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MS Code § 59-19-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 19 - Landings|§ 59-19-11. Use of landing; penalty for misuse

 After the termination of the proceedings and the payment or tender of the damages and costs, the applicants may erect warehouses, sheds, and such other buildings as may be necessary for the reception, storage, or shipment of cotton or other freight, and shall have such lot substantially inclosed, provided with suitable gates, and kept in good repair; and it shall not be lawful for any person to use the lot, shed, warehouses, or other buildings for any other purposes than those designated, under the penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recovered of the petitioners or of any person so using the said lot or buildings, by and for the use of the owner of the land, and the right to use the same for any purpose shall be forfeited.
MS Code § 59-19-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 19 - Landings|§ 59-19-13. Compensation of participants

 The members of the committee shall receive the same pay as jurors in the circuit court; and the sheriff shall receive such further sum, in addition to his fees, as the board of supervisors may allow; all costs to be paid by the petitioners for the condemnation of the lot.
MS Code § 59-19-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 19 - Landings|§ 59-19-15. Leasing of landing

 The board of supervisors may lease the lot or landing for a term not exceeding five years, the lessee to transact thereat only a general receiving and forwarding business; and, in case of a lease, the board shall fix, with power to alter, a schedule of rates and charges for receiving and forwarding freight, and require of the lessee a bond, payable to the county, in a penalty not less than five hundred dollars as shall be proper, conditioned to observe the terms of the lease and to perform the duties imposed on him by law. The lessee shall keep the schedule of rates conspicuously posted on the premises, and any overcharge shall subject the lessee and his sureties to a penalty of twenty dollars in favor of the party injured. A lease shall not abridge the right of any person to store and forward his own freight at the landing free of charge.
MS Code § 59-23-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 23 - Alcohol Boating Safety Act|§ 59-23-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Alcohol Boating Safety Act."
MS Code § 59-23-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 23 - Alcohol Boating Safety Act|§ 59-23-3. Definitions

 For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context shall prescribe otherwise:   "Chemical test" means an analysis of a person's blood, breath, urine or other bodily substance for the determination of the presence of alcohol or any other substance which may impair a person's mental or physical ability.   "Intoxicated" means under the influence of alcohol or any combination of alcohol, controlled substance or drugs, so that there is impaired thought and action and loss of normal control of a person's faculties to such an extent as to endanger any person.   "Law enforcement officer" means any officer described in Section 63-11-19 and includes a conservation officer employed by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and a marine law enforcement officer employed by the Department of Marine Resources.   "Prima facie evidence of intoxication" includes evidence that at the time of an alleged violation there was eight one-hundredths percent (.08%) or more by weight of alcohol in the person's blood.   "Public waters" means all public waters over which the state has jurisdiction.   "Watercraft" means a motorized vessel with a motor of twenty-five (25) horsepower or greater used for transportation on public waters and personal watercraft (jet skis).   "Operates a watercraft" or "operation of a watercraft" shall mean a watercraft that is underway in the water.
MS Code § 59-25-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 25 - Certificates of Title for Boats and Other Vessels|§ 59-25-1. Definitions

 The following words, as used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings:   "Certificate of origin" means the document provided by the manufacturer of a new vessel, or its distributor, which is the only valid indication of ownership between the manufacturer, its distributor, its franchised new vessel dealers and the original purchaser.   "Dealer" means any person engaged wholly or in part in the business of selling or offering for sale, buying or taking in trade for the purpose of resale, or exchanging, displaying, demonstrating or offering for sale vessels or motors, and who receive or expect to receive money, profit or any other thing of value.   "Department" means the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.   "Documented vessel" means a vessel documented under 46 U.S.C.S., Chapter 121.   "Lienholder" means a person holding a security interest.   "Manufacturer" means any person engaged in the manufacture, construction or assembly of vessels, or their importation into the United States, for the purpose of sale or trade.   "Motor" means any type of outboard device providing motorized propulsion for vessels operated by any type fuel.   "Operate" means to navigate or otherwise use a vessel.   "Owner" means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a vessel or motor. The term includes a person entitled to the use or possession of a vessel or motor subject to an interest in another person, reserved or created by agreement and securing payment of performance of an obligation, but the term excludes a lessee under a lease not intended as security.   "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint-stock association or governmental entity and includes a trustee, receiver, assignee or similar representative of any of them.   "Security interest" means an interest which is reserved or created by an agreement which secures payment or performance of an obligation and is valid against third parties generally.   "State of principal operation" means the state on whose waters a vessel is used or to be used most during a calendar year.   "Titling authority" means a state whose vessel titling system has been certified by the Coast Guard as complying with the guidelines for state vessel titling systems listed in 33 CFR, Part 187.   "Use" means to operate, navigate or employ a vessel. A vessel is in use whenever it is upon the water.   "Vessel" means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, that is required to be numbered in accordance with the Mississippi Boating Law, Chapter 21 of Title 59, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 59-25-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 25 - Certificates of Title for Boats and Other Vessels|§ 59-25-5. Issuances of certificate of title; procedures and fees

