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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 63 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REGULATIONS (§§ 63-1-1 — 63-NEW01-NEW-014) › Chapter NEW01 - [PEER-TO-PEER CAR SHARING PROGRAM ACT] (§§ 63-NEW01-NEW-001 — 63-NEW01-NEW-014) › Section 63-NEW01-NEW-013 - [Newly enacted section not yet numbered] [Effective 1/17/2025] Automobile safety recalls

(1)
At the time when a vehicle owner registers as a shared vehicle owner on a peer-to-peer car sharing program and before the time when the shared vehicle owner makes a shared vehicle available for car sharing on the peer-to-peer car sharing program, the peer-to-peer car sharing program shall:
(a)
Verify that the shared vehicle does not have any safety recalls on the vehicle for which the repairs have not been made; and
(b)
Notify the shared vehicle owner of the requirements under subsection (2) of this section.
(2)
(a)
If the shared vehicle owner has received an actual notice of a safety recall on the vehicle, a shared vehicle owner shall not make a vehicle available as a shared vehicle on a peer-to-peer car sharing program until the safety recall repair has been made.
(b)
If a shared vehicle owner receives an actual notice of a safety recall on a shared vehicle while the shared vehicle is made available on the peer-to-peer car sharing program, the shared vehicle owner shall remove the shared vehicle as available on the peer-to-peer car sharing program, as soon as practicably possible after receiving the notice of the safety recall and until the safety recall repair has been made.
(c)
If a shared vehicle owner receives an actual notice of a safety recall while the shared vehicle is being used in the possession of a shared vehicle driver, as soon as practicably possible after receiving the notice of the safety recall, the shared vehicle owner shall notify the peer-to-peer car sharing program about the safety recall so that the shared vehicle owner may address the safety recall repair.
Added by Laws, 2024, ch. 429, SB 2530,§ 13, eff. 1/17/2025.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 63 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REGULATIONS (§§ 63-1-1 — 63-NEW01-NEW-014) › Chapter NEW01 - [PEER-TO-PEER CAR SHARING PROGRAM ACT] (§§ 63-NEW01-NEW-001 — 63-NEW01-NEW-014) › Section 63-NEW01-NEW-014 - [Newly enacted section not yet numbered] [Effective 1/17/2025] Regulations

The Commissioner of Insurance may promulgate rules and regulations that are necessary to administer and enforce the provisions of this act provided that such rules and regulations are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Added by Laws, 2024, ch. 429, SB 2530,§ 14, eff. 1/17/2025.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-1 - Definitions

When used in this chapter and for the purposes of Sections 65-1-1 through
65-1-21
, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context otherwise requires:
(a)
"Department" means the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Whenever the term "Mississippi State Highway Department," or the word "department" meaning the Mississippi State Highway Department, appears in the laws of the State of Mississippi, it shall mean the "Mississippi Department of Transportation."
(b)
"Office" means an administrative subdivision of the department.
(c)
"Bureau" means an administrative subdivision of an office.
(d)
"Commission" means the Mississippi Transportation Commission. Whenever the term "Mississippi State Highway Commission," or the word "commission" meaning the Mississippi State Highway Commission, appears in the laws of the State of Mississippi, it shall mean the Mississippi Transportation Commission.
(e)
"Executive Director" means the chief administrative officer of the department. Whenever the term "director," meaning the Chief Administrative Officer of the State Highway Department, appears in the laws of the State of Mississippi, it shall mean the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
(f)
"Director" means the chief officer of an office.
(g)
"Administrator" means the chief officer of a bureau.
(h)
"Highway" or "road" includes rights-of-way, bridge and drainage structures, signs, guardrails and other structures made in connection with such highway or road.
(i)
"Construction" includes reconstruction.
(j)
"Maintenance" means the constant maintenance and repair to preserve a smooth surfaced highway.
(k)
"Pave" means to construct with a surface of either high-type or intermediate-type pavement.
Codes, 1930, § 5021; 1942, § 8053; Laws, 1930, ch. 47; Laws, 1948, ch. 332, § 30; Laws, 1992, ch. 496, § 1, eff. 7/1/1992.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-5 - Organization and meetings

