Opinion ID: 1885403
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Heading Rank: 22

Heading: Whether the circuit court erred in affirming the Board's creation of a municipal airport authority.

Text: ¶ 72. As we have noted, the Board responded to the circuit court's grant of partial summary judgment against it by appointing a municipal airport authority. Falco appears to cite as error the circuit court's failure to reverse the creation of this authority on the grounds that the Board's purpose was unlawful. This unlawful purpose, insofar as we can determine from Falco's brief, was to send our tax dollars to another state. ¶ 73. This issue is repetitive of issue IV, where we quoted extensively from the Airport Authorities Law. Section 61-3-67 allows any authority, be it municipal or regional, to enter into a joint operations agreement. See Miss.Code Ann. § 61-3-3 (defining authority as any regional airport authority or municipal airport authority). The remainder of the Law impliedly and expressly approves the purpose of paying for the airport one has engaged to jointly operate. Short of constructing a runway upon a string of barges anchored down the center of the Mississippi River, it is plain that an airport operated jointly by Mississippi and Louisiana must be located in one sovereign state or the other. The Airport Authorities Law demands no such feat of engineering. ¶ 74. This assignment of error is thus without merit.