It is hereby declared to be the intent of the Legislature to conserve, manage, develop and protect our natural resources and wildlife for the benefit of this and succeeding generations by reorganizing the natural resource and wildlife conservation functions of state government into the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks thereby providing more effective organizations through which the methods of conserving, managing, developing and protecting our natural resources and wildlife can be analyzed, coordinated and implemented.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology
Chapter 4 - Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
§ 49-4-1. Declaration of purpose
§ 49-4-4. Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
§ 49-4-8. Powers and duties of department
§ 49-4-9. Powers and duties of Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
§ 49-4-11. Qualifications of executive director
§ 49-4-13. Powers and duties of executive director
§ 49-4-19. Traveling expenses of departmental employees
§ 49-4-21. Attorney General as counsel to Commission and Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
§ 49-4-37. North Mississippi fish hatchery; establishment; operation
§ 49-4-39. Regulation of hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing, guide and outfitter services