The department is authorized to survey, or cause to be surveyed, all areas of land owned by the state for the purpose of determining the adaptability of such areas for use as state parks, state forests and/or game and fish preserves to be developed for the control of stream flow and erosion, recreation, game and fish refuges or preserves, forest preserves, and for other similar uses.
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