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MS Code § 57-1-58 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-58. Policy of the Mississippi Development Authority with regard to programs of diversity in contracting for entities using funds made available under Sections 1 through 37 of Chapter 1, Laws of 2005, Third Extraordinary Session

 It is the policy of the Mississippi Development Authority and the Mississippi Development Authority is authorized to accommodate and support any entity using funds authorized and made available under Sections 1 through 37 of Chapter 1, Laws of 2005, Third Extraordinary Session that wishes to have a program of diversity in contracting, and/or that wishes to do business with or cause its prime contractor to do business with Mississippi companies, including those companies that are small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. The term "socially and economically disadvantaged individuals" shall have the meaning ascribed to that term under Section 8(d) of the Small Business Act (15 USCS 637(d)) and relevant subcontracting regulations promulgated pursuant thereto; except that women shall be presumed to be socially and economically disadvantaged individuals for the purposes of this section.
MS Code § 57-1-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-59. General powers and duties of Mississippi Development Authority with respect to tourism

 The Mississippi Development Authority shall have the following general powers and duties with respect to tourism:   To promote and advertise the image of Mississippi both within and without the boundaries of this state;   To promote and advertise fairs and similar activities of interest to tourists and the traveling public;   To promote and advertise the use of wildlife and natural areas by tourists and the traveling public;   To promote and advertise the use of state recreational and park facilities by tourists and the traveling public;   To promote and advertise all resources of the State of Mississippi as attractions to tourists and the traveling public;   To develop for all agencies of state government the necessary promotional and advertising materials needed to promote all facilities and programs which may be of interest to travelers and tourists;   To maintain an educational awareness program for the citizens of the state to constantly encourage increased development of activities of interest to tourists and the traveling public;   To develop and maintain an information services system to adequately guide tourists and the traveling public within the boundaries of the state;   To develop and maintain an extensive media program to adequately inform the national and international consumer about Mississippi;   To enter into contracts and other agreements with local tourism commissions or similar entities for the purpose of developing regional strategies for tourism promotion. The Mississippi Development Authority, in conjunction with the formulation of regional strategies for tourism promotion, may require that local tourism commissions or similar entities enter into agreements with the authority as a condition for receiving any state grants to promote tourism; and   To develop programs and projects promoting the state's heritage, history, culture, literature and arts, including the positive recovery of the state after damages caused by natural disasters, and demonstrating the state's attractiveness as a tourism destination for those and other reasons.
MS Code § 57-1-60 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-60. Grants to finance, promote and advertise local tourist attractions

 The Department of Economic and Community Development, in its discretion, may establish a program of grants to be matched by tourism entities in the state to finance, promote and advertise local tourist attractions. Monies committed to the program of grants shall not lapse into the State General Fund at the end of a fiscal year. Any program of grants established under this section shall be in addition to those grants authorized by Chapter 27, Title 57, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 57-1-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-61. Transfer of functions of travel and tourism department of agricultural and industrial board

 The staff and resources of the travel and tourism department of the agricultural and industrial board shall be, and are hereby transferred to the department of economic development.
MS Code § 57-1-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-63. Transfer of powers and duties of state agencies relating to promotion and advertising of tourism

 It is the intent of the Legislature that all powers and duties of any state agency relating to the promotion and advertising of tourism which are not provided for by statute shall be transferred to and vested in the department.
MS Code § 57-1-64 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-64. Selling advertising and tourism promotional information through various marketing outlets; Mississippi Development Authority Tourism Advertising Fund created