When the transportation commissioners enter upon the duties of their office, the Transportation Commission shall meet and organize by the election of one (1) of its members to serve as chairman of the commission for the four-year term for which the commissioner shall have been elected. The commission, a majority of which shall constitute a quorum, shall meet in regular session on the second Tuesday of each month at the office of the commission in Jackson, Mississippi; however, the commission may meet in regular session not more than three (3) times each year at such other location as may be set by the commission. At such regular sessions the commission may hear, continue and determine any and all matters coming before it. The commission may hold special sessions at the call of the executive director or the chairman at such times and places in this state as either of them may deem necessary. At such special sessions it may hear, continue, consider and determine any and all matters coming before it, provided that at least five (5) days' notice of such meetings shall be given to all the members of the commission beforehand. A special session may be called at any time without the foregoing notice, or any notice, if by and with the unanimous consent of all the members of the commission, but such unanimous consent shall be spread at large on the minutes of the commission. If any session is held at a location other than at the commission's office in Jackson, Mississippi, the commission shall make provisions to allow public participation in the meeting by appearing at the Jackson office.
The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall act as a legal entity, and shall only speak through its minutes, and in all matters shall act as a unit. Any action on the part of any member of the commission separately shall not bind the commission as a unit, but such individual member only shall be liable personally on his official bond.
The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall be a body corporate and as such may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of justice having jurisdiction of the subject matter of any such suit. In any suit against the Mississippi Transportation Commission service of process shall be had by serving the secretary of the commission with such process; and a copy of the declaration, petition or bill of complaint, or other initial pleading shall be handed the secretary along with the process.
Codes, 1930, § 4993; 1942, § 8018; Laws, 1930, ch. 47; Laws, 1948, ch. 332, § 5; Laws, 1992, ch. 496, § 4; Laws, 2004, ch. 337, § 1, eff. 4/19/2004.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-7 - Compensation of the commissioners

The three (3) commissioners chosen as herein provided, and their successors, shall each receive as compensation for their services salaries fixed by the Legislature, and in addition shall be allowed all of their actual and necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in the performance of their respective official duties.
Codes, 1930, § 4994; 1942, § 8019; Laws, 1930, ch. 47; Laws, 1932, ch. 133; Laws, 1948, ch. 332, § 6; Laws, 1952, ch. 335, § 4; Laws, 1958, ch. 336; Laws, 1966, ch. 445; Laws, 1974, ch. 402, eff. 3/25/1974.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-8.1 - Commission may allow for erection of welcome and recognition signs adjacent to state highways within unincorporated areas of a county

(1)
The Mississippi Transportation Commission may allow for the erection of welcome, recognition and acknowledgement signs that are adjacent to state highways within an unincorporated area of a county and maintained by public officers or elected officials of counties while carrying out an official duty or responsibility. The local jurisdiction shall be required to purchase and pay the cost of maintaining such signs which shall conform to the requirements of similar signs that are placed by incorporated areas in accordance with rules adopted by the commission and the Mississippi Department of Transportation. The erection of welcome, recognition and acknowledgment signs in areas on or adjacent to freeways or interstate highways is prohibited.
(2)
The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.
Added by Laws, 2017, ch. 401, HB 891, 1, eff. 7/1/2017.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-8.2 - Commission may allow erection of certain signs for member institutions of the Mississippi Association of Independent Colleges and Universities; institution must purchase and pay the costs of erecting and maintaining signs

(1)
The Mississippi Transportation Commission may allow for the erection of signs for member institutions of the Mississippi Association of Independent Colleges and Universities that display the name and emblem of such institutions that are similar to signs erected for public state institutions of higher learning. The institutions for which the signs are erected shall be required to purchase and pay the cost of erecting and maintaining such signs which shall conform to the requirements of similar signs that are erected for public state institutions of higher learning.
(2)
The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.
Added by Laws, 2017, ch. 401, HB 891, 2, eff. 7/1/2017.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-11 - Chief Engineer and other employees

