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MS Code § 65-19-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-83. Benefit district roads

 Whenever the owners of not less than one-half of the land bordering on or adjacent to any section of road established shall petition for a survey and estimate of the cost of building the road in a substantial and permanent manner of stone, gravel, chert, slag, brick, a combination of such material, or of any material equally durable and economical, the board may cause a survey and estimate to be made by a licensed civil engineer. Whenever thereafter the petitioners shall present to the board a map or description of the land which in their opinion would be directly benefited by the construction of such road, together with the written requests of the owners of not less than three-fifths of such land asking that all lands so benefited be assessed in proportion to the benefit conferred to pay one-third of the cost of construction, the board may levy and collect a special tax on such lands sufficient to pay one third of the cost thereof. Such lands shall be known as the benefit district of such section of road.
MS Code § 65-19-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-85. Assessment of benefit district lands

 The board, in assessing the benefits derived by any land in such district, shall consider only its proximity to the road and its market terminus. No benefit assessment shall be made on any lands when the distance between it and the nearest point on the road is greater than three tenths of the distance from such point on the road to the market terminus of the road, and no benefit assessment shall be made on any land more than three and one-half miles from the road. Any subdivision of a section of land containing forty acres, more or less, for the purposes of the benefit assessment may be included in such district if one fourth thereof is within the lines of the district. The board may collect from a benefit district an amount equal to One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each lineal mile of road constructed therein, and no more, except interest on the amount that may be expended twelve months or more in advance of the collection of any tax. The board shall not undertake the construction of any road when the estimate indicates that the total cost will exceed Thirty-five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) per mile.
MS Code § 65-19-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-87. Collection of benefit district taxes

 The board shall provide for the collection of taxes from the benefit district in such annual installments as it may determine, extending over not more than fifteen years, and may borrow money in advance of the collection of such taxes, in which event an amount sufficient to pay the annual interest shall be collected in addition to the principal. The taxes so assessed and levied shall be a lien upon the land and be collected at the same time and in the same manner that state and county taxes are collected. A separate assessment roll shall be provided by the board, and the assessor shall assess the lands in each benefit district separately, together with the benefit tax assessed thereon. He shall also mark in red ink on the general assessment roll the particular lands the benefits of which have been assessed.
MS Code § 65-19-88 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts|§ 65-19-88. Construction and improvement of unpaved streets or roads within developed subdivision

  Whenever the owners of not less than one-half (1/2) of all lots bordering on any unpaved, dedicated public street or road within a developed subdivision located outside the boundaries of any incorporated municipality of a county petition for a survey and estimate of the cost of building and paving the street or road in a substantial and permanent manner of asphalt, blacktop, concrete or other such material equally durable, the board may cause a survey and cost estimate thereof to be made by a licensed civil engineer. Thereafter, if at least three-fifths (3/5) of such landowners sign and file a petition with the board of supervisors, along with a map or description of the lots bordering such street or road and designating the owners of all lots bordering thereon, requesting such street or road to be paved with the costs thereof to be charged or assessed against the owners of such lots bordering thereon, the board of supervisors may proceed to the paving and permanent construction of such street or road. The entire costs of paving and permanently constructing such street or road within the subdivision shall be paid by the owners of the lots bordering on the street or road so improved within the subdivision only by either, at the option of each such lot owner, a lump sum, one-time payment or by a special tax imposed by the county on the lots sufficient to pay such lot owner's proportionate share of the total costs. A lot owner's share of the total costs for building and improving such street or road shall be determined according to the proportion which the number of lineal feet of a lot owner's lot which borders on the improved street or road bears to the total number of lineal feet of improved street or road.   If one or more lot owners elect to pay their share of the costs of improving a street or road under subsection (1) of this section by means of a special tax on their lots, then the board shall provide for the collection of taxes from the lot owners thereof in such annual installments as it may determine, extending over not more than twenty (20) years, and may borrow money in advance of the collection of such taxes, in which event an amount sufficient to pay the annual interest shall be collected in addition to the principal. The taxes so assessed and levied shall be a lien upon the lots and be collected at the same time and in the same manner that state and county taxes are collected. A separate assessment roll shall be provided by the board, and the assessor shall assess the lots of each lot owner separately, together with the special tax assessed thereon. He shall also mark in red ink on the general assessment roll the particular lots which have been so assessed.   The provisions of this section shall not be construed as amending or repealing the provisions of Sections 65-19-83 through 65-19-87, but shall be supplemental and additional to the provisions contained therein.
MS Code § 65-21-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-1. Width of bridges and culverts

