all other things necessary and advisable in connection with the issuance and sale of such bonds. The principal amount of bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall not exceed Three Hundred Seventy-seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($377,500,000.00) in the aggregate. However, an additional amount of bonds may be issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, Mississippi Code of 1972, in an amount not to exceed Seven Million Dollars ($7,000,000.00), and the proceeds of any such additional bonds issued shall be used to provide funding for a high economic benefit project as defined in Section 65-4-5(1)(c)(vi), Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 65-4-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-27. Payment of principal and interest on bonds

 For the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the State of Mississippi are hereby irrevocably pledged. If the funds appropriated by the Legislature be insufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds as they become due, then the deficiency shall be paid by the State Treasurer from any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated. All such bonds shall contain recitals on their faces substantially covering the foregoing provisions of this section.
MS Code § 65-4-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-29. Terms of bonds; option to redeem; issuance and sale

 Such bonds as are authorized to be issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 may be executed and delivered by the state at any time and from time to time, may be in such form and denominations and of such terms and maturities, may be in fully registered form or in bearer form registrable either as to principal or interest, or both, may bear such conversion privileges and be payable in such installments and at such time or times not exceeding twenty (20) years from the date thereof, may be payable at such place or places, whether within or without the State of Mississippi, may bear interest payable at such time or times and at such place or places and evidenced in such manner, and may contain such provisions not inconsistent herewith, all as shall be provided in the proceedings of the State Bond Commission under which the bonds are authorized to be issued. Such bonds shall not bear a greater overall maximum interest rate to maturity than that authorized by Section 75-17-101. If deemed advisable by the State Bond Commission, there may be retained in the proceedings under which any such bonds are authorized to be issued an option to redeem all or any part thereof as may be specified in such proceedings, at such price or prices and after such notice or notices and on such terms and conditions as may be set forth in such proceedings and briefly recited or referred to on the face of the bonds, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to confer on the state any right or option to redeem any bonds, except as may be provided in the proceedings under which they shall be issued. The State Bond Commission may sell such bonds on sealed bids at public sale or may negotiate the sale of the bonds for such price as it may determine to be in the best interest of the State of Mississippi. The state may pay all expenses, premiums and commissions which the State Bond Commission may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with the issuance thereof, but solely from the proceeds of the bonds. The issuance by the state of one or more series of bonds shall not preclude it from issuing other series of bonds, but the proceedings under which any subsequent bonds may be issued shall recognize and protect any prior pledge made for any prior issuance of bonds.
MS Code § 65-4-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-31. Interest rates

 No bond issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall bear more than one (1) rate of interest; each bond shall bear interest from its date to its stated maturity date at the interest rate specified on the bonds; and all bonds of the same maturity shall bear the same rate of interest from date to maturity. All interest accruing on bonds shall be payable semiannually or annually. If bonds are issued in coupon form, no interest payment shall be evidenced by more than one (1) coupon, and neither cancelled nor supplemental coupons shall be permitted. If serial bonds, such bonds shall mature annually, and the first maturity date thereof shall not be more than five (5) years from the date of such bonds.
MS Code § 65-4-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-33. Notice of sale

 If the bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 are to be sold on sealed bids at public sale, notice of the sale shall be published at least two (2) times, the first of which shall be made not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of sale, and shall be so published in one or more newspapers having a general circulation in the City of Jackson selected by the State Bond Commission.
MS Code § 65-4-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-35. Execution of bonds and interest coupons

 All bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall be executed on behalf of the state by the manual or facsimile signature of the Chairman of the State Bond Commission and shall be countersigned by the manual or facsimile signature of the Secretary of the State Bond Commission. All coupons shall be executed on behalf of the state by the facsimile signatures of the Chairman and Secretary of the State Bond Commission. If the officers whose signatures or countersignatures appear on the bonds or interest coupons shall cease to be such officers before delivery of the bonds, such signatures or countersignatures shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if they had remained in office until such delivery, or had been in office on the date such bonds may bear.
MS Code § 65-4-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-37. Disbursement of proceeds; payment of costs

