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MS Code § 49-17-773 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Mississippi Gulf Region Utility Act|§ 49-17-773. Advance of funds or issuance of notes authorized; terms and conditions

 For the purposes of satisfying any temporary cash flow demands and deficiencies, and to maintain a working balance for the county authority, the county, municipalities or public agencies within the geographic boundaries of the county authority, or other persons, subject to their lawful authority to do so, are authorized to advance, at any time, such funds which, in its discretion, are necessary, or borrow such funds by issuance of notes, for initial capital contribution and to cover start-up costs until such times as sufficient bonds, assets and revenues have been secured to satisfy the needs of the county authority for its management, operation and formation. To this end, the county, municipality, public agency or person, subject to their lawful authority to do so, shall advance such funds, or borrow such funds by issuance of notes, under such terms and conditions as may be provided by resolution of the governing body, or other persons as defined in this act, subject to their lawful authority to do so, except that each such resolution shall state:   The need for the proceeds advanced or borrowed;   The amount to be advanced or the amount to be borrowed;   The maximum principal amount of any note issued the interest rate or maximum interest rate to be incurred, and the maturity date of said note;   In addition, the governing body, or other persons as defined in this act, subject to their lawful authority to do so, may arrange for lines of credit with any bank, firm or person for the purpose of providing an additional source of repayment for notes issued pursuant to this section.Amounts drawn on a line of credit may be evidenced by negotiable or nonnegotiable notes or other evidences of indebtedness and contain such terms and conditions as the governing body, or other persons as defined in this act, subject to their lawful authority to do so, may authorize in the resolution approving the same;   The governing body of the county, municipalities or other persons as defined in this act, subject to their lawful authority to do so, may authorize the repayment of such advances, notes, lines of credit and other debt incurred under this section, along with all costs associated with the same, including, but not limited to, rating agency fees, printing costs, legal fees, bank or trust company fees, line of credit fees and other charges to be reimbursed by the county authority under such terms and conditions as are reasonable and are to be provided for by resolution of the governing body, or terms agreed upon with other persons as defined in this act, subject to their lawful authority to do so;   In addition, the governing body of the county, municipality or public agency may lease or donate office space and equipment to the county authority under such terms and conditions as are reasonable and are to be provided for by resolution of the governing body, or terms agreed upon by the county authority.
MS Code § 49-17-775 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Mississippi Gulf Region Utility Act|§ 49-17-775. Severability of provisions

 If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of the provisions of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
MS Code § 49-19-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-1. State forestry commission; membership; compensation; organization

  There shall be a State Forestry Commission composed of ten (10) members, who shall be qualified electors of the state. The Dean of the School of Forest Resources at Mississippi State University shall be an ex officio member of the commission, with full voting authority. The Governor shall appoint eight (8) members, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of six (6) years. The Governor shall appoint one (1) member from each congressional district as constituted at the time the appointments are made and shall appoint the remainder of the members from the state at large. A member from a congressional district must be a certified tree farmer who owns eighty (80) or more acres of forest land or a person who derives a major portion of his or her personal income from forest-related business, industry or other related activities. Members of the commission from the state at large may or may not possess the same qualifications as members appointed from the congressional districts.   The members of the commission shall receive no annual salary but each member of the commission shall receive a per diem plus expenses and mileage as authorized by law for each day devoted to the discharge of official duties. No member of the commission shall receive total per diem in excess of twenty-four (24) days' compensation per annum.   If a vacancy occurs in the office of an appointed member of the commission, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment for the balance of the unexpired term.   The commission shall elect from its membership a chair, who shall preside over meetings, and a vice chair, who shall preside in the absence of the chair or when the chair is excused.   The commission shall adopt rules and regulations governing times and places for meetings, and governing the manner of conducting its business. Each member of the commission shall take the oath prescribed by Section 268 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 and shall enter into a bond in the amount of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) to be approved by the Secretary of State, conditioned according to law and payable to the State of Mississippi before assuming the duties of office.   Any appointment made to the commission contrary to this section shall be void, and it is unlawful for the State Fiscal Officer to pay any per diem or authorize the expenses of the appointee.
MS Code § 49-19-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-5. Acquisition and disposal of property

 The State Forestry Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire and dispose of property of all kinds in accordance with the provisions of Section 29-1-1, in order to discharge the duties as set forth in Section 49-19-3, and subsequent germane general laws of the State of Mississippi. It is further authorized to sell, rent, lease, and dispose of any property acquired by the commission, all property to be sold or disposed of shall be sold or disposed of in the manner provided by law for the sale or disposition of surplus property by other state agencies. Any funds received from the sale, rental or lease of any property herein authorized, to be acquired, shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of a special account, and the commission is hereby authorized to use this fund for the replacement, repairs, and upkeep of any property authorized to be acquired and owned under this section.
MS Code § 49-19-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-9. Fire protection services for Choctaw Indian lands

  The State Forestry Commission is hereby authorized to extend fire protection services to the Choctaw Indian lands located in Attala, Kemper, Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Jones and Scott Counties, Mississippi.   The State Forestry Commission is authorized to accept from the Choctaw Agency adequate compensation for fire detection and suppression, which sum may be used by the forestry commission in its fire protection work.
MS Code § 49-19-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-11. Land adjacent to protective areas, etc.

