A municipality, by ordinance duly spread upon its minutes, may delegate to an appropriate private enterprise with whom the municipality contracts all or part of the authority to enforce any ordinance concerning the regulation of parking within the confines of the municipality or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, penalties for violations, deadlines for the payment of fines and late payment penalties for fines not paid when due. The delegating ordinance may also provide that a summons or parking citation for the violation may be issued by a uniformed law enforcement officer, uniformed law enforcement employee or by uniformed personnel employed by the delegate serving under contract with the municipality.
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."