  The Mississippi Development Authority is authorized to sell advertising and other tourism promotional information through the Mississippi Development Authority Internet website and other marketing outlets, and to enter into agreements with tourism associations and similar entities for the purpose of making and facilitating sales through the use of such entities. Revenues received from such sales shall be placed into the special fund created in subsection (2) of this section.   There is created a special fund in the State Treasury to be known as the Mississippi Development Authority Tourism Advertising Fund which shall consist of monies from any source designated for deposit into the fund. Unexpended amounts remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any investment earnings or interest earned on amounts in the fund shall be deposited to the credit of the fund. Monies in the fund may be used by the Mississippi Development Authority for the purpose of paying costs incurred in connection with the purchase of Internet advertising and other promotional information and materials related to Mississippi tourism resources and activities.   The Mississippi Development Authority shall have all powers necessary to implement and administer the provisions of this section.
MS Code § 57-1-64 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-64. 1 Mississippi Tourism Association Marketing Advisory Board created; composition

  There is hereby created a Mississippi Tourism Association Marketing Advisory Board to assist the Mississippi Development Authority in the planning of initiatives for advertising and promoting tourism in Mississippi.   The advisory board shall be composed of the following members:   The Executive Director of the Mississippi Tourism Association; and   The members of the Mississippi Tourism Association Board of Directors, composed through the bylaws of the Mississippi Tourism Association as being geographically and ethnically diverse members from the five (5) tourism regions designated as the Hills, the Delta, the Capital/River, the Pines and the Coastal regions of Mississippi, and three (3) at-large members.     Members of the advisory board may not be compensated for the performance of their duties.   The advisory board will give input and advice to the Mississippi Development Authority's Tourism Division on marketing and advertising planning, but shall have no executive powers at the Mississippi Development Authority.
MS Code § 57-1-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-65. General powers and duties with respect to marketing

 The Mississippi Department of Economic Development shall have the following general powers and duties with respect to marketing:   To promote and stimulate the development of new markets for Mississippi products and goods.   To encourage the establishment of industrial operations to process agricultural and forestry raw products to an end-product stage, ready for sale to the markets of the nation and the world; and   To coordinate all studies in the State of Mississippi concerned with the development of markets for Mississippi products and goods.
MS Code § 57-1-66 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-66. Production, licensing, etc., of promotional publications, materials, etc.; disposition of proceeds from licensing or sale

 The Department of Economic and Community Development is authorized to produce publications, booklets, brochures, directories, materials and merchandise for the purposes of promoting and marketing Mississippi and assisting businesses through the provision of information in printed form or on computer disk, and to license or sell such items for a fee; however, no public entity or any agency thereof established pursuant to the laws of this state shall be charged a fee for the provision of such items. The funds which are received from the licensing or sale of items described herein shall be paid into a special revolving fund which is hereby established in the State Treasury. Monies in this fund shall be expended as appropriated by the Legislature. Any monies remaining in the special fund at the close of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund.
MS Code § 57-1-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-67. Planning and development district offices and directors

 The Mississippi Department of Economic Development, pursuant to contractual agreements with individual planning and development districts, may assign field office staff of the department to a planning and development district office. Planning and development district directors may be consulted by the department as any annual work programs for field office staff so assigned are prepared. Any such work programs shall be designed to address issues and projects of mutual interest to the department and districts and to the accomplishment of their respective economic development missions.
MS Code § 57-1-68 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-68. Program of grants to finance and promote local economic development

 The Department of Economic and Community Development, in its discretion, may establish a program of grants to be matched by economic development entities in the state to finance and promote local economic development. Monies committed to the program of grants shall not lapse into the State General Fund at the end of a fiscal year.
MS Code § 57-1-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-69. Cooperation with Mississippi Miss Hospitality, Inc., Miss Mississippi Pageant, Inc., and Mrs. Mississippi-America Pageant, Inc

