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MS Code § 29-3-127 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|In General|§ 29-3-127. Inter-county townships

 Where a township is divided so that parts are situated in different counties, the county in which the sixteenth section or lands in lieu thereof may be situated shall have jurisdiction thereof and of the funds derived from it; and if the section or land in lieu thereof be in several counties, each county has jurisdiction of the part lying in it, or the counties may co-operate in the management thereof. In any case the fund shall be accounted for with each county according to the number of educable children in the part of the township in it as compared with the whole number in the township. Any county now having and hereafter receiving and collecting funds belonging to another county shall immediately thereafter pay over such funds, transfer and sign all notes, deeds of trust, and security for funds loaned out, to the depository of the county entitled thereto.
MS Code § 29-3-129 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|In General|§ 29-3-129. Division of damages to land in two school districts

 Where sixteenth section or lieu land allotted the township in lieu of a sixteenth section shall lie in two (2) or more school districts and trespass shall have been committed on said sixteenth section or lieu land, and suit shall have been filed and money collected because of said trespass or for any cause, it shall be the duty of the board of education where the money shall have been collected and deposited to the credit of the said district, unless the decree or order of the court provides otherwise, to divide said money so collected so that each county shall receive its share in proportion to the area in said sixteenth section lying in or allotted to each county; and the money, when so paid over to the respective district or districts, shall be placed to the credit of said township fund, to be invested and the interest therefrom to be used as now provided by law. This method of division provided herein shall apply to moneys collected and paid into any district treasury.
MS Code § 29-3-132 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|In General|§ 29-3-132. Effect of chapter on power of other entities to make zoning and land use laws, ordinances or regulations

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to supersede or modify any power or authority of a county, municipality, or combination thereof, or any zoning or planning board or agency, or similar public authority, to adopt and enforce zoning or land use laws, ordinances or regulations.
MS Code § 29-3-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|In General|§ 29-3-133. Construction of roads or streets upon lands in certain counties; authorization

 The board of supervisors of any county within the state having a population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) according to the latest federal census, upon receipt of a resolution adopted by the county board of education of any such county requesting it so to do, is authorized and empowered to construct roads or streets upon any sixteenth section lands lying within the boundaries of any municipality in such county having a population of more than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) according to the latest federal census.
MS Code § 29-3-135 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|In General|§ 29-3-135. Construction of roads or streets upon lands in certain counties; payment of cost

 The cost of the construction of any roads or streets performed under the terms of Section 29-3-133 shall be paid upon the order of the board of supervisors of any such county by the county board of education of such county out of any funds which would otherwise be paid over to the school district entitled to the revenues from the sixteenth section land upon which any such construction is done.
MS Code § 29-3-137 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|In General|§ 29-3-137. Disbursement of funds to Chickasaw counties; powers and duties of State Department of Education; issuance of promissory notes by school districts in Chickasaw counties to purchase school buses

  Beginning with the 1985-1986 fiscal year the Legislature of the State of Mississippi shall appropriate to the State Department of Education a sum of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) to be disbursed to the Chickasaw counties, and an additional One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) each succeeding fiscal year thereafter until a maximum appropriation of Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) is made for the fiscal year 1989-1990. Beginning with the appropriation for the 1990-1991 fiscal year, the amount appropriated under the provisions of this section shall not exceed the total average annual expendable revenue per teacher unit received by the Choctaw counties from school lands, or Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00), whichever is the lesser.   The State Department of Education is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to allocate for distribution such funds appropriated each year under subsection (1) of this section in proportion to the number of teacher units allotted under the minimum program, to such school districts affected by the sale of Chickasaw cession school lands. School districts not wholly situated in Chickasaw cession affected territory shall receive a prorated amount of such allocation based on the percentage of such lands located within the district. Provided further, that the State Department of Education shall in addition deduct from each affected school district's allocation the amount such district shall receive from interest payments from the Chickasaw School Fund under Section 212, Mississippi Constitution of 1890 for each fiscal year. The total number of teacher units in the Chickasaw counties shall be computed by the State Department of Education. The department shall document the foregoing computation in its annual budget request for the appropriation to the Chickasaw School Fund, and shall revise its budget request under such formula as the average annual revenues from sixteenth section school lands fluctuate.   [Repealed]
MS Code § 29-3-139 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|In General|§ 29-3-139. Disbursement of funds under Section 29-3-137 as affecting sums paid under Section 212 of Mississippi Constitution

 In no event shall any sums to be paid to the Chickasaw counties on schools therein pursuant to Section 212, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, be reduced by operation of this to an amount below that required by Section 212. It is the intent of the Legislature to increase the annual appropriation to the Chickasaw counties in order to equitably compensate them for each acre of sixteenth section land which they have lost through sale by the state.
MS Code § 29-3-151 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-151. Declaration of purpose

