The board of supervisors of any county in the state is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase or acquire by eminent domain land to be conveyed to the state for state parks, forests and other purposes, as herein provided, and, for that purpose, is authorized and empowered to set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the general fund. Said board shall have the authority to borrow money to make any such purchases of lands, in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the payment thereof. However, no lands occupied as a bona fide homestead shall be subjected to such power of eminent domain.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 55 - Parks and Recreation
Chapter 3 - State Parks and Forests
§ 55-3-1. Gifts of land for state forests and parks
§ 55-3-5. Survey of state land
§ 55-3-7. Transfer and dedication of lands for use as state forests, parks, etc.
§ 55-3-9. Exchange of lands by state and private landowner
§ 55-3-11. Control and management of lands
§ 55-3-13. Purchase or condemnation by counties of lands to be given to state; source of funds
§ 55-3-15. Disposition of revenues
§ 55-3-17. Transfer of lands by drainage districts
§ 55-3-23. Maintenance of cemetery where donors of Kurtz State Forest buried