  The department may charge a fee not to exceed Ten Dollars ($10.00) to issue a certificate of title; a transfer of title or a duplicate or corrected certificate of title.   The holder of an original title shall apply for a duplicate title within thirty (30) days after, or after the discovery of, the loss, theft, mutilation or destruction of an original certificate of title. The department shall issue a duplicate certificate of title plainly marked "duplicate" across its face upon application by the person entitled to hold the certificate if the department is satisfied that the original certificate has been lost, stolen, mutilated, destroyed or has become illegible. The applicant shall furnish information concerning the original certificate and the circumstances of its loss, theft, mutilation or destruction. Mutilated or illegible certificates shall be returned to the department with the application for a duplicate. If a duplicate certificate of title has been issued and the lost or stolen original is recovered, the original shall be promptly surrendered to the department for cancellation.
MS Code § 59-25-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 25 - Certificates of Title for Boats and Other Vessels|§ 59-25-7. Certificate of origin; records of sale, purchase, or exchange of vessel

  No dealer shall purchase or acquire a new vessel or motor without obtaining from the seller a manufacturer's or importer's certificate of origin. No manufacturer, importer, dealer or other person shall sell or otherwise dispose of a new vessel or motor to a dealer for purposes of resale without delivering to the dealer a manufacturer's or importer's certificate of origin.   The manufacturer's or importer's certificate of origin shall be a uniform or standardized form prescribed by the department and shall contain: a description of the vessel or motor including its trade name, model year, length, type and hull identification number; an assignment form, including the certification of date of transfer of vessel or motor, the name and address of transferee; certification that the vessel or motor is new, and a warranty that the vessel or motor at the time of delivery is subject only to such liens and encumbrances as set forth and described in full in the assignment.   Every dealer shall maintain for at least three (3) years a record of any vessel or motor bought, sold, exchanged or received for sale or exchange. This record shall be available for inspection by department representatives during reasonable business hours.
MS Code § 59-25-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 25 - Certificates of Title for Boats and Other Vessels|§ 59-25-9. Hull identification numbers; motor serial numbers

  Every vessel shall have a hull identification number assigned and affixed. The department shall assign a hull identification number to an undocumented vessel not having a hull identification number at the time of numbering or applying for a certificate of title after transfer of ownership or change of state of principal operation. Every motor shall have a motor serial number affixed.   A person may not destroy, remove, alter, cover or deface the manufacturer's hull identification number or motor serial number, the plate bearing it or any hull identification number or motor serial number the department assigns to any vessel or motor, without authorization from the department.
MS Code § 59-25-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 25 - Certificates of Title for Boats and Other Vessels|§ 59-25-11. Transfer of title by operation of law

  In the event of a transfer by operation of law of the title or interest of an owner in a vessel or motor titled under this chapter, the transferee or his legal representative shall apply to the department for a certificate of title within thirty (30) days of the transfer. The application shall be accompanied by the title or other states registration previously issued for the vessel or motor, if available, together with any instruments or documents of authority, or certified copies thereof, satisfactory to the department as proof of ownership and the required fee.   For purposes of this chapter, transfer by operation of law shall include transfers to anyone as legatee or distributee or as surviving joint owner or by an order in bankruptcy or insolvency, execution sale, repossession upon default in the performing of the terms of a lease or executory sales contract, or transfers pursuant to any written agreement ratified or incorporated in a decree or order of a court of record, or otherwise than by the voluntary act of the person whose title or interest is so transferred.   If the holder of a certificate of title is deceased and there has been no qualification on his estate, a transfer may be made by a legatee or distributee. The legatee or distributee presents to the department the original certificate of title and a statement made to the effect that there has not been or expected to be a qualification on the estate and that the decedent's debts have been paid or that the proceeds from the sale of the vessel or motor will be applied against his debts. The statement shall contain the name, residence at the time of death, date of death of the decedent, and the names of any other persons having an interest in the vessel or motor for which the title is to be transferred. If these persons are of legal age, they shall indicate in writing their consent to the transfer of the title.
MS Code § 59-25-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 25 - Certificates of Title for Boats and Other Vessels|§ 59-25-15. Certificate of number prima facie evidence of ownership

 Issuance of a certificate of number shall be prima facie evidence of ownership of a vessel and entitles a person to a certificate of title, but certificate of number and certificate of title shall be subject to rebuttal.
MS Code § 59-25-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 59 - Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft|Chapter 25 - Certificates of Title for Boats and Other Vessels|§ 59-25-17. Authority of department to adopt rules and regulations, prescribe forms, and carry out investigations

  The department shall adopt the necessary rules and regulations to implement this chapter.   The department shall prescribe and provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of title, notices of security interests and all other notices and forms necessary to carry out this chapter.   The department may make necessary investigations to procure information required to carry out this chapter.
MS Code § 61-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 61 - Aviation|Chapter 1 - Transportation Commission|§ 61-1-1. Purpose of chapter