 The purpose of Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183 is to authorize the improvement, development, management and maintenance of sixteenth section lands, or lands granted in lieu thereof, within any county in Mississippi with a population in excess of two hundred thousand (200,000) at the time of the 1970 census, in order that such lands may be made suitable for leasing for commercial, industrial, and/or recreational use, including the authority necessary to finance the improvement and development thereof and to manage, maintain and lease said lands in order to derive the maximum public benefit and to earn maximum income from the lands for the public schools receiving the income. No lease shall be for a term in excess of twenty-five (25) years.
MS Code § 29-3-153 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-153. Definitions

 Whenever used in Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183, unless a different meaning clearly appears in the context, the following terms, whether used in the singular or plural, shall be given the following respective definitions:   "Trustees" shall refer to the board of trustees of the sixteenth section development authority.   "Authority" shall refer to the sixteenth section development authority.   "Project" shall refer to the area served by and to the facilities for use by commerce and related activity, such as water supply, storage and distribution; sewage and waste collection, transport, treatment and disposal; waste and refuse collection and disposal; gas, fuel and power supply and distribution; railroad construction, operation and maintenance; fire prevention, protection and extinguishing; storm drainage, collection and disposal; site preparation and development of commercially oriented sixteenth section lands, or lands granted in lieu thereof, and to the sixteenth section, or lands granted in lieu thereof, authorized to be developed by Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183.   "Development" shall mean the planning, surveying, platting, financing, improving and/or otherwise making sixteenth section lands, or lands granted in lieu thereof, suitable for commercial, industrial, and/or recreational use.   "Sealed bid procedure" shall refer to the procedure designated under Section 31-19-25, as supplemented by appropriate sections of Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183.
MS Code § 29-3-155 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-155. Creation of sixteenth section development authority; acquisition of easements; interim financing

 The board of supervisors of any county with a population of two hundred thousand (200,000) or more shall have the authority to create, by appropriate order spread on its minutes and approved by vote of at least three-fifths (3/5) of its members, a sixteenth section development authority for the purpose of developing all or any part of a sixteenth section, or lands granted in lieu thereof, controlled by the board; provided, however, that said authority shall not be created by said board unless and until the county school board and, in the event the sixteenth section or lands granted in lieu thereof is located within a municipal separate school district, the trustees of the municipal separate school district submit to the board a resolution, properly adopted, requesting the creation of said authority and designating the sixteenth section, or lands granted in lieu thereof, to be developed and leased. The order shall designate the sixteenth section, or lands granted in lieu thereof, to be developed in whole or in part by the authority; provided, however, that the order shall designate only one sixteenth section, or one section of land granted in lieu thereof, to be developed in whole or in part by the authority.   The board of supervisors of the county may acquire by condemnation any necessary easements for traffic thoroughfares or utility rights-of-way upon specific recommendation and request by the trustees, but for no other purpose shall the right of condemnation be allowed. Any condemnation award shall be paid from the funds of the authority.   The county school board and, in the event the sixteenth section or lands granted in lieu thereof is located within a municipal separate school district, the trustees of the municipal separate school district are specifically authorized to lend to the authority such funds for interim financing of development as may be available to the said board and trustees and deemed desirable. In the event that any such loan is made by the county school board and the trustees of the municipal separate school district, the participation of each in such loan shall be determined by the percentage of revenue from the sixteenth section, or lands granted in lieu thereof, to be developed by the authority which each received in the most prior year of receipt.
MS Code § 29-3-157 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-157. Selection of trustees of authority; vacancies; qualifications; compensation

 All powers of the authority shall be exercised by a board of trustees to be selected and composed as follows:   There shall be five (5) members of the board of trustees. One (1) member shall be appointed by the board of supervisors to serve one (1) year and four (4) members shall be appointed by the county board of education, one (1) of whom shall serve two (2) years, one (1) of whom shall serve three (3) years, one (1) of whom shall serve four (4) years, and one (1) of whom shall serve five (5) years after June 30, 1973; provided, however, that in the event any part of the sixteenth section, or lands granted in lieu thereof, to be developed by the authority is located within the corporate limits of any municipal separate school district, then the aforesaid two (2) members of the authority serving an initial term of three (3) and five (5) years shall be appointed by the trustees of the municipal separate school district. The terms of office of the respective members shall expire June 30 of each year, and after their initial term, each member shall be appointed to a term of five (5) years or until his successor has been appointed and has accepted. The superintendent of the Hinds County School Board shall be an ex officio member of the board and shall act as chairman thereof. The member of the authority serving the initial five-year term shall be the secretary of the board of trustees. In the event a vacancy occurs, the appointment or the unexpired term shall be made in the same manner as provided for the original appointment.   Members of the board of trustees of the authority may succeed themselves upon reappointment by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the appointing authority.   No member shall be appointed as a trustee who is not a qualified elector and bona fide resident of the county.   Each member of the board of trustees shall take and subscribe to the general oath of office required by Section 268 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi before the chancery clerk of the county in which the authority is created that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office, which oath shall be filed with the said clerk and by him preserved.   Each trustee not being paid for the day of the meeting by a political subdivision of the state shall receive not more than Twenty-two dollars and Fifty Cents ($22.50) per diem while actually performing the business of the authority and Ten Cents (10¢) per mile for distance traveled while actually on the business of the authority. Provided, however, that the compensation herein authorized shall apply for not more than fourteen (14) days per member during any calendar year.
MS Code § 29-3-163 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-163. Payments on bonds when net revenues are insufficient