The executive director, subject to the approval of the commission, shall employ a chief engineer who shall be a registered civil engineer, a graduate of a recognized school of engineering, and who shall have had not less than five (5) years' actual professional experience in highway construction. The chief engineer shall also be a deputy executive director of the department with such powers and duties as may be prescribed by the commission. The chief engineer shall give bond in the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) in some surety company authorized to do business in this state, which bond shall be conditioned upon the faithful performance and discharge of his duties. The principal and surety on such bond shall be liable thereunder to the State of Mississippi for double the amount of the value of any money or property which the state may lose, if any, by reason of any wrongful or criminal act of such engineer. The term of office of the chief engineer shall be for a period of four (4) years, unless sooner removed as hereinafter provided, and he shall be eligible for reappointment. The first term of office, however, shall extend from the date of appointment until the first Monday of January 1952.
Codes, 1930, § 4991; 1942, § 8016; Laws, 1930, ch. 47; Laws, 1948, ch. 332, § 3; Laws, 1966, ch. 485, § 1; Laws, 1992, ch. 496, § 8; Laws, 2003, ch. 461, § 2, eff. 3/23/2003.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-13 - Deputy executive director for administration

(1)
The commission, upon the recommendation of the executive director, may appoint one (1) deputy executive director for administration in addition to the deputy executive director provided for in Section
65-1-11
. The powers and duties of the deputy executive director for administration appointed pursuant to this subsection shall be specified by the commission and shall include, but not be limited to, the execution on behalf of the executive director of contracts approved by the commission and other documents. The appointment of such deputy executive director for administration and the powers specified by the commission must be spread upon the minutes of the commission to become effective.
(2)
The commission may issue powers of attorney to individuals as may be recommended by the executive director to execute any documents on behalf of the commission and the executive director as the commission considers appropriate to facilitate the efficient implementation of its duties and responsibilities; however, a power of attorney issued under this subsection shall not authorize the execution of contracts approved by the commission. Powers of attorney issued under this subsection shall specify the limits of the authority to execute documents granted by them. The duration of such powers of attorney shall be for the term of office of the commission that issued them. Such powers of attorney may be revoked by the commission at any time.
Laws, 2003, ch. 461, § 1, eff. 3/23/2003.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-15 - Secretary of the commission

The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall employ a secretary whose salary shall be fixed by the commission and shall require the secretary to keep the proper minute books, order books and other proper books. The secretary shall be the custodian of all books, records or other papers of the department. All of such books, records and papers shall be public records and open to inspection by the public during business hours. Each of the commissioners, the Executive Director and the secretary may make certified copies of any proceedings of the department, any of its books or papers, or extracts therefrom. Such copy shall bear the signature of the officer giving it and also the seal of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, and such copies shall be admitted in evidence equally with the originals thereof in all courts of this state. Each of the commissioners and the executive director may take and hear testimony. The seal shall be the coat of arms of the State of Mississippi, surrounded by the words "Mississippi Department of Transportation". In the event that the original seal should be stolen, lost or misplaced, the commission shall have the power to secure a duplicate seal. The secretary shall be the custodian of the seal and shall do and perform all other things which may be properly required of him by the executive director or commission. He shall give bond in the sum of not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), conditioned as required by law. Except for warrant requisitions drawn in accordance with the provisions of Section
65-1-115
, Mississippi Code of 1972, all proceedings of the commission shall be entered upon the minutes of the commission in a minute book to be provided and kept for that purpose, which minutes shall be signed by the chairman or acting chairman of the respective meetings and by the secretary. The pages of the minute book shall be numbered consecutively by the bookmaker. The secretary of the commission shall be an ex officio notary public, authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments in the same manner and to the same extent as any other duly appointed, qualified, commissioned and acting notary public, and the seal of the Transportation Department shall be his seal as such ex officio notary public. The bond premium of the secretary shall be paid from any funds available to the commission.
Codes, 1930, § 4992; 1942, § 8017; Laws, 1930, ch. 47; Laws, 1948, ch. 332, § 4; Laws, 1966, ch. 485, § 2; Laws, 1992, ch. 496, § 9, eff. 7/1/1992.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-17 - Rental of office space in buildings not owned by the state

In the event the department needs additional office space which cannot be provided either in state office buildings, or other state-owned buildings, the commission is hereby authorized to rent, on an annual or month-to-month basis on such terms as it may determine to be proper, such office space as may be necessary.
Codes, 1942, § 3827-12; Laws, 1966, ch. 494, § 2; Laws, 1992, ch. 496, § 10, eff. 7/1/1992.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-19 - [Repealed]