 It is hereby declared that the purpose of this chapter is to further the public interest and aeronautical progress by providing for the protection, promotion and development of aeronautics; by cooperating in effecting a uniformity of the laws relating to the development of aeronautics in the several states; by revising existing statutes relative to the development and regulation of aeronautics so as to grant to a state agency such powers and impose upon it such duties that the state may properly perform its functions relative to aeronautics and effectively exercise its jurisdiction over persons and property within the state, that the state may assist in the promotion of a statewide system of airports, and that the state may cooperate with and assist the political subdivisions of this state in order that those engaged in aeronautics of every character may so engage with the least possible restriction consistent with the safety and the rights of other persons; and by providing for cooperation with the federal authorities in the development of a national system of civil aviation and for the coordination of the aeronautical activities of those authorities and the authorities of this state by assisting in accomplishing the purposes of federal legislation and eliminating costly and unnecessary duplication of functions properly in the province of the federal agencies.
MS Code § 61-1-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 61 - Aviation|Chapter 1 - Transportation Commission|§ 61-1-15. Rules, regulations, standards, orders and procedures

  Power to issue.- The commission may perform such acts, issue and amend such orders, make, promulgate, and amend such reasonable general or special rules, regulations and procedures, and establish such minimum standards consistent with the provisions of this chapter, as it shall deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and to perform its duties hereunder, all commensurate with and for the purpose of protecting and insuring the general public interest and safety, the safety of persons operating, using or traveling in aircraft or persons receiving instruction in flying or ground subjects pertaining to aeronautics, and the safety of persons and property on land or water, and developing and promoting aeronautics in this state. No rule or regulation of the commission shall apply to airports or air navigation facilities owned or operated by the United States.   Conformity to federal legislation and rules.- No rules, regulations, orders or standards prescribed by the commission shall be inconsistent with, or contrary to, any act of the congress of the United States or any regulations promulgated or standards established pursuant thereto.   Filing.- The commission shall keep on file with the secretary of state, and at the principal office of the commission, a copy of all its rules and regulations for public inspection.   Distribution.- The commission shall provide for the publication and general distribution of all its orders, rules, regulations and procedures having general effect.
MS Code § 61-1-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 61 - Aviation|Chapter 1 - Transportation Commission|§ 61-1-17. Cooperation with federal government

 The commission is authorized to cooperate with the government of the United States, and any agency or department thereof, in the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance and operation of airports and other air navigation facilities in this state, and to comply with the provisions of the laws of the United States and any regulations made thereunder for the expenditure of federal monies upon such airports and other air navigation facilities.
MS Code § 61-1-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 61 - Aviation|Chapter 1 - Transportation Commission|§ 61-1-19. Acceptance of federal funds and other donations

 The commission is authorized to accept, receive, and receipt for federal monies and other monies, either public or private, for and in behalf of this state, or any municipality thereof, when authorized by the municipality to do so, for the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of airports and other air navigation facilities, whether such work is to be done by the state or by such municipalities or any other political subdivision of the State of Mississippi aided by grants of aid for the United States, upon such terms and conditions as are or may be prescribed by the laws of the United States and any rules or regulations made thereunder. The commission is authorized to act as agent of any municipality or other person or persons in accepting, receiving, and receipting for such monies in its behalf for airports or other air navigation facility purposes, and in contracting for the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, or operation of airports or other air navigation facilities, financed either in whole or in part by federal monies. The governing body of any such municipality or other person or persons is authorized to designate the commission as its agent for such purposes and to enter into an agreement with it prescribing the terms and conditions of such agency in accordance with federal laws, rules and regulations and with this chapter. Such monies as are paid over by the United States government shall be retained by the state or paid over to said municipalities or other person or persons under such terms and conditions as may be imposed by the United States government in making such grants.
MS Code § 61-1-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 61 - Aviation|Chapter 1 - Transportation Commission|§ 61-1-21. Contracts of commission

 All contracts for the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of airports, or other air navigation facilities made by the commission, either as the agent of this state or as the agent of any municipality or other person or persons, shall be made pursuant to the laws of this state governing the making of like contracts. However, where the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of any airport, landing strip, or other air navigation facility is financed wholly or partially with federal money, the commission, as agent of the state or any municipality or other person or persons thereof, may let contracts in the same manner prescribed by the federal authorities, acting under the laws of the United States, and any rules or regulations made thereunder, notwithstanding any other state law to the contrary.
MS Code § 61-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 61 - Aviation|Chapter 1 - Transportation Commission|§ 61-1-23. Deposit and disbursement of funds

 All monies accepted for disbursement by the commission pursuant to Section 61-1-19 shall be deposited in the state treasury, and unless otherwise prescribed by the authority from which the money is received, kept in separate funds, designated according to the purposes for which the monies were made available, and held by the state in trust for such purposes. All monies are hereby appropriated for the purposes for which the same were made available, to be expended in accordance with federal laws and regulations and with this chapter. The commission is authorized, whether acting for this state or as the agent of any of its municipalities or other person or persons, or when requested by the United States government or any agency or department thereof, to disburse such monies for the designated purposes, but this shall not preclude any other authorized method of disbursement.