  Upon the issuance and sale of bonds under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, the State Bond Commission shall transfer the proceeds of any such sale or sales to the Economic Development Highway Fund. The proceeds of such bonds shall be disbursed solely upon the order of the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Economic Development under such restrictions, if any, as may be contained in the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds.   The State Bond Commission is authorized to pay the costs that are incident to the sale, issuance and delivery of the bonds authorized under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 from the proceeds derived from the sale of such bonds.
MS Code § 65-4-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-39. Authority to request and issue warrants to pay principal and interest when due

 The State Treasurer is hereby authorized, without further process of law, to certify to the Fiscal Management Board the necessity for warrants, and the board is hereby authorized and directed to issue such warrants payable out of any funds authorized by Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 for such purpose, in such amounts as may be necessary to pay when due the principal of and interest on all bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45; and the State Treasurer shall forward the necessary amount to the designated place or places of payment of such bonds in ample time to discharge such bonds, or the interest thereon, on the due dates thereof.
MS Code § 65-4-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-41. Bonds to be legal investments

 Bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall be legal investments for commercial banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations and insurance companies organized under the laws of this state.
MS Code § 65-4-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-43. Taxation

 All bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation within the State of Mississippi, except gift, transfer and inheritance taxes.
MS Code § 65-4-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act|§ 65-4-45. Relationship with other laws

 Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, without reference to any other statute, shall be deemed to be full and complete authority for the issuance of such bonds, and shall be construed as an additional and alternative method therefor, and none of the present restrictions, requirements, conditions or limitations of law applicable to the issuance or sale of bonds, notes or other obligations by the state shall apply to the issuance and sale of bonds under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, and no proceedings shall be required for the issuance of such bonds other than those provided for and required in Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, and all powers necessary to be exercised in order to carry out the provisions of Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 are hereby conferred.
MS Code § 65-5-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-1. Declaration of policy

 The legislature hereby finds, determines, and declares that this chapter is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, and for the promotion of the general welfare.
MS Code § 65-5-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-3. Definitions

 For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases as used herein, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:   "Controlled-access facility"-A highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement, or only a controlled right or easement, of access, light, air, or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such controlled-access facility or for any other reason. Such highways or streets may be expressways or freeways open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic, or they may be parkways from which trucks, busses, and other commercial vehicles shall be excluded.   "Expressway"-A divided arterial highway for through traffic with full or partial control of access and generally with grade separations at intersections.   "Freeway"-An expressway with full control of access.   "Grade separation"-A crossing of two highways, or a highway and railroad, at different levels.   "Interchange"-A grade separated intersection with one or more turning roadways for travel between the intersecting highways, roads, or streets.   "Parkway"-An arterial highway for non-commercial traffic, with full or partial control of access.   "Service road" or "local service road"-A highway, road, or street which is auxiliary to and located on the side of another highway, road, or street for service to abutting property and adjacent areas and for control of access to such other highway, road, or street.
MS Code § 65-5-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-5. Authority to establish

 The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, towns, and villages, acting alone or in cooperation with each other or with any federal, state, or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, are hereby authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain, and provide controlled-access facilities for public use wherever such authority or authorities are of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future, will justify such special facilities; however, within cities and villages such authority shall be subject to such municipal consent as may be provided by law. Such highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, villages, and towns, in addition to the specific powers granted in this chapter, shall also have and may exercise, relative to controlled-access facilities, any and all additional authority now or hereafter vested in them relative to highways or streets within their respective jurisdictions. Said units may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of such controlled-access facilities by the various classes of vehicles or traffic in a manner consistent with Section 65-5-3.   No existing public street or highway shall be converted into a controlled-access facility except with the consent of the owners of lands abutting said freeway or with the purchase or condemnation of the access rights of said abutting land owners.   Nothing herein shall be construed as requiring the consent of the owners of the abutting lands where a street or highway is constructed, established, or located for the first time as a new way for the use of vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
MS Code § 65-5-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-7. Design