Repealed by Laws of 1981, ch. 464, § 19, eff. 7/1/1981.
Codes, 1930, § 5006; 1942, § 8038; Laws, 1930, ch. 47; Laws, 1948, ch. 332, § 14; Laws, 1949, Ex. Sess. ch. 6, § 11; Laws, 1956, ch. 313; Laws, 1958, ch. 369; Laws, 1964, ch. 452, § 1; Laws, 1972, ch 369 § 15; Laws, 1973, ch. 495, § 1; Laws, 1974, ch. 317.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-21 - District offices

(1)
The permanent district offices for the Office of Highways of the Mississippi Department of Transportation and for the repair and housing of the equipment and vehicles of the department provided for in paragraph (m) of Section
65-1-8
, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall be at the following locations:
(a)
For the Northern District: At or near Batesville and at or near Tupelo.
(b)
For the Central District: At or near Yazoo City and at or near Newton.
(c)
For the Southern District: At or near McComb and at or near Hattiesburg.
(2)
The Northern District Office at or near Tupelo is designated and shall be known as the "Roy Clark Adams District Office." The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain an appropriate sign or placque designating such office.
Codes, 1942, § 8038.7; Laws, 1950, ch. 389; Laws, 1992, ch. 496, § 11; Laws, 1995, ch. 347, § 1, eff. 7/1/1995.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-23 - Testing laboratory, machine shops, etc

The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to erect and construct upon the land hereinafter described a testing laboratory, machine shops, and other necessary buildings, and to expend for such purpose an amount not to exceed Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) out of any funds which may be available for such purpose in the state highway fund.
The State Building Commission is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to select a suitable tract of land, ten acres in area, from any state-owned lands located in or near the City of Jackson, Mississippi, and not now being used for public purposes. The laboratory shops and other buildings specified in this section shall be erected on the land so selected, which said land is hereby set aside and allocated to the State Highway Commission for the purposes herein specified.
Codes, 1942, § 8038.5; Laws, 1946, ch. 369; Laws, 1948, ch. 332, § 18.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-25 - Contract for maintenance of connections on highways near state boundaries

The Mississippi Transportation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into or ratify agreements with the transportation departments of the adjoining states for the construction or maintenance, or both, of connections on any part of the interstate highway system, state designated highway system or state aid road system at or near the boundaries of the State of Mississippi, the cost of such construction and maintenance to be apportioned between the states according to the benefits to be derived by each of the states as determined by such agreements.
The powers conferred by this section are supplemental to the powers of the commission now provided by law.
Codes, 1942, § 8038.2; Laws, 1958, ch. 374, §§ 1, 2; Laws, 1995, ch. 396, § 1, eff. 3/15/1995.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-27 - Contract for maintenance of connections between interstate and state system highways and county roads or streets

The Mississippi Transportation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into or ratify cooperative agreements with the various counties and municipalities in any county through which any of the highways on the interstate highway system, the state designated highway system or the state aid road system may traverse for the construction or maintenance, or both, of connections between such systems and county roads or streets of the municipalities, or interconnections between such systems, the cost of the construction and maintenance of such connections to be apportioned between the Transportation Commission and the county or municipality according to the benefits to be derived by each as determined by such agreement or agreements.
The powers conferred by this section are supplemental to the powers of the commission now provided by law.
Codes, 1942, § 8038.6; Laws, 1958, ch. 375, §§ 1, 2; Laws, 1995, ch. 396, § 2, eff. 3/15/1995.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-29 - Contract with the United States in flood control, drainage, and National Aeronautics and Space Agency projects

