Mississippi Code
Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts
§ 65-19-3. Publication of notice

Whenever the proceeding has been initiated or proposed by either of the methods above provided, the said board shall cause notice to be published of the said proposal, which notice shall be sufficiently full to fairly apprise all persons in interest of the character and objects of said proposal. The notice shall fix a time and place when and where the board of supervisors will hear objections to the creation of said district and to the bringing of any of the defined territory within said district. Said notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county once a week for three weeks prior to the date of the hearing fixed in said notice; the first publication shall be not less than eighteen nor more than forty days prior to said date. If there be no newspaper published in the county in which the territory is located, the notice shall be published in some newspaper having a general circulation therein.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries

Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts

§ 65-19-3. Publication of notice

§ 65-19-5. Amount of bonds to be preliminarily estimated

§ 65-19-7. Hearing of objections

§ 65-19-9. Extension of road beyond the limits of district

§ 65-19-11. Consolidations and additions

§ 65-19-13. District may be abolished

§ 65-19-15. Previous obligations

§ 65-19-17. Aggrieved parties may appeal

§ 65-19-19. Elections

§ 65-19-21. Supervisors to provide for election

§ 65-19-23. Result of election

§ 65-19-25. General provisions for bonds

§ 65-19-27. District road commissioners

§ 65-19-29. Duties of commissioners

§ 65-19-31. Rejection of bids

§ 65-19-33. Special tax levied

§ 65-19-35. Separate assessment of district

§ 65-19-37. Convict labor

§ 65-19-39. Disbursement of road fund

§ 65-19-41. Payment of contractors

§ 65-19-43. Acceptance and final settlement

§ 65-19-45. Final settlement with engineer

§ 65-19-47. Surplus funds loaned

§ 65-19-49. May borrow money

§ 65-19-51. General supervision

§ 65-19-53. Roads and bridges constructed and maintained

§ 65-19-55. Commissioners may turn over completed roads to county

§ 65-19-57. Transfer of roads not to affect obligations of district

§ 65-19-59. Public roads worked in separate districts

§ 65-19-61. Board of supervisors; powers and control

§ 65-19-63. Emergency repair of roads and bridges

§ 65-19-65. Roads connecting districts

§ 65-19-67. Supervisors to build all bridges and culverts

§ 65-19-69. Supervisors may acquire rights of way

§ 65-19-71. Road superintendent

§ 65-19-73. Duties of road superintendent

§ 65-19-75. Reports to be filed

§ 65-19-77. Purchases by road superintendent

§ 65-19-79. Provisions of general road laws to govern

§ 65-19-81. Public highways extending into municipalities

§ 65-19-83. Benefit district roads

§ 65-19-85. Assessment of benefit district lands

§ 65-19-87. Collection of benefit district taxes