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MS Code § 17-17-231 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Nonhazardous Solid Waste Planning Act of 1991|§ 17-17-231. Adoption of rules and regulations governing municipal sanitary landfills

  The Commission on Environmental Quality may adopt rules and regulations governing municipal solid waste landfills that accept household wastes, but any rules and regulations for such landfills shall, except for the adoption of criteria and standards to be considered in the location of such facilities, be no more stringent or extensive in scope, coverage and effect than Subtitle D regulations promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.   If Subtitle D regulations do not provide a standard, criteria or guidance addressing matters relating to landfills, the commission may promulgate rules and regulations to address these matters in accordance with the Mississippi Administrative Procedures Law when the commission determines that such rules and regulation are necessary to protect human health, welfare or the environment.   Nothing in this section shall prohibit the commission by order or the Permit Board in the issuance or modification of a permit from placing additional requirements on a landfill on a case by case basis in order to prevent, abate, control or correct groundwater contamination, public endangerment or as otherwise determined necessary to protect human health, welfare or the environment.
MS Code § 17-17-233 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Nonhazardous Solid Waste Planning Act of 1991|§ 17-17-233. Establishment, collection and disposition of fees, surcharges, etc., to produce resources for closure of landfills and post-closure monitoring and remediation

 From and after October 9, 1993, the owner of a sanitary landfill shall establish a fee, or a surcharge on existing fees or other appropriate revenue-producing mechanism, to ensure the availability of financial resources for the proper closure of the sanitary landfill and post-closure monitoring and remediation. However, the disposal of solid waste by persons on their own property, as described in Section 17-17-13, Mississippi Code of 1972, is exempt from this section.   The revenue-producing mechanism must produce revenue at a rate sufficient to generate funds to meet state and federal landfill closure and post-closure requirements.   The revenue shall be deposited in an interest-bearing escrow account to be held and administered by the owner. The owner shall file with the department an annual audit of the account. The audit shall be conducted by a certified public accountant and shall be filed no later than December 31 of each year. Failure to collect or report such revenue is a noncriminal violation, punishable by a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for each offense. The owner may make expenditures from the account and its accumulated interest only for the purpose of landfill closure and post-closure requirements. If such expenditures do not deplete the fund to the detriment of eventual closure and post-closure requirements, any monies remaining in the account after paying for proper and complete closure and all post-closure requirements, as determined by the commission, shall be returned to the owner.   The revenue generated under this section and any accumulated interest thereon may be applied to the repayment of any loan or the payment of, or pledged as security for, the payment of revenue bonds issued in whole or in part for the purpose of complying with state and federal landfill closure and post-closure requirements. Such application or pledge may be made directly in the proceedings authorizing such bonds or in an agreement with an insurer of bonds to assure such insurer of additional security therefor.
MS Code § 17-17-235 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Nonhazardous Solid Waste Planning Act of 1991|§ 17-17-235. Proof of financial responsibility by owner or operator of sanitary landfill in lieu of requirements of § 17-17-233

 An owner or operator of a sanitary landfill may establish proof of financial responsibility with the commission in lieu of the requirements of Section 17-17-233. Such proof may include surety bonds, certificates of deposit, securities, letter of credit, or other methods, as approved by the commission, showing that the owner or operator has sufficient financial resources to cover, at a minimum, the costs of complying with any closure and post-closure requirements. The owner or operator shall estimate such costs to the satisfaction of the commission.
MS Code § 17-17-301 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-301. Short title

 Sections 17-17-301 through 17-17-349 shall be known and cited as the "Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act."
MS Code § 17-17-303 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-303. Legislative findings

 The Legislature hereby finds and declares: that the collection, disposal and utilization of municipal solid waste is a matter of grave concern to all citizens and is an activity thoroughly affected with the public interest; that the health, safety and welfare of the people of this state require efficient municipal solid waste collection and disposal service; that there is a need for planning, research, development and innovation in the design, management and operation of facilities for municipal solid waste management, to encourage continuing improvement and provide adequate incentives and processes for reducing operation and other costs in the management of municipal solid waste; to provide for the collection and disposal of municipal solid waste and to encourage planning of municipal solid waste collection and disposal service, it is necessary and desirable to authorize the creation of regional authorities by counties and municipalities to acquire, construct, operate and maintain municipal solid waste management facilities.
MS Code § 17-17-307 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-307. Creation of authority

 Any unit of local government or any combination thereof may form a regional solid waste management authority. Creation of an authority shall be initiated by ordinance or resolution duly adopted by the governing body of each unit of local government. The ordinance or resolution shall state the necessity for the authority, the primary function, and authorize a designated representative of the unit of local government to enter into an incorporation agreement with the other units of local government. The authority is created and established as a public body corporate and politic constituting a political subdivision of the state and shall be deemed to be acting in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state in the performance of essential public functions and the authority shall be empowered in accordance with Sections 17-17-301 through 17-17-349 to promote the health, welfare and prosperity of the general public.
MS Code § 17-17-315 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-315. Administrative office; contracts for provision of staff support, administrative and operational services; preparation, development and review of solid waste management plan

