The Mississippi Department of Economic Development is hereby authorized and directed to select and designate certain links of roads or highways to connect any and all approved, acceptable and selected industrial sites that may be located at any point not now accessible to adequate highways and road facilities, and shall issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity to the effect that such designated and selected link of highway or road should be constructed in order to encourage and promote the industrial development of any port or harbor area or other industrial site, and shall immediately file such certificate of public convenience and necessity with the Director of the Mississippi State Highway Commission. However, the Mississippi Department of Economic Development shall not select and designate any such link of road or highway until such time as the department shall have satisfactory evidence that an industry desires and intends to locate on such site, and that the location of such industry and the construction of such road or highway is economically feasible. Construction of any such road shall not begin until the location and construction of such industry is assured and contracts made between the industry and the local authority.
When a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been filed with the Director of the Mississippi State Highway Commission as herein required, the highway commission shall proceed to locate, survey and have constructed such link or highway or public road in such quality and standards as may be found to adequately serve such proposed industry.
The Mississippi Department of Economic Development shall not select or designate any link of public road or highway more than ten (10) miles long to connect any industrial site, harbor or port facility with any existing public road or highway, nor shall such board designate or select any link or links of road in an excess of a total of two hundred (200) miles of highways or public roads.
Any highway or public road selected, designated and constructed under the provisions of this section shall be constructed from the highway fund within which highway district such highway or road has been selected, designated and constructed.
The provisions of this section shall not be construed to alter, change or amend any other statutes of the State of Mississippi designating highways, state-aid roads or other public roads, and any limitations placed upon the total miles of such highways, state-aid roads, or public roads shall not be affected by the provisions of this section.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries
Chapter 1 - Transportation Department
§ 65-1-3. Mississippi Transportation Commission
§ 65-1-5. Organization and meetings
§ 65-1-7. Compensation of the commissioners
§ 65-1-9. Executive Director of Department of Transportation
§ 65-1-10. Powers and duties of Executive Director
§ 65-1-11. Chief Engineer and other employees
§ 65-1-15. Secretary of the commission
§ 65-1-17. Rental of office space in buildings not owned by the state
§ 65-1-20. Office of Intermodal Planning
§ 65-1-23. Testing laboratory, machine shops, etc.
§ 65-1-25. Contract for maintenance of connections on highways near state boundaries
§ 65-1-31. Certain roads located on levees as temporary state highways
§ 65-1-33. Publicly owned ferries
§ 65-1-35. Roads leading to reactivated air bases
§ 65-1-37. Driveways of certain institutions
§ 65-1-39. Maintenance of roads on Australia Island
§ 65-1-41. Roads serving industrial sites and port areas
§ 65-1-43. Costs and feasibility surveys for toll highways and bridges to offshore islands
§ 65-1-44. Instruction course for weight and tax enforcement personnel
§ 65-1-45. Weight limitation on highways and bridges
§ 65-1-46. Appeals Board; appeal of penalty for excess weight; judicial review
§ 65-1-47. Control of highways; eminent domain
§ 65-1-49. Easements for highway purposes
§ 65-1-51. Land adjacent to highway rights of way; wetlands
§ 65-1-55. Noxious weeds and plants prohibited in rights of way
§ 65-1-63. Paving to connect county seat with paved road
§ 65-1-70. Construction of protective devices at railroad crossings
§ 65-1-70.5. Imputation of liability as to protective devices at railroad crossings
§ 65-1-73. Repair of city streets used as detours for United States highways
§ 65-1-83. Traffic census and other surveys, inspections or studies
§ 65-1-86. Duty of Attorney General with respect to illegal contracts or criminal acts
§ 65-1-87. Purchases of war surplus equipment, supplies and materials
§ 65-1-89. Contract arbitration provisions
§ 65-1-91. Arbitration proceedings and effect
§ 65-1-93 through 65-1-109. Superseded
§ 65-1-110. Mississippi Department of Transportation Equipment Purchase Fund established
§ 65-1-111. Highway funds; bond and interest funds
§ 65-1-112. Funds to be expended on basis of state need
§ 65-1-115. System of accounting
§ 65-1-117. County and federal funds for road construction
§ 65-1-121. Inventory and report of property
§ 65-1-125. Sale of used road building materials
§ 65-1-127. Participation in Federal Highway Administration Fellowship Program in Highway Safety
§ 65-1-129. Security officers; definitions
§ 65-1-133. Security officers; arrest and detention
§ 65-1-135. Security officers; termination of authority
§ 65-1-137. Security officers considered independent contractors
§ 65-1-143. Construction to commence at points having greatest traffic congestion
§ 65-1-145. Method of expenditure of funds
§ 65-1-151. Additional bonds required of commissioners and director
§ 65-1-155. Transfer of funds to Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management
§ 65-1-159. Implementation of fund transferral by director
§ 65-1-161. Authorization for Office of General Services to convey right-of-way across certain lands
§ 65-1-163. Disposition of proceeds of sale authorized by Section 65-1-161
§ 65-1-165. Contract for development of comprehensive statewide litter prevention program