 In the event net revenues of the project are insufficient to pay fully the principal and interest on bonds when due, the authority is hereby specifically authorized to pay, and shall pay, all or the remainder of said principal and interest from rental income. The county school board and the trustees of the municipal separate school district are hereby specifically authorized to pay, and shall pay, to the authority, if necessary, such sums as are sufficient to pay all or the remainder of said principal and interest from rental income, and the part of such sum to be paid by the said county school board and the trustees of the municipal separate school district, respectively, to the authority for this purpose shall be determined by the percentage of revenue from the sixteenth section, or lands granted in lieu thereof, to be developed by the authority which each received in the most prior year of receipt.
MS Code § 29-3-165 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-165. Sale of bonds

 On all revenue bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183 and hereafter sold, the trustees shall advertise them for sale on sealed bids for at least two (2) times in a newspaper within the county in which the bonds are to be sold, the first publication to be made at least ten (10) days preceding the date fixed for the reception of bids, such notice to give the time and place of sale. The procedure further demands that each bid shall be accompanied by a cashier's check, certified check, or exchange payable to the authority, issued or certified by a bank located in the state in the amount of not less than two percent (2%) of the par value of the bonds offered for sale, as a guaranty that the bidder will carry out his contract and purchase the bonds if the bid is accepted. If the successful bidder fails to purchase the bonds pursuant to his bid and contract, the amount of such good faith check shall be retained by the authority and covered into the proper fund as liquidated damages for such failure.
MS Code § 29-3-167 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-167. Issuance of bonds to defray expenses of authority

 The board of trustees, subject to the call for an election as outlined in Section 29-3-161, is authorized and empowered, in its discretion, for the purpose of providing funds to assist in defraying expenses of the authority created under Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183, to issue from time to time negotiable revenue bonds of the authority in such amount or amounts as its board of trustees shall deem necessary; provided, however, that not more than the aggregate amount of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00) of said bonds shall be outstanding at any one (1) time.
MS Code § 29-3-171 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-171. Validation of bonds

 All bonds issued pursuant to Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183 shall be validated as now provided in Sections 31-13-1 through 31-13-11, inclusive, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 29-3-173 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-173. Cooperation with other governmental agencies

 The authority shall have authority to act jointly with political subdivisions of the state and agencies, commissions and instrumentalities thereof, with municipalities, and with the federal government and other agencies thereof, in the performance of the purposes and services authorized in Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183 upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the trustees.
MS Code § 29-3-174 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-174. Immunity from tort actions except for wilful or gross negligence

 Except for willful or gross negligence, no action or suit sounding in tort arising out of the lease or use of the land for recreational purposes shall be brought or maintained against the authority or the trustees on account of any act or omission done in performance of the purposes and services authorized in Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183.
MS Code § 29-3-175 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-175. Exemptions from state taxation

 The accomplishment of the purposes stated in Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183 being for the benefit of the people of the county and for the improvement of their properties, the authority, in carrying out the purposes of Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183, will be performing an essential public function and shall not be required to pay any tax or assessment on the project and related facilities or any part thereof except as provided herein, and the interest on the bonds issued hereunder shall at all times be free from taxation within this state; and the state hereby covenants with the holders of any bonds to be issued hereunder that the authority shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments imposed by the state or any of its political subdivisions or taxing districts on improvements funded from the avails of the issue except assessments for municipal utilities benefiting the property.
MS Code § 29-3-177 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-177. Bonds as legal investments and as security for deposits of public funds

 All bonds of the authority 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, and 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.
MS Code § 29-3-179 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-179. Construction contracts

 All construction contracts by the authority where the amount of the contract shall exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) shall be made upon at least three (3) weeks' public notice by advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in the area, which notice shall state the thing to be done and invite sealed proposals, to be filed with the secretary of the authority, to do the work; and in all such cases, before the notice shall be published, the plans and specifications for the work shall be filed with the secretary of the authority and there remain; and the board of trustees of the authority shall award the contract to the lowest bidder who will comply with the terms imposed by such trustees and enter into bond with sufficient sureties to be approved by the trustees in such penalty as shall be fixed by the trustees, but in no case to be less than the contract price, conditioned for the prompt, proper and efficient performance of the contract.
MS Code § 29-3-181 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 3 - Sixteenth Section and Lieu Lands|Sixteenth Section Development Authorities|§ 29-3-181. Deposit of authority's funds

 All funds of the authority shall be deposited in the bank or banks utilized as depositories for other sixteenth section funds.