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MS Code § 51-35-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 1 - Flood Control Agreements with United States|§ 51-35-19. Alteration, relocation, or abandonment of county roadways

  The authority granted to boards of supervisors under Section 170 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi shall be construed to include the right to enter into agreements with the United States for the alteration, relocation, reconstruction, or abandonment of county roadways and the conveyance of easements for term of years, perpetual easements, or fee simple title to the portions of county roadways affected by the construction of flood control projects approved and adopted by the United States or any agency thereof.   Such agreements shall be based upon a consideration deemed reasonable by the board of supervisors and the government.   Any such alteration, relocation, or abandonment of county roadways shall be made pursuant to the authority and procedure of law now in force and effect.   The conveyance of the necessary interest in any such county road right of way shall be for and on behalf of the county and executed by the then acting president of the board, attested by the clerk, and under proper resolution. Such conveyance may include a clause releasing the United States from any further claim as to the county on account of the construction of such flood control project and alteration, relocation, reconstruction, or abandonment of a county roadway or any portion thereof.
MS Code § 51-35-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 1 - Flood Control Agreements with United States|§ 51-35-21. Contribution to cost of acquiring land for improvements outside county

 The board of supervisors of any county through any part of which any river or other stream may run, or any part of which any river or stream may touch or border, on which the United States of America or any agency thereof has authorized flood control improvements, including channel clearing, channel improvement, cut-offs, levees, dams or other flood control improvements, when any of the lands of said county will be benefited by flood control improvements so authorized by the United States of America or any agency thereof to be constructed or made outside the border of such county, is hereby authorized and empowered to contribute to the cost of acquisition of land, easements and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of such flood control improvements outside the border of such county, provided such contribution shall be made to that county, flood control district or other agency authorized by law to acquire lands, easements or rights-of-way for such improvements, which acquires the same pursuant to request therefor from the United States of America. However, this authority to purchase lands shall allow only purchase of lands in counties lying wholly or partly within a levee district.   Said board of supervisors is hereby authorized:   To expend for such purposes not to exceed the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) from the county general fund, whether or not the expenditure thereof be in excess of the budget for the fiscal year adopted by such board;   To fix and levy annually for such purposes, in addition to any tax that such boards are now authorized by law to levy and in excess of the limitations now provided by law for the levying of taxes by such boards, an ad valorem tax on all the lands and property in the county, not to exceed three (3) mills on the dollar on the assessed valuation on all real and personal property in the county, including railroads; and   To borrow funds not in excess of Ten Thousand Dollars ($ 10,000.00) at interest rates not to exceed five percent (5%) per annum and to issue bonds for such purposes.
MS Code § 51-35-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 1 - Flood Control Agreements with United States|§ 51-35-23. Apportionment of federal funds

 All moneys paid to the State of Mississippi by the United States on account of leases of flood control lands under the provisions of the Flood Control Act, as amended June 28, 1938 (52 U.S. Statutes at Large, page 1221), shall be apportioned by the state treasurer to the several counties in which such flood control lands are located and from which the moneys were received by virtue of the lease of flood control lands, as may be determined by the United States, or department thereof, in settling with the state treasurer under the terms and provisions of the Flood Control Act.   The several sums so apportioned to each county shall be paid over by the state treasurer to the county depository, and fifty per cent (50%) of such funds shall be expended for the benefit of the public schools and fifty per cent (50%) of such funds shall be expended for the benefit of public roads of the county, or counties, in which such flood control lands are situated. Where no schools are located in any affected area entitled to moneys under the provisions of said Flood Control Act, then all of such moneys so apportioned to such affected area may be spent for the benefit of public roads in the area.
MS Code § 51-35-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 1 - Flood Control Agreements with United States|§ 51-35-25. Authorization for annual fee to be imposed on landowners selling reforestation easements; limitation on amount of fee; proceeds to be used to provide road maintenance; fire and police protection; and other services

  As used in this section:   "Project" means the Yazoo Basin, Yazoo Backwater, Mississippi, Project authorized by the Flood Control Act of 18 August 1941 and the Water Resources Development Act of 1986.   "Project area" means land in Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Washington and Yazoo Counties located at or below the one hundred-year frequency flood elevation.   "Reforestation easement" means an easement on open agricultural land located in the project area that restricts the future use of the property to woodlands that is purchased from a landowner by the Corps of Engineers or other governmental entity for purposes specifically related to the project.     The board of supervisors of any county in the project area may, in its discretion, require all landowners in the county who sell reforestation easements in the project area for purposes specifically related to the project to annually pay a fee in an amount not to exceed Four Dollars ($4.00) per acre, on each acre of property for which a landowner sold such an easement. The proceeds of the fee shall be used by the board of supervisors to provide services such as road maintenance, fire protection and police protection, and other services necessary for the maintenance and protection of reforestation easements in the project area. If the federal government provides funds to counties in the project area which may be used by the counties to provide such services necessary for the maintenance and protection of reforestation easements in the project area, the board of supervisors of a county receiving such federal funds shall reduce any fee imposed under this section by a proportionate amount based on the ratio that the amount of federal funds received by the county bears to the cost of providing such services.
MS Code § 51-35-301 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-301. Citation