The authority granted the State Highway Commission under provisions of this chapter, shall include the right to enter into agreements with the United States government, or any agency thereof, for the alteration, relocation, reconstruction, or abandonment of state highways or any portion thereof, and conveyance of whatever rights and interests the state owns in property acquired for the purposes of said statutes, or any portion or interest thereof, where the same are necessary for the construction of flood control, navigation, drainage, or National Aeronautics and Space Agency projects approved and adopted by the United States government or any agency thereof.
Upon proper authorization by the State Highway Commission, the director of the State Highway Department is hereby empowered to execute a quitclaim deed selling and conveying the above rights and interests. Said deed shall be delivered to the purchaser upon the payment of the consideration agreed upon, and such consideration shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the State Highway Fund.
Such agreements and conveyances shall be upon a consideration deemed reasonable by the State Highway Commission and the agency of the United States government affected, provided that no part of this section is intended to alter or change in any way the existing immunity from certain actions of the state or the United States.
The consideration above shall include the expense of creating and maintaining any necessary detours, and the same shall be created and maintained as provided in the above mentioned agreement.
Codes, 1942, § 8038.3; Laws, 1948, ch. 337, §§ 1-4; Laws, 1950, ch. 424, § 2 (subd. 1); Laws, 1963, 1st Ex. Sess. ch. 21, eff. 3/2/1963.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-31 - Certain roads located on levees as temporary state highways

Whereas, the public convenience requires that certain roads located on levees or within the boundaries of flood control districts created and presently maintained by the federal government, or other governmental authorities, be taken over temporarily by the State Highway Commission, and whereas, the public purpose for which said flood control districts were established requires that such roads be limited to certain widths and restrictions in the public interest, it is the sense of the legislature that the State Highway Commission should be authorized to take over and maintain such roads as temporary state highways, subject to the restrictions imposed by the governmental authorities establishing such flood control districts.
The State Highway Commission, therefore, is hereby authorized to take over and maintain as temporary state highways, for such period and under such terms and conditions as said highway commission may in its discretion prescribe, any road designated by the legislature as a state highway and located on the levee of a flood control district, and in so doing shall not be required to obtain a right of way of more than thirty feet on such type of road, may permit the use of cattle gaps and fencing thereon, and may accept from the federal authorities or other governmental unit having jurisdiction over such flood control district an easement for said road.
The purpose of this section is to enable the state to take over temporarily for maintenance roads designated as state highways located on levees and with less than sixty feet right of way.
Codes, 1942, § 8038.4; Laws, 1952, ch. 310, §§ 1-3.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-33 - Publicly owned ferries

The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized to take over, maintain, and operate, as a part of the state highway system under its jurisdiction, any ferry now owned by and operated by, for, or under the authority of any county, county district, or municipality in this state where such ferry is located upon, or is a necessary link of, any designated state highway being maintained by the commission, if such county, county district, or municipality will transfer to said commission all property, real and personal, used by it in the operation of such ferry. In event any such ferries be so taken over by the commission, no toll or fee shall be charged for the use thereof by the public, and all costs of operation and maintenance shall be paid out of the State Highway Maintenance Fund.
Any county, county district, or municipality in this state now owning a ferry which the State Highway Commission may desire to take over under the provisions of this section is hereby authorized to transfer to the State Highway Commission any and all property, real and personal, used by it in the operation of such ferry, without further consideration than the acceptance of the same for public use, pursuant to an order of its governing authority. Any such property so taken over by the commission which may thereafter become unnecessary to the maintenance of traffic over the highway may be disposed of by the commission, in its discretion, and the proceeds paid into the State Highway Maintenance Fund.
Codes, 1942, § 8021-01; Laws, 1944, ch. 301, §§ 1, 2.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-35 - Roads leading to reactivated air bases

The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and directed to take over for maintenance and construction, with its own funds, any road formerly maintained as a part of the state highway system leading to an air base, which air base is to be reactivated.
Codes, 1942, § 8021.9; Laws, 1958, ch. 382.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-37 - Driveways of certain institutions

