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MS Code § 51-35-339 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-339. District and its bonds exempt from taxation

 The accomplishment of the purposes stated in this article being for the benefit of the people of this state and for the improvement of their properties and industries, the district, in carrying out the purposes of this article, will be performing an essential public function and shall not be required to pay any tax or assessment on the project and related facilities or any part thereof. The interest on the bonds issued hereunder shall at all times be free from any taxation within this state, and the state hereby covenants with the holders of any bonds to be issued hereunder that the district shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments imposed by the state or any of its political subdivisions or taxing districts.
MS Code § 51-35-341 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-341. Preliminary expenses

 The district may borrow funds for a period of not to exceed three years and may renew and extend said loans from time to time, from any city, municipality, county, state, the United States of America, or any of its agencies or departments, or from any other source to pay the preliminary expenses of organizing the district or for carrying out any of the purposes of this article, including engineering services, attorneys fees and expenses, and other organization and administration expenses, on such terms of repayment as the board of directors shall determine; and any municipality or county in which any part of the district shall lie may advance or loan funds to said district for such purposes. Any such municipality or county making such loan or advance is authorized and empowered to borrow money for a period not to exceed three years from the date of such borrowing for the purpose of making such loan or advance. The board of directors is hereby authorized to repay any such advances from the proceeds of any bonds issued under the provisions of this article. In the event any said loan or advance is not paid at maturity thereof, the district is authorized to levy a tax on the lands of the district under the provisions of this article for the repayment thereof.
MS Code § 51-35-343 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-343. Depository for funds of district

 The board of directors shall designate one or more banks within any county in which any part of the district shall lie to serve as depositories for the funds of the district, and all funds of the district shall be deposited in such depository bank or banks.   Before designating a depository bank or banks, the board of directors shall issue a notice stating the time and place the board will meet for such purpose and inviting the banks in the counties in which any part of the district shall lie to submit applications to be designated depositories. The term of service for depositories shall be prescribed by the board. Such notice shall be published one time in a newspaper or newspapers having general circulation in the district and specified by the board.   At the time mentioned in the notice, the board shall consider the applications and the management and condition of the banks filing them, and shall designate as depositories the bank or banks which offer the most favorable terms and conditions for the handling of the funds of the district and which the board finds have proper management and are in condition to warrant handling of district funds. Membership on the board of directors of an officer or director of a bank shall not disqualify such bank from being designated as a depository.   If no applications acceptable to the board are received by the time stated in the notice, the board shall designate some bank or banks within or without the district upon such terms and conditions as it may find advantageous to the district.
MS Code § 51-35-345 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-345. Agreements with the United States, the state, or political subdivisions

 The board of directors of the district is hereby authorized and empowered to negotiate and contract with the United States of America, the State of Mississippi, or any political subdivision thereof concerning the location, relocation, alteration, construction, changing, or closing of any highway, street, bridge, or roadway, or for the facilities appurtenant thereto, and all lands, easements, and rights of way necessary thereto.
MS Code § 51-35-347 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-347. Cooperation with other governmental agencies

 The district shall have authority to act jointly with political subdivisions of the state, its agencies, and commissions and instrumentalities thereof, with other states, with municipalities, with the United States of America, and agencies, departments, and instrumentalities thereof, in the performance of the purposes and services authorized in this article, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the directors.
MS Code § 51-35-349 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-349. Urban flood and drainage control law controlling

 The provisions of any other law, general, special, or local, except as provided in this article, shall not limit or restrict the powers granted by this article.
MS Code § 51-35-351 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-351. Savings clause

 Nothing in this article shall be construed to violate any provision of the federal or state constitutions, and all acts done under this article shall be done in such manner as will conform thereto, whether herein expressly provided or not. Where any procedure hereunder may be held by any court to be violative of either of such constitutions, the district shall have the power by resolution to provide an alternative procedure conformable with such constitutions. If any provision of this article shall be invalid, such fact shall not affect the creation of the district or the validity of any other provision of this article.
MS Code § 51-37-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 37 - Watershed Districts|Watershed Repair and Rehabilitation Cost-Share Program|§ 51-37-1. Legislative intent

 The Legislature has previously stated its desire to improve the quality of water, prevent soil erosion and alleviate flood damage in Mississippi, and great strides have been made through the use of water impoundment structures constructed through federal watershed construction funding programs. Flood control structures have provided secondary benefits including improvement of water quality and increased recreational opportunities. Flaws have become apparent in the system of maintenance established to protect these flood control structures to the point that many of the structures are in dire need of repair and pose a serious threat to property as well as loss of secondary benefits.
MS Code § 53-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-1. Declaration of policy