 The highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, and village are authorized to so design any controlled-access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. In this connection such highway authorities are authorized to divide and separate any controlled-access facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbings, central dividing sections, or other physical separations, or by designating such separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes, and the proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes, and other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from, or across controlled-access facilities to or from abutting lands except at such designated points at which access may be permitted, upon such terms and conditions as may be specified from time to time.
MS Code § 65-5-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-9. Acquisition of property and property rights

 For the purposes of this chapter, the highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, or village may acquire private or public property and property rights for controlled-access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view, and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation in the same manner as such units are now or hereafter may be authorized by law to acquire such property or property rights in connection with highways and streets within their respective jurisdictions. All property rights acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall be acquired in accordance with the provisions of Section 65-1-47, and the estate acquired shall be specified in accordance with said section. In connection with acquisition of property or property rights for any controlled-access facility or portion thereof or service road in connection therewith, the state, county, city, town, or village highway authority may, in its discretion, acquire an entire lot, block, or tract of land if, by so doing, the interests of the public will be best served, even though said entire lot, block, or tract is not needed for the right of way proper.
MS Code § 65-5-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-11. Preference of condemnation cases

 Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights for purposes of this chapter shall take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts, to the end that the provisions of controlled-access facilities may be expedited.
MS Code § 65-5-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-13. Grade-crossing eliminations

 The highway authority of the state, county, city, town, or village may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within a controlled-access facility. The state or any of its subdivisions shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled-access facilities with existing state and county roads and city, town, or village streets by grade separation or service road, or by closing off such roads and streets at the right of way boundary line of such controlled-access facility; and after the establishment of any controlled-access facility, no highway or street which is not part of said facility shall intersect the same at grade unless it be an approved interchange. No city, town, or village street, county or state highway, or other public way shall be opened into or connected with any such controlled-access facility without the consent and previous approval of the highway authority in the state, county, city, town, or village having jurisdiction over such controlled-access facility. Such consent and approval shall be given only if the public interest shall be served thereby.
MS Code § 65-5-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-15. Authority of local units to consent

 The highway authorities of the state, city, county, town, or village are authorized to enter into agreements with each other, or with the federal government, respecting the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation, or vacation of controlled-access facilities or other public ways in their respective jurisdictions, to facilitate the purposes of this chapter.
MS Code § 65-5-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-17. Local service roads

 In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility, the state, county, city, town, or village highway authorities are authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or to designate as local service roads and streets any existing road or street, and to exercise jurisdiction over service roads in the same manner as is authorized over controlled-access facilities under the terms of this chapter if, in their opinion, such local service roads and streets are necessary or desirable. Such local service roads or streets shall be of appropriate design, and shall be separated from the controlled-access facility proper by means of all devices designated as necessary or desirable by the proper authority.
MS Code § 65-5-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-19. Penalties for unlawful use

 It is unlawful for any person (1) to drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line on controlled-access facilities; (2) to make a left turn or a semicircular or U-turn except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb section, separation, or line; (3) to drive any vehicle except in the proper lane provided for the purpose and in the proper direction and to the right of the central dividing curb, separation section, or line; (4) to drive any vehicle into the controlled-access facility from a local service road except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb or dividing section or dividing line which separates such service road from the controlled-access facility proper. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon arrest and conviction therefor, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the city or county jail for not less than five days nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 65-5-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-21. Automotive service stations prohibited within right of way

 No automotive service station or other commercial enterprise for serving motor vehicle users shall be constructed or located within the right of way of, or on publicly-owned or publicly-leased land acquired or used for or in connection with, a limited access facility or a controlled-access facility.
MS Code § 65-5-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities|§ 65-5-23. Legislative intent

 It is the intent of the legislature that this chapter provide additional and supplemental means of designating, establishing, altering, improving, and maintaining controlled-access facilities, and it is not intended to repeal nor in any way change any other provision of statute authorizing the establishment, control, and maintenance of limited access facilities, but is supplemental thereto.