 All culverts hereafter built, rebuilt, or placed in any public road in this state shall be not less than the full width of the crown of the roadway, and shall have guide or warning posts on either side. All bridges hereafter built, rebuilt, or placed in any public road of this state shall be built the full width of the crown of the roadway where the same is sixteen feet wide or less, and on roads having a greater width than sixteen feet the bridges shall be not less than sixteen feet wide; and all bridges hereafter built or rebuilt shall be built with banisters on either side. This section shall not apply to temporary bridges and culverts on detours; and all public highways in this state within the area of, or contingent to, any national reforestation project, which have been or may be taken over, constructed, or reconstructed by this department of the national government, may have bridges or culverts the width of said highways, but not less than twelve feet.
MS Code § 65-21-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-5. Illumination of bridges

 The several counties of this state bordering on the tide water of the Gulf of Mexico are authorized and empowered, in the discretion of the boards of supervisors of such counties or of any of them, to provide for the proper illumination of all such bridges and other parts of any of the public highways running in, through, or across said counties or any of them as, in the discretion of said boards of supervisors, may be deemed reasonable and necessary. Said boards of supervisors may and shall have authority to appropriate a reasonable and proper sum, to be paid out of the general county fund, for payment of the expenses of providing said system of illumination and the maintenance thereof.
MS Code § 65-21-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-7. Toll bridges and ferries

 The boards of supervisors may, when the same cannot otherwise be conveniently maintained, establish, license, construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge or ferry on any part of a public road, and shall fix and regulate the tolls.
MS Code § 65-21-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-9. Bond of toll bridge and ferry keepers

 The board of supervisors shall require the keeper of every toll bridge or ferry to give bond with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the president and clerk of the board in a penalty, to be fixed by the board, of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and not more than Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00), and conditioned to keep the bridge or ferry at all times in good repair so as to secure the safe transportation, on the payment of the fixed tolls, of all persons and property, and in all things to comply with the law and the reasonable orders of the board regulating the keeping of such toll bridge or ferry, but saving to the keeper a reasonable time within which to repair damage done by a sudden freshet, storm, or other unforeseen accident.
MS Code § 65-21-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-11. Board of supervisors may purchase privately owned bridges

 The boards of supervisors of the respective counties are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase or condemnation proceedings privately owned bridges across rivers or other bodies of water where the said bridges form a link or part of any county, public road, or highway. The boards of supervisors may, in their discretion, contract to purchase and buy any such privately owned bridges at such price and upon such terms as may seem reasonable to the board.
MS Code § 65-21-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-13. Damages for taking private bridges

 In event the board of supervisors and the owners of such bridges cannot agree upon the price to be paid therefor, then the board of supervisors may condemn such bridge as a necessary part of the public road or highway of which said bridge connects and forms a part, and the amount to be paid for such bridge by the county shall be ascertained and determined in the manner now provided by law for the owners of land obtaining compensation for land taken for a public county road. All proceedings of the board of supervisors in assessing the amount to be paid the owners of such bridges may be reviewed by the circuit court; and the owner of such bridge so condemned by the county may appeal from the action of the board to the circuit court, where all questions of damages may be tried anew in the same respect as provided by law for appeals from action of the board of supervisors in assessing damages to the owners of land where land is taken for public county roads.
MS Code § 65-21-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-15. Purchase of toll bridge for free operation