 It is hereby declared to be in the public interests to foster, encourage and promote the development, production and utilization of the natural resources of oil and gas in the State of Mississippi; and to protect the public and private interests against the evils of waste in the production and utilization of oil and gas, by prohibiting waste as herein defined; to safeguard, protect and enforce the coequal and correlative rights of owners in a common source or pool of oil and gas to the end that each such owner in a common pool or source of supply of oil and gas may obtain his just and equitable share of production therefrom; and to obtain, as soon as practicable, consistent with the prohibition of waste, the full development by progressive drilling of other wells in all producing pools of oil and gas or of all pools which may hereafter be brought into production of such, within the state, until such pool is fully defined.   It is not the intent nor the purpose of this law to require or permit the proration or distribution of the production of oil and gas among the fields and pools of Mississippi, on the basis of market demand. It is the intent and purpose of this law to permit each and every oil and gas pool in Mississippi to be produced up to its maximum efficient rate of production, subject to the prohibition of waste as herein defined, and subject further to the enforcement and protection of the coequal and correlative rights of the owners of a common source of oil and gas, so that each common owner may obtain his just and equitable share of production therefrom.
MS Code § 53-1-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-7. State supervisor

 The board shall appoint a State Oil and Gas Supervisor, herein called supervisor, who shall be a competent and qualified administrator and receive as compensation for his services an annual salary to be fixed by law. The supervisor shall be solely responsible for the administration of the offices of the State Oil and Gas Board and shall be charged with the duty of enforcing Sections 53-1-1 through 53-1-47, and Sections 53-3-3 through 53-3-165, and all rules, regulations and orders duly adopted by the board. The supervisor shall be ex officio secretary of the board and shall give bond, in such sum as the board may direct, with corporate surety to be approved by the board, conditioned that he will well and truly account for all funds coming into his hands as such secretary. He shall remit to the State Treasurer all monies collected by him as such secretary for deposit in trust for the use of the board in a special fund known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Fund to be expended as provided by law.   The supervisor shall devote his entire time to his official duties.   In addition, it shall be the supervisor's duty and responsibility to:   Supervise and manage all personnel of the offices of the Oil and Gas Board.   Formulate the duties and responsibilities of every staff employee in detail, including written job descriptions and written policies and procedures for performing staff tasks.   Outline a detailed method of preparing, and devise a systematic procedure for the filing of reports by field inspectors.   Formulate written policies and procedures for the effective and efficient operation of the office, and present these policies and procedures to the board for promulgation.   Supervise the provision of technical support and assistance to the board in its decision-making capacity.
MS Code § 53-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-9. Employees

 The supervisor shall have the authority, and it shall be his duty, to employ geologists, petroleum engineers, field inspectors and any other personnel necessary to carry out the duties and responsibilities fixed upon him. No person shall be permanently employed by the board who is not a resident and qualified elector of the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 53-1-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-11. Attorney for board

 The Attorney General shall be the attorney for the board and for the supervisor. However, the board may, from any funds available, retain additional counsel to assist the Attorney General. Any member of the board, or the secretary thereof, shall have the power to administer oaths to any witness in any hearings, investigations or proceedings contemplated by this chapter or by any other law of this state relating to the conservation of oil and gas.
MS Code § 53-1-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-13. Board; employee eligibility

 No person while engaged in the business of, or in the employ of, or holding an official connection or position with, any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association engaged in the business of buying or selling mineral leases or minerals, drilling wells in search of oil or gas, producing, transporting, refining or distributing crude oil or natural gas in this state, or any other state, shall be eligible as a member of the board or as an employee thereof.
MS Code § 53-1-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-15. Expenses

 Each member of the board, its employees, and the supervisor shall be reimbursed for necessary and reasonable traveling expenses while traveling on the business of the board upon a signed itemized statement thereof approved by the board. The board may incur the necessary and reasonable expenses for the purpose of carrying out its duties and responsibilities as fixed by law.
MS Code § 53-1-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-19. Rules of procedure before board to be consistent with Title 25, Chapter 43; recording and preservation of proceedings

 The board shall prescribe its rules of order or procedure in hearings or other proceedings before it consistent with Title 25, Chapter 43. The board may provide for the recording and preservation of its proceedings by order entered on its minutes.
MS Code § 53-1-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-21. Public hearing

 No rule, regulation, or order and no change, renewal, or extension thereof, shall, in the absence of an emergency, be made by the board except after a public hearing upon at least ten (10) days' notice, which notice may be given by publication in some newspaper of general circulation in the state and also in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which pools are located, in the manner and form as may be prescribed by the board, or by such other method as may be prescribed by the board by general rule. Such public hearing shall be held at such time and at such place as may be prescribed by the board, and any person having any interest in the subject matter shall be entitled to be heard.
MS Code § 53-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-23. Emergency rules, regulations, or orders

 In the event an emergency is found to exist by the board which, in its judgment, requires the making, changing, renewal, or extension of a rule, regulation, or order without first having a hearing, such emergency rule, regulation, or order shall have the same validity as if a hearing with respect to the same had been held after due notice. The emergency rule, regulation or order permitted by this section shall remain in force no longer than forty-five (45) days from its effective date, and, in any event, it shall expire when the rule, regulation, or order made after due notice and hearing with respect to the subject matter of such emergency rule, regulation or order becomes effective.
MS Code § 53-1-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-25. Notice and service of process