 This article may be cited as the Urban Flood and Drainage Control Law.
MS Code § 51-35-303 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-303. Legislative determination and declaration of policy

 It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that the lands and properties along the waterways and rivers of the state are among its basic resources, that the overflow and surface waters of the state have not heretofore been conserved or fully controlled to realize their full beneficial use, that the control of such waters is necessary to insure adequate protection to the inhabitants of the State of Mississippi and their properties, and to the municipalities of the State of Mississippi, to promote the balanced economic development of the state and to aid in flood control, conservation, and development of lands and property, and of the general health and welfare of the people of the State of Mississippi. It is further determined and declared that the diversion and control of the waters of any rivers on their tributaries and their overflow waters in or near municipalities for the protection and development of domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, and manufacturing functions, for flood control, and for pollution abatement are, as a matter of public policy, for the general welfare of the entire people of the State of Mississippi.   The creation of flood and drainage control districts to control the waters of the rivers of the State of Mississippi or their tributaries and their overflow waters is determined to be necessary and essential to the accomplishment of the aforesaid purposes and this article operates on a subject in which the state at large is interested. All the terms and provisions of this article are to be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes herein set forth, this being a remedial law.
MS Code § 51-35-305 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-305. General authority to organize

 Flood and drainage control districts may now or hereafter be organized in this state under the provisions of this article, in the manner hereinafter provided, whenever any part of such district lies wholly or partially in or adjacent to any part of a municipality having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or more inhabitants at the time of the filing of the petition to create such district. For the purposes of determining population of any municipality, the last completed census prior to the filing of such petition shall be presumed to be the population of such municipality at the time of the filing of such petition. Each flood and drainage control district shall be an agency of the state and a body politic and corporate, and may be composed of one or more entire municipalities or a part or parts thereof, one or more entire counties or a part or parts thereof, or any combination of counties and municipalities or a part or parts thereof.
MS Code § 51-35-311 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-311. Hearing

 The chancery court in which said petition shall be filed may hear the petition at any term thereof, or the chancellor of said court may fix a time to hear such petition at any time in vacation, may determine all matters pertaining thereto, may adjourn the hearing from time to time, and may continue the case for want of sufficient notice or other good cause; and if said petition shall prove defective in any manner, the petitioners, upon motion, shall be permitted to amend the same.   Upon the day set for hearing said petition, or a day to which same may be continued by the court or chancellor, all parties interested may appear and contest the same. If upon the hearing of such petition, it is found that such project is feasible from an engineering standpoint and practical, and if the creation of the flood and drainage control district under the terms of this article would meet a public necessity and would be conducive to the public welfare, such court or chancellor shall so find and shall make and enter an order upon the minutes of the said chancery court stating that the said district, under the proposed name thereof, should be organized subject to all of the terms and provisions of this article. The chancellor shall have the power to change, alter, enlarge, diminish, or otherwise vary the areas to be included in such district from those set forth in said petition in such a manner that said district shall best meet the public necessity and be conducive to the public welfare, as disclosed by the evidence at the hearing.
MS Code § 51-35-313 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-313. Appeal as preference case

 Any person interested in or aggrieved by the final order of the court or of the chancellor, creating the district or dismissing the petition, and who was a party to the proceedings in the chancery court, may prosecute an appeal therefrom within ten days from the date of such decree by furnishing an appeal bond in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) with two good and sufficient sureties, conditioned to pay all costs of the appeal in the event the decree is affirmed. Such appeal bond shall be subject to the approval of the chancery clerk. When the transcript of the record of the case shall be filed in the office of the supreme court, the appellee having been summoned to appear and answer the appeal, ten days after service of the summons on appellee or his attorney the court shall consider such case as entitled to be heard. Any party to any proceedings in any court involving any of the provisions of this article may waive any time for filing pleadings so as to obtain an earlier hearing.   Any appeal from such order or decree of the chancery court or chancellor shall be a preference case in the supreme court and shall be tried at the earliest moment convenient with said court.
MS Code § 51-35-319 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-319. Construction contracts

 All construction contracts of the district, which shall be let solely by the district shall comply with state purchasing and bid laws and the board of directors of the district shall award the contract pursuant to state purchasing and bid laws. The contractor will comply with the terms imposed by such board and enter into bond with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board, in such penalty as shall be fixed by such board, but in no case to be less than the contract price, conditioned for the prompt, proper, and efficient performance of the contract.
MS Code § 51-35-321 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-321. Appropriation permit

 The district is empowered to obtain through appropriate hearings an appropriation permit or permits from the Board of Water Commissioners of the State of Mississippi, as provided in Section 51-3-31.
MS Code § 51-35-323 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-323. Board of directors to issue bonds