 The board of supervisors of one or more counties, acting individually or jointly by agreement with the private owner or owners, may purchase and maintain toll-free one or more toll bridges in one or more counties. However, this section and 65-21-17 shall not apply to any interstate bridge, nor the bridge across the Pascagoula River at Pascagoula, Mississippi, nor to any bridge on any designated state highway maintained in whole or in part by the state highway department.
MS Code § 65-21-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-17. Bonds to maintain toll-free bridge

 For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Section 65-21-15, the board or boards of supervisors may, in the same manner as set forth in said section, declare it to be their intention to issue bonds not earlier than thirty days and publish the same, stating the amount of contemplated bond issue, in any legal newspaper in the county or counties involved as provided by law. If twenty per cent of the qualified electors petition the board or boards of supervisors for an election to determine said bond issue, the board or boards of supervisors shall order an election not later than thirty days from the date the petition was presented, and a majority of the qualified electors voting shall decide the bond issue. If one or more of the counties voting should, by a majority vote of the qualified electors voting, decide against said bond issue, the part voting against the bond issue shall not issue said bonds; but if one or more of the counties voting at the same time or some other time vote favorably by a majority of the qualified electors voting for a bond issue, as provided in this section, then the board or boards of supervisors of the county or counties so voting may issue the designated bonds for the purpose of purchasing only the designated bridge or bridges.
MS Code § 65-21-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-19. Bridges connecting districts

 When a bridge over any stream or other water will connect two or more districts in any county and the districts so connected shall desire to join in defraying the costs and expenses incident to the building and construction of said bridge, or if only one of said districts shall desire to defray said costs and expenses, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of such county, upon petition of twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of said districts or, in the case last mentioned, of the district, to order an election to be held on a day to be fixed by it, submitting to the qualified electors of the districts or the district affected, as the case may be, the proposal of said board of supervisors to issue bonds for said purpose against all the taxable property in said districts or district, as the case may be. Said board shall give notice of such election to issue such bonds by publication in a newspaper having a general circulation in said county for three consecutive weeks, which said election shall be held, conducted, and certified as required by law for the holding of general elections, so far as applicable. The tickets to be used in said election shall have printed thereon the purposes for and the amount of said proposed bond issue, after which shall be printed thereon "for the issuance of the bonds" and below that thereon "against the issuance of the bonds."
MS Code § 65-21-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-21. Bond issue for bridges connecting districts

 Should the result of such election show that it has carried in favor of the issuance of bonds by a majority vote in each district or in the one district, as the case may be, then it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to issue the bonds of such districts or district affected thereby, as the case may be, for the purpose aforesaid in any amount which, with other outstanding district road or bridge bonds, will not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the assessed valuation of said districts or district affected thereby, as the case may be.
MS Code § 65-21-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-23. Bridges over rivers at county boundaries

 When a bridge shall be necessary over a stream or any other body of water which divides one county from another, or a bridge over a river or any other body of water flowing from one county into another shall be necessary at the intersection of the river and the line between the counties, (or necessary to two or more counties and within five miles of each of said counties), the boards of supervisors of all interested counties to which it may be necessary may join in the agreement for building, repairing, and keeping the same. The charge therefor shall be defrayed by all such interested counties as may be agreed upon by the boards of all of said counties; and if the board of supervisors of one county refuses to join in the agreement, the other county or counties may construct the bridge, with the consent of the board of supervisors of the county refusing or failing to join, and have exclusive control of it and charge toll thereon against citizens of the county not joining in the building. The will of the several boards of supervisors hereunder shall be expressed by a resolution duly adopted, entered on the minutes, and published in a newspaper in the county, if there be one; if there be no newspaper in the county, then in a newspaper in an adjoining county, for three weeks before such resolution shall take effect.
MS Code § 65-21-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-25. Bridges at intersection of river flowing from one county to another