 In any instance the board may give notice by personal service, in which event written notice thereof may be issued by any member of the board or by the supervisor, and service thereof may be made as provided by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 53-1-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-27. Record of rules, regulations and orders

 All rules, regulations, and orders made by the board shall be in writing and shall be entered in full by the secretary of the board in a book to be kept for such purpose by the board, which shall be a public record and open to inspection at all times during reasonable office hours. A copy of any rule, regulation, or order, certified by a member of the board, or the secretary thereof, shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state with the same effect as the original.
MS Code § 53-1-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-29. Request for hearing

 Any interested person shall have the right to have the board call a hearing for the purpose of taking action in respect to any matter within the jurisdiction of the board by making a request therefor in writing. Upon the receipt of any such request, the board promptly shall call a hearing thereon, and, after such hearing and with all convenient speed, and in any event within thirty (30) days after the conclusion of such hearing, shall take such action with regard to the subject matter thereof as it may deem appropriate.
MS Code § 53-1-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-31. Records; inspection by public

 The permanent records of the board shall be available, upon request, for inspection by the public in accordance with the established procedures of the office of the Oil and Gas Board and during reasonable office hours. All well logs, casing records, compiled data and other information shall be properly indexed and suitably recorded in the permanent records of the board.
MS Code § 53-1-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-33. Supervisor and his representatives to have access to all wells

 The supervisor and his representatives or employees shall have access to all wells drilled for oil or gas at any and all times, and any person operating or controlling any lease or property shall permit them to go upon same and inspect any and all wells and well records, while the wells are being drilled and at all other times, and to have such control of such property, machinery and appliances as may be requisite to gauge the wells. However, the well records of any well drilled in unproved territory shall not be subject to such inspection until thirty (30) days after the completion of the well.
MS Code § 53-1-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-35. Subpoena of witnesses; contempt

 The board, or any member thereof, or the supervisor is hereby empowered to issue subpoenas for witnesses, to require their attendance and the giving of testimony before the board, and to require the production of such books, papers and records in any proceeding before the board as may be material upon questions lawfully before the board. Such subpoenas shall be served by the sheriff or any other officer authorized by law to serve process in this state. No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or from producing books, papers and records before the board or a court, or from obedience to the subpoena of the board, or any member thereof, or the supervisor or a court on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. However, nothing herein contained shall be construed as requiring any person to produce any books, papers or records, or to testify in response to any inquiry, not pertinent to some question lawfully before such board or court for determination. No natural person shall be subject to criminal prosecution or to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he may be required to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the board or court, or in obedience to any such subpoena, but no person testifying shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.   In case of failure or refusal on the part of any person to comply with any subpoena issued by the board, or any member thereof, or the supervisor, or in case of the refusal of any witness to testify or answer to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, the judge of the chancery court of the county of the residence of such person, if a resident of Mississippi, or the judge of the chancery court of the county in which the land lies, or any portion thereof, out of which the controversy arises, if such person is not a resident of the State of Mississippi, on application of the board, or any member thereof, or the supervisor, may, in termtime or vacation, issue an attachment for such person and compel him to comply with such subpoena and to attend before the board and produce such documents, and give his testimony upon such matters, as may be lawfully required; and such court shall have the power to punish for contempt as in case of disobedience of like subpoenas issued by or from such court, or for a refusal to testify therein.
MS Code § 53-1-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-37. Service of notices and process upon board

 All notices or other process authorized or required to be served upon the board may be served upon the supervisor or upon any member of the board.
MS Code § 53-1-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-41. Restraining orders, injunctions against board

 No temporary restraining order or injunction of any kind shall be granted against the board, or against any agent, employee or representative of said board restraining the board, or any of its agents, employees or representatives, from enforcing any statute of this state relating to conservation of oil and gas, or any of the provisions of Sections 53-1-1 through 53-1-47, inclusive, and Sections 53-3-1 through 53-3-21, inclusive, or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder, except after due notice to said board, and to all other defendants, and after a hearing at which it shall be clearly shown to the court that the act done or threatened is without sanction of law, or that the provision of law, or the rule, regulation or order complained of, is invalid, and that, if enforced against the complainant, will cause an irreparable injury. With respect to any order or decree granting temporary injunctive relief, the nature and extent of the probable invalidity of the statute, or of any provision of the aforesaid sections, or of any rule, regulation or order thereunder involved in such suit, must be recited in the order or decree granting the temporary relief, as well as a clear statement of the probable damage relied upon by the court as justifying temporary injunctive relief.   No temporary injunction, or temporary restraining order of any kind against the board, or its agents, employees or representatives, shall become effective until the complainant shall execute a bond in such amount and upon such conditions as the court may direct.