 The State Forestry Commission is hereby authorized to protect intermingled or adjacent state owned lands in the same manner and form as other lands within the state and the expenses thereof may be paid out of any appropriation made to the State Forestry Commission; provided such expenditures are not greater per acre in any year than the expenditures by the commission on account of the protection of any other lands than that owned by the State of Mississippi.   The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to the protection of established state parks, state forests or other state owned lands when increased expenditure may be necessary for the protection thereof in the opinion of the State Forestry Commission.   It is hereby made the duty of all agents and employees of the State Forestry Commission to report to the commission any timber or other trespass discovered by such agent or employees on state owned lands giving detailed information thereof in such report.
MS Code § 49-19-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-13. Part of severance tax may be donated by county

 The boards of supervisors of the several counties are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to appropriate and pay to the state forestry commission from the general fund of the county each year a sum of money not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the forest severance tax received by the county the preceding year. Such money so appropriated shall be used by the state forestry commission for forestry work and protection in such county.
MS Code § 49-19-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-15. Appropriations

 The state forestry fund when made available by proper appropriation by the Legislature, shall be expended by the commission in carrying out and enforcing all laws pertaining to the protection of forests as the commission may direct, the vouchers to be drawn and paid as by other departments of the state.
MS Code § 49-19-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-17. Study of forestry in schools and colleges

 The state and county boards of public education are directed to provide for proper courses of instruction by textbooks, or lectures on the general subject of forestry in all the public schools and colleges of this state; and they are further directed to provide for the celebration of arbor day by all public schools, on which day ornamental and shade trees, flowers, etc., are to be placed, where practicable, on the grounds surrounding all public schoolhouses.
MS Code § 49-19-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-19. Free commercial tree seedlings for farm owners and schools

  To encourage better land use, to assist in controlling headwaters, to prevent soil erosion, to help increase community and individual farm incomes, and to assist schools in forest education and timber management, the Mississippi Forestry Commission is hereby authorized to produce and make available to farm owners and to schools of this state, having lands contiguous to the school site suitable for reforestation, free commercial tree seedlings not to exceed five thousand (5,000) trees per farm owner per year, and not to exceed five thousand (5,000) trees per school, providing the farm owner or owners and school trustees desiring such seedlings enter into a cooperative agreement with the state forestry commission assuring the commission of the proper planting, care, and protection of all seedlings thus furnished from fire and wasteful cutting. The minimum number of seedlings furnished any consignee under this section shall not be less than one thousand (1,000).   In its cooperative agreement, the Mississippi Forestry Commission may provide for the payment to it of a penalty of not exceeding Ten Dollars ($10.00) per thousand trees for each thousand or part thereof planted in violation of the purposes and intent of this section.   The Mississippi Forestry Commission is hereby authorized to use such funds as it may have available in carrying out the intent and purposes of this section.
MS Code § 49-19-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-21. How moneys contributed by government spent

 All moneys received from the United States government for protection of forest lands, for reforestation of denuded areas, for extension of national forests, and to promote the continuous production of timber shall be credited to said state forestry fund, and expended by the commission as is directed by the federal government.
MS Code § 49-19-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-23. Federal funds; apportionment

 All moneys paid to the State of Mississippi by the United States, on account of national forest lands in Mississippi, established under the provisions of the Weeks Law, so-called, being an Act of Congress, approved March 1, 1911, and amendments thereto, shall be apportioned by the state treasurer to the several counties in which such national forest lands are or may be, in proportion to the area of such national forest lands in each, as determined by the forest service of the United States Department of Agriculture.   The several sums so apportioned to each county shall be paid over by the state treasurer to the county depository within sixty (60) days after receipt thereof, and fifty percent (50%) of such funds received by the county shall be expended for the benefit of the public schools, and the remaining fifty percent (50%) of such funds shall, in the discretion of the board of supervisors, be expended for the benefit of the public roads or of the public schools of the school districts within which national forest lands may be located.   In any area affected not having a school located therein, all of such funds may be expended on roads.   In counties containing one hundred sixty thousand, two hundred fifty-three (160,253) acres of national forest lands located solely within three (3) supervisors districts, if the board of supervisors elects to apportion fifty percent (50%) of the funds so received to public roads, the funds shall be expended upon the public roads within the supervisors district or districts within which the national forest lands are located.   In counties containing one hundred sixty thousand, two hundred fifty-three (160,253) acres of national forest lands located solely within three (3) supervisors districts, that portion of the funds allocated to public schools may, within the discretion of the county school board, be expended for the public schools within the county wherein the national forest lands are located.   In any county wherein there is located a national forest traversed by the Chickasawhay River and in which U. S. Highways 84 and 45 intersect, all such funds so received shall be expended in such manner as the board of supervisors shall determine in the public interest for the maintenance of public roads and support of the public schools.
MS Code § 49-19-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-25. Fires declared nuisances; abandoned open cisterns and wells declared nuisances; abatement

