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MS Code § 57-1-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-13. Plans for advertising and developing state

 It shall be the duty of the executive director to prepare and perfect plans for the advertisement and development of the state in such manner and through such means as he may deem proper and within such appropriations as shall be made for expenditure.
MS Code § 57-1-14 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-14. Confidentiality of client information concerning development projects

  Any records of the Department of Economic and Community Development which contain client information concerning development projects shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983 for a period of two (2) years after receipt of the information by the department.   Confidential client information in public records held by the department shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983 during the period of review and negotiation on a project proposal and for a period of thirty (30) days after approval, disapproval or abandonment of the proposal not to exceed one (1) year by the department in writing.
MS Code § 57-1-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-15. Interstate and federal cooperation; Economic Development Fund

 The department is hereby authorized to cooperate and coordinate with economic development commissions, travel and other similar commissions and boards, and/or other similar agencies of other states, the federal government, and with county, municipal and regional economic development, travel and other similar commissions or boards, or other agencies thereof, for the purposes of securing economic development within the State of Mississippi, and to accomplish this purpose, the department may contract for, receive and expend, state, federal and other funds; and to that end, there is hereby created within the department a special fund designated as the "Economic Development Fund," to be kept separate and apart from all other funds and into which all funds received for the above-stated purposes shall be deposited and which funds are not appropriated by the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 57-1-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-17. Publicity and advertising; research laboratory

 It shall be the duty of the executive director and he is hereby authorized to prepare and execute a program of publicity and advertising that will bring into favorable notice the industrial, commercial, recreational, educational and social advantages, opportunities, possibilities, resources, farm and dairy products, and facilities of the state, and in the preparation and execution of such program he may use any funds which may be appropriated or otherwise made available for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51. The department may erect, equip, maintain and operate a research laboratory for the purpose of finding new and additional uses for Mississippi products and is authorized and empowered to receive, use and expend any funds from state, federal or private sources which it may receive for that purpose.
MS Code § 57-1-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-19. Municipal enterprises; certificate of public convenience and necessity

 The executive director is charged with the duty of making effective the declared public policy of the state and municipalities as hereinabove set forth, and for that purpose is hereby authorized and empowered to determine whether the public convenience and necessity require that any municipality shall have the right to acquire lands, and thereon to erect enterprises, and expansions thereof and thereto, conditioned, however, that the municipality, if so required by him, shall take security upon the existing building or buildings at the time of entering into contract for the expansion of existing buildings and facilities, and to operate them and to dispose of or rent, let or lease such lands and enterprises. Each municipality within this state shall have the right to apply to the executive director for a certificate of public convenience and necessity as to whether the general welfare requires that such municipality enter into a given enterprise. In determining whether such certificate shall be issued, the executive director may hold public hearings or private hearings, make such investigations as he may desire; and he shall have power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, hear testimony and make a record of all things had and done at such hearing or investigation, and may issue such certificates of convenience and necessity as he deems advisable.
MS Code § 57-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-23. Municipal enterprises; power conferred to acquire lands, erect buildings, etc.

  The several municipalities of this state, including counties, judicial districts of counties having two judicial districts, supervisors districts, cities, towns or villages, whether existing under special charters or otherwise, hereinabove called "municipalities," are hereby authorized and empowered to make effective the provisions herein contained, for the general welfare of the state and of the several municipalities thereof. When and after such municipality shall have obtained therefor a certificate of public convenience and necessity, under the provisions of Sections 57-1-19 and 57-1-21, then it may acquire land by purchase, gift, eminent domain or otherwise for any such enterprise so thus approved, and may directly or by contract, such contract to be entered into and governed as now provided by law for other public contracts entered into by boards of supervisors, erect such buildings and structures as may be essential for such enterprise, may obtain for such enterprise the requisite appliances and equipment, and may operate such enterprise. The power thus to do is hereby generally conferred upon all such municipalities, and shall be in addition to all other powers now possessed without in anywise limiting or circumscribing them.   Any city or town in this state situated in a county bordering on the Mississippi River and situated not more than five miles from the proposed industrial site or location of any industrial plant or proposed site of such plant, authorized to be established, built and erected under the terms of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, such distance to be measured between the corporate line of any such city or town nearest such proposed site and the boundary of such proposed site nearest such corporate line, is hereby authorized and empowered to join with another municipality and subdivisions of government, as defined hereinabove, in the creation, establishment, acquisition, ownership, control, sale, lease, disposition and disposal of any such plant, plant site and/or other property, real and personal, acquired, owned, or otherwise possessed and controlled under authority of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, notwithstanding the fact that the said, or proposed, plant, plant site, and/or other property, real or personal, is situated in another supervisors district other than the supervisors district in which such city or town is situated. In all cases provided for in this subsection, all authority, powers, privileges and rights provided for in Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, shall be and are hereby conferred upon and vested in such city or town and such other municipality as may join therewith, as herein authorized.
MS Code § 57-1-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-27. Bonds and certain contracts subject to approval of executive director