 The Department of Economic and Community Development is authorized to cooperate with Mississippi Miss Hospitality, Inc., in the production of the Mississippi Miss Hospitality Pageant and with Miss Mississippi Pageant, Inc., in the production of the Miss Mississippi Pageant, and with Mrs. Mississippi-America Pageant, Inc., in the production of the Mrs. Mississippi Pageant, and in defraying expenses incurred by Miss Hospitality and Miss Mississippi and Mrs. Mississippi when making official appearances to represent this state, by expending in furtherance of such purposes any money appropriated or otherwise made available to the department therefor. Money received by the department for such purposes shall be deposited into a special fund which is hereby created in the State Treasury. Unexpended amounts remaining in such special fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned on amounts in such special fund shall be deposited to the credit of the special fund.
MS Code § 57-1-70 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-70. Miss Mississippi, Miss Hospitality and Mrs. Mississippi as official nongovernmental representatives of state

 The person selected as Miss Mississippi in the annual pageant sponsored by Miss Mississippi Pageant, Inc., and the person selected as Miss Hospitality in the annual Mississippi Miss Hospitality Pageant, and the person selected as Mrs. Mississippi in the annual Mrs. Mississippi Pageant, shall be the official nongovernmental representatives of the State of Mississippi, and shall be the only persons selected in pageants in the state who are recognized by the state as its official representatives in appearances made at functions, ceremonies or other activities on behalf of the state or for the promotion or goodwill of the state.
MS Code § 57-1-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|Joinder of Separate School District and Municipality in Establishing Industrial Enterprises|§ 57-1-71. Declaration of intention; petition for certificate

 Any municipality located in two adjacent counties which forms a part of a municipal separate school district the territory of which is located in two adjacent counties which desires to enter into the establishment of an enterprise under the provisions of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, jointly with the territory forming a part of such municipal separate school district shall, by and through its governing authority, declare its intention of entering into such plan by resolution spread upon its minutes and shall jointly with the boards of supervisors of the counties affected file with the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board, a petition for certificate of public convenience and necessity in the manner and for the purpose prescribed by Section 57-1-21, and the governing authority of such municipality is authorized to proceed under Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, for and on behalf of the municipality and the municipal separate school district territory the same as if such territory were a part of said municipality.
MS Code § 57-1-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|Joinder of Separate School District and Municipality in Establishing Industrial Enterprises|§ 57-1-73. Issuance of certificate; election

 Should the certificate of public convenience and necessity be issued by the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board the governing authority of such municipality shall call an election in the municipality and in the territory outside the municipality in the manner and method for calling, conducting and holding elections provided in Section 57-1-25, and should two-thirds of the qualified electors residing in the municipality and voting in the election, and two-thirds of the qualified electors residing in the territory outside the municipality forming a part of the municipal separate school district of which such territory and municipality are a part and voting in the election, vote in favor of the enterprise, such municipal separate school district including the municipality shall be deemed a municipality within the meaning of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, and shall have all rights, powers and authority to act by and through the governing authority of such municipality granted to municipalities as defined in Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51 and by said sections.
MS Code § 57-1-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|Joinder of Separate School District and Municipality in Establishing Industrial Enterprises|§ 57-1-75. Issuance of bonds; contracts

 The governing authority of the municipality as defined in Sections 57-1-71 and 57-1-73, subject to the the approval of the boards of supervisors of each county having territory involved, may issue such bonds as may be authorized in the election held for the operation of the enterprise, and may make all contracts for the erection of buildings and structures and the acquisition and purchase of lands, and for the operation of such enterprise. It shall not be necessary for contracts entered into by the governing authority of the municipality to be approved by the boards of supervisors of the counties having territory included in such municipal separate school district.
MS Code § 57-1-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|Joinder of Separate School District and Municipality in Establishing Industrial Enterprises|§ 57-1-77. Execution of bonds; pledge of full faith and credit

 The bonds issued under Section 57-1-75 shall be issued and signed in the manner provided for the issuance of bonds by municipalities by Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, and shall pledge the full faith and credit of the entire municipal separate school district for which said bonds are issued, including the municipality and the territory outside such municipality lying in adjoining supervisors districts of adjacent counties.
MS Code § 57-1-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|Joinder of Separate School District and Municipality in Establishing Industrial Enterprises|§ 57-1-79. Depository