 The board of directors of the district is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds of the district for the purpose of paying the costs of creating said districts, acquiring, owning, constructing, operating, repairing, and maintaining the projects and works specified herein, including related charges, interest during construction, engineering, legal, and other expenses incidental to and necessary for the foregoing, or for the carrying out of any power conferred by this article. Said board of directors is authorized and empowered to issue such bonds at such times and in such amounts as shall be provided for by resolution of the said board of directors. After the issuance and sale of the amount of bonds first voted in any such district under the provisions of this article, no additional bonds shall thereafter be voted, issued, or sold under the provisions of this article to an amount which, when added to the amount of outstanding bonds, will exceed twenty per cent (20%) of the assessed value of all taxable property within such district, according to the then last completed state and county assessment for taxation. All such bonds so issued by said district shall be secured solely by the pledge of the avails of the ad valorem tax levy provided for in this article, such bonds shall not constitute general obligations of the State of Mississippi or of the counties or municipalities comprising said district, and such bonds shall not be secured by a pledge of the full faith, credit, and resources of said state or of said counties or municipalities. Bonds of the district shall not be included in computing any present or future debt limit of any county or municipality in such district under any present or future law.
MS Code § 51-35-325 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-325. Declaration of intent to issue revenue bonds; contents and publication of resolution; protest; election on question of issuance of bonds

 Before issuing any revenue bonds hereunder, the board of directors of the district shall adopt a resolution declaring its intention to so issue, stating the amount of bonds proposed to be issued, the purpose for which the bonds are to be issued, and the date upon which the governing body proposes to direct the issuance of such bonds. Such resolution shall be published once a week for at least three (3) consecutive weeks in at least one (1) newspaper published in the district. The first publication of such resolution shall be made not less than twenty-one (21) days prior to the date fixed in such resolution for the issuance of the bonds and the last publication shall be made not more than seven (7) days prior to such date. If no newspaper is published in such district, then such notice shall be given by publishing the resolution for the required time in some newspaper having a general circulation in the district, and, in addition, by posting a copy of such resolution for at least twenty-one (21) days next preceding the date fixed therein at three (3) public places in the district. If twenty percent (20%) or fifteen hundred (1500), whichever is less, of the qualified electors living or owning property in the district shall file a written protest against the issuance of such bonds on or before the date specified in such resolution, then an election on the question of the issuance of such bonds shall be called and held as herein provided. If no such protest be filed, then such bonds may be issued without an election at any time within a period of two (2) years after the date specified in the above-mentioned resolution. However, the board of directors of the district, in its discretion, may nevertheless call an election on the question of the issuance of the bonds, in which event it shall not be necessary to publish the resolution declaring its intention to issue bonds as herein provided.
MS Code § 51-35-327 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-327. Manner of holding election

 Such elections shall be held, as far as is practicable, in the same manner as elections are held in county bond elections. In conducting such elections, the flood and drainage control district shall be divided into election districts in accordance with the then existing election districts created under the provisions of Section 23-5-9 of the Mississippi Code of 1972; and there shall be one voting place in each election district, which voting place shall be within such election district and within such flood and drainage control district. The election commissioners shall furnish at each voting place a list of the qualified electors residing in the flood and drainage control district who are also qualified electors in such voting district. At such election, all qualified electors residing in said district may vote, the ballots used at such election shall have printed thereon a brief statement of the amount and purpose of the proposed bond issue and the words "FOR THE BOND ISSUE" and "AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE", and the voter shall vote by placing a cross (x) or check mark (Π) opposite his choice on the proposition.
MS Code § 51-35-329 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-329. Results of election

 When the results of the election on the question of the issuance of such bonds shall have been canvassed by the county election commissioners and certified by them to the board of directors of the district, it shall be the duty of such board of directors to determine and adjudicate whether or not a majority of the qualified electors who voted in such election voted in favor of the issuance of such bonds. Unless a majority of the qualified electors who voted in such election shall have voted in favor of the issuance of such bonds, then such bonds shall not be issued. Should a majority of the qualified electors who vote in such election vote in favor of the issuance of such bonds, then the board of directors may issue such bonds, either in whole or in part, within five years from the date of such election or within five years after the final favorable termination of any litigation affecting the issuance of such bonds, as such board of directors shall deem best.
MS Code § 51-35-335 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-335. Validation of bonds

 All bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be validated as now provided by law by Sections 31-13-1 through 31-13-11 Mississippi Code of 1972. The services of the state's bond attorney may be employed in the preparation of such bond resolutions, forms, or proceedings as may be necessary, for which he shall be paid a reasonable fee. Such validation proceedings shall be instituted in the chancery court of the county having jurisdiction of the district, but notice of such validation proceedings shall be published at least two times in a newspaper of general circulation and published in each of the counties comprising the district, the first publication of which in each case shall be made at least ten days preceding the date set for the validation.
MS Code § 51-35-337 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 35 - Flood Control|Article 5 - Urban Flood Control|§ 51-35-337. Bonds as legal investments

 All bonds of the district shall be and are hereby declared to be legal and authorized investments for public funds of counties, cities, towns, school districts, banks, savings banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, insurance companies, and for funds of the Mississippi Public Employees' Retirement System. Such bonds shall be eligible to secure the deposit of any and all public funds of cities, towns, villages, counties, school districts, or other political corporations or subdivisions of the State of Mississippi; and such bonds shall be lawful and sufficient security for said deposits to the extent of their value, when accompanied by all unmatured coupons appurtenant thereto.