 Before any bonds shall be issued under Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51 by any municipality, or any contract shall be made to dispose of any public property hereunder acquired, the same must be approved in its entirety by the executive director, but such approval shall not in any way render the State of Mississippi liable.
MS Code § 57-1-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-31. Compensation of attorneys employed in issuance of bonds

 The board of supervisors of any county, or the governing authorities of any municipality or other political subdivision, shall have the power, in its discretion, to pay reasonable compensation to attorneys who may be employed by it in the matter of the issuance of bonds authorized to be issued by the provisions of this chapter, the drafting of all orders and resolutions in connection therewith, and passing upon the validity thereof. However, in no instance shall the attorney's fees paid for the issuance or refunding of such bonds exceed the following amounts, to-wit:   On all such bond issues the attorney's fees shall not exceed one percent (1%) of the first five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00); one-half percent (1/2%) of all over five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) and not more than one million dollars ($1,000,000.00); and one-fourth percent (1/4%) of all amounts in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000.00).   As used in this section, the term "municipalities" shall be construed to include any political subdivision of this state authorized to issue bonds under the authority contained in this chapter.   The limitations imposed herein shall not apply to any bond issue upon which a declaration of intent to issue bonds has heretofore been spread upon the minutes of the political subdivision desiring to issue same.
MS Code § 57-1-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-33. Duties of executive director as to issuance of bonds

 When the executive director authorizes any municipality to issue bonds under the provisions of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, he shall find and determine the total amount of bonds to be issued. He shall fix the maturity dates of the bonds consistent with the provisions of the aforesaid sections. He shall determine the amount of taxes necessary to be levied and collected annually to retire the bonds and pay interest coupons and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the bonds and interest so that the annual tax levy shall be uniform throughout the period for which the bonds are issued. He shall require the municipality to report annually to him payments made on the bonds and on interest, with the dates of payments, and to report the amount passed to the sinking fund, together with a list and amount of the bonds remaining outstanding for purposes of the aforesaid sections, and a failure so to do shall make the members of the governing board guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable accordingly. All of such reports shall be permanent public records of the department.
MS Code § 57-1-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-35. Sale of bonds

 The bonds hereinabove provided for shall be sold by the governing authority of the municipality at not less than par and accrued interest at public sale held after notice of such sale published at least one (1) time at least five (5) days before such sale in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.
MS Code § 57-1-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-37. Issuance of additional bonds by municipality

 In the case any municipality shall have initiated any industry as provided in Sections 57-1-19 and 57-1-21, and thereafter said municipality lacks the requisite funds for completion by reason of emergency which was wholly unforeseen, then upon the approval of the commission, upon the same terms and conditions as herein set forth, additional bonds may be authorized.
MS Code § 57-1-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-39. Exemption from taxation of bonds

 All bonds issued pursuant to Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51 and all interest thereon or income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation except gift and inheritance taxes. Necessary taxes levied and collection for the payment of these bonds and interest thereon shall not be considered or accounted in any limitation on the powers of the municipality to tax except as otherwise herein provided.
MS Code § 57-1-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-41. Investment of surplus sinking funds in bonds

 Any municipality having surplus sinking funds under the provisions of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51 may, in the discretion of the governing board of such municipality, invest said sinking funds by purchasing bonds of any county or municipality of this state, bonds of the State of Mississippi, or bonds issued by authority of the United States government, except drainage district bonds, provided, that the bonds so purchased shall mature prior to the time when the bonds payable out of the sinking fund hereunder shall fall due.
MS Code § 57-1-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-43. Payment and retirement of bonds; use of surplus income

 Any municipality may use any sinking fund, reserve fund, or surplus fund to purchase any bond hereunder issued, and shall cancel and retire the same when, in the judgment of the governing authorities of such municipality, the interest of such municipality will be subserved thereby. Any surplus income from said enterprise arising through its operation or from its disposition, accruing to the municipality over and above the amount necessary to pay for repairs, replacements, bonds herein authorized which may be issued and interest thereon, may be applied by the governing board of the municipality upon any of the other outstanding debts or obligations of the municipality.
MS Code § 57-1-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-45. Sale, lease, etc., of municipal enterprises