 The board may contract with and designate a local planning and development district in its jurisdiction to serve as the administrative office of the authority and to provide such staff support as may be necessary for the operation and administration of the authority. In addition, the board may contract with any county or municipality to provide support services and any member may contract with or as part of their service contract with the authority to provide such staff support, administrative and operational services as it deems advisable and on such terms as may be mutually agreed.   At the request of the board, the planning and development district shall coordinate and assist in the preparation and development of any solid waste management plan required by state law. A review of such plan shall be provided the board each year and periodically updated as determined to be necessary or as may be required by law.
MS Code § 17-17-323 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-323. Rates and fees charged by public agencies for services provided by authority

 Whenever a public agency enters into a contract as authorized by Sections 17-17-301 through 17-17-349, and the payments are to be made either wholly or partly from the revenues of the authority's facilities, the duty is hereby imposed on the public agency at the direction of the authority to fix, establish and maintain, and from time to time adjust, the rates or fees charged by the public agency for the service of such facilities to the end that the revenues from such facilities, together with any ad valorem taxes levied for such payments, will be sufficient at all times to pay: (a) the expense of operating and maintaining such facilities; (b) all of the public agency's obligations to the authority under such contract; and (c) all of the obligations under and in connection with any outstanding bonds issued to finance in whole or in part such facilities.
MS Code § 17-17-325 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-325. Submission of local nonhazardous solid waste management plan by authority; designation of geographic area for collection, storage, processing and disposal of solid waste; approval of permit application for facility

 The authority may at the direction of the governing bodies of the participating units of local government submit a local nonhazardous solid waste management plan as required by Sections 17-17-201 through 17-17-235, to the Commission on Environmental Quality providing the authority's assurance of capacity for the management of municipal solid waste within the geographical boundaries of the authority for the period of not less than twenty (20) years.   The authority may designate a geographic area to the permit board within which the collection, transportation, storage, processing and disposal of all municipal solid waste generated within such area shall be accomplished in accordance with a local nonhazardous solid waste management plan. Such designation shall be made only after the permit board has received a resolution adopted by the unit or units of local government having jurisdiction within such geographic area that such designation be made and after approval of the commission of a local nonhazardous solid waste management plan.   The permit board shall not approve any permit application unless the facility is consistent with the applicable local nonhazardous solid waste management plan.
MS Code § 17-17-331 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-331. Temporary borrowing by authority

  Pending the issuance of revenue bonds by the authority, the authority is hereby authorized to make temporary borrowings not to exceed two (2) years in anticipation of the issue of bonds in order to provide funds in such amounts as may, from time to time, be deemed advisable prior to the issue of bonds. To provide for such temporary borrowings, the authority may enter into any purchase, loan or credit agreement, or agreements or other agreement or agreements with any banks or trust companies or other lending institutions, investment banking firms or persons in the United States having power to enter into the same. The agreements may contain such provisions not inconsistent with Sections 17-17-301 through 17-17-349 as may be authorized by the board.   All temporary borrowings made under this section shall be evidenced by notes of the authority which shall be issued, from time to time, for such amounts, in such form and in such denominations and subject to terms and conditions of sale and issue, prepayment or redemption and maturity, rate or rates of interest and time of payment of interest as the board shall authorize and direct and in accordance with Sections 17-17-301 through 17-17-349. Such authorization and direction may provide for the subsequent issuance of replacement notes to refund, upon issuance thereof, such notes, and may specify such other terms and conditions with respect to the notes and replacement notes thereby authorized for issuance as the board may determine and direct.
MS Code § 17-17-333 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-333. Refunding bonds of authority

 The authority may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying any of its bonds at or prior to maturity or upon acceleration or redemption. Refunding bonds may be issued at such time prior to the maturity or redemption of the refunded bonds as the authority deems to be in the public interest. The refunding bonds may be issued in sufficient amounts to pay or provide the principal of the bonds being refunded, together with any redemption premium thereof, any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of payment of such bonds, the expenses of issue of the refunding bonds, the expenses of redeeming the bonds being refunded, and such reserves for debt service or other capital or current expenses from the proceeds of such refunding bonds as may be required by the resolution, trust indenture or other security instruments. The issue of refunding bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the security therefor, the rights of the holders and the rights, duties and obligations of the authority shall be governed by Sections 17-17-327 and 17-17-329 relating to the issue of bonds other than refunding bonds insofar as the same may be applicable.
MS Code § 17-17-335 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-335. Issuance by municipalities or counties of bonds for payment of costs for closure, post-closure maintenance or corrective action for solid waste management facilities

