The governing authorities of any municipality in this state are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, and to install and maintain parking meters for the regulation of the parking of vehicles on the municipal streets. When such parking meters are installed and operated by any municipality, the governing authorities thereof shall have the power to prescribe, by ordinance, reasonable rules and regulations for the use and operation of same, and to provide and prescribe penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations. Such governing authorities may also fix, prescribe, and collect fees for the use of the parking space adjacent to any such meters and to require that such fee shall be paid by the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins in such meters.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 37 - Streets, Parks and Other Public Property
§ 21-37-1. Municipal buildings
§ 21-37-6. Installation of ramps at municipal crosswalks
§ 21-37-11. Lights and lamp posts
§ 21-37-13. Municipal piers, pavilions, and bath houses
§ 21-37-15. Harbors, wharves, and docks
§ 21-37-21. Public cemeteries; cemetery board of trustees authorized in certain municipalities
§ 21-37-23. Parking facilities for motor vehicles; establishment and operation authorized
§ 21-37-27. Parking facilities for motor vehicles; funding
§ 21-37-31. Advertising signs on parking meters
§ 21-37-32. Municipalities authorized to delegate authority for enforcement of parking regulations
§ 21-37-35. Park commission; funding
§ 21-37-37. Park commissioner; powers and duties of commissioners
§ 21-37-39. Park commission; disposition of revenues
§ 21-37-41. Park commission; construction of certain laws
§ 21-37-43. Tax levy for parks and playgrounds
§ 21-37-45. Insuring of municipal property
§ 21-37-47. Exercise of eminent domain by municipalities
§ 21-37-49. Purchase of lands sold to state
§ 21-37-53. Disposal of certain property not purchased with public funds by certain municipalities
§ 21-37-57. Pascagoula Public Beach renamed "Buffett Beach."