The Mississippi Transportation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to have the Mississippi Department of Transportation construct, repair and maintain the driveways and streets on the grounds of the universities and colleges under the jurisdiction of the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning, state, and/or county supported junior colleges, the state hospitals, and institutions under the jurisdiction of the Board of Trustees of Mental Institutions, the Board of Trustees of the Columbia Training School and the Oakley Youth Development Center, the Mississippi Schools for the Deaf and Blind, and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks in the manner provided herein, including bypasses to connect said driveways and streets with roads on the state highway system, and the main thoroughfare running east and west through the grounds of the Mississippi Penitentiary, provided said institutions obtain the necessary rights-of-way, said institutions being hereby authorized so to do.
The Transportation Commission and the governing boards of said institutions shall enter into an agreement prior to undertaking any of the work mentioned in the first paragraph of this section, and said agreement shall be based on the Transportation Department's furnishing equipment, equipment operators, skilled labor, supervision, and engineering services, and the governing bodies of the aforementioned institutions shall furnish material, supplies and common labor. This agreement shall further provide for reimbursement of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, in full, for the expenditures incurred in the construction, repair and maintenance of driveways and streets at the institutions hereinabove mentioned, such reimbursement to be made directly to the Mississippi Transportation Commission from the institutions. Upon the execution of an agreement as set out herein, the Mississippi Department of Transportation may provide all the necessary engineering, supervision, skilled labor, equipment, and equipment operators to perform such work.
Codes, 1942, § 8038.9; Laws, 1954, ch. 272, §§ 1-3(Para.Para. 1-3); Laws, 1960, ch. 365; Laws, 1975, ch. 341; Laws, 1981, ch. 464, § 5; Laws, 2000, ch. 516, § 129; Laws, 2010, ch. 554, § 11, eff. 7/1/2011.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-39 - Maintenance of roads on Australia Island

The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to take over, assume jurisdiction of, maintain, repair, and improve the public highways under the jurisdiction of the department of highways of the State of Louisiana on Australia Island, and to enter into such agreements with the department of highways of the State of Louisiana as the said State Highway Commission shall deem necessary, proper, and advisable, provided that the State Highway Commission of Mississippi is reimbursed for the expenditures incurred in the maintenance, repair, and improvement of said roads.
The powers conferred by this section are supplementary to the powers of said commission now provided by law and are not intended in any wise to conflict with the same.
Codes, 1942, § 8038.8; Laws, 1955, Ex. Sess. ch. 69, §§ 1, 2.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-41 - Roads serving industrial sites and port areas

The Mississippi Department of Economic Development is hereby authorized and directed to select and designate certain links of roads or highways to connect any and all approved, acceptable and selected industrial sites that may be located at any point not now accessible to adequate highways and road facilities, and shall issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity to the effect that such designated and selected link of highway or road should be constructed in order to encourage and promote the industrial development of any port or harbor area or other industrial site, and shall immediately file such certificate of public convenience and necessity with the Director of the Mississippi State Highway Commission. However, the Mississippi Department of Economic Development shall not select and designate any such link of road or highway until such time as the department shall have satisfactory evidence that an industry desires and intends to locate on such site, and that the location of such industry and the construction of such road or highway is economically feasible. Construction of any such road shall not begin until the location and construction of such industry is assured and contracts made between the industry and the local authority.
When a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been filed with the Director of the Mississippi State Highway Commission as herein required, the highway commission shall proceed to locate, survey and have constructed such link or highway or public road in such quality and standards as may be found to adequately serve such proposed industry.
The Mississippi Department of Economic Development shall not select or designate any link of public road or highway more than ten (10) miles long to connect any industrial site, harbor or port facility with any existing public road or highway, nor shall such board designate or select any link or links of road in an excess of a total of two hundred (200) miles of highways or public roads.
Any highway or public road selected, designated and constructed under the provisions of this section shall be constructed from the highway fund within which highway district such highway or road has been selected, designated and constructed.
The provisions of this section shall not be construed to alter, change or amend any other statutes of the State of Mississippi designating highways, state-aid roads or other public roads, and any limitations placed upon the total miles of such highways, state-aid roads, or public roads shall not be affected by the provisions of this section.
Codes, 1942, § 8021.8; Laws, 1957, Ex. Sess. ch. 16, §§ 1-5; Laws, 1989, ch. 524, § 26, eff. 7/1/1989.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-43 - Costs and feasibility surveys for toll highways and bridges to offshore islands