 Any fire on any forested, cutover, brush lands or grass lands burning uncontrolled is hereby declared a public nuisance by reason of its menace to life and property. Any person, firm or corporation negligently or wilfully and maliciously responsible for the starting or the existence of such fire on land other than his own is hereby required to control or extinguish it immediately, and if said person, firm or corporation shall wilfully refuse, neglect or fail to do so, any organized fire suppression agency recognized by the Mississippi Forestry Commission, may summarily abate the nuisance thus constituted by controlling or extinguishing the fire. The cost of abating such nuisance, with all costs and reasonable attorney's fees to be allowed by the court, may be recovered from the person, firm or corporation responsible for such nuisance by civil action in the proper court, action for said recovery to be filed by the agency abating the nuisance. This section shall not impair any remedy now allowed by law.   Any open cistern or well, which has been abandoned or is no longer used for the purpose of a cistern or well is hereby declared to be a public nuisance by reason of its menace to life and property, and the Mississippi Forestry Commission is hereby authorized to seal such cistern or well upon request of the landowner. A reasonable fee shall be charged for this purpose and all fees collected shall be handled in the same manner as other service charges collected by the commissioner.
MS Code § 49-19-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-27. Tree Seedling Revolving Fund; reforestation

  There is created in the State Treasury a fund designated as the Tree Seedling Revolving Fund. The State Forestry Commission shall use the fund to contract for the production or purchase of tree seedlings, for resale to Mississippi landowners for reforestation.   The Tree Seedling Revolving Fund shall be funded by monies received from the sale of contract seedlings to Mississippi landowners. Monies collected from the sales shall be deposited into the Tree Seedling Revolving Fund. The State Treasurer shall make disbursements for payment of production or purchase of seedlings upon requisition by the Forestry Commission and upon the issuance of warrants by the Department of Finance and Administration.   The Tree Seedling Revolving Fund is created to supplement the State Forestry Commission's seedling production capacity and not for its replacement.
MS Code § 49-19-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-31. Joint Study Committee on Forestry

  There is hereby created a Joint Study Committee on Forestry in Mississippi. The committee shall study and make recommendations, including recommended legislation regarding the Forestry Commission, coordination of forestry policy, the coordination of overlapping conservation practices by state agencies, the seedling shortage and other matters related to the forestry industry.   The committee shall be composed of the following members:   The Chairman of the Senate Forestry Committee, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and two (2) members of the forestry committee appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.   The Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and three (3) members of the agriculture committee appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.   The Chairman of the Senate Forestry Committee and the Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee shall serve as co-chairs of the committee.     The members of the joint committee shall be paid from the contingent expense funds of their respective houses in the same manner as provided for committee meetings when the Legislature is not in session and shall obtain the approval of their respective management committees for per diem and travel expense expenditures of the committee.   The committee shall utilize clerical and legal staff employed by the Legislature and may utilize any assistance made available to it by any state agency.   Upon presentation of its final report the committee shall be dissolved.
MS Code § 49-19-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|In General|§ 49-19-33. Southern Regional Fire Training Center renamed the Richard (Dick) Allen Building

 The Southern Regional Fire Training Center Building located in Pearl, Mississippi, shall be renamed the Richard (Dick) Allen Building. The Department of Finance and Administration shall prepare or have prepared a distinctive plaque, to be placed in a prominent place within the Richard (Dick) Allen Building which states the background, accomplishments and service to Mississippi of Richard Allen as Executive Director of the State Forestry Commission.
MS Code § 49-19-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|Forestry Education, Timber Management and Forest Fire Control|§ 49-19-111. Promotion of forestry education, timber management and forest fire control

 For the purpose of providing assistance to all farm woodland and timber landowners in the state, including private ownership, and to promote the growing, managing and harvesting of timber thereon, and to provide organized forest fire protection in all counties, and to encourage the production and growth of timber on all lands suitable therefor, and for the better management thereof, and to encourage greater private ownership and promote forest education and timber management and forest fire control, the State Forestry Commission is hereby authorized to carry out the provisions of Sections 49-19-111 through 49-19-117.
MS Code § 49-19-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection|Forestry Education, Timber Management and Forest Fire Control|§ 49-19-113. Forestry districts and areas to be created

 In order to carry out further the program herein authorized, the state forestry commission be and it is hereby authorized to organize, divide or set up forest districts and areas throughout the state, which districts and areas shall be so organized, divided or set up in accordance with the distribution of forest land and the location of political boundaries as to best serve the interest of the state as a whole. The commission shall appoint a district forester and assistant district forester for each district and shall appoint an area forester for each forest area, all of whom shall be charged with the duty of directing forestry education, timber management, forest fire control and other necessary forestry conservation activities and practices as the commission shall deem necessary.