 A bridge built at the intersection of a river flowing from one county into another shall be built at the nearest available site to said intersection. A municipality which, in the judgment of its governing authorities, will be benefited by the construction of such bridge may join such county, or either of them, in building such bridge and keeping and maintaining same upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon.
MS Code § 65-21-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-27. Bridges within municipalities

 In case any public highway of any county in the state shall cross any river or stream on such highway within the boundaries of any municipality, in whole or in part, and it shall be deemed by the board of supervisors to be to the interest of the public that a free or toll bridge be constructed across such stream at the expense and under jurisdiction of the county, and the municipal authorities of such municipality shall by ordinance express a willingness that such bridge be constructed and maintained at the expense of the county, the board of supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to establish, construct, and maintain such bridge either as a free or toll bridge, as in case of other bridges of the county and to the full extent as now authorized by law in such cases.
MS Code § 65-21-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-29. Supervisors to finance municipal bridges

 For the purpose of the construction and operation of the bridges mentioned in Section 65-21-27, the board of supervisors of the county, in the construction and management of same shall be vested with all the powers and authority provided by law for bridging streams of the county, including the levy of taxes and the issuance of bonds.
MS Code § 65-21-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions|§ 65-21-31. Written directive from Department of Transportation to close bridge under jurisdiction of political subdivision or municipality to prevent loss of federal transportation funding to state; retention of jurisdiction by political subdivision or municipality; duration of bridge closure; failure of political subdivision or municipality to comply with directive

 When any governing board of a political subdivision of the state or the governing board of a municipality must physically close a bridge or bridges under its jurisdiction in order for the state, a political subdivision of the state and/or a municipality of the state to receive or continue to receive federal transportation funding, the Mississippi Department of Transportation shall direct by written notice such governing board to physically close the bridge or bridges within sixty (60) days of the receipt of such notice. The governing board shall retain jurisdiction of such bridge or bridges and is responsible for all costs associated with the closed bridge or bridges, including closure and maintenance costs. Any such bridge or bridges shall remain closed until the bridge is able to be reopened in a condition that does not reduce the amount that the state, a political subdivision of the state and/or a municipality of the state shall receive or continue to receive in federal transportation funding. Any political subdivision of the state or municipality of the state whose governing board fails to comply with the directive provided under this section shall not be eligible for funding provided under Section 27-67-35 and shall remain ineligible until the governing board is in compliance with such directive.
MS Code § 65-26-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 26 - Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Bridges|§ 65-26-1. Legislative declaration of purpose

 It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is one of Mississippi's basic resources, and that the utilization, development, conservation and regulation of such waterway is necessary to promote and enhance the balanced economic development of the state.   It is further determined and declared that the use, development, conservation and regulation of waters of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway for domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural and manufacturing purposes, for recreational uses, transportation, economic development, irrigation, navigation and pollution abatement are, as a matter of public policy, for the general welfare of the entire people of the state.   The provisions of this chapter are determined to be necessary and essential to the accomplishment of the aforesaid purposes, and that this chapter operates on a subject in which the state-at-large is interested.
MS Code § 65-26-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 26 - Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Bridges|§ 65-26-3. Definitions

 For purposes of this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context shall otherwise require:   "General obligation bonds" shall mean bonds of the State of Mississippi, to the repayment of which, both as to principal and interest, the full faith, credit and taxing power of the State of Mississippi are irrevocably pledged until the principal and interest are paid in full.   "Highway Commission" shall mean the State Highway Commission.   "Bond commission" shall mean the state bond commission.   "Corps of Engineers" shall mean the United States Army Corps of Engineers.   "Bridge construction fund" shall mean the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway bridge construction fund as created by Section 65-26-25.   "Bond retirement fund" shall mean the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway bridge bond retirement fund created by Section 65-26-9.