 The several municipalities when and to the extent authorized by the executive director pursuant hereto, are hereby authorized and empowered, if they so desire, by and through their governing board, to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of such enterprise or enterprises, in whole or in part, on such terms and conditions and with such safeguards as will best promote and protect the public interest, and are authorized, acting with the approval of the executive director by and through their respective governing boards, to transfer title or possession to such industry or to any property utilized therein, by warranty deed, lease, bill of sale, contract or other customary business instrument, in the same manner and to the same extent, when so thus authorized by the executive director, that any private corporation, association or person may now contract, with reference to such property of a similar nature, provided that such disposition shall not be made except by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the members elected to the governing body of such municipality, and all votes shall be of record. All income from any lease or contract for the operation or from the disposition of such industrial enterprise shall be paid into the bond sinking fund provided for the bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51 for the retirement of such bonds and the interest thereon, and such income or proceeds shall not be used by the municipality for any other purpose except as to disposition of surplus income authorized above, and shall be subject to all of the provisions hereof relative to such sinking fund.
MS Code § 57-1-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-47. Municipal enterprises exempt from taxation

 All enterprises acquired, constructed or owned by any of said municipalities under the provisions of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51, are declared the public property of each of said municipalities, and as such, shall not be subject to taxation.
MS Code § 57-1-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-49. Assistance by port authorities

 Any port commission or authority created by law, operating in any county or municipality of this state, is authorized and empowered to assist and cooperate with such county or municipality to effectuate the purposes of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51.
MS Code § 57-1-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-51. Construction of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51

 The provisions of Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51 shall not repeal or impair any law now in effect, except as therein specifically provided, but shall exist as a separate, several, independent, additional and cumulative method for giving to the people of Mississippi the fulfillment of the public policy of encouraging the promotion of economic development of new and existing "enterprises." Nor shall the aforesaid sections or any part thereof repeal any of the provisions of private or special municipal charters, nor affect, limit or restrict the right of any municipality, now operating under special charter, to amend said charter pursuant to the provisions of Section 21-17-9, Mississippi Code of 1972, which section shall apply to Sections 57-1-1 through 57-1-51.
MS Code § 57-1-52 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-52. Creation of Department of Economic and Community Development; organization; executive director; division directors

  There is hereby created the Mississippi Department of Economic and Community Development, whose principal offices shall be located in Jackson, Mississippi.   The Mississippi Department of Economic and Community Development shall be organized into the following offices:   Office of Economic Development;   Office of Community Development;   Office of Support Services.     The department shall be headed by an executive director, who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The appointment of the executive director shall be made with the advice and consent of the Senate. The executive director may assign to the appropriate offices such powers and duties as deemed appropriate to carry out the department's lawful functions.   The executive director of the department shall appoint heads of offices, who shall serve at the pleasure of the executive director. The executive director shall have the authority to organize the offices established by subsection (2) of this section as deemed appropriate to carry out the responsibilities of the department. The organization charts of the department shall be presented annually with the budget request of the Governor for review by the Legislature.
MS Code § 57-1-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-53. Department designated agency for receipt of federal funds; coordination of functions relating to economic development and tourism

 The department is designated as the single state agency to receive and expend any federal funds made available for matters within the jurisdiction of the department.   The department shall coordinate all functions of state government related to economic development and tourism within the jurisdiction of the department.
MS Code § 57-1-54 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-54. Transfer of powers and duties of Department of Economic and Community Development to Mississippi Development Authority

 The Mississippi Development Authority shall be the Department of Economic and Community Development and shall retain all powers and duties granted by law to the Mississippi Department of Economic and Community Development and wherever the term "Mississippi Department of Economic and Community Development," "Department of Economic and Community Development," "Mississippi Department of Economic Development" or "Department of Economic Development" appears in any law the same shall mean the Mississippi Development Authority. The Mississippi Development Authority may continue to refer to itself as the Mississippi Department of Economic and Community Development for as long as it may deem necessary. The Executive Director of the Mississippi Development Authority may assign to the appropriate divisions such powers and duties as he deems appropriate to carry out its lawful duties.   Nothing in the Mississippi Executive Reorganization Act of 1989 [Laws, 1989, Chapter 544] shall be construed to eliminate or change in any manner the duties, functions or operations of the planning and development districts heretofore created by executive order of the Governor.
MS Code § 57-1-56 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-56. Occupational Information Coordinating Committee

 The Occupational Information Coordinating Committee shall be located within the Department of Economic and Community Development and shall develop and implement an occupational information system for vocational education, employment and training programs.
MS Code § 57-1-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 57 - Planning, Research and Development|Chapter 1 - Mississippi Development Authority|In General|§ 57-1-57. Study to determine existence of disparity in number of qualified minority contractors

 The Mississippi Development Authority shall conduct and prepare, or shall contract for the preparation of, a study to determine if there is a significant statistical disparity in the total number of qualified minority contractors of goods and services doing business in the State of Mississippi and the actual number of such minority contractors with whom the State of Mississippi, or with whom a prime contractor with the State of Mississippi, has contracted to provide goods and services.