When it is deemed feasible and advisable to promote the tourist industry of the State of Mississippi by providing more attractions as would be available in development of offshore islands, the Mississippi State Highway Commission is authorized to make costs and feasibility surveys for toll highways and bridges to offshore islands.
The Mississippi Highway Commission is authorized to employ expert engineering and economic assistance for such surveys when it is deemed advisable by the commission. The State Highway Commission is limited to a maximum amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.
In the event that any bonds are issued as a result of the feasibility surveys authorized under the provisions of this section, the State Highway Commission shall be reimbursed for all of the expenditures authorized herein, and said expenditures shall be paid from the first proceeds of any bond issue herein.
Codes, 1942, § 8038-11; Laws, 1962, ch. 441, §§ 1-4.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-44 - Instruction course for weight and tax enforcement personnel

Agents and employees of the Mississippi Department of Transportation who are charged with the enforcement of the weight laws and the motor vehicle privilege tax laws of this state pursuant to Sections
63-5-43
and
27-19-137
, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall, as soon as practicable after being appointed enforcement personnel, and in order to continue serving as such, successfully complete a course of instruction at the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers' Training Academy, which course shall be established by an agreement between the Mississippi Department of Transportation and the Commissioner of Public Safety pursuant to Section
45-5-7
, Mississippi Code of 1972.
Laws, 1992, ch. 496, § 22, eff. 7/1/1992.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-45 - Weight limitation on highways and bridges

The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to restrict or prohibit the use of any state highway or bridge or to reduce the allowable weight permitted on any state highway or bridge when, due to any special weather or other hazard, such highways or bridges have been weakened or when such highways have substandard surfacing or weak bridges due to any cause. Likewise, the board of supervisors of any county shall have the same regulatory powers as granted the highway department in this section. It shall be the duty of the State Highway Commission and the boards of supervisors of the counties to post sufficient warning on any highway or bridge restricted in any manner, so that such restriction may be understood by the operator of any vehicle. Any person who shall operate a vehicle on any highway, road, or bridge when such highway, road, or bridge is under restriction, in violation of such restriction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of section
63-9-11
, Mississippi Code of 1972, providing for the punishment of misdemeanors.
Codes, 1942, § 8271; Laws, 1958, ch. 501; Laws, 1960, ch. 409; Laws, 1963, 1st Ex. Sess. ch. 22; Laws, 1964, ch. 458, §§ 1, 2; Laws, 1964, 1st Ex. Sess. ch. 33, eff. 7/15/1964.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-49 - Easements for highway purposes

The conveyance or assignment of easements for highway purposes may be made by the owner thereof to the Mississippi State Highway Commission or the board of supervisors of any county for highway purposes. All actions by any person owning any interest in the land involved in such conveyance or assignment accruing as a result thereof must be brought within three years after the date of such conveyance or assignment; provided, however, that the land involved is actually used for highway purposes or notice is posted thereon that it will be used for highway purposes within said three-year period, otherwise said period shall be six years from the date of such conveyance or assignment.
The procedure provided hereby with reference to the conveyance or assignment of easements is supplemental to all rights and powers now authorized for and existing under the present law in said commission and boards, and is not intended as a limitation on same in any manner.
Codes, 1942, § 8038.1; Laws, 1950, ch. 410, §§ 1, 2.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-51 - Land adjacent to highway rights of way; wetlands

The Mississippi Transportation Commission may acquire by gift, purchase or otherwise, and may have the Mississippi Department of Transportation improve and maintain strips of land necessary for the restoration, preservation and enhancement of scenic beauty adjacent to the state highway rights-of-way. The commission may acquire and have the Transportation Department develop publicly owned and controlled rest and recreation areas and sanitary and other facilities within or adjacent to the highway right-of-way reasonably necessary to accommodate the traveling public.
The Mississippi Transportation Commission, in its discretion, may acquire by gift, purchase or otherwise, including the exercise of eminent domain, public or privately owned wetlands and other lands suitable for creation as wetlands for the purpose of mitigating wetland losses and replacing those wetlands purchased and damaged or eliminated by development and use, on a basis not to exceed that required by the Federal Highway Administration as a condition for receiving federal aid funds, provided that some governmental agency or approved organization agrees, without compensation, to accept title to the lands acquired and maintain such lands as wetlands in perpetuity. However, the commission shall replace those coastal wetlands purchased and damaged or eliminated by development and use on the basis required by the "Coastal Wetlands Protection Law" and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources.
The Mississippi Transportation Commission, in its discretion, may acquire by gift, purchase or otherwise, wetlands credits from an approved organization with a plan establishing a wetland mitigation bank. The commission shall, if possible, acquire credits on wetlands within the State of Mississippi before acquiring credits on wetlands located outside the State of Mississippi.
Codes, 1942, § 8023.3; Laws, 1966, ch. 498, § 1; Laws, 1981, ch. 398, § 1; Laws, 1981, ch. 464, § 7; Laws, 1989, ch. 382, § 1; Laws, 2000, ch. 516, § 130; Laws, 2000, ch. 575, § 1, eff. 7/1/2000.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-53 - [Repealed]