 The governing authority of such municipality as defined in Sections 57-1-71 and 57-1-73 shall designate a depository for the funds of the municipality in the same manner as county depositories are designated.
MS Code § 57-1-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|Joinder of Separate School District and Municipality in Establishing Industrial Enterprises|§ 57-1-81. Tax levy

 On or before the first Monday of September of each year the governing authority of the municipality shall meet and levy a tax sufficient upon the taxable property of the territory, including the municipality, to provide funds for the payment of interest on bonds and the payment of bonds maturing within one year, and to provide a sinking fund for the redemption of any outstanding bonds and shall certify such levy to the boards of supervisors of each of the counties affected, prior to the date on which county tax levies are fixed, and it shall be the duty of the respective boards of supervisors to levy the tax prescribed by the governing authority of the municipality upon the taxable property of the territory, including the municipality located in their respective county. The tax collector of each county shall thereupon collect such tax in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are collected and shall transmit the proceeds thereof to the governing authority of the municipality for deposit to the proper depository.
MS Code § 57-1-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|Joinder of Separate School District and Municipality in Establishing Industrial Enterprises|§ 57-1-83. Rights and powers of municipality

 For the purpose of operating or engaging in the enterprise as authorized at the election held for that purpose the municipality herein authorized acting by and through its governing authority shall have all the rights, powers and authority granted to municipalities by Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, to act for the territory comprising the municipal separate school district of which such municipality is a part.
MS Code § 57-1-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|Joinder of Other Municipalities and Supervisors District in Which Situated With Municipality in Establishing Industrial Enterprises|§ 57-1-101. Declaration of intention; petition for and issuance of certificate

 When a city, town or village and the supervisors district wherein such city, town or village is situated desire to enter jointly into the establishment of an industrial enterprise under the provisions of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, the governing body of such city, town or village and the board of supervisors of the county in which such supervisors district is situated shall each declare its intention of entering into such plan by resolution spread upon its minutes, and they shall jointly file with the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board, a petition for a joint certificate of public convenience and necessity in the manner and for the purposes prescribed by Section 57-1-21. Such joint petition for such joint certificate of public convenience and necessity shall, in addition to any other information required to be furnished, set out the amount of bonds or other expenditures such city, town or village and such supervisors district propose separately to issue or make for such enterprise. The Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board is authorized and empowered to issue or refuse to issue such joint certificate of public convenience and necessity in accordance with the provisions of Section 57-1-21, except that such certificate when issued shall be entitled and be a joint certificate of public convenience and necessity. Where such a petition for a joint certificate is filed, the board, in addition to the findings prescribed by Section 57-1-21, shall before it issues such joint certificate also find and determine affirmatively that the aggregate bonded indebtedness of such city, town or village and such supervisors district incurred under the provisions of Sections 57-1-101 through 57-1-107, shall not exceed the aggregate of twenty per cent (20%) of the total assessed valuation of all the property in the city, town or village, computed as in the case of an application by such city, town or village alone, plus twenty percent (20%) of the total assessed valuation of all the property in the supervisors district.
MS Code § 57-1-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|Joinder of Other Municipalities and Supervisors District in Which Situated With Municipality in Establishing Industrial Enterprises|§ 57-1-103. Election

 Should such joint certificate of public convenience and necessity be issued by the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board, the governing authority of such city, town or village shall direct the holding of an election in the manner provided as to it by Section 57-1-25, and the board of supervisors of the county in which such supervisors district is situated shall direct the holding of a separate election in such supervisors district in the manner provided by Section 57-1-25 for such elections. In the event the proposal be approved as required by Section 57-1-25, both in the election for the supervisors district and in the election for the city, town or village, computed and declared separately, then the board of supervisors and the governing authority of such city, town or village, respectively, may issue the bonds authorized by said elections, respectively, as provided by the aforesaid Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51.