 The governing body of any municipality or county which owns and operates a municipal solid waste management facility which as a result of Subtitle D regulation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, is required to incur cost for the closure, post-closure maintenance or any corrective action of any existing facility is authorized to issue general obligation bonds of the county or municipality pursuant to Sections 19-9-1 through 19-9-25 or Sections 21-33-301 through 21-33-323 or revenue bonds for such purposes. The revenue bonds may be payable from and serviced by any revenues derived from any fees, charges or rates for the operation of or providing for municipal solid waste collection and disposal services. The general obligation bonds shall be applied against any limitation on bonded indebtedness of the issuer.
MS Code § 17-17-337 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-337. Validation of bonds

 All bonds issued pursuant to Sections 17-17-329, 17-17-333 and 17-17-335 may be validated as now provided by law in Sections 31-13-1 through 31-13-11, Mississippi Code of 1972. Such validation proceedings shall be instituted in the chancery court of the county in which the principal office of the authority is located, but notice of such validation proceedings shall be published at least two (2) times in a newspaper of general circulation in each of the counties, the first publication of which in each case shall be made at least ten (10) days preceding the date set for validation.
MS Code § 17-17-341 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-341. Appointment of trustee or receiver for enforcement or protection of rights of bondholders

 The authority may, in any authorizing resolution of the board of commissioners, trust indenture or other security instrument relating to its bonds, provide for the appointment of a trustee who shall have such powers as are provided therein to represent the bondholders of any issue of bonds in the enforcement or protection of their rights under any such resolution, trust indenture or security instrument. The authority may also provide in such resolution, trust indenture or other security instrument that the trustee, or if the trustee so appointed fails or declines to protect and enforce such bondholders' rights then the percentage of bondholders as shall be set forth in, and subject to the provisions of, such resolution, trust indenture or other security instrument, may petition the chancery court of proper jurisdiction for the appointment of a receiver of the facilities, the revenues of which are pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds held by such bondholders. Such receiver may exercise any power as may be granted in any such resolution, trust indenture or security instrument to enter upon and take possession of, acquire, construct or reconstruct, or operate and maintain such facilities, fix, charge, collect, enforce and receive all revenues derived from such facilities and perform the public duties and carry out the contracts and obligations of the authority in the same manner as the authority itself might do, all under the direction of such chancery court.
MS Code § 17-17-343 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-343. Exemption from taxation

  The exercise of the powers granted by Sections 17-17-301 through 17-17-349 will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for their well-being and prosperity and for the improvement of their social and economic conditions, and the authority shall not be required to pay any tax or assessment on any property owned by the authority or upon the income therefrom.   Any bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of Sections 17-17-301 through 17-17-349, their transfer and the income therefrom shall at all time be free from taxation by the state or any unit of local government or other instrumentality of the state, except for inheritance and gift taxes.
MS Code § 17-17-345 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities|Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal|Mississippi Regional Solid Waste Management Authority Act|§ 17-17-345. Powers of counties, municipalities or other political subdivisions and agencies and instrumentalities thereof as to assistance and cooperation with authorities

  For the purpose of attaining the objectives of Sections 17-17-301 through 17-17-349, any county, municipality or other unit of local government, public corporation, agency or instrumentality of the state, a county or municipality may, upon such terms and with or without consideration, as it may determine, do any or all of the following:   Lend, contribute, or donate money to any authority or perform services for the benefit thereof;   Donate, sell, convey, transfer, lease or grant to any authority, without the necessity of authorization at any election of qualified voters, any property of any kind; and   Do any and all things, whether or not specifically authorized in this section, not otherwise prohibited by law, that are necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate with any authority in attaining the objectives of Sections 17-17-301 through 17-17-349.     Any county, municipality or other political subdivision, public corporation, agency or instrumentality of the state, a county or municipality are each hereby specifically authorized to enter into a contract or contracts obligating any such entity to manage its solid waste, or any part thereof, at a facility or facilities owned or operated by such authority and obligating such county, municipality or other political subdivision, public corporation, agency or instrumentality of the state, a county or municipality to make payments to such authority for such management on such terms, provisions and conditions as deemed appropriate. Any such contract or contracts may provide for the continuous management of such solid waste from year to year, but for a term not to exceed thirty (30) years. Any costs to any such county, municipality or other political subdivision, public corporation, agency or instrumentality of the state, a county or municipality shall be paid annually out of funds of any such county, municipality or other political subdivision, public corporation, agency or instrumentality of the state or any county or municipality. The entering into of such contract or contracts shall not constitute the incurring of a debt by such county, municipality or other unit of local government, public corporation, agency or instrumentality of the state or any county or municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitations on debts of the state, the counties or the municipalities.