Repealed by Laws, 1995, ch. 397, § 1, eff. 3/15/1995.
Codes, 1942, § 8023.5; Laws, 1948, ch. 336, §§ 1, 2.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-55 - Noxious weeds and plants prohibited in rights of way

No seed can be bought or planted by the Mississippi Highway Department for right of way seeding that contain more than the maximum allowance for noxious weed seed as prescribed by the Mississippi Pure Seed Law and regulations. No sodding will be allowed that contains prohibited noxious weed plants or tubers.
Codes, 1942, § 8038-21; Laws, 1964, ch. 460, § 1, eff. 6/5/1964.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-57 - Secondary highways

It shall be the duty of the Highway Commission to issue rules and regulations for the State Highway Department to construct all secondary roads, when taken over for construction and maintenance, up to such standard of specifications and with such surfacing material as the Highway Commission may determine from a traffic census of the use and importance thereof as would be justified from a standpoint of economy and convenience to the traveling public. To this end the Highway Commission is authorized, in dealing with said secondary roads, to have the highway department place surfacing material on said secondary roads. All secondary roads shall be constructed and maintained with a view of being eventually hard surfaced as provided for primary roads.
Codes, 1930, § 5000; 1942, § 8032; Laws, 1930, ch. 47; Laws, 1948, ch. 332, § 10 (second paragraph); Laws, 1981, ch. 464, § 8, eff. 7/1/1981.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-61 - Paving

It shall be the duty of the Transportation Commission to have the Transportation Department construct, reconstruct and maintain, at the cost and expense of the state, all highways under its jurisdiction up to such standards and specifications and with such surfacing material as the Transportation Commission may determine, such paving to be done for each project as rapidly as funds are made available therefor and, as nearly as practicable, immediately upon the completion of all work performed pursuant to grade, drainage and bridge contracts for the project. Such paving shall be done in the order of the relative use and importance of said highways, as may be determined by the present and future traffic censuses thereof and other criteria, taking into consideration their present and future use, convenience, public necessity, public safety, the recorded maintenance expense, and their availability as highways through the state. The type of the paving and surfacing of such highways shall be determined by the executive director, subject to the rules, regulations and orders of the commission as spread on its minutes, after a complete study of the traffic requirements based upon the present and future traffic censuses, taking into consideration the factors above set forth. However, no highways shall be constructed, reconstructed, or maintained out of any patented paving material, regardless of what kind, on which a direct royalty is paid by the commission or any contractor; and the commission shall not have included in the plans or specifications for constructing, reconstructing, or maintenance of any highway the requirements that any material used or specified shall be laid under any process patented requiring the payment of a direct royalty for use of such process or patent.
Codes, 1930, § 4999; 1942, § 8025; Laws, 1930, ch. 47; Laws, 1938, ch. 199; Laws, 1948, ch. 332, § 9; Laws, 1949, Ex. Sess. ch. 6, § 13; Laws, 1981, ch. 464, § 10; Laws, 1994, ch. 347, § 1, eff. 7/1/1994.
Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-43-85) › Chapter 1 - TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-901) › Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 65-1-1 — 65-1-189) › Section 65-1-63 - Paving to connect county seat with paved road

The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and directed to have the state highway department construct, with its own funds, into each county seat in the state of Mississippi which now has no paved access road, a paved road which will connect said county seat with an existing paved road.
Codes, 1942, § 8025.5; Laws, 1956, ch. 326; Laws, 1981, ch. 464, § 11, eff. 7/1/1981.